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Playlist: AWOP

Compiled By: Robin Emmons

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Women Who Wouldn't Listen: Wangari Maathai and Frances Moore Lappe

From A World of Possibilities | 55:00

Two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of purpose - to use their unique sensibilities and life experiences to help heal a species and planet grievously wounded by fear, greed and ignorance of its own positive potential.

Franceswangari_small In this special edition of A World of Possibilities, two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of purpose - to use their unique sensibilities and life experiences to help heal a species and planet grievously wounded by fear, greed and ignorance of its own positive potential.

Guests:
Frances Moore Lappe, Social Activist, author of sixteen books, including the landmark Diet for a Small Planet (1971)
Wangari Maathai, Winner, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize; Founder, Greenbelt Movement, Kenya 

The Meat We Eat: Food Safety and the Industrial Animal

From A World of Possibilities | Part of the Food Safety series | 55:00

Hold that fork! Block that barbeque! Do you know the source of the meat that's sizzling on the grill? Can we trust meat inspectors to catch pathogens before they catch us? Join us as we step inside the poultry shed and the slaughterhouse to trace the trail of the industrial chicken from egg to processing to your plate.

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Hold that fork!  Block that barbeque! Do you know the source of the meat that’s sizzling on the grill?  Can we trust meat inspectors to catch pathogens before they catch us? Join us as we step inside the poultry shed and the slaughterhouse to trace the trail of the industrial chicken from egg to processing to your plate.

Guests:
Karen Davis, President of United Poultry Concerns
Frank Reese, Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch
Steve Striffler, Professor of Anthropology at University of Arkansas
Dr. Lester Friedlander, Former USDA Inspector
Temple Grandin, Designer of Livestock Handling Facilities

Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity

From A World of Possibilities | 55:01

Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an industrial food system that's unhealthy for people, livestock and soils. Join us as we trace corn's origins back to Mesoamerica and conduct a forensic exam on the hybridized, genetically modified corn we know today.

Bagcorn_0_small Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an industrial food system that's unhealthy for people, livestock and soils. Join us as we trace corn's origins back to Mesoamerica and conduct a forensic exam on the hybridized, genetically modified corn we know today.

Guests: 
Aaron Woolf, Director of documentary film, “King Corn” 
Ricardo Salvador, Associate Professor of Agronomy, Iowa State University 
Mark Muller, Director of Environment and Agriculture, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy 
Steve Ettlinger, Author of Twinkie, Deconstructed