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What the cyclospora outbreak tells us about food safety in America, with Bill Marler

It's been a rough summer for anyone paying attention to food safety in America. Every few days, it seems, we see new headlines about new recalls and foodborne illness out

What's on the tray in America's prisons with Daniel Rosen and Leslie Soble

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. often talks about reforming prison food in the same breath as school food, a genuinely unusual thing for a top health official to say.

Lessons from a 13-year old lobbying for gluten labeling, with Jon and Jax Bari

At the 2023 HHS Food Is Medicine Summit, one item on the buffet was considered safe for 10-year-old Jax Bari to eat: an apple. Everything else was a gamble because glute

Inside the race to understand America’s growing food allergy epidemic with Ilana Golant

Ten percent of Americans are estimated to have food allergies — and that’s probably an undercount. The government hasn't updated its population data in nearly a decade, s

Why millions of people are dropping from SNAP and what comes next, with Gina Plata-Nino

More than 4 million people have dropped out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the past year — an unprecedented drop that hasn’t gotten much attention in

Media roundtable: Covering MAHA with Tal Kopan, Deena Shanker, and Lisa Held

This episode is something a little different: a roundtable with three journalists who've been deep in this moment in food policy, talking frankly about what they're seein

Meet the billionaire trying to clean up the food supply: Todd Wagner.

Todd Wagner, a tech billionaire and Hollywood mogul best known for co-founding Broadcast.com with Mark Cuban, isn’t particularly well known in food world — but he’s incre

What Big Food wants in the ultra-processed foods debate, with Rocco Renaldi

The debate about ultra-processed foods is loud in America right now, but zoom out, and it's everywhere. Governments around the world are trying to figure out what to do a

Nora LaTorre on why school lunch is the biggest lever for children's health

Schools are the largest restaurant chain in America, bigger than Subway, Starbucks, and McDonald's combined. Nearly 100,000 locations, 30 million kids, and roughly 7 bill

The food industry's MAHA moment with Melissa Hockstad

HHS Secretary Kennedy says the food industry is poisoning us. The White House shares AI videos of him body slamming a Twinkie. And somehow, the trade group representing t

Why infant formula is not a niche issue with Mallory Whitmore, The Formula Mom

Infant formula isn't some niche parenting topic. It's a public health issue, a food security issue, and in many ways an infrastructure issue. The 2022 infant formula cri

What we still don't know about ultra-processed foods with Julia Belluz & Kevin Hall

The American diet has become dominated by ultra-processed foods, but it’s taken a while for scientists to even begin to understand what this really means for our health.

FDA's food agenda, one year in with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary

The FDA is nearly a year into its MAHA era. The rhetoric has been bold — food dyes, ultra-processed foods, infant formula, GRAS reform. But what's actually happened? And

Sam Kass on climate change and the Michelle Obama era

Sam Kass calls RFK Jr. "the greatest threat to public health this country has ever faced." He’s not joking. Sam led Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, served as senio

Inside the MAHA movement with Vani Hari

She says she hates politics. She's also been on the White House lawn with the FDA commissioner, helped pressure food companies to drop artificial dyes, and is now one of

MAHA promised change. Marion Nestle isn't buying it.

The Trump administration says we're being poisoned by our food system. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about ultra-processed foods, pesticides, and corporate ca

Welcome to American Dish

Everyone is suddenly talking about food policy. But this conversation has been building for a long time, and I've been closer to it than most. I'm Helena Bottemiller Evi