Host Jenna Liut welcomes the award-winning investigative journalist, Carey Gillam, back to show to discuss her new book, The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice. A follow up to Gillam’s first book, Whitewash – an explosive expose on Monsanto and the health risks of its best-selling herbicide, Roundup – her new book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the landmark lawsuit against Monsanto and its implications for tens of thousands of plaintiffs worldwide. Informed by Gillam’s unfettered access to the legal team behind this historic lawsuit and over 80,000 pages of documents, The Monsanto Papers details the astounding extent to which the company went hide the deadly dangers of its products and corporate misdeeds – and the devastating human toll that it took.
Photo Courtesy of Prayong Kotjuk.
Eating Matters is powered by Simplecast.
Episode 20: The Tipping Point on Restaurant Wages
Episode 19: Prescribing Food, Part 2: Food & Healthcare
Episode 18: Wholesome Wave with Gus Schumacher
Episode 17: Prescribing Food, Part 2: Delivering Food to the Most Vulnerable
Episode 16: Food: When It’s Not What You Think
Episode 15: Prescribing Food, Part 1: Making Hospitals Healthier
Episode 14: Jan Poppendieck: Hunger Programs Then & Now
Episode 13: A Big Move in School Food
Episode 12: Going Local
Episode 11: A Food Pantry in Brooklyn
Episode 10: Kids and Food
Episode 9: The Role of Chefs in Food Policy Issues
Episode 8: The Implications of Information
Episode 7: Are You Eating Safe Food?
Episode 6: Is Your Food Fair?
Episode 5: Is the Food Movement a Political Force… Yet?
Episode 4: Insuring Better Health
Episode 3: Joan Gussow: Food, Sustainability and the Climate
Episode 2: Neighborhoods for Health
Episode 1: You Never Eat Alone: How What You Eat Impacts the Rest of Us
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
A Taste of the Past
Radio Cherry Bombe
Cooking Issues
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Japan Eats!
Modernist BreadCrumbs