“All Things Considered,” NPR • Nov. 14, 2013
Food labels have become battlegrounds. Just last week, voters in Washington state narrowly defeated a measure that would have required food manufacturers to reveal whether their products contain genetically modified ingredients. Continue reading “What’s The Most Important Thing Food Labels Should Tell Us?”
“Talk of Iowa,” Iowa Public Radio • Oct. 15, 2013
Recent movements addressing the obesity epidemic or industrial agriculture’s dominance attempt to change how Americans eat. Tracie McMillan sets out to understand the American food system from the bottom-up in her book, “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at WalMart, Applebees, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table.” Host Charity Nebbe asks McMillan where our food comes from and how we can eat healthier. Continue reading “How Americans Eat with Tracie McMillan”
“The Splendid Table,” American Public Media • Aug. 18, 2013
Sometimes all the food slogans we live with are totally overwhelming: To be healthy you need to eat five a day. Eat local. Eat organic. Vote with your fork. And of course, good, healthy food is the right of every American. Continue reading “One reporter’s lesson from working at Walmart: Love your produce manager”
The Take Away with John Hackenberry • Feb. 22, 2013
In northeast Detroit in the neighborhood of Osborn, Robin and Donald Hudson can feed up to ten hungry grandchildren ages three months to 16-years-old on any given day. With five children and 15 grandchildren they stock their basement freezer with 40 pound boxes of chicken. But finding healthy affordable food can often be a challenge.
Marketplace Money • Oct. 29, 2012
We come face to face with food every day — from the supermarket aisle to leftover cake at the office. But we can’t always take that food at face value. Understanding what we eat and what goes into the cost of what we eat takes a little digging. Continue reading “Marketplace Money: Looking at the way we eat in America”
The Splendid Table • Aug. 25, 2012
Jay McInerney joins us with his new wine book, The Juice. Tracie McMillan has gone undercover in the American food industry, and we look at the vegetarian traditions in Morocco with Jeff Koehler.
Continue reading “The Splendid Table: Ep. 515: The Juice”
New Hampshire Public Radio • July 28, 2012
This presentation was given at the Unitarian Universalist church in Peterborough, N.H. on July 22. Continue reading “NHPR: Tracie McMillan – Rethinking Food Politics in America: From Farmer’s Markets to Walmart”
All Sides with Ann Fisher • July 24, 2012
Do you eat well? Do you think Americans eat well? One journalist set out to observe the American food system and how Americans get their food, and came out with a new book on her undercover research. Continue reading “All Sides with Ann Fisher: An Inside Look at the American Food Industry”
The Restaurant Guys • April 18, 2012
Mark and Francis discuss how summer camps are different from when they were kids. Their guest is Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table. Continue reading “The Restaurant Guys”
NPR Southern California Public Radio • April 17, 2012
Obsessing over food — what we eat, why we eat, how much we eat and how we can eat better — has become a pastime as American as Dodger Dogs. Continue reading “Pat Morrison: Do Americans have enough on their plate?”
