Evolution Eats

In this episode, Bill Schindler, PhD—a professor of anthropology & experimental archaeology and Director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab at Washington College—encourages us to reconnect with our food. He makes a strong case that there are important lessons modern society must learn from our ancestral past if we are going to create a healthier and more sustainable food system in the future.

The Planetary Health Diet recommended by the EAT-Lancet Commission has received a lot of scrutiny from sustainable agriculture scientists, food policy researchers, and physicians alike. Though we see merit in these plant-based eating recommendations, we explore controversy surrounding this diet and report.

In this episode, we talk to Kerry Criss, MS, RD—a nutrition expert—about her new job as a clinical dietitian. You’ll hear first-hand insight into the job of delivering life-saving nutrition to people in hospitals, as well as discussion on reducing food waste in a hospital setting, drinking while pregnant, and of course sustainable eating in general. She also has a new book available now; link in the episode notes.

In this episode, we do a deep dive into the most popular plant-based meat products—the Impossible Burger and the Beyond Meat Burger. We discuss the ingredients, taste, health, and environmental sustainability of these novel food products as well as touch on the ever-controversial topic of GMOs.

In this episode, we have our first guest—Emilie Hebert, Vegan and Owner, Founder, and Blogger at Emilie Eats—a thriving food, health, and lifestyle blog. We get into much more than food on this podcast—including politics, media, culture, corporate social responsibility, and ethical consumerism. Emilie's work was a major inspiration for our podcast, so we thought it was fitting to have her as our first guest.

As she pursues her registered dietitian credential, she helps aspiring food bloggers turn their blogs into businesses through her new venture—Food Pinstitute—with a particular interest in empowering women to go into business for themselves.

If everyone ate the way you did, how would the planet look? - Driven by this question, our first full-length episode deals with what it means to eat a "sustainable diet". We use the EAT-Lancet report, a major scientific review that calls for a plant-based diet, along with our own ideas about what it means to eat more sustainably to dig into the details of “sustainable food”. We acknowledge that eating in a way that you think about the environmental impact of your food choices is a privilege and can be very challenging in this current world. However, armed with knowledge from this podcast, we encourage you to think about your own diet and make any small change you can to reduce the environmental impact of your food choices.

In this episode, Noah and Emily introduce themselves and their plan for the podcast including some of the big ideas they plan to cover. Emily is a PhD student in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She also has a master's degree from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Noah is a tech entrepreneur and sustainable food advocate who has an undying passion to protect our planet. He is also the expert in digital media and communications.