Can vodka be made from milk? Yes. This week we dive into Dairy Distillery and find out how one engineer went from being a basement moonshiner to making vodka from milk. Vodkow is made from milk permeate- a waste product that comes from dairy products. Omid McDonald heard that this waste was being dumped and that farmers had to pay for it, so he thought- why don't we use that waste and make alcohol. Find out how McDonald came up with this idea, and learn how he took something wasteful and turned it into a beautiful product. 

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Host: Joy Nystrom @mashosannajoy

Music by: @vaudervillerevival

Today I dive into the Oscars, what happened there and why it kind of matters. I give my unfiltered opinions on human rights and the comparison to animal rights, why we artificially inseminate cattle and what exactly is the natural world. 

Do you ever wonder where your waste goes when you flush it down the toilet? Do you ever worry that farmers don't ACTUALLY care about the environment? Are you ever worried that farmers are destroying the land rather than helping it? In the poop cast, we talk all about- well poop. That is we discuss all the ways that farmers use waste to grow crops, but also how far they have come in short period of time, Joy sits down with Manure Expert- Dr. Katherine Knowlton of Virginia Tech and discusses just how research has helped farmers improve their practices and in turn, has helped improve the waterways. Dr. Knowlton has been researching the effects of animal agriculture on the environment for more than a decade and her research has helped to revolutionize how farmers feed their cows. In today's episode, we discuss all the things that people probably don't normally think about-like where their waste goes, what happens to their waste, how farmers deal with waste, why waste matter, and how antibiotics affect waste in both humans and cows. 

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Farmsplain Raw edition is coming to you live to tell you about milks of all flavors and shapes. Yo milkmaid Joy tastes the top four milks, describes them and then tells you about their environmental impacts and costs.  After being fired up about Starbucks promoting non-dairy milk, Joy dives into why all milks are not the same and sometimes their harsh environmental impacts go unnoticed. 

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Sources:

Dr. Frank Mitloehner- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR7ATkTXSb8

Tony Naylor- The Gaurdian “Ditch the almond milk: why everything you know about sustainable eating is probably wrong"

Dairy All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)-Report on Dairy and Public Health

Wikipedia page on Almond Milk 

Medical news Daily