Who is harmed by pesticides? A child eating a big, red, conventionally grown Driscoll’s strawberry. Or a bowl of Cheerios. Or does the chain of harm go back further? To a farmworker, spraying pesticides up and down a row of crops. Or a farming family, living on the land where the crops are grown. Or a community, breathing the air and drinking the water downstream from the farm. Are these foods bad for us to eat? Are they bad for us, collectively, to grow? And if so, who should pay the price?

This episode features Carey Gillam, investigative journalist and author of the books Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science and The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man's Search for Justice; Max Sano, the senior policy and coalition associate at Beyond Pesticides; Aaron Lehman, president of the Iowa Farmers Union; and Urvashi Rangan, chief science advisor at the Grace Communications Foundation and FoodPrint.

What You’re Eating is produced by Jerusha Klemperer, Nathan Dalton and FoodPrint.org, which is a project of the GRACE Communications Foundation. You can find us at www.FoodPrint.org where we have this podcast as well as articles, reports, a Food Label Guide and more.

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