Sustainable Dish Podcast

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak with Matthew Engelhart of Cafe Gratitude, Gracias Madras and Be Love Farm. Matthew and I speak about his history with a vegetarian and vegan diet, how he discovered the importance of animals to land stewardship, and how he eventually began to eat meat again.

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak with Mike Hands from the Inga Foundation about regenerative agriculture, soil fertility, and methodology using the Inga tree to improve soil health.

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast. I speak with Mike Lorentz from Lorentz Meats in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Mike and I discuss navigating USDA meat processing regulations, changes in the slaughter landscape, Temple Grandin, and the future of meat processing.

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak to Jason Jones of Vital Farms about the egg industry in the United States. Jason and I discuss egg classification and how Vital Farms is working to shape the industry and encourage producers to raise chickens on pasture.

On this episode, I spoke with Nikita Zimov, a scientist living in Siberia trying to use bison and other ruminant animals to help fight climate change.

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak to Lily Nichols, author of Real Food for Pregnancy.

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak to Paul Greive of Pasturebird, a national wholesaler of pasture raised broiler chickens. We discuss how Paul and his family got involved in raising chickens, the benefits of pasture raised chickens and the logistics of chicken processing.

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak with Dr. Michael Ruscio, a digestive, thyroid, and functional medicine doctor. We discuss the microbiome and the release of his new book, Healthy Gut, Healthy You.

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak with Chris Masterjohn, PhD. Chris studies nutritional science, produces content on his website including the Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Testing Nutritional Status and Chris Masterjohn Lite videos.

On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak to Jason Rowntree and Paige Stanley from Michigan State University. Jason and Paige just published the paper- Impacts of soil carbon sequestration on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in Midwestern USA beef finishing systems. We discuss the results of their paper, the impact of grazing livestock specifically- Adaptive Multi-Paddock Grazing , and why eating meat may be not as bad for the environment as we think.