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Slow Food Goes Brussels: GMOs and Pesticides, a Chemical Romance

Slow Food Goes Brussels: GMOs and Pesticides, a Chemical Romance

FromSlow Food, the podcast


Slow Food Goes Brussels: GMOs and Pesticides, a Chemical Romance

FromSlow Food, the podcast

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Sep 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

So many of the foods we eat everyday are sprayed again and again with pesticides before landing on our table. And we all learned over the years, one scandal after another, that this is no good news, either for our health or the environment. But what most people don’t know is the tight connection between pesticides and GMOs. As the European Union is about to take some critical decisions on both pesticides and GMOs, we unveil the troubling truth about that very toxic couple, which are tied by many links, with our three guests:
Mute Schimpf, policy officer at Friends of the Earth Europe
Bosse Dalhgren, Slow Food farmer in Scotland
Karina Ocampo, Slow Food activist in Argentina

News samples used in the episode were taken from:
“Bayer loses third appeals case over glyphosate weedkiller”, Reuters, August 10, 2021
“What you're eating: Consumer Reports investigates GMOs in food”, CBS News, October 7, 2014
“Monsanto ordered to pay $289M to man who claimed weedkiller contributed to cancer”, CBS News, 2018
“In Chile, amateur beekeeper rescues hives from coastal tourist city”, Reuters, December 7, 2022
“Kenya's GMO maize push sowing trouble for food sector, farmers warn”, Reuters, December 17, 2022
Host: Alice Poiron
Co-host: Valentina Gritti
Post-production: Jonathan Remy
Music: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes

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A project by Slow Food Youth Network
Released:
Sep 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (83)

Our food chain is full of surprises and our food is handled by people you will most likely never meet. Where did your coffee come from? Who grew your cocoa for your chocolate? Who made your bread? We are about to start a journey together, finding our way through the food systems. We want to give a stage to the people, whose voices are often not taken into consideration, or who are simply overlooked in the debate around food. We want to demonstrate that we all contribute to a more sustainable food system, that everyone has a story to tell and that there’s a lesson in every single one of them. — Production by Slow Food Youth Network Hosted by Valentina Gritti Music by Leonardo Prieto Dorantes