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October 28, 2013
Lou Reed
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October 28: Day In History

October 28, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the establishment of Harvard University, the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in NY, and the Black Monday Wall Street Crash of 1929, among many other things. We also honor the legacy of the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed, who passed away yesterday.
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October 25, 2013
EVANDER-KO-BUSTER
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October 25: Day In History

October 25, 2013 - Segment 2 - We look back at the day in history, including a strike in Patterson, New Jersey, Evander Holyfield knocking out James "Buster" Douglas to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion, and Nelson Mandela being sentenced to five years in prison
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October 24, 2013
Rosa Parks
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Day In History: October 24

October 24, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including National Workers Demand a Raise Day, the "Black Thursday" stock market crash in 1929, the "Bloody Friday" stock declines in 2008, and the anniversary of the death of Rosa Parks.
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October 24, 2013
Chicken nuggets
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Sound Bites: Food Stamp Challenge | What’s In That Chicken Nugget? | Local Turkeys For Thanksgiving

October 22, 2013 - Segment 3 - We look at Maryland Hunger Solution's Food Stamp Challenge, on the latest edition of Sound Bites! We also look at what's inside that chicken nugget and learn about a duo that's raising turkeys locally.
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October 23, 2013
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
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This Day In History: October 22

October 22, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation that has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest and the birthdays of songwriter James A. Bland and author Dorris Lessing.
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October 15, 2013
Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat
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Sound Bites – Michael Moss on Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

October 15, 2013 - Hour 2 - In the latest episode of Sound Bites, we look at how "Big Food" has lured us into eating high-fat, low-nutrition foods over the past century, when Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss joins us to discuss his book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
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October 9, 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Shadd
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This Day in History: October 9th

October 9, 2013 – Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of Mary Ann Shadd, publisher of Canada's first antislavery newspaper, The Provincial Freeman, and the first woman in North American to publish and edit a newspaper.
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October 8, 2013
The impacts of the government shutdown on food
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Sound Bites: Government Shutdown’s Impact on Food | Arsenic in Animal Feed | Trans-Pacific Partnership & Food Safety

October 8, 2013 - Segment 3 - We will discuss how the government shutdown is affecting food and agriculture on the latest edition of Sound Bites! We also talk about new restrictions on arsenic in animal feed and a new free trade agreement's impact on food safety.
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October 1, 2013
SNAP
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Sound Bites: SNAP And Monsanto

October 1, 2013 - Segment 2 - It's a new episode of Sound Bites. We'll hear about cuts to SNAP benefits and a legislative provision that had been protecting Monsanto by allowing biotechnology companies to continue selling genetically-modified seeds even after a court had blocked their sale over safety concerns.
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September 24, 2013
Hunger in the Richest State
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Sound Bites: Hunger In The Richest State – Exploring Food Insecurity In Maryland

September 24, 2013 - Hour 2 - In partnership with the Center for a Livable Future, we launch a new feature: Hunger in the Richest State. Why does the richest state in the nation have so many food-insecure people? We hear the stories of those struggling to put food on the table - from Cambridge to Baltimore to Western MD - and learn about the good work that is being done to address the need.
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September 17, 2013
Cafo
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Sound Bites: Chicken Litter, Coffee, And Pasta

September 17, 2013 - Segment 2 - It's a new episode of Sound Bites. We'll discuss new regulations on phosphorus and the use of chicken manure as fertilizer, sustainable coffee, and a pasta recipe.
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September 5, 2013
Members of the UAW Women’s Auxiliary march down Woodward Ave. and carry signs that denounce U.S. involvement in the Second World War and low worker wages, Detroit, Michigan.
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Baltimore-Detroit-Oakland: Episode 1 – Sister Cities In A Post-Industrial Era

September 4, 2013 - Segment 2 - We launch our new series on three major urban centers facing post-industrial challenges, Baltimore-Detroit-Oakland, with Center for Emerging Media Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Lester Spence. Baltimore-Detroit-Oakland features historians and activists from the three cities in dialogue with one another.
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August 27, 2013
Future Harvest Beginner Farmer Training
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Sound Bites: Future Harvest/CASA’s Beginner Farmer Trainer Program

August 27, 2013 - Segment 3 - Stay tuned for the latest edition of Sound Bites! Have you ever thought about starting your own farm? This week our topic is new farmers and Future Harvest/CASA's (Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture) Beginner Farmer Trainer Program.
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August 20, 2013
Steve Martinez of Pluma Feliz Farms
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Sound Bites: Poultry Farmers | Chicken Waste As Alternative Energy Source?

August 20, 2013 - Hour 2 - On the newest edition of Sound Bites, we're talking chickens! A diverse group of poultry farmers speak candidly about their work, and we get information about an idea to burn chicken litter as an alternative source of energy.
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August 12, 2013
Why Bees Are Dying
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Sound Bites: Rural MD Needs Immigration Reform | Update: Gather Baltimore | Why Bees Are Dying

August 13, 2013 - Segment 4 - This week on Sound Bites, we hear an opinion on how immigration reform could positively impact rural Maryland, get an update from Arthur Morgan on all things Gather Baltimore, and learn about a new study completed by the USDA and the University of Maryland that gives insight into why bees everywhere are dying.
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August 6, 2013
Urban Farm (Image via Salon)
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Sound Bites: 50 Million Hungry In Richest Country | Are America’s Food Debates Just White Men Talking?

August 6, 2013 - Segment 3 - We start this week on Sound Bites by talking to Rose Aguilar, who provides a commentary related to her recent op-ed, "Richest country's empty plates." Then, we discuss race, class, and the food movement with a diverse roundtable of guests.
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July 30, 2013
A Baltimore lab aims to take the science of growing clean, healthy salt-water fish to the global marketplace
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Sound Bites: Warehouse-Raised Fish | McDonald’s & Fast Food Workers | Farmer Profile: Charles Wright

July 30, 2013 - Hour 2 - On a new edition of Sound Bites, we ask the question: as our waterways become more polluted, will fish be raised in warehouses in our cities? Then, we discuss fast food workers and hear a profile of an Eastern Shore farmer, Charles Wright.
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July 25, 2013
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Sound Bites: Urban Farming, No SNAP Benefits For Violent Offenders, & A Fermentation Recipe

July 23, 2013 - Segment 3- On this live episode of Sound Bites, we discuss urban farming with Five Seeds Farm and the Baltimore Free Farm, the Senate's amendments to the Farm Bill that would bar people convicted of violent crimes from receiving benefits for life, and fermentation with Sandor Katz.
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July 16, 2013
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Sound Bites: MD Pesticide Reporting Work Group | Recipe: Kale Smoothies | Malik Yakini On Racism In The Food System

July 16, 2013 - Hour 2 - It's another episode of Sound Bites! We begin the hour talking with two members of the Maryland Pesticide Reporting and Information Work Group who hold very different perspectives, hear a delicious and healthy recipe for kale smoothies, and talk to Malik Yakini about his work in Detroit and racism in the food system and food movement.
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July 9, 2013
Tom Horton, Delmarva Peninsula
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Sound Bites: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership | Nutrient Trading & The Chesapeake Bay | A Kayak Trip Through The Delmarva Peninsula

July 9, 2013 - Segment 3 - On a new episode of Sound Bites, we discuss what the newly-negotiated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the EU means for our food, what a Bay-wide nutrient trading program could mean for the health of the Chesapeake Bay, and take a trip through the Delmarva peninsula with Tom Horton and Bill Nelson.
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July 2, 2013
Michael Twitty, Afroculinaria
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Sound Bites: Michael Twitty On Paula Deen | Supreme Court & Sustainable Development | Slave Labor Processing Shrimp | Farm Alliance Of Baltimore City

July 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - In the latest episode of Sound Bites, we reflect on Paula Deen and southern cuisine, the Supreme Court's decision that impacts sustainable development, slave labor and shrimp, and the Farm Alliance of Baltimore City.
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June 25, 2013
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Sound Bites: Farm Bill Fails | Obesity A Disease? | Shad Dwindling In MD | Recipe: Gluten-Free Strawberry Cupcakes

June 25, 2013 - Hour 2 - On another live episode of Sound Bites we continue our discussion of the Farm Bill, which the House of Representatives failed to pass last week. Then, we talk about the AMA's decision to classify obesity as a disease, get a report on dwindling shad populations in Maryland, and hear a recipe for gluten-free strawberry cupcakes.
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June 18, 2013
Baltimore Free Farm
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Sound Bites: What This Farm Bill Means | Baltimore Free Farm | Union Graze Market | Recipe: Spaghetti Aglio e Olio

June 18, 2013 - Segment 5 - On Sound Bites, we continue our dialogue on the Farm Bill, which has been passed in the Senate but is still under debate in the House, look at the Baltimore Free Farm's fight to keep lots from being sold by the city, visit a new farmer's market in Baltimore, Union Graze, and hear a recipe for spaghetti aglio e olio.
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June 11, 2013
Garlic scapes
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Sound Bites: Farmer’s Roundtable; Brickyard Educational Farm Update; Recipe: Garlic Scapes; The Gaza Kitchen

June 11, 2013 - Hour 2 - On this live episode of Sound Bites, we talk to Charles Wright and Ted Wycall about issues impacting farmers, get an update on Brickyard Educational Farm in Montgomery County, hear a recipe for garlic scapes, and hear more about a new cookbook, The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey.
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June 4, 2013
monsanto-wheat
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Sound Bites: Does Report On Arsenic & Chicken Matter?; Monsanto Watch; And Langston Hughes’ “Freedom’s Plow”

June 4, 2013 - Segment 4 - We kick-off another live episode of Sound Bites with a debate over the Johns Hopkins University study on arsenicals in chicken, and we look at Monsanto in the news with Tom Laskawy and Tom Philpott. Then, Blain Snipstal reads a Langston Hughes poem that highlights the importance of African Americans in agriculture and farming.
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May 28, 2013
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Sound Bites: Urban Farming, No SNAP Benefits For Violent Offenders, & A Fermentation Recipe!

May 28, 2013 - Hour 2 - On this live episode of Sound Bites, we discuss urban farming with Five Seeds Farm and the Baltimore Free Farm, the Senate's amendments to the Farm Bill that would bar people convicted of violent crimes from receiving benefits for life, and fermentation with Sandor Katz.
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May 22, 2013
Michael Moss' Salt Sugar Fat
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Sound Bites: Arsenic In Our Chicken; Supreme Court’s Monsanto Ruling; Bay Oysters; and Salt Sugar Fat

May 22, 2013 - Hour 1 - This week on Sound Bites, we learn about a study measuring arsenic in the chicken we eat, seed giant Monsanto's victory in the Supreme Court, and oyster restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay. Then, we talk to Michael Moss about his book on processed food and America's obesity crisis: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
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May 15, 2013
denzel
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Sound Bites: African American Farmers, Dwindling Bee Populations, And Gather Baltimore

May 15, 2013 - Segment 1 - We launch our first live episode of Sound Bites with conversations about African-American farmers in the US, dwindling bee populations, and a program that collects produce donated by farmers and distributes it to people who don't have access to healthy food sources, through local hospitals, meal programs, and faith communities.
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May 9, 2013
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Sound Bites: How environmental and agricultural legislation affects the economic and ecological health of the Delmarva peninsula

May 9, 2013 - Segment 2 - We have a new episode of Sound Bites. We spoke with different environmentalists, farmers, and public officials about how environmental and agricultural legislation affects the economic and ecological health of the Delmarva peninsula.
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May 2, 2013
MalikYakini
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Sound Bites: Malik Yakini And Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods

May 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - It's the latest episode of Sound Bites, featuring Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, and a debate on whether or not genetically engineered foods should be labeled.
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April 18, 2013
Real food challenge
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Sound Bites: Agricultural Policy, Transforming the Food System, and a Seasonal Pumpkin Recipe

April 18, 2013 - Segment 3 - This week on Sound Bites, Wenonah Hauter teaches us about the consolidation of the food industry, we bring you Real Food Challenge's second national summit on changing the food system, and raw and vegan food chef Skai Davis shares a seasonal pumpkin recipe.
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April 4, 2013
Monsanto Rider
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Sound Bites: Monsanto Rider, Food & Ag News, Alternatives To The GDP

April 4, 2013 - Segment 3 - We debate the Monsanto Rider, which caused a storm when it was anonymously inserted into the Agricultural Appropriations Bill passed by Congress, the latest food and agricultural news, and how we might measure an economy beyond the GDP.
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March 28, 2013
The Gaza Kitchen
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Sound Bites: Ag Certainty, What the Pesticide Information Act Means for Maryland & A Palestinian Easter Recipe

March 28, 2013 - Segment 3 - This week on Sound Bites, we talk about the Ag Certainty Bill and the Pesticide Information Act, both of which are making their way through the General Assembly in Maryland right now, and hear a Palestinian Easter recipe.
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March 21, 2013
Arthur Morgan's Gather Baltimore - Food Stand In Baltimore's Oliver Neighborhood
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Sound Bites: Farmer’s Markets, Race, & Food Access In Our Region And Beyond, Plus A Unique Passover Recipe

March 21, 2013 - Segment 3 - It's a new episode of Sound Bites. We look at farmers markets in Maryland and beyond and their connection to race, food access, and food insecurity. We learn about a project that's getting food that would otherwise go to waste into the hands of those that need it - Gather Baltimore - and hear a unique Passover recipe that fuses African-American and Jewish tradition.
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March 15, 2013
Shirley Sherrod, The Courage to Hope
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Sound Bites: Shirley Sherrod, a St. Patrick’s Day Recipe and More!

March 14, 2013 - Segment 3 - This week we have a conversation about the poor working conditions in America's restaurant industry, talk to Shirley Sherrod, former US Department of Agriculture official, learn about recent studies on sugar and the Mediterranean diet, and get a traditional Irish recipe in honor of St. Patrick's Day.
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March 6, 2013
Monsanto in the Supreme Court, Roundup Ready seeds
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Sound Bites: Monsanto In The Supreme Court; Plastic In Our Food; Visions For Transforming The Food System

March 6, 2013 - Hour 2 - It's a new episode of Sound Bites. We'll look at the Bowman vs. Monsanto case, recently heard in the Supreme Court, which addresses the question of who owns the rights to Monsanto's genetically engineered RoundUp Ready seeds, plastics in our food, and visions for transforming the food system.
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February 28, 2013
Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens, Lakeview Organic Grains - Photo by Valery Rizzo
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Sound Bites: Food Industry Consolidation, Transition to Organic Grain, and Healthy Soul Food

February 28, 2013 - Hour 1 - On our newest episode of Sound Bites, Wenonah Hauter shares her perspective on how consolidation of food and agricultural companies has affected both conventional and organic farming, we talk how farmers transition from conventional to organic farming with Mary-Howel Martens, get an update on Brickyard Educational Farm, and hear a seasonal soul food recipe by Mookie Hicks.
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February 21, 2013
Real Food Challenge
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Agricultural Policy, Transforming the Food System, and a Seasonal Pumpkin Recipe

February 21, 2013 - Hour 2 - This week on Sound Bites, Wenonah Hauter teaches us about the consolidation of the food industry, we bring you Real Food Challenge's second national summit on changing the food system, and raw and vegan food chef Skai Davis shares a seasonal pumpkin recipe.
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February 14, 2013
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History of Agricultural Policy in the US

February 14, 2013 – Segment 3 - We begin with another passage from our interview with Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch and author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America. Wenonah discusses the history of agricultural policy in the United States since the 1980s.
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February 7, 2013
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The Future of Food and Farming

February 7, 2013 - Segment 3 - Interviews with Wenonah Hauter, author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America, and the Executive Director of Food and Water Watch; Sophia Maravell, Brickyard's Education Director, and Carissa Lovelace, Campaign Director of Save This Soil; and Dr. Lorne Garretson, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Emory University.
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