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Podcast: What Doesn't Kill You
Episode: Episode 48: Pesticides, Herbicides, and Genetics with Dr. Charles Benbrook
Description: This week on Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer is geeking out with Dr. Charles Benbrook. Dr. Benbrook is a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University. He is the program leader of βMeasure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health.β His career has focused on developing science-based systems for evaluating the public health, environmental, and economic impacts of changes in agricultural systems, biotechnology, and policy. He has worked extensively on pesticide use and risk assessment, and the development of bio-intensive Integrated pest Management. He played an important role in the...