On today's Your Call, we’ll talk about hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and how it may be negatively impacting the health of our food supply, water systems, and ultimately our bodies. Journalist, Elizabeth Royte, wrote in an article for The Nation: "there’s growing evidence that these two impulses, toward energy and food independence, may be at odds with each other." Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you know if your food or water comes from near a fracking site? It’s Your Call with Holly Kernan, and You.
Guests:
Elizabeth Royte, health and environmental reporter and author of The Nation Magazine article, “Fracking the Food Supply”
Dr. Sandra Steingraber, founder of New Yorker's Against Fracking; authority on the environment links to cancer and human health; and author of “Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis”
Adam Scow, California Campaigns Director with Food and Water Watch; organizes around fracking in California
Jacki Schilke, rancher in North Dakota affected by fracking
Resources:
Facebook: Farmers against Fracking
Facebook:Free Screening of "Split Estate"
Food and Water Watch:Fracking Action Center
SFGate: Fracking undermines California’s future
The Nation: Fracking Our Food Supply
Organic Consumers: Fracking our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families
Save Colorado from Fracking:Food Supply Contamination
Grist:Fracking with our food: how gas drilling affects farming
NBC News: Livestock falling ill in fracking regions
Youtube: Concerned Health Professionals of New York Speak Out
Youtube: Sandra Steingraber Confronts DEC Commissioner Environmental Hearing 2-4-13
Youtube: Ecologist Sandra Steingraber sandra Speaks out on Fracking at Albany Feb 4th 2013
Mother Jones:How Rural America Got Fracked
Mother Jones: Fracking Wastewater Threatens to Drown Ohio
LA Times: Review: 'Frack Nation' takes on anti-fracking documentary