Jon Steinman
Jon Steinman is producer and host of Kootenay Coop Radio's program Deconstructing Dinner.
Stories by Jon Steinman
Who Owns Your Grocery Store?
In the age of monolithic grocery giants, food co-ops offer a promising alternative.
Are Farmer Suicides in India Your Fault?
Deconstructing Dinner presents Palagummi Sainath, author of 'Everybody Loves a Good Drought.'
Hungry for Change
Podcast:'Deconstructing Dinner' goes to Edmonton for a week of local and global food education.
Inside the Fish Farm Industry
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' host gets some fishy facts on a salmon farm tour.
The Future of Farmed Salmon
Podcast: Proposed salmon farm expansion shaping up to be hot election issue.
Local, Organic and Costly
Podcast: Farmers' market advocate Brent Warner on why good food doesn't come cheap.
Tainting the Purest Taste Buds
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' weighs in on the Whopper Virgins controversy.
Tourist Season on the Farm
'Deconstructing Dinner' on whether agritourism is good business, or a necessary evil.
Beer to Beat Climate Change
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' talks to author Christopher O'Brien about changing the world through brew.
Homeland (Food) Security
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' features sustainability strategist Richard Balfour.
Sowing Grain and Goodwill
'Deconstructing Dinner' on how citizens are putting the culture back in agriculture.
The Oldest Profession
'Deconstructing Dinner' presents writer Luanne Armstrong and her thoughts on the farmer, past and present.
GE-Free in the Kootenays
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' reports from the campaign to ban genetically engineered seed in the Kootenays.
GE-Free: Could Your Town be Next?
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' follows the GE-Free movement from California to the Kootenays.
From Field to Flour
Podcast:'Deconstructing Dinner' checks up on a B.C. community grain project and meets the players in this local food system.
Biotech Nation
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' explores the myths and realities of high-tech farming.
How to Save the Family Farm?
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' presents the federal election agriculture debate.
Co-op Thrives in Tough Times
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' on how a little money did a lot for one Illinois food co-op.
The Human Right to Food
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' presents UN dialogue on making the right to food more than just words on paper.
Meet Your Wheat
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' explores the local grain revolution with a tour of Creston wheat fields.
The Grain That Fed Canada
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' on why Red Fife wheat and other heritage crops are good for the palate and the planet.
Raising Chickens in the City
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' visits backyard poultry farmers in Nelson.
Lessons from Cuba
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' on organic, energy-efficient food production. Plus: urban farming in Havana.
Bluegrass Musician Fred Eaglesmith
Plus: the 'Deconstructing Dinner' Cross-Canada Trike Tour heads to Newfoundland.
Local Meat? Not in My Backyard
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' looks at water safety and the proposed Slocan Valley abattoir.
Slaughterhouse Rules
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' explores the rumours and fears stalling plans for a co-op abattoir in the Slocan Valley.
Don't Modify My Milk
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' on how ice cream giant Unilever is keeping Canadians off dairy.
The Culture of Meat
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' launches Livestock Lost series with an inside look at factory slaughterhouses.
Poultry in the City
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' on poop, coops and the personal habits of poultry.
From Rural to Urban
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' supporters tour the country on recumbent bikes, and talk about their rural roots.
Canada Votes 'No' on GE-Food Labels
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' on Bill C-517's defeat in the House of Commons.
Understanding Omega-3s
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' and author Susan Allport discuss the 'queen of fats.'
The Global Hops Shortage
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' on organic ale. Plus: biodynamic farming in Abbotsford.
Water, the Blood of the Earth
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' presents Maude Barlow. Plus: Monsanto pays up.
Nature as Our Guide
Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' looks at how science may mismanage our food supply
