{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fdont-follow-the-flock-leZJRDrF","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Don't Follow the Flock","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/51773d79-e9a1-4118-a64e-03e6a5b9de6b/dont_follow_the_flock_podcast_cover.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University and host of Canada's top-rated food podcast, joins Dan to work through three myths agriculture keeps being handed and rarely gets to push back on. The conversation covers the UN's April 2026 downward revision of worst-case climate scenarios and what it reveals about Canadian media's relationship with the science; gene editing's potential and the transparency failure that will determine whether the public accepts it; and the cultural cost of Canada's fear of failure, anchored by a Purdue lunch table where half the ag entrepreneurs present had declared bankruptcy at least once. Woven through all three: Sylvain's argument that the media, academia, and Ottawa have each developed a conformity problem that is leaving Canadians less informed about food and agriculture than they need to be."}