Playing with Fire - with Denise Snyder

Outdoor grilling may be easy and fun, but grilling meat can be hazardous to your health.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about how rising temperatures around the world are impacting our health, and how the Trump administration is terminating the research on PFAS in bio-solid fertilizer used in agriculture. Then Denise Snyder, Associate Dean for Clinical Research at Duke School of Medicine, talks about grilling food and how cooking meat on an open flame can be hazardous to your health.

Green Street - Playing with Fire with Denise Snyder

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Links from the Interview

Information from Boston University about safe grilling: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/how-to-prepare-grilled-meats-safely/

Fact sheet from the National Cancer Institute: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/cooked-meats-fact-sheet

Links from the News

Extreme heat is a killer: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/climate/europe-heat-wave-death-toll-global-warming

Trump administration stops research on PFAS-laden fertilizer on farmland: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/trump-pfas-research-funding-farms