John Harper is the owner of WMEL Talk Radio AM 1300 located in Cocoa Beach/Melbourne, Florida on Florida's Spacecoast

Mariola Varona is the Export Manager for Martin Codax Winery, Spain

Morton Satin is Vice President, Science and Research, at the Salt Institute

Patrice is a freelance writer specializing in the subjects of rural living, craft businesses, Dexter cattle, writing, homeschooling, parenting, and simplicity. She does what she jokingly calls the Three H's: Homesteading, Homeschooling, and Home Business-ing. What this means is that she is striving to grow or raise her own food on her forty-acre farm in north Idaho; she is educating her own children; and she has a home craft business that has provided her income for the past fifteen years.

Patrice is a freelance writer specializing in the subjects of rural living, craft businesses, Dexter cattle, writing, homeschooling, parenting, and simplicity. She does what she jokingly calls the Three H's: Homesteading, Homeschooling, and Home Business-ing. What this means is that she is striving to grow or raise her own food on her forty-acre farm in north Idaho; she is educating her own children; and she has a home craft business that has provided her income for the past fifteen years.

William Kanitz, President of ScoringAg, has been a farmer, seed company owner, manufacturer of livestock equipment and the inventor of a high-tech drying wagon. Mr. Kanitz has decades of agricultural experience, covering cattle, swine, sheep and wool, vegetables and field crops. He also authored a manual for dry beans for the USDA and served as an employee of NASDA.

Sarah Wally is a registered dietitian and consultant for the National Pasta Association

Robert Whitaker has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers' Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research for the Boston Globe that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Anatomy of an Epidemic won the 2010 Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism.

James Cook, Food Safety Technologist at SGS Consumer Testing Company, has been working with SGS since 2009 handling food and food contact technical issues for the Consumer Testing Services group. Jim has more than 25 years quality assurance and technical experience in the food retailing, manufacturing and private brand brokerage business.

Dr. Donald Layman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois. He is recognized for his research on protein and amino acid metabolism and high protein weight loss diets. Dr. Layman has over 100 research publications and his research has been recognized by the American Society for Nutrition with the BioServ Research Award in 1986, and the Nutrition and Metabolism Society National Leadership Award in 2009. He has also received numerous awards for his nutrition teaching at the University of Illinois. Dr. Layman served as Associate Editor of The Journal of Nutrition from 1989 through 1993 and he is currently Associate Editor of Nutrition and Metabolism and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Dr. Layman earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry at Illinois State University and his doctorate in human nutrition at the University of Minnesota.