The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Topics include the defining of textured beef; how the reporting of ABC News helped turn textured beef into pink slime; and how Beef Products Inc. forced ABC News to settle a $1.9 billion slander lawsuit out of court. Guests: Dan Gainor, VP Media Resea

Topics include how humans think; how animals think; and how humans can work animals by thinking like animals. Guest: Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University

Topics include how humans think; how animals think; and how humans can work animals by thinking like animals. Guest: Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University

Guest: Bill Marler, Attorney, Marler Clark LLP

Topics include how industrialization changed how farmers use soil to grow food; what the consequences are of that change; and speculation as to which is best to eat, foods grown with biology or foods grown with chemistry? Guests: Biologist Anne Bikle

Why we, as a people, are becoming so emotionally challenged; ways we try to manage our emotions; and whether food can enable us to manage our moods. Guest: Dr. Frieda Birndbaum, Research Pychologist, Author, Life Begins at 60

Topics include why strawberry farming has come to rely on sterile soil and pesticides; what possibilities may be seen with biological soils; and whether strawberries, and other crops, can be mass-produced without pesticides. Guests:University of Calif

Topics include the technology of producing fake meats; the financial opportunities seen in the fake meat industry, and speculation as to whether fake meat will grow into a real meat industry. Guests: San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writers Tara Duggan

Topics include what makes a species an invasive species; how invasive species invade and conquer, and by what means invasive species may be eliminated. Guests: Heath Packard, Director of Communications, Island Conservation

Topics include how Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is spreading throughout the West; why wolves might prove to be the best way to control the spread of CWD; and whether wolves should be freed to eat the weak. Guests: Marc Cooke, President of Wolves of t

Topics include how an antiquarian book bookstore owner became an expert medieval chef; how food trends of the past moved civilizations to war and peace; and what those trends might portend for our future with food. Guest: Tom Nealon, Author, Food Figh

Topics include how an antiquarian book bookstore owner became an expert medieval chef; how food trends of the past moved civilizations to war and peace; and what those trends might portend for our future with food. Guest: Tom Nealon, Author, Food Figh

In the U.S. food costs 5.5% of disposable income, while food in other nations costs up to 45.6%. And so we ask...

Many of those who grow our food say we must use pesticides to feed the future. And so we ask...

Two recent items of news: A claim that strawberries are the food most contaminated with pesticide residues, and a denial of the claim we must use pesticides to feed the world. Both lead us to ask...

Bees pollinate plants that produce about one-third of the food we eat, and yet we use pesticides that are said to kill bees to grow those same plants. And so we wonder...

Eat or be eaten! All of us living things love to eat, but hate being eaten. And so when something threatens to eat us, we resist. This elemental fact leads us to ask...

That accidental contaminations of food have periodically caused injury and death throughout the U.S. lead us to ask...

Topics include a look into the mechanisms of living cells; how the ribosomes within those cells manufacture the essential proteins of life, and whether our knowledge of those ribosomes can help us find viable replacements for the antibiotics that are no

Guests: Danny Merkley, Director of Water Resources, California Farm Bureau & Bill Wattenburg, PhD, Engineer, Radio Host, Senior Research Scientist Research Foundation, California State University

If a GMO food crop is substanially equivalent to a non-GMO food crop, it is deemed safe to eat. But when a crop has been re-engineered to contain a pesticide, and to be drenched in herbicides, we wonder...

Hundreds of millions, give or take, would like to clamber into the sanctuary of lifeboat USA. Given the condition of the waters in which they tread, who can blame them? Still, we wonder...

Topics include the extent to which people, pumas and prey live in close proximity; how all are adjusting to living together; and whether people, as the apex predator, can live in harmony with other predators and their prey. Guest: Justine Smith, Doct

Winter is the time to sort seeds and confer on a new growing season at one of the many farm conferences around the nation. One such conference, EcoFarm, brings together like minded ecofarmers from around the world, and they lead us to ask....

Topics include a look at the workings of USDA, an agency with a $19 billion budget that grows nothing and sells nothing; who and what enjoys the largess of the USDA; and whether the USDA needs, as some assert, to be drained. Guest: James Bovard, Autho