The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

This from a concerned listener: “No… Don’t spray! Just do not spray! No more chemicals. No pesticides. No bad stuff on my food, our community, our health.” Okay. But wait! What about the pests?

Topics include a look at the nature of animals in the wild; how the nature of animals in the wild differs from that of people in civilization; and what, if anything, man can learn from animals about the nature of good and evil. Guest: Jeffrey Moussaief

The farther we go from the source of our food the less control we have over what’s in our food. It follows that to get the most control we must obtain our food directly from its source. This leads us to ask…

Methyl Bromide, a poison gas banned by international treaty, helped the strawberry industry grow from 2,000 acres to 26,000 acres. This leads us to ask…

Sometimes we simply must break away and go to someplace really special, like Italy, and do something special, like discover the best wines of Italy. And so let’s break away and discover…

Guests: Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect and Farmacology

Michael Olson’s 3rd Law of the Food Chain: Cheap food Isn’t! In fact, cheap food can cost more and take longer to prepare. This leads us to ask…

Guest: Devon G. Pena, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Ethnic and Environmental Studies, University of Washington, and Founder and President of the Acequia Institute

People everywhere want a food supply that is fair, just, and sovereign, but most often end up with a food supply controlled by big government and big business. This leads us to ask…

Imagine waking up to find that every single person in Chicago has simply vanished, leaving their breakfast on the kitchen table! Such is the case with our bees, which leads us to ask…

Harmful bacteria from fecal matter has been finding its way into our food chain. Those bacteria might be killed with irradiation, yet many object to the process. The FDA suggests industry be allowed to call irradiation “pasteurization.” This

As living beings, nature gives us the right to eat food. But as citizens, government legislates what foods we have the right to eat. Given all the food laws now being passed, we must ask…

Government wishes to make eggs safe by preventing chickens from ranging free outdoors. This leads us to ask…

Government-guaranteed safe food is coming, so get ready for brightly-packaged cake manufactured from GE soybeans, fortified with Chinese-made vitamins, flavored with nano grey goo of choice, and of course, colored green for sensitivity. But we ask…

Cities are eating up our prime farmland at the rate of two acres per minute 24-7-365. This loss of farmland leads us to ask…

Contaminated spinach has again been recalled from the nation’s grocers. Some now say that industry-developed safety guidelines for farmers of the leafy greens will not solve the problem. This leads us to ask, “Will food safety guidelines pro

Farm animals have been taken off the farm and confined in industrial facilities controlled by a few large corporations. Given this control of the nation’s food chain, we ask…

A million nanoparticles could be contained on the period at the end of this sentence, which explains why some foods are now made with zillions of them. But wait…

With grocery stores near everyone’s front door, getting fed seems to be an easy thing to do. But those stores were not always there, which leads us to ask, “What can we eat that does not come from a store?” Topics include examples of

Our oil companies have been tossed out of Venezuela, and so we rush to replace hydrocarbons with carbohydrates by planting corn from sea to shining sea. This leads one to ask, “Food or fuel?” Topics include the extent to which agricultural r

When Chairman Mao ordered China to take a great leap forward toward pure communism, 45 to 60 million Chinese were worked, beaten and starved to death. Mao’s great leap leads us to ask… Did government starve 45 million to death by accident o

Topics include the horse as physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual therapist; the kinds of human afflictions a horse therapist might address; and how the horse therapist might heal the human patient. Guests: Jean Kvamme and Stacy James-Ryan of t

Guest: Michael Marsh, Executive Director of Western United Dairyman

Special occasions are cause to pause for reflection. And so, on the occasion of our 600th edition of the Food Chain Radio program, we pause to reflect on…

Essential fatty acids are those that cannot be manufactured by our body, and therefore must be obtained from other sources. But when it comes to eating fats, some say we are now going from frying pan to fire! This leads us to ask, “Where can we fi