The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

There is no “fed” in the Federal Reserve System. There are only private banks which loan the public funny money that the public must pay back, with interest, using real money. This web of debt leads us to ask…

Topics include why rural economies no longer support rural people; whether sufficient incentive exists for rural people to feed their own hunger; and why so many in rural America are so hungry. Guests: John Crabtree from the Center for Rural Affairs

It's the dream! Turn a wild, scrub-covered hillside into an orderly vineyard, and then crush the grapes thereof into a premium wine. But before you dig we ask, "What lies between the dream and the lips?" Topics include what it takes to say "Yes!" to a l

“K-e-double-l–oh–double-good Kellog’s best to you” is apparentely not good enough for some, as they are boycotting this iconic corporation. Their honk-n-waves lead us to ask…

The cluster of diseases known as AIDS has killed over 25 million people around the world. AIDS is said to be caused by the HIV virus, and thus to prevent AIDS one must manage HIV. Yet an increasing number are denying the efficacy of this claim, which le

Topics include the kinds of farming developed nations can effectively teach developing nations; the skills and technologies developing nations might teach developed nations; and how best to teach each other how to grow. Guests: Godfrey Kasozi, Center

Across the nation armed government SWAT teams arrest private citizens for buying and selling fresh whole foods from each other. This leads us to ask…

We city folk have learned to eat skinless, boneless breasts from factory-farmed chickens, and think ourselves intelligent for doing so. This leads one to ask, “What happened to the joy of eating?” Topics include why men love ribs (and whethe

“Fire is a natural part of the environment, about as important as rain and sunshine. Fire has always been here and everything good evolved from it.” - Dr. Harold Biswell

We have come to a fork in the road to our future. One road will take us toward capitalism; the other toward socialism. We must decide which road to take, and so pause to ask…

Topics include how the Green Revolution changed 10,000 years of agricutlure; why some, led by Dr. William Albrecht, found the new way of growing food to be the wrong way; and whether we, and all life on earth, can survive without living soils. Guest

He asked the University of California, Santa Cruz for a small scrap of land to teach gardening, and then proceeded to turn the earth on agriculture. That garden leads us to ask…

The family enterprise began, like many others, in the black market and, when sufficient cash accrued, grew into respectability. This history leads us to ask…

To calculate the true cost of a gallon of gasoline, we must add a dollar a gallon for environmental and health costs. This additional dollar per gallon is paid by taxpayers, which leads us to ask…

With its roundup herbicide and roundup-ready genes, the Monsanto Corporation has made growing crops a lot easier. Some, however, say Monsanto’s technology has spawned a new pathogen that causes abortion rates of 20% to 45% in the animals that feed

To become one of the top 50 restaurants in the world, you have to serve some of the best foods in the world. Manresa restaurant obtains its foods via the biodynamic technologies of Love Apple farm. This leads us to ask, “Do biodynamics make dollar

It is a food selling for $40 billion a year, but there is really nothing to it but a suggestion that really doesn’t mean anything. And so we ask…

Recently, a Hong Kong restaurateur purchased one fish for $55,700 at a Tokyo fish market. This kind of feeding frenzy led Marine Biologist Barbara Tuck to call bluefin tuna the “cocaine of the seas,” and leads us to ask…

To be a successful banker, one must learn how to see into the future. And so we ask one of the world’s largest lenders to agriculture …

Though hundreds of millions of dollars have been sent to help Haiti, the money did not seem to help. Then someone planted mangoes. And so we ask: Have you tasted a Francique mango from Haiti? Guests: Matt Rogers of Whole Foods, John Musser of Tropi

There are millions of jobs for the taking, and millions of hands willing to take them. This leads one to ask, "Should we return to the days of the strong arm?" Topics include why the Bracero ("strong arm") Program was abandoned in 1964; whether an upda

Before WWII, cattle were fed out on grasses like hay. Today, they are fed out on grains like corn and soy, antibiotics, and other nutritional supplements. Some are turning back to grass-fed, which leads us to ask…

The boys turned a barren lot in the run-down neighborhood of a rust-belt city into a Garden of Eatin with wives and children, and thus lead us to ask…

Topics include the ingredients a chef must bring to the restaurant table; how these ingredients must be combined to cook up a successful restaurant; and what are the odds of a good cook becoming a successful chef? Guests: Chef Enzo Fargione, Author V

It began as a way to preserve old fish, but became a way for millions to eat fresh fish… fast! This leads one to ask, “How did the way of the samurai become the American way to eat sushi-on-the-go?” Topics include why so many now eat