The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

When the going gets tough, the tough get growing. And what better way to grow than with friends and neighbors in a community garden. But all those community gardens sprouting up lead us to ask…

When the prison replaced meat with the nation’s most popular health food ingredient, prisoner Eric Harris sued. This leads us to ask…

Some believe our yearning for real food is inextricably bound up in our spiritual desire to be fed. This thought leads us to ask…

We’ve all seen the brutal videos taken at our nation’s confined animal feeding operations and processing facilities. Those videos lead us to ask…

Topics include the different kinds of farm and ranch work assigned to dogs; popular breeds of work dogs; and how work dogs are trained and maintained. Guests:Sally Fallon Morell and Kaayla Daniel, President and Vice-President of the Weston A Price Fou

We try to eat our way to happiness, only to become fat and sad. The length of our waistlines, and our sleepless nights, leads us to ask…

Topics include why he commissioned a study when so many studies already exist; how the study was designed to be scientifcally valid; and what the study revealed about the long term consumption of GMOs on the stomachs of pigs. Guests: Howard Vlieger,

Some are virgin. Others are extra virgin. The rest are not very virgin at all. It’s difficult to tell which is which when shopping the sublime and scandalous world of olive oil, and so we ask…

Where once we had hundreds of apple varieties from which to select and taste, we now have Red and Golden Delicious. This leads one to ask…

They say one should be careful of what one asks. Many small-scale farmers asked for an official definition to the word "organic," and got it. Organic farming then grew into a multi-billion dollar-a-year industry, which now leads some to ask, "Should big

Most everyone goes for the occasional convenience of ordering a pizza to be delivered hot-and-ready-to-eat at the front door. So why not order up real meals? This thought leads us to ask: Will you buy meals by mail?

To feed our future, we will need to produce more food with less natural resources. Some point to the technology of the nano and say, “Salvation is on the way!” And so we ask…

Cities, like forest fires, grow out from an ignition point, consuming land. Unlike burned forests, however, new growth does not willingly spring from inner cities. Enter gardeners who, with or without permission, plant new life in that no man’s la

Government’s No Hungry Kids Act is forcing schools to feed children healthy lunches, which children throw into the garbage. This leads us to ask…

The Food and Drug Administration will now allow for the bombardment of of fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce with gamma rays, thus allowing you and I to safely eat greens grown thousands of miles away. Some protest this move by the FDA, and so we ask&#823

As the Hatfields and McCoys of the American West, environmentalists and ranchers seldom trod the same side of the street, so when we find them working the same piece of ground we simply must ask…

Thousands of U.S. farmers lost over 1.2 billion dollars when MF Global’s off-balance-sheet leveraged repo-to-maturity play on foreign sovereign debt collapsed into bankruptcy. And so we ask…

In the last 15 years, the U.S. government used $17 billion of taxpayer money to subsidize production of corn starch, corn syrup and soy oil. This leads us to ask…

Some claim people who eat seaweed are “the healthiest and longest living people in the history of mankind.” This claim leads us to ask…

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. As Santayana suggests, there is much in the history of food from which we can learn, and that history leads us to ask…

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They can burrow through an acre in a single day and then go on to destroy up to half the crop on that acre. This leads one to ask, "How can one control gophers?" Topics include a know-your-enemy profile of the pocket gopher; why controlling gophers with

California’s illicit cannabis crop is worth $14 billion and the state’s politicians can get their hands on that money by making the crop legal with Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. This proposition leads us

Sometimes politics trumps science. It happened during Stalin’s “Land Reform” and Mao’s “Great Leap Forward.” Fortunately, it can’t happen here! Nonetheless, we pause to ask…

One study says organic food is better than conventional food. The next study says there is no difference between organic and conventional. These studies lead us to ask…