The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

They are just about everywhere, except in places like the Saraha Desert, and there are so many of them. Therefore, they can?t really be special! But according to some, they are, and so we ask?

China is buying up America?s farmland? with the money we send it to manufacture stuff for us in their coal-burning factories. Some say this a good deal because we don?t have to work in those factories. Others say it?s a bad deal because we are selling

California Senate Bill 620 would, if signed into law, make it legal for the state?s residents to buy liquor directly from a local distiller. The thought of legal local liquor leads us to ask:

There is a murder in the trees of Sunnyvale. Yes, a murder of crows has invaded this little Silicon Valley town, and that murder has the town?s people asking:

Farming commodities is a business of boom and bust. During the boom, farmers borrow big to expand production. During the bust, farmers give it all back to the banks. This leads us to ask:

When great clouds of dust woke America to the need to save its soil, much of the awakening took place on an Ohio farm named after the southwest coast of India. Therein lies a story that leads us to ask:

While the Covid-19 pandemic has been driving the world to distraction, a quiet pandemic has been building steam that could prove to be far more threatening to life on earth. And so we ask:

This just in. The Billings Gazette reports that the State of Montana will not have enough money to cover all the claims of livestock killed by predators. And so we ask:

Twenty years ago, Duke the Dog lived out in the backyard. Now he lives in the house and sleeps in a bed. And so we ask:

We have been told that cows cause the climate to change by emitting greenhouse gas. Now we are told to replace the beef we eat with patented, manufactured meat-like substances. And so we ask:

Common sense tells us that if soil is deficient in essential nutrients, the crops grown in that soil will also be deficient, as will the people and animals that eat those crops. And so we ask:

His India Joze restaurant was the West Coast capital of fusion food-ism. The taste that lingers of that fusion leads one to ask Jozseph Schultz:

They call it the ?Golden State,? and $50 billion dollars of that gold is grown by the state?s farmers every year. That so much is at stake in the nation?s golden state leads us to ask:

The dream is to leave the city, go to where the grass is green, farm the land, breathe fresh air and grow food people will pay good money for. This dream leads us to ask:

Over the past eight months, the Drug Enforcement Agency has confiscated 17 pounds of fentanyl in Northern California. If two miligrams is a lethal dose, those 17 pounds are sufficient to kill 37 million people. This leads us to ask:

The more things change, the more they stay the same. If you do not believe this cute little aphorism, you should dig into the ancient commentary of the classics, where you will find thinkers that lead you to ask:

North America?s largest wholesale food distributor, Sysco Foods, recently had to stop delivering food to some of its customers because it did not have enough workers. That this giant of food could not deliver leads us to ask:

In 2015 a Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of the drug ivormocton.* In 2021, big government, big pharma, and big media are doing everything in their power to prohibit ivormoctin.* This leads us to ask:

Thomas Jefferson believed that a self-governing nation could be built on the foundation of small, self-sufficient farms. And it was! But then many of the nation?s farmers signed up to serve others. And that leads us to ask:

We are doing a very good job of getting rid of the bugs that bug us. But if we do get rid of them all, we will be left with no flowers, no trees and no crops. And so we ask:

It takes time, money and know-how to grow a crop. When most everyone moved off the farm into town, farmers supplanted expensive time with less expensive money. This leads us to ask:

What was hoped would be a big win for America?s agriculture is turning out to be one of American agriculture?s greatest losses. This leads us to ask:

Oregonians have launched an initiative to remove all animal abuse exemptions from farming, ranching and hunting. This leads us to ask:

America?s big money oligarchs are buying up the world?s farmland and its fake-food companies. Guessing at what their intentions might be leads us to ask: Can we escape the tyranny of oligarch food?

The rush is on for land?? farmland. And those making the rush for farmland have pockets filled with cash? lots of cash. This land rush leads us to ask: