The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

My family was served an entre nearly five decades ago at a Sichuan Restaurant that was said to be one of the seven best in the world. That we all remember that dish as if it were yesterday leads us to ask:

Where a big box store might sell a gallon of milk for $3, an upscale natural food store might sell a gallon for $8. To sell the milk, each store must present an argument as to why theirs is the best value. This leads us to ask:

Farming strawberries was an itinerant business, but then settled down in coastal California to become a $5 billion dollar a year industry. Given such bounty, we ask: Why do farmworkers call the strawberry “fruit of the devil?”

More than 500,000 Americans have succumbed to opiods over the past decade and a half, and over a hundred continue to die every day. This leads us to ask:

Many things said about modern agriculture are myth. One such myth is that large scale agriculture feeds the world. These myths lead us to ask:

They sold it as “organic,” but it was not organic at all! And they sold it as “clean,” but it was not clean at all! And so we ask:

Some of our voices have been lost. The voices belong to those who advocate for alternative health. The loss of their voices leads us to ask: Why are the voices of alternative health being lost?

Autophagy is the process by which our body renews itself by eating itself. Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for figuring out how autophagy works. His discovery leads us to ask: Can we manage the renewal of our body without the use

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, we hear Napolean the Pig proclaim, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Today we ask: Where can we find the animals that are most equal of all?

We’ve all been there, and eaten that! And that would be the food we ate at the hands of … school lunch ladies. Thinking back at the taste of all those school lunches, we ask:

We walk into the restaurant tired, grumpy and hungry. We sit down and open the menu. At that point, we pause to ask:

We walk into the restaurant tired, grumpy and hungry. We sit down and open the menu. At that point, we pause to ask:

Shortly after World War II, U.S. agriculture came to that proverbial fork in the road, and took it. Looking back at the taking of those two directions at once, we pause to ask…

Having been a child in the era of polio, and a sailor in foreign ports, and a stranger in many strange lands, I have received a lot of vaccinations. That I am well, as are so many others like me, leads us to ask:

Legend has it that a shepherd was led to coffee arabica by the froclicking of his highly excited goats. And that long-ago discovery leads us to ask:

The hospital is one place we do not want to go in order to to dine out. But sometimes we must, and that leads us to ask: How does one cook for guests who would rather be somewhere else? Topics include the obstacles a hospital chef must overcome to tur

Somewhere along the line, I, and a whole lot of other people, became capitivated by the call of the wolf. And being so capitivated, pause to ask: Why does the wolf call to us? Topics include the extent to which civilized people go to see wild wolves; ho

Our body renews itself by eating itself, and Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize for figuring out how. And so we ask: How does our body renew itself by eating itself?

60 and 40! The total sperm count of North American males declined nearly 60 percent in 40 years. And so we ask: What are we eating that is drowning our swimmers?

When German chemical giant Bayer bought American seed and chemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion in cash, it became the owner of 13,400 glyphosate lawsuits. And so we ask:

Buying a chicken sandwich at the drive up could mean one is supporting a company that promotes traditional family values, and while eating that sandwich may be right, or wrong, it does lead us to ask: How do we decide which food is right and which is wro

They came to take advantage of a new frontier. Land, plentiful and cheap, was incentive to grow. And grow they did. In a few short years, they tamed the wild out of the west, and that leads us to ask:

After being prohibited for the the best part of a century, the plant known as Cannabis is now open for business… but only in some places! This leads us to ask: Can reefer madness be turned into a sustainable industry?

What’s in a word? Well, if that word was “organic,” back in 1990, there was something made of carbon. If that word is organic, today, there is well over $50 billion dollars. All that money leads us to ask: Will it be possible to keep

We have been living on bread for 10,000 years. But now, of a sudden, we seem to be becoming intolerant of our staff of life. And so we ask: Are we running ourselves out of bread?