The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

A condrum for those of us who love the great outdoors: Much of the wildlands we love traipsing about have been funded by those who love to hunt the wildlife that live in those wild lands. But the numbers of those hunters has been steadily declining for

There was a time, not too long ago, when most everyone was a farmer. But then technology brought industrialization and scale. Today very few farmers feed most all of the people, but that leads us to ask: Who will feed us if technology fails?

Anyone who has ever grown a plant, animal, bird or fish, knows that one must contend with pests. And so we ask, "How does one contend when the pests in the garden are grizzly bears?

Cows convert unusable grass into usable food. But now we are told not to eat that food because cows are destroying the climate. We wonder, are cows killing the climate?

Guests: Paul Dawson, Professor of Food Systems, Clemson University &Brian Sheldon, Professor Emeritus of Food Microbiology / North Carolina State

We see an ugly rash speading across our face. What to do? What we do do is spend about a billion dollars every year on skin care products. But all that money leads us to ask: Can we eat our way to healthy skin?

Topics include why 50% of us have come to suffer from a heart disease; what we consume that causes us so much heart trouble; and what we should consume to help our heart beat for as long as it possibly can. Guest: Cardiologist Dr Jay Johnson

For those who do not want to eat genetically-modified organisms, the government requires the GMOs to be labeled, with a QR Code, that may be read with a smart phone, by those smart enough to read them. And so we ask: Will we be able to find the GMOs in

Guest: Bill McDorman, Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance

Out in agriculture, coyotes are often seen as pests to be exterminated. But in the city, coyotes are often seen as friendly creatures every bit as deserving of what the city has to offer as people. And this leads us to ask: How many wild coyotes should

Some times we eat. Other times we are eaten. One that eats us up is cancer, which we try to fight off by cutting, burning and poisoning. But there has been a breakthrough in fighting cancer that leads us to ask:

Topic include a look at the last of the wild, wild west; how some would like to tame this wild place for wild life; and whether we should turn land that produces food into land for wild life. Guests: Mike Kautz & Beth Saboe, American Prairie Reser

Guests: Nutriculturalist Gary Kline of Blossom Consulting Services, & Forester and Bbiochar Advocate Jenna Bennett

Topics include why consumers come to fear, and even panic, at contaminations of produce like romaine lettuce; what the real odds are of becoming sickened by lettuce; and ways consumers can protect themselves from food borne pathogens. Guest: Jim Prev

Topics include why California forests and wildlands burn with such intensity; what might be done to better tend the forests; and how the forests might provide a source of energy for homes and cities. Guest: Warren Knox, Designer, Builder & Owner o

We think we are pretty smart. After all, we have stepped foot on the moon! But somewhere along the line we forgot how to eat, and instead became addicted to poison. And so we ask: Can we break our addiction to poison food?

We live in a land of abundance. So much abundance, in fact, that we to toss about 40% of the food we produce into the garbage. And so we ask: How can we transform our garbage into gold? Guests: Rhonda Sherman, North Carolina State Extension Special

Topics include how the organic industry grew from that of small, indepednent farms to an $80 billion dollar industry; how government oversees the organic industry; and how the integrity of organic is policed by independent inspectors. Guest: Laura Mur

Topics include the objective of the Homeless Garden Project; the strategy and tactics employed to achieve that objective; and whether those who are homeless can be taught to farm their way out of homelessness. Guest:Anthony Reyes, Farm Manager, The Ho

At the beginning of the last century, former USDA Secretary of Agriculture FH King studied the agriculture of China, Korea and Japan. He then came home and wrote, Farmers of Forty Centuries, which today leads us to ask: How can we farm for forty more ce

Topics include the essential nutrients of life; how the Old Testament portrayed salt as death, while the New Testament presented it as life; and the kinds of nutrition salt has provided the human race. Guest: Mischa Popoff, Author, Is It Organic

Guest: Gary Nabhan, Author, Food From the Radical Center

For those who industrialized food on both sides of the U.S. Mexican border, the North American Free Trade Agreement was a good deal. But for those who had to eat NAFTA, we simply must ask: What did NAFTA do to our food?

The federal government gives farmers over $13 Billion a year. One fourth of that money goes to six thousand farmers, with one getting nearly $10 million a year. All that free money leads us to ask:

For over twelve thousand years cannabis has been cultivated for textiles, fiber, food and, yes, for fun. Looking back to all its uses, and forward to all its potential, we ask: