The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Guest: Lisa Steele, Fresh Eggs Daily dot com

You have been growing illicit cannabis at a farm in the hills, or have been growing licit legumes in the valley, and have now decided to enter the legal cannabis trade. So, we ask:

Every year, the U.S. is drenched with some 200 million pounds of the weed killer glyphosate. Manufacturers say their weedkiller is safe, but 4,000 say it caused their cancer. And so we ask: Which will win the lawsuits: cancer patients or Bayer/Monsanto?

Bees are the canaries in the mine of our environment, and they make possible every third bite of food we eat. As goes the bee, so go we, and so we pause to ask: Are bees thriving or dying?

Up and down the food chain, the big eat the little. So many little food companies have been eaten, only 11 big companies are now left to provide us with most of what we eat. And so we ask: Has the consolidation of food made us more or less secure?

Ten thousand years ago, give or take, we figured out how to feed ourselves with the milk of lactating animals. We have been drinking, eating and fighting over that milk ever since. And so we ask:

Some say hidden spirits exist that can enable one to tell good food from bad, and all one needs for the telling is a forked stick. And so we ask: Do hidden spirits exist that can guide our way?

We build up our farms, gardens and homes to satisfy our needs, but then they sneak in and steal all our work away. Their unrelenting assault on what we believe to be ours leads us to ask.

Our young look to the future with hope, but feel trapped by a history of failure. And so we pause to ask: Can we we escape the trap of history?

Topics include: The relationship of pain management and healing; why the United States lost control over its opioid use; and how doctors are now managing pain with and without opioids. Guests: Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Nicholas Abidi & Palliative Ca

To all who eat food: The farmers who grow our food are committing suicide at a rate 500 percent greater than the rest of us. And so we simply must ask: Why are our farmers committing suicide at a record rate?

More than half of the farmers surveyed by the California Farm Bureau report over half their farmland is not being farmed because there is no labor. And so we ask Who is going to work on our farms?

Topics include the kinds of labor that must be employed on farms; the impact of rising labor costs on farm production; and speculation as to who might be available to work on our farms. Guest: Farmer Mike Madison, Author, Fruitful Labor

According to the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, over half of US children and teens live with a chronic health problems, and 40% live with allergies. And so we ask: Is it the good food that is sickening our children?

In 1955 Physiologist Ancel Keyes presented a scientific theory that saturated fat in meat, milk and eggs caused heart disease. Over a half century later, we learned that he had faked the science. And so we ask: Why do we believe fake science?

Topics include the role living cells play in the health and well-being of our bodies; what happens when cells are malnourshed and treated poorly; and the five simple steps to making and keeping living cells happy. Guest: Dr Dan Pompa, Author, The Cell

100% of the California wines tested on behalf of Moms Across America were found to contain the weedkiller glyphosate. And so we ask: Why is weedkiller in 100% of California wines?

Each of the 36 school shooters had a gun, a history of psychotropic medication, and homicidal ideation. And so we ask: Do psychotropic medications feed homicidal ideation?

Topics include how people become addicted to opiates and opioids; the point at which they elect to overcome their addiction; and how a professional helps an addict recover. Guest:Psychotherapist Elisa Dakiwag, Clinical Manager, Janus Addiction Treatme

Topics include how people become addicted to opioids; the extent to which that addiction governs their lives, the lives of family and friends, and their community; and whether addiction can be prevented or treated. Guest:Bradley DeHaven, Author How to

Topics include how and why our senses, mind and environment impact our experience of food; how food alters our physiology, mood and behavior; and what the science of molecular gastronomy might offer for the future of our eating. Guest: Neuroscientist

Topics include a look at how the food system has become colonized by very large businesses; how those businesses maintain control of the food system; and how the food system might be decolonized to allow small businesses to survive and prosper. Guests

Topics include a look at the times that transformed children of the greatest generation into rebellious hippies; how that rebellion led hippies to new ways of ways of eating; and how those hippie ways of eating transformed how America eats. Guest:Jonat