The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

They are here, they are there, they are everywhere. Some are delicious, though others are quite deadly. That they are said to essential to life on earth as we know it leads us to ask:

They?re here, they?re there, they?re most everywhere. Some are delicious, though others are quite deadly. That they are said to essential to life as we know it leads us to ask: Topics include the part mushrooms play in the natural world; why they are

Remember that New Year?s resolution? Yes, the one about losing weight. Well, may as well forget about it because we?re hooked on the wrong food! And that leads us to ask: How did they get us hooked on the wrong food?

The food was most always pretty wholesome, until we left the farm and moved into the city. Then, just like that, corn syrup mixed with red dye and a few hayseeds became strawberry jam. That bit of history leads us to ask: How did they make food safe to

The food was most always pretty wholesome, until we left the farm and moved into the city. Then, just like that, corn syrup mixed with red dye and a few hayseeds became strawberry jam. That bit of history leads us to ask:

What is in plants is now reduced to a powder, put into a pill or potion, and sold for $150 billion dollars, give or take! That leads us to ask:

Insect populations in the United States have declined by 65 percent in the past 50 years. Researchers who study insects call it, ?The Insect Apocalypse.? What is being seen in this apocalypse leads us to ask: Can people live without wildlfe?

At the end of the food chain there is trash, and lots of it. All that trash waiting to be dumped leads us to ask:

A lot can happen in the first 100 days of a new President?s administration. And that leads us to ask:

Thirty years ago Congress passed the Organic Foods Production Act thereby safeguarding organic farming. Today an estimated 80% of America?s organic food is grown elsewhere. And so we wonder: Did America deliberately offshore its organic foods?