The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

As the Covid19 coronavirus continues to eat its way around the world, we wonder:

What’s eating what? The contagion of the made-in-China cornona virus is eating us– the world-wide us! And that leads us to ask:

In 1864, Scotsman Alexander Russel wrote, “The salmon is the free gift of nature, its importance as an article of food has been undervalued or overlooked.” That thought leads us to ask:

Though we all want good food, nobody wants good food more than the mothers of America. And so we ask:

It was a very simple solution to very complex problems. Then a very complex solution came along and pushed the simple solution off the shelf. Even so, we pause to ask: Can homeopathy cure the Made-in-China corona virus?

Antibiotics proved to be too much of a good thing, so we used them too much and too often. Bacteria learned how to recognize them and became resistant superbugs. Now we are in a fix that leads us to ask:

Though the United States has become one of the cleanest countries in the world, we are being threatened by toxins every day and in every possible way. And so we pause to ask: How can we resist the body threat of toxicity?

We weren’t always as smart as we think we are today. Way back when, a million years or so ago, we were not even smart enough to come in out of the cold! And so today we pause to ask: What did we eat back then that made us so smart today?

Some say it is the most serious existential threat humans have ever had to confront, and that if we do not do something about it, we will lose the life-support systems of our planet. And so we pause to ask:

Some say industrialization has made food cheap. But others say the nutrients essential to health are disappering from food, and therefore the food is not cheap at all. They lead us to ask: How cheap is cheap food?