The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

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: