The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Shortly after World War II, U.S. agriculture came to that proverbial fork in the road, and took it. Looking back at the taking of those two directions at once, we pause to ask…

Having been a child in the era of polio, and a sailor in foreign ports, and a stranger in many strange lands, I have received a lot of vaccinations. That I am well, as are so many others like me, leads us to ask:

Legend has it that a shepherd was led to coffee arabica by the froclicking of his highly excited goats. And that long-ago discovery leads us to ask:

The hospital is one place we do not want to go in order to to dine out. But sometimes we must, and that leads us to ask: How does one cook for guests who would rather be somewhere else? Topics include the obstacles a hospital chef must overcome to tur

Somewhere along the line, I, and a whole lot of other people, became capitivated by the call of the wolf. And being so capitivated, pause to ask: Why does the wolf call to us? Topics include the extent to which civilized people go to see wild wolves; ho

Our body renews itself by eating itself, and Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize for figuring out how. And so we ask: How does our body renew itself by eating itself?

60 and 40! The total sperm count of North American males declined nearly 60 percent in 40 years. And so we ask: What are we eating that is drowning our swimmers?

When German chemical giant Bayer bought American seed and chemical giant Monsanto for $66 billion in cash, it became the owner of 13,400 glyphosate lawsuits. And so we ask:

Buying a chicken sandwich at the drive up could mean one is supporting a company that promotes traditional family values, and while eating that sandwich may be right, or wrong, it does lead us to ask: How do we decide which food is right and which is wro

They came to take advantage of a new frontier. Land, plentiful and cheap, was incentive to grow. And grow they did. In a few short years, they tamed the wild out of the west, and that leads us to ask: