The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

After being prohibited for the the best part of a century, the plant known as Cannabis is now open for business… but only in some places! This leads us to ask: Can reefer madness be turned into a sustainable industry?

What’s in a word? Well, if that word was “organic,” back in 1990, there was something made of carbon. If that word is organic, today, there is well over $50 billion dollars. All that money leads us to ask: Will it be possible to keep

We have been living on bread for 10,000 years. But now, of a sudden, we seem to be becoming intolerant of our staff of life. And so we ask: Are we running ourselves out of bread?

A condrum for those of us who love the great outdoors: Much of the wildlands we love traipsing about have been funded by those who love to hunt the wildlife that live in those wild lands. But the numbers of those hunters has been steadily declining for

There was a time, not too long ago, when most everyone was a farmer. But then technology brought industrialization and scale. Today very few farmers feed most all of the people, but that leads us to ask: Who will feed us if technology fails?

Anyone who has ever grown a plant, animal, bird or fish, knows that one must contend with pests. And so we ask, "How does one contend when the pests in the garden are grizzly bears?

Cows convert unusable grass into usable food. But now we are told not to eat that food because cows are destroying the climate. We wonder, are cows killing the climate?

Guests: Paul Dawson, Professor of Food Systems, Clemson University &Brian Sheldon, Professor Emeritus of Food Microbiology / North Carolina State

We see an ugly rash speading across our face. What to do? What we do do is spend about a billion dollars every year on skin care products. But all that money leads us to ask: Can we eat our way to healthy skin?

Topics include why 50% of us have come to suffer from a heart disease; what we consume that causes us so much heart trouble; and what we should consume to help our heart beat for as long as it possibly can. Guest: Cardiologist Dr Jay Johnson