The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Every year, the U.S. is drenched with some 200 million pounds of the weed killer glyphosate. Manufacturers say their weedkiller is safe, but 4,000 say it caused their cancer. And so we ask: Which will win the lawsuits: cancer patients or Bayer/Monsanto?

Bees are the canaries in the mine of our environment, and they make possible every third bite of food we eat. As goes the bee, so go we, and so we pause to ask: Are bees thriving or dying?

Up and down the food chain, the big eat the little. So many little food companies have been eaten, only 11 big companies are now left to provide us with most of what we eat. And so we ask: Has the consolidation of food made us more or less secure?

Ten thousand years ago, give or take, we figured out how to feed ourselves with the milk of lactating animals. We have been drinking, eating and fighting over that milk ever since. And so we ask:

Some say hidden spirits exist that can enable one to tell good food from bad, and all one needs for the telling is a forked stick. And so we ask: Do hidden spirits exist that can guide our way?

We build up our farms, gardens and homes to satisfy our needs, but then they sneak in and steal all our work away. Their unrelenting assault on what we believe to be ours leads us to ask.

Our young look to the future with hope, but feel trapped by a history of failure. And so we pause to ask: Can we we escape the trap of history?

Topics include: The relationship of pain management and healing; why the United States lost control over its opioid use; and how doctors are now managing pain with and without opioids. Guests: Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Nicholas Abidi & Palliative Ca

To all who eat food: The farmers who grow our food are committing suicide at a rate 500 percent greater than the rest of us. And so we simply must ask: Why are our farmers committing suicide at a record rate?