The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Topics include how and why our senses, mind and environment impact our experience of food; how food alters our physiology, mood and behavior; and what the science of molecular gastronomy might offer for the future of our eating. Guest: Neuroscientist

Topics include a look at how the food system has become colonized by very large businesses; how those businesses maintain control of the food system; and how the food system might be decolonized to allow small businesses to survive and prosper. Guests

Topics include a look at the times that transformed children of the greatest generation into rebellious hippies; how that rebellion led hippies to new ways of ways of eating; and how those hippie ways of eating transformed how America eats. Guest:Jonat

When animals joined us at the campfire those many milleniums ago, they sold their freedom for our care, provisions and protection. That transaction leads us to ask: What did we get by domesticating wild animals?

Topics include a look at how capitalism drives our global food system; why he suggests capitalism is feeding us so much trouble; and what alternatives might exist to power agriculture. Guest: Eric Holt Gimenez, author of A Foodies Guide to Capitalism,

Topics include a look at the competitive position of American beef in a market of open borders; why China is buying Montana beef, when it can buy beef for less elsewhere; and to whom will the good beef go in the future. Guests: Bryan Mussard, Presiden

Topics include a look at the conditions that gave rise to hominid teeth; how those teeth enabled hominids to become humans adapted to the variability of the world; and how that evolution is speeding up into modern times.

Guest: Fred Krissman, Research Associate, Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research, Emerald Triangle

Topics include how Monsanto settled the science on the safety of its weed-killer glyphosate; why some dispute the settling of that science; and whether consumers should believe that the science of glyphosate has been settled. Guest:Carey Gillam, Autho

Guest: Jeff Brothers, CEO, Harborside Farms