The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Cannabis is projected to generate so much money for California its treasurer is asking for a fleet of armored cars to pick it up and take it to Sacramento. And so we ask: Where is the money in the legalization of cannabis?

Guests: Loretta Moreno, Santa Cruz County Cannabis Licensing, Maximillian Mikalonis, Legislative Advocate, K Street Consulting, and Dave Potter, former Supervisor, Monterey County

The liquor industry, like most all industries, is growing in opposite directions: very big and very small. And so we ask: Can local distillers successfully compete in a marketplace dominated by multinational distillers?

Topics include why the bottle water industry has grown so big, so fast; how industry participants have gained control of the sources of clean water; and why the public is paid so little for the water it pays so much for in plastic bottles. Guests: Sto

Guest: Journalist Warner Todd Huston

Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on earth, yet we read of its citizens eating zoo animals and using animal drugs to treat themselves. And so we ask: Why did Venezuela run out of money?

Topics include how USDA subjected family food businesses to non-existent regulations; how non-existent regulations were used to find fault with, and even terminate, family food businesses; and speculation as to why USDA conducted this campaign of bureau

Topics include the difference between real food and fake food; the extent to which food fraud exists in the commercial marketplace; and how to know whether food is real or fake. Guest: Larry Olmsted, Author of Real Food Fake Food

Topic include why some believe free market forces have been insufficient to provide for a healthy food chain; how political activism has emerged to force needed change; and whether this activism can actually bring social justice to food. Guest: Julie G

It would be much easier, and a lot cleaner, to grow organic food in water. And those clamoring to grow organic food in water lead us to ask: Should foods grown in water be allowed the organic label?