The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

In the U.S. food costs 5.5% of disposable income, while food in other nations costs up to 45.6%. And so we ask...

Many of those who grow our food say we must use pesticides to feed the future. And so we ask...

Two recent items of news: A claim that strawberries are the food most contaminated with pesticide residues, and a denial of the claim we must use pesticides to feed the world. Both lead us to ask...

Bees pollinate plants that produce about one-third of the food we eat, and yet we use pesticides that are said to kill bees to grow those same plants. And so we wonder...

Eat or be eaten! All of us living things love to eat, but hate being eaten. And so when something threatens to eat us, we resist. This elemental fact leads us to ask...

That accidental contaminations of food have periodically caused injury and death throughout the U.S. lead us to ask...

Topics include a look into the mechanisms of living cells; how the ribosomes within those cells manufacture the essential proteins of life, and whether our knowledge of those ribosomes can help us find viable replacements for the antibiotics that are no

Guests: Danny Merkley, Director of Water Resources, California Farm Bureau & Bill Wattenburg, PhD, Engineer, Radio Host, Senior Research Scientist Research Foundation, California State University

If a GMO food crop is substanially equivalent to a non-GMO food crop, it is deemed safe to eat. But when a crop has been re-engineered to contain a pesticide, and to be drenched in herbicides, we wonder...

Hundreds of millions, give or take, would like to clamber into the sanctuary of lifeboat USA. Given the condition of the waters in which they tread, who can blame them? Still, we wonder...