The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

The moment a food is taken from the ground it begins to lose its life. Though many things can be done to preserve the life in food, the farther it travels from its source, the less life it will have when its consumed. This leads us to ask:

Though situated in the midst of extremely expensive metropolitan real estate, Santa Cruz County agriculture produces nearly $660 million dollars worth of crops every year. This leads us to ask:

It’s becoming very difficult to see that our glass is half-full, when so many of our reservoirs are nearly empty. And so we ask:

Thirty million meals made with geneticallly modified crops are served to our nation’s school children every school day. What is hidden in those lunches leads us to ask:

Mexico is moving to ban U.S. biotech corn for human consumption, which would reduce the economic output of the U.S. by $74 billion, give or take. This economic food fight leads us to ask:

We are at war with the countries that fuel our food chain with fertilizer. This war leads us to ask:

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law Assembly Bill 2183, which gives California’s farmworkers the right to organize a union with a simple check on a card. This leads us to ask:

After learning how to cultivate grain some 10,000 years ago, we learned how to bake it and brew it. Thus began our history as a fermenting people. This history leads us to ask:

Given years of neglect, a prolonged drought, and devilish winds, the forests of the American West, and all that are in them, are poised to explode in flame. This leads us to ask:

To gain total control over legalized cannabis, governments smothered the industry with rules, regulations and taxes. But there is one loophole some are profitably jumping through, and it leads us to ask: