The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Topics include the glyphosate study conducted by UCSF; whether the amount of glyphosate discovered can affect human health; and how glyphosate is getting into our bodies. Guest: Katherine Paul, Associate Director, Organic Consumers Association

In 1907, candle makers William Proctor and James Gamble turned liquid cottonseed oil into a solid shortening they called Crisco, thus kicking off a zillion-dollar century-long war on saturated fat. And so we ask...

We banned cannabis forever with an international treaty, but then accepted it as a national medicine and pastime. Now, ready or not, we are building an entire industry on the forbidden plant. And so we ask...

Guests: UCSC Doctoral Student Monika Egerer & USCS Environmental Studies student Sara Rezaie

Guests: Open Microphone for Audience participation

When drought ends the war on weeds begins, and if the war is not won weeds will win the nutrients, sunshine, territory and water. And so we ask: Which can best win the war on weeds: animals, chemicals or people?

We began eating meat a couple of million years ago. Today we are told eating meat is bad for us, cruel to animals, and harmful to the environment. And so ask: Should people stop eating meat?

To build a viable commercial herd, or flock, the farmer believes one must select the best and cull the rest. This commercial imperative leads us to ask: Is cultural selection fair?

Though Zika was first discovered in 1947, it was never considered much of a threat, until 2015 when it popped up in Brazil. Now Zika is spreading throughout the world where it is considered to be a threat to the unborn. And so we ask: Should we release G

Topics include why the birds are considered pests by the many, and pets by the few; how the intelligence of these birds allow them to supplant and exclude other birds from the environment; and what can done, if anything, to control them so that other bi