The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

They are the canaries in the mine of our environment, and they are dying off to the extent the federal government is considering listing them as an endangered species. And so we ask: What is killing the bees? Topics include the various theories as to w

That no definitive answer has yet to been given as to how so many Chipotle restaurants were contaminated, across such a broad geographical area, by so many different pathogens, in such a short period of time, leads us to again ask: What caused the food po

Guests: Michael Palmer, Food Safety Consultant, GAP Solutions & Karen Robinson-Jacobs, Hospitality Industry Journalist, Dallas Morning News

Ninety percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown within 100 miles of their city, so claims a study published at UC Merced. This leads us to ask: How can local food feed 90% of the population?

El Nino brought rains to the parched West, but not enough rain to replenish aquifers sucked dry by years of severe drought. The fight for what water remains leads us to ask: Who should own the water in an aquifer?

Much effort has been devoted to getting children to eat the right food, but in spite of all the effort, much of the right food still ends up in the trash. This leads us to ask: Should children eat what adults serve, or should adults serve what children

Could it be true? Could it be that, to save wild animals, birds and fish, we must hunt and fish for them? This thought leads us to ask:

The bees responsible for one-third of the food we eat are disappearing. Also disappearing is the scientific research into why bees are disappearing, and that leads us to ask: Why is USDA discouraging its scientific research into the disappearance of bees

Topics include a look at the nature of animals in the wild; how the nature of animals in the wild differs from that of people in civilization; and what, if anything, man can learn from animals about the nature of good and evil. Guest: Jeffrey Moussaief

A million nanoparticles could be contained on the period at the end of this sentence, which explains why some foods are now made with zillions of them. But wait…