The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

An estimated 80 of the world’s population is entomophager, which is to say, bug eating. This leads us to ask…

Our oil companies have been tossed out of Venezuela, and so we rush to replace hydrocarbons with carbohydrates by planting corn from sea to shining sea. This leads one to ask, “Food or fuel?” Topics include the extent to which agricultural r

Guests: Open Microphone

With grocery stores near everyone’s front door, getting fed seems to be an easy thing to do. But those stores were not always there, which leads us to ask, “What can we eat that does not come from a store?” Topics include examples of

We feed ourselves with the cheap labor of foreign hands. But this leads us to ask, “How expensive is cheap labor?” Topics include how immigration is changing the social fabric of California and the United States, how immigrant labor from La

There are 8,570,000 references to factory farming accessible on the internet, and few are favorable. This leads one to ask, "What's all the fuss about factory farming?" Topics include a look at why animals are grown in "factory farms;" whether factory f

Guest: Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance Executive Director Judith McGeary

Topics include how we treat the toxic in our toxic household and industrial wastes; we do with our treated wastes; and whether foods produced from lands containing treated wastes are safe to eat. Guests: Caroline Snyder, Professor Emeritus at Roches

In the name of food safety, the federal government has taken total control of what we may feed each other. Sedgewick, Maine, has rebelled and passed the nation’s first “Food Sovereignty” law. This rebellion leads us to ask…

When the U.S. Air Force wanted to determine which of its dining facilities was best, it called on California restaurateur Ted Burke, and made him, for the moment at least, the equivalent of a major general. This leads us to ask… Can an institution