The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Raise your hand if you think you are gluten intolerant. Now, raise your hand if you know you are gluten intolerant. The difference between thinking and knowing leads us to ask…

Guests: Rancher Gabe Brown, Bismark,North Dakota

Monsanto, Dupont, Bayer, Nestle, Pepsi, Coca Cola, General Mills, Del Monte Foods, and others are putting up about $28 million to put down California’s Proposition 37 “Right to Know About GMO” initiative, which leads us to ask…

10,000 years ago, when we turned from feeding ourselves with nature to feeding ourselves with agriculture, we grew shorter and weaker. This leads us to ask…

In 1982, it appeared on the hamburger patties of fast food; today, it is found on the spinach leaves of vegetarians. This leads us to ask, “Can we survive E.coli 0157:H7?” Topics include a brief history of 0157:H7; why it poses a threat to

This from a concerned citizen: “No… Don’t spray! Just do not spray. No more chemicals. No pesticides. No bad stuff on my food, our community, our health!” Okay. But wait! What about the pests? Topics include whether pests s

Santayana tells us, Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. There is much in the history of food from which we can learn, and that history leads us to ask…

It began as an effort to help farmers farm in hard times, but grew into an effort to help just about everyone do everything for everybody all the time. This leads us to ask….

It is one thing to save and recycle-– to waste not; it is another thing to make profitable use of what we do recycle– to want not. This leads us to ask…

For decades economists told farmers to “Get big or get out!” Others– the heretics of agriculture– told farmers to “Grow small and stand tall!” This divergence of opinion leads us to ask…