The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Topics include the evolution of modern pesticides; the extent to which agriculture has come to rely on these pesticides; and how pests have reacted to the pesticides designed to kill them. Guest Andy Dyer, author of Chasing the Red Queen:

There is no “fed” in the Federal Reserve System. There are only private banks which loan the public funny money that the public must pay back, with interest, using real money. This web of debt leads us to ask…

The anti-depressant drug Prozac is now available in a strawberry-flavored liquid to better serve the 8,000,000,000 U.S. school children that now take psychiatric drugs. This leads us to ask, “What are we feeding our children?” Topics includ

Depressed, anxious, and can’t sleep, oh my! Though modern times are making us thoroughly distraught, a prescription for happy pills will help us find peace. This leads us to ask…

“K-e-double-l–oh–double-good Kellog’s best to you” is apparentely not good enough for some, as they are boycotting this iconic corporation. Their honk-n-waves lead us to ask…

It is a food selling for $40 billion a year, but there is really nothing to it but a suggestion that really doesn’t mean anything. And so we ask…

“Fire is a natural part of the environment, about as important as rain and sunshine. Fire has always been here and everything good evolved from it.” - Dr. Harold Biswell

Recently, a Hong Kong restaurateur purchased one fish for $55,700 at a Tokyo fish market. This kind of feeding frenzy led Marine Biologist Barbara Tuck to call bluefin tuna the “cocaine of the seas,” and leads us to ask…

Topics include the kinds of farming developed nations can effectively teach developing nations; the skills and technologies developing nations might teach developed nations; and how best to teach each other how to grow. Guests: Godfrey Kasozi, Center

The family enterprise began, like many others, in the black market and, when sufficient cash accrued, grew into respectability. This history leads us to ask…