The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Across the nation armed government SWAT teams arrest private citizens for buying and selling fresh whole foods from each other. This leads us to ask…

Topics include why rural economies no longer support rural people; whether sufficient incentive exists for rural people to feed their own hunger; and why so many in rural America are so hungry. Guests: John Crabtree from the Center for Rural Affairs

He asked the University of California, Santa Cruz for a small scrap of land to teach gardening, and then proceeded to turn the earth on agriculture. That garden leads us to ask…

To calculate the true cost of a gallon of gasoline, we must add a dollar a gallon for environmental and health costs. This additional dollar per gallon is paid by taxpayers, which leads us to ask…

With its roundup herbicide and roundup-ready genes, the Monsanto Corporation has made growing crops a lot easier. Some, however, say Monsanto’s technology has spawned a new pathogen that causes abortion rates of 20% to 45% in the animals that feed

We have come to a fork in the road to our future. One road will take us toward capitalism; the other toward socialism. We must decide which road to take, and so pause to ask…

The cluster of diseases known as AIDS has killed over 25 million people around the world. AIDS is said to be caused by the HIV virus, and thus to prevent AIDS one must manage HIV. Yet an increasing number are denying the efficacy of this claim, which le

To become one of the top 50 restaurants in the world, you have to serve some of the best foods in the world. Manresa restaurant obtains its foods via the biodynamic technologies of Love Apple farm. This leads us to ask, “Do biodynamics make dollar

Topics include how the Green Revolution changed 10,000 years of agricutlure; why some, led by Dr. William Albrecht, found the new way of growing food to be the wrong way; and whether we, and all life on earth, can survive without living soils. Guest

To be a successful banker, one must learn how to see into the future. And so we ask one of the world’s largest lenders to agriculture …