The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

The SWAT team held the Stowers family with assault weapons for nine hours while tearing their farmhouse apart looking for evidence. The Stowers’ crime? Selling farm-fresh foods to friends and neighbors! This SWATTING of farmers leads us to ask

Calories are the fuel for the body’s fire. When more calories are consumed than can be burned, the body stores the excess as fat. This leads us to ask…

There are millions of jobs for the taking, and millions of hands willing to take them. This leads one to ask, "Should we return to the days of the strong arm?" Topics include why the Bracero ("strong arm") Program was abandoned in 1964; whether an upda

The Man of Steel’s plan: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. To enforce this plan on a population of recalcitrant city people, Joseph Stalin used the ultimate weapon– food. And so we ask…

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Rahm Emanuel

Now that food is produced in giant factories far, far away, it tastes like food produced in giant factories far, far away. But we remember what food tasted like when it was wild and free, and so we ask…

Virginia Woolf said it, and we believe it to be true, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” That being the case we ask…

Before WWII, cattle were fed out on grasses like hay. Today, they are fed out on grains like corn and soy, antibiotics, and other nutritional supplements. Some are turning back to grass-fed, which leads us to ask…

Guests: Bob Martin, General Manager of Rio Farms and Butch Lindley, Partner of J&L Farms,

When the going gets tough, the tough get going… to the kitchen for food. Then along comes the holiday season and our escapism becomes an obsession that leads us to ask…