The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Topics include a consideration of beer as the liquid staff of life; the fragmentation of the commercial beer marketplace; and how beer can best be brewed at home. Guests: Amelia Slayton Loftus, Author, Sustainable Homebrewing

When a farmer returned from WWII, he could make a good living-, pay his debts and send his children to college by farming 100 acres of tomatoes. Today, a farmer must grow over 2,500 acres of tomatoes to earn the same good living. This leads one to ask,

Topics include why city people move to the country; the obstacles to social intercourse they find in the country; and what they do to make their rural romances work.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, under former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor, now has the power and the protocols to police food safety. This leads us to ask…

Topics include the stack of stressors we accumulate to produce adrenaline; how continual infusions of adrenaline affect health; and ways in which stress can be managed to maintain health.

We are riding a runaway train of debt, and this train is accelerating faster and faster along tracks that will end down the line, somewhere. This wild ride leads us to ask…

The food industry is growing like a weed by selling foods labeled “organic.” The tremendous growth rate of the organic foods industry leads us to ask…

Guest: Katherine Reid, PhD, mother, biochemist and Executive Director of Un Blind My Mind

Take a big deep breath and hold it. Now, the Incorrect among us will exhale too much CO2. Their exhalations will therefore be capped and they forced to trade with the Correct among us for the right to exhale more. This heavy breathing leads us to ask&#

Smithfield wants to buy Premium Standard Farms. If approved, Smithfield will have 1.1 million pigs, which is nearly one-third of the nation’s slaughter capacity. This leads one to ask, “Is bigger better?” Topics include why 250,000 ho