The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Topics include the economic changes to business wrought by the Affordable Care Act; for whom is the Act proving affordable; and how the Act might affect the price of food when fully implemented. Guest: Pamela Fugitt-Hetrick, Health Insurance Expert &

The times demand ever more from us, only to return ever less to us. One farmer suggested we consider a single straw of grain, and from it learn to grow nothing and harvest everything. And so we ask: Do you think it possible to grow more by growing less

An estimated 50% of the farm workers in the U.S. are without documentation. One way for them to gain some legitimacy is to have an American-born child. This strategy leads us to ask…

They say that hope springs eternal, but sometimes it doesn’t! Consider, for one example, the farmers of Oklahoma, who lost their soil to the wind when rain stopped falling during the 1930s. Topics include the impact prolonged, record-setting dro

Now this will likely come as a surprise to many, but its true! Before we had refrigerators, we had food! On behalf of all the surprised, we ask... …

When government prints money by the trillions, with nothing real to back that money, it diminishes its money’s ability to buy real goods and services. Thus more money buys less food. This leads us to ask…

The U.S. government wants to change the way it aids the world’s hungry: Instead of sending its food, it wants to send its money. This leads us to ask…

The howling of the wolves is both exhilarating and terrifying: exhilarating if you are a city person in need of the wild; terrifying if you are a country person in need of the civil. This howling leads us to ask…

Rising food prices… sky-rocketing transportation costs… escalating populations of the hungry… There is a perfect storm of trouble blowing along the food chain, which leads one to ask: How will we feed the world’s hungry? Topics

Foreigners are sneaking in through the wide-open borders of the new world order. Some say the visitors are “invasive” and should be removed; others say there is nothing that can be done about them and we must therefore accept them. This leads