The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Farming, they say, accounts for too much greenhouse gas and should be reformed. This leads us to ask…

Consider: Whereas the rate of autism in the general population is 1 child in 166, the rate among the Amish is 1 in 15,000. This anomaly leads us to ask…

Topics include the extent to which the food industry is fighting the forced labeling of foods containing GMOs; why General Mills introduced Cheerios labeled as containing no GMOs; and what consumers should, and should not know, about the contents of the

The year of the pig has returned to China. This year, however, arbitors of the politically correct demand that the pig totem be covered so as not offend the Muslim minority. This leads us to ask, “Why did the pig become a political animal?”

Psychologist Nicola Amadora believes farmers and gardeners should grow for fairies-. This leads one to ask, “Are fairies real?” And, if so, “Why bother growing for them?” Topic include... whether fairies are real or imagined;

We all must eat to live, and so think little of the daily task of cooking up a meal. But then something happens and eating to live becomes living to eat. This leads us to ask…

From Reuters:  “Holbreich, an allergist in Indianapolis, has been treating Amish communities in Indiana for two decades, but he noticed that very few Amish actually had allergies.”  This anomaly leads us to ask…

When young we eat and grow tall, but when middle-aged we eat and grow out. This leads many, if not most, middle-aged people to ask…

We have re-engineered corn plants to kill insect pests, and now have millions of acres of insect-killing corn plants growing in America’s heartland. That corn now kills insects leads us to ask…

They call it the “Big Apple.” But if history is any measure, it should really be called the “Big Oyster.” Topics include why the first Europeans found Manhattan Island to be a veritable “garden of eatin;” how the bus