The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

14 percent of the plastic we use is recycled. That means 86 percent of the plastic we use is not recycled. The thought of all that plastic piling up in a giant tsunami leads us to ask:

As demonstrated by Stalin?s holodomor, and Mao?s great Leap Forward, the most effective way to control people is to control their food. And so we ask:

They are just about everywhere, except in places like the Saraha Desert, and there are so many of them. Therefore, they can?t really be special! But according to some, they are, and so we ask?

China is buying up America?s farmland? with the money we send it to manufacture stuff for us in their coal-burning factories. Some say this a good deal because we don?t have to work in those factories. Others say it?s a bad deal because we are selling

California Senate Bill 620 would, if signed into law, make it legal for the state?s residents to buy liquor directly from a local distiller. The thought of legal local liquor leads us to ask:

There is a murder in the trees of Sunnyvale. Yes, a murder of crows has invaded this little Silicon Valley town, and that murder has the town?s people asking:

Farming commodities is a business of boom and bust. During the boom, farmers borrow big to expand production. During the bust, farmers give it all back to the banks. This leads us to ask:

When great clouds of dust woke America to the need to save its soil, much of the awakening took place on an Ohio farm named after the southwest coast of India. Therein lies a story that leads us to ask:

While the Covid-19 pandemic has been driving the world to distraction, a quiet pandemic has been building steam that could prove to be far more threatening to life on earth. And so we ask:

This just in. The Billings Gazette reports that the State of Montana will not have enough money to cover all the claims of livestock killed by predators. And so we ask: