The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Guests:Patty Lovera, Ass Director, Food & Water Watch

Guests: Caroline Cox, Center for Environmental Health; Rebecca Riley, Natural Resources Defense Council (NOTE: Monsanto and National Corn Growers Association refused to participate.)

o stop animal diseases, like avian flu, from sweeping through the nation’s 1.4 million farms, the Federal government has established a National Animal Identification System. NAIS asks all farmers and hobbyists who husband animals to voluntarily reg

Former Monsanto exective Michael Taylor is now the nation’s Food Safety Czar. His 1,200 pages of new food safety rules lead us to ask…

We fear dirty rats, and so endeavor to kill them with poison. Our poison, however, also kills creatures that prey on rats, which means there are ever more rats to poison, which leads us to ask…

They say bees provide for thirty percent of the food we eat. They also say more than thirty percent of our bee colonies are collapsing. This thirty percent business leads us to ask…

Consider Michael Olson's Irrefutable Law of the Food Chain #2: The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food. And so we ask, “Who is in charge of food safety?” Topics include the dis

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

Though seven out of every ten Indians depend on income from farms, they are selling off their farmland to the world’s corporations. This leads us to ask…

Twenty to Thirty million are now unemployed, and yet farmers can’t find enough people to work on their farms. This leads us to again ask…