The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

We have always preserved foods by freezing them, but when we learned how to freeze foods quickly, we quickly moved into the city. This leads us to ask…

Every year, the government hands out $20 billion of our lunch money to those with outstretched hands. This leads us to ask: “Who should get the money?” Topics include why the U.S. subsidizes its food chain $20 billion a year; who has been g

Guests Joe Hamby, COO of the Tri Marine Group, and Adam Baske, of Sea Strong, LLC

Now that it takes two and a half incomes to maintain a household, few have time enough to eat at home. But maybe there is a way to find the time, and so we ask: Where can we find time enough to eat at home? Topics include the time constraints that forc

As the world’s oil cartels squeeze us for our last dime, we look for relief to an economy fueled by carbohydrates instead of hydrocarbons. But this leads us to ask, “Which is first, food or fuel?” Topics include a look at whether corn

Hippocrates said, “Let your medicine be your food, and let your food be your medicine.” But Hippocrates was yesterday. Today we take pharmaceutical medicines, and they lead us to ask….

A recreation in two states, a medicine in 20 states, and declared less-dangerous-than-booze by the former Choom Ganger now President, it appears as though Cannabis is on its way to normal. And so we ask…

Guests: Kristin Carlson, Anna Ringelman, Seniors in Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz

We have, for the most, lost the ability to make things for ourselves, and so must buy those things from China. Flush with our cash, the people of China can now afford to buy the foods that have made us tall and strong. This leads us to ask…

"Violence is never the answer," claims horse whisperer Monty Roberts. This leads us to ask: How can one break a horse by whispering to it? Topics include the various techniques for breaking horses; why gentleness works better than violence for