They tripled the minimum wage to 7 million a month, but all those millions are not enough to buy two pounds of meat! That leads us to ask: Can what happened to the price of food in Venezuela happen in the US?
The prohibition of cannabis has forced us to focus on the plant?s intoxicating properties. Now that prohibition appears to be fizzing out, we pause to ask:
They say we have put so much carbon into the atmosphere it?s causing earth?s climate to change. We must do something, or else! And so we ask: Can we capture the carbon we emit and sequester it in farmland?
They call the secretions of various plants ?milk,? and thereby steal one of the most valuable words in our vocabulary. This trend to pretend foods leads us to ask:
The Golden State of California appears to be losing its collective mind. You can see evidence of that loss on the streets of San Francisco, and that leads us to ask: Can we eat our way out of mental dystopia?
The word ?organic? is worth upwards of $50 billion a year. Some believe the word should be the exclusive property of those who farm in fertile soil. Others believe those who farm without soil should also own the word. And so we ask:
The word ?organic? is worth upwards of $50 billion a year. Some believe the word is the exclusive property of those who farm with fertile soil. Others believe those who farm with no soil also own the word. And so we ask:
We have no legal right to know the source of our Big Mac and Whopper hamburgers. They could have come from Uzbekistan or maybe Tierra Del Fuego! And so we ask:
Some say there is no need for government to stand between neighbors who want to buy and sell each other?s food. And so we ask:
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About The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio
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The Food Chain is an audience-interactive newstalk radio program that airs live on Saturdays from 9am to 10am Pacific time. The Food Chain, which has been named the Ag/News Show of the Year by…
California's legislature, is hosted by Michael Olson, author of the Ben Franklin Book of the Year award-winning MetroFarm, a 576-page guide to metropolitan agriculture.