The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio
Agriculture
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.
Location:
Santa Cruz, CA
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Contact:
605-562-7757
Website:
http://www.gcnlive.com/
Episodes
Show #1335: Drinking Life
12/14/2022
The moment a food is taken from the ground it begins to lose its life. Though many things can be done to preserve the life in food, the farther it travels from its source, the less life it will have when its consumed. This leads us to ask:
Show #1334: Saving Land for Food
12/7/2022
Though situated in the midst of extremely expensive metropolitan real estate, Santa Cruz County agriculture produces nearly $660 million dollars worth of crops every year. This leads us to ask:
Show #1333: Weather - Nature or Nurture?
11/17/2022
It’s becoming very difficult to see that our glass is half-full, when so many of our reservoirs are nearly empty. And so we ask:
Show #1332: Hidden in School Lunches
11/10/2022
Thirty million meals made with geneticallly modified crops are served to our nation’s school children every school day. What is hidden in those lunches leads us to ask:
Show #1331: Food Fights
11/3/2022
Mexico is moving to ban U.S. biotech corn for human consumption, which would reduce the economic output of the U.S. by $74 billion, give or take. This economic food fight leads us to ask:
Show #1330: War, Fertilizer & Fuel
10/26/2022
We are at war with the countries that fuel our food chain with fertilizer. This war leads us to ask:
Show #1329: Card Check – End of the Secret Ballot?
10/20/2022
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law Assembly Bill 2183, which gives California’s farmworkers the right to organize a union with a simple check on a card. This leads us to ask:
Show #1328: Our Fermented History
9/28/2022
After learning how to cultivate grain some 10,000 years ago, we learned how to bake it and brew it. Thus began our history as a fermenting people. This history leads us to ask:
Show #1327: Making the Flammable the Uninflammable
9/22/2022
Given years of neglect, a prolonged drought, and devilish winds, the forests of the American West, and all that are in them, are poised to explode in flame. This leads us to ask:
Show #1326: The Great Hemp Loophole
9/17/2022
To gain total control over legalized cannabis, governments smothered the industry with rules, regulations and taxes. But there is one loophole some are profitably jumping through, and it leads us to ask:
Show #1325 :
8/17/2022
As food technology improves, food becomes something very cheap that is actually very expensive. And we crave it! This leads us to ask:
Show #1324: Grass-Fed Dairy
8/10/2022
Some turn up their noses at the industrial ways in which we produce most dairy products and say, “The cow is killing the earth.” This leads us to ask:
Show #1319: The Glyphosate Label Fight
8/4/2022
Despite losing two recent mega-million dollar decisions at the Supreme Court, the chemical giant Bayer AG vows to fight on for its glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup. This fight leads us to ask:
Show #1323: Feeding Our Microbiome
8/3/2022
When we eat, we are not just feeding the me, we are also feeding the 100 trillion microorganisms that live with the me. That leads us to ask:
Show #1319: Glyphosate Labeling Fight
7/30/2022
Despite losing two recent mega-million dollar decisions at the Supreme Court, the chemical giant Bayer AG vows to fight on for its glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup. This fight leads us to ask:
Show #1322: Breeding A Better Bee
7/29/2022
I happened to be watching a honey bee working over a lemon tree blossom on the 19th of July, when I realized that it was my first honey bee sighting of the year. That sighting leads me to ask:
Show #1321: Corralling Food Supplements
7/19/2022
Hippocrates is said to have said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine by thy food.” But the efforts by some to register food as medicine leads us to ask…
Show #1320: FAILURE OF FACTORY BABY FORMULA
7/14/2022
Four companies control 95% of the infant formula sold in the United States. When one of their factories was forced to close, mothers panicked and horded. This leads us to ask:
Show #1318: The Food Angels
6/23/2022
President Joe Biden recently announced that a food shortage is in the near future for the United States, and that it is “gonna be real.” So we ask:
Show #1317: The Fight for Water: The Farmers
6/16/2022
Those who grow our food are fond of saying, “Food grows where water flows.” That they keep saying this leads us to ask: