The Food Chain
It’s a fact! 100% of men, women and children eat food, and 97.5% of must buy their food from others who bring it from an average of 2,000 miles away. And so the hungry ask:
”What’s in this tomato? Who planted that broccoli? Is it safe to eat genetically engineered corn? Why are they irradiating meat? Are we running short of water? Why is China growing our apples? What will happen to us if we can no longer farm? How safe is our food chain?”
The Food Chain is an audience-interactive syndicated newstalk radio program and podcast broadcasting weekly on radio stations and streaming on demand on the internet.
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.
The Food Chain is available live via GCN Starguide GE 8 and delayed via MP3/FTP. For clearance and/or technical information, please call Michael Olson at 831-566-4209 or email [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 65
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Ep 1383 About Food: A Farmer On Defense
According to a University of Minnesota survey, 75% of people trust farmers, but only 24% trust food. That leads us to ask:
Why do so many people trust farmers, but so few trust food?
The Food Chain…
Ep. 1382 Infertility on the Menu
Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Infertility on the Menu
They say men today have 60% less sperm than their grandfathers, and if the decline is not reversed, the sperm count in American ma…
ANATOMY OF THE FOOD RECALL
Food now travels a long way from where it was grown to where it is eaten. Sometimes bad things happen to good food along the way. This leads us to ask:
What happens when bad food gets eaten by good…
Ep. 1380 Biodynamic Lotions, Potions & Notions
Hippocrates is said to have said, “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” What Hippocrates said so long ago leads us to ask:
Which food makes the best medicine?
The Food Chain Radi…
Ep. 1379 Farming Flowers for the Table
Kaysea Clark, Owner & Farmer, Flowers by the Sea
They say “The eyes are first to feast!” If such is indeed the case, we wonder,
Which flower is best to feast on?
The Food Chain Radio Show - Podca…
Ep. 1357 Yellowstone's King Corvid
Fred Provenza, Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Ecology in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University. Author, Nourtishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nut…
Ep. 1378 Kennedy's MAHA Moment
David Blume, Farmer at Whisky Hill Farm in Freedom, California, Author of Alcohol Can Be A Gas, proprietor of Blume Distillation, & Candidate to be Robert Kennedy Jr’s Food & Energy Coordinator
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Ep. 1378 Food Chain Radio: 2024's Food Revolution
They are moving on Washington, DC with the battle cry, “Make America healthy again!” Their battle cry leads us to ask:
How can America be made healthy again?
The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with…
Ep. 1377 Real Food from Real Farmers - Guaranteed!
Michael Olson with Catherine Barr, Executive Director, Monterey Bay Area Certified Farmers Markets
In the 1826 edition of The Physiology of Taste, Jean Brillat-Savarin wrote, “Tell me what you eat …
Ep. The Tyranny of Oligarch Food
Michael Olson with Tereza Corragio, Author, How to Dismantle an Empire
America’s big money oligarchs are buying up the world’s farmland and its fake-food companies. Guessing at what their intentions…
Ep. 1376 FEEDING BABY POUCH FOOD
A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM MICHAEL OLSON
The hungry baby is crying for food. The harried parent is short on time. The solution: Give baby a baby food pouch. But that solution leads us to ask:
…
Ep. 1296 Defending Beef!
Michael Olson hosts Nicolette Hahn Niman, Author, Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Beef
We have been told that cows cause the climate to change by emitting greenhouse gas. Now…
Ep. 1314 The Blue Revolution
Host Michael Olson with guest Nicholas Sullivan, Senior Researcher, Tufts University, Author of The Blue Revolution
Fishermen used to rely on good luck to haul in the big catch. But when they began …
Ep. 1375 Hawaii's Condominium Farming
Michael Olson with Peter Savio, Savio Realty LTD, Honolulu, HI
In the 1970s, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz told America’s farmers to “Get big or get out.” Since Butz made his proclomation, fa…
Ep. 1374 Costs of Alcohol on the Body and Mind
Technology has given us the ability to look deep into the human body, and to see how the body reacts to various environmental stimuli. That being the case, we simply must ask:
Does alcohol do a bod…
Against the Big Food Merger
Claire Kelloway, Manager, Food Systems Program, Open Markets Institute
As is true with the fish swimming in the sea, big companies grow bigger by eating smaller companies. That being the case, w…
Ep. 1372 A Big Food Merger of Convenience
Michael Olson hosts Scott Moses, Partner, Solomon Partners Head of Grocery, Pharmacy and Restaurnts, for a conversation about the consolidation of the nation’s grocery stores.
Should Kroger and Alber…
Ep. 1371 Just In-Time Food
Michael Olson hosts Robert Wolcott & Kaihan Krippendorff, Co-Authors, Proximity: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-In-Time Transform Business, Society and Daily Life.
It is said that food now travel…
Ep. 1370 Winning The Fight for the Right to Garden
Michael Olson hosts Nicole Virgil, Gardener and Practitioner of Christian Science, for a conversation about winning the right to garden.
Topics include how municipal governments prohibit residents fr…
Ep. 1369 Giving a Damn Food
Michael Olson hosts Will Harris, Farmer, Rancher and Author of Giving a Damn: A Bold Return to Giving A Damn for a conversation about giving a damn farming and ranching.
Topics include why convention…