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. 1368: Healed by Horse
Charlie Jenks, Founder, Connecting Vets with Horses
(Animals as Emotional and Cognitive Therapists for humans)
To heal one’s broken body, frazzled nerves or confused mind, one could take the drugs, …
Ep. 1367: Thanatology - What Animals Think of Death
Susana Monso, Author, Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
Every person thinks about where we all will eventually go, but no person knows for certain where we will go. This leads some people…
Ep.1366: Wild Horses? Let Em Run!
Lacy J Dalton, President, Let Em Run Foundation & Internationally acclaimed Country and Western Music Recording Star
(Wild Horse Management, Policies and Procedures)
83,000 horses and burros roam wi…
Ep.1365: California's Certified Farmers Markets
Jennifer Leidolf, CDFA Direct Marketing Program Supervisor &Joshua W. Bingham, Public Information Officer II, Division of Inspection Services
(Farmers Market Certification, Governance and Marketing)
…
Ep. 1364: Bone-Building Broth
Cindy Campos, Weston A. Price Foundation, and Andrew Renard and Michelle Carter, Kitchen Table Cultures
(Traditional Nourishing Food, Bone broth, Bone broth recipes)
All ancient cultures included bon…
Ep. 1363: A Mexican Maize Standoff
Carey Gillam, Author, The Monsanto Papers & Research Director, U.S. Right to Know
(GMOs, WTO, Glyphosate, International Food trade)
After standing firm on its plan to ban genetically modified cor…
Ep. 1362: Bonders Metropolitan Bees
Emily Bonder, Apiarist & Educator, Santa Cruz Bee Company
(metropolitan bee keeping, apiarists, honey bees)
They say bees are responsible for one-third of every bite of food we eat. Given how much w…
Ep. 1361: Driscoll's - Barons of Berries?
Austin Frerick, Author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry
(Food industry consolidation, Driscoll's Berries,
Across the landscape of American agriculture, one can…
Ep. 1360: Maizie's Marketing Magic
Maisie Ganzler, Chief Strategy and Brand Officer Bon Appetit Management Company & Author, You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime
(Food marketing, advertising and public relations)
He who has a thing …
Ep. 1359: Local Versus Natural
Fred Provenza, Emeritus Professor of Behavioral Ecology, Utah State University & Author of Nourishment: What animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
(Food Nutrition and Label…
Ep. 1358: Meadowlark - The Canary of the Prairie
John Marzluff, Emeritus Professor of Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Author of In Company of Meadowlarks
(Environmental Degradation and the Vanishing of Song birds)
Meadowlarks are the c…
Ep. 1357: Yellowstone's Crows of Winter
John Marzluff, Emeritus Professor of Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Author of In the Company of Crows and Ravens
(Animal Nutrition and Environment)
Yellowstone Park in winter is a cruel p…
Ep. 1356: Carnivore, Herbivore or Omnivore?
Fred Provenza, Emeritus Professor of Behavioral Ecology at Utah State University, Author of Nourtishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
(Animal and Human Natur…
Ep. 1355: A Taste of Place
Fred Provenza, Author, Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
(Animal & Human Environmental Nutrition)
Animals learn what to eat, and what not to eat, from…
Ep. 1354 Moms Versus Toxic Food
Zen Honeycutt, Founder & Executive Director of Moms Across America / Author of Unstoppable: Transforming Sickness and Struggle Into Triumph, Empowerment and a Celebration of Community
Over 80 milli…
Ep. 1353 A Fountain of Youth Diet
Dr. Michael Greger, Author, How Not To Age
(Diet, Nutrition, Aging)
We have been searching for that proverbial fountain of youth for as long as we have been capable of searching. Though we have se…
Ep. 1351: Farming for the Certified Farmers Markets
Allen Moy, Executive Director, Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association
(California's Certified Farmers Markets)
They say, in the United States food travels an average of 1,500 miles from where i…
Ep. 1350: Farming Green Hydrogen
Mike Keller, Michael A. Keller Associates
Turning ice into hydrogen fuel
They say, if we can get to the South Pole of the Moon, we can convert some of the frozen water we find there into rocket fuel …
Ep. 1349 Farming Community
TOM BROZ, FARMER OF THE YEAR, LIFE EARTH FARM
Community Supported Agriculture
Community is where everybody works together today to ensure that everybody can eat tomorrow. This thought leads us to …
Ep. 1348 Farming Nature
JO ANN BAUMGARTNER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WILD FARM ALLIANCE &
SAM EARNSHAW, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, HEDGEROWS UNLIMITED
When an outbreak of Ecoli killed three people and sickened 200 others a couple …