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. 1347 Farming Children
JESSICA RIDGEWAY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FARM DISCOVERY AT LIVE EARTH
When people moved off the farm into the city, they took their children with them. What children find on the streets of the city doe…
Ep. 1345 Glyphosate Lab Tomato
DR. JOHN FAGAN, HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE LABS
There are many ways in which industrialization has served to make food cheap. One way is to subvert the growth of natural competitors, like weeds, wi…
Ep. 1345 Microgreens - Maximum Nutrition
Ken Kimes & Sandra Ward, New Natives, Microgreens
It is really simple: Sow some uncontaminated seeds in organic soil. Add clean water, fresh air and sunshine. Then enjoy eating the maximum nutrit…
Tending to California’s Golden Agriculture with Karen Ross, California Secretary of Agriculture
Tending to California's Golden Agriculture
Karen Ross, California's Secretary of Agriculture
Begin with a Mediterranean climate; add a long range of mountains to collect and store winter’s precipitat…
India Joz - Fusion Foodie
Guest: Chef & Restaurateur India Jozseph Schultz
His India Joze restaurant was the West Coast capital of fusion food-ism. The taste that lingers of that fusion leads one to ask Jozseph Schultz:
Ho…