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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

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53:49

Staff of Life: Local Grocer V Corporate Giants

The Food Chain ·

2025/05/15

Michael Olson with Gary Bascou, Co-Founder, Staff of Life Natural Food MarketStaff of Life is a locally-owned grocery store competing for consumer dollars in a market dominated by corporate giants. And so we ask: How does a local grocery store survive in a marketplace of corporate giants? Topics include the culture that gave rise to “natural” and “organic” food markets; how those foods gave rise to Staff of Life Natural Foods Market; and how Staff of Life survives 56 years of competition with

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Ep 1393 Regenerating Food & Agriculture with Software

The Food Chain ·

2025/05/08

There was a time farmers grew food with shovels, hoes and horses. As technology progressed, they used tractors, fertilizers and pesticides. Today, farmers grow food by stringing together binary digits of “Yes” and “No.” That leads us to ask:Can software sustain and regenerate agriculture? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Dan Ryan, CEO of CIBO Technologies, for a conversation about how digital software is transforming food and agriculture. Topics include how

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Ep. 1392 The Magic Kingdom of Specialty Mushrooms

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2025/04/25

It lives alone, and mostly hidden, in its magic kingdom. Its members are said to include the largest living organism on earth. That so many down-to-earth people become its ardent devotees leads us to ask: What is the magic of mushrooms? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Ian Garrone, CEO & Founder Far West Fungi, Moss Landing, CA, for a conversation about the magic kingdom of specialty mushrooms. Topics include a look into the variety of life in the kingdom of

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Ep 1391 Up Against the Big Four Meat

The Food Chain ·

2025/04/18

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Patrick Montgomery, CEO & Founder, KC Cattle Company & Valor Provisions Cooperative, for a conversation about finding real value when buying meat.Topics include how a small producer of meat competes against America’s Big Four producers; how a cooperative of like-minded producers can increase the ability of each to survive; and the value that may be found in grass-fed labeled beef.

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Ep 1390 Cholesterol Conundrum?

The Food Chain ·

2025/04/09

Michael Olson hosts Tobias Yeh – Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Medicine and Author of Clinical Truths: How to Not Be Misled by the FDA, Big Pharma & Your Doctor, for a conversation about the use of statin drugs to manage cholesterol.Cholesterol is the waxy stuff of life that floats through the rivers of our blood veins. To manage this flow of cholesterol, people take $16 billion of statin drugs every year. That leads us to ask: Should we take statin drugs to manage our cholesterol? Topics

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Ep 1389 Call-of-the-Wild Meat

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2025/04/01

There is, one hopes, a little call-of-the-wild left in all of us – even those of us who live in a concrete box stacked 40 stories high in a city sky! That call leads us to ask:Where can one get a good taste of wild meat? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Daniel Laggner, Owner & Butcher, Wild Stag Provisions, for a conversation about food that is as close to the wild as commercially possible. Topics include why one would want to eat wild meat when domestic meat

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Ep. 1388 Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson

The Food Chain ·

2025/03/27

They live where we can’t see them for a very good reason! They come in the night – and during the day– to steal the precious fruits of our labor. Their unrelenting assault on our good nature leads us to ask:How can we get that #%*%# gopher? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Thomas Wittman of Gophers Limited, for a conversation about controlling gophers in the farm and garden. Topics include why gophers make farmers and gardeners so frustrated; the ways in which gophers

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53:57

Food Inflation

The Food Chain ·

2025/03/21

Michael Olson hostsDr. Jacob Manlove, Assistant Professor of Ag Economics, Arkansas State University MSN recently served up some news that caught my attention. The headline read, “Venezuela triples wages but still not enough to buy food.” The writer went on to say that Venezuela’s new minimum wage of seven million bolivares per month is not enough buy two pounds of meat. Shortly after reading this story I enjoyed a leisurely meal with my lady at a nearby sit-down restaurant. The meal was

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Ep 1387 Feeding the Family

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2025/03/13

Michael Olson host Nutritionist / Author Jill TrodermanSome facts: One in five children are obese. Two in five adults are obese. The rate at which we are becoming obese has doubled since 1990. A question: What should we feed the family? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Jill Troderman, award-winning nutritionist and author of The Food Tree, for a conversation about how best to feed one’s family. Topics include why so many are so overweight; the health dangers of

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53:46

French Chef – Taking the Heat!

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2025/03/07

Michael Olson with Executive Chef Avram Samuels, Director of Culinary and Food & Beverage Operations, Chaminade Resort and Spa, Santa Cruz, CAIn 1963, California native and World War II veteran Julia Child showed up on Boston’s PBS television to tout her book on French cuisine. It took her over a decade to get off that station! During that time, Child’s “The French Chef” changed America’s taste in food. And so we ask: What makes French cuisine so French? The Food Chain Radio Show -

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Food Crash - A Farmer on Offense

The Food Chain ·

2025/02/18

A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM MICHAEL OLSON Yogi Berra once gave this piece of sage advise: “When you get to a fork in the road, take it!” And so we ask: Which way should we grow our food: our way or nature’s way? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Dr. Felix Zu Lowenstein, farmer & author of Food Crash: Why Organic is the Only Way Forward, for a conversation about his insistence that growing food organically is the only way forward. Topics include why human

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Ep 1383 About Food: A Farmer On Defense

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2025/02/12

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 Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Dennis Bulani, 4rth Generation Saskatchewan farmer, CEO of The Rack Petroleum & Author About Food: What a Farmer Wants you to Know, for a conversation about the efficacy and safety of industrial agriculture’s food. Topics include: why so many people

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Ep. 1382 Infertility on the Menu

The Food Chain ·

2025/01/28

Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael OlsonInfertility 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 males will drop to zero by 2045. That thought leads us to ask: Can eating the wrong food cause our population to collapse? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Samantha LeJune, Researcher, Population Research Institute, for a conversation about the possibility that we are eating

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ANATOMY OF THE FOOD RECALL

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2025/01/23

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 people? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Wiggs Civitillo, Founder & CEO | Starfish-Network, for a conversation about the tracking food as it travels the food miles from farm to fork. Topics include why the U.S. has three to five hundred food recalls every year; how all

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Ep. 1380 Biodynamic Lotions, Potions & Notions

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2025/01/16

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 Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Carin Fortin & Delmar McComb, Owners and Farmers, Blossom’s Biodynamic Farm, for a conversation about the biodynamic growing of food that that is medicine. Topics include why Fortin and Delmar employ biodynamic technologies to grow a hundred varieties of

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Ep. 1379 Farming Flowers for the Table

The Food Chain ·

2025/01/10

Kaysea Clark, Owner & Farmer, Flowers by the SeaThey 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 - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Kaysea Clark, Owner & Farmer, Flowers by the Sea, for a conversation about growing and selling flowers to enjoy with food. Topics include Clark’s transition from gardener to farmer; why the technology of her biologically-intensive farming are important to the character

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Ep. 1357 Yellowstone's King Corvid

The Food Chain ·

2024/12/19

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 Nutritional WisdomYellowstone Park in winter is a cruel place for the wildlife that can no longer endure its cold, snow and hunger. And yet what is cruel for some can be a blessing for the corvids of Yellowstone’s winter And so we ask: Can anyone love the black birds of Yellowstone’s white

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Ep. 1378 Kennedy's MAHA Moment

The Food Chain ·

2024/12/15

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 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 Michael Olson hosts US HHS Food and Energy coordinator candidate David Blume for a conversation

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Ep. 1378 Food Chain Radio: 2024's Food Revolution

The Food Chain ·

2024/12/12

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 Michael Olson hosts US HHS Food and Energy coordinator candidate David Blume for a conversation about how he would help Robert Kennedy Jr make America healthy again. Topics include why Kennedy believes America’s food chain must undergo a revolutionary change; ways in which that change might be made; and

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Ep. 1377 Real Food from Real Farmers - Guaranteed!

The Food Chain ·

2024/12/05

Michael Olson with Catherine Barr, Executive Director, Monterey Bay Area Certified Farmers MarketsIn the 1826 edition of The Physiology of Taste, Jean Brillat-Savarin wrote, “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.” Then in the 1863 edition of Spiritualism and Materialism, German philosopher Ludwig Feurerbach wrote, “A man is what he eats.” Today, in the 1377th edition of the Food Chain Radio Show, Michael Olson is jumping into the conversation by saying, “If we are what we eat,

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