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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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Ep. The Tyranny of Oligarch Food

The Food Chain ·

2024/11/30

Michael Olson with Tereza Corragio, Author, How to Dismantle an EmpireAmerica’s big money oligarchs are buying up the world’s farmland and its fake-food companies. Guessing at what their intentions might be leads us to ask: Can we escape the tyranny of oligarch food? Topics include how communities lose their food and financial sovereignty to the empire of debt; how the empire of debt might be dismantled with community banking; and how to begin the dismantling.

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Ep. 1376 FEEDING BABY POUCH FOOD

The Food Chain ·

2024/11/14

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: Do convenience pouch foods do a baby’s body good? The Food Chain Radio Show & Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Dr. Elizabeth Dunford, Research Fellow, George Institute, Assistant Professor of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, and Author of “An Evaluation of the Nutritional and Promotional

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Ep. 1296 Defending Beef!

The Food Chain ·

2024/11/08

Michael Olson hosts Nicolette Hahn Niman, Author, Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for BeefWe have been told that cows cause the climate to change by emitting greenhouse gas. Now we are told to replace the beef we eat with patented, manufactured meat-like substances. And so we ask: Should beef be banned? Topics include a look at why some believe the cattle industry should be terminated to save the environment; why others believe we must work with cattle to save the environment;

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Ep. 1314 The Blue Revolution

The Food Chain ·

2024/10/31

Host Michael Olson with guest Nicholas Sullivan, Senior Researcher, Tufts University, Author of The Blue RevolutionFishermen used to rely on good luck to haul in the big catch. But when they began relying on information, instead of luck, they almost caught all the fish in the sea. That leads us to ask: Can we catch fish so there will be fish left to be caught? Topics include how the world’s most productive fisheries were fished out; what some nations are doing to create sustainable fisheries;

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Ep. 1375 Hawaii's Condominium Farming

The Food Chain ·

2024/10/17

Michael Olson with Peter Savio, Savio Realty LTD, Honolulu, HIIn the 1970s, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz told America’s farmers to “Get big or get out.” Since Butz made his proclomation, farms have been getting bigger, and farmers have been getting fewer. This leads us contrarians to ask: Can unprofitable big farms be converted into profitable small farms? Topics include how real estate developer Peter Savio converted Hawaii’s defunct plantations into income-generating condominium farms;

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Ep. 1374 Costs of Alcohol on the Body and Mind

The Food Chain ·

2024/10/12

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 body good? The Food Chain Radio Show & Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Timothy B. Sullivan, Doctor of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, for a conversation about alcohol’s effects on the body and mind. Topics include the 9,000 year history of the human use and abuse of alcohol; how many of the studies

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Against the Big Food Merger

The Food Chain ·

2024/10/02

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, we simply must ask: Should Kroger be allowed to eat Albertsons? The Food Chain Radio Show & Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Claire Kelloway, Manager, Food Systems Program, Open Markets, for a conversation about the consolidation of the nation’s grocery stores. Topics include why Kroger and

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Ep. 1372 A Big Food Merger of Convenience

The Food Chain ·

2024/09/26

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 Albertsons be allowed to merge? For the moment, you and I live in the small town of Anywhere, USA. There are two grocers in town, Deluxe Food on North Main and Star Market on South Main. Deluxe and Star have been competing for our grocery dollars by offering their best prices on food. Sometimes Deluxe has

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Ep. 1371 Just In-Time Food

The Food Chain ·

2024/09/26

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 travels an average of 1200 miles from where it was grown to where it is eaten. If one were to look forward a hundred years into the future, from a hundred years in the past – when people lived on farms and ate food they grew those farms – one would think that 1200-mile food chain of the future to be an

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Ep. 1370 Winning The Fight for the Right to Garden

The Food Chain ·

2024/09/26

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 from establishing gardens in their yards, why Nicole Virgil refused to accept that prohibition; and how Nicole’s fight for the right to garden resulted in Illinois becoming the second state in the U.S. to guarantee residents the right to garden. One thing we learned from the Covid years is that our food

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Ep. 1369 Giving a Damn Food

The Food Chain ·

2024/09/26

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 conventional farming and ranching were industrialized into commodity agriculture; why some farmers and ranchers are returning to conventional agriculture; and what it means to be “give a damn” farmers and ranchers. I spent many of my early summers growing up on the Grandparents’ farm near Belfry, Montana. The

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Ep. 1368: Healed by Horse

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2024/08/04

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, as many do… or one could hop into the saddle and ride the horse. And so we ask… How can one be healed by horse? To heal our broken bodies, frazzled nerves and confused minds, we Americans take drugs, and we take lots of them. But what if… What if we could be healed by horse? Now, had it not been

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Ep. 1367: Thanatology - What Animals Think of Death

The Food Chain ·

2024/08/04

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 to think about the animals for which we have taken dominion, and wonder: What do animals think about dying? Up and down the food chain, it is eat and be eaten. This elemental fact gives rise among people to thanatology, which is the study of death. Today we begin our Food Chain discussion with some

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Ep.1366: Wild Horses? Let Em Run!

The Food Chain ·

2024/08/04

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 wild and free throughout the empty spaces of the great American West. Though some very serious voices say they should not be allowed to run free, other serious voices say, “Let em run!” And so we ask: Should we let wild horses run free? Out here in the great American West, there is still a lot of

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Ep.1365: California's Certified Farmers Markets

The Food Chain ·

2024/08/04

Jennifer Leidolf, CDFA Direct Marketing Program Supervisor &Joshua W. Bingham, Public Information Officer II, Division of Inspection Services (Farmers Market Certification, Governance and Marketing) When it comes to which farms get the most help from the government, the answer is most always the biggest farms. This leads us to ask: Can there be a government program that helps small farms more than big farms? Our federal government hands out a lot of money to farmers. How much is a lot? In

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Ep. 1364: Bone-Building Broth

The Food Chain ·

2024/08/04

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 bones in their diets. The ancients ate bones because they tasted good and strengthened their own bones. Then along came modern times and broken bones! And so we pause to ask: Should we look to ancient diets to strengthen weak bodies? Like many, I often started my day with a hot cup of strong coffee. The

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Ep. 1363: A Mexican Maize Standoff

The Food Chain ·

2024/08/04

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 corn from Germany, and the attendant pesticides from China, Mexico capitulated to the demands of the United States and cancelled its plan to ban. That leads us to ask: Why did Mexico stand-down from its GMO maize stand-off? A while back I participated in a panel discussion at the U.S. Farmer and

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Ep. 1362: Bonders Metropolitan Bees

The Food Chain ·

2024/08/04

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 we love to eat, and how much we love to hear the buzzing of bees, we simply must ask: How does one keep bees in the city? We all know how important honeybees are to the productivity of natural and man-made food chains. And so, when we look about the garden and see fewer and fewer bees every year, we

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Ep. 1361: Driscoll's - Barons of Berries?

The Food Chain ·

2024/08/04

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 see where there were many, there are now few. What we see leads us to ask: Is it better to have a few big farms or many small farms? The Food Chain Radio Show & Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Austin Frerick, Author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry, for a

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Ep. 1360: Maizie's Marketing Magic

The Food Chain ·

2024/08/04

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 to sell, and goes and whispers in a well, is not so apt to get the dollars, as she who climbs a tree and hollers! And so we ask: How does one win the minds and dollars of those who eat food? Much of our food now comes from far, far away, where it was grown, processed and packaged with mysterious

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