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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 1407 Homes for Homeless Animals

The Food Chain ·

2025/12/26

When the daughter’s pet dog passed on after many years of friendship, she became very sad and teared up. Hoping to ease her pain at the passing of her good friend, I said, “Honey, life is a succession of good dogs!” Not too much longer, the daughter started pestering for a new dog. After an extended search, we were presented with a choice between two Cocker Spaniel puppies. One was black, the other was gold. As you might imagine, the wife wanted the black one, while the daughter wanted

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Local Foods Act Legislation: Should government be...

The Food Chain ·

2025/12/19

The label on the meat package reads, “Product of USA.” But the meat in the package could have come from Australia, Brazil or China, and be from one animal or hundreds of animals. This leads us to ask: Should government be forced to accommodate local food farms? The 1406th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Judith McGeary, Founder and CEO, Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, for a conversation about the “Livestock Owned by Communities to Advance Local Foods Act”

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Ep 1405: Nutritional Epigenetics & The Decline of...

The Food Chain ·

2025/12/11

A recent review of U.S. special education data revealed a three-fold increase in autism and a four-fold increase in delayed development among public school children. That leads us to ask:Can bad food make good genes go bad? The 1405th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Dr. Renee Dufault, Executive Director and Principal Investigator, Food Ingredient & Health Research Institute, whose research points to one of the reasons for the three-fold increase in autism

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Ep 1404 House 453 - Immunity for Pesticide...

The Food Chain ·

2025/12/03

On August 10, 2018, a California jury awarded Benecia public school landscaper Dewayne Lee Johnson $289 million for the non-Hodgkin lymphoma he claimed was caused by exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller. That award leads us to ask: Should manufacturers be held accountable for the consequences of their pesticides? The 1404the edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Attorney Brent Wisner, whose firm, Wisner Baum LLP, won the $289 million Monsanto Roundup lawsuit

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Ep 1244 Fast Food - Weeds of the Food Chain

The Food Chain ·

2025/11/21

Michael Olson hoss Professor Catherine Keske, Ag Economist, University of California, Merced & Author, “Fast Food is Comforting, But…,”It does not take long for weeds to take over one’s garden. The same can be said for how quickly fast food can displace good food in one’s diet. And so we ask: How does fast food displace good food? Topics include the extent to which poor communities, like college students, rely on fast foods; how fast foods displace good foods; and what might be done to

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Ep 1297 Pet Nation

The Food Chain ·

2025/11/14

Guest: Mark Cushing, CEO of Animal Policy Group and author of Pet NationTwenty years ago, Duke the Dog lived out in the backyard. Now he lives in the house and sleeps in a bed. And so we ask: How did the United States become a Pet Nation? Topics include a look at how animals became pets that fly on planes with us; how the transformation from working animals to pets was made; and how pets are now transforming the nation’s economy.

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Ep 1403 BABY'S HEAVY METAL FOOD

The Food Chain ·

2025/11/06

A decade-long study of baby food released by Healthy Babies – Bright Futures claims that 95% of commercial baby food contains heavy metals that can result in autism spectrum and attention-deficit disorders. And so we ask…Should grocers be allowed to sell baby foods that contain toxic heavy metals? Topics include how heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury pollute 95% of the nation’s baby food; what government and industry are doing to reduce the heavy metal pollution in baby food;

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Ep 1304 China: Eating Up America's Farmland?

The Food Chain ·

2025/10/30

Michael Olson with Washington State Congressman Dan NewhouseChina is buying up America’s farmland… with the money we send it to manufacture stuff for us in their coal-burning factories. Some say this a good deal because we don’t have to work in those factories. Others say it’s a bad deal because we are selling out our future. And so we ask: Should China be allowed to buy up America’s best farmland? Topics include why China is having trouble feeding its people; how China is buying up

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EP 1402 LOCALIZING - A GOOD FOOD PROJECT

The Food Chain ·

2025/10/22

Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Michele Thorne, Executive Director of The Good Meat ProjectGiven the economies of consolidation, 99% of chickens, 98% of hogs and 70% of cows are now grown and processed on industrial-scaled farms, most all of which use antibiotics, pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Topics include how the production of meat has been consolidated into the hands of very few, very big businesses; the consequence of that consolidation on the quality of food and

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Ep 1401 Horse: A Genetic Ride Back to the Beginning

The Food Chain ·

2025/10/05

Before the horse we walked everywhere, and it was a downright slog to get there. But 4,750 years ago, a mutant gene began working its way through the horse herds of the Eurasian Steppes. Then, about 800 years ago, Genghis Khan raced those horses throughout the World to conquer one and all. And so we ask:Have you ridden a horse? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Ludovic Orlando, Molecular Archaeologist, Founder of Anthropology & Genomics Institute, and Author of

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Ep. 1400 HONEY BEES V. VAMPIRE MITES

The Food Chain ·

2025/09/25

The fight is on for one-third of the food we eat. On one side is a ferocious vampire mite, on the other side is human ingenuity. The battleground is Apis mellifera – the Western Honeybee. This fight leads us to ask:Can human ingenuity save the honey bee and our food?

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Ep 1278 Eating out of Mental Dystopia

The Food Chain ·

2025/09/06

Michael Olson hosts Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, Co-Author, The Better BrainThe Golden State of California appears to be losing its collective mind. You can see evidence of that loss on the streets of San Francisco, and that leads us to ask: Can we eat our way out of mental dystopia? Topics include how San Francisco uses bureacracy to care for people who can’t care for themselves; how the bureacracy’s efforts always seem to exacerbate the problem; and whether nutrition might prove to be the real

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Ep 1250

The Food Chain ·

2025/08/28

7-11 BEGETS TRADER JOE'SMichael Olson with Benjamin Lorr, Author, The Secret Life of Groceries It is a $700 billion dollar a year business, and Americans spend about 2% of their lives shopping in them. Their story leads us to ask: How did 7-Eleven give rise to Trader Joes? Topics include the transformation of food into Store Keeping Units (SKUs); the transformation of general stores into supermarkets; and the story of how 7-Eleven gave rise to Trader Joes. |

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Ep 1322 Building a Better Bee

The Food Chain ·

2025/07/24

Caroline Yelle, Owner & Queen Bee, Pope Canyon QueensI happened to be watching a honey bee working over a lemon tree blossom on the 19th of July, when I realized that it was the first honey bee I have seen this year. That leads me to ask… Can we breed a bee that can survive us?

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Nutrition for Dystopia

The Food Chain ·

2025/07/16

The Golden State of California appears to be losing its collective mind. You can see the evidence of that loss on the streets of San Francisco, and that City-by-the-Bay leads us to ask:Can we eat our way out of dystopia? Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, Co-Author, The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition

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Ep 1398 Food Fight: Large Farms V. Small Farms

The Food Chain ·

2025/07/11

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Richard J. Sexton, Professor Emeritus, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of California Davis & Author of Food Fight: Misguided Policies, Supply Challenges, and the Impending Struggle to Feed a Hungry WorldIn 1973, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz told the nation’s farmers to, ”Get big or get out!” Many farmers did get big or got out. That leads us to ask: Are the nation’s small farms worth saving? Topics

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Ep. 242 Hr. 1. China Now 25.6.26

The Food Chain ·

2025/06/27

China Now: Friend or Foe? War or Peace?Hosts Michael Olson & Nan Su China tells Brazil Xi Jinping Will Miss Brics Summit in Rio Annual reshuffling of PLA Generals Putin will visit Beijing and join Xi Jinping for military marching on 9/3. CCP to curb fentanyl precursors Chinese gangsters arrested for shipping fentanyl precursors

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Ep. 1397 Eating the Earth?

The Food Chain ·

2025/06/27

Michael Olson hosts Michael Grunwald, Author of "We Are Eating The Earth"Some say the big problem is not fossil foods, it’s the food we eat! If what they say is true, we simply must ask: Are we really eating up the earth? Topics include why author Grunwald would say, “We are eating the earth;” how the production of food causes so much of the greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere; whether agriculture can be made to reduce its pollution.

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Recipe for Restaurateurs

The Food Chain ·

2025/06/21

Michael Olson hosts Bob Vergidis, Chief Visionary Officer, PointOfSale.CloudWhen, of a sudden, the $10 restaurant burger became a $20 burger, the battle for the remaining burger customers across the land became intense. This leads us to ask: What is today's recipe for restaurateur survival? Topics include the ingredients needed to cook up a successful restaurant; how successful restaurants manage food trends; and the significance of information in providing restaurant diner satisfaction.

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Ep 1394 Re-Seeding the Taste of City

The Food Chain ·

2025/06/06

Guests: Greg Peterson, Founder & CEO, Urban Farm.org & Belle Star, Co-Founder, SeedSchoolOnlineIn a deed, plant a seed, make a garden grow and transform the taste of city! And so we ask: Where can one obtain seeds to transform the taste of city? The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Greg Peterson, Founder & CEO of UrbanFarm.org and Belle Star, Co-Founder of SeedSchoolOnline, for a conversation about seeds and cities. Topics include how the commercial seed

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