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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 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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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

The Food Chain ·

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

The Food Chain ·

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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