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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 1412 Rocky Oaks Goats - Just Kidding!

The Food Chain ·

2026/02/21

No kidding! It's true. Having had to catch a plane and fly away, we missed kiddentine in California's great Central Valley. Our loss leads us to ask: Have you had the opportunity to play with the kids? The 1412th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Margie Weber, Co-Owner, Rocky Oaks Goat Creamery, for a conversation about raising goats in a vertically integrated dairy. Topics include why goat dairy; the raising of goats in a semi-rural environment; and the selling

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Ep 1411 The Snack Chips Man

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2026/02/06

Along the Food Chain with Michael Olson…#1411 The Snack Chips Man Jake Stenton, President Natural Bridges Company You stand in front of the grocer’s selection of snack chips and think, ‘A penny’s worth of potato in a bag that costs a buck!’ We Americans eat about $50 billion dollars worth of snack chips every year. That pencils out to about $167 per person per year. And the price of those bags of snack chips keeps going through the roof. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor

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Episode 272 Hour One

The Food Chain ·

2026/01/29

China Now, 26.1.29, Hour 1Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson CCP Coup Attempt at Zhongnanhai / A Trap is Sprung

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Episode 272

The Food Chain ·

2026/01/29

China Now 26.1.29 Hour 2 Gang of Two: Michael Olson & Nan Su CCP Coup Attempt at Zhanganhai, Xi gets away!

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The Bee Strategy

The Food Chain ·

2026/01/24

The 1410th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael OlsonGuest: Matt Mulica, Senior Project Director, Keystone Policy Center Imagine being in a business that loses 55 percent of its business in one year, and nearly that much in the previous year. Such is the state of the North American beekeeper. And so we ask: Is there a strategy to save the honey bee and its keepers? The 1410th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Matt Mulica, Senior Project

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China Now 271 Hour One 25.1.22

The Food Chain ·

2026/01/22

Nan Su & Michael Olson President Donald Trump invades Davos and conquers Greenland.

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China Now Hour 2 - 25.1.22

The Food Chain ·

2026/01/22

Michael Olson & Nan Su Which will Xi Jinping invade first: Taiwan or Siberia?

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Ep 1409 Healing With Homeopathy

The Food Chain ·

2026/01/20

Michael Olson with Dr. Jeff Lester, Director, Trilogy Medical Center for Integrative MedicineBest laid plans! When the government threw its food plate out the door and turned its food pyramid upside down, I called my doctor for his opinion on how the new food recommendations will affect our health. Instead, Dr. Jeff Lester took me on a fascinating tour of healing with homeopathy. And so I asked, How does one heal the intractable diseases of modern times with homeopathy?

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Ep 270 China Now with Nan Su & Michael Olson

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2026/01/15

*. Arrest of Trump changes Taiwan invasion plans * China stands to lose Billions on Venezuela *. What is next for Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Russia and China

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Ep 1408 Living the Restaurateur Dream

The Food Chain ·

2026/01/07

There are approximately 12.35 million people employed in the restaurant and food service industry. Chances are good most of them, at one time or another, dreamed of owning a successful restaurant. This “Restaurateur Dream” leads us to ask: Which is most important in determining the long-term viability of a restaurant: food, service or location? The 1408th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Erick and Brian Johnson, the father & son owners of the Erik's

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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

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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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