Food Chain Radio Show #997  Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Grass Fed Beef Should beef be banned? Guest: Author, Rancher, Vegetarian Nicolette Hahn Niman Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production The federal government’s dietary guidelines, which govern school lunch and other

Food Chain Radio Show #996 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Industrial or Organic and Regenerative Farming Which agriculture is most productive: Industrial or Organic? Guests: UC Berkeley Conservation Biologist Lauren Ponisio This just in: USDA has approved Monsanto Corporation’s “Xtend” genetically-modified soybeans for commercial

Food Chain Radio Show #995 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Eating Out Who gets the money’s worth when we all eat out? Guests: Tom Bruce, Central Coast Food and Beverage They say we all, being average, spend $2,700 per year here in the United

Food Chain Radio Show #994 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Liquid Bread – Brewing Beer What kind of beer drinker are you? Guests: Amelia Slayton Loftus, Author Sustainable Homebrewing Throughout most of human history, beer was our liquid staff of life.  It was how

Food Chain Radio Show #993 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Greenpeace and Syngenta GMO Yellow Rice Is Sygenta’s GMO Golden Rice good rice? Guests: Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore, Allow Golden Rice Now; and Greenpeace Senior Scientist Janet Cotter, Greenpeace International Science  The image of

Food Chain Radio Show #992 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Pacific Tuna Protein War Who should control the catching of the Pacific’s Protein? Guest: Joe Hamby, COO of Tri Marine Group Adam Baske, Founder Sea Strong, LLC This just in:  The Government of

Food Chain Radio Show #991 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist BEGINNING FARMERS Who among you will step up to grow our food? Guest: Writer Lauren Markham, Orion Magazine Farmer Eliza Greenham, Legacy Fruit I had an interesting conversation with one of the nation’s premiere

Food Chain Radio Show #990 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist GOVERNMENT SAFE FOOD For whom will government’s proposed food safety rules make food safe? Guest: Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance Exec Director Judith McGeary  The industrial production of peanuts, cantaloupes, hamburger, spinach, and other foods

Food Chain Radio Show #989 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist FIRST BROWN, THEN GREEN Can we become green without first becoming brown? Guest: North Dakota Rancher Gabe Brown We have developed the ability to grow food without the organic processes of soil. In fact,

Food Chain Radio Show #988 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist FEEDING THE BILLIONS Which agriculture will feed the future: ecological or industrial? John Kempf, Advancing Eco Agriculture; Mischa Popoff, Heartland Institute Those who count say there are now 7.2 billion of us living here