Food Chain Radio Show #987 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist EATING WORDS What can food words teach about human history? Guest: Stanford University Professor Dan Jurafsky and Author, The Language of Food  It first appeared back in ancient China as a fermented fish suace called ke-tchup,

Food Chain Radio Show #986 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist BILLIONAIRE BILL’S IMITATION MEAT BURGERS Can real burgers survive competition from imitation burgers? Guests: David Peterson, Owner Corralitos Market and Sausage Company  They say meat is environmentally and politically incorrect, and so billionaires like Bill Gates and Li

Food Chain Radio Show #985 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist THE RED DELICIOUS & THE APPLE VARIETIES PARADOX Why does a food so beautiful taste so bad? Guest: Professor Apple – Tom Burford, Author, Apples of North America  It is a broken promise. It

Food Chain Radio Show #984 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist A BILLION POUNDS OF PESTICIDES Are pesticides safe? Guests: Andre Leu, President, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements  and Author, The Myths of Safe Pesticides  Agriculture in the United States now uses a billion pounds­– give

Food Chain Radio Show #983 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist URBAN FARMING! IN SAN FRANCISCO? Can farms be made to grow in city of San Francisco? Guests: San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu & San Francisco Recreation and Parks General Manager Phil Ginsburg Smith The assignment was to write

Food Chain Radio Show #982 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist OUR BILLION DOLLAR TRASH CAN Should government force school children to eat healthy food?   Guests: Kyle Olson, Education Action Group; Chef Jamie Smith, Food Smith The Crisis:  Parents in the United States are

Food Chain Radio Show #980 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist FOOD VALUES: TO FEED A CHILD TO 18 Where can one get the most food value for the least food dollars? Guest: Lauren Greutman, Home Economist and Mother of Four   This just in

Food Chain Radio Show #980 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Farming in the Great California Drought   Guest: Michael Marsh, Executive Director, Western United Dairymen The Golden State of California is suffering through its third year of severe drought, and like a plum drying

Food Chain Radio Show #979 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist RURAL HUNGER AFFAIRS  Guest: John Crabtree, Center for Rural Affairs The grandparents farm never did make much money, but it did produce the best kind of food imaginable. When the children grew up and left

Food Chain Radio Show #978 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist THE 10,000 MILE DIET! Which food is the economically most efficient: Local or industrial?   Guest: University of Toronto Professor Pierre Desrochers, Author of The Locavore’s Dilemma For most of our existence, we ate food grown