Food Chain Radio Show #1241 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Big Ag Collapse? Guests: Tom Philpott, Author, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It The good Lord gave America the world’s best environment in which to grow food,

Food Chain Radio Show #1240 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Agriculture Aviation and Covid-19 – USA’s Flying Farmers Guests: Neil Ritchie, Senior Advisor, Main Street Project and Colby Ferguson, Government Affairs Director Maryland Farm Bureau The Made in China pandemic is wreaking economic havoc throughout our

Food Chain Radio Show #1239 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Diestel vs Goliath and the Family Turkey Guest: Heidi Diestel Orrock, CEO, Diestel Turkeys In the 1239th edition of the Food Chain, we learned how many of the nation’s poultry farmers have become serfs

Food Chain Radio Show #1238 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Fountain of Youth Growing Young, Again! Guest: Marta Zaraska, Author, Growing Young – What can we feed our body to grow young? We love the promise of pills. And spend more on the pills that promise

Food Chain Radio Show #1236 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Bayer AG Big Monsanto Buy Guest: Mischa Popoff, Author, Is It Organic? In 2015, the World Health Organization declared that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, was a probable cause of cancer. In

Food Chain Radio Show #1236 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Glyphosate and Covid-19? Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory When the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer purchased the U.S. seed company Monsanto for $63 billion dollars, many wondered

Food Chain Radio Show #1235 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Up Against Goliath IV: David Guest: Vara Prasad, Professor of Crop Ecophysiology & Director, Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab, Kansas State University I was at the big box store the other day stocking up on

Food Chain Radio Show #1234 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Up Against Goliath III: The Bullying Guests: Amanda Hitt, Director of Government Accountability Project’s Food Integrity Campaign & Judith McGeary, Executive Director Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance We all saw what happened because it happened right before

Food Chain Radio Show #1233 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Up Against Goliath II: The Rules Guest: Erica Smith, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice It seemed to me like big business had it all figured out. What I saw during the Covid-19 pandemic panic was

Food Chain Radio Show #1232 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Up Against Goliath I: The Bribes Guest: Claire Kelloway, Researcher & Reporter Open Markets Institute It seemed to me that some very big people had it all figured out. But of course, I might be