Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist CHINA ORGANIC CERTIFICATION How much of the organic food we eat in the U.S. is contaminated with China’s toxic heavy metals? Guest: Patty Lovera, Assistant Director, Food & Water Watch Here is a math problem for you… If

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Become a Chef What are the odds of a good cook becoming a successful chef? Guest: Chef Enzo Fargione, Author, Visual Eats We love good food.  We love cooking for family and friends.  So, given our love

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist SPICES OF LIFE How have spices spiced up history? Guest: Gary Paul Nabhan, PHD Author, Cumin, Camels, and Caravans Like many, if not most, I came to take spices for granted.  Whenever my food needed a lift, I reached

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist THE FOOD IGNORANCE COVENANT Should we learn the stories of our food? Guest: Ann Vileisis, Author of Kitchen Literacy When we lived on or close to the land, we knew the stories about the foods we ate.  We

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Bacterial Resistance: People Vrs Pathogens How do bacteria learn to resist antibiotics? Guest:  Gautam Dantas, PhD Assistant Professor,  Washington University School of Medicine, Dept. Pathology and Immunology; Dept. Biomedical Engineering; Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology   To

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Farming Nutrients – the Lost Food Can farming return the nutrients missing from food? Guest:  Daphne Miller, M.D., author of The Jungle Effect and Farmacology Following in the footsteps of Weston A. Price, physician Daphne Miller went looking

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Decertifying the United Farm Workers UFW Should government count the vote to decertify the UFW? Guest:  Silvia Lopez, Farm Worker, Gerawan Farms The great state of California is now a one-party state controlled, for the most, by its labor

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist MAN OR BEAST? Which animal is most cruel: man or beast? Guest:  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author of Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil We sit transfixed as right there on one

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson        Urban Farming Agriculturalist STOP AG THEFT Can the stealing be stopped? Guest:  Sheriff’s Sargeant Michael Chapman, Fresno County Ag Task Force Imagine all the gold in Fort Knox sitting unguarded out in the open for all who pass

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