Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist KNEADING SOME DOUGH Which is most important: food safety or food sovereignty? Guest:  Mark Stambler, Pagnol Boulanger Knead water, salt, yeast and flour together and what do you get?  The food safety police. At least, that was what

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist A GMO STOMACH STUDY Who is telling the truth about the safety of GMOs in our food? Guest:  Howard Vlieger, Crop and Livestock Nutrition Advisor  There have been many studies as to the safety of genetically modified organisms

 Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist GMO Free Cheerios Should General Mills reveal whether its foods contain GMOs? Guest:  Gregory Conko, Executive Director, Competitive Enterprise Institute  If you knew the oats contained were GMOs, would you go for the “toasted oat goodness of Cheerios?”

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Feeding the 60 Million Who will feed the 60 millions should government go belly up? Guest:  Rachel Sheffield, Policy Analyst, DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation  According to Jack Kerouac, the Naked Lunch title he suggested

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Sowing Cannabis normalica What will we reap when we sow Cannabis normalica?   Guest:  Erik Altieri, Communications Director, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)  We have not seen “normal” since the United States outlawed the plant genus Cannabis in

Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist OF AUTISM, ANIMAL WELFARE & DR. TEMPLE GRANDIN How should we treat the animals we are to eat? Guest:  Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University  This from the book of Genesis: And God said,

Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist EATING DISORDERS Can one bring an eating disorder back into order? Guest:  Dr. Elizabeth Esalen from the Lotus Collaborative   Some of us eat to live.  Others live to eat.  The rest of us have lost control of eating.

Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist SOIL, FOOD AND FAITH Can soil and food feed one’s faith?   Guest:  Fred Bahnson, Director of the Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative, and author of Soil and Sacrament   Some time ago, I hosted an edition of the

Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist OUR OCEAN GARBAGE PATCHES Is it possible to throw plastic away?   Guest:  Captain Charles Moore, Founder The Algalita Marine Research Institute Out there in the oceans of the world, where the life we will eat sometime in

Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist THE CROP DUSTER: FLYING IT ON Are crop dusters now essential to agriculture?   Guest:  Bert Atwood, Author of My Father Was A Crop Duster   To succeed in the business of farming, one must, to the extent possible,