Food Chain Radio Show #1190 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Big Bayer Monsanto Bet! Guest: Mischa Popoff, Author, Is It Organic Monsanto’s weedkiller glyphosate, which is best known by its trade name Roundup, has become ubiquitous. In the most recent survey by the Environmental

Food Chain Radio Show #1189 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Guilty Eaters and Food Ethics Guest: Cindy Glover, Data Analyst, Crestline Promotional Products When a press release passed by my desk titled, “Americans Don’t Care About “Organic” Labels,” it most certainly caught my attention. ‘Oh!,’

Food Chain Radio Show #1188 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Taming the Wild West Guest: David Wolman, Co-Author, Aloha Rodeo As a native son of Montana, I grew up immersed in the cowboy culture that tamed the wild west. Uncle Walt was the scion of

Food Chain Radio Show #1187 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Sheer Madness of Cannabusiness! Guest: Jim Coffis, Co-Founder and Deputy Director of Green Trade Santa Cruz In 1936 a movie directed by Louis Gasnier hit the silver screen entitled “Reefer Madness.” The story

Food Chain Radio Show #1186 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Watered Down Organic! Guest: Dave Chapman, Real Organic Project There is a lot of money in the word organic – $50 billion dollars a year – and that’s just here in the USA. The reason

Food Chain Radio Show #1182 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Women and Grizzly Bears Guest: Trina Bradley, VP, Marias River Livestock Ass., President, North Country CattleWomen, & Director of Montana Cattlewomen  & Malou Anderson-Ramirez, B Bar Ranch, Partner and Guide, The Common Ground Project / Founder, Tom

Food Chain Radio Show #1181 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Cows and Climate Guest: Frank Mitloehner, Professor of Animal Science University of California, Davis Having been raised under the Big Skies of Montana, I came to know the cow as the animal that converts unusable grass

Food Chain Radio Show #1180 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist  Food Microbiology and the Microbes That Come To Dinner Guests: Paul Dawson, Professor of Food Systems, Clemson University; and Brian Sheldon, Professor Emeritus of Food Microbiology / North Carolina State – Co-Authors of Did You Just Eat That?

Food Chain Radio Show #1179 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Eating for Healthy Skin Guest: Pharmacist Ben Fuchs Senators Dianne Feinstein and Susan Collins have introduced the Personal Care Products Safety Act to, they say, protect consumers’ health, create uniform safety rules, strengthen the

Food Chain Radio Show #1178 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Heart Disease and Eating for the Heart Guest: Dr. Jay Johnson, Cardiovascular Associates of Santa Cruz This just in from the American Heart Association:  Half of all U.S. adults have some form of cardiovascular