Food Chain Radio Show #1125 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Local Distillery Guest: Sean Venus Owner & Distiller, Venus Spirits Can local distillers successfully compete in a marketplace dominated by multinational distillers? While looking for a new taste among the selection of distilled spirits offered

  Food Chain Radio Show #1124 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Big Bucks In Nestle Bottled Water Guest: Miranda Fox, Campaign Manager, The Story of Stuff The municipal tap water of Flint, Michigan is said to be very bad, and few trust it enough to

  Food Chain Radio Show #1123 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Kellogg Foundation Politics Guest: Journalist Warner Todd Huston Is the W.K. Kellogg Foundation stealing from children? It’s one of the best business plans ever: Put a nickels’ worth of grain in a box with

  Food Chain Radio Show #1122 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Eyewitness Venezuela Guest: Francisco Valencia President, Codevida Why did Venezuela run out of money? In terms of proven oil reserves, Venezuela is the wealthiest nation in the world. Yet news accounts abound of a Venezuela

  Food Chain Radio Show #1121 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Deliberate Bureaucratic Terrorism? Guests: David McCumber Editor, The Montana Standard and Bart Riley Proprietor, Riley Meats Bart Riley is the third-generation of proprietor of Riley Meats, a specialty meat processor in Butte, Montana. Riley Meats is

Food Chain Radio Show #1120 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Food Fraud Guest: Larry Olmsted Author: Real Food Fake Food While pedaling a bicycle about Japan, I would often stop at small village restaurants for a meal. Though I could not read or write Japanese, I

Food Chain Radio Show #1119 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Political Food Activism Guests: Julie Guthman, PhD, Author  The New Food Activism Lady Justice holds a scale to weigh relative merits, and wears a blindfold to maintain impartiality. Lady Social Justice, should someone care to

Food Chain Radio Show #1118 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Organic Hydroponics? Guests: Dave Chapman, Long Wind Farm & Karen Archipley, Archi’s Acres Organic is not easy… Farming high value specialty crops organically is difficult and messy. Consider strawberries, for one example. First, you must

Food Chain Radio Show #1117 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Split the FDA into FA and DA? Guest: Dr. Renee Dufault Author, Unsafe At Any Meal Something is not right… Over the past 40 years, American men have lost 59.3 percent of their total sperm count,

  Food Chain Radio Show #1116 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Of Bad Things In Good Food Guest: Dr. Renee Dufault Author, Unsafe At Any Meal In the last couple of weeks… High levels of phthalates were found in 10