Food Chain Radio Show #994 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Liquid Bread – Brewing Beer What kind of beer drinker are you? Guests: Amelia Slayton Loftus, Author Sustainable Homebrewing Throughout most of human history, beer was our liquid staff of life.  It was how

Food Chain Radio Show #993 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Greenpeace and Syngenta GMO Yellow Rice Is Sygenta’s GMO Golden Rice good rice? Guests: Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore, Allow Golden Rice Now; and Greenpeace Senior Scientist Janet Cotter, Greenpeace International Science  The image of

Food Chain Radio Show #992 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Pacific Tuna Protein War Who should control the catching of the Pacific’s Protein? Guest: Joe Hamby, COO of Tri Marine Group Adam Baske, Founder Sea Strong, LLC This just in:  The Government of

Food Chain Radio Show #991 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist BEGINNING FARMERS Who among you will step up to grow our food? Guest: Writer Lauren Markham, Orion Magazine Farmer Eliza Greenham, Legacy Fruit I had an interesting conversation with one of the nation’s premiere

Food Chain Radio Show #990 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist GOVERNMENT SAFE FOOD For whom will government’s proposed food safety rules make food safe? Guest: Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance Exec Director Judith McGeary  The industrial production of peanuts, cantaloupes, hamburger, spinach, and other foods

Food Chain Radio Show #988 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist FEEDING THE BILLIONS Which agriculture will feed the future: ecological or industrial? John Kempf, Advancing Eco Agriculture; Mischa Popoff, Heartland Institute Those who count say there are now 7.2 billion of us living here

Food Chain Radio Show #987 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist EATING WORDS What can food words teach about human history? Guest: Stanford University Professor Dan Jurafsky and Author, The Language of Food  It first appeared back in ancient China as a fermented fish suace called ke-tchup,

Food Chain Radio Show #986 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist BILLIONAIRE BILL’S IMITATION MEAT BURGERS Can real burgers survive competition from imitation burgers? Guests: David Peterson, Owner Corralitos Market and Sausage Company  They say meat is environmentally and politically incorrect, and so billionaires like Bill Gates and Li

Food Chain Radio Show #985 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist THE RED DELICIOUS & THE APPLE VARIETIES PARADOX Why does a food so beautiful taste so bad? Guest: Professor Apple – Tom Burford, Author, Apples of North America  It is a broken promise. It

Food Chain Radio Show #984 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist A BILLION POUNDS OF PESTICIDES Are pesticides safe? Guests: Andre Leu, President, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements  and Author, The Myths of Safe Pesticides  Agriculture in the United States now uses a billion pounds­– give