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Show #1208: Some Like It Sichuan Hot! Oct 29, 2019

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My family was served an entre nearly five decades ago at a Sichuan Restaurant that was said to be one of the seven best in the world. That we all remember that dish as if it were yesterday leads us to ask:

Show #1207 :Food Bullying Bull Speak Oct 25, 2019

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Where a big box store might sell a gallon of milk for $3, an upscale natural food store might sell a gallon for $8. To sell the milk, each store must present an argument as to why theirs is the best value. This leads us to ask:

Show #1206: Strawberry Fields– But Not Forever! Oct 16, 2019

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Farming strawberries was an itinerant business, but then settled down in coastal California to become a $5 billion dollar a year industry. Given such bounty, we ask: Why do farmworkers call the strawberry “fruit of the devil?”

Show #1205: A Heroine of the Heroin Epidemic Oct 10, 2019

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More than 500,000 Americans have succumbed to opiods over the past decade and a half, and over a hundred continue to die every day. This leads us to ask:

Show #1204: Myths of Agriculture Oct 02, 2019

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Many things said about modern agriculture are myth. One such myth is that large scale agriculture feeds the world. These myths lead us to ask:

Show #1203: Fighting Fraudulent Food Sep 23, 2019

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They sold it as “organic,” but it was not organic at all! And they sold it as “clean,” but it was not clean at all! And so we ask:

Show #1202 : Sep 17, 2019

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Some of our voices have been lost. The voices belong to those who advocate for alternative health. The loss of their voices leads us to ask: Why are the voices of alternative health being lost?

Show #1201: The Fountain of Youth Fast Sep 08, 2019

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Autophagy is the process by which our body renews itself by eating itself. Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for figuring out how autophagy works. His discovery leads us to ask: Can we manage the renewal of our body without the use

Show #1200: The Most Equal Pigs Sep 04, 2019

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In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, we hear Napolean the Pig proclaim, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Today we ask: Where can we find the animals that are most equal of all?

Show #1199: The Lunch Lady Rebellion Aug 22, 2019

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We’ve all been there, and eaten that! And that would be the food we ate at the hands of … school lunch ladies. Thinking back at the taste of all those school lunches, we ask:

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