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Show #1189: Guilty Eaters Jun 05, 2019

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Buying a chicken sandwich at the drive up could mean one is supporting a company that promotes traditional family values, and while eating that sandwich may be right, or wrong, it does lead us to ask: How do we decide which food is right and which is wro

Show #1188: Taming the Wild West May 29, 2019

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They came to take advantage of a new frontier. Land, plentiful and cheap, was incentive to grow. And grow they did. In a few short years, they tamed the wild out of the west, and that leads us to ask:

Show #1187: The Sheer Madness of Cannabusiness! May 22, 2019

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After being prohibited for the the best part of a century, the plant known as Cannabis is now open for business… but only in some places! This leads us to ask: Can reefer madness be turned into a sustainable industry?

Show #1186: Soil Free Organic May 15, 2019

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What’s in a word? Well, if that word was “organic,” back in 1990, there was something made of carbon. If that word is organic, today, there is well over $50 billion dollars. All that money leads us to ask: Will it be possible to keep

Show #1185: What happened to bread? May 15, 2019

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We have been living on bread for 10,000 years. But now, of a sudden, we seem to be becoming intolerant of our staff of life. And so we ask: Are we running ourselves out of bread?

Show #1184: HUNTING TO SAVE WILDLIFE May 15, 2019

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A condrum for those of us who love the great outdoors: Much of the wildlands we love traipsing about have been funded by those who love to hunt the wildlife that live in those wild lands. But the numbers of those hunters has been steadily declining for

Show #1183: Politics of the Food Chain May 15, 2019

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There was a time, not too long ago, when most everyone was a farmer. But then technology brought industrialization and scale. Today very few farmers feed most all of the people, but that leads us to ask: Who will feed us if technology fails?

Show #1182: Women, With Grizzlies! Apr 10, 2019

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Anyone who has ever grown a plant, animal, bird or fish, knows that one must contend with pests. And so we ask, "How does one contend when the pests in the garden are grizzly bears?

Show #1181: CLIMATE KILLING COWS Apr 04, 2019

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Cows convert unusable grass into usable food. But now we are told not to eat that food because cows are destroying the climate. We wonder, are cows killing the climate?

Show #1180 : Mar 28, 2019

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Guests: Paul Dawson, Professor of Food Systems, Clemson University &Brian Sheldon, Professor Emeritus of Food Microbiology / North Carolina State

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