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Show #1139: Recovering Opioid Nation Feb 24, 2018

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Topics include how people become addicted to opiates and opioids; the point at which they elect to overcome their addiction; and how a professional helps an addict recover. Guest:Psychotherapist Elisa Dakiwag, Clinical Manager, Janus Addiction Treatme

Show #1138: Opioid Nation Feb 17, 2018

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Topics include how people become addicted to opioids; the extent to which that addiction governs their lives, the lives of family and friends, and their community; and whether addiction can be prevented or treated. Guest:Bradley DeHaven, Author How to

Show #1137: The Science of Eating What We Eat Feb 10, 2018

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Topics include how and why our senses, mind and environment impact our experience of food; how food alters our physiology, mood and behavior; and what the science of molecular gastronomy might offer for the future of our eating. Guest: Neuroscientist

Show #1136: Decolonizing the Food Chain Feb 08, 2018

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Topics include a look at how the food system has become colonized by very large businesses; how those businesses maintain control of the food system; and how the food system might be decolonized to allow small businesses to survive and prosper. Guests

Show #1135 : Jan 27, 2018

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Topics include a look at the times that transformed children of the greatest generation into rebellious hippies; how that rebellion led hippies to new ways of ways of eating; and how those hippie ways of eating transformed how America eats. Guest:Jonat

Show #1134 : Jan 20, 2018

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When animals joined us at the campfire those many milleniums ago, they sold their freedom for our care, provisions and protection. That transaction leads us to ask: What did we get by domesticating wild animals?

Show #1133: Capitalism or Socialism? Jan 13, 2018

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Topics include a look at how capitalism drives our global food system; why he suggests capitalism is feeding us so much trouble; and what alternatives might exist to power agriculture. Guest: Eric Holt Gimenez, author of A Foodies Guide to Capitalism,

Show #1132: Where's the Beef... Going? Dec 19, 2017

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Topics include a look at the competitive position of American beef in a market of open borders; why China is buying Montana beef, when it can buy beef for less elsewhere; and to whom will the good beef go in the future. Guests: Bryan Mussard, Presiden

Show #1131: Chewing Our Way to Today Dec 09, 2017

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Topics include a look at the conditions that gave rise to hominid teeth; how those teeth enabled hominids to become humans adapted to the variability of the world; and how that evolution is speeding up into modern times.

Show #1130: California's Green Gold Rush IV: Consequences Dec 02, 2017

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Guest: Fred Krissman, Research Associate, Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research, Emerald Triangle

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