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Show #1091: Safely Substantially Equivalent! Feb 11, 2017

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If a GMO food crop is substanially equivalent to a non-GMO food crop, it is deemed safe to eat. But when a crop has been re-engineered to contain a pesticide, and to be drenched in herbicides, we wonder...

Show #1090: Of Sanctuary Cities & Lifeboat Ethics Feb 04, 2017

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Hundreds of millions, give or take, would like to clamber into the sanctuary of lifeboat USA. Given the condition of the waters in which they tread, who can blame them? Still, we wonder...

Show #1089: Lions in the Hood! Feb 02, 2017

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Topics include the extent to which people, pumas and prey live in close proximity; how all are adjusting to living together; and whether people, as the apex predator, can live in harmony with other predators and their prey. Guest: Justine Smith, Doct

Show #1088: Winter is for Conferring! Jan 21, 2017

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Winter is the time to sort seeds and confer on a new growing season at one of the many farm conferences around the nation. One such conference, EcoFarm, brings together like minded ecofarmers from around the world, and they lead us to ask....

Show #1087: Drain the Swamp? Jan 14, 2017

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Topics include a look at the workings of USDA, an agency with a $19 billion budget that grows nothing and sells nothing; who and what enjoys the largess of the USDA; and whether the USDA needs, as some assert, to be drained. Guest: James Bovard, Autho

Show #1086: To Subsidize Or Not to Subsize Jan 07, 2017

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The federal government has subsidized the biofuel industry with tax credits and price supports. The tax credit expired December 31, and its renewal is pending before the new president and congress. And so we ask...

Show #1085: Chiropractor to the Stars' Animals Dec 31, 2016

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Animals, like people, have physical bodies that occasionally need repair. One way to repair a body is through the alopathy of drugs and surgery; the alternative way is through the chiropractic laying on of hands. This leads us to wonder...

Show #1084: Better with Butter? Dec 17, 2016

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It is the ultimate saturated fat, and for generations we have been told by noted and respected authorities to avoid eating saturated fats. But some of us simply could not help ourselves, and so we ask...

Show #1083: A Green-Gold Landrush Dec 10, 2016

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Topics include how legal cannabis might be grown in the U.S; what kind of farmland would produce the best cannabis products; and how cannabis farmland will be valued, given the legal restrictions that will likely be placed on production. Guest: Calif

Show #1082: Avalanche of Autism Dec 03, 2016

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In 1981, one child in 10,000 was autistic. Today, one child in 50 is autistic. Many say vaccines are the cause of austism spectrum disorder. Many others disagree. And so we ask...

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