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Show #766: GREEN PLANTS & BLUE BABIES Jan 17, 2016

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Water runs downhill. This is a problem for environmentalists and farmers. Environmentalists say water running off farms contaminates the environment and may turn babies blue; farmers say it’s impossible to prevent water from running off their farms

Show #674: BLACK FARMER REPARATIONS Jan 17, 2016

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The Federal Government has admitted to discriminating against black farmers and taxpayers must now pay $1,250,000,000 to make good. These reparations lead us to ask…

Show #523: BIG FOOD Jan 17, 2016

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Industrial agriculture has been taking the hits lately, with books like Omnivore’s Dilemma, Fast Food Nation and Appetite for Profit throwing the punches. This leads us to ask, “Can big food do the right thing?” Topics include what rel

#1020: Feds vrs States on GMO Labeling Jan 17, 2016

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Guests: Open Microphone

Show #565: KING CORN Jan 17, 2016

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While the heart has reasons that reason does not understand, the heartland has corn– 80 million acres of corn. This leads us to ask, "Should we subsidize corn?" Topics include why our food chain was transformed from one based on grass to

Show #985: THE RED DELICIOUS PARADOX Jan 17, 2016

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Guests: The Professor of Agriculture, Tom Burford, Author of Apples of North America

Show #587: MEXIFORNIA Jan 17, 2016

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We feed ourselves with the cheap labor of foreign hands. But this leads us to ask, “How expensive is cheap labor?” Topics include how immigration is changing the social fabric of California and the United States, how immigrant labor from La

Show #1,000: FARMING FOR THE CITY Jan 17, 2016

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Topics include the fundamental strategy for successful metropolitan farming; which crops are most appropriate, and most profitable; and a look a successful metropolitan farms. Guest: Michael Olson, Author, MetroFarm, Host, Food Chain Radio

Show #934: BUGGING OUT Jan 17, 2016

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An estimated 80 of the world’s population is entomophager, which is to say, bug eating. This leads us to ask…

Show #986: Billionaire Bill's Replica Burgers Jan 17, 2016

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Topics include why, to many, animal protein has become environmentally and politically incorrect; the forthcoming competition between animal protein and replica protein; and what consumers can do to shape the outcome of this competition for their food d

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