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Show #795: RIGHT TO KNOW FEEDING FRENZY Jan 17, 2016

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They are spending over $40 million to convince Californians to deny themselves the right to know about genetically-modified organisms in their food. This leads one to ask…

Show #723: LOCAL FOOD REBELLION Jan 17, 2016

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In the name of food safety, the federal government has taken total control of what we may feed each other. Sedgewick, Maine, has rebelled and passed the nation’s first “Food Sovereignty” law. This rebellion leads us to ask…

Show #663: GENTICALLY-ENGINEERED ORGANICS Jan 17, 2016

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They are married with children: She is the chair of the UC Davis Plant Genetics Lab and he teaches at the UC Davis Organic Farm. Their suggestion of a future filled with genetically-engineered organic foods leads us to ask…

Show #773: GOD'S GREEN GAS Jan 17, 2016

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It is the match made in heaven: Plants breathe carbon dioxide and emit oxygen; people breathe oxygen and emit carbon dioxide. Some now say this relationship has gone astray, and so we ask…

Show #974: MARTHA'S PITCHFORK REBELLION Jan 17, 2016

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Guests: Virginia farmer Martha Boneta and Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund President Pete Kennedy

Show #945: MAO'S GREAT LEAP Jan 17, 2016

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When Chairman Mao ordered China to take a great leap forward toward pure communism, 45 to 60 million Chinese were worked, beaten and starved to death. Mao’s great leap leads us to ask…

Show #943: LOSING ONE BILLION YEARS Jan 17, 2016

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The journal Obesity suggests Americans alive today can expect to collectively sacrifice one billion years of life to obesity. This leads us to ask…

Show #533: Jan 17, 2016

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The Year of the Pig has returned to China. This year, however, Chinese censors have requested that the pig totem be downplayed so as not to offend Muslims. This leads one to ask: “Why did the pig become a political animal?” Topics include

Show #484 : Local or Organic? Jan 17, 2016

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Some say we should eat foods that are organic. Others say we should eat foods that are local. This leads us to ask, “Which is most important: organic or local?” Topics include why it is important to know how food is produced; how organic f

Show #763: BILLIONS OF BUGS Jan 17, 2016

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The foods we eat, if not sterilized to death, contain billions and trillions and maybe even zillions of foreign microorganisms. That we consume the genes of all those bugs without harm leads some to ask…

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