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Show #554: Jan 17, 2016

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Industrialization has given rise to wonder breads in plastic bags, yet some still hunger for the old ways of fresh local breads. This leads one to ask, “What kind of hunger can only be satisfied with local breads?” Topics include why local

Show #782: SPYING ON WAL-MART Jan 17, 2016

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Wal-Mart now sells to the citizens of the United States more than one-fifth of their food, which is more than the combined sales of its three largest competitors. This leads us to ask…

Show #706: FOUNDING FOODIES Jan 17, 2016

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going… to the kitchen for food. Then along comes the holiday season and our escapism becomes an obsession that leads us to ask…

Show #630: PLAYING CHICKEN Jan 17, 2016

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Before radio, television or the internet, there were chickens, which came in hundreds of colors, shapes, and sizes, and were kept in flocks at family farms and city homes. This history leads us to ask…

Show #949:OUR OCEAN TRASH HEAPS Jan 17, 2016

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Out there in the Pacific Ocean, where the fish we will eat swim, there is a floating island of decomposing plastic trash the size of North America. This patch leads us to ask…

Show #963: PEOPLE VRS PATHOGENS Jan 17, 2016

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Topics include why agriculture employs antibiotics in the production of animal protein; what happens when those antibiotics pass into the environment; and what populations of bacteria in the environment do with the antibiotics fed them. Guests: Gautu

Show #779: YELLOW DRAGON DISEASE Jan 17, 2016

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Seems like everything comes from Asia these days-– some good, others bad. One of the bad is Huanglongbing, or Yellow Dragon Disease. This plant killer leads us to ask…

Show #924: MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT Jan 17, 2016

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We voted for a government that would protect us, but voted in a government that gave us the Monsanto Protection Act. And so we ask…

Show #910: THE POWER & PROTOCOLS TO POLICE Jan 17, 2016

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, under former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor, now has the power and the protocols to police food safety. This leads us to ask…

Show #993: GREEN VRS GREEN ON GOLDEN RICE Jan 17, 2016

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Topics include whether genetically-modified golden rice is a cure for blindness for millions of malnourished people, and therefore good rice, or whether it is a biotech industry Trojan Horse designed to foist GMOs unto the farmlands of unwilling nations

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