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Show #784: GREEN WITHOUT BROWN? Jan 17, 2016

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If nutrients are not in our soil, they will not be in our crops. If nutrients are not in our crops, they will not be in our body. This leads us to ask…

Show #920: EXOGENOUS SEMIOTIC ENTROPY: Jan 17, 2016

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Farmers use 200 million pounds of the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) every year to grow food without weeds. This leads us to ask…

Show #508: Hemp's High Hurdle Jan 17, 2016

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They say it's a $250,000,000 crop waiting to be planted--but there is one hurdle. It is illegal. This leads one to ask, "Should the United States legalize the cultivation of 'industrial' hemp?" Topics include what differences exist, if any, between hem

Show #514: WAL-MARTING ORGANICS Jan 17, 2016

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Wal-Mart recently announced it will greatly expand its offering of organic foods, and will price organic only slightly higher than conventional. This leads some to ask, “Will Wal-Mart wal-mart organics?” Topic include... the short history

Show #573: MARK ON THE BEAST III Jan 17, 2016

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o stop animal diseases, like avian flu, from sweeping through the nation’s 1.4 million farms, the Federal government has established a National Animal Identification System. NAIS asks all farmers and hobbyists who husband animals to voluntarily reg

Show #651: PAVLOV'S GOAT Jan 17, 2016

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When his goats ate the woodrat houses, instead of blackbrush shrubs, and became high-performace goats, Fred asked…

Show #909: FORGETTING THE PAST Jan 17, 2016

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Santayana was thinking of people when he remarked, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But could not the same be said of plants? This thought leads us to ask…

Show #499: Real or Fake? Jan 17, 2016

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It's the law of the land! The more valuable an object, the more likely someone will counterfeit it. This leads one to ask, "What's in those pills?" Topics include a look why prescription drugs are being counterfeited; the ways in which individuals and

Show #569: WHO'S IN CHARGE? Jan 17, 2016

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Consider Michael Olson's Irrefutable Law of the Food Chain #2: The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food. And so we ask, “Who is in charge of food safety?” Topics include the dis

Show #731: People, Pests & Poisons Jan 17, 2016

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We fear dirty rats, and so endeavor to kill them with poison. Our poison, however, also kills creatures that prey on rats, which means there are ever more rats to poison, which leads us to ask…

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