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Show #623: THE MISSING FOOD IN OUR FOOD Jan 17, 2016

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A substantial percentage of the minerals, vitamins and protein in our food crops has simply disappeared over the past 50 years. This leads us to ask…

Show #551: Buffalo in the House! Jan 17, 2016

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Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam. Wait, what’s this… a buffalo in the house? Topics include why buffalo were slaughtered to near extinction; how, in the 1850’s, a Texas rancher and wife saved the great herd from extinction;

Show #913: Jan 17, 2016

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Former Monsanto exective Michael Taylor is now the nation’s Food Safety Czar. His 1,200 pages of new food safety rules lead us to ask…

Show #682: THE HANDS OF CHILDREN Jan 17, 2016

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Some say they are too young to work and must be protected with federal legislation until they grow up; others suggest if they are deprived of that work they may never grow up. And so we ask…

Show #664: WILL THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SURViVE? Jan 17, 2016

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They turned off the water to the San Joaquin Valley, putting hundreds of thousands of acres and tens of thousands of people out of work. Now they are challenging Sacramento Valley water contracts dating back to the 1880s. Their work on behalf of endange

Show #602: DEFIANT GARDENERS Jan 17, 2016

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When times get tough, the tough get growing… gardens. From the trenches of World War I, to the Warsaw ghetto and Japanese internment camps of World War II, to the desert sands of Iraq, individuals have turned ruin into garden. And so we ask…

Show #510: Food or Fuel? Jan 17, 2016

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As we move from an economy fueled by hydrocarbons to one fueled by carbohydrates we pause to ask: “Which will come first, food or fuel?” Topics include the extent to which natural resources are being diverted from food to energy production;

Show #983: Farms! In San Francisco? Jan 17, 2016

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Topics include why San Francisco elected to encourage urban agriculture; what steps the city is taking to encourage urban farms and farmers; and what changes the city hopes to affect on its landscape and its residents. Guests: San Francisco Superviso

Show #677: HOW ORGANIC IS ORGANIC? Jan 17, 2016

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The giants of industrial agriculture saw the light and became organic. To determine how organic they became, the government audited its National Organic Program. This audit leads us to ask…

Show #560: Got (Organic) Milk? Jan 17, 2016

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The Cornucopia Institute claims that Aurora Organic Dairy sells milk that is not really organic. Aurora, which produces private label organic milk for Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and Safeway, claims that its milk is indeed organic, and that it has the paper

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