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It’s a fact! 100% of men, women and children eat food, and 97.5% of must buy their food from others who bring it from an average of 2,000 miles away. And so the hungry ask: ”What’s in this tomato? Who planted that broccoli? Is it safe to eat genetically engineered corn? Why are they irradiating meat? Are we running short of water? Why is China growing our apples? What will happen to us if we can no longer farm? How safe is our food chain?” The Food Chain is an audience-interactive syndicated newstalk radio program and podcast broadcasting weekly on radio stations and streaming on demand on the internet. The Food Chain, which has been named the Ag/News Show of the Year by California’s legislature, is hosted by Michael Olson, author of the Ben Franklin Book of the Year award-winning MetroFarm, a 576-page guide to metropolitan agriculture. The Food Chain is available live via GCN Starguide GE 8 and delayed via MP3/FTP. For clearance and/or technical information, please call Michael Olson at 831-566-4209 or email michaelo@metrofarm.com
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Sunday Aug 04, 2024
Sunday Aug 04, 2024
Fred Provenza, Author, Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
(Animal & Human Environmental Nutrition)
Animals learn what to eat, and what not to eat, from their mothers – before they are born. It is a taste they pick up in utero, as the mother eats her way across the landscape. If such is the case, we wonder:
What tastes are American mothers teaching their children to desire?
Researchers believe that humans have been using plants as medicine for over 1,650,000 years. Birds, fish, insects, and other mammals are also known to self-medicate with plants when experiencing illness.
In the last hundred years or so, we humans began industrializing our food chain, and now we no longer rely on plants to be our principal source of medicine. And why should we? After all, the grocers’ shelves are filled with potions and notions that claim to be able to cure just about every malady. And so today we are free to roam the range all day, without having to eat a single plant.
But then, we wonder: Are we missing something by turning our backs on plants? Is there some kind of magic that occurs when earth, sky and water come together to present us with a plant? And we wonder:
What tastes are American mothers teaching their children to desire?