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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, Emeritus Professor of Behavioral Ecology at Utah State University, Author of Nourtishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
(Animal and Human Natural Nutrition)
One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
Back in the day… Way back in the day… We were all hunters and gatherers. That is to say, we hunted down and gathered up whatever nature had to offer, when nature wanted to offer it.
Then we got smart, and figured out how to manage the growth and development of plants. That cleverness allowed us to corral plants and animals, and live in cities.
Today we hunt and gather foods grown and packaged thousands of miles away. And we don’t even need mother nature nor her unpredictable offerings. Today we can just swing by a convenience store, grab a plastic bag of something that tastes good, and walk out the door.
Given all this extra time we now have, we have the opportunity to decide how we should go about this business of eating, and often our discussion become very heated. Those heated discussions lead us to ask…
Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?