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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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Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Michael Olson with Catherine Barr, Executive Director, Monterey Bay Area Certified Farmers Markets
In the 1826 edition of The Physiology of Taste, Jean Brillat-Savarin wrote, “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.”
Then in the 1863 edition of Spiritualism and Materialism, German philosopher Ludwig Feurerbach wrote, “A man is what he eats.”
Today, in the 1377th edition of the Food Chain Radio Show, Michael Olson is jumping into the conversation by saying, “If we are what we eat, then we are what our food ate.”
Following that thought will take us deep into the soil, where everything is eating everything. It is the great smorgasbord of life that we do not see, and therefore just take for granted, like we do with all that food that fills the grocers’ shelves.
But if we really want to know what we are, we must come to grips with what our food eats. That is not an easy thing to do, because so much of what we eat now comes to the table wrapped in fancy packaging from thousands of miles away. What that food has eaten should be listed on the package label, but that means we must trust in the truthfulness of whoever wrote the labels, and they are in the business of selling food to people they will never meet.
There is one way to really know what food our food has eaten, and that is to look directly into the eyes of the farmer who grew that food, and ask him or her. Aside from the farm itself, there is one place where one can shop and be guaranteed that the food for sale is real food. And so we ask:
Where can one be guaranteed the food for sale is real food from a real farmer?