The Food Chain

China Now Hour 2 - 25.1.22

Michael Olson & Nan Su

Which will Xi Jinping invade first:  Taiwan or Siberia?

Ep 1409 Healing With Homeopathy

Michael Olson with Dr. Jeff Lester, Director, Trilogy Medical Center for Integrative Medicine

Best laid plans!  When the government threw its food plate out the door and turned its food pyramid upside down, I called my doctor for his opinion on how the new food recommendations will affect our health.

Instead, Dr. Jeff Lester took me on a fascinating tour of healing with homeopathy.  And so I asked,

How does one heal the intractable diseases of modern times with homeopathy?

Ep 270 China Now with Nan Su & Michael Olson

*. Arrest of Trump changes Taiwan invasion plans

* China stands to lose Billions on Venezuela

*. What is next for Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Russia and China

Ep 1408 Living the Restaurateur Dream

There are approximately 12.35 million people employed in the restaurant and food service industry.  Chances are good most of them, at one time or another, dreamed of owning a successful restaurant. This “Restaurateur Dream” leads us to ask:     

Which is most important in determining the long-term viability of a restaurant:  food, service or location?

The 1408^th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Erick and Brian Johnson, the father & son owners of the Erik's DeliCafe franchise restaurant chain that serves the South San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas.   

Topics include how father Erik built a small sandwich shop into a successful restaurant business; how that restaurant grew into a family-owned franchise chain; and how son Brian is building out the Erik's DeliCafe chain throughout the region.   

Ep 1407 Homes for Homeless Animals

 

When the daughter’s pet dog passed on after many years of friendship, she became very sad and teared up.  Hoping to ease her pain at the passing of her good friend, I said, “Honey, life is a succession of good dogs!”     

Not too much longer, the daughter started pestering for a new dog.  After an extended search, we were presented with a choice between two Cocker Spaniel puppies.  One was black, the other was gold.  As you might imagine, the wife wanted the black one, while the daughter wanted the gold one. 

Hoping to avoid having two puppies underfoot, I suggested a compromise.  “Why don’t we take the black one home and call her Goldie?”

It worked, and we had many good years of friendship with Goldie before she, too, passed on.  

But the compromise of that moment did not address the question of the day, which is,

“Where should the family go to find its next good pet?”

Local Foods Act Legislation: Should government be forced to accomodate local food?

The label on the meat package reads, “Product of USA.” But the meat in the package could have come from Australia, Brazil or China, and be from one animal or hundreds of animals.  This leads us to ask: 

 

Should government be forced to accommodate local food farms?

 

The 1406^th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Judith McGeary, Founder and CEO, Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, for a conversation about the “Livestock Owned by Communities to Advance Local Foods Act” aka “Local Foods Act.” 

Topics include how the consolidation of the nation’s food supply chain has resulted in the diminishment of food quality and selection; why government supports the consolidation of food into ever fewer sources; and how government might be forced to accommodate local food farms.

Ep 1405: Nutritional Epigenetics & The Decline of Children's Brains

A recent review of U.S. special education data revealed a three-fold increase in autism and a four-fold increase in delayed development among public school children.  That leads us to ask:

Can bad food make good genes go bad?

The 1405^th edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Dr. Renee Dufault, Executive Director and Principal Investigator, Food Ingredient & Health Research Institute, whose research points to one of the reasons for the three-fold increase in autism and four-fold increase in delayed development among public school children.

Topics include how Dr. Dufault’s research at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration led to her private research into the heavy metal contamination of ultra-processed foods; how nutritional epigenetics describes the deterioration of the brains of public school children; and how that mental deterioration is compounded through generations of people.

Ep 1404 House 453 - Immunity for Pesticide Manufacturers?

On August 10, 2018, a California jury awarded Benecia public school landscaper Dewayne Lee Johnson $289 million for the non-Hodgkin lymphoma he claimed was caused by exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller.  That award leads us to ask:

 

Should manufacturers be held accountable for the consequences of their pesticides?

 

The 1404^the edition of the Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson features Attorney Brent Wisner, whose firm, Wisner Baum LLP, won the $289 million Monsanto Roundup lawsuit on behalf of public school landscaper Dewayne Lee Johnson.

Topics include what Wisner told the jury that convinced them to believe Johnson instead of Monsanto; how the pesticide industry is fighting back with House Appropriation Bill 453 to grant pesticide manufacturers immunity from lawsuits; and whether manufacturers should be held accountable for the consequences of their pesticides.