At the end of the food chain there is trash, and lots of it.  All that trash waiting to be dumped leads us to ask:

Show #1262: America's Oligarchs of Trash

A lot can happen in the first 100 days of a new President?s administration.  And that leads us to ask:

Show #1261 : The Politics of Animal Welfare

Thirty years ago Congress passed the Organic Foods Production Act thereby safeguarding organic farming.  Today an estimated 80% of America?s organic food is grown elsewhere.   And so we wonder:  Did America deliberately offshore its organic foods?

Show #1260: Offshoring America's Organic Food

You would think the site of hungry wildlife huddled together in the freezing cold of a blizzard would stir those who love wildlife to want to feed them.  But that is not so for the elk of Jackson Hole.  This leads us to ask: Should government stop winter-

Show #1259: The Winter-Feeding of Hungry Animals

The problem with babies is that they become toddlers.  Every time that happens, those who manufacture baby formula lose a customer.  How do the manufacturers compensate for the loss?  They manufacture toddler formula!  Their toddler milks leads us to ask:

Show #1258: Toddlers' Sugar Formula

The label says, Product of the USA, but the rules say i could be a product of China and still be labeled Product of the USA.  This leads us to ask:  How much truth is in the advertising of food?

Show #1257: America's Big Beef

Once upon a time we fueled our engines the with energy we grew on farms.  But then along came Prohibition and we have been fueling our engines with petroleum ever since.  This leads us to ask:

Show #1256:  Ford's Plants V. Rockeffer's Petroleum

It is a fact!  Agriculture, like most all industries, is growing in two directions:  very big or very small.   This leads us to ask:  Which provides for the greatest security:  many small farms or few big farms?

Show #1255: CONSOLIDATION OF THE FOOD CHAIN

If we were as clever as a green plant, we could turn that dirty greenhouse gas Carbon Dioxide into clean energy and fresh air!  That thought leads us to ask: Can we make clean energy from greenhouse gas?

Show #1254: CLEAN ENERGY FROM GREENHOUSE GAS

On his deathbed Louis Pasteur, the father of germs, is said to have said, “The germ is nothing, the terroir is everything.”  Pasteur’s famous recant leads us to ask:

Show #1253: The Myth of Corona Contagion

There is a wide-open space filled with incentive to grow right in front of our eyes, but we simply have not trained ourselves to see it.  And so we ask:

Show #1252: Vertical Farms for the City

We’ve cooked ourselves up a lot of problems in 2020.  Perhaps we should set all those problems aside for a moment to ask:

Show #1251: Back to the Small Farm

It is a $700 billion dollar a year business, and Americans spend about 2% of their lives shopping in them.  Their story leads us to ask:

Show #1250: 7-Eleven Begets Trader Joes

It kills weeds, which makes the farmer who applied it happy.  But then it rises up from the fields and drifts off to settle on another field down wind, making that field’s farmer unhappy.   And so we ask:

Show #1249: The Dicamba War: Farmer v Farmer

Some say the Green Revolution saved the lives of millions of people.   But others say the Green Revolution ruined the lives of millions.  And so we pause to ask:

Show #1248: The Green Revolution's Revolutionary

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us to rely on others to deliver food to the front door.  And that leads us to ask: What kind of food does Amazon want to deliver?

Show #1247: Pushing Delivery of Poor Quality Food

There are two cannabis industries in the United States.  One is legal, the other is illegal.   Both industries generate a huge amount of income.  And so we ask:

Show #1246: THE PROBLEM OF CANNABIS BUSINESS

Given what we see transpiring in the nation’s big cities, it makes a lot of sense to move out and start something new.  And so we ask

Show #1245: The Hoods of Agrihoods

It does not take long for weeds to take over one’s garden.  The same can be said for how quickly fast food can displace good food in one’s diet.  And so we ask:

Show #1244: The Weed of Fast Foods

In her book The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett writes, “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” That thought leads us to ask:  How should we tend our earthly garden?

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