{"podcast":{"title":"The Food Chain","slug":"the-food-chain-7038998","podcast_index_feed_id":7038998,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/thefoodchain/feed.xml","website_url":"https://thefoodchain.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/17810168/Food_Chain_Radio_Logo_2024_9kgzmf.jpeg","author":"metrofarm","episode_count":95,"summary":"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","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T10:19:14.590230+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-chain-7038998"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 1405: Nutritional Epigenetics & The Decline of Children's Brains","slug":"ep-1405-nutritional-epigenetics-the-decline-of-children-s-brains","published_at":"2025-12-11T23:21:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-chain-7038998/ep-1405-nutritional-epigenetics-the-decline-of-children-s-brains","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-chain-7038998","url":"https://thefoodchain.podbean.com/e/ep-1405-nutritional-epigenetics-the-decline-of-childrens-brains/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bmuaau9u8ap2jd4n/1405C.mp3","summary":"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 1405th 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.","meta_description":"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 schoo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3232,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-food-chain-7038998/episodes/ep-1405-nutritional-epigenetics-the-decline-of-children-s-brains/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-chain-7038998/ep-1405-nutritional-epigenetics-the-decline-of-children-s-brains.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}