{"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 1418 Perils of Protein Powders","slug":"ep-1418-perils-of-protein-powders","published_at":"2026-06-24T18:24:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-chain-7038998/ep-1418-perils-of-protein-powders","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-chain-7038998","url":"https://thefoodchain.podbean.com/e/ep-1418-perils-of-protein-powders/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ggeamdqfqb5we9uy/1418B.mp3","summary":"Along the Food Chain with Michael Olson and... Sally Fallon Morell, Founding President, Weston A Price Foundation and Editor & Co-Author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats The food trend is obvious to anyone who attended the recent Natural Products Expo in Anaheim. Just add protein! This trend in natural foods leads us to ask: Do protein powders do a body good? I attended the recent Natural Products Expo in Anaheim to see what I could see about the trend in food, and of course, to find stories for the Food Chain Radio – Podcast. When I last attended the Expo, a few years ago, the dominant trend among the 4,000 vendors was soy. It seemed like every vendor of natural foods in the hall had somehow managed to infuse their natural food with soy. Soy was here… soy was there… soy was everywhere! This year I did not see a single mention of soy among the 4,000 vendors of natural food products. Gone!!! Most of what I did see, just about everywhere I looked, were “natural food” products that had been infused with added protein ­– This with pea protein… that with hemp protein… and over there, whey protein… Yes, it was pretty obvious to one and all that the dominant trend in natural foods is to… just add protein. That protein powders are now taking such a prominent role in the nation’s diet leads us to ask… Do protein powders do a body good?","meta_description":"Along the Food Chain with Michael Olson and... Sally Fallon Morell, Founding President, Weston A Price Foundation and Editor & Co-Author of Nourishing…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2879,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-food-chain-7038998/episodes/ep-1418-perils-of-protein-powders/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-1418-perils-of-protein-powders.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}