Station 707

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Station 707

News, interviews and stories for the discerning listener. Good old-fashioned reporting on everything under the Australian sun.

  1. 16 NOV.

    21: Chemicals, GMO's, Food and Health - with Moms Across America

    Zen Honeycutt is the founder and director of Moms Across America, and she kindly joins me as my first international guest for this episode.  One of the listeners brought my attention to a report by Moms Across America, which was around the testing of gluten-free products to see how much gluten and/or toxins were present. That article is here: https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/gluten_free_food_test_results  It's well documented that chemicals, plastics and other toxins are responsible for an entire host of health issues, but rarely is it traced back to food, and rarer still is it circulated and spoken about.  As Zen explains in this episode, it's usually the mothers ('Moms' for our US readers!) who figure out these problems, and then push to find answers.  This is only one small part of other, broader conversations that need to be had around agri-culture in regards to soil/plant/animal/food/human health (episode 17 and 19 for related listening), but the more we learn and understand, the better equipped we are to make decisions on what we buy, how it's grown, and what kind of health we are willing to settle for, and secure for our kids, and theirs.  707 Links: Instagram: station707podcast Facebook: Station 707 Podcast Email: tom.station707@gmail.com  Subscribe within the app of your choice to be notified of new episodes when they become available.  If you would like to support the work of Station 707, please follow one of these links: https://buymeacoffee.com/station707  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JUQ7BKCYYYZDS   Thank you for your support!

    59 min
  2. 2 NOV.

    20: WA Labor Party Stunts and Firearms Reforms

    Boyup Brook, in the South West Region of WA, recently held a Nationals Party meeting where Labor's zealous and over-reaching firearms reforms were discussed.  If you're not aware of the situation, essentially, Labor are using their abundant balance of power to push through reforms which do nothing to target illegal firearms or criminals, but instead goes after law-abiding gun owners who use firearms for work, sport, or recreation.  In some cases, 100 + year old family heirloom firearms, handed down through the generations, are being seized and or destroyed for no good reason.  The narrative of getting guns off the streets has come at a high cost, both to the taxpayer who is funding the media stunts pulled by the current Labor government, and also to the individual firearms owners who have had their personal information dangerously shared, characters attacked, and licenses threatened.  Peter Rundle, Nationals Member for Roe joins me for a quick overview of the meeting that was held in Boyup Brook.  707 Links: Instagram: station707podcast Facebook: Station 707 Podcast Email: tom.station707@gmail.com  Subscribe within the app of your choice to be notified of new episodes when they become available.  If you would like to support the work of Station 707, please follow one of these links: https://buymeacoffee.com/station707  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JUQ7BKCYYYZDS   Thank you for your support!

    14 min
  3. 14 OCT.

    18: The Real Cost

    At a request from several listeners, and out of an abundance of interest in the subject, it's time to talk about renewable energy. Alex Nichol joins me for the conversation today.  We did discuss this topic in episode #3, with Emily from Colbinabbin in Victoria, regarding the proposed solar plant lined up to go in on their prime agricultural region.  Today, we talk about the plans and proposals here in WA, and what we can learn from people's lived experience over East, and around the world.  It's impossible to summarise such a big topic, but the thing I find most interesting, and it's not discussed in this episode, is the socially accepted parameters; the pre-conceived notion that you are either for, or against, renewables. You are either for, or against, coal. You either believe, or deny, climate change. When we talk about for/against and believe/deny in this way, we are now talking more about ideology, not science, or facts. It is possible to simply ignore truth, in the form of people's lived experiences, but that doesn't make it, or us, right in doing so.  Links: Instagram: station707podcast Facebook: Station 707 Podcast Email: tom.station707@gmail.com  Subscribe within the app of your choice to be notified of new episodes when they become available.  If you would like to support the work of Station 707, please follow one of these links: https://buymeacoffee.com/station707  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JUQ7BKCYYYZDS   Thank you for your support!

    53 min
  4. 7 OCT.

    17: Alternatives to supermarkets - exploring options with the Food Connect Foundation.

    Emma-Kate Rose is the program director of Food Connect Foundation, based in Queensland, Australia.  For 18 years, Food Connect operated as a social enterprise, directly connecting farmers/growers with consumers in Brisbane.  Essentially, farmers within 5 hours of Brisbane would grow and deliver their goods to a central warehouse/homestead in the suburbs, where it would be packed into pre-purchased boxes and delivered to 70 different pick-up locations around Brisbane, such as homes, churches, or schools.  The effects were remarkable, two of the standout ones being that the food miles averaged 140km compared to the national average of 1,200km, and that farmers were rewarded far more cents in the dollar than they would be had they sold at the supermarkets. The health, networking and community benefits were also substantial.  If you want to eat healthier food and be more connected with your farmers, and farmers more connected with consumers, then the way we buy and sell needs to change, and our thinking needs to shift. This model is an excellent case study of what worked, how it worked, and where the challenges lay.  Food Connect Foundation: https://fcf.org.au/  Subscribe within the app of your choice to be notified of new episodes when they become available.  If you would like to support the work of Station 707, please follow one of these links: https://buymeacoffee.com/station707  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JUQ7BKCYYYZDS   Thank you for your support!

    19 min

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