Ritz, Glyphosate, and a Broken Food System — No Lab Coat Required

One Ritz cracker tells the story of America's failing food system: industrial crops, input dependence, and who really pays the price. (Original episode ~60 minutes → Condensed: 12 minutes.) Host Johnny Cole Dickson uses a pantry demo to link enriched flour, soybean oil, and HFCS to glyphosate policy, commodity markets, fertilizer consolidation, and contract farming that squeezes family farms. Listen to learn how trade shifts, input costs, and corporate consolidation produce farmer distress, why synthetic fertilizer creates dependency rather than soil health, and what regenerative agriculture, local supply chains, and community-supported initiatives like Feed the Land can do instead. Topics include glyphosate policy, farm economics, climate and soil science, and political drivers of food systems. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.