From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting great to jump. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, I'm Steve Scrovan along with David Fellman and of course the man of the hour Ralph Nader.

Today we're going to present another chapter in our ongoing discussion about food.

I think somebody on this crew is very hungry and we're also going to be critiquing the mainstream

corporate media. That will be in the second half the show and we'll be talking to Jim

Nariqas who is the editor of Extra which is the newsletter put out by the group Fair

which stands for fairness and accuracy in reporting.

And as always, we will be checking in to see what the bad guys are up to this week with Russell Mokiber,

our corporate crime reporter.

And if we have some time left, we will get to more of your listener questions.

David.

Our first guest is Forrest Pritchard.

He joins us from Georgia.

Mr. Pritchard is a seventh generation farmer and New York Times

best-selling author. He has devoted his family farm, Smith Meadows, to

farming organically and sustainably and raising free-range cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, and chickens.

His book, Gaining Ground, a story of farmers markets,

local food and saving the family farm,

made the New York Times bestseller list and

was named Top Read by Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, and NPR's The Splendid

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