How to buy a happy chicken

The shaky ceasefire between Iran and the US has been extended. Whether it lasts much longer or fighting resumes depends partly on Lebanon, where another fragile truce has been struck between Israel and the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah. So why is Lebanon so important to peace wit ...  Show more

Sir Olly Robbins dropped bombshell after bombshell when he spoke to MPs. Robbins, who was sacked as the Foreign Office’s chief civil servant, has accused Downing Street of placing the department under constant pressure to get Lord Mandelson through vetting. He also said the prime ...  Show more

KFC just fell out of the top 3 chicken chains in America… and Dave’s Hot is bringing the heat.Millennial Moms are leading a female founder boom… and it’s all thanks to “The Power Pause.”Google and OpenAI are battling to win in Vibe-Coding… and we created an app instantly thanks t ...  Show more

Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.German families in the 60s loved tasty, cheap American-raised chicken that was suddenly coming in after the war. And Americans were loving fun, cheap Volkswagen Beetles. This arrangement was too good to last.Today on the show, how a trade ...  Show more

It is a Nobel-winning idea with untold promise in health care, agriculture and more. We examine <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/26/crispr-technologies-hold-enormous-promise-for-farming-and-medicine?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=the ...

Yes, Chickenology is a real word. And we have questions. Such as: should you get a chicken?! Chicken-haver and author of “Under the Henfluence” Tove Danovich stops in to recall how her casual backyard chicken experiment turned into an obsession, a lifestyle, and then a book. W ...