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Paul Hawken: The High Cost of Cheap Food (video)

CUpS Talks Excerpted from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s, Cooking For Solutions 2010 media conference, Paul Hawken eloquently explains how the price of food is divorced from its true costs, and what this really means for society, at large. This is a central theme that runs through much of the sustainable food movement’s core beliefs, and [...]

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Nicolette Hahn Niman Champions Seismic Change of Our Industrial Food System (Video)

CUpS caught up with Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of the new book, Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms during her visit at a recent Chef Collaborative event in Portland, Oregon. Niman, an environmental attorney, and livestock rancher (Niman Ranch), feels passionately that our food system is broken, and is working [...]

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As We Sow: The Corporate Farm

I started “documenting” in 2001, not “making a documentary” exactly, because I really didn’t know what it was going to end up being. The New York Times had run a series of articles about the disappearance of small towns across the Midwest, about communities drying up and farmers forced off the land. I wanted to [...]

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As We Sow (Video)

[ Editor's note: Before there was "Food Inc.", before there was "FRESH", "King Corn" and a host of other fine films about our food system, there was "As We Sow", a hauntingly beautiful short film by director Jan Weber. To purchase this DVD, please refer to details at the bottom of her post. Run-time: 23 [...]

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