Posts Tagged ‘CAFO’

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

Paul Hawken eloquently explains how the price of food is divorced from its true costs, and what this really means for society.

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

Nicolette Hahn Niman identifies 5 commonly held myths about our industrial food system.

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 [...]

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 [...]

States ban practices that support CAFOs

January 8, 2010 “Several states recently banned specific practices that are common in CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), taking small steps to level the playing field for more sustainable farms.” h/t @OrganicConsumer Go to Original Source…