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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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Industrial Agriculture and the Organic Alternative: Rachel Carson’s Contribution

My introductory post on organic farming (Organic Agriculture: Its Origins, and Evolution Over Time) highlighted Sir Albert Howard’s role in describing its fundamental practices and principles. Seeing Nature as the most efficient and enduring of all farmers, Howard portrayed organic agriculture as a holistic endeavor inseparable from a farm’s environmental conditions. In Howard’s view, [...]

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The New Film: Food Inc.

CBS News Interviews journalist Michael Pollan, along with Food Inc. producer and director, Robert Kenner.
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Tomatoes that don’t taste like a tomato (but hey, they also don’t bruise), cloned animal meats (really?), and a look behind the curtain of food production in America; this film presents a grim view inside our [...]

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Paul Roberts: The End of Food-Part 2

Cooking Up a Story: Food News -Part 2
Journalist and author, Paul Roberts continues his argument that developing an alternative food system will not be quick, nor will it be easy to accomplish. It will require substantial support from the government in order to develop and take hold, and require a systematic approach to creating holistic [...]

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A Conversation with ‘King Corn’ Filmmaker Curt Ellis-Part 3

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Farming today is not what we may imagine it to be. It’s become largely an industrial process, and corn epitomizes this shift in production methods. In Part 3, ‘King Corn’ filmmaker Curt Ellis shares his experience growing an acre of corn in Iowa, and what it was like for him [...]

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A Conversation with ‘King Corn’ Filmmaker Curt Ellis

Cooking Up a Story: Food News-part 1

You can almost hear the voice of Gomer Pyle: “Surprise,” “Surprise,” “Surprise”! Of course, the big surprise may be on all of us. The documentary “King Corn” reveals the often unseen, and unreflected world of industrial food manufacturing, in this case, as it relates to the use and [...]

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