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: The Corporate Farm
Posted in Food Conversations Also tagged as we sow, CAFO, disappearing family farms, factory farms, hogs, iowa farmers, jan weber, pigs, the corporate farm Post a comment
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, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Reviews & Discoveries Also tagged eric slosser, food films, food inc., michael pollan, robert kenner Post a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Food News Also tagged antibiotics, Environment, food, food health, food industry, food safety, fossil fuel, paul roberts, Sustainable Living, the end of food 3 Comments
A Conversation with ‘King Corn’ Filmmaker Curt Ellis-Part 3
Cooking Up a Story: Food News
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 [...]
Posted in Food News Also tagged corn, curt ellis, documentary film, fructose corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, king corn, syrup 4 Comments
