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Video: Supermarket Secrets
How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenized, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in? In this two-part programme, UK TV Channel4 journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not have been grown in the way we think. Using a combination of undercover filming and scientific analysis, Supermarket Secrets...
read moreVideo: Path to Freedom – Urban Homestead
Founded by Jules Dervaes (Dur-VAYS) in 2001, Path to Freedom is a grassroots, family operated, viable urban homesteading project established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle and reduce one family’s “footprint” on the earth’s dwindling resources. Since the mid 1980s, all five members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena, California, into an organic permaculture garden supplying them with food all year round. They also run a successful business,...
read moreVideo: Su Petersen – The Triple V Farm
Su Petersen takes us on a tour of her Triple V Farm in Camp Verde, Arizona. Highlights include meeting her goats, chickens, ducks, worms, and garden. From March of...
read moreVideo: The Mother Of Slow Food
Alice Waters has been preaching the virtues of cultivating fresh food for decades. As Lesley Stahl reports, this world-renowned chef and restaurateur hopes a slower approach to the food we eat will keeps us healthier and...
read moreVideo: Food, Inc.
Why do we think it is important to support local farmers and encourage a healthier lifestyle by eating locally grown food? This eye-opening documentary says it all… In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of...
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