Good Food is Everybody's Business
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
We’re coming up on the #2 candy event of the year – Easter (Halloween is #1) – and consumers are expected to buy more than 120 million pounds of candy for the holiday. Approximately 70% of US candy dollars spent on chocolate during Easter week, that represents about 71 million pounds of chocolate candy. What better time to hear from Dr. Robert Lustig as he explains why sugar is a “chronic toxin” – a poison that will make you sick if you eat it for long enough?
Mel and Sue Brown milk more than 150 goats and, in their small cheese plant, they turn out award-winning chevre, ricotta, and feta cheese. The chevre comes in four flavors and Sue is experimenting with aged cheeses.
Ready to learn all about good food? Here are enough videos to keep you watching for more than one weekend! Pop some corn, put your feet up, and prepare to be moved, inspired, infuriated, and motivated!
Frank Morton has been breeding and selecting seed for more than 25 years. In this video, he talks about the importance of seed and how the interaction between seed and human changed both.
While we usually include books in this category, this video is an excellent look at what we eat and how it affects us. Chow Down looks at the struggle to reverse severe heart disease …. with diet.
Tom Stearns talks about co-marketing, organic farming as a business, scale – small is beautiful, but medium is good too – and collaborating with other small/medium farmers.
For “Earth Month” (April), Whole Foods Market is sponsoring the Whole Foods Market Do Something Reel Film Festival, in support of the company’s core values which include “caring about our communities and our environment.”
