"Simmering disaster" is what renowned activist Mahesh Bhatt calls genetically modified foods. Though genetically modified foods have caused countless problems in lab tests, multinational corporations are pushing them into the stores and onto the plates of people across the world, and India's staple foods are being manipulated without the knowledge of the people. "Poison on the Planet" is a documentary examining the impact of GM foods on India's population.
Climate change is no joke, as this video from Greenpeace shows. "It's not class specific or society specific," says photographer Ishan Tankha, our guide through the city. The weather is changing, and everyone can feel it. Thanks to Greenpeace Delhi for the video in this segment.
Devinder Sharma, world-renowned food policy expert, spends a lot of time thinking and writing about how agriculture impacts climate change and how genetically modified foods impact everyone. He spoke to us about the ways the West and developing nations can learn from the example of India's "Green Revolution" in farming and the problems that have sprung up in its wake. Climate action should go hand in hand with food policy. Thanks to Greenpeace Delhi for the video in this segment.
Rush Limbaugh tried (and failed) to buy a football team, Obama picked a fight with FOX News, and oh yeah--there's still ongoing debate over health care reform, two wars, and a major recession. There was plenty of bad (and a little good) to debate in this week's media coverage.
It's National Farmer's Market Week, and Stephanie Malloy, manager of two markets in Charlottesville, VA, talks about changes in the last couple of years at the markets. "Meet The Farmer" promotes the deeper values and hidden benefits of supporting your local food systems.
Part two of an interview with Joe Salatin of Polyface Farm, the Eggmobile Version two, a unique egg-laying technology. "Meet The Farmer" promotes the deeper values and hidden benefits of supporting your local food systems.
"A threat of unknown magnitude," some have called it. The LA Times writes that it could kill hundreds over the next two years. What is it? Swine flu. How did we get here and what are the connections between industrial agriculture, global warming, and what many think could be a deadly flu epidemic?
In this week's Got Docs? we take a look at 'What's Organic about Organic?', a new film by Shelley Rogers. She follows around activists, scientists, and most importantly, farmers, as they look at the issues involved in 'being organic'.
What does the future hold for organic agriculture? Fred Kirschenmann, a respected leader of the sustainable agriculture movement discusses the history of organic farming. Can organic agriculture survive in our industrial food system, or do we need to make sweeping changes to our whole approach to food production and consumption?
Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer and seed breeder who has become world-famous by standing up to the Monsanto corporation, which charged him with illegally using its patented GMO canola seeds when his fields were actually contaminated by winds blowing from nearby GMO crops. He’ll discuss his experiences and the dangers of losing biodiversity of our crops and the domination of our food supply by industrial agriculture.
