Farmageddon the Documentary
“How much longer should we defer to a governmental agency that has consistently failed to perform its duties? The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is charged with protecting the American food supply, yet not a week goes by without another food-related health scare seizing headlines across the nation: listeria in pasteurized milk; spinach contaminated with E. coli; and potentially unsafe meat from “downer” cattle (animals which are sick or injured and unable to stand).”
“These outbreaks are the results of decades of USDA policy decisions which favor corporations and industrial agriculture over small family farms and local production. Intensive animal and crop operations can lead to sick animals and tainted vegetables entering the food chain, and regulations which would prevent these incidents are often overlooked when corporate interests are at stake.” –Linda Faillace
[Vimeo 16513455]
A film by by Kristin Canty
Featuring Joel Salatin, Jackie Stowers, Mark McAfee, Linda Faillace and Eric Wagoner
Farmageddon
123 Street Ave.
Somerville, MA 02144
Wise Traditions 2010 – The Politics of Food
Who Should Attend Wise Traditions?
Doctors, nurses, nutritionists, dietitians, parents, students, food writers, food providers, farmers, public servants, teachers, patients, activists, agriculture professionals, people interested in nutrition, people with no interest in nutrition, people who love to cook, people who hate to cook, people who like to eat, Baby Boomers concerned about their health, grandparents concerned about their grandchildren, couples who want healthy babies, people who want answers, people who love controversy. . . and You!
Featured speakers include Natasha Campbell-McBride MD, author of Gut and Psychology Syndrome, Sally Fallon Morell, MA, author of Nourishing Traditions, Joel Salatin, farmer and author of Everything I Want to Do is Illegal, The Real Food Media bloggers and many, many more!
Full conference registration includes conference materials, Friday sessions, Friday lunch, Friday Dinner and Evening Activities, Saturday joint sessions, Saturday lunch, Saturday evening awards banquet, Sunday sessions and Sunday lunch.
For more information or to register, please visit it The Weston A. Price Foundation.
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Giveaway: Real Food Must Reads
Congratulations!
The winner of the Real Food Must Reads Giveaway is juliebmorton.
Julie, please email me your shipping info and confirm which book you’d like and I’ll get it sent out right away
renATedibleariaDOTcom
Thank you for participating, everyone!
All the best,
Ren
Kristen the Food Renegade wants to empower people to choose wholesome, healthy, traditional foods. Towards that end, she has carefully compiled a list of almost two dozen must reads for the Real Food practitioner..
and a dozen more..
Are you ready to learn about preparing lacto-fermented sauerkraut, a fresh loaf of sprouted whole grain bread or a glass of kombucha.. to rebel against the dominant food culture and become a food renegade?
If so, simply go spend some quality time looking around at http://www.foodrenegade.com (including the Must Reads section, of course) then come back here and tell me (using the comment section below) which one of these books you feel will most help you on your way towards freedom from the Standard American Diet (SAD, for short).
Include a thoughtful reason or two for your selection so that I know your interest is sincere, OK?
I’ll choose one eligible entry at random, order the winner’s book of choice from The Food Renegade’s store and ship it to any U.S. (only, sorry) address.
Contest ends September 4, 2009.
‘Food, Inc.’: Attention Must Be Paid To Food Supply
Listen to the NPR Interview with Robert Kenner and Michael Pollan
The new documentary Food Inc. takes aim at corporate giants behind the U.S. food supply. As director Robert Kenner and food advocate and author Michael Pollan tell Steve Inskeep, they made the film in order to raise Americans’ awareness about where their food really comes from.
Pollan says he wanted to address “the pastoral illusion we’re spinning in the way we market food… You would think it comes from farms and that ranches with big hats are producing the meat.”
Cows are ruminants; they are designed to eat grass, not GM, pesticide-laden corn from giant industrial silos..
See more at http://www.cagefreefamily.com
In fact, say Pollan and Kenner, America’s food comes primarily from enormous assembly lines, where animals and workers are being abused.
Food, Inc. Opening Today!
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner uses reports by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and The Omnivore’s Dilemma author Michael Pollan as a springboard to exploring where the food we purchase at the grocery store really comes from, and what it means for the health of future generations.
“Food, Inc.,” an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding, Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy. You’ll shudder, shake and just possibly lose your genetically modified lunch. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
