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21) Food, Inc
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Explores the U.S. commercial food industry, examining corporate control of supply and market. The film seeks to demonstrate how the incentive for corporate profit can overwhelm consumer health needs, as well as the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and the environment. Reveals various details of food ingredients and additives, and how contemporary mass production methods of food affects U.S. culture.
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In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors' methods of growing food--techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and...
29) Folks, this ain't normal: a farmer's advice for happier hens, healthier people, and a better world
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Farmer Joel Salatin is the 21st century's thinking man's farmer who believes that the answer to rebuilding America is to start with the family farm and for those farms to thrive, we all need to learn how to eat naturally again. Salatin's solutions as presented in the book are very simple and easy to implement in any American household, whether in the suburbs of Chicago, the mountains of Colorado, or urban life in New York City. On topic with today's...
34) Tractor wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the birth of modern agriculture
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"With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture-a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world"--
From 1908 to 1929, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester were engaged in a race to introduce...
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Brings great books to life onscreen through rich illustrations and live shows. The milk makers is a book that describes how cows produce milk and how milk is processed before being delivered to stores. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash is a story about a school trip to a peaceful farm that turns wild when Jimmy's pet boa constrictor escapes.