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Showing videos filed under: agriculture
Child Labor Down on the Farm
May 7, 2010We often assume that child labor in the U.S. ceased after the labor movement fought for and won child labor laws many years ago. But a new report from the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch notes that not only are hundreds of thousands of children working on farms around the country--they are doing so legally because of loopholes in the law.Mike Papantonio, Child Farmworkers, and Net Neutrality
May 6, 2010As the oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Coast shrimpers and fisherpeople aren't just taking time off. They've already filed a class action lawsuit against British Petroleum, owners of the rig that's polluting their waters and killing their source of income (not to mention a major source of seafood for most of the country).Moby & Miyun Park Talk Factory Farming
April 10, 2010In Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat), committed vegan and multi-platinum recording artist Moby and Miyun Park of the Global Animal Partnership pull together a book for nonvegans on meat-eating.Moby & Miyun Park, Immigrant Nation & Ariel Dougherty
April 9, 2010In Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat), committed vegan and multi-platinum recording artist Moby and Miyun Park of the Global Animal Partnership pull together a book for nonvegans on meat-eating.A Recipe For Disaster: Industrial Agriculture, Swine Flu, and Global Warming
July 29, 2009“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?Swine Flu and Industrial Agriculture, Organizing Against the Odds in Lebanon, and Bike Etiquette
July 28, 2009“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? Then, LGBT organizers in Lebanon face an uphill battle. And Ralph Rollins's short film, Will I Be Next?, explores gang violence and youth in Chicago.Got Docs?: What's Organic about Organic?
July 24, 2009In 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'.The F Word: The Great Hunger
July 10, 2008They are calling it THE GREAT HUNGER OF 2008. The rapid rise in world prices for all basic food crops: corn, wheat, soybeans, rice and cooking oils is having a severe and potentially devastating effect. Economists and agriculture experts are calling the increases in world market prices “astounding.” The prices of sixty agricultural commodities traded on the world market increased 37 percent in 2007, 14 percent the year before. Corn prices are off the charts.America’s Most Popular Populist: Jim Hightower
June 27, 2008Laura Flanders interviews Jim Hightower, author most recently of Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow. Jim publishes the monthly Hightower Lowdown, delivers a daily radio commentary, and in his writing takes on the powers that be and thieves in high places.The Spiraling Cost of . . . Fertilizer
June 6, 2008Can the world keep up with exploding food demand?? The answer right now is: NO....
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