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Vandana Shiva: Understanding the Corporate Takeover
July 21, 2011
"The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago," says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine. "The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy."
Vandana Shiva, Two Americans and Phoebe Snow
April 29, 2011
"The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago," says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine. "The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy."
Mark Bittman: the Hidden Power and Politics of Planting
March 30, 2011
“It’s a matter of political will and a moral question—do you see the rest of the world as your brothers and sisters or not?”
Helena Norberg-Hodge: The Economics of Happiness
January 28, 2011
"Economics has a lot to do with unhappiness," says Helena Norberg-Hodge, co-director of The Economics of Happiness. "We have an economic system that is systematically creating job scarcity worldwide," she notes, and it's time that we stopped obsessing about bottom lines, corporate growth, and income at the top and started to think about other ways of measuring positive effects in global society.
Laurie Penny, the Economics of Happiness, and Snow Justice
January 27, 2011
"It's a very, very exciting time to be involved in politics," says the New Statesman's Laurie Penny, who has a cover story in the magazine this week on what's next for the student protesters in London now that the Liberal Democrat/Conservative government has passed the education budget cuts. Disability funding and even the National Health Service are in the sights of the government's hatchet, and the students are hard at work reaching out to broaden their coalition.
Raj Patel & David Kirby: Fixing Food Policy
December 18, 2010
"We are heading toward a two-tiered food system in this country," notes David Kirby, author of Animal Factory. The food safety bill that just passed Congress puts some safety standards back into the U.S. food system, but does it do anything to change the ability of poor folks to buy healthy food? Raj Patel points out that when wages are kept low and work is devalued, it doesn't matter how cheap food is; people won't be able to afford it.
Raj Patel & David Kirby, Lasting Scars, and Marjorie Ingall
December 17, 2010
"We are heading toward a two-tiered food system in this country," notes David Kirby, author of Animal Factory. The food safety bill that just passed Congress puts some safety standards back into the U.S. food system, but does it do anything to change the ability of poor folks to buy healthy food? Raj Patel points out that when wages are kept low and work is devalued, it doesn't matter how cheap food is; people won't be able to afford it.
Mark Bittman, Buckwheat Harvest and Thanking the Turkey
November 24, 2010
"It's not about being pure or saintly, it's about moving in the right direction," says New York Times food writer Mark Bittman, author of The Food Matters Cookbook. Bittman considers himself a "less-meatarian," and says that while he loves meat, the best way to move toward sustainability and slowing climate change is for people to consume less meat. Meanwhile, eating plants and other natural, unprocessed foods is not only best for the environment--it's best for our health, too.
The Harvest: Farming Sustainably in New York
November 24, 2010
Eating less meat might be better for the world, but it can definitely be delicious. Buckwheat is actually a fruit, a grain substitute that can be excellent for those with gluten sensitivities, or just a nice alternative to the usual. GRITtv's Danya Abt took a trip up to Ithaca, NY to visit the buckwheat fields, where Erick Smith of Cayuga Organics and his colleagues took her from the field to the flour mill, introducing us to the challenges of sustainable farming and its many rewards.
Child Labor Down on the Farm
May 7, 2010
We 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.

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