Documentaries and Videos Archive

GMOs: Are We Experimenting on Our Children?

Just Label it!Ever wonder what the effects of pesticides sprayed on crops can be in our body's systems and those of our children? Jeffrey M. Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, lays out the chilling answers in this video.

We are posting this video as part of the Just Label It campaign.

Click the link at the right to help by adding your voice to the over 150,000 people who have so far joined the petition to the FDA—a petition demanding that the FDA do its duty by requiring the labeling of GMO foods and ingredients.

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Examining the Keystone XL “Pipe Dream”

Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are fighting to protect their land, their water, and their livelihood in what has become the most controversial environmental battle in the U.S. today: The Keystone XL Pipeline. Routed from Hardisty, Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, this tar sands pipeline is set to cross the country's largest freshwater resource, the Ogallala Aquifer, and the fragile Sandhills of Nebraska, posing devastating consequences to human health, livestock, and agriculture.

Documentary filmmaker Leslie Iwerks traces the history and motivations behind the pipeline and examines its projected impact in her new documentary "Pipe Dreams." The film, which will be shown in states along the proposed pipeline corridor.

For more information, visit pipedreamsdoc.com.

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Just Eat Organic Music Video

Tell the FDA to require GMO labelingKnown as the "CE-Yo" of Stoneyfield Farms, Gary Hirshberg is also one of the driving forces that helped launch the Just Label It campaign to get the FDA to do its duty to label GMO foods for our safety.

Gary has a few "musical" points to make about GMO foods and the better alternatives: Organics!

 

 

 

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Just Say No to GMO Music Video

Tell the FDA to Label GMO FoodsProtest song Just Say No to GMO music video written and performed by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com. The song takes serious issue with the biotech industry, specifically calling out Monsanto and genetically modified corn. It also features rap lines from Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology, author of Seeds of Deception.

We're reposting this video here as part of the Just Label It campaign. Click the image at the right and add your voice today!

 

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The Other Inconvenient Truth: Agricultural Land Use

Many of us view climate change as the most significant environmental issue we face today. But the University of Minnesota's Institute of the Environment shows us another "inconvenient truth" in the form of the enormous, but seldom confronted, impact of world agriculture. With 7 billion people to feed (and falling short of that by about 1 billion), how will this small planet deal with another 2.5 billion mouths to feed in the not too far distant future?

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Cereal Crimes: Natural vs. Organic

via Cornucopia.org,

Cereal Crimes coverFederal law requires that organic food products be produced promoting ecological sustainability, without the toxic inputs and genetically engineered ingredients common in the conventional food system.

Increasingly, organic products are forced to compete with products that claim to be “natural.”

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Steve Jobs — In Memoriam

We believe that it’s appropriate to join the many who have acknowledged the contribution Steve Jobs has made to our lives.

The impact that Steve Jobs and Apple have had on my creative and business life has been profound but it’s in our ability to reach out to each other that the tools which he designed become world changing. Certainly he did not invent the Internet and couldn’t have achieved what he did without countless others, but he simplified the process and made these new tools into art themselves.

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Farming: Back to the Start

Coldplay's haunting classic 'The Scientist' is performed by country music legend Willie Nelson for the soundtrack of the short film entitled, "Back to the Start." Download the song now available on iTunes. Label and proceeds benefit The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-scientist-single/id458479961

The film, by film-maker Johnny Kelly, depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future. Both the film and the soundtrack were commissioned by Chipotle to emphasize the importance of developing a sustainable food system.

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Who Knew! Cows Respond to Dixieland Jazz

In this very cool video, one fact is plain: cows dig jazz. A group of Dixieland jazz musicians began playing for some cows. Almost instantly the cows responded and grouped together as an audience. You've got to wonder what the milk, butter and cheese are like from this farm...

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Greenhorns: a documentary about young farmers

The Greenhorns documentary film, completed after almost 3 years in production, explores the lives of America's young farming community—its spirit, practices, and needs. It is the filmmaker's hope that by broadcasting the stories and voices of these young farmers, we can build the case for those considering a career in agriculture—to embolden them, to entice them, and to recruit them into farming.

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For more information and to request a screening, visit www.thegreenhorns.net/

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Carbon Nation—A Climate Change SOLUTIONS Movie

carbon nation is a documentary movie about climate change SOLUTIONS. Even if you doubt the severity of the impact of climate change or just don't buy it at all, this is still a compelling and relevant film that illustrates how SOLUTIONS to climate change also address other social, economic and national security issues. You'll meet a host of entertaining and endearing characters along the way.

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For more information and showings, see carbonnationmovie.com.

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Your Milk on Drugs (Part 2)

Dairy products from cows treated with genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST) may sharply increase cancer risk and other diseases, especially in children.

Already banned in most industrialized nations, it was approved in the US on the backs of fired whistleblowers, manipulated research, and a corporate takeover at the FDA. This important video includes footage prepared by a Fox news team—whose report was canceled after a letter from a corporate attorney threatened Fox with "dire consequences."

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See our full article on the concerns of scientists over the use of GMO and pesticides in our food supply.

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GMOs—the Movie

GMO cornMany users of natural products know something about GMOs—genetically modified organisms. But because mainstream media has refused to cover the subject, GMOs continue to be in mainstream food products and Americans, unaware of the dangers they present, go on consuming them as part of their diets.

Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert, currently in progress on an as-yet-unnamed documentary on GMOs, wasn’t particularly aware of them either—and it was a coincidental visit to Haiti, of all places, that ended up tipping him off.

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Your Milk on Drugs (Part 1)

Dairy products from cows treated with genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST) may sharply increase cancer risk and other diseases, especially in children.

Already banned in most industrialized nations, it was approved in the US on the backs of fired whistleblowers, manipulated research, and a corporate takeover at the FDA. This important video includes footage prepared by a Fox news team—whose report was canceled after a letter from a corporate attorney threatened Fox with "dire consequences."

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Click here to see Your Milk on Drugs (Part 2).

See our full article on the concerns of scientists over the use of GMO and pesticides in our food supply.

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GMO Research—Science or Scam?

Ever wonder how Monsanto got GMOs so widely into our food and agriculture systems? One tool they used was scientific studies—that they rigged in their own favor. This video by Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology tells the real story.

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Stopping GMOs—We Have the Power

GMO expert Jeffrey Smith, founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology, says it's time for a "Food Fight with the FDA." The United States is the only major country in the world to allow GMO foods into the food supply with no labeling. How did Monsanto pull that off? Even animals, when presented with a choice, won't eat GMO corn. Surprised? Watch the video, pass it on and help get the message out!

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Alice Waters on Edible Education

Organic Connections is a big fan of Alice Waters and her Edible Schoolyard. We'd like to present you with a video of Alice speaking about the origins and importance of her Edible Schoolyard program and the "delicious revolution." Nourish.org created this and a series of videos by other food crusaders. For more information visit Nourish.org.

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Nutrition, Behavior and Education

There has been a lot of discussion, on-going debate, lobbying and political maneuvering on the subject of school cafeteria food. Jamie Oliver, Ann Cooper, Alice Waters, Michele Obama, Chef Greg Christian and host of other influencers have begun to turn the lumbering ship of school bureaucracy.

Here is a video that shows what can happen to our schools if we fully stay this course—dump and ban the junk foods and sugared garbage from our schools and feed kids properly. The real stories and actual successes along this line sometimes get buried by rhetoric and lobbying efforts. This video should end the debate and let everyone get down to work. Note: once you get past the rather schlocky voiceover it's totally worth it!

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The Store Wars: Organic food versus chemicals and GMOs

Welcome to a clever and funny animation parody of Star Wars. The producers made this video to alert people to the serious problems facing our food supply in our current society.

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Ingredients: A Film Exploration of the Local Food Movement

American food is in a state of crisis. Health, food costs and our environment are all in jeopardy. A movement to put good food back on the table is emerging. What began 30 years ago with chefs demanding better flavor, has inspired consumers to seek relationships with nearby farmers. This is local food.

The feature-length documentary, INGREDIENTS illustrates how people around the country are working to revitalize that connection. Narrated by Bebe Neuwirth, the film takes us across the U.S. from the diversified farms of the Hudson River and Willamette Valleys to the urban food deserts of Harlem and to the kitchens of celebrated chefs Alice Waters, Peter Hoffman and Greg Higgins.

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Visit IngredientsFilm.com for more information.

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Ruth Stout’s Garden

Ruth Stout's Garden is a lively film journey into the life of a woman who, from a perspective of more than ninety years, shows how easy is to grow vegetables. We have presented Ruth's story in two parts in this post as an homage to a remarkable individual who had a love for life and its simplicities that refreshing and inspiring.

Ruth Stout's Garden (1 of 2, 12 Minutes)

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Ruth Stout's Garden (2 of 2, 11 Minutes)

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inGREEDients—What’s in our foods that is making us sick

In the documentary film inGREEDients, registered nurse and filmmaker, David Burton, discovers an alarming connection between diet and illness while investigating trans fats and hydrogenated oils in America's food supply. Do you know what a partially hydrogenated oil is? What does zero grams of trans fat per serving really mean?

This compelling documentary takes the audience on a time-line journey through the history of human food consumption from prehistoric times to the present, where heart disease is the number one killer of humans and despite recent changes in food labeling laws, pounds of trans fats are consumed everyday.

The film also includes a brief look at heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, the three diseases most directly connected with our consumption of trans fats, chemical food additives, and processed food.

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Click here to visit the website for this film.

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Chef Ann Cooper: Reinventing the school lunch

Ann Cooper, also known as the Renegade Lunch Lady, recorded this talk at a TED conference in 2007. We find it interesting, if not a bit sad, that this video is just a relevant today—if not more so.

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Click here to read our feature on Ann Cooper.

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Mark Ruffalo Calls For Tar Sands Sit-in at the White House

Mark Ruffalo, in the growing tradition of celebrities taking responsibility for the world around them, has added his voice to the movement to push back against the Keystone XL pipeline—a pipeline from the tar sands in Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

In the video below, Ruffalo says, “I’ve seen the kind of damage that out-of-control energy development can do to water and to communities near my own home, where fracking for natural gas is causing widespread pollution ... All these problems are connected. We need to get off fossil fuels.”

Ruffalo has long been an outspoken advocate against fracking and is now helping with the call to the protest the pipeline that will carry heated, toxic crude across our entire country.

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For more information visit TarSandsAction.org.

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An Eleven-Year-Old Tells Us What’s Wrong With Our Food System

Birke Baehr gave a stunning summation of what's wrong with our food system last year at a TEDx conference. His address was professional, succinct and delivered with a precision that was inconsistent with what we would expect from someone his age—eleven at that time.

We're presenting his address here because his points are still as true and important today as they were nearly a year ago.

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