Agriculture: The Basics of Our Industrial Food System in 5 minutes

The surprising, and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced, and the effect it has on our health and our communities. This essential information summarizes the world's industrial food system brought about by the 'green revolution'. Highlighting the resource intensive system based upon cheap oil, our current food system generates numerous problems in order to provide us with the cheap food we currently enjoy. Be sure to check out my other 5 minute videos on the issues we face with Oil and Water in the coming decades.

Video Sources:

Home (Available to watch online)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
Future of Food (Available to watch online)
http://www.thefutureoffood.com/onlinevideo.html
Food Inc
http://www.foodincmovie.com/
Dirt
http://www.dirtthemovie.org/
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
www.whatawaytogomovie.com/
National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/six-degrees-could-change-the-wo...
E2 Transport: Food Miles
http://www.pbs.org/e2/about.html

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Vandana Shiva
• Michael Pollan
• Janine Benyus
• Richard Manning
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Jamais Cascio
• Stuart Pimm
• Industrial
• food
• system
• agriculture
• soil
• dirt
• pesticides
• health
• deforestation
• desertification
• environment
• environmental
• economic
• top soil
• eat
• pollute
• pollution
• carbon footprint
• global warming
• global
• local
• animals
• inhumane
• irrigation
• food inc
• food miles
• home
• future of food
• ecology
• ecological
• 2010
• 2011
• 2012
• National Geographic
• organic
• plants

[Bakalakah]

Great compilation, you really bring it down to the bottomline.

[foodparadisetv]

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