Anna Lappé & Food MythBusters -- Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world?

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How can we feed the world—today and tomorrow?

The biggest players in the food industry—from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and manufacturers—spend billions of dollars every year not selling food, but selling the idea that we need their products to feed the world. But, do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? Can sustainably grown food deliver the quantity and quality we need—today and in the future? Our first Food MythBusters film takes on these questions in under seven minutes. So next time you hear them, you can too.

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[Alfredo Rafael Habersham Pabon]

Anne Leonard's sister? 

[RealFoodMediaProject]

Good eye! Annie Leonard is a strong supporter of this project but the person speaking in the video is Anna Lappé.

[Bamaparson]

Having lived around farmers for years it isn't quite as easy as you make it sound. Big government makes it hard for farmers. They have their hand in every step of the process from getting the seed in the ground to the product being sold and purchased.

And throwing around big numbers that can't possibly be true isn't helpful either. You mention losing 64 tons of topsoil per acre. That's crazy impossible. Dig up 128,000 pounds of dirt from your one acre yard and see what kind of hole you get.

[RealFoodMediaProject]

Definitely. Part of the movie is tackling the government's role in making things hard-to-impossible for farmers.

As for where the numbers are coming from, please do check out our citations on our website. Crazy, sad...but true and measurable.

[TECpeds94]

I want this to have 1 million views!!!

[RealFoodMediaProject]

We do too! 50 million! Please help us send it to all of your friends and family -- around the world! It can go global; it's multi-lingual!

[RealFoodMediaProject]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the comment. Everything in the video has citations and based in research of over a decade of work. Please go to the website to download the Sources & Citations .pdf and where you can find many of the sources we cite. We are working on annotating the video now with the citations so our dedication to research can be more clearly evidenced.

[RealFoodMediaProject]

Thanks Christian. Please go to the Foodmyths Website for fully annotated bibliography and the hard reports and research that were used for all the statements in the movie. It's all available for download. Thanks!

[DefianceGal]

To Everyone Buy Local, Buy Organic!

[DefianceGal]

Well done on putting this together :)

[Lai Yin Stenqvist]

Fantastic video. I shall put it to my Youtube Channel and Facebook!

[djfeas001]

Very good summary, very very good.

[dwarreI]

Come on people, help me bashing the deceptive talk in this video from chemical company of Basf: /watch?v=FhiEJOC_-kc&list=PLF5­505A448F70F24B

[knightstavern]

... not to mention the insane amount of food being trashed every single day

[erdingtown]

the property taxes in america are so high, that its forcing farmers to sell to the corporation. compare this to bavaria where there are no property taxes and farms have been in families for years. And in america when farmers pass on, the children have to sell the farm because they can't afford the inheritance taxes. no wonder americans are so sick and fat compared to the rest of the world. CORPORATE FARMING

[Luc de Selva]

Simple, rotate with other crops, silly, "Natural Farming" no-till style.

[Luc de Selva]

Simple, rotate with other crops, silly, "Natural Farming" style.