Videos - KEYS 4015 - Food for Thought - Library at Webster University

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All in this tea by Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht
2009
Summary: Follows the world-renowned tea expert David Lee Hoffman to some of the most remote regions of China in search of the best handmade teas in the world. During his youth, he spent four years with Tibetan monks in Nepal where he was introduced to some of the finest tea. Unable to find anything but insipid tea bags in the U.S., Hoffman began traveling to China to find tea for himself, climbing up lush, terraced mountainsides to meet the farmers who practiced skills handed down through generations of tea makers for thousands of years.
Big river: A King corn companion by Aaron Woolf
2009
Summary: In King corn: Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America's modern food system.--From publisher description. In Big River, they investigate the environmental impact their acre of corn has had on the people and places downstream.

Common ground by Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell
Publication Date: 2023
The film focuses on the promising effects of the system of regenerative farming, and how implementing it into farms across the planet can have effects that can stop climate change in its tracks, and restore our atmosphere

Food fight: A story of culinary revolt by Christ Taylor
2012
Summary: Looks at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century and how the California food movement created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness and launched the local organic movement.
King corn: You are what you eat by Aaron Woolf et al.
2007
Summary: "Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat, and how we farm"--Container.
Our daily bread by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
2009
Summary: Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming. Produced between October 2003 and October 2005 the film looks into the places where food is produced in European farms, greenhouses, processing plants and other places where crops and animals are cultivated and processed to become food for people. The images of food and animals treated as an industrial products are presented without comment.
The power of community: How Cuba survived peak oil by Faith Morgan
2006
Summary: "When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis -- feeding the population -- and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farm and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one"--Container.
The real dirt on farmer John by Taggart Siegel
2008
Summary: The award-winning true story of third-generation American farmer John Peterson's hero's journey of success, tribulation, failure and rebirth. He's not only a farmer, he's an artist too.

We feed the world by Erwin Wagenhofer
Publication Date: 2009
Summary A globe-trotting exposé of our modern agricultural system. From struggling fishermen and long-distance truckers, to agronomists and multi-national corporate executives. Presents a sobering portrait of the people who define the contemporary food industry, where the constant pursuit of profit takes precedence over the health of the workers, the hungry, and the environment. Reveals the distressing problems of the industrialized world food system and what world hunger has to do with us. Nearly 1 billion of the 7 billion people on Earth are starving, but the food produced could feed 12 billion people.

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Emerging food drivers and trends (2020)
Summary Consumer drivers are constantly evolving and have a major impact on the development, design and commercial success of new food products. This video discusses emerging drivers such as health and wellness, environmental concerns and animal welfare. Interviews with food innovators from the Monash Food Innovation Centre and CSIRO make this key viewing for food studies at a senior secondary level or higher. (1 video file (5 min., 23 sec))
Food / PBS (2020)
Summary: How do we harness energy to feed our growing population without the downsides of industrialization? Food traces a centuries-long journey across Europe, Asia, and the United States to show us the energy it takes to bring us our food. (1 video file (54 min., 42 sec))
The food detectives: food wastage is making you poor (2020)
Summary What if I told you everday you're throwing away one third of your cash in the trash. Well unfortunately this is true. Approximately one third of the food that's produced globally goes to waste. And if that's not scary enough, we're wasting more food than we did 10 years ago. Are we buying food just for the bin? Are we throwing away perfectly good produce? What is it that we are doing wrong when doing the grocery shopping, cooking and eating out? Well today you're going to face a couple of hard facts. Food wastage is making you poor. (24 minutes)
The food detectives: panicking about packaging (2020)
Summary Today, we're not just looking into food, but also how it's stored and sold to us. It's all about food packaging. From fancy long cartons to attention grabbing words and colors, food packaging is an integral part of food purchasing and consumption. But, is it actually disguising what's really in our food? Is it safe from contaminants and are kids actually influenced by packaging? (23 minutes)
The outlook for the business of food by Wall Street Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Streaming video.
Summary Continental Grain CEO Paul Fribourg discusses where profits and innovation will be found across the food industry and the agricultural economy with WSJ's Jesse Newman. (24 minutes)

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