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GRITtv: Got Docs: From Grass to Cheese
Last week, we spoke to David Kirby and Rick Dove about the harmful effects of factory farming. This week, we look at a documentary in progress about a small family farm.
From Grass to Cheese is the story of the Nolan family and their Laurel Valley Creamery, founded in 2005 as a way to make cheese sustainably and renew the connection between people and their food. The film, which you can help support on Kickstarter, will show the human side of farming.
Email this pageGRITtv: Mar. 8 2010
Joining us today, International Women's Day, to talk about women around the world are Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, and Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls of femLINKpacific: Media Initiatives for Women in Fiji. They discuss war and peace, media use, and women's rights as human rights."From Grass to Cheese" is the story of the Nolan family and their Laurel Valley Creamery, founded in 2005 as a way to make cheese sustainably and renew the connection between people and their food. Staying on the topic of food, honeybees pollinate one out of every three bites of food on our tables, so when they started disappearing, beekeepers and other environmental activists took notice. Filmmakers Maryam Henein and George Langworthy took notice as well, and put together a documentary that looks into the circumstances.The Citizens United decision will allow corporate spending on elections at unprecedented levels, but it also seems to have had a motivating effect on pro-democracy activists. This video looks at one activist spurred to organize by the decision.Humor can be a powerful tool for justice and can help spread your message. So say our friends at the Tactical Technology Collective, who have seen tools from karaoke to comedy aid in organizing.Finally, Laura notes that union leaders and activists are unhappy with Obama's focus--away from the working people that need the most help.
GRITtv: Factory Farms, the Environment, and Communities
Swine flu, bird flu, cancer, parasites, E. Coli...what do they all have in common? Factory farms, says investigative reporter David Kirby. In his new book, Animal Factory, he exposes the deep problems with the factory farming system and how it hurts people and the environment. Kirby joins Laura in studio to talk about the book and what we can do to fix our food supply, and Rick Dove of the Waterkeeper Alliance, explains the effect the farms have had on his home in North Carolina.
GRITtv: Mar. 3 2010
Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda. But our friends at the Roosevelt Institute are in the middle of a groundbreaking conference on market reform, and we asked a few of their guests to join us in studio. Lynn Parramore, editor of New Deal 2.0 for the Institute, Raj Date, chairman and executive director of the Cambridge Winter Center for Financial Institutions Policy, and Lawrence White of NYU's Stern School of Business discuss where financial reform is headed and what will happen to us if it dies.
Speaking of regulation, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund has an ongoing series, "Hard Times Profiteers," looking into schemes cropping up around the country. David Vlateck of the Federal Trade Commission explains.
Swine flu, bird flu, cancer, parasites, E. Coli...what do they all have in common? Factory farms, says investigative reporter David Kirby. In his new book, Animal Factory, he exposes the deep problems with the factory farming system and how it hurts people and the environment. Kirby joins Laura in studio to talk about the book and what we can do to fix our food supply, and Rick Dove of the Waterkeeper Alliance explains the effect the farms have had on his home in North Carolina.
The always lyrical Jay Smooth weighs in on what rappers think is profitable these days, and how not being lyrical is "the subprime mortgage of hip-hop," and our friends at Ramblin' Man Films look at the growing movement for student loan justice.
Finally, Laura has some thoughts about the secrets that really shape our society.
