Saturday, October 22, 2011

My recommendations to watch

These are some excellent documentaries I have personally watched & want to share with you!
  • Vanishing Bees
  • Food Matters
  • Food, Inc
  • The Business of Being Born
  • Pregnant in America
  • The Future of Food thru Hulu
  • My Potato Project; The Importance of Organic" youtube video- child's experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply.
  • The Disappearing Male -doc about mainly BPA's hormonal effect on males
  • Plastic Ocean - "Just this one chemical used to make hard, clear plastic, BPA, is produced at over 7 billion pounds a year, and it's a non-recyclable plastic." It's thrown into the environment, many already know the dangers associated by this particular chemical. This video documents a apparent floating garbage island the size of Texas off the coasts of California & Japan. Entertaining, but educational- mainly just the beginning segment. It does reveal, however that there is not one "island" per-say of garbage- but rather pieces are scattered throughout, and the more broken down it becomes, the smaller & easier for small food-chain members to eat, fish, birds, ect. These plastics will only break down to a certain degree, not like natural things for sustaining life.
  • Know Your Plastic Food Containers -very good video, sums up by avoiding codes 3, 6, & 7
  • Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution (can be found on Netflix)- french documentary following a school in a town who's mayor decided their cafeteria would only serve organic food. They teach the children about foods, and they grow a garden & save seeds in the school yard. Talk with many farmers who use chemical pesticides and also about health issues and how these are related. Cancer is a big after-effect. It'd be nice to see the US try this.

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