8 videos tagged food safety
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Eric Schlosser
What’s wrong with industrial agriculture?
Eric Schlosser highlights the damage caused by decades of intensive food production. Schlosser believes that industrialized agriculture carries serious costs in both animal and…
Recorded: 28 October 2006
Erika Lesser
What is the Slow Food movement? (Part One)
Slow Food is a global movement dedicated to the preservation of traditional food culture. In this two-part series Erika Lesser, Director of Slow Food USA, compares slow food with…
Recorded: 11 April 2005
Erika Lesser
What is the Slow Food movement? (Part Two)
Slow Food is a global movement dedicated to the preservation of traditional food culture. In this two-part series Erika Lesser, Director of Slow Food USA, compares slow food with…
Recorded: 11 April 2005
Mae-Wan Ho
Is genetic modification unsafe? (Part One)
In this two-part series, Dr Mae-Wan Ho describes why Genetic Modification is unsafe. Growing scientific evidence suggests that genes are not permanently fixed, but can change in…
Recorded: 31 January 2005
Mae-Wan Ho
Is genetic modification unsafe? (Part Two)
In this two-part series, Dr Mae-Wan Ho describes why Genetic Modification is unsafe. Growing scientific evidence suggests that genes are not permanently fixed, but can change in…
Recorded: 31 January 2005
Vandana Shiva
Why does biodiversity loss matter?
Dr. Shiva talks about the damaging ecological effects of agricultural monoculture – the large-scale production of single crops. She goes on to warn that the loss of biodiversity…
Recorded: 12 September 2004
Patrick Holden
What is wrong with intensive farming?
As Director of the U.K.’s largest organic certifier, Patrick Holden talks about the agricultural crisis brought about by fifty years of intensive farming. He describes how…
Recorded: 11 March 2004
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Can GM solve the problem of global hunger?
Many Bio-tech companies market their GM seeds using the claim that GM is the answer to world hunger. Here, Norberg-Hodge explains how these profit-driven corporations are in reality…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
