Assorted media for perusal, and for the first day of class

• My blog, Animal Politics, which discusses a lot of food politics issues (and is, obviously, my personal opinion) 
• Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) vid: 'farm animals and us' (pt 1 of 3)
• Michael Pollan on Bill Moyers Journal (2008)
• Vandana Shiva on the global food crisis 
  
• Nick Kristof on micronutrients in Africa
• On the power of breeding: the 'super cow'
• Chipotle ad - "Back to the Start"
• Stephen Colbert in congress
• Modest Mouse - "King Rat"
• "Hitler was a vegetarian" 
• Moby on veganism
• The case of coffee
• "The Meatrix"

On Global Food Politics

• Nick Kristof on micronutrients in Africa
• NASA: Science for a Hungry World (Part 1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RJ6AqWAOEg
• Amy Goodman and Raj Patel on the global food crisis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDqNTP2JHuY 
• Raj Patel: the Value of Nothing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYCA49dy4N0 
• Food Production between now and 2050: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwKOBBo5co
• On the Rural-Urban divide in India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBFR3Qg5Jrs&feature=channel
• FRONTLINE piece on agricultural land ownership: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/12/brazil_cutting.html
• A Journeyman Pictures documentary on modern-day slavery in Brazil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i3UKmcZU_0&feature=channel 
• On Wal-Mart's new "Great for You" label: blog.fooducate.com/2012/02/08/is-walmarts-new-nutrition-label-really-great-for-you/ 
• Using drones to spy on farms: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16545333 

On Economic Globalization More Generally

• Vandana Shiva on globalization: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbVlZUsm34 
• Shiva on the global food crisis and the World Bank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfvYjZ5fyw
• Another example of anti-globalization activism: "The Yes Men Fix the World": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQX09DZLYE  
• An interview with John Perkins, the author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" (highly critical of corporate globalization): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WstddMJZQ 
• And an animated short on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ 
• A C-SPAN piece on NAFTA and the global economy: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293812-5 
• Jagdish Bhagwati on the free market and morality (from the 'big think' project): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6geDOPqSU 
• Bhagwati on the positive effects of trade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72H9Cnsn_lI&feature=related 
• A conversation with Bhagwati on the global economy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_JSV_TN_mk 
• World Economic Forum meeting at Davos in 2004: "the case for globalization": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwlZMKRljKM 
• Worldmapper index: http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/atozindex.html  
• Short video on the World Trade Organization's infamous Seattle trade round: http://www.5min.com/Video/World-Trade-Organization-on-Environmental-Issues-489143527 
• Trade and Environment portal from the WTO's youtube site (featuring General Director Pascal Lamy): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8A82516096ACA6AF 
• On the trade in tropical agriculture: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/oct/01/pineapple-trade-costa-rica 

Related Links

•  In Bolivia, a Quinoa Quandary - Popularity means more money for farmers, but people can't afford it
•  One Nation, Underfed | Raj Patel
•  Bio-fuels, Speculation, Land Grabs = Food Crisis - YouTube
•  The Impracticality of a Cheeseburger: Scientific American
•  Breadfruit, 'Food of the Future,' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible - WSJ.com
•  Beef Will Be What's for Dinner for a Long Time, Panelists Say - NYTimes.com
•  The New Agtivists: FoodCorps foot soldiers | Grist
•  A Regional Approach to Managing Africa's Food Shocks - Brookings Institution
•  What The World Eats - Shocking Photos
•  Edible RFID Tags Describe Your Food - Gizmodo 

In the news, and re. class discussion

• Speaking of strange (and gross) foods...: http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/  
• The Onion on sugar regulation: http://www.theonion.com/articles/should-sugar-be-regulated,27260/ 
• A curious assortment of food photos: 'food stuff'
• And here's the link for the debate on obesity and government policy I mentioned: http://fora.tv/2012/02/07/Obesity_is_the_Governments_Business 
• Documentary on competitive eater, "El Wingador": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/opinion/el-wingador.html?_r=2 

On American Food Policy & Politics

• AgWired hosted a 'food chat' on Twitter this Tuesday night, which I followed: http://agwired.com/2011/10/19/foodchat-questions/ 
• Food politics in the news: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/us/politics/potatoes-get-senate-protection-on-school-lunch-menus.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss  
• Website for a prominent livestock trade journal: http://www.feedstuffs.com/ME2/Default.asp 
• Animal Ag Alliance clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigGTgP_qDE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_xD-01f5M
• And speaking of cereal advertising: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/evolution-of-us-breakfast-cereals/  
• The McRib gets a humane touch: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/omg-mcdonalds-does-the-right-thing/?hp 
• Trader Joe's and Immokalee's Fair Food Agreement: http://www.culinate.com/articles/sift/trader_joes_tomato_workers_fair_food_agreement 
• On the junkfoodification of carrots: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/154/the-new-junk-food.html 
• Speaking of strange (and gross) foods...: http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/  
• A curious assortment of food photos: 'food stuff'
• And here's the link for the debate on obesity and government policy I mentioned: http://fora.tv/2012/02/07/Obesity_is_the_Governments_Business 
• Documentary on competitive eater, "El Wingador": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/opinion/el-wingador.html?_r=2 
• In praise of prepared food?: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/in-praise-of-prepared-food/2011/08/25/gIQA9H9o8Q_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein 
• Michael Pollan's Food Rules animated in stop-motion: www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/15/michael-pollans-food-rules-rsa-stop-motion 
• Cafeteria food politics in action: http://www.newser.com/story/139751/uproar-after-nc-state-agent-fixes-girls-lunch.html 
• Heart Attack Grill - literally: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/02/someone-actually-had-heart-attack-las-vegass-heart-attack-grill/48743/ 

On Tomatoland

• An interview with Terri Gross: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137371975/how-industrial-farming-destroyed-the-tasty-tomato 
• An NYT review: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/books/tomatoland-barry-estabrooks-expose-review.html 
• A more critical review, in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/21/tomatoland-or-why-i-wish-authors-would-read-books/ 
• An interview for Bloomberg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em0jdNYmcTk 
• A lecture at Harvard Law School: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN48HPG_8T8 

On American Food Policy & Politics

• Animal Ag Alliance clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigGTgP_qDE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_xD-01f5M
• The McRib gets a humane touch: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/omg-mcdonalds-does-the-right-thing/?hp 
• Trader Joe's and Immokalee's Fair Food Agreement: http://www.culinate.com/articles/sift/trader_joes_tomato_workers_fair_food_agreement 
• More on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) recent campaigns: http://politicsoftheplate.com/?p=1241 
• On the junkfoodification of carrots: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/154/the-new-junk-food.html 
• Speaking of strange (and gross) foods...: http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/  
• And here's the link for the debate on obesity and government policy I mentioned: http://fora.tv/2012/02/07/Obesity_is_the_Governments_Business 

Re. class discussion, and in the news

• Speaking of HACCP and risk: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/16/146994249/yes-theres-arsenic-in-your-rice-but-is-that-bad?ft=1&f=1053 
• Here's the interview I mentioned between Jack Abramoff and Lawrence Lessig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvIS5pZ0eI 
• (And the two Abramoff films I mentioned--Casino Jack and Casino Jack and the United States of Money--are both on Netflix WI)
• On the ecological damage of farmed shrimp: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/02/your-shrimp-cocktail-ruining-planet/48901/ 
• Candy bars and portion size: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/15/146929211/goodbye-to-the-king-size-mars-to-downsize-candy-bars-in-2013 
• The newest developments in in vitro meat: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/19/10449704-lab-grown-hamburger-due-to-be-served-up-this-year-for-330000 
• And a Fox News poll here: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/02/20/would-buy-and-eat-burger-made-from-stem-cell-meat/ 
• When Taco Bell meets Doritos: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2012-02-20/taco-bell/53157494/1 
• Food, race, and humor - Conan on soul food: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Be4o1MPMxGg#! 

Robert Paarlberg on Food Politics

• A short intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H4yFmnskS0 
• And a series of longer talks
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmpOGub2PGE 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGxVJjUw-CU&feature=related 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOlejm4G7xg 
• Website for the International Food Policy Research Institute (with which he is affiliated): http://www.ifpri.org/ 
• The World Bank's Paul Collier on "the bottom billion": http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_shares_4_ways_to_help_the_bottom_billion.html 
• And Collier on food and the urban poor (specifically attacking American biofuels policy and the European ban on GMOs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXTFuqJ-Hgs 
• And the book of the same name (which I strongly recommend): http://www.amazon.com/Bottom-Billion-Poorest-Countries-Failing/dp/0195311450 
• And a related NYT Opinionator post on perceptions of risk in different contexts: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/the-wages-of-eco-angst/?hp 
• An 'optimistic' view on animals and biotechnology here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCIvAuwaf-o 

Re. class discussion, and in the news

• Speaking of HACCP and risk: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/16/146994249/yes-theres-arsenic-in-your-rice-but-is-that-bad?ft=1&f=1053 
• Here's the interview I mentioned between Jack Abramoff and Lawrence Lessig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvIS5pZ0eI 
• (And the two Abramoff films I mentioned--Casino Jack and Casino Jack and the United States of Money--are both on Netflix WI)
• Food in space: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/23/147294191/why-astronauts-crave-tabasco-sauce?ft=1&f=1053 
• And speaking of lobster: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=maines-biggest-lobster-returned-to 
• Harvard's version of the USDA 'My Plate': http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/09/harvard-serves-up-its-own-plate/?utm_content 
• A recent Harvard Thinks Big talk on obesity and society: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pe03dDpDykU#! 
• This recent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic does a good job of encapsulating Stone's work on causal stories and the formation of policy agendas: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2534 
• Speaking of sushi and sustainability: http://vimeo.com/36994466

On Certification Schemes and Ecolabeling 

• On the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk83zjCW0qA
• On the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-BzXgJQYJA
• eco-labels for paint, plumbing, and wood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu3zsA4FJ-c 
• On the dangers of 'greenwashing': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6IF99TiZzk
• Another example: Certified Humane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOUiXBds50
• On the dangers of ecolabel proliferation and consumer confusion: http://news.change.org/stories/when-well-meaning-labels-confuse-consumers 

Links below, from my environmental studies link archive, all related to class discussion...

Malthus and Darwin

• An example of the 'systems approach': Demography, population, and groundwater depletion: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/rate_of_groundwater_depletion_worldwide_doubled_since_1960_study_says/2610/  
• A (long) PBS documentary on Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (for a non-racist explanation of history that uses Darwin's insights): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgnmT-Y_rGQ  
• Carl Sagan: COSMOS. On Evolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZpsVSVRsZk  

Ecosystems

• Silly but helpful song about food chains and ecological pyramids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6wqG4nb3M
• Three kinds of symbiosis
• Mutualism (birds and water buffalo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BEKrc-aXF8&feature=PlayList&p=875EE9F533F53BD0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1
• Commensalism (fish and a crocodile): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzLQugxNjY
• Parasitism ('zombie snails'): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw
• Bees as a keystone species (NATURE special): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIUo3STj6tw 
• A video on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) from UNEP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSrAvJOtb4 

Population and Urbanization

• on living in Lagos: http://current.com/items/86999401_lagos-la-vida-loca.htm 
• Girl's education in Northern Nigeria (among other issues): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp08wj0ik6s&feature=channel

• Public Health and Maternal Mortality among India's poor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoGvxlFyFXg 
• On the Rural-Urban divide in India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBFR3Qg5Jrs&feature=channel 

 Soil, Water, Mineral, and Forest Resources

• Groundwater-the hidden source of life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iht9WBBXepA
• Managing stormwater runoff (EPA vid): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huO_NRn34GI
• Lecture on soil horizons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhyMsisRD8

On Animal Agriculture

• The 'real story' on chicken farms...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_fBiuH0gKI
• "The Meatrix": http://www.themeatrix.com/
• Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) vid: 'farm animals and us' (pt 1 of 3): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqbEHP3RzUE&feature=related
• One recent and disturbing event: Egypt's pig cull in response to the H1NI 'swine' flu (over 300,000 pigs killed): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYB4sDKh3FI
• A global (activist's) perspective: "factory farming in India": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClpXIzSzNoM 
• A quintessential segment of 'meat-and-potatoes Americana' with Baxter Black (why am I playing this??): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rQzUVQjd8
• A critical view of the World Organization for Animal Health's (OIE) 2005 global conference on animal welfare (from CIWF): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZV5nHLpS4&feature=related
• A 'farmer's view' on confinement agriculture: 'battle of animal welfare versus animal agriculture': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_geGpOX5n34
• "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe at TED on livestock and local knowledge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc 
• BBC documentary, "the woman who thinks like a cow", about Temple Grandin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ycu3JFRrA (see also this TED video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn_9f5x0f1Q)
• Animal Ag Alliance clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigGTgP_qDE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_xD-01f5M
• "Hitler was a vegetarian": http://www.vegetariansareevil.com/hitler.html 
• Website for a prominent livestock trade journal: http://www.feedstuffs.com/ME2/Default.asp 
• Webcoming 'Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal's tongue-in-cheek take on food animal ethics: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2393 
• 1-minute pitch for Vegan Outreach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4Sl08_CMdL0 
• Putting animal ag in the context of Occupy Wall Street - what do you think about this?: http://planetoftheanimals.blogspot.com/2011/10/well-never-forget-animals.html 

Animals as Symbols 

• John Berger's famous Ways of Seeing (not specifically about animals, but parallels can be drawn): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI  
• A very different--and quite odd--form of symbolism: the 'cheezburger empire': http://icanhascheezburger.com/ 
• 'Formal portraits' with animals: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Regresiones/262428 
• Masked monkeys...: http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2011/06/02/topeng-monkeys/ 
• "Alan, Alan, Alan!": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hwLbhpatJo 

On Food Lobbying

• The 'food lobby goes to school' video I showed you a while back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVfAWbitBTs
• Lawrence Lessig interviewing Jack Abramoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvIS5pZ0eI 
• And a 'bio' of Nestle here - notice the way this is framed...who do you think wrote this?: http://activistcash.com/biography.cfm/b/3381-marion-nestle-dr 

On Marketing Food to Kids

• A talk by Nestle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qO39VEc0Ag 
• On the 'nag factor': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-KwCNOg0qs&feature=related 

In the News

• Trailer for the new PBS series Food Forward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnKobtfvUTs&feature=player_embedded#!  
  
• Another PBS show (sent to me by my mom) on the American food system: 'Food Machine': http://video.pbs.org/video/2214315175
• Rise of autism linked to the American diet: http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/25919-1 
• I saw this at the gym - it'll be on again next Thursday night - "Supermarket, Inc." http://www.cnbc.com/id/40887785 
• 'Food deserts', or 'food swamps'?: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of-food-deserts-and-obesity-challenged-in-studies.html 
• And a follow-up panel to the recent NYT piece on veganism here: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/17/is-veganism-good-for-everyone/