Two activists take on McDonald's in the longest trial in English history. McLibel is the inside story of how a single father and a part-time bar worker took on the McDonald's Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris as they are transformed from anonymous campaigners against the fast food giant into unlikely global heroes. Struggling to defend themselves in the longest trial in English history, the pair face infiltration by spies, secret meetings with corporate executives, 40,000 pages of background reading and a visit from Ronald McDonald. Using interviews with witnesses and reconstructions of key moments in court, the film examines the main issues of the trial - nutrition, animals, advertising, employment, the environment - and the implications for freedom of speech. 80 min. Download here.
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Big Sugar- Sweet Slavery
Big Sugar explores the dark history and modern power of the sugar industry. It reveals how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the 18th century, while showing how present-day consumers are slaves to a sugar-based diet. Even today, sugar cane cutters live like slaves, in appalling conditions on plantations.
Sugar was the oil industry of the 18th century, when vast fortunes were made. Even the Church of England was a slave holder. The British oppositon to slavery becam the first modern political activist movment and Big Sugar responded with the first modern public relations campagin. Today, agressive marketing and lax nutritional standards have given rise to a global epidemic of obesity and diabeties, particularly in children and the poor. Do you think any U.S. network would dare to risk the wrath of sugar advertizers by showing this CBC News (Canada) program?
Part 1 download here.
Part 2 download here.
Sugar was the oil industry of the 18th century, when vast fortunes were made. Even the Church of England was a slave holder. The British oppositon to slavery becam the first modern political activist movment and Big Sugar responded with the first modern public relations campagin. Today, agressive marketing and lax nutritional standards have given rise to a global epidemic of obesity and diabeties, particularly in children and the poor. Do you think any U.S. network would dare to risk the wrath of sugar advertizers by showing this CBC News (Canada) program?
Part 1 download here.
Part 2 download here.
The World According to Monsanto
The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto creates Roundup Ready soybeans, BHT corn and other frankenfoods, GMO crops, terminator seeds, BGH milk, and other threats to agricultural biodiversity and public health. This documentary aired on French television. - Americans will never see it. 2 hrs.
Fast Food World: The Global Food Chain
A really good panel discussion about the political, social and biological impact of food production and consumption with journalism professor Michael Pollan, "Fast Food Nation" author Eric Schlosser, Wendel Berry, author of "The Unsettling of America", food activist Vandava Shiva and "Slow Food" founder Carlo Petrini. How have globalized corporate agribusiness and fast food affected us, and how are slow food and sustainable agriculture responding? 56 min. Download here.
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