Real Food Clips

Mongolia Cashmier Sweaters

-obvious TBL; cutting out the middle man meant they could pay the farmers more and their products cost less

-agriculture related

Moving the lettuce processing factory

-follows the seasons

-moves the factory 2 times every year bc cheaper

-industrial process

-how does the lettuce look so perfect? don’t need chemicals anymore? irrigate it all

The labor of celery harvest

-work hardening

GoSun Stove + Grill

-solar stove

-prevent smoke inhalation

-it is possible to cook without using fossil fuel energy (ex: wood)

Traditional food info: Seoul Kimchi Festival

-keeping the tradition alive

-shelf stable vegetable

-used as flavoring; cabbage made with fermented seafood and hot peppers

-doesn’t take any energy to make

-TBL: preserving culture and envionrmentally friendly

Geothermal backing volcano bread

-rye tolerate cold more than wheat

-takes no energy

-TBL: ecotourism

Fish Sauce + study

-made of achnovys and sea salt

-fermented in barrels

-high in Na+ (essential mineral); individual amino acids → umami experience; vit D?

-know your foodshed/passed down knowledge

-makes cooking healthier? Ken says yes bc cooking, enjoyable

Study

-Thiamine deficiency in Cambodia common bc diet high in white rice

-Study spiked fish sauce w/ thiamine and gave it to the mothers

-Double blind, RCT, dif groups (ad libium, dif concentrations)

-Measured mom’s blood levels, breast milk, and the infants blood

-Results: those who got thiamine, especially at higher levels, had more in the mom’s blood, breastmilk, and infant

-Example of good research and how can make a difference w/ research

*disease prevents=beriberi

side notes: antibiotics and Ogalla aquifer

-Antibiotics: resistance bacteria in cows; using peptobiotics for agriculture

-Oglala aquifer: =below ground so needs lots of rain; low water level recently

+caffeinated cliff bars: connivence and sports nutrition

+SNAP accepted at farmers markets

+Grist article on Texas water

Food Inc.

-industrial food system, so much so have gotten to point people don’t know what they’re eating; lot of stuff made from corn

-more change in food system recently than ever before

-tabaco industry good example how companies irresponsible behavior can be changed

-noble goal for society to produce nutrient dense food that makes people healthy and feel better

-legal manipulations; gatekeepers

-feeling of dark → hockey

-Oprah against beef industry, but sued in court

-no picture bc don’t want the wrong idea out there?
-every time we buy something, because want to see more of it in the future; vote w/ what food you buy

King Corn

-2 college guys but an acre of a corn field

-”everything on plate is corn”

-not sweet corn, field corn

-industrial processes can transfer corn into many things

-had to call chemist to make high fructose corn syrup

Fast Food Nation

-lot of people work in food production, lot of undocumented immigrants in high risk jobs

-mimicking nutrients; food scientist come up with experiences; need smell to taste

Super Size Me

-documentary of 1 month experience only eating at McDonals; Morgan Spirlock

-went from lean and health → rapid deteration of health (up 25 lbs, high chol, liver dysfunction similar to alcoholics)

• sick bc of Mcdonalds or bc eating a lot?

-lots of sugar and fat

-felt tired and depressed

-school lunch programs have fast food

-discontinued super size option

Super Size Me 2

-fast food now healthier?

-starts own chicken restaurant

-”fried” → “crispy”; “free range”

-”greenwashing”= try to get people to think company is sustainable by adding green to the label; “health washing/health halo”= add green to label to make it seem like it’s healthy

Ingredidents

-US spends less on food and more on medicine; choose between paying farmers or doctors

-lost # farmers (less than 1% population), yet still feeding more people

-educated by fast food system, think cooking a chore

-potential in farmers markets

-culture should elevate food side of things

-have to teach kid how to pick the blueberry? shows sophistication, instincts deep in us how to find food

-ship more food now

Polyfaces

-model of how farming could be; in Virginia

-thought about ecology; how was thousands of years ago, keep moving things

-need wealthy people for this kind of farming?

-what regenerative agriculture could look like

Can You Dig This

-gardens in LA

-different food angles

-most people have no connections to farms

-change takes time, planning, and energy

*+ recognize eating whole foods good advise, but most people don’t or can’t do so (due to knowledge, education, political, envionrmental, etc.)