Debate: The Future of Food
Use the following videos for taking notes on the pros/cons of various types of agricultural practices.
Commercial Fishing & Aquaculture:
- Michael Pollan: “In Defense of Food” Trailer (teaser video clip to kick off pros/cons debate on the Future of Farming)
- "Lessons from Nature" (pro foraging)
- High tech Agribusiness (pro Agribusiness & GMO bias)
- Large Scale Intensive Farming, BBC
- Commercial vs. Sustainable Farming (pro Sustainable Farming bias)
- Extensive Farming, short video
- Bugs or Burgers? Exploring Edible Protein (pro "bug" bias)
- Food of the Future (pro insect bias, promoted by the Food & Agriculture Association of the UN)
- Bt Cotton: Seeds of Suicide (GMO seeds, India)
- Pros & Cons of GMOs, According to Bill Nye (tries to present neutral position discussing both pros & cons of GMOs)
- Pastoralism in Africa
- Pastoral Nomadism: "Against All Odds", Oxfam East Africa
- "Living Lightly: The Journey with Pastorilists", India
- Nomads in Modern Society: Reindeer Herding
- Modern Indigenous People: The Sami Today
- Ranchlands: Crossroads, Colorado Bison and Cattle Ranching
- "Why is it necessary to feed cattle in feedlots?", Australia (pro feedlot bias)
- Temple Grandin HBO movie trailer (pro feedlot bias)
- Temple Grandin - Humane Cattle Livestock Feedlot/Slaughterhouse documentary (pro feedlot bias)
Commercial Fishing & Aquaculture:
- "End of the line" (short version) documentary clip(critical look at commercial fishing & overfishing)
- Singapore Urban Aquaculture short promo video (pro Aquaculture bias)
- “Aquaculture is Changing Lives in Bangladesh”, “The Importance of Sustainable Aquaculture, TEDx (pro Aquaculture bias)
- “Unsafe Shrimp and the question of Seafood Farming”Aljazeera (critical view/bias of aquaculture)
- “Farmed Salmon, Unsafe and Unsustainable”, OceanFuturesSociety (critical view/bias of aquaculture)
- “Should You Avoid Farmed Fish?” (video attempts to remain neutral on issue of aquaculture)
- U.S.: Millions of Americans Still Live in Food Deserts (ABC)
- U.S.: No Easy Access: Food Deserts in D.C. (NPR)
- U.S.: Building an Oasis in a Philadelphia Food Desert (PBSNewsHour)
- Venezuela: How Long does it take to buy 8 basic food items? (BBC News)
- Venezuela: Shortage of Basic Products in Venezuela (CNN)
Additional Resources:
Presentations/Slide Decks
Videos
- Types of Agriculture and Farming Practices (Slideshare review video)
- Different Types of Farming - intro video to Agriculture, GCSE Geography review
- Power of Place: "Chicago: Farming on the Edge" (start at 11:35min.)
- Food, Inc. "Too Broke to Eat Well?"
Websites
- Factory Farming Map (Interactive)
- ThirdWorldFarmerSIM (simulation)
Interesting Articles
- Food For Thought: The Higher Environmental Impact of the Eating Habits of White People in the U.S. (Geographical.co.uk)
- Floating Deep Farms to Feed a Growing Population (Geographical.co.uk)
- "Desperate workers on a Mexican mega-farm: 'They treated us like slaves' (LA Times shows the dark side of large-scale commercial farming in Mexico).
- Seeds of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming (GlobalResearch.ca)
- "We are What We Eat: Follow Corn through the industrial food system"
- André Laperrière: Executive Director at Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (Geographical.co.uk)
Interesting for "edutainment" value
- "The Meatrix" Relaunched -- Factory Farming Parody
- "Store Wars" - An even cornier farming parody
- Jamie Oliver: Nugget Experiment Epic Failure
- Chipotle Ad - (critical ad of GMOs and agribusiness)
- Chipotle Ad Review - (Positive Review)
- Chipotle Ad Agribusiness Lashback(Negative Chipotle Parody Ad)