Documentaries, Video Shorts, TV, Podcasts

The Senator Who Tried To Ban Popcorn In Movie Theaters by Dime Store Adventures

November 8, 2024

In 1949, Oregon State Senator Dean Walker wanted Popcorn and Peanuts banned at the movies. It was likely due to misophonia, not food allergies, though. Here's an interesting, but a tad long, video on the case.

#documentary #youtube #movietheater #movies #theater #history #popcorn #peanuts

Makers of ‘Food, Inc’ sequel launch impact campaign around pressing issues by Bahr, Lindsey

AP News, March 28, 2024

Quote: The Oscar nominated documentary “Food, Inc” helped change the way many consumers think about the systems behind the things we eat.

But in the 16 years since it came out, new problems have arisen and old problems got worse, magnified in part by shortages during the pandemic. They’re given a spotlight in a sequel, “ Food, Inc 2,” arriving in theaters and on digital in April…producers River Road and Magnolia Pictures, are launching a multi-faceted campaign to raise awareness about farm workers rights, corporate consolidation and ultra-processed foods.

#article #news #documentary #ultraprocessedfoods #processedfoods

11 Of The Most Faked Foods In The World | Big Business | Insider Business by Business Insider

September 3, 2023

Quote: Hate to break it to you, but your truffle oil wasn't made from truffles. Your vanilla extract? Well, that's probably just a lab-made derivative of crude oil. And your shaker of Parmesan cheese? It probably has wood pulp inside. 

You might feel the companies behind these food products are using deceptive packaging — but it's legal. However, there's a whole other level of trickery that's completely illegal: food fraud. That's when criminals bottle up corn syrup and call it 100% honey, or when they pass off cheap mozzarella as pure Parmigiano-Reggiano.

Maple syrup…The imitation kind is often a mix of corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, caramel color, and added flavorings. This kind of syrup isn't illegal. And you can tell it's not real maple when you see words like "pancake syrup" or "table syrup" on the label, while the authentic kind will say "100%" or "pure"... Honey…Dupes are made up of high-fructose corn syrup and other cheap syrups like glucose, rice, cane, or beet…

#documentary #youtube #fakedfood #cornsyrup #cornderivatives #additives #foodlabels #labeling #packaging

Stop eating corn. by Tran, Jake

Jake Tran, May 31, 2023

Note: A thirteen minute documentary covering a little about why corn is in everything.

#documentary #youtube #corn #history #cornindustry #bigcorn #agriculture

Science in your Shopping Cart | Season 3: Biomass || Episode 4: Bioproducts from Corn Waste

USDA-ARS, March 9, 2021

Quote: Learn about innovations and research that ARS scientists are conducting to produce biopolymers such as nanocellulose from corn waste as a replacement for popular synthetic plastic products.

#documentary #youtube #cornwaste #nanocellulose #cornproducts

The Poison Squad: The American People Had No Idea What They Were Eating. aired January 28, 2020

PBS

Quote: By the close of the Industrial Revolution, the American food supply was tainted with frauds, fakes, and legions of new and untested chemicals, dangerously threatening the health of consumers. Based on the book by Deborah Blum, The Poison Squad tells the story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish these dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food manufacturers and their allies. Wiley embarked upon a series of bold and controversial trials on 12 human subjects who would become known as the “Poison Squad.” Following Wiley’s unusual experiments and tireless advocacy, the film charts the path of the forgotten man who laid the groundwork for U.S. consumer protection laws, and ultimately the creation of the FDA.

#tv #pbs #USfoodsystem #ingredients #labeling #foodproduction #processedfood #ultraprocessedfoods #foodallergies #history #poisonsquad #deborahblum #cornallergy #glucose #cornsyrup #dextrose

The Corn Industry - Factory Farming, Processed Foods, and Ethanol by McConnell, Austin/Good To Know 

December 2019

Quote: Over the last 100 years Corn has transformed the US agriculture sector. Today the Corn industry has become key for the processed food industry, beverage industry, livestock and even the energy sector of the country. This revolution was spurred by government intervention in the form of agricultural subsidies and import tariffs. This however has lead to some significant externalities and market failures.

#corn #HFCS #ethanol #howitsmade #agriculture #usfoodsystem #usesofcorn #corneducation

Food C.I.A. (UK) 

2012-2014

Cast: Kate Quilton, Martin Dickie, James Watt, Matt Tebbutt, Jimmy Doherty

From the series: This docu-series sends its hosts all over the world to find out more about what goes into the food we buy.

#docuseries #series #tv #hbo #british #uk

Espressode 24: “CORNspiracy”

DOUBLE ESPRESSO WEB SERIES, April 5, 2012

Quote: While on vacation in Vancouver, Emilio visits his friend, Simon who has been forced to move there from the US after his wife fell seriously ill with a...corn allergy. Simon tells Emilio some worrying truths behind the world's leading agricultural giant's programme for creating 'genetically modified organisms' for export to the world. Jave Griffin and Michael Arturo co-star, written by Michael Arturo from Griffin's story, directed and produced by Norma Vega. Shot on location in Davis, California and Vancouver, British Columbia.

#videoshorts #fiction #cornallergy #cornallergyexperiene #blog (using author's hashtags: #harvest, #processedfoods, #foodpolitics, #vancouver, #documentary, #farming, #allergy, #allergies)

Weight of the Nation by Chaykin, Dan 

2012

From the series: To win we have to lose. HBO shines a bright light on America's obesity epidemic in this multi-part, multi-platform project that looks at causes, symptoms and treatments for the problem...and offers some possible solutions to restore our individual and collective health. Launching one of the most far-reaching public health campaigns on obesity, 'The Weight of the Nation' will feature four HBO documentaries and 10 supplemental films.

#docuseries #series #tv #hbo 

How Corn Fuels America from Modern Marvels 

2007

History Channel: Modern Marvels, Season 13, Episode 39

From the series: Why is corn the largest agricultural crop in the world? Corn has fed the masses from ancient times to this day. Corn is not only a vegetable and a cereal grain; it is a commodity as well. See more in Season 13, Episode 29, "Corn."

#documentary #TV #YouTube #HistoryChannel #corn #USFoodSystem

King Corn by Ellis, Ian Cheney and Curt 

2007

From the series: King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.

#documentary #movie #corn #USFoodSystem

Two Old Potatoes and Me

Reading Rainbow, April 28, 2005

A video on how corn is turned into plastic and some of the products it makes. The segment begins at 7:20.

#documentary #pla #plastic #corn #cornproducts

The Grain That Built A Hemisphere by Walt Disney Studios 

1943

Disney's 1940's view of corn's history

#movie #cartoon #history #disney

Our Brains Weren't Designed for This Kind of Food - Guest: Guyenet, Stephan J. Ph.D.

The Ezra Klein Show, February 28, 2023

From the producer: The neurobiologist Stephan Guyenet explains the fundamental mismatch between our bodies and the modern food system.

Our society’s dominant narrative is that body size is a product of individual willpower. We are skinny or fat because of the choices we make: the kinds of food we buy, the amounts we eat, the exercise regimens we follow.

Research has never been kind to this thesis. It’s a folk narrative we use to punish people, not an empirical account of why residents of most rich countries are getting heavier over time. But then what account does fit the data?

You can listen to this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.

In his 2017 book, “The Hungry Brain,” Stephan Guyenet, a neurobiologist, argues that weight gain is less about willpower than it is the product of an evolutionary mismatch between our brains, our genetics and our environments. Now a new class of weight loss drugs is raising the possibility that we can change our brains to fit this new environment.

#podcast #book #advertising #marketing #scientificstudies #foodstudies #science #research #foodproduction #USfoodsystem #reference #obesity #weight #howweeat #neuroscience

The Food Connection - TED Radio Hour - Guests: Forager Alexis Nikole Nelson, Chef Sean Sherman, Social Entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe, and Environmental Journalist Amanda Little

NPR, April 1, 2022

From the series: Food is one of life's greatest pleasures, yet many of our food systems are flawed. This hour, TED speakers look to the past to reconnect with what we eat, and the present to reimagine our food future.

#podcast #foraging #foodsystem #foodfinding #foodwaste

Free-From Podcast by Food Equality Initiative 2022-present

From the series: Welcome to Free-From Podcast, a podcast dedicated to helping individuals with restricted diets realize the fullest potential in their food.

Know the phrase: You are what you eat? Well, that isn’t too far off from the truth. A lot of our health starts in the kitchen. Our bodies need ‘the good stuff,’ but healthy has a different definition for every body. Free-From Podcast explores how Food is Medicine for different bodies and how we can all benefit from knowing more about our food.

#podcast #allergies #nonprofit #advocacy #food #FEI

MoMA Broken Nature Podcast; Episode 1: “Is Corn Feeding a Lie?” by Antonelli, Paola 2021

From the series: Showing up in food, cosmetics, fuel, medicine—and, by consequence, in much of the air we breathe—corn has become one of the most ubiquitous presences in our lives. “It’s literally impossible [to avoid corn] without a hermetically sealed environment,” says our first guest Bex, who has been living with an acute corn allergy for several years and ultimately started a blog to help people with similar conditions. The proliferation of corn has had major consequences for our health, environment, and communities. How has this happened? And what can our overreliance on corn teach us about the cultural, industrial, and economic infrastructures that support and influence what and how we eat?

#podcast #documentary #series #cag

Soil: The Dirty Climate Solution by How to Save a Planet 2021

From the series: In this episode, we meet two farmers who at first glance, seem very different...but they share something in common. They're both bucking modern conventions on how to farm. An they're paying close attention to something that is frequently overlooked: the soil. We explore how making simple changes in the way we farm can harness the incredible power of soil to help save the planet.

#podcast #documentary #series

What's wrong with what we eat? - TED Talks - Speakers: Jamie Oliver, Mark Bittman, Louise Fresco, Dean Ornish, Chef Barton Seaver, Jackie Savitz, Tristram Stuart, Ann Cooper, Graham Hill

TED, 2006-2013

From the series: It's easy to worry about food: Are we eating the wrong stuff? What about people who don't have enough to eat? These talks examine the problems -- and some compelling solutions.

#podcast #foodsystem

Corn: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

LastWeekTonight YouTube, May 23, 2024

Quote: John Oliver discusses the financial and environmental impact of corn in the U.S.

#news #tv #corn #cornindustry #agriculture #USfoodsystem #agriculture

Why The U.S. Government Is (Still) Obsessed With Corn

CNBC, December 6, 2022

Quote: There’s a reason people refer to corn as yellow gold. In 2021, the United States’ corn crop was worth over $86 billion. According to the USDA, the U.S. is the largest consumer, producer and exporter of corn in the world. It’s not just what we eat. Corn is in what we buy and how we fuel up. Now, the rest of the world relies on U.S. corn, too. At $2.2 billion in 2019, corn is the most heavily subsidized of all crops. Here’s how the U.S. started fueling its economy with corn.

#news #cnbc #cornindustry #usfoodsystem #agriculture #subsidies

Deer Park woman sickened due to medication’s inactive ingredients by McCarthy, Jane

KREM2, November 20, 2018

Quote: SPOKANE, Wash. -- If you have an allergy to something like dairy, corn or wheat, you know to eliminate those things in your diet. What you may not realize is that you could be getting potential allergens in your medication without even knowing it.

#medication #inactiveingredients #compounding #pharmacy #localnews #TVNews

The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson with Eric Severied

CBS Reports, April 3, 1963

Note: A CBS News special report on the reactions of industry and government leaders to the release of the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

#news #tv #silentspring #rachelcarson #agriculture #pesticides #herbicides #history #USfoodsystem

Scorpion: Da Bomb aired January 25, 2016

Season 2, Episode 15

Walter's new date has a corn allergy.

#tv #cornallergy

The Supersizers... aired 2007-2011

BBC, Giles Coren and Sue Perkins

BBC television series about the history of food, mainly in Britain.

#tv #documentary #history #food

Private Practice: Ex-Life aired February 12, 2009

Season 2, Episode 16

Location in episode: 27:08

Corn allergy patient in this episode.

#tv #cornallergy

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The Long and Winding Shortcut aired April 13, 1999

Season 3, Episode 22

Location in episode: near the end/old west scene. Transcript HERE.

Mrs. Bowgill, the pastor's wife, has a corn allergy.

#tv #tv #cornallergy

Northern Exposure: Blowing Bubbles aired November 2, 1992

Season 4, Episode 5

Quote: A former lawyer named Mike Monroe moves to town with a unique medical condition and has to live in a bubble.

Note: Mike Monroe’s character has “multiple chemical sensitivity” and is on the show for several episodes from 1992-1993. This character's storyline may be relatable to many in our community.

#tv #mcas #cornallergy #northernexposure