Month: March 2015

Pacific Standard — From Our Prison to Your Dinner Table — Family farmers can’t compete with this model of business…

From Our Prison to Your Dinner Table At America’s strangest workplace, laborers are making toys for kids, picking grapes for wineries, and farming tilapia for Whole Foodsall for $1.50 an hour. Graeme Wood Mar 3, 2015 One of my daughters favorite stuffed animals is a chocolate-colored, beady-eyed buffalo that was stitchedlovingly, I like to thinkby…



Merchants of Doubt, a new film from the director of Food, Inc., in theaters starting March 6th!

Merchants of Doubt, a new film from Robert Kenner, the director of Food, Inc., opens in New York and LA on FRIDAY, MARCH 6th. Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, MERCHANTS OF DOUBT takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin. Filmmaker…



Food Chains Movie – now available online streaming services

Food Chains In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there…



Dodge City, 1930, in regard to what a bushel of wheat would buy.

From the Tom Giessel archives