In fact, all next week PBS will have shows dealing with the environment.
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Premiere Date: April 21, 2010
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In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli — the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation"), Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Food, Inc. will be accompanied by Notes on Milk, a short variation of the 2007 feature documentary Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink. Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum, whose Hybrid aired on POV in 2002, take a quirky and poetic look at some lesser-known aspects of America’s favorite drink: the industry’s spiritual underpinnings, politics and the struggle of independent farmers.
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http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/What to watch this Earth Day
Get your remote ready because we've got your Earth Day entertainment plans all mapped out.
What better way to mark a milestone anniversary of Earth Day than with Earth Days, Robert Stone’s documentary that traces the rise of the modern environmental movement and establishment of the first Earth Day in1970. After its online premiere via Facebook, PBS’s American Experience will broadcast it on April 19, with a repeat on April 22.
The film that has turned many carnivores into vegetarians, or at the very least raised their consciousness about the source of the food they’re eating, comes to PBS on April 21 when PBS's POV will present Robert Kenner’s Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. It’s scarier than any horror film because it’s real: the hormone-filled meat, chemically treated produce, and processed food high in sugar, salt and fat in our diets can actually kill us — and might if we don’t change the way we eat.
According to Bill Berenson, co-director of Dirt! The Movie, “The Earth is alive from the ground up. In a teaspoon of dirt, there are a billion living organisms or perhaps more.” And what’s in that dirt — or isn’t in it — can affect our health and existence. It’s all clearly explained, with liberal amounts of humor and animation, in the Sundance documentary favorite narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, which has its TV premiere on PBS’s Independent Lens on April 20.
Also on Independent Lens, Garbage Dreams goes inside the world of the Zaballeen — “garbage people” in Arabic — who run a trash-collecting business in Cairo. The teenagers recycle 80 percent of all the garbage they collect, making these young entrepreneurs more resourceful — and eco-friendly — than most major companies. It premieres on April 27 on PBS.
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/what-to-watch-this-earth-day
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