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Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance
Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance
In the small town of Oxford, Kane and Fiona Hogan have transformed their urban 1/2-acre property into abundant veggie gardens. Their business Urban Gardener aims to build resilience and food security in their local community.
5 min · 11,467 views · 4.4 stars
5 US Foods Banned by the Rest of the World
5 US Foods Banned by the Rest of the World
Abby Martin goes over five harmful ingredients found in nearly everything Americans consume despite the fact that many other countries have banned them. 
3 min · 11,292 views · 4 stars
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food
These days, it can be difficult to find processed foods that aren’t made by mega-corporations; foods that aren’t full of added sugars, genetically modified corn, and chemicals we would rather not put in our bodies; foods that weren’t made in factories that harm the...
58 min · 11,041 views · unrated
Maine Town Becomes First to Declare Food Sovereignty
Maine Town Becomes First to Declare Food Sovereignty
The town of Sedgwick, Maine, currently leads the pack as far as food sovereignty is concerned. Local residents recently voted unanimously at a town hall meeting to pass an ordinance that reinforces its citizens' God-given rights to "produce, process, sell, purchase, and...
Ethan A. Huff · 9,974 views · 5 stars
The $100 Billion Dollar Ingredient Making Your Food Toxic
The $100 Billion Dollar Ingredient Making Your Food Toxic
Industrial seed oils are in almost all processed foods. 
29 min · 9,548 views · unrated
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
We have created this series of films to celebrate and interpret intervention, undertaken by individuals and communities, to shift our food and farm economy.  These episodes each address a major systemic failure of the old food economy: toxicity, monoculture, monopoly...
60 min · 9,401 views · 5 stars
Genetically Modified Food - Panacea or Poison?
Genetically Modified Food - Panacea or Poison? (2005)
Having discovered how to manipulate DNA, the blueprint of life, corporate scientists can produce what they claim are stronger, more disease-resistant crops. However, fears that Genetically Modified Food may not be safe for humans or the environment has sparked violent...
53 min · 9,024 views · unrated
Meet the Pro Surfers Who Put Down Roots in Ireland to Grow Organic Food for the Community
Meet the Pro Surfers Who Put Down Roots in Ireland to Grow Organic Food for the Community
The story of a group of pro surfers who have left the international surfing circuit in order to grow organic vegetables at Moy Hill CSA Farm on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.
7 min · 8,979 views · 4.5 stars
No, Humans Are Not at The Top of The Food Chain
No, Humans Are Not at The Top of The Food Chain
Despite what many of those who advocate meat-eating would like to believe, humans do not sit at the top of the food chain. In any event, it’s a food web rather than a chain, due to the many complex interactions involved.
Paul Mahony · 8,707 views · 4 stars
Dumpster diver says: Trader Joe’s must stop wasting food
Dumpster diver says: Trader Joe’s must stop wasting food
For many years now, I have fed my family food from the dumpster. It’s not because I can’t afford to shop at grocery stores like other, normal folks. It’s because supermarkets across the nation toss perfectly good meats, cheeses, eggs, and produce into the trash every single day.
Jeremy Seifert · 8,470 views · 5 stars
The Truth About Food Insecurity
The Truth About Food Insecurity
We live in a world with a rapidly growing population. Some people would have you believe that food insecurity is caused by overpopulation, or that we've reached the earth's carrying capacity. Is that really the case? In this episode, Second Thought takes a brief look at the...
13 min · 7,772 views · 5 stars
A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature
A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature
Food is your medicine - Joe's food garden is in the Western Cape in  South Africa. Thank you Joe for being such an inspiration you are an incredibly wise man. We agree working with the soil is the best connection.
3 min · 7,440 views · 5 stars
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
“People are realizing that we can’t rely on the industrial food system much longer. The awakening that’s happening is our greatest opportunity,” says New Mexican farmer and activist Miguel Santistevan. This awakening has sparked the revival of local, sustainable food systems.
Tory Field and Beverly Bell · 7,413 views · 4.5 stars
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
We live in a world were most people live in an urban environment, cut off from the origins of the food they consume. This short animated film takes us into the world of animal agriculture to expose how the animals who end up on our plates are raised and the effect this has on...
4 min · 7,374 views · 4 stars
Seattle's First Urban Food Forest Will Be Open To Foragers
Seattle's First Urban Food Forest Will Be Open To Foragers
If you're a regular reader of The Salt, you've probably noticed our interest in foraging. From San Francisco to Maryland, we've met wild food experts, nature guides and chefs passionate about picking fo
KRISTOFOR HUSTED · 6,931 views · 5 stars
Portraits of the Solidarity Economy: Food Cooperatives
Portraits of the Solidarity Economy: Food Cooperatives
In a solidarity economy, our needs are met by exchanging goods, services, resources and knowledge in ways that advance core values of justice, democracy, cooperation, and ecological sustainability. Produced by Caroline Woolard, Cheyenna Weber, and Michael Johnson of...
5 min · 6,591 views · 4 stars
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her homegrown rainwater collection and irrigation system - watering her 60+ edible crops. Meet the...
28 min · 6,576 views · unrated
Spy Drones Expose Smithfield Foods Factory Farms
Spy Drones Expose Smithfield Foods Factory Farms
Since 2012,  Speciesism: The Movie director Mark Devries has been secretly using spy drones to investigate and expose the environmental devastation caused by factory farms. In this video, the drones capture shocking aerial footage of several massive facilities that supply...
5 min · 6,405 views · 4.8 stars
Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat
Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat
A short film covering the innovative research area of Cultured Meat and Cellular Agriculture. This film explores current developments in the field, as well as pondering what is next for this new science and the public perception of this interesting field of research.
13 min · 6,398 views · unrated
Grocery Chain Figures Out How to Stop Wasting Food
Grocery Chain Figures Out How to Stop Wasting Food
40 percent of the food we produce in the United States goes uneaten. No matter how local or organic it is, if nearly half our edible food is ending up in the garbage, we’re not doing something right.
Peter Lehner · 6,146 views · 5 stars
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
Turns out the only thing grosser than the food is how the commercials are made.
3 min · 6,067 views · 4.9 stars
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition (2012) (trailer)
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets.
2 min · 5,954 views · 4 stars
How to Start a Food Co-Op
How to Start a Food Co-Op
Starting a food co-op takes a lot of work. But the rewards are many. This book provides an overview of the basic steps and procedures. The manual is not an exhaustive or comprehensive reference document. Groups interested in starting a new co-op are strongly encouraged to...
Patricia Cumbie and Margaret J. Goldstein · 5,798 views · 5 stars
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment
Our food system is linked to an economic system that is fundamentally biased against what’s good for people and the planet.
Helena Norberg-Hodge · 5,738 views · 4 stars
Peru Passes Monumental Ten Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods
Peru Passes Monumental Ten Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods
In a massive blow to multinational agribiz corporations such as  Monsanto, Bayer, and Dow, Peru has officially passed a law banning genetically modified ingredients anywhere within the country for a full decade before coming up for another review.  Peru’s Plen
Occupy Monsanto · 5,719 views · 5 stars
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2015)
Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...
115 min · 5,680 views · unrated
Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
Food coloring is the reason glace cherries are red rather than beige and that children's tongues sometimes appear freakishly blue. But man-made dyes may do more than make processed food look vibrant and whimsical. Some blame the additives for triggering behavioral problems...
Julie Deardorff · 5,660 views · 5 stars
Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food
Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food
In this film, organic market gardeners Frank and Josje discuss the issues with the supermarket system and how Community Supported Agriculture fits into a new story for food growing.
6 min · 5,606 views · 5 stars
How to Avoid Factory Farmed Foods
How to Avoid Factory Farmed Foods
There are plenty of reasons to boycott factory farms, including your health, animal welfare and the environment.
Kaye Spector · 5,601 views · 5 stars
Bill Moyers: Ag-Gag Laws Try to Call Food Safety Whistleblowers Terrorists
Bill Moyers: Ag-Gag Laws Try to Call Food Safety Whistleblowers Terrorists
I don’t know what to find more horrifying — the idea that people still habitually abuse helpless animals, or that this is how parts of our country want to treat the people who try to stop it.
5 min · 5,488 views · 4.5 stars
Reconnecting with Our Roots - Food for Body and Soul
Reconnecting with Our Roots - Food for Body and Soul
Linda Buzzell-Saltzman and Larry Saltzman of Santa Barbara share a love for their garden in more ways than one. Larry is creating a lush food forest and teaches permaculture to promote local food security. Ecotherapist Linda helps people heal their relationship with nature...
27 min · 5,120 views · unrated
Claiming the Commons: Food for All on Haultain Boulevard
Claiming the Commons: Food for All on Haultain Boulevard
Rainey Hopewell's crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They offer them free for the taking ? to anyone, anytime ? with messages chalked on the sidewalk...
27 min · 5,043 views · 4 stars
In Defense of Food
In Defense of Food
Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan argues that what most Americans are consuming today is not food but "edible foodlike substances." His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of 2006's ten best books by the New York...
11 min · 4,982 views · 3 stars
Bad Food Makes Kids Dumber, Study Says
Bad Food Makes Kids Dumber, Study Says
A new study says 3-year-olds who mostly eat processed foods have lower IQs five years later. (So Pop-Tarts and Sunny-D are why we're "falling behind" China in math and science?) The study, cited in The Guardian, examined the diets of 14,000 wee Britlets, based on what their...
Holly Richmond · 4,972 views · unrated
Seafood Slaves - The Hidden Cost of Cheap Seafood
Seafood Slaves - The Hidden Cost of Cheap Seafood
In 2015, evidence of slavery on a massive scale surfaced in the remote islands of eastern Indonesia.  Illegal fishing in Indonesian territorial waters had risen to an extreme level, but many of the Thai fishing boats responsible harboured a much worse secret aboard. In the...
24 min · 4,965 views · 5 stars
Artist Buried Alive to Highlight Food Insecurity and Farmer Suicides in India
Artist Buried Alive to Highlight Food Insecurity and Farmer Suicides in India
On the 6th December 2015, Artist Shweta Batthad buried herself alive outside the #COP21 climate talks in Paris to raise awareness of the 300,000 Indian farmers who have committed suicide since 1990 due to food insecurity. She remained underground for 3 hours, writing the word...
3 min · 4,726 views · 4.5 stars
Host a Film Screening of The Future of Food
Host a Film Screening of The Future of Food
Hosting film screenings can be used as a powerful method to accopmlish many goals. They can be used to launch solutions-oriented campaigns (either designed by your group or to assist already on-going campaigns). They can create a common foundation of understaning among a...
Tim Hjersted · 4,551 views · 4 stars
For Native Americans in Minnesota, Food is a Sign of Oppression
For Native Americans in Minnesota, Food is a Sign of Oppression
After hundreds of years of isolation, here’s how the indigenous heroes are fighting to reclaim their cultural identity — and their health.
9 min · 4,494 views · 5 stars
Going Veggie Would Cut Global Food Emissions by Two Thirds and Save Millions of Lives - New Study
Going Veggie Would Cut Global Food Emissions by Two Thirds and Save Millions of Lives - New Study
Eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting back on red and processed meat will make you healthier. That’s obvious enough. But as chickens and cows themselves eat food and burn off their own energy, meat is a also major driver of climate change. Going veggie can...
Marco Springmann · 4,467 views · 5 stars
Watch Your Foodometer!
Watch Your Foodometer!
Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.
3 min · 4,134 views · 4 stars
Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy
Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy
Take a whirlwind tour of the one-acre Brookside Energy Farm with Jason Bradford and Christoffer Hansen at planting time. Along with perennials, annuals, a food forest, and dryland crops (grains), they're growing Jerusalem artichoke and dale sorghum to produce both food and...
28 min · 4,017 views · unrated
Magical 28-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest
Magical 28-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest
In this documentary we revisit an incredible food forest growing on 2 acres of land in the very south of Aotearoa New Zealand. The forest, previously an abandoned section filled with rubbish and burnt house remains, was the subject of our 2016 film An Invitation for Wildness...
15 min · 3,812 views · 5 stars
Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow
Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow
If we are to create a society that values black life, we cannot ignore the role of food and land. In August, five young men showed up at Soul Fire Farm, a sustainable farm near Albany, New York, where I work as educator and food justice coordinator. It was the first day...
Leah Penniman · 3,419 views · 5 stars
The Story of Food
The Story of Food (2020)
This is a 'No Fresh Carbon Footprint' Docuseries.
179 min · 3,161 views · 4.8 stars
Incredible Edible Todmorden - From Market Town to Food Producing Pioneers
Incredible Edible Todmorden - From Market Town to Food Producing Pioneers
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change...
13 min · 3,038 views · 5 stars
Into the Soil | Regenerative Farming & Food Fermentation
Into the Soil | Regenerative Farming & Food Fermentation (2022)
”A refreshing perspective on what it means to be wealthy” – Don Smith, Kiss the Ground
32 min · 2,862 views · 5 stars
The Stimulator: Food Fight!
The Stimulator: Food Fight!
This week: 1. Warming up police intelligence 2. A hungry man is an angry man 3. Farm land not airports 4. Vintage riot porn: The battle for Narita 5. Bosnia burns 6. Bilbao welcomes the IMF 7. African migrants bum rush fortress Europe 8. Brujeria: La Migra 7.
18 min · 2,849 views · 4.2 stars
Tackling Food Waste Would Help Mitigate Climate Change
Tackling Food Waste Would Help Mitigate Climate Change
Eat your peas! It’s the easiest way to fight climate change.
9 min · 2,831 views · 5 stars
The Robin Hood Army: Fighting Food Waste in India and Pakistan
The Robin Hood Army: Fighting Food Waste in India and Pakistan
The Robin Hood Army are taking on food waste in India and Pakistan by redistributing food waste from restaurants and weddings and giving it to the hungry
Dimple Vijaykumar · 2,819 views · 4 stars
How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden | Grow Food Not Lawns
How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden | Grow Food Not Lawns
This video is a demonstration of how to turn your yard into a garden.
13 min · 2,818 views · 5 stars
Chemical in plastic food packaging linked to heart disease
Chemical in plastic food packaging linked to heart disease
A chemical widely used in plastic food and drink containers may narrow coronary arteries, raising the risk of heart attacks, research suggests. High levels of bisphenol-A (BPA) in the urine were seen significantly more often in patients with severe damage to the arteries...
John Von Radowitz - Belfast Telegraph · 2,812 views · 3.5 stars
The Eco Co-Op Providing Access to Land for Sustainable Food Production and Living
The Eco Co-Op Providing Access to Land for Sustainable Food Production and Living
The Ecological Land Co-operative (ELC) was set up to address the lack of affordable sites for ecological land-based livelihoods in England. There is an enormous disconnect between the combined cost of land and rural housing, and the income that is usually derived from...
5 min · 2,547 views · unrated
4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System
4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System
Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Here’s what we can do it fix it.
Leah Penniman · 2,441 views · unrated
The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers.
Ronnie Cummins · 2,395 views · 4.7 stars
Sen. Sanders: Consumers should know if food is genetically modified
Sen. Sanders: Consumers should know if food is genetically modified
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Thursday introduced an amendment to the farm bill that would give states the power to label genetically modified food.
Films For Action · 2,362 views · unrated
Why Are We Wasting so Much Food?
Why Are We Wasting so Much Food?
Award-winning author Tristram Stuart argues that food waste is a global scandal. 
5 min · 2,352 views · 4.2 stars
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste
Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of food we don't eat. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
18 min · 2,052 views · 5 stars
Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food
Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food
How industrial-scale farming is actually becoming anti-science.
Vandana Shiva · 1,892 views · 4.5 stars
The Land for Our Food
The Land for Our Food
👎Industrial Agriculture:  - Destroys soil  - Produces tons of emissions  - Pollutes water  - Destroys biodiversity
34 min · 1,559 views · 5 stars
The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us
The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us
Nestle, Kellogg’s, and other big food conglomerates have been funding a massive misinformation campaign to make you think their foods are healthy. Their goal is to get you addicted, and make billions in profits. It’s straight from Big Tobacco's playbook — literally. 
14 min · 1,513 views · unrated