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Food Inc. → Full Version

2010-02-26T20:45:27.000Z

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarket? Do we want really want to serve it to our families?

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has 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, herbicide-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, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg 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.

http://www.foodincmovie.com

Zeitgeist: Corporatocracy

2009-10-14T22:24:27.000Z

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It's the US citizens turn to get economically raped at home, just like the rest of the world's citizens have been in the past.

From http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

I can see this happening inside the USA, as they keep printing bailout money, economic stimulus, buying up OUR OWN mortgage backed securitized debts ($20B per week in 2008!), with the slow shift to a global currency, globalization of the workforce, centralized international laws shaped by industries, the US citizen will no longer matter to the corporations as oligopolies turn into oligarch global governing forces.

"Walmart, General Motors and Exxon are more economically powerful than Saudi Arabia, Poland, Norway, South Africa and many others."

This is not a conspiracy theory type of thing. These people do not have to get together and plot to do things. They all basically work on one primary assumption. To maximize profits, regardless of social and environmental costs.

The American way of life, as we know it, is on its way out.

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Transparency International: Dr. Peter Eigen's Holistic Approach to Corruption

2009-06-15T00:38:05.000Z

These videos are not Hollywood action or even indy documentary but more of a slow paced intimate conversation with Peter Eigen, a clearly experienced leader and visionary whose successful efforts are changing the global arena of corruption and how it is played.

Available at http://www.Netflix.com

This is A Preview of Peter Eigen: Civil Society in Global Governance -- one of 16 DVDs created by Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Peter Eigen, creator of Transparency International, is a strong advocate of civil society as a major global force for social change. He describes how, in a world of globalization, civil society members can -- and must -- fill a vacuum on behalf of ordinary citizens. He describes how members of civil society can work together -- and with the business community, governments and academia -- to change their world decisively. To buy films, go to dvd.ashoka.org.

--Ethical corporations want transparency and a level playing field where they can all participate without corruption--

“Global governance must be more responsive to the interests of the poor. Global governance right now is tilted to the powerful and the rich and therefore a way has to be found to give a voice to the billions of people who live with without proper resources. The way one can do this is only by giving a stronger say to the representatives of these people. As long as their governments are corrupt and don’t have compassion for their own poor people, which we very often see by the tremendous wealth amassed by the governments and politicians in very poor countries. There has to be some other way and I believe this is where Civil Society Organizations have tremendous responsibility.

Civil Society Organizations have to live up to this responsibility. They have to become more competent to understand the complexities of the areas in which they want to take on responsibility. This is why I believe strongly that our universities have to train and educate more leaders for society. Research has to focus more on questions posed by civil society and civil society leaders themselves have to be much more open to interact and formulate questions to, for instance academia, to get this point. Civil Society Organizations have to be much more open to cooperate with the traditional actors of governance so they should not be too one sided condemning the World Bank or major multi-national corporations, they should rather try to understand their interests and their strengths and cater to these in order to form compromises which will lead to change. Civil society organizations have to work on their own integrity, transparency and decision making processes, which have to be open and participatory. So in a way, civil society organizations in the final analysis have to stand the competition, which they have for ideas and interests, and they have to make it in a market of good ideas. This is eventually the source of their legitimacy, and in that sense basically it’s the rule of the market which decides which Civil Society Organizations and its particular approaches will have impact or not.”

Peter Eigen

This is Peter Eigen: Champion for Accountability (preview)