Documentaries:
As We Sow
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdcDpMf6qE
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNiNGkJQmks
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzumdVQ_Igo
A SILENT FOREST (46 Minutes, 2009) – a documentary by Ed Schehl This award winning documentary film explores the growing global threat of genetically engineered trees to our environment and to human health. The film features renowned geneticist and host of PBS The Nature of Things, David Suzuki, who explores the unknown and possibly disastrous consequences of improperly tested GE methods. Many scientists and activists are interviewed in the film, which serves as an effective and succinct tool for understanding the complex issue of GE trees. The film serves as a valuable tool to inform students and those interested in environmental issues and has been well used in public forums, government, as well as college and high school classrooms.
Awakening of a Food Industry Analyst
by Robyn O’Brien
David vs Monsanto: the story of Percy Schmeiser in Canada
Farmageddon: the Unseen War on American Family Farms
Fed Up: excellent documentary about genetic engineering, industrial agriculture, food production, and sustainable alternatives
Glyphosate and Autism: Dr. Stephanie Seneff presentation (2 hour video)
Glyphosate and Human Health: Jeffrey Smith Interviews Dr. Stephanie Seneff
GMO-A-Go-Go: great 9 minute animated video explaining GMOs
Jeffrey Smith on GMOs: 75 minute documentary
Judging GMOs: two opposing views
featuring Steven M. Druker (anti-GMO) and Robert Wager (pro-GMO)
Read Dr. Druker’s follow-up article here >
Keiser Report: The Lab Rats of Agricultural Policy and more (25 minute video)
Seeds of Change: GMOs in Western Canada
Seeds of Death: Unveiling the Lies of GMOs
STOP THE CROP (9 Minutes, 2013) – a short documentary by Friends of the Earth Europe & Corporate Europe Observatory Stop the Crop presents some of the dangers of GM crops, and calls for people across Europe and beyond to take action to stop them. We need a future of food and farming that benefits people and planet, and not the pockets of big business. We need to stop GM crops from spreading across Europe.
https://youtu.be/p6PDzIAZDfU
Sugar, the Bitter Truth: 90 minute video by UC Television
The Gene Revolution and the Future of Agriculture
by Dr. Thierry Vrain
The World According to Monsanto
What’s On Your Plate: great documentary for kids
What’s Wrong With What We Eat by Mark Bittman
What is Genetically Modified Food?
LET US SPRAY (70 minutes, 2006) – a documentary by TV3 New Zealand
Let Us Spray is a TV3 New Zealand feature-length exposé, now censored in New Zealand, about the use of Dow’s 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D in New Zealand between 1962 and 1981. Generations of disease devastated families were left without answers due to two decades of denial and collusion between eco-terrorist company Dow Chemical and government regulatory agencies. The documentary special, produced and reported by Keith Slater and Melanie Reid, respectively, won the Qantas Award.
https://youtu.be/0-IZDcSAzoU
Books:
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
- Appetite for Profit by Michele Simon
- Comfortably Unaware by Dr. Richard A. Oppenlander
- Cooked by Michael Pollan
- Exposed – the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products by Mark Schapiro
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- Fat Profits: a novel about the big food industry by Bruce Bradley
- Food Justice by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi
- Food Politics by Marion Nestle
- Food Rebellions by Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck
- Food Rules by Michael Pollan
- Foodopoly: the Future of Food & Farming by Wenonah Hauter
- Food Sovereignty: Reconnect Food, Nature, Community by Annette Desmarais, Nettie Wiebe, and Hannah Wittman
- Genetic Roulette by Jeffrey M. Smith
- GMO 101 by Chef Alain Braux
- GMO Free – Exposing Hazards Report by Mae-Wan Ho, PhD and Lim Li Ching
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food by Daniel Charles
- Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice by the Community Alliance for Global Justice, with Raj Patel
- Politics of the Plate by Barry Estabrook
- Safe Food – the Politics of Food Safety by Marion Nestle
- Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
- Seed Savers Series: Treasure, Lily, and Heirloom – perfect for youth reading by S. Smith
- Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey M. Smith
- Shedding Light on GE Food by Beth H. Harrison, PhD
- Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel
- The Call of the Land by Steven McFadden
- The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- The Unhealthy Truth by Robyn O’Brien
- The Unsettling of America: culture and agriculture by Wendell Berry
- Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook