“Just eating one hamburger is the equivalent of showering for two entire months,” says Kip Andersen, co-director of the documentary, “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret.” Watch the interview on Democracy Now! today.
As California faces record drought, Gov. Jerry Brown ordered residents and businesses to cut water use by 25 percent. Although big agriculture uses 80 percent of California’s water, it is exempt from such restrictions.
We are really proud of the ingredients we use … It’s so hard to imagine that other food companies wouldn’t want to be talking about what’s in their products.
A recent report found fast-food CEOs make 1,200 times as much as money as the average fast-food worker, a disparity that maximizes short-term profit while harming worker security and the overall economy.
As fast-food workers around the world join a one-day strike today, Democracy Now! speaks to Terrance Wise, who after working at Burger King for nine years, says he cannot make ends meet off of his salary. We also speak with Catherine Ruetschlin, a policy analyst at Demos.
Why are corporations like DuPont, Monsanto, and Pepsi spending millions to prevent the labeling of genetically modified food? Democracy Now! asks David Bronner of Dr. Bronner’s Soaps, who supported the GMO labeling initiative in Washington state with $2.3 million.
In this short video clip, Michael Pollan, one of the country’s leading writers and thinkers on food and food policy, tells Democracy Now! that processed food has undermined what he calls “the nursery of democracy”: the family meal. “There is a deliberate effort to undermine food culture, to sell us processed food,” Pollan says. “The family meal is a challenge if you’re one of these companies because the family meal is usually one thing shared … It’s where we learn and where teach our children how to share, how to take turns, how to argue without offending, how to learn about the events of the day. If kids are spending all of their time in their rooms, passing through the kitchen, nuking a frozen pizza, they’re missing something very important.” Click to watch the full 50-minute interview about his new book called, “Cooked: The Natural History of Transformation.” Do you agree with this analysis?