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Food Forward
Food (Justice) for All
Season 1
Episode 8
All across the country, the ways and means of America's small farmers are evolving. Young Hispanic farm laborers in California’s Salinas Valley are moving up the economic ladder, training to become tomorrow’s organic farm owners. In Houston, Congolese refugees are creating communities around vacant urban lots.
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From the Founding Farmers to the modern Farm Bill, what has 200 years of progress brought?
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Once, wild food was all there was. If you didn’t pick, catch, or kill it, you didn’t eat.
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Explore the disconnect between the belly and the brain and our national eating disorder.
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Americans throw away 34 million tons of food each year, a quarter of the groceries we buy.
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How can agriculture use less water and still grow enough food for everyone?
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A new breed of passionate farmers, chefs and scientists are revamping our food system.
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Affordable school lunches don't necessarily mean healthy school lunches.
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American dairy is undergoing a renaissance.
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The top six inches of soil are the most precious, yet least understood ecosystem on earth.
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Seeds represent hope, a new beginning. Explore the battle over GMOs.
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Cheap meat is actually quite costly, taking its toll on America’s health and environment.
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By mid-century, 90 percent of the world’s commercial fish may be tapped out.