Funny how documentaries can usually be captured by one word--and usually, it's very relevant to what they are about. Funny how that works out huh?
Dirt!
About, as you guessed, the importance of maintaining healthy soil and the productivity hoax that is industrial agriculture.
It starts off cheesy, but has some great quotes and messages. I especially liked the woman who told the story about the hummingbird and the forest on fire.
Recommended, but not as great as Food Inc in terms of getting a message about sustainable agriculture across.
Babies
Fun to watch if you have nothing else to do and just want to spend 90 minutes looking at babies trying to flip themselves over or curiously abusing their family pet.
Dive!
The lives of dumpster divers (people who get their food from the dumpster behind grocery stores) and the oddity that is our food system and American wastefulness in which we throw out perfectly fine food when there are homeless and starving people just a few miles away.
Recommended: fun insight into alternative living
Ooh, just watched the Dive! trailer. It looks really interesting! I'd be fine eating dumpster food, too, since a lot of it is still fresh.
ReplyDeleteBabies was soooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuute. And interesting/educational about the contrast between cultures, too. In NZ they sometimes lock their dumpsters which is pretty lame.
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