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  • Mercy for Animals, Phil Letten, Shines Light on Walmart Cruelty
    There is a national campaign going on right now against Walmart. Walmart is supporting animal abuse by selling pork from factory farms who continue to use gestation crates, which are banned in many countries and several states. Shocking hidden-camera video of animal abuse recorded at a Walmart po...
  • Dr. Cathie Lippman discusses Prop 37 and GMOs
    Many Americans feel that Proposition 37 (mandatory labelling of genetically engineered foods “GMOs” in California) is one of the most important issues on the ballot. Dr. Cathie Lippmann, medical doctor, Board Certified Psychiatrist and Founder of the Lippmann Center for Optimal Health...
  • Spending a Day with Joel Salatin
    I had the privilege of spending the day with Joel Salatin, a third generation alternative farmer, author, and the articulate farmer who appeared in the movie, Food, Inc. Salatin is a full-time farmer at Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and has authored nine books, four of them being ...
  • Tom Mueller – Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
    Olive oil is a very ancient oil and is a staple in many cupboards of kitchens in North America and abroad. Tom Mueller, New Yorker contributor and author of  Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, shares how many of the bottles labeled “extra-virgin olive oil”...
  • NuVal Nutritional Rating System: NoVal to Foodies
    A few months ago, I started noticing something in my local grocery store in Colorado, called NuVal. The store is a King Super chain owned by Kroger. Being the foodie that I am, I was very curious about NuVal, which is a newly contrived system for relaying nutritional information about food to con...
  • June Stoyer of The Organic View: Neonicotinoids and Our Disappearing Bees
    What is happening to our bee population? How do systemic pesticides called neonicotinoids affect our bee population? June Stoyer of The Organic View discusses these questions and the fate of the bees if something does not change. In the United States, neonicotinoids, a systemic class of pesticide...
  • Diagnosis Cancer: One Woman’s Journey Back To Health
    Jana Tompkins “This can’t possibly be happening!” thought Jana Tompkins when she first felt the lump in her breast. I live a healthy lifestyle, I eat a vegetarian diet and exercise an hour every day. No one in my family has ever had breast cancer. What did I do wrong? These...
  • Solar Flares: How They Effect You and the Earth
    What are Solar Flares? They are brief eruptions of intense high-energy radiation from the Sun’s surface. Strong flares can interrupt electronics and they can affect you too. Jacqueline Lloyd has been studying energy and solar flares for years. Lloyd connects the dots on how solar flares af...
  • Austin Vickers: People v. The State of Illusion
    What if what you think to be absolutely true in your world is just an illusion? What if the reality you see is created by your limited (less than 1%) of what your mind is capable of perceiving?  People v. The State of Illusion explores these questions and more. This film tells the story of Aaron ...
  • Is ‘Pink Slime’ In Your Beef? Who Does the FDA & USDA Really Protect?
    “Pink Slime” is the industry name for a product that comes from scraps of meat, often filled with pathogens, that previously was only used for dog food. Then a clever company came up with a great idea to take these meat by-products, render off the fat and then use ammonia gas (Yep, I ...