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Growing Pains: Organics Come of Age

Blake and Stephanie Alexandre, Alexandre  Family Dairies

Walter Robb,  Co-CEO,Whole Foods

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Grow Local, Eat Local: Feeding Our Hunger for Connection (remix)

Jessica Prentice, Food Activist and Author
"Locally Delicious" interview with Ann Anderson and Suzanne Simpson
Patty Cantrell, Entrepreneurial Agricultural Director for the Michigan Land Use Institute
Alisa Smith, Co-Author of 100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
Anthony Flaccavento, Creator Appalachian Sustainable Development
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Poultry: Pure and Simple

Chris Arnold, Director of Public Relations, Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chris Ely, Co-Founder, Farmer Liason, Applegate Farms
Greg “Beagle” Brodsky, Operations Manager, Willie Bird Turkeys
Mary Pitman, Mary’s Chicken, Fresno, California
Robert Martin, Executive Director, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production

Doug Stonebreaker, Owner, Prather Meat Company

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Bad Medicine: Overusing Antibiotics

Interview with Bill Niman, Rancher and Founder of Niman Ranch, and Nicolette Hahn Niman, Rancher, Lawyer, and Author of Righteous Porkchop
Dr. Stuart Levy, Professor of Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine
Dr. Lance Price, Director, Center for Metagenomics and Human Health, The Translational Genomics Institute
Dr. Jay Graham, AAAS Science and Technology Fellow
Dr. Marion Nestle, Paulette Godard Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University
Frederick Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University

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Of Pigs and People

Dr. Stuart Levy, Professor of Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine
Robert Martin, Executive Director, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
Dr. Lance Price, Director, Center for Metagenomics and Human Health, The Translational Genomics Institute
Sarah Willis, Sales Specialist, Niman Ranch Pork Co.
Lori Lyon, Field Operations Manager, Niman Ranch Pork Co.
James Frantzen, Frantzen Farm, New Hampton, Iowa
Heidi Vittetoe, Vittetoe Farms, Washington, Iowa
This program also includes numerous interviews recorded on location.

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Replenishing the Breadbasket: Food and Philanthropy

Joseph Devries , Director, Program for Africa's Seed Systems Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Gary H. Toenniessen, Managing Director, Initiatives in Agricultural Development, Rockefeller Foundation
Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Jo Mills, Owner, Rawhide Ltd., cattle farm, Kenya
Carol Larson, President and CEO, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Pietro Parravano , past President of The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
Vikki Spruill, President and CEO, The Ocean Conservancy
Dr. Dierk Peters, Director Sustainable Seafood Initiative, World Wildlife Fund
Michael Sutton, Vice President, Monterey Bay Aquarium; Director, Center for the Future of the Oceans

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Regrowing Community (One Tomato at a Time): The Remarkable Return of Farmers' Markets

Ralph Cwerman, President and Co-Founder, The Humpty Dumpty Institute
Sonia DeMarta, Co-Founder and Market Manager, Lexington Farmers' Market in Massachusetts.
Dan Best, Certified Farmers' Markets of Sacramento; Member, Federation of California Certified Farmers' Markets
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Food Deserts: Nutritional Starvation in the Land of Plenty

Mari Gallagher, Founder of the Mari Gallagher Research and Consulting Group
Oran Hesterman, President and CEO of The Fair Food Foundation
Ian Marvy, Co-Founder and Director: Added Value and its Red Hook Community Farm
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Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity

Aaron Woolf, Director of King Corn
Ricardo Salvador, Associate Professor of Agronomy at Iowa State University
Mark Muller, Director of Environment and Agriculture at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Steve Ettlinger, Author of Twinkie, Deconstructed
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The Meat We Eat: Food Safety and the Industrial Animal

Karen Davis, President of United Poultry Concerns
Frank Reese, Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch
Steve Striffler, Professor of Anthropology at University of Arkansas
Dr. Lester Friedlander, Former USDA Inspector
Temple Grandin, Designer of Livestock Handling Facilities
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Grow Local, Eat Local: Feeding Our Hunger for Connection

Jessica Prentice, Food Activist and Author
Diana Endicott, Kansas Farmer, Owner of Rainbow Farms
Patty Cantrell, Entrepreneurial Agricultural Director for the Michigan Land Use Institute
Alisa Smith, Co-Author of 100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
Anthony Flaccavento, Creator Appalachian Sustainable Development
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Gourmet Nation: The New American Cuisine

Mollie Katzen, Author, the original Moosewood Cookbook, Berkeley, CA

Anna Lappe, Author, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, Brooklyn, NY

Sally Fallon, Author, Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, Washington, DC

Erika Lesser, Executive Director, Slow Food USA, Brooklyn, NY

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Fished Out: Draining the Seas of Their Bounty

George Leonard, Jane Lubchenco, Stephen Most, Pietro Parravano, Boris Worm

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Healing Harvest: Agricultural Innovators Plant Seeds of Renewal

Joel Salatin, Farmer, Polyface Farms, Virginia
Joan Gussow, Author, "This Organic Life", Piermont, NY
John Jeavons, Founder, Grow Biointensive, Willits, California
Mary Keehn, Cheese Master, Cypress Grove Chevre, Arcata, California
Walter Robb, Co-President, Whole Foods, Emeryville, California

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Eat Your Peas! Launching the School Lunch Revolution

Janet Brown, Program Officer for Food Systems, Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley, California

Pam Koch, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Program in Nutrition, Columbia University Teachers College, NYC

Eric Weaver, Parent, Berkeley Unified School District, Berkeley, California

Ann Cooper, Chef, Berkeley Unified School District, Berkeley, California

Mark Arakelian, Director of Healthy Lifestyles, Perspectives Charter School, Chicago

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Sipping Seawater: Desalination in a Thirsty World

Peter Gleick, President, Pacific Institute, Oakland, California

Avshalom Felber, CEO, IDE Technologies Ltd., Kadima, Isreal

Munther Haddadin, Former Water Minister of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Brent Haddad, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

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A Hunger to Farm: Immigrant Farmers in America

Juan Marinez, Assistant Director for Outreach with Cooperative Extension, Michigan State University

Michael Yang, Program Representative, UC Cooperative Extension

Chou Xiong, Program Representative, UC Cooperative Extension

Gus Schumacher, Former Undersecretary for Farm & Agricultural Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Maria Moreira, Farmer, U.S. Dairy Farm; Departmental Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

Suliman Kamara, Farm & Marketing Cooperative Coordinator, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, Tufts University

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In the Tractor Seat: Women Farmers Take the Steering Wheel

Angela Jackson-Pridie, Farmer and Executive Director, Organic Grassfed Beef Coalition, Vermillion, SD

Marguerite Pierce, Farmer, Pierce Family Farms, Orleans, CA

Maria Moreira, Farmer, Lancaster, MA

Denise O’Brien, Farmer and 2006 Candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture

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Savoring Swine: The Economics and Politics of Pork

Michael Pollan, Author, Omnivore’s Dilemma, Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Temple Grandin, Author, Animals in Translation, Professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Lisa Siebrecht, Pig Producer, Eden Naturals, Curlew, Iowa

Paul Willis, Manager, Niman Ranch Pork Company, Thornton, Iowa

Mark Bogess, Director, Animal Science, National Pork Board

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Sold Down the River: The Bottled Water Bonanza

Arlene Kanno, Hiroshi Kanno, James Olson, Nancy Price

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