Deconstructing Dinner


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July 3, 2008 "Livestock Lost - Part I (Slaughterhouses and the Culture of Meat)"

June 26, 2008 "Backyard Chickens II (Farming in the City IV)"

June 19, 2008 "Episode #100 - Best of May-August 2007"

June 12, 2008 "Cross-Canada Trike Tour II (Nelson, BC - Prawda, MB)"

June 5, 2008 "Agri-Business Exposed II (Cargill Part II)" (encore)

May 29, 2008 "Coffee, The Earth and the Future of Civilization" (encore)

May 22, 2008 "Bill C-517 - Mandatory Labelling of Genetically-Engineered Foods (Part II - The Vote)"

May 15, 2008 "President Bush on Food Security / Cross Canada Trike Tour I"

May 8, 2008 "Conscientious Cooks III - The Guerrilla Gourmet" (encore)

May 1, 2008 "Heritage Foods: Preserving Diversity II - Gardens of Destiny"

April 24, 2008 "The Disappearance of Omega-3s"

April 17, 2008 "Global Hops Shortage / Biodynamics and Microorganisms"

April 10, 2008 "Monsanto's Product Release Form / Mandatory Labelling of GE-Foods (Bill C-517)"

April 3, 2008 "The Emperor Has No Clothes (Provincial Food Politics)"

March 27, 2008 "Backyard Chickens I (Farming in the City III)"

March 20, 2008 "Water, The Blood of the Earth / Monsanto Pays Percy Schmeiser"

March 13, 2008 "The Local Grain Revolution I / Deconstructing Dinner in Our Schools II"

March 6, 2008 "So, You Want to Be a Farmer?"

February 28, 2008 "Nature as Our Guide"

February 21, 2008 "A Primer on Pesticide Propaganda I"

February 14, 2008 "Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools I" (Remastered)

February 7, 2008 "Future of Food in the Kootenays Conference III / Conscientious Cooks V"

January 31, 2008 "The Birth of a Farmers' Market"

January 24, 2008 "Slow is Beautiful" (encore)

January 17, 2008 "GE-Free Zones: A Community Response to Genetically Engineered Food"

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The Deconstructing Dinner Manifesto

Why does my tomato look so perfect, and how much fuel was required for it to travel here from Mexico? What about the truck my tomato hitched a ride on? How much energy was required to build that truck, and wait a minute, how much energy was required to make that fuel? I know a guy down the street who grows tomatoes. Why doesn't the grocery store around the corner sell his tomatoes? What about the road my tomato travelled on. How many workers are required per year to maintain that road? And how much fuel do they use to get to the highway that they're paid to maintain? Didn't I buy this tomato like a month ago? Why does it still look so perfect? And why did that girl at the checkout counter assume I needed a plastic bag for my tomato? She even gave me a puzzled look when I told her I didn't need one! Did I mention the guy down the street grows tomatoes?

Everyone's telling me to "go organic". What's the difference between organic and non-organic? And why is it that the organic produce at the grocery store is always wrapped in more packaging and stamped with more labels than the non-organic produce? Isn't organic produce supposed to represent a more ecologically friendly alternative? Why does the same company make both a fair-trade coffee and an unfair-trade coffee? How does that company justify selling an unfairly traded product? Was the truck that was transporting the coffee using organic fuel? If not, is the coffee still organic? Whew!

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