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Food Forward
The Future of Food
Season 1
Episode 7
A new breed of passionate farmers, chefs and scientists are revamping the American food system. Combining people’s passions and technological ingenuity, visit tech-savvy growers flying crop-monitoring drones in California’s central valley. We step into CU Boulder’s lab to map the human microbiome with visionary food journalist, Michael Pollan.
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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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All across the country, the ways and means of America's small farmers are evolving.
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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.