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The Lexicon of Sustainability
Antibiotic-Free
Season 1
Episode 16
Nearly 80 percent of the antibiotics in the U.S. aren’t used on people. They’re used on animals—animals we eat—and most aren’t even sick. Low-level doses of antibiotics for extended periods of time are used mainly to increase animal weight gain. Livestock ranchers Bill and Nicolette Niman share their insights on the growing movement to remove sub-therapeutic antibiotics from American beef.
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Food: deserts, security, sovereignty — terms, culture and politics for feeding the world.
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Farming on rooftops and in vacant lots connects urbanites to where their food comes from.
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Land trusts can keep farms afloat when the real estate is worth more than the yield.
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When you buy food, you’re buying values, values of those who grow, transport and sell it.
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Sustainability is an ideal rooted in the choices we make as consumers and producers.
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Nearly 1/3 of the fish we buy isn’t what the label says. Can we trace their origins?
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See how unconventional farmers are working with nature, not against it.