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First Aired - 03/06/2011 03:30PM
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Cotton is the sole focus of this week's particularly fun and educational episode of We Dig Plants. Tune in to hear the good, bad and ugly about the history of cotton production in the world. Learn more about how the cotton gin revolutionized the world and why this crop really IS the "fabric of our lives". This episode was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. Learn more about their country ham and Virginia Tradition at www.SurryFarms.com
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Cotton (18:16)
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We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons, economic botany, anthropology, how humans use plants, plants and society, balance between needs and resources, Cosmography, Cotton, the fabric of our lives, hard to separate cotton and slavery, slaves developed a comb to speed up the process of picking cotton, bottleneck between field and factory, Eli Whitney, cotton gin, Upland county, cotton production, the South's white gold, textile mills, international slave trade, Liverpool, converted to textiles in British Mills, trade goods, cotton textile trade, Americana, cotton found its way to Africa, cotton was traded for more slaves,Work, Beauty & Everything In-Between (17:33)
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Alice's grandfather was a sharecropper and grew cotton, Eastern Georgia topsoil, the cost of t-shirts is rising because of rain problems in India, cotton is a heavily sprayed crop, fair trade, sustainable crops, decorative cotton, cotton seed fibers, fields look like snow, shrubs can get from 6 to 20 meters high, cotton bowls, cotton fibers make 40% of the worlds textiles, Southeast Asia, earliest written record of cotton, fragments of textiles dating to 3000 B.C., ancient civilizations had been spinning and weaving cotton, history of cotton, Ghandi, boycott on British goods, spinning wheel as symbol of self sufficiency, powdered cotton seeds, medicinal uses, cotton cocktail,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/28/2013 11:00AM
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When it comes to GMO, we have a right to know. As a compendium to the upcoming TEDxManhattan event in NYC on February 18th, Erin Fairbanks chats with one of the featured speakers, Gary Hirshberg, Chairman of Stonyfield Farm. Tune in for a conversation on the politics surrounding GMO crops, including labeling, farming and public perception. Get an inside take on where things stand after years of advocacy and momentum, and find out why Gary thinks we're closer than ever to securing our right to know when it comes to GMO's in our food.
"We ultimately have a need for federal solution, the thought we will solve this on a sate by state basis is [unrealistic]." 07:00
"It's now a question of when, not if, we get the same rights that citizens in China and Russia have [regarding labeling and GMO's]. 11:00
--Gary Hirshberg, Chairman of Stonyfield Farm
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Gary Hirshberg, Chairman of Stonyfield (22:27)
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Gary Hirshberg, TedXManhattan, Stonyfield Farms, Label it Now, labeling, climate science, genetically engineer crops, Right to Know, campaign finance reform, politics, lobbyists, insecticide resistance, GMO crops, herbicides, soy, corn, cotton, auditing, inspection, alfalfa, GE, Brazilian farmers, Tom Vilsack, FDA,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/25/2011 03:00PM
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Cool down on this episode of Hot Grease with Nicole Taylor and Chef James Boyce. Hailing form Huntsville, Alabama and owner of several restaurants in the area James dishes his view on ice cream trends as well as his favorite deserts to serve at his restaurants. Later on they discuss the finer points of Alabaman cuisine and farm-to-table ethics. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
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Hot Grease: Chef James Boyce (9:57)
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Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor, Heritage Radio Network, good food movement, James Boyce, Huntsville, Alabama, Yeller Hammer State, national ice cream month, muscadives, mint ice cream, popsicles, ice cream sandwiches, red velvet cake, Commerce Kitchen, Cotton Row, cobbler, Pane e Vino,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
