Youtube+and+stuff

Here are some of the videos and web pages we've seen in class (and some we haven't):

Industrial food system This is from the film "Food Inc." and describes causes and effects of the way food is produced in the USA. At 3:33, it describes McDonalds At 6:25, it describes how chickens are raised

Henry Ford He pioneered the "assembly line" method of mass production. Similarities to fast food companies: faster production, reducing costs, simplifying the worker's job

Rice art in Japan (a very creative use of GM foods) http://www.hoax-slayer.com/japanese-rice-crop-art.shtml http://www.tofugu.com/2009/01/05/crazy-delicious-japanese-rice-paddy-art/

Air pollution - a dramatic video with some interesting facts Pollution solutions - what the animals think. Meerkats and traffic Supermarket bags Penguin on a bike Leopards and litter Lions recycling

 NASA | Science for a Hungry World **The six episodes describe the global food system, NASA’s role in providing an uninterrupted supply of satellite remote sensing data for agricultural production monitoring, the partnerships and monitoring tools used to provide an understanding of the global perspective on agriculture, the concepts of land cover and land use change, food security, the availability of water resources, and global agricultural production in a changing climate. **

Part 1 (the global food system) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RJ6AqWAOEg&feature=channel Part 2 (analysis from space) [] Part 3 (changing land use) [] Part 4 (Food Security) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDQ7XIOIAfY Part 5 (water use) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1QsCa7RmmU&feature=channel Part 6 (climate change) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjT__OpDn6E&feature=channel Length: About 5 minutes each video Transcripts available here (submitted by NathanC)

Chinglish - can you understand the message?