Many consumers are unaware of the ways animals are raised and killed to stock our grocery stores. In the United States, there are virtually no laws regulating the treatment of billions of animals on factory farms, and these sensitive individuals pay the price for cheap meat with misery-filled lives.
Compassion Over Killing's documentary exposes the broiler industry and its disregard for animal welfare. 45 Days: The Life and Death of a Broiler Chicken features investigative footage—from hatching and factory-farm life to slaughter and packaging.
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Agroforestry Practices - Forest Farming - Center for Agroforestry 2004 - DVD AF1008 - University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry. Noncommercial use only, video used with permission. In a forest farming practice, high-value specialty crops are grown under the protection of a managed forest canopy that has been modified to provide the correct shade level. The practice also includes the production of non-timber forest products for specialty markets. In this segment, examples of successful forest farming operations, including shiitake mushrooms, pine straw, woodland wildflowers, medicinal plants and high value wood blanks are presented, along with tips for marketing forest farming products.
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Reynaldo Ochoa is an inspiration to the people of Manu in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. For the past 20 years he has dedicated his life to finding new ways of living in balance with his environment. By encouraging farmers to plant trees with their crops and enabling families to grow fresh organic produce he is helping to forge a sustainable future for the region, both protecting the environment and allowing local people to flourish.
It hasn't always been this way. When Reynaldo moved to the rainforest over 30 years ago he cleared the forest just like everyone else.. When the soil could no longer produce crops he moved to new land and started again. After years of working like this he realized that if people continued in this manner there would soon be no forest left.. And so he began learning about sustainable farming and started to experiment with his own land. He tried lots of different methods and eventually found a system that works.. Now he uses the waste from his chickens to feed pond algae which, in turn, feeds the fish.. The waste from his sheep he uses to fertilize the land for crops and he plants nitrogen fixing trees and vines to regenerate the soil.. The system is akin to permaculture and works much as nature would without the introduction of a monoculture. Reynaldo helps farmers all across the region to plant trees with their crops as part of Crees agroforestry project. These trees enable the forest to regrow and also replenish the soil with nutrients, thus reducing the need to clear new land for farming. The trees absorb Co2 from the air and can be used for carbon offsetting. Each tree is protected for between 15 and 40 years after which they can be used as a source of sustainable timber.
Reynaldo helps share his knowledge not just by working with commercial farmers but also by helping local people start gardens of their own where they can grow crops in an organic way. The aim is to help improve peoples nutrition and provide an income through the sale of any excess produce.
Since he began, Reynaldo has started over 350 gardens and planted over 30,000 trees. He does not drive a car and uses bio gas in his home (produced from his own families waste!). As a pioneer in organic farming he lives a truly sustainable existence.
Though he has been working in sustainable agriculture for more than 20 years, Reynaldo currently works with the CREES foundation to help forge a sustainable future for the Manu region of Peru, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
The film project.
At the beginning of 2011 Crees foundation Journalist Nick Werber got together with filmmaker Dan Childs to produce a series of films about the Crees foundation's work in the Manu region of Peru. After 6 months of planning they eventually flew to Peru in July and spent the next 3 months living in the rainforest, filming every day in searing heat and dense humidity. They filmed a range of wildlife including Macaws, Tapirs and Monkeys and covered all areas of Crees work from scientific research to community projects. They filmed volunteers getting out of bed at 5am to check small mammal traps and survey the Macaw activity at the clay lick, and helped plant trees with Reynaldo Ochoa, the star of this film. Filming with a Canon 7D and 550D, Nick and Dan managed to create cinematic short films on a low budget. Returning to England in late 2011 They began the editing process, eventually cutting 4 films for Crees. This being the first in the series.
“흙 이야기(Soil Stories)”에서 주인공 Francine 씨는 흙은 살아 있고, 흙이 없으면 인간도 살 수 없다는 사실을 깨닫고 여행길에 나선다. 이 여행에서 그녀는 땅속을 보도록 돕고, 다양한 토양층의 모습을 이해하려고 얼마나 많은 조사를 하는지를 도와줄 토양학자들을 만난다. 이야기의 후반부에서 Francine 씨는 흙의 물리적, 생물학적 측면을 가까이에서 지켜보도록 도와줄 인물들을 만난다. 마지막 부분에서는 흙의 역사에 대해 설명해주는 인물을 만난다.
“Soil Stories” was born out of a collaborative effort between ESRI-SC and SC NRCS. We (Buz Kloot and Pam Thomas) wanted to get all the information about soils across, but in a way that was engaging. While facts came easy, it's not always easy to be engaging on this subject. Until that is, when I (Buz Kloot) was at a ScienceFilm workshop with Jeff Morales and Colin Bates where I began to see that the story trumps all when making videos. Colin's advice to me one morning was "why don't you make a movie about people who have a relationship with the soil?" - well, the rest is history. Credit goes to so many and I have tried to acknowledge all at the end of the video, but I fear I may still have left some out. To those I apologize. This series along with other experiences of making video for the NRCS in the last three has changed the way I look at natural resources in general and more specifically, at soils . My profound thanks to all of the professionals in the NRCS and to the many land owners who have helped shape my thinking. .
