Food MythBusters Archives - Real Food Media https://realfoodmedia.org/video_filter/food-mythbusters/ Storytelling, critical analysis, and strategy for the food movement. Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:02:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 Food MythBusters: The Myth of Choice | How Junk Food Marketers Target Our Kids https://realfoodmedia.org/video/food-mythbusters-the-myth-of-choice-how-junk-food-marketers-target-our-kids/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=food-mythbusters-the-myth-of-choice-how-junk-food-marketers-target-our-kids Thu, 08 Mar 2018 22:55:12 +0000 http://realfoodmedia.org/?post_type=video&p=3557 Big Food spends close to $2 billion every year telling kids and teens what’s cool to eat through advertising, promotions, and sponsorships. Meanwhile, across the country, fast-food chains are crowding out grocery stores and supermarkets, narrowing the healthy food choices available. Scary? No doubt about it. But together, we can work to curb this predatory... Read more »

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]]> Big Food spends close to $2 billion every year telling kids and teens what’s cool to eat through advertising, promotions, and sponsorships. Meanwhile, across the country, fast-food chains are crowding out grocery stores and supermarkets, narrowing the healthy food choices available.

Scary? No doubt about it. But together, we can work to curb this predatory marketing and stand up for real food.

We believe that marketing targeting to children and teenagers is a public health crisis. Watch our movies and dig into our Food MythBusters resources and citations in our script to understand why.

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]]> Food MythBusters: Do we need industrial agriculture to feed the world? https://realfoodmedia.org/video/food-mythbusters-do-we-need-industrial-agriculture-to-feed-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=food-mythbusters-do-we-need-industrial-agriculture-to-feed-the-world Thu, 08 Mar 2018 22:33:49 +0000 http://realfoodmedia.org/?post_type=video&p=3426 The biggest players in the food industry—from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and manufacturers—spend billions of dollars every year not selling food, but selling the idea that we need their products to feed the world. But, do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? Can sustainably grown food deliver the... Read more »

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]]> The biggest players in the food industry—from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and manufacturers—spend billions of dollars every year not selling food, but selling the idea that we need their products to feed the world. But, do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? Can sustainably grown food deliver the quantity and quality we need—today and in the future? Our first Food MythBusters movie takes on these questions in under seven minutes. So next time you hear them, you can too.

Dig into our Food MythBusters resources and citations from the script:

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