crunchy bits

We interrupt this regularly scheduled Smoothie Extravanza to bring you this important message:

Over the last few years, we’ve watched some documentaries that have had a profound impact on the choices we make on a very mundane level. We’ve stopped using skin and body care products from the store, stopped buying water in plastic bottles, and our grocery cart looks vastly different than it did even a year ago and more.

Today on the Western Mass Permaculture list, I saw a message that I’d like to share with you. It was a link to Spread the Word’s Must Watch Documentaries. If you scroll just a bit to the first documentaries listed with summaries, you will find Food, Inc., Food Matters and Flow. Scroll a bit more and you can watch the Story of Stuff.  Even further and you find Earthlings, the truly horrific film narrated by Joaquin Phoenix about the way modern civilization treats the animals we use. I have not seen this movie because I’ve seen some of the footage before and am already a vegan so I saw no point. And I got nauseous just watching the trailer.

Others I haven’t seen on the featured page but are on my wish list are films like The World According to Monsanto, The Secret Life of Plants, Manufacturing Consent, The Corporation, Who Stole the Electric Car,  The Disappearing Male, Consuming Kids, Simply Raw, Fractals: The Color of Infinity. Have you been wanting to see a documentary but found it to be unavailable to you? Check their list of all documentaries.

They have a 14 part series called Extraordinary Animals, HOME, Forest Gardening with Robert Hart (love this one, 15 minutes long), Sweet Misery,  Sweet Rememdy, The Fog of War, The Future of Food (excellent explanation of just what genetically modified food is, how it’s made in the lab), The Illuminated Chakras, Jesus Camp, The Life of  Buddha (been looking for this one for a while, NOT the Keanu Reaves one), and so many more! Get your thoughts ready to be provoked and check the list to see if there’s one you’ve wanted to see!