Sarah’s Picks: Documentaries
#1 PBS Frontline: Supplements and safety
Explores the supplement industry; discusses the interplay of politics, supplement manufacturing, and public health. Highlights many issues with the unregulated industry, and calls for heightened FDA oversight and consumer protection. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pbs+frontline+supplements+and+safety&sp=mAEA
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#2 PBS Human Footprint: Shelf Life
This documentary goes into detail about the complex web of the modern food industry, and it highlights the social, economic, and environmental challenges presented by excess consumerism. It presents a high standard of research and engages all viewers irrespective of political views. Explores all facets of topic-related research and literature with enthusiasm, empathy, and engagement, and leaves the viewer with new ideas and offers critical look at a system so engrained in the 21st century way of life.
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#3 PBS American Experience: Rachel Carson
Documentary biography of the grandmother of environmental everything, Rachel Carson.