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Big Bucks, Big Pharma
course, it didn’t always used to be this way. Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs takes a deep dive into the hugely profitable pharmaceutical industry to explore how DTC (direct-to-consumer) marketing a...
Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison?
Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison? addresses the controversy of creating food by artificially altering the DNA structure of crops such as wheat and corn. Scientists have unlocked the ability to manipulate life’s bl...
The Future of Food
The Future of Food by Deborah Koons Garcia tells the story behind genetically engineered food that ends up on grocery store shelves in the US. It investigates how these items can be unlabeled and patented, criticizing the fac...
Super Size Me
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock features as the guinea pig in this film about the fast food industry. Inspired by America’s obesity epidemic, he goes on a diet of McDonald’s three times a day for thirty days straight in order to ex...
The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh by Adam Curtis tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, who died of cervical cancer in 1951, and how her cells led to significant breakthroughs in medical research. Before Lack’s death, cells were extracted fr...