Tom McGovern
Tom McGovern (internet, Wolves Of Glendale , Tonight Show) joins Esteban in the sauna to improvise songs about truly shocking facts about farming, apples, and tongues.
HOSTED BY Esteban Gast
DIRECTED BY Stoney Sharp
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / EDITOR Connor Linnerooth
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Adam McKay, Staci Roberts-Steele, Anna Wenger, Jessie Bluedorn, Esteban Gast
GUEST Tom McGovern
PRODUCER Stoney Sharp, Carl Fieler
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Brittney Badduke
CONSULTING PRODUCER Elijah Zarlin
DP / CAMERA OPERATOR Connor Linnerooth
SOUND Brandon Cruz
SET MEDIC Paul Joubran
SPECIAL THANKS to Big Oil for being so sneaky and evil that we had to make a show about their disinformation and lies.
FACTS, REFERENCES, AND MORE
LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION ACCOUNTS FOR 14.5% OF GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WHICH IS ROUGHLY EQUAL TO EMISSIONS FROM ALL THE WORLD’S CARS, TRUCKS, PLANES, AND SHIPS COMBINED
- https://www.fao.org/3/i3437e/i3437e.pdf
- https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
ANALYSIS OF UK FOOD COMPOSITION TABLES FROM 1940 TO 2019 REVEALED THAT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES LOST 52% OF THEIR SODIUM, 50% OF THEIR IRON, 49% OF THEIR COPPER, AND 10% OF THEIR MAGNESIUM OVER THE 80-YEAR PERIOD
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/fruits-and-vegetables-are-less-nutritious-than-they-used-to-be
- https://heated.medium.com/todays-apple-may-contain-38-percent-fewer-nutrients-than-the-same-one-in-1950-530d885a07f1
PRECISION FERMENTATION — A PROCESS WHERE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICROBES BREW ANIMAL PROTEINS WITHOUT ANY ANIMALS — IS ALREADY PRODUCING COW MILK PROTEINS, EGG WHITES, AND MEAT PROTEINS THAT ARE MOLECULARLY IDENTICAL TO ANIMAL PRODUCTS
- https://www.ecowatch.com/precise-fermentation-dairy.html
- https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/environment-sustainable-precision-fermentation-life-cycle-assessment-lca-scientific-research/
Documentaries
Kiss the Ground (2020) — on regenerative agriculture and soil health! This is THE doc to start with!
Common Ground (2023) – a spiritual sequel to Kiss The Ground and we absolutely adore it. It came out recently and lots of resources and places to learn more there https://commongroundfilm.org/
Books
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan: the best book on where our food actually comes from and what industrial agriculture has done to it
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver : on food systems and what reconnecting with real food looks like
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot : mentions precision fermentation and details what a post-animal-agriculture food system could actually look like
The End of Animal Farming by Jacy Reese Anthis: on the moral and practical case for transitioning away from factory farming
