"Man Vs. Food," "Bizarre Foods," "Amazing Eats," "Food Wars," "The Worst Chef In America," "Cupcake Wars," "Freaky Eaters;" the fact is that most people in the world were lucky to get anything at all to eat today. While eating insects, sheep eyeballs, and the business end of animals may be entertaining, the people who have to live like this would definitely prefer to be eating at McDonalds. Leaves, grass, seeds, and whatever poor creatures are too slow to escape, like snails, lizards and insects are what most people in the World eat everyday, despite what the travel and food shows imply, infer, and misinform.
EAT! The World Media will be one part investigative journalism ("news"), one part practical gardening and farming information, and one part food storage and preparation. The information will be distributed primarily via 20-minute television programs, as well as by podcasts, on DVD's, and in print. The programs will demonstrate how to grow nutritious food that can be eaten fresh with little or no processing or preparation, bioremediate marginal land into productive gardens, and how to capture and store fresh water. These segments could be dubbed into any language, and would be educational while offering practical instruction. The programs could be broadcast or delivered to Native American "reservations," community, school, and prison gardens, and to village communities in the Global South.
The goals of this program are to promote the fact that fresh food is a human right, to illustrate the maxim "let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food," to explore food, especially food plants, in the context of ethnobotany, bioremediation, and global cultural exchange, to archive existing local heirloom food plants, to demonstrate how to utilize biomass to make compost and mulch, and to reintroduce traditional plants like amaranth that can have a dramatic impact on both nutrition levels and soil fertility.
