19.3.07

We feed the Earthlings daily

Two documentaries on food industry, even though made in 2005, arrive only now on Belgian screens – and both, for some reason, are Austrian.

Our daily bread (Unser täglish Brot)
No comment at all during Nikolaus Geyrhalter's visit to the different steps of the European food industry production ways. Just watch and listen to the perfect mechanics making our 'daily bread'. Now where did the humans go...?


We feed the world
Same subject, much more talk. What's the path our daily food follows? Erwin Wagenhofer tracks it through France, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil and Austria. On his way, he meets fishermen, biologists, many workers and Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and this guy Peter Brabeck, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé International - you know, that tiny company...

All talks about these movies made me discover an older one that is now available in streaming: Earthlings. Joaquin Phoenix is the narrator of this denunciation of the way we treat animals in all different production sectors - including where some pets come from. The hidden camera images of the slaughter houses are not to watch just before you eat – and, come to think of it, not right after either. Check it out here (about 1h35).

And enjoy your meal now...

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