31 January 2010

wE fEeD The wOrlD

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We Feed The World (2005)

---------Must SEE!!!!!!!---------Must SEE!!!!!!!---------Must SEE!!!!!!!

A shocking, sobering, really well put together and filmed austrian documentary, about how food production in Europe and the western world in general is threatening humanities sustained existence on the whole planet.film is a few years old but hotter than ever, as the spiral of madness is turning ever tighter and faster.....

Watch the full film with english Subs below!
or
German Version (Austrian dialect in interviews) with German Subtitles for those troubled by the dialects

Topics include:

*Wasted food, (bread), Vienna wastes as much bread daily as Austria's second largest city, Graz, needs

*continual upsizing while reducing numbers of farms just to keep up

*food grown but used as biofuels,

*EU Fishing policies vs traditional more sustainable fishing, quality of the fish caught compared,examples given from France

*Tomatotrucking from Spain

*Rainforestdestruction and Social Injustice in Brazil for Genetically Modified Soybeans for Europe's Feedlots

*An Austrian Poultry Plant from the inside

*Rumanian Human and Animal run agriculture on teh chopping block of the EU, corrupt government and multinational corpoRATS

*Swiss Food and Agrobusiness importing 4/5 th of their grains even from india where 200.000.000 live with hunger

Industrialisation and agriculture
"All the market’s interested in is the price.
Taste is not really a consideration
."

Hannes Schulz, poultry breeder

*Subsidised injustice
"If you go to the market in Senegal you can buy European produce for a third of the local prices. So the Senegalese peasant farmer no longer has any chance of earning a living."
Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

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Genetic engineering in agriculture
"We fucked up the west some time ago, and now that we are coming to Romania, we will fuck up all the agriculture here . . ."

"We have to get used to the idea that there are no longer any GM-free foods." (Karl Otrok, Director of production, Pioneer Romania)


*Superfluity and starvation
"Every five seconds a child under ten dies of starvation. A child that dies of starvation is in effect murdered."
Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

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The long road from the field to the table
"These trucks are all full of soya. They pick up their loads in the north of Mato Grosso. From there the soya is transported 2,500 kilometres to port. And from there the soya is exported."
Vincent José Puhl, , biologist (Brazil)

Additional Reading



German with English Subtitles



German Version (Austrian dialect in interviews) with German Subtitles for those troubled by the dialects

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