Interesting documentary about food, farming, and feeding the world. Many of today’s consumers are out of touch with how things are made and or grown and the prices paid to keep up with demand. This film sheds light on the food industry and illustrates the many social, economic, and environmental problems the world has with food and feeding the ever growing population.
For instance, they clear and burn the Brasilian rain forests to grow soybeans (not a native plant and requires the importation of all nutrients) to feed cattle in Europe. Meanwhile a quarter of the people in Brasil are starving.
Check it out on: The Sundance Channel
Documentary filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer investigates the food that graces middle-class dining tables around the world and delivers an eye-opening cinematic essay about scarcity, plenty, globalization and waste. From struggling fishermen and long-distance truckers to agronomists and multinational corporate executives, We Feed the World presents a sobering portrait of the people who define the contemporary food industry, where the constant pursuit of profit takes precedence over preserving livelihoods or sustaining natural resources.
Posted on March 16, 2008 at 03:41 PM
