Food Print Manhattan by T?F, MVRDV, Stroom, animation by Wieland Gouwens

[MakeGreenCount]

Have you seen the article on Food Print in Food Safety Magazine? It was published on January 2010.

[agatajaworska]

@MakeGreenCount

No, I haven't. Could you send a link?

[play3393]

@brilliantdiamonds Actually OVER half of the land is dedicated to animal feed according to the video, not "nearly" half of it. Do you need me to explain to you why this is complete garbage as well?

[play3393]

First, Note that Americans, on average, eat 1800 lbs of food per year, not 2600 as the video claims. There is your first complete fabrication.

Second, 1.4 acres of farmland EXISTED per one American citizen in 1997.

Now, the video above claims that EACH American requires 2600 m^2 of land per year (which equals .642 acres of land).

Also, the way the represent animal feed (nearly ahlf the land) is 100% misleading and false.

Would you like me to continue or are you starting to understand?

[play3393]

@brilliantdiamonds

Actually, it's not. In this case, the video provides all needed information to make the very obvious conclusion (which you are clearly ignoring for some reason) that the statistics are grossly overestimated and completely misrepresented.

Why is it that you're defending such an OBVIOUS incorrect use of data? Do you have some sort of bias or agenda of your own?

I have pointed out the flawed data. It is now your turn to provide me with justifying evidence for the contrary.

[play3393]

The information you are seeking is in the video itself. How in the world are you unable to understand this?

It's very basic. All of the information was provided by the video. I am explaining why, based on the GIVEN INFORMATION, that the presentation is misleading and completely useless.

Have a good day.

[play3393]

I'm insulting the work because the data is wrongly presented. It's that simple.

From the perspective of being a useful piece of instructional animation, it's garbage.

Why wouldn't you call it garbage if it's completely wrong? I see no other reason than that you are impressed by the pretty colors and moving polygons.

I already showed why this video is misleading based on the information provided in the video itself. They simply multiply people by land. That's INCORRECT. Period.

[play3393]

It's an inaccurate visualization.

Also, no. The "number of times" is not taken into account. They are simply multiplying the amount of land needed to grow said crops by the number of people in the city.

Just because it has pretty colors and is "illuminating" doesn't mean that it's useful. This is a misleading and incorrect piece of garbage.

[play3393]

This was awful, misleading, and a huge waste of time.

Food grows, is harvested, and then grows back. This video assumes that all of the year's food would be grown at once and each person would have their own separate plot of land for those items.

Garbage.

[jonlwlp]

this would be great with a voice over