We Feed The World 6.

Every day in Vienna the amount of unsold bread sent back to be disposed of is enough to supply Austrias second-largest city, Graz. Around 350,000 hectares of agricultural land, above all in Latin America, are dedicated to the cultivation of soybeans to feed Austrias livestock while one quarter of the local population starves. Every European eats ten kilograms a year of artificially irrigated greenhouse vegetables from southern Spain, with water shortages the result.

In We Feed The World, Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria. Leading us through the film is an interview with Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

We Feed The World is a film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flowa film about scarcity and plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.

Interviewed are not only fishermen, farmers, agronomists, biologists and the UNs Jean Ziegler, but also the director of production at Pioneer, the worlds largest seed company, as well as Peter Brabeck, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé International, the largest food company in the world.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Food
• famine
• freedom
• globalization
• GMO
• truth

[Rasenkrieger]

"Around 350,000 hectares of agricultural land, above all in Latin America, are dedicated to the cultivation of soybeans to feed Austrias livestock while one quarter of the local population starves."

The Worldwide population. Luckily not in Austria, today

[thisisfunah]

seriously, how does this asshole get away with telling poor farmers in romania that they shouldn't have the same gigantic yields of food the developed world has?