We feed the world (2005)

This is a good movie, I recommend to watch it. It portrays several ways and places where the food we eat is produced: the fishermen in Bretagne (according to EU regulations all fishing will be industrialized in a few years), the huge greenhouse plantations in southern spain (from which every European citizen consumes an average 10kg every year), the stubbed rainforest in Brasil (where soy beans grow that are fed to European cattle while European wheat and corn isn't worth more than road chippings and is burned for heat)... I could go on. And the life of chickens of course! The movie is done very well, it doesn't seek to overpower you with facts. The shooting is very slow and relies mostly on the images themselves, following the Bretagne fishers through a whole usual fishing day for instance, the early rising in the morning, the monotonous movements, the pride about a big fish... (it made me think about the comforting way lives can go and pass in this routine, and with a lot of water around them too). Also, the movie doesn't hint the apocalypse of globalisation at all, it's not accusing. Wagenhofer (pic) works towards a Zivilcourage or consumer courage rather where it's not necessary to emphasize that the Nestlé chef is a bad bad guy. As Jean Ziegler (the UNO Sonderbeauftragter - special emissary, I looked it up - for the right to nutrition) puts it: the Nestlé chef is a likeable tanned guy who makes a lot of sense to himself in his surroundings (which made me think how it seems the biggest responsibility one has nowadays might be to choose one's surroundings well. God, take me out of this linguistics class! :) In any case, I'm more aware of this again... and better informed, which is also not irrelevant. I'm going shopping now!