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We Feed The World (2005) (DVD)

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We Feed The World (2005) (DVD)

We Feed The World (2005)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS Folder = 4.5 GB | No Scans | RAR
Documentary by Paolo Campana | Allegrofilm | Austria
Dolby Stereo 384 kBit/s | PAL 4:3, MPEG2 720 x 576 px | Running time 95 min.
German with interviews in local languages | Subtitles German, French, English | 2 versions for the disabled
Bonus material: Making of, interviews, biographies, trailer, photo gallery, PDF with teaching material

Although there are comments in German, 90% of the film doesn't need any comments. Even our children understood what was going on, and the fight for food will become the biggest fight in their lifes. All parents should have enough responsibility and show their children where their food comes from and how it is produced. If you're a teacher, the company offers additional material for school lessons. And although the film is already 9 years old, there is no reason to pass it by, because the situation has become even worse. There are more films about these topics, if you're interested leave a comment.
Link for their website with more info.
Link for the trailer.

Around 350,000 hectares of agricultural land, above all in Latin America, are dedicated to the cultivation of soybeans to feed Austria's 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. Every day in Vienna the amount of unsold bread sent back to be disposed of is enough to supply Austria's second-largest city, Graz.
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 globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a film about scarcity amid 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 UN's Jean Ziegler, but also the director of production at Pioneer, the world's largest seed company, as well as Peter Brabeck, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé International, the largest food company in the world.
"We have to get used to the idea that there are no longer any GM-free foods." Karl Otrok, Director of production, Pioneer Romania.
Austria is considered to be largely free from genetic engineering: up to now, no transgenic organisms have been released into the environment, and Austrian supermarkets stock practically no products that are labelled as containing genetically modified constituents. However, genetic engineering has sneaked into Austrian agriculture through the back door in the form of animal feedstuffs.
Domestic production of feedstuff is insufficient to cover the protein requirements of the Austrian livestock industry. Austria imports around 550,000 tonnes of soya annually, of which according to Greenpeace around 60% is genetically modified. Although the law has required these feedstuffs to be labelled as such since 2004, there is no obligation to label secondary products such as meat, eggs or milk produced from animals which have consumed these feedstuffs.
Hardly any tests have been carried out to establish what effect this might have on animal or human organisms.
What is obvious however is that wide-scale cultivation of genetically modified soya in countries such as Argentina is having huge negative impacts: use of crop sprays has risen drastically, forests are being felled and the nutritional situation of the inhabitants has by and large deteriorated dramatically.
Worldwide, genetically modified plants are being grown on more than 60 million hectares, 99% of them in Canada, Argentina, China and the USA. They consist mainly of soya (58%), maize (23%), cotton (12%) and rape (7%).
Within the EU there is a growing movement of consumers – including farmers – who are against the release into the environment of transgenic organisms and GM foods. In response to this, the EU announced a moratorium – in the face of strong opposition from the World Trade Organisation – on the import of genetically modified seed, effective until 2004. Since then EU law has required all foods containing GM constituents to be labelled. And since then genetic engineering has been increasingly infiltrating agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in admission states such as Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia.

If you're interested in more films about Monsanto, genetically modified food, the war about crops, and similar, please leave a comment, I have some more.