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Taste the waste

Author:
Valentin Thurn

Entry type:
Report

Year of publication:
2011

Publishers:
Thurn Film, Schnittstelle

Language:
English

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(english below)
tastethewaste.com: 50 Prozent aller Lebensmittel werden weggeworfen: Jeder zweite Kopfsalat, jede zweite Kartoffel und jedes fünfte Brot. Das meiste davon endet im Müll, bevor es überhaupt den Verbraucher erreicht. Und fast niemand kennt das Ausmaß der Verschwendung.
Wer macht aus Essen Müll? Welche Folgen hat die globale Nahrungsmittel-Vernichtung für das Klima? Und für die Ernährung von sieben Milliarden Menschen?
Der Film findet Antworten bei Bauern, Supermarkt-Direktoren, Müllarbeitern und Köchen. In Deutschland, Österreich, Japan, Frankreich, Kamerun, Italien und den Vereinigten Staaten. Und er findet Menschen, die unserem Essen mehr Wertschätzung entgegenbringen und Alternativen entwickelt haben, um die Verschwendung zu stoppen.



tastethewaste.com: Amazing but true: On the way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the food lands on the dump. Most of it before it ever reaches consumers. For instance every other head of lettuce or potato.
European households throw away 100 billion Euros worth of food each year. As much as the annual turnover at Nestlé, the world´s largest food corporation. The food we throw away in Europe would be enough to feed all the hungry people in the world two times over.
Why are ever-greater quantities being destroyed? We seek explanations: from supermarket sales staff and managers, from bakers, wholesale market inspectors, welfare recipients, ministers, farmers and EU bureaucrats. It’s a system that we all take part in: Supermarkets constantly have the complete selection of merchandise on offer, the bread on the shelves has to be fresh until late in the evening and everything has to look just right: One withered leaf of lettuce, a crack in a potato or a dent in an apple and the goods are sorted out; containers of yogurt as early as two days before the ‘sell by’ date has expired.



The movie is available with English, Spanish, French and Portuguese subtitles.

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