Taste the Waste

The documentary takes up how much food goes to waste in our society. The second question it asks matters more: why this happens. The camera enters every link of the chain, from production to the shop and from the shop to the home. Produce left in the field for failing to meet a standard is inside the account. So are the shelving rules of supermarkets and the dates printed on packets. The film does not lay the responsibility on the consumer alone. The account means to make the problem visible and is openly partisan. The ninety two minutes are spread across an entire chain. Valentin Thurn’s German documentary was completed in 2011.