We Feed the World

The documentary asks where food comes from and then follows it. It shows that the bread thrown away in Vienna each day would feed the whole city of Graz. It goes to the greenhouses of Almería in Spain: tomatoes grown under kilometres of plastic by migrant labour. To Brazil, where forest is cleared for soy, and that soy feeds chickens in Europe. To Romania, where farmers lose their own seed. To a poultry slaughterhouse in Austria. The film is what connects them. Erwin Wagenhofer directs; ninety-six minutes. Among those speaking are Jean Ziegler, the former UN rapporteur, and Peter Brabeck of Nestlé; the two say exactly opposite things and the film lets both of them finish.