Taste the Waste (2010) ( Frisch auf den Müll - Die globale Lebensmittelverschwendung )

Taste the Waste (2010) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Frisch auf den Müll - Die globale Lebensmittelverschwendung
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Valentin Thurn

Written By:
Valentin Thurn

Actors:
Klaudia Fischer
Jörn Franck
Michael Gerling
Sylvain Sadoine
Felicitas Schneider

Synopsis:

A documentary by Valentin Thurn about the worldwide destruction of food. Why do we throw away so much? And how can we stop this kind of waste? 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. When it comes right down to it, no one actually thinks this is okay: Food is not something to be thrown away 'because others have nothing to eat', as younger people would say, and as for the elderly: 'I was around during the war and we were glad to get our hands on every crust of bread!' That's one side of the story. They discover the other side when they venture a look into dumpsters: behind their local supermarket and, if they can summon up enough courage, in the trash cans outside their own door. We're not talking about chicken bones and potato peels here. The topic at hand is perfectly edible food, some still in the original packaging, and frequently enough not even the 'best before' date has expired. Around 100 pounds per household each year. Even more, about twice as much, is 'rejected' on fields, in factories and at retailers.

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, strawberries are in demand at any time of the year. 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. Agriculture is responsible for more than a third of the greenhouse gases worldwide because farming requires energy, fertilizers and land. What's more, whenever food rots away at a garbage dump, methane escapes into the atmosphere, a climate gas with an effect 25 times as powerful as carbon dioxide. In other words, when we waste half of our food that has a disastrous impact on the world climate.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 06 August, 2012.