Taste the waste
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Taste the waste |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , French , English , Japanese , Italian |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | Cinema: 91 minutes DVD: 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Valentin Thurn |
| script | Valentin Thurn |
| production | Valentin Thurn Astrid Vandekerkhove |
| music | Pluramon |
| camera | Roland Breitschuh |
| cut | Birgit Köster |
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Taste the Waste (English, German Koste den Abfall ) is a German documentary from 2011 by Valentin Thurn about how industrial societies deal with food and the global extent of food waste .
content
In Vienna , the camera accompanies two garbage divers who are looking for edible food in garbage cans and thus cover 90 percent of their food needs from discarded goods. They do not do it because they are needy, but see it as an attitude towards life and a sign against waste.
A single supermarket in France throws away around 500 tons of groceries every year , in a market in Japan the best before date is even given in hours and all products in the entire market with the penultimate best before date are thrown away. A study in Austria has found that a supermarket there throws away around 45 kg of edible food every day.
Every year around 90 million tonnes of food are thrown away across the EU, which would be equivalent to about one column around the equator when loaded into trucks . About three million tons of it is bread , with which one could feed the whole of Spain .
When harvesting potatoes , a farmer in Germany has to sort out and plow under around 50 percent of the potatoes in the field, as they do not correspond to the industry standard in shape or appearance, although otherwise they would be the best potatoes.
A spokesman for the EU Commission for Agriculture and Rural Development refutes the rumor that the EU is to blame for the fact that the degree of curvature of cucumbers was fixed. Rather, the EU was forced by the retail groups to introduce a cucumber standard because they wanted to pack cucumbers more easily and line them up in the supermarket. When the EU made an attempt to abolish the gherkin standard, the German Ministry of Agriculture resisted this under pressure from trade. Although the standard has since been canceled and no one is forbidden to sell crooked cucumbers, in practice one does not find any, as cucumbers in particular fit better into their standardized boxes for dealers.
The trade is not interested in agriculture or naturally grown fruits, but forces farmers to harvest products that look exactly the same. There are color tables for fruits or the color of a tomato is scanned by computer and these are sorted out if the red is a little lighter or darker than prescribed.
In the USA, food cooperations have been created that sell organic products directly to consumers via a market, bypassing trade. Members can take as many fruits and vegetables as they want for just 50 US cents a day.
A German bakery shows how they now use their unsold bread to heat their ovens. Since bread has a calorific value similar to that of wood, around four tons of old bread would save around 900 liters of heating oil.
When organic waste is disposed of in landfills, methane is produced on the dumps , which is 25 times more harmful than the greenhouse gas CO 2 and escapes into the atmosphere. In the composting of organic waste, the burden would be much lower and in the recovery in a biogas plant energy can from the garbage still be won. Food waste alone produces around 15 percent of global methane emissions. If the food waste were only halved, this would prevent about as many greenhouse gases as the shutdown of 50 percent of all cars.
In a wholesale market in France, 8.5 tons of oranges are destroyed because you don't want to bother to sort out the individual overripe fruits from the boxes.
In France, an employee from Cameroon is annoyed that bananas are flown tens of thousands of kilometers to Europe from her country just to be thrown away here, while in Cameroon many people cannot afford bananas themselves because they are so expensive there because of the demand from Europe are. Small farmers are also being expropriated because of the large producers who export their goods to Europe.
Since in the EU z. For example, in contrast to Japan, it is forbidden to use leftover food and supermarket waste as animal feed, 5 million tonnes of additional grain must be grown for animal feed, which roughly corresponds to the entire harvest in Austria.
Throwing away food also leads to a shortage of goods and an increase in prices and thus indirectly increases hunger in the world. The food that is thrown away in Europe and North America alone could fill all the hungry in the world three times.
background
- The English title was chosen because of the double meaning of waste , which can mean both "waste" and "waste". In the DVD extras, Valentin Thurn refers to the so-called “window gardening” for growing herbs and vegetables in one's own apartment as a practical example of participating.
- In addition to the cinema release, action days took place in which, for example, cooks distributed food in public places that was completely cooked from rejected food.
- The world premiere took place on February 18, 2011 as part of the “Culinary Cinema” series of the 2011 Berlinale . The cinema release in Germany was on September 8, 2011. On April 20, 2012 the film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray.
- Before making his feature film, Valentin Thurn produced the 44-minute documentary Frisch auf den Müll for television , which was first broadcast on the ARD on October 20, 2010 and in a short version of 29 minutes in the third ARD programs under the title Essen im Bucket was sent. In addition, an international version was produced for foreign television stations with a running time of 55 minutes.
Reviews
“Thurns Film avoids the raised index finger and describes with great calm the disturbing waste of food in the western world. Skilfully assembled from many short interview episodes and snapshots, Thurn manages a multi-layered documentation. "
“We live in a world of extremes with abundance and hunger, waste and scarcity. The documentary film 'Taste the Waste' by Valentin Thurn shows what food has to do with climate change, the fight for land and grain prices. The film describes contexts in a multi-faceted and factual manner and undertakes a journey that conveys many facts and sometimes leaves the viewer in awe. "
“The appreciation of our food is lost through unlimited access. The film 'Taste the Waste' takes on this topic and impresses with the skillful processing of facts, its shocking images and the encouragement that there is a way out of this misery. "
"Taste the Waste not only illustrates the extent and the establishment of food waste as a practice with global consequences, but also unfolds its potential in the identification of subversive alternatives that encourage change and initiative."
Awards
- Environmental Media Prize 2011 from Deutsche Umwelthilfe
- Hoimar von Ditfurth Prize 2011 (best journalistic achievement (together with the film “Radioactive Wolves”)) from the German Environmental Aid
- "Golden Onion" 2011 audience award for best documentary film by the municipal cinema in Esslingen
- Audience Award 2011 (third place in the preferred film competition) of the Thüringer Allgemeine Zeitung
- Nomination for the International “Gold Panda” Award 2011 for best long documentary in the category Nature and Environment, Sichuan TV Festival, China
- Grand Prix, International Festival of Ecology and Environment Protection Films at Marele Premiu Eco Fest Oradea, Romania 2011
- Plaquette of the International Scientific Film Festival, Szolnok, Hungary 2011
- Honorable recognition in the Environment category at the 2011 Sun Child Festival, Armenia
- GRAND PRIX EKOTOPFILM at the “Prize of the Government of the Slovak 38th International Festival of Sustainable Development Films”, Slovak Republic
- Documentary film award at the 37th EKOFILM International Film Festival on the Environment and Natural and Cultural Heritage, Czech Republic
- "Best Film" at the ATLANTIS Nature and Environment Film Festival Wiesbaden
- First prize in the environmental section at the ImagéSanté Festival, 2012, Liège, Belgium
literature
- Stefan Kreutzberger / Valentin Thurn: Die Essenvernichter , Kiepenheuer & Witsch (2011), ISBN 9783462043495
Web links
- Tastethewaste.com
- Taste the Waste in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Taste the waste in the lexicon of international films
- Taste the waste at filmportal.de
- Consumer society: Against the throwaway madness in Spiegel Online from October 17, 2011
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bonus material on the DVD
- ↑ our.Windowfarms.org ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Window-Gardening: Window as a herb garden ( Memento from May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in WDR - service time from January 5, 2012
- ↑ Day of action for the start of “Taste the Waste” in taz on September 17, 2011
- ↑ "Taste the Waste" in the cinema: The top of the mountain of food in Süddeutsche Zeitung from September 9, 2011
- ↑ Documentary "Taste the Waste": How food turns into piles of rubbish in Stern on September 6, 2011
- ↑ Incorrect handling of food: "Taste the Waste" exposed on n-tv on September 16, 2011
- ^ Film review on Critic.de from August 4, 2011
- ↑ " Put your fingers in the wound": Food is no longer worth anything on n-tv from October 2nd, 2011
- ↑ Taste the Waste at Freitag.de
