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6:30 PM
Taste the Waste
Film
- Price Free Entrance
Directed by: Valentin Thurn (2010) | German Original w/ engl. subtitles
Aesthetic norms do not only reign the idea of beauty on this planet – this ideology has broadened to nutritional products as well. While millions on this planet are starving, food is thrown away in countries like Germany that could well have been eaten, but will not be bought as their outer appearance does not justify the idea of a costumer of how the perfect fruit or vegetable should look like. 20 million tons of eatable food is thrown away. And although no one would admit to be in favor of this development, the movie demonstrates how we are all part of this perverse culture: everything needs to be available at any time, perfectly looking. Meanwhile, this excessive demand of industrial countries also increases world prices of goods – leading to a spiral in which the rich keep throwing away and the poor keep starving. As bad as effects on humanity are, the movie does not fail to consider the broader picture: the effect of the use of fertilizers and pesticides, the deforestation to make room for farming fields and the production of marsh gas by decomposing organic materials.
The Skype-Talk with Valentin Thurn will be taking place after the movie screening.
Aesthetic norms do not only reign the idea of beauty on this planet – this ideology has broadened to nutritional products as well. While millions on this planet are starving, food is thrown away in countries like Germany that could well have been eaten, but will not be bought as their outer appearance does not justify the idea of a costumer of how the perfect fruit or vegetable should look like. 20 million tons of eatable food is thrown away. And although no one would admit to be in favor of this development, the movie demonstrates how we are all part of this perverse culture: everything needs to be available at any time, perfectly looking. Meanwhile, this excessive demand of industrial countries also increases world prices of goods – leading to a spiral in which the rich keep throwing away and the poor keep starving. As bad as effects on humanity are, the movie does not fail to consider the broader picture: the effect of the use of fertilizers and pesticides, the deforestation to make room for farming fields and the production of marsh gas by decomposing organic materials.
The Skype-Talk with Valentin Thurn will be taking place after the movie screening.