Film screening
Taste the Waste

03/24/17
6:30pm
Goethe-Institut New York

Affluent societies live in overabundance: about half of all food ends up in the garbage, most of it before it even makes it to consumers.  Only recently has the public slowly become aware of the magnitude of this misuse. TASTE THE WASTE searches for the reasons behind the squandering of foodstuffs and examines the consequences for the diet of 7 billion people and for the changing climate. Filming took place in Europe, Africa, Asia and the USA. In case one might one wish, through one single film, to change the conscience of an audience– this work from Valentin Thurn could fulfill that expectation.

Director: Valentin Thurn, Germany, 2011