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Claus Hansen Petz | ... | Self |
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Arkadiusz Rydellek | ... | Self |
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Barbara Hinz | ... | Self |
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Renata Wypchlo | ... | Self |
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Alina Wiktorska | ... | Self |
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Ela Kozlowska | ... | Self |
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Anna Bethke | ... | Self |
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Malgorzata Nowak | ... | Self |
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Halina Kosiacka | ... | Self |
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Tibor Korom | ... | Self |
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András Szarvas | ... | Self |
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Lies Jacobs | ... | Self |
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Frédéric Quinet | ... | Self |
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Christoph Malherbe | ... | Self |
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Olivier Leboutte | ... | Self |
The documentary shows long scenes of food production without any voice-over and practically no dialogue. Chickens: selection, breeding, slaughter, dismemberment. Pigs: insemination, castration, slaughter, dismemberment. Cows: insemination, milking, slaughter, dismemberment. Fish: breeding, slaughter, dismemberment. Fruits and vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, olives, salads, apples, etc.): harvest, selection. Salt: extraction from mines. Workers performing their job, eating, resting. Note: the animal scenes include graphic details. Written by Teyss
This movie didn't show me anything I didn't already know, but it's silence gave me time to think about what is shown. Certainly not a movie for impatient people or after a hard day at work. It left me with a strong feeling: That industrial farming and breeding is just that - industrial. Certainly the slaughterhouse sequences touched me most. Treatment of the animals doesn't appear cruel, but very unnatural. Efficiency and detachment rule. Plants and animals don't grow and live anymore. They are produced and harvested. What's ultimately lost is the variety of life outside the human production-sphere and the human connection to the world.