A massive crop-duster unfolds over a field and hovers like a prehistoric bird. Newborn chicks shoot from a metal tube onto a conveyor belt. A man in a white jumpsuit sprays endless aisles of hot house tomatoes. Images like these converge to create a world defined by machinery, in which the living elements of plant, animal, and human are incidental to the larger, industrial picture. This is the world of mass-produced food. The images speak for themselves in this refreshing departure from tongue-in-cheek food industry film predecessors, leading the viewer to ponder the process that enables the first-world standard of living. "Nikolaus Geyrhalter's superb documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory." (NY Times) Cosponsored with Greenstar Cooperative, New World Agriculture and Ecology Group, and Slow Food Cornell. more at ourdailybread.at
2005, color, 1 hour 32 minutes, Germany/Austria