Close to a billion people are starving today. But the food we are currently producing could feed 12 billion people. A film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, the flow of goods and cash flow - a film about scarcity amid plenty. The film answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.
Why doesn't a tomato taste like a tomato today? How does one explain that 200 million people in India, supplier of 80% of Switzerland's wheat, suffer from malnutrition? Why are thousands of acres of the Amazon being cleared to grow soybeans? Is water something to which the public has a basic right or, as the CEO of the world's largest food company Nestlé suggests, a foodstuff with a market value?
These distressing questions are mapped out as filmmaker Wagenhofer charts a course of contention from Austria to Brazil, France to Africa. Interviewed are not only UN's Jean Ziegler, and CEO's and directors of the world's largest food companies, but also agronomists, biologists, fishermen, farmers and farmworkers.
This film is about food and globalization, it is about the flow of goods and cash flow - a film about scarcity amidst plenty. Meanwhile, on a daily basis in Vienna alone, left-over bread, enough to supply a small city is destroyed. The planet has enough production power to feed everyone , but 800 million people suffer from hunger. WE FEED THE WORLD provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.
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