Farms instead of agribusiness!

And that seems more important than providing the people in Europe with healthy food, more important than the well-being of our planet.

For food sovereignty, we need a different agricultural policy.

Thousands of people and organizations in Europe are already working for a CAP based on food sovereignty. You too can participate. Our food and our future are at stake.

Source: http://nyelenieurope.net/en/

Who makes rubbish out of food? What are the consequences of global food destruction for the climate? And for the nutrition of seven billion people?

The film finds answers from farmers, supermarket directors, garbage collectors and cooks. In Germany, Austria, Japan, France, Cameroon, Italy and the United States. And he finds people who appreciate our food more and have developed alternatives to stop wasting it.

Nobody likes throwing food away - “because others have nothing to eat”, say the younger ones and the older ones still remember the hunger during the war: “We were happy about every bit of bread.” But we all take part in the big ex and Hops!

Valentin Thurn has tracked down the reality in our garbage cans. In the waste containers of the wholesale markets, the supermarkets and those on our doorstep. They contain masses of perfect food, some of which are still in their original packaging, and often the best-before date has not even expired. Over ten million tons of food are thrown away every year in Germany alone. And there are more and more! Why do we throw so much away? Looking for explanations, Valentin Thurn speaks to supermarket sellers and managers, bakers, wholesale market inspectors, ministers, psychologists, farmers and EU bureaucrats.

What he finds is a system in which we all participate: supermarkets offer the full range of goods throughout. The bread on the shelves has to be fresh until late in the evening, there are strawberries in every season. And everything has to look perfect: a dry lettuce leaf, a crack in the potato or a dent in the apple, and the goods are sorted out immediately. Yoghurt pots two days before the best-before date. The fact that we waste half of our food has a devastating effect on the global climate.

The consequences are far-reaching because the effects on the global climate are devastating. Agriculture consumes huge amounts of energy, water, fertilizer and pesticides, and rainforests are cleared for pasture. More than a third of the greenhouse gases are produced by agriculture. The food waste fermenting in the garbage dumps is also not insignificant, because the greenhouse gases that are produced have a decisive influence on global warming.

TASTE THE WASTE shows that a worldwide rethinking is taking place and that there are people who counter this madness with a wealth of ideas and commitment.

Small steps that mean a great opportunity.

Source: http://www.tastethewaste.com/info/film

The reform of the EU agricultural policy is entering the decisive phase. Get involved now! Take a picture and send your personal message to be published photo@goodfoodmarch.eu

The Good Food Good Farming photo action, allows anyone to share their hopes for the future of Europe's agricultural policy. You can send a photo to the campaign at any time. (photo@goodfoodmarch.eu)

The messages will be communicated to decision-makers in Brussels at key points in the reform debate. The first 1000 were presented to all EU Agricultural Ministers, and many MEPs, in a book of citizen testimonials in summer 2012.

A newspaper is now being developed with the all the new images. This will be presented to MEPs in the coming weeks ahead of the final vote on CAP reform by EU Parliament's Committee on Agriculture in January 2013, and the full Plenary vote in March 2013.