“Our Daily Bread” Shows Where Food Really Comes From
February 16, 2009 · Print This Article
Check out this disturbing clip from the Sundance Channel documentary film “Our Daily Bread” created by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The film takes a look at animals, slaughterhouses and factories in order to clue consumers in to what goes on behind the scenes to make our pre-packaged foods.
As the Sundance channel website states,
With dispassionate objectivity, Austrian documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter lifts the veil on modern industrial food production to present a glimpse of a world few of us have ever seen – or are willing to think about. Avoiding conventional narrative techniques, Geyrhalter lets the images speak for themselves. The result is a coldly beautiful and often disturbing visual essay illustrating what goes on in slaughterhouses, manufacturing plants and large dusty fields to process and package our food.
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It started out really bad, and then it just got worse… and worse…
I couldn’t stop watching it. I needed to know.
And now that I know, I might just stop eating meat.
That video was fucking ludicrous? Images speak louder than words my ass! I grew up on a pig farm, and those images were just plain mundane. What is wrong with any of that? Some of that may look bad, but it really isn’t. If you don’t explain what is going on in the video, than it can look rather cold and dispassionate. This feels like a gimmick to me to make things seem worse than they are.
1. The first scene panning across the feeding pigs was showing the typical feeding stations for piglets. They have the mother in a small cage so she doesn’t get up prematurely or harm any of her children. This isn’t where pigs spend their time all day. When they are without a litter they spend time in pens outside or in a barn.
2. The scene with the piglets. This is the practice of clipping the piglet’s tails. This is common practice, and if this wasn’t done the little pigs would end up getting infections from their tails dragging in mud. It is quick, relatively painless and helps prevent disease. Hell, not doing this would be even more shocking.
3. As for the last scene, the pigs were being pushed with boards into a smaller pathway. This is done to move pigs from the outside to the inside of a location and happens daily (or when there is bad weather). It is just a way of herding animals. I couldn’t tell from the clip, but they could have been headed off to the slaughterhouse, who knows?… NOBODY IS TALKING.
Seriously, using footage and not explaining it to get across your point is downright immoral. It is like showing a child (an uneducated viewer) something hoping for a reaction. Basically how propaganda works.