Our Daily Bread (2005 film)

Our Daily Bread

Directed by	Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Produced by	Nikolaus Geyrhalter Markus Glaser Michael Kitzberger Wolfgang Widerhofer
Written by	Wolfgang Widerhofer Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Cinematography	Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Edited by	Wolfgang Widerhofer
Distributed by	First Run Icarus Films (USA)
Release dates	28 November 2005 (2005-11-28) (Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival) 21 April 2006 (2006-04-21) (Austria) 18 January 2007 (2007-01-18) (Germany)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Austria Germany
Language	Polish German

Our Daily Bread (German: Unser täglich Brot) is a 2005 documentary film directed, co-produced, and with cinematography by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The script was co-written by Wolfgang Widerhofer and Nikolaus Geyrhalter.

The film depicts how modern food production companies employ technology to produce food on large scales. It consists mainly of actual working situations without voice-over narration or interviews as the director tries to let viewers form their own opinion on the subject.^[1] The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are purposely not shown. The director's goal is to provide a realistic view on the internal workings of multiple food production companies in our modern society.^[2]

Foods transformations

Different processes in agriculture and food processing plants are shown in the film. Since scenes are mixed, food transformations are listed below with no particular order.

Semen to pigs
Pigs to meat
Semen to cows
Cows to meat
Cows to milk
Eggs to chickens
Chickens to eggs
Chickens to meat
Fish
Crops and field harvests (misc)
Tomatoes in rock wool
Salads night harvest
Peppers
Cucumbers
Apples
Olives harvest
Salt from mines

Places and companies

The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are provided on the official site in the booklet pdf. They are listed below for convenience and to help further investigation:

Danish Crown (pork, beef) company site Europe
Tasty Tom (tomatoes) company site places Netherlands (sample Sat view)
Geflügelhof Latschenberger GmbH (eggs) Biberbach, Austria
Pro Ovo (eggs) company site Biberbach, Austria
Radatz Fleischwaren (pork) company site Vienna, Austria
Marché Couvert de Ciney (beef), Ciney, Belgium
Abattoir et Marché de Bastogne (meat), company site Bastogne,Belgium
Belgian Blue Group s.c.r.l (bulls) company site, Belgium
Zaklady Drobiarskie ‘Kozieglowy’ Sp.zo.o (chickens), company site Kozieglowy, Poland
Nutreco, Skretting, Marine Harvest, Norway, Marine Harvest processing plant Ryfisk at Hjelmeland (fish) company site Hjelmeland, Norway
Vitana (pre-cooked foods), company site, Czech Republic
Solofino (sprinkles) company site, Austria
esco European salt company GmbH & Co. KG (rock salt) company site, Germany
Agrargenossenschaft Cobbelsdorf eG (cereals), Cobbelsdorf Germany
Kalbescher Werder Agrar GmbH (milk), Brunau Germany
Quality Sprout Kerkdriel (sprouts), Kerkdriel Netherlands
Löhle Thomas Obstbau (fruits), Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany
Salemfrucht GmbH (apples), Germany
Árpád - Agrár Rt. (misc) company site Hungary
Chiquita Deutschland (bananas) company site, Germany
Sucatrans BVBA (transport of art), Belgium
The Greenery (vegetables/fruits), company site, Netherlands
Jamnica d.d., (mineral water) company site, Sveta Jana (???), Croatia
Ferme la Béole (farm hostel) Belgium
SAD s.r.o. (equipment?) Brezno, Slovakia

Awards

Award wins:

Grand Prix, Festival International du Film d'Environnement, Paris, 2006
EcoCamera Award, Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, 2006
Best Film, Ecocinema International Film Festival Athens 2006
Honourable Mention, Special Jury Prize - International Feature - Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto 2006
Special John Templeton Prize - Visions du Réel documentary film festival, Nyon, Switzerland 2006:
Special Jury Award - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2005

Nominations:

Nomination, European Film Award, Prix Arte, 2006

References

↑ Interview with Nikolaus Geyrhalter, director
↑ Burner, Silvia. "Nikolaus Geyrhalter in an interview with Silvia Burner", Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, 2005

External links

Food industry criticism

Books	The Jungle (1906) Fast Food Nation (2001) Reefer Madness (2003) Shopped (2004) Chew on This (2006) My Secret Life on the McJob (2006) The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) Eating Animals (2009) Wheat Belly (2011) Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat (2014) Meat Atlas (annual) The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business (2014) Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production (2014) Righteous Porkchop (2009)

Films	The Jungle (1914) McLibel (1997) The Corporation (2003) Super Size Me (2004) The Future of Food (2004) We Feed the World (2005) Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) Our Daily Bread (2005) Earthlings (2005) Fast Food Nation (2006) Black Gold (2006) King Corn (2007) Food, Inc. (2008) Million Calorie March: The Movie (2008) The World According to Monsanto (2008) Fresh (2009) Bananas!* (2009) Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011) The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010) Forks Over Knives (2011) A Place at the Table (2013) Fed Up (2014) Cowspiracy (2014)

Organizations	Coca-Cola Cargill Tesco Nestlé boycott

Concepts	Children in cocoa production Fair trade coffee Fast food criticism Food safety Genetically modified food (controversies)

By country	China

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