I don’t want to sound overly preachy, and I know I am not eating the absolute optimal diet myself though I think I can say it’s better than most peoples’ (vegan, hardly anything ready-made, no caffeine, no sugar, hardly any cocoa, hardly any palm oil if I can avoid it). What I could do better is to eat more locally produced, organic and seasonal, and grow more of my own food. And probably other things, because there is so much I do not know yet. I do think that it is my duty to inform myself about what is going on in the world and try to make it better, not worse.  And what is absolutely the worst in my opinion is the destruction of environment and the inhumanity of production that comes with industrial meat production. I don’t want to tell people to go diehard vegan but I don’t think it is justified to let anyone suffer through that kind of treatment nor let the environment take what meat and dairy production does to it. (Links are to reports from FAO and members of the European parliament.) There are so many other alternatives, and yes, with that I even I might mean including locally produced meat if that has to be the alternative for other people than myself. Cause I can’t say for sure what is the best alternative ever and I think that everyone should research that for themselves. But then you have to actually do your research and not just go for any company commercials because they’ve crammed the word sustainable into them…

And with that being said,here are some documentaries on food production that I think one should have seen to be able to make up one’s mind about what to do.

1. Earthlings

(Thanks Rebecka for reminding me about this one, it meant a lot to me when I watched it the first time) And it is very depressing, and informative, and important.

2. Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread is very beautifully filmed. It has no narration or interviews, it’s just a lot of scenarios from different types of production of food. I read on wikipedia that the director’s goal was just what I was trying to say before, to provide a realistic view of modern society’s food production to let the viewers form their own opinion on it.

3. Food, INC

I haven’t seen all of Food, INC yet but since it was up for an Oscar and is very relevant right now so I am cheating and adding it to this list anyway! Frej has seen it and says it was a bit “too american” but good…

4. Bullshit

Vandana Shiva is awesome! I walked past her in a stair when I was in Copenhagen during COP15, I was like 20 cm away from her and totally star struck.

I’d also recommend “The World According to Monsanto” about GMO plants but I couldn’t find a trailer for that one. If you click the link you will go straight to it on YouTube where the whole documentary is available anyway! Oh and Bananas* is worth your time aswell! And so is The Dark Side of Chocolate. A lot of these documentaries are available for streaming directly on youtube, google videos or their own websites since it’s material that is relevant to be spread! There are probably a few more I have to recommend, but I don’t have my externa hard drive where I’m at right now and can’t check my list of documentaries.

And here’s list I found with the “top 10 Documentary Food Films” of which I’ve seen some and want to see pretty much all of the others!