We Feed the World

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We Feed the World

Directed by	Erwin Wagenhofer
Written by	Erwin Wagenhofer
Produced by	Katharina Bogensberger Helmut Grasser
Cinematography	Erwin Wagenhofer
Edited by	Erwin Wagenhofer
Music by	Helmut Neugebauer
Release dates	10 September 2005 (2005-09-10) (Toronto Film Festival) 30 September 2005 (2005-09-30) (Austria)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Austria
Languages	French, German, Portuguese, English

We Feed the World is a 2005 documentary in which Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat and views modern industrial production of food and factory farming in a critical light. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria.

The film features interviews with several people, including one with sociologist and politician Jean Ziegler.

The film was the most successful Austrian documentary ever. In German-speaking countries it was seen by about 600,000 cinemagoers.^[1]

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^ lumiere.obs.coe.int – Database of film attendance in Europe, retrieved 7 February 2011

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v t e Food industry criticism
Books	The Jungle (1906) Modern Meat (1984) 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)
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) Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! (2017) Dominion (2018) Food, Inc. 2 (2023)
Organizations	Coca-Cola Cargill McDonald's Nestlé boycott Tesco
Concepts	Child labour in cocoa production Ethics of eating meat Fair trade coffee Fast food criticism Food safety Genetically modified food (controversies)
By country	China Taiwan

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