The Food for Profit film is showing at Ealing PictureHouse on Tuesday 29th October 2024 at 7.45pm. This is part of the Picture House Green Screen programme. Director Pablo D’Ambrosi with be joined by guests including Matthew Glover from Veganuary, Rose Patterson from Animal Rising, Abigail Penny from Animal Equality, to discuss the film and answer questions from the audience. Find out more and booking your seat here.
Ealing Picture House describe Food for Profit film as follows:
“Food For Profit is the first feature documentary that exposes the links between the meat industry, lobbying, and the corridors of power. A five-year investigation that denounced how Europe is transferring hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money into the hands of intensive farms, which mistreat animals, pollute the environment, and pose a potential danger for future pandemics. Directors Giulia Innocenzi and Pablo D’Ambrosi, along with their team of investigators, take us on an enlightening but shocking journey across Europe, where they confront farmers, corporations, and politicians. Travelling across Europe, they infiltrate farms across Europe, exposing the truth behind the perceived excellence of European dairy and meat production whilst also infiltrating high level powers in Brussels and gaining shocking information.“
Possible futures for farming
Six Inches of Soil was a previous green screening film, with more details here. Its focus was on regenerative farming. Regenerative farming as the Wildlife Trust describes is farming that limits soil disturbance, maintains soil cover, fosters agricultural diversity and rotations, keeps the living roots in the soil and integrates livestock and arable systems.
Agriculture will be a key part of the solution for nature loss. Farmland accounts for around 69% of land use in the UK, so there is huge scope for positive change in UK agriculture, securing nature and climate recovery – but it requires system change. The Wildlife Trusts believe that there must be a fundamental shift away from industrial agricultural practices towards an approach which sees farming and the environment as mutually beneficial and interdependent.
Another film also screened at Picturehouse was Wilding which also focuses on Rewilding another potential area of rewilding agricultural land to improve biodiversity and restores nature. Both films show a brighter future of agricultural land.
Picturehouse Green Screen Programme
Green Screen is a strand of environmentally-focused films that show across PictureHouse cinemas featuring panel discussions following the screenings with local experts and filmmakers. Audience participation is encouraged and people are invited to continue the conversation in the bar afterwards.
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