A Camcorder Agenda
Meat might be murder, but I am not gonna stop eating it because the industry is corrupt. Boycotting meat clearly isn’t working. However, I do commend filmmakers like Nikolaus Geyrhalter who try to use the camcorder to prove their beliefs. Geyrhalter’s Our Daily Bread documents the inner workings of the slaughter industry of Europe. According to Pajiba, it’s not for the faint of heart. The film uses a video camera to simply display what goes on inside these facilities. No statistics or voice-overs, just straight forward segments of his visits.
To make this movie, it looks like he signed up for standard tours of these high-tech processing plants with a sony hd camcorder in tow. His stylistic camera choices may enhance the tone of the film, but at heart, the images speak for themselves.
It was released in 2005 in Europe, but is just now making it’s way to American audiences. There are clips on You Tube for those who dare to take a sneak peek. I think I’m going to sit this one out. One random night in college, I saw one of those propaganda vegetarian PSA videos. This crazy ultra-hippie guy decided he needed to force everyone in the dorm (one-by-one) to watch it and convert to vegetarianism. His tactic killed his good intentions. It didn’t make me stop eating meat, but it did make me question the source.
I commend these activists who try and use film to change our societal habits. But eating is so subjective, I’m not sure if Our Daily Bread and other similar films will be enough to enact lasting change. In any case, I’m sure it helps the sale of organic meat at Whole Foods and other markets. They should do a promotional tie-in.
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