Taste the Waste
Taste the Waste
| 08 September 2011 (USA)
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Documentary about how much food goes to waste in our society and why.

Reviews
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Taste the Waste" is (despite the English title) a German documentary from 6 years ago. There are so many filming locations in here all over the world and as a consequence so many languages are spoken that you may not want to watch this without a good set of subtitles. The writer and director here is Valentin Thurn and I see he is still pretty prolific in film, which is a good thing as here he made a fairly decent documentary. It is informative as well as inspirational. And with the latter, I do not mean that you start collecting food from garbage now, but just that everybody of us can think about their way of eating a bit and make sure they do not throw away anything that could still be eaten, only because it is not as fresh anymore as it was on the day you bought it. And with "they", I actually mean "we" as this concerns me as well.I like documentaries that have a smart message and this one does fore sure. I will not go much into detail which parts I felt were the best and the most informative, but it is a well-rounded piece of film that runs for almost 90 minutes and is not too long or too short for its own good. We can certainly learn a lot from other countries in the ways we consume food. Why are tomatoes thrown away because they do not have the perfect size if they are like every other tomato in terms of taste and looks? Just one example. It is truly shocking to see how we could 3 time feed the starving population of the planet with everything we throw away. But this is not only a reference to human individuals. It is also a warning signal to economies and countries as a whole that something goes terribly wrong. Sadly, these people who have the power to change for the better will not do so because of their greed, lethargy and inability to truly make a change that may be better for anything other than their own bank account. A sad state of affairs. I applaud Thurn for his effort here. He got the right ratio between general messages and the fates of individuals. Watch this film. You will not be disappointed.
Pippi_langstrumpf This documentary starts with two dumpster divers in Vienna who retrieve food from a supermarket's dustbin. Later on there are interviews with an organic farmer, supermarket employees, a baker etc to show how much food is thrown away worldwide.This is partly due to EU guidelines (apples must have a minimum size; potatoes must not be too big or too small), partly due to customers' tastes (who still buys one-day-old bread?).It is quite sickening to see how food that is still good for consumption is thrown away and to see the reasons for it. Let's hope this film is watched by many people who start questioning their own habits - do you only buy flawless fruit? Do you buy more food than you can eat? Do you still drink milk that is beyond its "best before" date?