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What's for Dinner?
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Icarus Films
Media Type:DVD
Release Date:2013
Audience:Higher Education
High School
Running Time:29 min
Physical Description:(Null)
Language:Mandarin with English Subtitles
Author:Jian Yi
Resource Library Number:EACDVD 153
Subject:Science, Technology, & the Environment
Subheading:Agriculture
Environment & Policy
Region:East Asia
Country:China



Abstract:

Meat is now central to billions of people's daily needs. The environmental, climate, public health, ethical, and human impacts are enormous and remain largely undocumented. 'What's for Dinner?' explores this terrain in fast-globalizing China through the eyes of a retired pic farmer in rural Jiangxi province; a vegan restauranteur in Beijing; a bullish young livestock entrepreneur; and residents of the province known as the "world's factory" contending with water polluted by wastes from pig factory farms. They personalize the vast trends around them, in a country on the cusp of becoming a world power. Given that every fifth person in the world in Chinese, what the Chinese eat and how China produces its food, affects not only China but the world too.






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