BOLOGNA – When we talk about intensive farming, images of chickens on top of each other immediately come to mind, pigs that don’t even have enough space to turn around. But the fishing industry also has a decisive impact on environmental sustainability, food safety and the exploitation of resources, with tens of billions of fish farmed every year around the world, “which are often slaughtered with cruel methods, without being previously stunned and suffering enormous suffering.” A documentary by Francesco De Augustinis, “Until the End of the World”which will be screened on May 21st at 6.30pm at the Odeon cinemain a free event organized by organized by CIWF Italia andessereanimali.
After watching the film – which won the 2024 Environment award at the International ocean film festival in San Francisco, they will talk with De Augustinis Francesco Ceccarellihead of investigations ofessereanimali, ed Elena Lararesearcher at Compassion in World Farming.
Behind “Until the End of the World” there is a research work that lasted three years. The documentary recounts the various stages of a journey in the footsteps of the aquaculture industry, to investigate whether this production model really contributes to making the food system more sustainable, as claimed, in the face of a world population that could reach 9.7 billion of people in 2050. “The documentary recounts the very rapid growth of fish farming, to produce salmon, sea bass, sea bream, or even prawns, trout and tuna, in different regions of the world”, says De Augustinis, who had already dealt with sustainability environment and intensive farming in “Deforestation Made in Italy” and “One Earth – Everything is connected”. “On this journey across three continents we encountered very different realities and many local communities, who are each fighting their own battle against the unstoppable growth of this industry, which often threatens their very existence.”
