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Our Daily Bread

Geoff Riley

10th January 2009

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In a similar vein to Manufactured Landscapes, Our Daily Bread is a no holds barred documentary on industrial farming and food processing. It is available for purchase in DVD format through Amazon UK.

Devoid of any speech, the ninety two minute soundtrack draws only from the sounds of tractors, conveyor belts, planes, automated milking machines and the like as we are thrust into ultra efficient but soulless environments in which the mass rearing of pigs an chickens is the start of a process which leads to cheap food on supermarket shelves. I have showed a couple of scenes to A level economists - some are perhaps too graphic to risk in the schoolroom, but this is a DVD to challenge and inform and is guaranteed to create a strong reaction.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.