From: Utalkmarketing
Rapper Scroobius Pip and actor Bernard Wrigley have been roped in to voice a new short film from Friends of the Earth to raise awareness of the global implications of factory farming.
The work tells the story of a cow who treks to South America to find the answer to his daughter’s questions about where their food comes from. It was released by Friends of the Earth to mark World Food Day (October 16, 2009).
‘Soy Story’ was made by award-winning film-makers David Pownall and Caroline Eccles and aims to highlight the hidden link between Government-funded factory farms and deforestation in South America .
It sees a calf puppet asking its dad the tough questions in life. Not wanting his daughter to doubt his worldly knowledge, the inquisitive cow sneaks away to the Amazon to seek out the answers. Befriending a Spanish llama and singing toucan along the way, he returns to England ready to spill the beans on soy feed.
Narrator Scroobius Pip, one half of hip-hop duo Dan le Sac v Scroobius Pip, said that narrating the film was a real eye-opener, as he hadn’t realised that growing feed for factory farms was “trashing rainforests”.
“Everyone should get behind Friends of the Earth’s Food Chain Campaign which is calling on the Government to spend public money on planet-friendly farming instead of damaging factory farms,” he added.
Friends of the Earth's Food Chain Campaign was launched earlier this year and calls on the Government to take action to reduce the impact of the meat and dairy industry.
The charity claims that livestock production is responsible for 18 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all the planes, cars and lorries on the planet.
On current trends, it adds that animal feed production and cattle ranching alone will destroy 40% of the Amazon rainforest by 2050.