Chicken for Africa
The film Chicken for Africa has been awarded the Helmut Schmid documentary prize 2010 and was nominated for the Ernst-Schneider-Preis 2010.
Breast or thigh? Germans have made their preference clear: since the healthy lifestyle revolution, no-one eats more chicken breasts than we do here. And the industry is happy to follow the trend, since breast meat generates the highest profits.
But what becomes of the rest of the bird? It gets packed off all over the world, often ending up in African countries. The result: local markets are undermined and people grow sick from eating low-grade meat – meat that isn't subject to our high standards of hygiene. After all, Africa is not Europe.
We follow these chicken parts on their complicated journey from Germany and Holland to Africa, showing how their export affects local markets in Ghana and Togo and revealing the impact of Europe's mania for chicken on the people there.
