"In this thought-provoking documentary, made with the help of Christian Aid, academic Robert Beckford undertakes a challenging, emotional journey to Ghana in West Africa. This is where, two centuries ago, Robert Beckford’s ancestors were seized and taken as slaves to Jamaica. Now he is making a journey to the land of his roots to discover the hidden costs of rice, chocolate and gold."
Time: 47:17
URL: http://moviesfoundonline.com/great_african_scandal.php
-I've never liked chocolate so much, and this gives me a greater reason to keep doing so.
-I'm not sure what to think of www.freerice.com, now.
-This guy filmed this documentary in Ghana, but what about the rest of Africa?
-Rice, chocolate, and gold... I have a hunch that nearly every mass-produced item, the base ingredients of them, or items that are collectively bartered involve some kind of scandal of some sort. There's "Supersize Me" on the McDonald's scandal. There are chicken farms in China, gold in Thailand, poachers, hooooh boy the list never ends.
-In one point in the documentary, Beckford says something like..."we starve one part of the world, to make the other richer" and "these people shouldn't have to live off acts of charity from me or anyone else". When you think of it...most of the aid granted to people who are considered impoverished come in the form of charity. Why is that? Because fixing the internal workings of a system is too difficult? Or because losing a society's dependence on your "charity" throws off control and skews your from of economic and political dominance?
This documentary made me sick. That's a good thing. Partly.
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sick as in you were sick at the information shown and disgusted by it? or sick meaning that the documentary's tactics and whatnot were sickening?
you wanna watch a good documentary? watch 'No End In Sight'.
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