Eat Your Veggies Animated Short Film

** Imagine being ripped away from your family, from the only home you've ever known. Then imagine being shipped to a strange, unfamiliar place. Remember the sun rays that used to kiss you in the fields. Now, face your new reality: a cold ice box, a claustrophobic crate suffocated by other tomatoes. You’re poked and prodded by greedy hands. Then you're mutilated, maybe burned and you end up exposed and defenseless on a cold, hard plate. But perhaps if you’re consumed and they enjoy your richness, your texture, your history, then perhaps it would all be worth it. Instead, a picky child chews you up and spits you right out. “I don’t like tomatoes,” the child says, so you’re thrown away with all the other scraps and trash. No, it appears it was all for nothing. ** This stop motion short film chronicles the life of a tomato, from its blissful days in sunny fields to its final, solitary moments on a dinner plate. It’s supposed to be cute and a bit sad but it’s also meant to showcase the unfortunate truth about our food consumption habits. In the United States, it is estimated that between 30 and 40 percent of food is wasted. An enormous amount of resources and energy go into growing, processing, transporting, and eventually disposing of wasted food. That includes climate-wrecking greenhouse gas emissions at every stage of the food system, plus water, fertilizer, packaging, labor, and more. Most wasted food ends up in landfills, where it generates methane. Let’s try to be more mindful of the food we waste. Only buy what you need and what you will realistically be able to consume in a timely manner, try to consume your leftovers or share them with others, don’t throw away ‘ugly’ produce, make smaller portions, try freezing leftovers. Wasting less food is more sustainable, environmentally and financially! I hope you enjoy my concept film and please let me know what you think! Music: Sunflower, Vol. 6 by Harry Styles Images sourced from Google Images

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