The Lie of the Land

The Lie of the Land

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  • Genre(s): Documentary
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Molly Dineen
  • Cast(s): Molly Dineen
  • Duration: 1h 30min
  • Award(s): BAFTA TV 2008 (Won) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Plastic Detox, Queen of Chess
  • Story:
    A very incisive and hard-hitting documentary about the way in which life for farmers and other people who depend on the countryside for their livelihood is changing for the worse as a result of the decline in home-grown food and the banning of fox-hunting. Farmers are having to kill calves which it is uneconomical to keep, paying token amounts to the local fox-hunt as unofficial knackers to dispose of the carcases for feeding to the fox-hounds. Why should society seem to care so much about the fate of hunted foxes and yet apparently so little about what happens to unwanted cattle which are cross-breed or the wrong sex? There is great resentment (as typified by the Countryside Alliance marches in London) to changes that are being imposed by a government that people in the country feel is neglecting their wishes in preference to those of the city-dwellers.
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STORY

Story
A very incisive and hard-hitting documentary about the way in which life for farmers and other people who depend on the countryside for their livelihood is changing for the worse as a result of the decline in home-grown food and the banning of fox-hunting. Farmers are having to kill calves which it is uneconomical to keep, paying token amounts to the local fox-hunt as unofficial knackers to dispose of the carcases for feeding to the fox-hounds. Why should society seem to care so much about the fate of hunted foxes and yet apparently so little about what happens to unwanted cattle which are cross-breed or the wrong sex? There is great resentment (as typified by the Countryside Alliance marches in London) to changes that are being imposed by a government that people in the country feel is neglecting their wishes in preference to those of the city-dwellers.

AWARDS

Won
BAFTA TV Award

Best Single Documentary | 2008 | Molly

POPULAR DIALOGUES

Popular Dialogues

"Ian: Farmers don't realise that the land has been nationalised over the past couple of years. I think this last Government payment scheme was very nasty. It's more about the environment than about agriculture. All they want to do is import the food. And I think that is the way that it is heading, really. They want the land as a playground for the people in the towns. It isn't as if we are self-sufficient in food. Since we are importing the food, it's a bit annoying, really."

"[talking about perfectly healthy but unwanted calves that have just been shot] Molly Dineen - Interviewer: [voiceover] These calves might once have become bully-beef, but we don't eat that any more. Or they might have become veal, but we found that cruel so it's largely raised overseas. And they'd never produce a decent steak. So they go."