The Lie of the Land

The Lie of the Land (2007)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2007-05-03
  • Parental Guidance: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: RTO Pictures
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
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Summary

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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