The big question
Can we still eat our eggs?
Documentary · 40 minutes · Suitable for all ages
40 min
Running time
Dutch
Language
On request
English subtitles
All ages
Suitable for
What's it about?
Three peeved backyard hens and their owner dig to the bottom (and the worm) of how toxic PFAS ended up in their eggs. Can we still eat our eggs? And how do we get these forever chemicals out of our backyard again?
Asking yourself a question, that is where resistance begins. And then asking someone else that question.
Partners
Made possible together
NIET PLUIS is a fully independent documentary, made possible by the involvement of hundreds of citizens. Their curiosity, trust and financial support show that the PFAS issue is alive, and that hens and humans will no longer put up with PFAS discharges and are taking action.
Voices
From backyard to industry
The film starts small, with three backyard hens in a garden in Zeeland, and keeps zooming out: to the food industry, politics, environmental organisations and the chemical industry. The simple question 'Can I still eat my eggs?' turns out to be hard to answer. And then the dilemmas pile up. Do you keep eating your eggs, or throw them away? Do you give up your hens, and where would they go? How does PFAS end up in our backyards, and will it ever leave?
Who we hear from
- A poultry farmer from Zeeland
- A deputy of the Province of Zeeland
- A toxicologist from Wageningen University
- A citizen with PFAS in her blood
- The Zeeland Environmental Federation (ZMf)
- The industry (3M and Chemours)
- A Chemours whistleblower
About the maker
Arieke van Liere
Arieke van Liere (Vlissingen, 1992) works as an impact producer and host. Driven by her ideals, she built an organic vegetable garden in Zeeland in which her hens play an important role in the natural food cycle. Until PFAS invisibly invaded her garden.
Through her work she gets people, organisations and governments moving on social issues around sustainability, health and a fair society. She has worked for more than 350 organisations, including the Dutch National Climate Week, SDG Netherlands and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. She previously appeared on AVROTROS Radar and Omroep Zeeland.
For this documentary she works for three fluffy, headstrong and exceptionally demanding clients.