Giulia Innocenzi | What's on the Plate?

Sconfinare Festival 2024

BEYOND THE WALL | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 | 2:00 PM

Our gesture is simple: we go to the store, pick a food product from the shelves, and put it in our cart. At home, we then cook and eat it. But what lies behind this simple gesture? And what impact do our food choices have on the planet's balance and the well-being of farm animals? Each of us, every day, makes a choice with our fork that can influence the future of our planet and the opportunities we leave for future generations.

Giulia Innocenzi is an Italian journalist, television presenter, and blogger. She graduated in Political Science and from 2008 to 2009 hosted the show Punto G on the thematic channel Red TV, and later, on La7, the youth segment Generazione Zero on the show Annozero. From 2014 to 2015, she hosted the political talk show Announo on LA7. Since 2017, she has been hosting the program Animali come noi on Rai Due. She is the author of the novel Meglio fottere, che farsi comandare da questi (Editori Riuniti, 2011), the interview book with Margherita Hack La stella più lontana (Transeuropea, 2012), the investigative book Tritacarne (Rizzoli, 2016) on intensive farming, and the investigative book Vacci nazione (Baldini+Castoldi, 2017) on the Italian law requiring mandatory vaccines. In 2024, she independently produced the investigative documentary Food for Profit, which examines the connection between the meat industry, lobbying, and political power.

The event will be moderated by Giovanni Pellegri, a neurobiologist and science communicator, responsible for L’ideatorio USI.