Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


How did it come about that we no longer see living beings in farm animals, but objects? Every year, 70 billion farm animals are slaughtered for consumption around the world. 80 percent are kept on large farms. They live crammed together in overcrowded stables, are fattened and finally slaughtered without ever having been in nature. In less than two generations, intensive husbandry has become established worldwide. Researches in Poland, the USA, Germany and Vietnam gets to the bottom of the system and those responsible. The meat industry is subsidized by the state. Corporations, governments and consumers tacitly support a deregulated and dehumanized economic system that makes unlimited consumption of animal products the norm - and with it, animal cruelty. The documentary film describes the triumph of industrial agriculture, in which the animal has to endure unimaginable suffering, becomes a commodity, a raw material that is always available and can be slaughtered and processed at will.
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Dominic Pacyga
Dominic Pacyga
Self - Interviewee
Alice Waters, Edible Schoolyard: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2006
Alice Waters, Edible Schoolyard: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2006
2009