Videos
Shorts
The Meatrix Series - several cartoon shorts by GRACE covering various aspects of factory farming and industrial food. production.
True Cost of Food (15 min) by Sierra Club - educational and entertaining video about sustainable food.
Meet Your Meat (12 min) by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - a look behind the closed doors of today's giant meat, egg and dairy product industries, revealing the abuse of animals raised for food. Bonus features include videos of celebrities speaking out for farm animals.
45 Days: The Life and Death of a Broiler Chicken (12 min) by Compassion Over Killing - week-by-week investigation into the U.S. broiler chicken industry, from hatching and factory-farm life to slaughter and packaging.
The Auction Block: An Inside Look at Farmed Animal Sales (19 min) by Compassion Over Killing - video footage from three livestock auctions shows a relatively hidden side of animal agribusiness.
Life Behind Bars: The Sad Truth About Factory Farming (13 min) by Farm Sanctuary - a first-hand look inside factory farm warehouses, exposing the inhumane conditions agribusiness wants to keep hidden from public view.
Mercy For Animals - see recent undercover investigations of factory farm abuses.
Feature Length
Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods (2010).
FRESH - celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. (2009)
Death on a Factory Farm - an HBO documentary three years in the making, shows a six-week undercover investigation of Wiles Hog Farm (2009).
Food, Inc. - lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. (2008)
SuperSize Me -is one man's journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. It's an examination of the American way of life and how we are eating ourselves to death. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a 'McDonald's only' diet for thirty days straight. His Sundance award-winning feature is as entertaining as it horrifying as it dives into corporate responsibility, nutritional education, school lunch programs and how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death. (2006)
Future of Food - offers an in-depth investigation into unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods. (2004)
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farms and urban gardens, and from a highly industrialized society to a more sustainable one. (2006)
FED UP! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives - using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, FED UP! presents an overview of our food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it. (2002)
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