Death on a factory farm : : animal rights on trial
(DVD)

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Originally produced as a documentary film in 2008.

Edited by Geof Bartz ; music composed by Jamie Lawrence ; cameras, Tom Simon, Gary Bush.

Commentators, Bradley Miller, Bob Baker, Frank Forchione, Earl Miller.

This film records incidents of animal cruelty at an Ohio hog farm. A local ex-employee complained to the California based Humane Farming Association, who sent in an undercover agent to surreptitiously obtain images. The images are disturbing, as is the court case that follows the conclusion of the investigation. The film is a snapshot of a specifically American cultural divide. Animal agriculture may be inherently cruel, but some farmers are crueler than others, and current farm animal cruelty laws are so lenient that proving animal cruelty is an uphill, thankless task. However, seeing a large sow euthanized -- by hanging by its neck from a forklift, kicking and swinging through the air until it is dead -- the cruelty is hard to ignore.

TV-MA.

DVD-R; 2.0 sound; anamorphic widescreen presentation, 16x9.

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