Egg-Ribusiness “With powerful footage taken at locations across the United States between 1988 and 1999, this fully narrated production illuminates intolerable conditions endured by egg laying hens and unwanted male chicks at the hands of the egg industry.” A Film from Farm Sanctuary (2000) 13:38 minutes www.farmsanctuary.org The Making of a Turkey “If a seven pound baby grew at the same rate that today’s turkey grows, the baby would weigh 1,500 pounds at 18 weeks age. New technology and genetics have created turkeys that grow faster and heavier in shorter amounts of time. The industry’s profits have come at great cost to animal welfare, and animal suffering is now an inherent part of modern-day turkey production” A Film from Farm Sanctuary (1996) 17:30 minutes www.farmsanctuary.org Humane Slaughter? “Billions of chickens and turkeys are slaughtered in the United States every year. Poultry comprise the largest percentage of animals used for “food production” purposes, yet they are specifically excluded from humane protection.” A Film from Farm Sanctuary (1991) 9:16 minutes www.farmsanctuary.org The Downside of Livestock Marketing “Scenes from the DOWNSIDE OF LIVESTOCK MARKETING aired on national and regional television news programs and prompted the introduction of federal and state legislation to ban downed animal cruelties. The narrated presentation includes information on what you can do to help stop downed animal suffering.” *Since this film was made, the USDA has inacted a ban on allowing downed animals to enter the human food supply. A Film from Farm Sanctuary (1991) 18 minutes www.farmsanctuary.org Life Behind Bars Hundreds of millions of living, feeling animals are forced to endure intolerable living conditions on industrialized factory farms across America. These sentient beings are treated like mere tools of production, confined in cages and crates so tightly that they cannot walk, turn around, or even lay down comfortably. LIFE BEHIND BARS documents the acute animal suffering caused by extreme confinement on mechanized farms. With undercover footage taken by Farm Sanctuary, this compelling video provides a rare first-hand look inside factory farm warehouses and exposes the brutal conditions that agribusiness wants to keep hidden from public view.” A Film from Farm Sanctuary (2003) 13:30 minutes www.farmsanctuary.org Victims of Indulgence “Narrated by the late award-winning actor Sir John Gielud, this videotape provides and inside look at the foie gras industry and shows why these gentle animals desperately need out help.” 10 minutes A Film from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals www.PETA.org Midwest Pig Farm Investigation “This undercover video, hosted by actor Rue McClanahan, exposes the inside of Seaboard Farms, North America’s third-largest pork producer. At this typical factory farm, thousands of pigs spend their lives crowded into narrow pens. They breathe ammonia fumes from the waste that falls through the slatted floors.” A Film from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 14 minutes www.PETA.org Delicacy of Despair: Behind The Closed Doors of the Foie Gras Industry “GourmetCruelty.com takes you behind the closed doors of the entire foie gras industry, exposing the daily pain and torture inherent to the production of this cruel delicacy. DELICACY OF DESPAIR is the haunting portrait of the tens of thousands of ducks who are left behind and the fifteen who found freedom.” A Film from GourmetCruelty.com (2004) 16:30 minutes www.GourmetCruelty.com 45 Days: The Life and Death of a Broiler Chicken “Each year in the United States, more than 8 billion “broiler” chickens are raised and killed for meat. Nearly 1 million of these birds are slaughtered every single hour. This documentary was produced with undercover footage from several chicken farms and slaughter plants in the United States—including two of the country’s largest poultry producers, Tyson and Perdue. The conditions our investigators found are not uncommon. They are the industry standard.” A Film from Compassion Over Killing (2004) 12 minutes www.cok.net A Cow at my Table: A Feature Documentary about Animals, Meat & Culture A documentary featuring interviews with animals rights activists, animal welfare experts and agribusiness reps using archival footage of the meat production industry. A Film from Flying Eye Productions (1998) 81 minutes And On This Farm An excellent introduction to how factory farms tear communities apart. Includes interviews with farmers and neighbors to a large- scale industrial pig factory. A Film by Field Pictures (1998) 27:30 P.O. Box 1463, Burnsville, MN 55337 Modern Meat a PBS Frontline Video “In the last few decades, American meat production has become highly mechanized, bringing about significant changes in the way meat is produced. This has forced the U.S.D.A. to institute a new meat inspection process, which gives more control to the powerful meat industry. In this program FRONTLINE investigates the safety of our current meat supply. 60 minutes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ Click Here to E-Mail Your Request |
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