Eating Animals
Eating Animals is an eye-opening, alarming and urgent look at the devastating consequences factory farming is having on animals raised for food, our public health, the environment and on our planet. The new documentary, based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2010 book of the same name, makes a persuasive case against the evils of factory farming, both in the sickening mistreatment of animals and in the way industrial farming exploits the labor of hardworking families. Narrator Natalie Portman says, “The agricultural corporations have calculated how close to death we can keep an animal without killing it,” and we see first-hand how these animals are bred to suffer from the minute they’re born to the minute they become food.
The film traces the history of food production in the United States and charts how farming has gone from local family farms to a corporate Frankenstein monster that exploits and abuses animals, injects daily doses of drugs and hormones to force animals to grow at a totally unnatural rate; then uses routine antibiotics for disease control and weight gain; all while polluting the air, soil and water systems by poisoning them. Through powerful imagery, intimate, moving interviews, and undercover investigative footage, Eating Animals offers a close-up examination of the immoral and unethical way animals are raised for food today, and offers attainable, common sense solutions to a growing crisis while making the case that ethical farming is not only an animal rights issue but one that affects every aspect of our lives.
Based on the best-selling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman.
Film Released: 2017
Film Length: 1 Hour, 34 Minutes
Quotes from the Film
“There’s inherent cruelty in this system.”
“There’s no future in this method of raising food.”
“I think we’re going to see a massive shift to plant-based food and eating.”
“I started documenting, things I saw or things I heard about—it was time to pull the trigger.”
“Ag gag is the stupidest thing Ag ever did. When you get bashed, you should be opening the door, not closing it.”
“It’s against the law to have cameras documenting animal welfare and cruelty? You can’t take an individual’s right to know away about what this industry is doing!”
“There’s no way you can love an animal that’s been genetically engineered to die in six weeks.”
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Listen to the podcast – Eating Animals, Factory Farming and the Pandemic, with Phil Brooke, Research and Education Manager at Compassion in World Farming (CWF). The podcast discusses how CWF is fighting to change the way we think about raising livestock, how factory farming is deeply cruel to animals and devastating to the environment, and what is being done to stop it today.
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What You Can Do
- Transition to a Plant-Based Diet – A vegan, plant-based diet is best for your health, the animals and planet. The benefits to eating a plant-based diet are numerous and well documented. Likewise, the health risks associated with eating meat, dairy and eggs are also numerous and well documented. A recent study linked a diet rich in animal proteins with a 60 percent increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease, while a 2015 report by the World Health Organization (WHO) labeled red meat as carcinogenic.
- Reduce Your Environmental Footprint– By eating plant-based, you dramatically save water, save species from extinction, save forests and rainforests from being clear-cut for livestock, prevent air and water pollution from factory farms, reduce environmental damage and destruction due to grazing livestock and widespread use of industrial factory farms, and reduce carbon and GHG emissions that are the largest contributor to causing climate change and the warming of our planet.
- Less Meat, Less Dairy, More Plants – Reduce abject animal cruelty, violence and death. The more you eat a vegan diet, the fewer animals are raised and killed for food. If you go vegan for one year, according to the Vegan Calculator, you will save: 365 animals by not eating them and not contributing to species extinction; 10,950 square acres of forests; 14,500 pounds of grain; 401,500 gallons of water; and 7,300 pounds of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere—that’s huge!
- You Vote 3x a Day With Your Fork – Who will you vote for? Vote for animals by not eating them, bottom line. There’s just no such thing as “humane” meat, it doesn’t exist, it’s marketing jargon and propaganda to reduce consumer guilt and make you feel better about eating animals by the ag industry, but so labeled “humane meat” still deeply abuses; routinely amputates tails, teeth, horns, and body parts; routinely kills newborn baby animals; causes systemic animal suffering and cruelty; and painfully and inhumanely slaughters animals as youngsters.
Film Credits
Directed by: Christopher Dillon Quinn
Writers: Christopher Dillon Quinn, Jonathan Safran Foer (Book author)
Starring: Natalie Portman
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