"The mission of 'Eating Animals' isn’t to get you to swear off meat. It’s to raise your consciousness about the good, the bad and the ugly of animal agriculture." - Variety. Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, 'Eating Animals' is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming. Tracing the history of food production in the U.S., the film charts how farming has gone from local and sustainable to a corporate Frankenstein monster that offers cheap eggs, meat, and dairy at a steep cost: the risky use of antibiotics and hormones; the exploitation of animals; and the pollution of our air, soil, and water (factory farming ranks among the top two causes of water pollution and climate change). Spotlighting farmers who have pushed backed against industrial agriculture with more humane practices, 'Eating Animals' offers attainable, commonsense 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.
"Though not as graphic as other documentaries on similar subjects... the emphasis on the disastrous global impact of these practices is more disturbing." - Boston Globe
"Makes a persuasive, far-ranging case against factory farming, which it skewers from philosophical, epidemiological and even economic perspectives. The movie isn’t even advocating vegetarianism. But it seems impossible to come away from it without wanting to know more about where your meat comes from." - New York Times
"The message is clear, and memorably rendered: Care about where your meat comes from, because then you might eat less of it, feel better when you do eat it, and cause a little less suffering in the world." - Los Angeles Times
"Aims to make viewers re-evaluate their relationship to carnivorism not merely by shocking, but also by positing that there may be an ethical middle ground between vegan abolitionism and the mindless scarfing-down of burgers from factory-farmed cows." - Washington Post
"Treating animals in a humane fashion is no sentimental 'activist' idea. It’s intrinsic to who we are. Yet the factory-farming system violates this creed — horrifically — every day. It’s the system that most of us feed off and live in denial of, and the value of 'Eating Animals' is that it’s an eye-opening reality check." - Variety
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