A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms (2009)
• July 14th, 2009 • 1h 32min
Documentary
Overview
This documentary tells details how the practice wreaks havoc on the environment and on consumers' health. Through disturbing footage and interviews with experts, director Don McCorkell paints a disturbing portrait of a food system that uses hormones, antibiotics and arsenic to increase its output with little regard for the damage it causes.
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