Production Line Animals

Overview

How did it come about that we no longer see living beings in farm animals, but objects? Every year, 70 billion farm animals are slaughtered for consumption around the world. 80 percent are kept on large farms. They live crammed together in overcrowded stables, are fattened and finally slaughtered without ever having been in nature. In less than two generations, intensive husbandry has become established worldwide. Researches in Poland, the USA, Germany and Vietnam gets to the bottom of the system and those responsible. The meat industry is subsidized by the state. Corporations, governments and consumers tacitly support a deregulated and dehumanized economic system that makes unlimited consumption of animal products the norm - and with it, animal cruelty. The documentary film describes the triumph of industrial agriculture, in which the animal has to endure unimaginable suffering, becomes a commodity, a raw material that is always available and can be slaughtered and processed at will.

Directed by Damien Vercaemer, Caroline du Saint

Top cast

Florence Loiret Caille

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Stéphanie Prouteau

Self - Interviewee

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Olivier Proteau

Self - Interviewee

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Jay Hall

Self - Interviewee

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Dominic Pacyga

Self - Interviewee

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Marcel Sebastian

Self - Interviewee

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Léopoldine Charbonneaux

Self - Interviewee

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Romain Espinosa

Self - Interviewee

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Jocelyne Porcher

Self - Interviewee

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Michal Ciesielski

Self - Interviewee

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Shefali Sharma

Self - Interviewee

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Van Loc Huynh

Self - Interviewee

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Steve Madox

Self - Interviewee

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James Keen

Self - Interviewee

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Matthew Johnson

Self - Interviewee

Brigitte Gothière

Self - Interviewee

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Gunnar Leferink

Self - Interviewee

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Kim Reynolds

Self (archive footage)

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