A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms (2009)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 32M

Director : Don McCorkell

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Don McCorkell
Don McCorkell
Himself

Crews

Don McCorkell
Don McCorkell
Director
Robert Nelms
Robert Nelms
Cinematography
Don McCorkell
Don McCorkell
Editor
Robert Nelms
Robert Nelms
Editor

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