| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Confined animal feeding operation -- Oklahoma, USA -- The Chesapeake Bay -- Ammonia -- Anti-biotics -- Growth hormones -- Odors & dust -- Animal welfare -- Disease -- Arsenic -- Bird flu -- Sewage & waste -- How can this be? -- The Results |
| Summary |
An eye-opening documentary that exposes the truth about the health and environmental hazards caused by animal factory farms. A heart-stopping new documentary, 'A River of Waste' exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as "mini Chernobyls." In the U.S and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed. Written, directed, produced by Don McCorkell |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Robert Nelms ; edited by Robert Nelms and Don McCorkell ; music by Keith Power |
| Performer |
Interviewees: Don McCorkell, Drew Edmonson, Dr. Joanne Burkholder, Michele Merkel, Dr. Michael Greger, Paul Shapiro, Dr. Robert Lawrence |
| Event |
Originally produced by Cinema Libre Studio in 2009 |
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Feed utilization efficiency.
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Meat -- Contamination.
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Meat industry and trade.
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Factory trade and waste
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Hormones in animal nutrition.
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Feed utilization efficiency.
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Hormones in animal nutrition.
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Meat -- Contamination.
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Meat industry and trade.
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Streaming video
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