Genres
Production Companies
Wanted Story
ARTE
RTBF
RTS
La Région Île-de-France
CNC
La Procirep-Angoa
Production Line Animals (L'usine des animaux)
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.
Key Crew
Director: Damien Vercaemer, Caroline du Saint
Writer: Caroline du Saint
Producer: Barbara Hurel, Emmanuel Hoog
Director of Photography: Damien Vercaemer, Joseph Haley
