Three years in the making, Death on a Factory Farm follows the undercover investigation of Wiles Hog Farm by the animal rights group The Humane Farming Association (HFA), and the resulting court case against it. Death on a Factory Farm is seven-time Emmy® winner Tom Simon's second film for HBO. For HBO: supervising producer, John Hoffman; executive producer, Sheila Nevins. Given the turmoil of the era, you might expect Lydia Loveless to lean into the anger, amplifying the electric guitar side of her cowpunk. Flowers for Hermes: An Interview with Performing Activist André De Shields, Laura Veirs Talks to Herself on 'My Echo', Every Song on the Phoenix Foundation's 'Friend Ship' Is a Stand-Out, Kevin Morby Gets Back to Basics on 'Sundowner', Lydia Loveless Creates Her Most Personal Album with 'Daughter', Sixteen Years Later Wayne Payne Follows Up His Debut, British Jazz and Soul Artists Interpret the Classics on 'Blue Note Re:imagined', Bishakh Som's 'Spellbound' Is an Innovative Take on the Graphic Memoir, Peter Guralnick's 'Looking to Get Lost' Is an Ode to the Pleasures of Writing About Music, Tommy Siegel's Comic 'I Hope This Helps' Pokes at Social Media Addiction, The Human Animal in Natural Labitat: A Brief Study of the Outcast, 15 Classic Horror Films That Just Won't Die, The 13 Greatest Horror Directors of All Time, Bill Murray and Rashida Jones Add Another Shot to 'On the Rocks', In Praise of the Artifice in George Cukor's 'Sylvia Scarlett', Patrick Cowley Remade Funk and Disco on 'Some Funkettes', Dustin Laurenzi's Natural Language Digs Deep Into the Jazz Quartet Format with 'A Time and a Place', How 'Watchmen' and 'The Boys' Deconstruct American Fascism, Floodlights' 'From a View' Is Classicist Antipodal Indie Guitar Pop, CF Watkins Embraces a Cool, Sophisticated Twang on 'Babygirl', Helena Deland Suggests Imagination Is More Rewarding Than Reality on 'Something New', While the Sun Shines: An Interview with Composer Joe Wong, Peter Frampton Asks "Do You Feel Like I Do?" The organization received a tip from an employee at the farm that animals were being abused, including a claim that hogs were being hung by chains and strangled to death as a form of euthanasia. Most state laws are weak and rarely enforced" -- many others treat their commodities as such. Looking to connect? Sarah Teale's previous HBO credits include "Dealing Dogs," "Bellevue: Inside Out" and "Mumia Abu Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?," which received a CableACE Award. The worker, named "Pete", documents several instances of what appear to be cruelty to the piglets and hogs by the workers on the farm.
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This premise, Pete surmises, allows them to toss the pigs like sacks into bins and against walls, pile them on top of one another, keep sows in breeding and farrowing crates for months, such that the animals cannot move and develop sores from rubbing against crate walls and suffering the unstoppable demands of their hungry litters. Over the course of six weeks, Pete secretly filmed numerous disturbing scenes, including piglets being tossed into crates from across a room, impregnated sows held in pens that don't allow them to move, an unhealthy piglet being slammed against a wall to euthanize it, and a sick sow being hung by a chain from a forklift until it choked to death. Restless tenor saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi runs his four-piece combo through some thrilling jazz excursions on a fascinating new album, A Time and a Place. This 2009 documentary begins with footage taken from an investigator working undercover at the Wiles Hog Farm in northeast Ohio. It is gone forever and you're never gonna get it back. "There's a lot of different evils in the world," observes "Pete." You just fuckin' split, and that piece of your life is gone.
Death on a Factory Farm, a documentary by Sarah Teale and Tom Simon, tracks Pete's efforts to produce evidence of abuse at the Wiles Hog Farm in Creston, Ohio.
"Most on sprawling, industrialized 'factory farms.'". Death on a Factory Farm chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. She cries. As a result, animals are frequently subjected to what many consider cruel treatment and inhumane conditions in the interest of economic efficiency. Joe Wong, the composer behind Netflix's Russian Doll and Master of None, articulates personal grief and grappling with artistic fulfillment into a sweeping debut album. The footage in this documentary is extremely graphic and recommended for high school upperclassmen and college students only. HFA brought the footage to the Wayne County Sheriff's Department, which subsequently raided the farm. The over-used piano, the personal melodrama, and the sheer horrors exposed here don't detract from the central point, however. If one veterinarian called by the prosecution of the Wiles (father Ken, son Joe) asserts the sow hanging is "animal cruelty" and not in line with Ohio's vague "protocols on swine euthanasia," the defense brings in another vet to say, "I can't tell if the pig is suffering. Instead, as the film shows, he sacrifices himself to the cause -- appearing in court and enduring humiliations, seeing video evidence re-read to seem "ambiguous," or not quite proof of cruelty. Death on a Factory Farm chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. The Wiles operation is both typical and shocking. Have a suggestion? Death on a Factory Farm is an HBO Documentary Films Presentation; a Working Dog/Teale-Edwards Production; produced by Tom Simon and Sarah Teale; edited by Geof Bartz, A.C.E. © 1999-2020 PopMatters.com. He doesn't go by his real name, and has changed his legal name more than once, to protect his family and hide his past from current acquaintances. Blue Note Re:imagined provides an entrance for new audiences to hear what's going on in British jazz today as well as to go back to the past and enjoy old glories. ; music composed by Jamie Lawrence; sound and photography, Tom Simon. From creating the title role in The Wiz to winning an Emmy for Ain't Misbehavin', André De Shields reflects on his roles in more than four decades of iconic musicals, including the GRAMMY and Tony Award-winning Hadestown. © 2020 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved. With Pete, Bradley Miller, Bob Baker, Ingrid DiMarino. ", The problem is that farmers don't see pigs as anywhere near "like everybody else." "But to animals, it happens on a mass scale. The framers see their livestock as just that -- commodities to be produced and sold. Death on a Factory Farm follows the undercover investigation of Wiles Hog Farm by the animal rights group: The Humane Farming Association (HFA), and the resulting court case against it. I think this is gonna be some nasty nasty work. Friend Ship is the Phoenix Foundation's most personal work and also their most engaging since their 2010 classic, Buffalo. Sofia Coppola's domestic malaise comedy On the Rocks doesn't drown in its sorrows -- it simply pours another round, to which we raise our glass. All rights reserved.PopMatters is wholly independent, women-owned and operated.
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