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  • A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms (2009)
  • 91 min | Documentary
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms (2009)
91 min | Documentary

This heart-stopping documentary 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 condemn current factory farms as Mini Chernobyls. In the...See moreThis heart-stopping documentary 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 condemn current factory farms 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 their practices have on the environment and public health, as well as the individual lives damaged and destroyed. See less
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Director
Cinematographer
Robert C. Nelms (as Robert Nelms)
Editors
Don McCorkell | Robert C. Nelms (as Robert Nelms)
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Updated Jul 14, 2009

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Jul 14, 2009 (United States)

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10 cast members
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Joanne Burkholder
Self (Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology) Self (Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology)   See fewer
Larry Cahoon
Self (professor of marine biology) (as Lawrence Cahoon) Self (professor of marine biology) (as Lawrence Cahoon)   See fewer
Earl Hatley
Self (Grand Riverkeeper) Self (Grand Riverkeeper)   See fewer
Robert Lawrence
Self (Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future) Self (Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future)   See fewer
Don McCorkell
Self (interviewer) Self (interviewer)   See fewer
Michele Merkel
Self (Environmental Integrity Project) Self (Environmental Integrity Project)   See fewer
Paul Shapiro
Self (The Humane Society of the United States) Self (The Humane Society of the United States)   See fewer
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