I appreciate the attempt this docu made at being completely unbiased and approaching animal farms with an open mind. I also appreciate that they've shown several different methods of animal farming.
This docu IS biased, however.
The purpose of this is clearly to get people to eat more plants instead of animals. It's pretty plainly stated at the end and when they challenge you to eat more plant-based foods on their website and at the end of the film. That part I don't like. A truly unbiased documentary has NO business telling anyone or trying to sway anyone to do anything!
Large scale farms that use the types of practices no one likes should change. BUT let's not forget that the consumer (YOU!!!) are the cause of these practices! Every consumer wants more for less and so the farmers figured out how to provide YOU with more meat for less cost input so he could also feed his family. A chicken farmer points out in this docu that he would sell a dozen eggs for more than $9 to cover costs. If all eggs cost that much people would be out of their minds about the high cost.
Plant based foods cause just as much animal death and suffering. Bunnies, deer, mice, pollinators, birds... You name it, it dies to protect your plants. Your soy... The soil dies to produce these plants. (Go ahead and research soil health; The Dust Bowl was real and can easily be created again if we aren't careful.)
The answer isn't to stop eating animals - it is to make the general public, who has NO IDEA where food comes from, aware of what goes into all foods. Yes, ALL foods. Plants and animals alike. If you knew what went into it, you'd be more willing to pay what it's actually worth.
This docu blames the ag industry when the blame actually lies on the consumer. On you who won't pay the true value because you have no idea what it is.
