A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms
Released: July 14, 2009Runtime: 92 min
This documentary tells details how the practice wreaks havoc on the environment and on consumers' health. Through disturbing footage and interviews with experts, director Don McCorkell paints a disturbing portrait of a food system that uses hormones, antibiotics and arsenic to increase its output with little regard for the damage it causes.
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Joanne Burkholder
as Self (Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology)
Larry Cahoon
as Self (professor of marine biology)
Parris N Glendening
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Michael Greger
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Eberhard Hartung
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Earl Hatley
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Robert Lawrence
as Self (Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future)
Don Mccorkell
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Michele Merkel
as Self (Environmental Integrity Project)
Paul Shapiro
as Self (The Humane Society of the United States)
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