A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms (2009)
91 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.
- Release date
- July 14, 2009
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Joanne Burkholder as Self (Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology)
- Larry Cahoon as Self (professor of marine biology)
- Parris N. Glendening as Self
- Michael Greger as Self
- Eberhard Hartung as Self
- Earl Hatley as Self (Grand Riverkeeper)
- Robert Lawrence as Self (Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future)
- Don McCorkell as Self (interviewer)
- Michele Merkel as Self (Environmental Integrity Project)
- Paul Shapiro as Self (The Humane Society of the United States)
Crew
- Don McCorkell · Director
- Robert C. Nelms · Cinematographer
- Don McCorkell · Editor
- Robert C. Nelms · Editor