Premieres Monday, March 16th at 10pm on HBO (Full Schedule)

Length: (1:28)

Producers: Tom Simon and Sarah Teale                             Edited by: Geof Bartz, A.C.E.                                             Music: Jamie Lawrence                                                      Camera & Sound: Tom Simon                                             Associate Producer: David Pontillo                                Supervising Producer: John Hoffman                                 Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins
than ten billion animals are raised for consumption in       Three years in the making, Death On A Factory Farm follows “Pete,” an investigator who appeared in our 2006 HBO film Dealing Dogs, as he investigates charges of animal cruelty on a central Ohio hog farm. Wearing a hidden camera he documented numerous disturbing scenes including piglets being tossed into crates from across a room, an unhealthy piglet being slammed against a wall to euthanize it, and finally, sick sows being hung by a chain from a forklift until they choked to death. 

Based on the evidence Pete gathered, prosecutors filed ten charges of animal cruelty against the farm’s owners and one employee. Our cameras then take viewers inside the courtroom, where the prosecution and defense wage a tense battle over the legality and morality of practices rarely seen by the public.  The judge presiding over the case described them as “distasteful and offensive,” but farm owner Ken Wiles and other members of the tight-knit Ohio farming community defend as the commonplace reality of producing livestock for consumption.

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Check out HBO's Death on a Factory Farm website for more info and full schedule of airings