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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.
See clips from the film on YouTube
Check out HBO's Death on a Factory Farm website for
more info and full schedule of airings
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