Film
Eating Animals + director Q&A
- Director
- Christopher Quinn
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 110 mins
Natalie Portman serves as producer and narrator of this documentary adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer‘s bestseller, which she credits with turning her from a lifelong vegetarian into a vegan activist.
It takes a long hard look at the grotesque factory farming industry, addressing issues of animal rights, pollution, antibiotic abuse, human health and the impact of meat production on climate change. Foer has been criticised for letting the so-called ‘humanely reared’ and organic meat industries off the hook too easily (hey – the animals still end up dead), but as bioethicist and animal rights pioneer Peter Singer noted in his review: ” …as long as this stinking, polluting, implacably cruel, dangerously unhealthy and utterly wasteful system of converting large quantities of grain and soy beans into small quantities of animal products continues to dominate meat and egg production, we can’t have too many books on the subject.” Director Christopher Quinn will be present for a Q&A after the Orpheus cinema’s preview screening on June 9. The film is also showing on June 10 without a Q&A.
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