Production History
Here, you can explore Farm and Red Moon‘s production history. Click on a blog entry to read more.
Meet Cultured Meat *
* meat produced by in vitro cell culture of animal cells rather than from slaughtered animals I saw a "kill box" in a slaughterhouse for the first time in 2011 at the Meat Lab at SUNY Cobleskill....
Do we eat too much meat?
Since being back from Malawi, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the amount of meat that is consumed on a daily basis in most developed nations. And I pose this question not only about how many...
Temple Grandin and Slaughterhouse Transparency
Dr. Temple Grandin and Audrey Kali review footage from slaughterhouses The North American Meat Institute just released a series of videos featuring Dr. Temple...
Back from Malawi!
Classroom at the University of Malawi. It's good to be back in the United States and to start working on the film again. Living in a developing country gave me a lot of perspectives that I can bring...
The animals must come first
Why does the documentary film Farm and Red Moon need to be made? Haven't we already learned about the horrors of the slaughterhouse (Earthlings), the trouble with factory farming (Food,...
Reflections on the Vegan backlash
This past Friday and Saturday were pivotal days for me in the course of our Kickstarter Campaign. My request for funding from the vegan community resulted in a social media Blitzkrieg that is still...
What we did on our summer vacation
This summer Audrey and I were quite busy working on Farm and Red Moon. We started by reviewing the rough assembly we put together last summer along with the pull reels (collections of "best of"...
Reuniting with Eric Shelley
We started our day with Eric (and son Duke in tow) taking us to see the cow & calf herd. We hadn't seen these animals for over a year so it was amazing to see that the calves we met before are...
At Cornell University with Dr. Joe M. Regenstein
On August 1st we traveled to Ithaca, New York and spoke with Dr. Joe M. Regenstein, Professor in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University. He is also the director of the Cornell Kosher...
A visit to White Oak Pastures with Eric Shelley
In August of 2013, David and I had the pleasure of taking Eric Shelley with us on our second visit to White Oak Pastures in Georgia to meet with Will Harris. Having these two phenomenal farmers meet...
Participating in the Latino Producers Academy
Farm and Red Moon was chosen as one of the documentary works in progress to participate in The Latino Producers Academy (LPA) held the 13th through the 23rd of June in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During...
Eric Shelley Visits Audrey Kali at her Home
On March 12th, 2013, Eric Shelley, instructor of meat processing at SUNY Cobleskill who is featured prominently in Farm and Red Moon, came to visit us at Audrey Kali’s house to talk about the film....
Observing a Halal Slaughter in Oman
On the first day of January, 2013, I was honored to be invited to the beautiful farm of Mr. Hilal O. Al Siyabi, in Ghala, Oman. It is situated among gorgeous date trees. It is also amazingly...
Learning about Halal Slaughter in Oman
On December 31st, I had an interview with Sheikh Dr. Kahlan Nabhan Al-Kharusi, the Assistant Grand Mufti and Jurisprudential Advisor in the Office for the Issuance of Fatwas, the Ministry of Awqaf...
Changing the Name of the Film to Farm and Red Moon
Abattoir Rising, although an appropriate title in the beginning of making this documentary, became less and less adequate in regard to capturing the direction of the film. When we started...
Janet Riley and the American Meat Institute
On August 23rd of 2012, the American Meat Institute released a video on YouTube that features Temple Grandin explaining the humane slaughter of cattle at a typical beef plant. The AMI initiative is...
Ethics of Humane Slaughter with Bernie Rollin
Dr. Bernard E. Rollin is Colorado State University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and University Bioethicist. He has dedicated his life to improving animal welfare in veterinary schools,...
Bison Processing with Temple Grandin
On Monday, September 10th, we were honored to have Temple Grandin give us a lesson on the humane slaughter of bison at Double J Meatpacking in Pierce, Colorado. She explained to us that bison almost...
A visit to White Oak Pastures
Last week we visited White Oak Pastures, Will Harris’ fourth-generation farm in Bluffton, Georgia. Will raises cattle, sheep, goats, chickens turkeys, and geese. In the near future he plans to add...
Calves on their Way to be Veal
Early on Tuesday morning, August 7th, we accompanied Terri Lawton as she transported three calves and a steer to a slaughterhouse out of state. It was about a 50-minute drive. It was fascinating to...
Fencing and Farming with the Shelley Family
We visited Eric Shelley and his family on his farm in Cobleskill, New York, on July 14th 2012. We wanted to learn more about what he does when he is not teaching students about humane...
Milk Cows and Veal Calves at Lawton Farm
On July 11th we visited Terri Lawton on her farm in Foxboro, MA. This three hundred year-old farm, which has been in the Lawton family for generations, is a welcome anomaly in the vicinity of...
Sausages and a Turning Point
Perhaps the ultimate metamorphosis is for an animal to go from being a living being to being a sausage. Nothing about a sausage looks like flesh or bone. But Eric Shelley tells us that "we can't...
Teaching Humane Harvesting at SUNY Cobleskill
David and I visited Eric Shelley at the SUNY Cobleskill Meat Lab again today and learned more about humane slaughter. He spent a lot of time explaining to his students how to determine if a stun has...
Presentation at the University of Oslo
Last week I was invited to give a presentation about my research on humane slaughter at The Rhetoric of Human-Animal Relations Workshop at the University of Oslo, May 29th - 30th 2012. The workshop,...