Meet Cultured Meat *

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. Most consumers don’t have the opportunity to see...
Do we eat too much meat?

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 animals are raised in the industrial sector, but also on...
Temple Grandin and Slaughterhouse Transparency

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 Grandin, the world’s leading expert in humane handling at meatpacking plants. The meat industry has...
Back from Malawi!

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 to Farm and Red Moon, the most important of which is the...
The animals must come first

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, Inc.), the global warming contribution of intensive...