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...
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...
Reflections on the Vegan backlash

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 reverberating as I write this.  First there was backlash from...
What we did on our summer vacation

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” footage we assembled last summer after logging all of the...