A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms

A heart-stopping new documentary, A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as "mini Chernobyls." In the U.S. and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed.

Category:

• Documentary

Tags:

• Don McCorkle
• Drew Edmondson
• Dr. Robert Lawrence
• Paul Shapiro
• Dr. Joanne Burkholder
• documentary
• environment
• factory
• farms
• contamination

[Cali143Love]

this is one of the main reasons why i became a vegan.

[liesereisinger]

So let's cut to the chase. What will end the destruction of our environment from mass producing animals for meat?? Go Vegan! Animals don't want to die and are not food. Plants are food. Put down the Bible and think for yourself! The only reason people eat meat is because someone who's making $ from animal slavery told you meat is food. Fact: meat and dairy cause cancer and production of them are killing EVERYTHING! watch Forks Over Knives and Earthlings! It will save earth animals & ur life.

[711Rene]

no need to become a vegan , but everyone should just eat less meat

[chardnj]

algae is not a problem in the river and lake..especially if there is a fish in th river..but is there is a chemical..not good.but there no chemical hazardous in animals feeds....that's what I believe...animal manure is good for the soil and river..

[cookiesrgood4thesoul]

becoming a vegan isnt bad. But many vegans get sick and doctors tell them they need meat to survive healthily. If no body ate cows, chickens etc, there would be a large population of those animals, and they arent really "pets", they could be, but does everyone want a cow in their yard? either way, these animals would have to killed.

[dirkstorm]

This is important stuff and I agree with the content but this guy is a boring narrator and I agree the script is dull.

[cairnskevin]

Great story, bad script. There was a chance to make 3 documentaries out of this, the burning fields, the polluted salton sea and the outlaws living in imperial valley. Too bad it was all packed in 1...

[trevgk]

There is a lot of annoying background noise in this film, including the music

[RomanTV29]

@liesereisinger Actually, you don't have to put down the Bible. When I became a Vegan, in very first chapter of the Bible I found the answer:

Genesis 1:29:

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat"