This is a documentary film by Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, to be shown on Channel 4's more4channel tomorrow, on Tuesday 29th April, at 10.00pm.
A short feature about the documentary has been posted online:
'... This ... documentary is a powerful look at the industry of agriculture... in various farms, slaughterhouses and food processing plants around Europe ... he simply shows the viewer various stages in food production, from artificial insemination of cattle stock to abattoirs... Most of the images wouldn't look out of place in a science-fiction film ...
Geyrhalter reveals a strange, complex automated world, generally illuminated by discomforting artificial lights and full of strange technology. Computers flicker as a bull is brought in to have its seed captured in a stainless steel room; thousands and thousands of chicks roll past on conveyor belts; salmon are sucked out of the water with a huge vacuum and then chopped up and eviscerated within seconds by a machine ...'
To read the feature in full and/or post a comment on the online forum, go to www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=204