Don Lichterman

The global food system is at a breaking point. Behind supermarket shelves stacked with abundance lies a network of factory farms, industrial slaughter operations, environmental degradation, and systemic exploitation — of animals, workers, and ecosystems alike. For decades, this reality has been carefully hidden from public view. Now, a groundbreaking new documentary is pulling back

This week in Tuscaloosa, a truck transporting live chickens overturned on a busy roadway, sending birds scattering across the highway. For a brief moment, they experienced something the system never intended to give them: freedom. That moment was short-lived. The chickens were rounded up, reloaded, and returned to the same industrial pipeline that will ultimately