Jennifer Abbott spends five years crossing Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand to make the case for how Western societies think about the animals raised for food. She sits down with animal rights leaders, welfare advocates, and spokespeople from the livestock industry, letting their arguments run against each other rather than settling them for the viewer. The film cuts between these interviews and archival material tracing the industry's growth, along with footage of chickens, cows, and pigs shot from angles that strip away the usual framing of farm animals as commodities, low to the ground, close on the eyes, holding on faces longer than agribusiness marketing ever does. Industry representatives defend meat production as necessary for jobs and food supply, while advocates lay out what that production costs the animals and the land. The film does not resolve the argument; it lays out both sides and leaves the ethics of eating meat as an open question for whoever is watching.