Factory farms produce meat and poultry at industrial scale, and director Don McCorkell's film asks what that scale costs downstream. Scientists and health officials interviewed call the largest operations "mini Chernobyls," pointing to routine use of arsenic, antibiotics, and growth hormones in animal feed and the sheer volume of waste those animals generate. The film follows that waste as it moves into rivers, lakes, and groundwater, documenting sewage lagoons and runoff that fragile ecosystems cannot absorb, with consequences that reach fish populations, drinking water, and nearby communities. It traces the practice beyond the United States into global meat and poultry production, treating this as an international problem rather than a local one. Rather than staying with statistics, the film spends time with people whose health or livelihoods have been affected by contamination near these operations, putting faces to the regulatory and scientific claims. The picture that emerges is of an industry whose methods for keeping meat cheap and available generate hazards that show up far from the farm gate itself.