
Pig Business
Factory pig farming started in the United States, and this film follows its spread into eastern Europe, where mega-farms now produce pork often below the legal animal welfare standards other EU countries require. That pork gets exported across the continent, undercutting small farmers who cannot compete with industrial scale or industrial prices. The film lays out the mechanics of the system: pigs raised in cramped confinement, routine antibiotic use to keep disease from spreading through crowded barns, and waste output large enough to pollute local water and soil. Interviews with farmers describe watching family operations get priced out within a few years of a corporate facility opening nearby. The camera moves between American operations, where the model was perfected, and the newer eastern European sites replicating it, tracing how a single farming method can dismantle rural economies wherever it lands. The film treats the antibiotic overuse as a public health question as much as a farming one, since resistant bacteria do not stay confined to the farm they started on.