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The Factory Files are a curated library of everything the industry would prefer you never engaged with. Documentaries, investigations, books, films, and organisations on the front lines.
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon
By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson • 2003 Masson ( When Elephants Weep ) turns his attention to the animals most people never think about as individuals. He profiles pigs, cows, chickens, sheep, and goats, drawing on ethological research and his own observations to argue that these animals have rich emotional lives: they form friendships, grieve losses, experience joy and fear and boredom. The book is a corrective to the industrial view of livestock as units of production. Why it m
Charlotte's Web (2006)
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. Imdb link Release date: 7 December 2006 Director: Gary Winick Story by: E. B. White, Earl Hamner Jr. Based on: Charlotte's Web; by E. B. White Music by: Danny Elfman Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, FilmF
Babe (1995)
Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other animals accept him? Imdb link Release date: 14 December 1995 Director: Chris Noonan Story by: Dick King-Smith Screenplay: Chris Noonan, George Miller Trivia The film that made an entire generation uncomfortable at the dinner table. A pig raised for slaughter dis
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