Speciesism: The Movie

Filmmaker Mark Devries investigates factories that raise animals for consumption.

Speciesism: The Movie is a 2013 documentary film by American director Mark Devries. It explores the concept and practice of speciesism, the assignment of value to beings on the basis of species membership.

The film features interviews with, among others, Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins, Temple Grandin, and Steven Best, along with material shot in and around factory farms in the United States.

Modern farms are struggling to keep a secret. Most of the animals used for food in the United States are raised in giant, bizarre factories, hidden deep in remote areas of the countryside. Speciesism: The Movie director Mark Devries set out to investigate. The documentary takes viewers on a sometimes funny, sometimes frightening adventure, crawling through the bushes that hide these factories, flying in airplanes above their toxic manure lagoons, and coming face-to-face with their owners.