The Best Factory Farming & Meat Documentaries

Food & Drink - 28 free documentaries about factory farming & meat.

Start with The Meat Lobby: How the Meat Industry Hides the Truth (52 min, ENDEVR), then If You Eat Meat You Should Know This (16 min, Kurzgesagt). All 28 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on factory farming & meat is The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.

• The Meat Lobby: How the Meat Industry Hides the Truth (52 min, ENDEVR)
• If You Eat Meat You Should Know This (16 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Is Meat Really that Bad? (10 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Junk Food Nation: Inside The Mega-Farms That Run America (53 min, ENDEVR)
• What are the consequences of Germany's ban on chick killing? (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Do we need to eat meat? (32 min, DW Documentary)
• Factory farming, animal welfare and the future of modern agriculture (32 min, DW Documentary)
• A vegan lifestyle: Is it the future? (32 min, DW Documentary)
• Meathooked & End of Water (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 5) (29 min, VICE)
• Modern Meat (54 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Trouble with Antibiotics (37 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Profit vs. ethics: Saving livestock from the slaughterhouse (28 min, DW Documentary)
• EV battery manufacturing - Why Europe can’t keep up with China (28 min, DW Documentary)
• The world of meat substitutes (32 min, DW Documentary)
• Inside The World's Largest $100 Million Livestock Carrier (46 min, Wonder)
• From smartphones to e-cars - How important is the lithium-ion battery? (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Carnivore's Dilemma: Is It Ethical to Eat MEAT from Industrial Farms? (53 min, ENDEVR)
• Fake steak - Future-proof food and lab-grown meat (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Butchers fighting cheap meat (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The fate of bull calves in the Alps - From surplus to savior (26 min, DW Documentary)
• How the MEAT Industry is Damaging Small Producers and the Environment (53 min, ENDEVR)
• The Rise of Meatless Meat | From Lab to Table | A $1.5 Billion Industry! (47 min, Moconomy)
• The Truth About Lab-Grown Meat (18 min, Real Science)
• Lab-Grown Meat is Here… and I Taste-Tested It! (16 min, Be Smart)
• Southeast Asia's Flavourful Fermented Meat Dishes: Chicken, Pork, And Buffalo | Sour, Salty & Alive (22 min, CNA Insider)
• Asian Culinary Secret: Flavour Your Vegan Dishes With Fermented Soy Beans | Sour, Salty & Alive (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Good, Better, Vegan | Tech Is Reshaping Global Markets (52 min, Moconomy)
• The Race for the Super Battery (46 min, VPRO Documentary)

Top-Rated Books About Factory Farming & Meat

1. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
2. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
3. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer - View on Amazon
4. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer - View on Amazon