Faster is better in the eyes of Vince Edwards, but what he does not realize is that farmers are forced to borrow $500,000 a year from companies and only make $18,000. Throughout the documentary, they use sources from multiple different people to prove to the viewers that the food production in United States should be changed. .
The documentary does not fail to move the audience with the clips of the unhealthy conditions in factories and the effects it has on its consumers. To authenticate the documentary's point of view, they recorded the Smithfield slaughterhouse and the process they use to kill mass amounts of pigs at one time. The video displays thousands of pigs squirming and crammed together in a factory. The factory uses a machine to mass murder pigs at one time to kill hundreds of pigs a day. The problem with this method is that the dirty conditions of the factory contaminate the food because the spread of diseases through the animals. Filming the animals in factories being mistreated changes the emotions, some may feel enraged or some may feel sympathetic. In addition to the diseases that are spread through animals at factories, the diseased food affected a woman, Barbara Kowalcyk, who tells her story of the lose of her 2 1/2 year old son after he was diagnosed with E. Coli. Instead of grieving, Barbra decide to take a closer look into beef companies and became a food safety advocate. The power behind Barbara's story, Barbara decided to take a closer look into the beef packing companies and become a food safety advocate. The power behind Barbara's story influences others to join her and change their view on the factories used to produce meat. Barbara Kowalcyk's story of the death of her son is used in the documentary to alter the emotions of people to create sympathy. The documentary demonstrates how much a person's emotions impact the way people think and perceive a specific topic.