Meat

A Look at the Production of Consumer Meat Products

MEAT traces the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods. It depicts the processing and transportation of meat products by a highly automated packing plant, illustrating important points and problems in the area of production, transportation, logistics, equipment design, time-motion study, and labor management.

"MEAT's commonplace inferno is the most extraordinary visual material in any of Wiseman's 10 films on American institutions." - David Denby, The Boston Phoenix

"Wiseman's most visually lacerating documentary..." - James Wolcott, The Village Voice