A Cow at My Table explores Western attitudes towards farm animals and meat, and the intense battle between animal advocates and the meat industry to influence the consumer's mind. Five years in production took Director Jennifer Abbott across Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand to meet with the leaders of the animal rights movement, animal welfare advocates as well as spokespeople from livestock industries. A Cow at My Table inter-cuts these diverse perspectives with archival films, images from modern-day agribusiness and footage of farm animals shot from uncharacteristic vantage points.
Jennifer Abbott
Director
Susan Kitchen
Herself - Alberta Foundation for Animal Care
Susan Schafers
Herself - Holborn Poultry Farms
Joy Ripley
Herself - Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Ian Duncan
Himself - Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare
Jeannette Armstrong
Herself - Activist, Writer
Karen Davis
Herself - United Poultry Concerns
Vandana Shiva
Herself
Carol J. Adams
Herself - Author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
Tom Regan
Himself - Philosopher, Activist
Gunda71%
Dominion84%
Earthlings81%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret76%
Kiss the Ground76%
Food, Inc.73%
What the Health68%
Night Will Fall76%
The Class of ‘9271%
The Biggest Little Farm76%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
McQueen74%
Public Speaking70%
Girl Model65%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
My Mom Jayne79%
Cameraperson67%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
