Introducing Fowl Play

Over the course of a couple weeks, I received messages about the upcoming documentary Fowl Play from half a dozen people and sources. And now it's my turn to share it with you. If you meander over to the Web site, you can view several scenes from the film in addition to the trailer.

It looks well done, and I was relieved to see that although the film's primary focus appears to be on what happens in factory egg farms, it also makes a point of going inside a "cage-free" facility and clarifying that these operations aren't humane either. And the scene (available on the site) showing what happens to newborn chicks at the hatchery is, of course, representative of what happens throughout the egg industry, not just in the factory farms.

You can view the trailer below before heading over to the film's site to see other scenes, including one documenting the truly impressive language skills of chickens and another telling the story of Hope, a hen who'd been left for dead in a trash can inside an egg farm shed but who was rescued during an investigation and provided with veterinary care. She ended up thriving at a farm sanctuary, and we get the joy of seeing her and other animals enjoying life and the company of each other. Check out the scene on cage-free facilities as well. (Unfortunately, the voice distortion makes it difficult to understand what the undercover investigator is saying sometimes in the cage-free scene, but you can probably figure out most of what he's getting at just from the images.)

Update: I may have to take back that bit about watching the trailer here. I seem to have only two options--set it up to play automatically or have it not play at all. Even if I'm not able to fix this, you can still go directly to the film's site to see the trailer there.

Trailer: