Film-Maker Sickened by Scale of Food Industry Slaughter Cinema: Controversy Cinema: Controversy Film On Fast Food Processing 'Too Hot' for Hollywood
Sunday Herald › February 20, 2007
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THE producer of a film about the fast food industry premiering in Glasgow tonight has admitted to being "sickened" by what he saw while researching it and said its controversial subject matter made it too hot for Hollywood to touch.
Oscar-winning British producer Jeremy Thomas toured American-run slaughterhouses, processing factories and feed lots in Mexico prior to shooting the film, based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling expose Fast Food Nation.See the full content of this document
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Film-Maker Sickened by Scale of Food Industry Slaughter Cinema: Controversy Cinema: Controversy Film On Fast Food Processing 'Too Hot' for Hollywood
Joining him were Schlosser himself and the film's director, Richard Linklater.
"There were tens of thousands of animals in one place, " said 57- year-old Thomas in a...See the full content of this document
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