"American Meat" is a feature documentary about a grass-roots revolution in sustainable farming starring Joel Salatin and his Polyface Farm in Swoope, VA. Reported and directed by filmmaker Graham Meriwether.  After a successful premier weekend in Waynesboro and Staunton, VA the film, in its journey across America’s farmlands, will be hitting the state of Iowa next.  The movie explains how America arrived at its current industrial system, and shows you the feedlots and confinement houses, not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work there. The story shifts to the burgeoning movement of farmers, chefs and everyday folks, influenced by Salatin’s ideas, who might just change everything about the way meat reaches the American table.

The documentary examines the debate between grass-based farmers and conventional farmers and over whether small-scale sustainable farming can ever produce enough food to feed America. In a surprising move, Salatin inks a deal to provide pork for Chipotle’s Charlottesville and Harrisonburg restaurants, a step with potentially widespread implications for the meat industry.


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