A very solid movie and a surprisingly fulfilling follow-up to Spurlock's 2004 documentary Super Size Me.
This time, Spurlock shifts his focus away from the consumer focused view and includes more of an investigative take on the upstream side of the American mass-farmed poultry business. While he does cover a lot of ground that most consumers are vaguely aware of as a result of years of activists leaking poultry farm videos and various pending lawsuits between Big Chicken vs others, Holy Chicken! is the comprehensive documentary to put all the loose pieces of the unethical behavior with all involved stakeholders. Spurlock covers perspectives from chicken farmers in modern-day indentured servitude to a poultry market oligopoly, the meaninglessness of USDA approval and marketing words like "Free-range" or "All-natural", and the superficial change that fast-food has made to become more "healthy".
It's a great documentary, put together very well, and though it covers familiar ground, there's enough pieces put together with such exceptional execution that the final product is a compelling and educationally horrifying watch.
This time, Spurlock shifts his focus away from the consumer focused view and includes more of an investigative take on the upstream side of the American mass-farmed poultry business. While he does cover a lot of ground that most consumers are vaguely aware of as a result of years of activists leaking poultry farm videos and various pending lawsuits between Big Chicken vs others, Holy Chicken! is the comprehensive documentary to put all the loose pieces of the unethical behavior with all involved stakeholders. Spurlock covers perspectives from chicken farmers in modern-day indentured servitude to a poultry market oligopoly, the meaninglessness of USDA approval and marketing words like "Free-range" or "All-natural", and the superficial change that fast-food has made to become more "healthy".
It's a great documentary, put together very well, and though it covers familiar ground, there's enough pieces put together with such exceptional execution that the final product is a compelling and educationally horrifying watch.