Ressources

The meat industry is booming in Quebec, Canada, where huge factories use standardized production methods to convert vast herds of livestock into meat. They hire asylum seekers, mainly from Latin America, so they can continue to produce at competitive rates. In a community-based employment organization, asylum seekers get jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart a life they had to abandon abruptly. On a cattle farm, cows, pigs and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that feed the animals pierce the arid desert soil. Ressources is interested in the conditions of existence of humans, animals and plants linked together by the chain of production and transformation of meat. By following different actors captured by this chain, the film observes a state of precariousness shared beyond the borders of the species.