Yet another documentary aims to skewer animal ag on the fork

Following in the footsteps of “Food, Inc.” and “Cowspiracy” before it, the latest film to use entertainment as a tactic to plant questions in consumers’ heads about their food supply is set to premiere this week. "At the Fork" positions itself as a “refreshingly unbiased look at how farm animals are raised for our consumption” —but I can’t see how that’s possible when the film was produced in partnership with HSUS, an organization with a vegan CEO and a 15-member “meatless transition team” working to take meat off the menu at restaurants and in schools and institutions. I’m also not sure how a film can be considered “unbiased” when it is accompanied by the “At the Fork challenge,” which claims to offer participants a way to “improve the lives of farm animals” by receiving 21 days’ worth of “higher-welfare” and plant-based recipes. You can bet the definition of “higher welfare” will include the GAP program used by Whole Foods — which is also a “partner” in the film. This isn’t sounding very unbiased to me.