HBO recently produced this program which takes a close look at human being's relations with animals. In this one hour undercover investigation it covers the use of animals in ritual traditions of religion, animal experimentation, hunting, and for food. The most disturbing scenes include the use of cats and dogs for food in south China, as well as animal sacrifice in the name of religion. In one scene you see a cat get skinned alive then tossed into a pool of water where it drowns. In another scene they show animals being thrown out of a high building in Spain for the sake of a religious tradition.

Here is an excerpt from the program about animals being used for food :

"The difficulty for the meat industry is that these techniques of intensive farming and mass slaughter are being refined to new levels of efficiency, which so often means cruelty, at the very moment when the public is becoming increasingly sensitized towards animals. The solution for the producers is secrecy. The modern factory farm, the modern slaughterhouse are fortresses, screened from public view and surrounded by high security fences. The disguise continues all the way to the point of sale, where we, the customers are happy to cooperate. In place of the old fashion butcher displays of hanging carcasses, we now demand cellophane packages of something called meat which bares resemblance to any animal of origin".