He warns consumers may have to pay a little bit more to support independent farmers and chains that pay a living wage. goes in fourth round of NFL draft, Dead whale in Cape Breton, N.S. (CBS Local)--15 years after stuffing his face with McDonald's food for 30 straight days, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is back with a brand new documentary. Hes bailed out by the largest independent hatchery, who supplies him with over 2,000 broilers, the most popular chickens on Earth., These chickens are bred to grow faster and bigger than their feathers will cover them at some points in their development. We had sold the sequel to the film out of the Toronto Film Festival to YouTube for $3.5 million, he said. "The chickens are being mistreated and the growers are definitely being mistreated. After all, when it comes to fast food, chicken is the latest rage. Charles Morris, Tori Morris, and director Morgan Spurlock attend the "Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!" "I filed a complaint six or seven years ago and they tore it up and threw in in the trash. NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating today's opening of his latest exploration of the food industry, Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!, Morgan Spurlock's honest and fully transparent fast casual restaurant is now opening to the public! is both entertaining and revealing, balancing the documentarian's expos of the food industry's dishonest practices with a storyteller's gift for making emotional connections. Buttram is the heart of "Super Size Me 2," a guy locked into a contract with Big Chicken who'll pay the price for helping the filmmakers. It can also work as a feature-length advertisement for his franchisable business, nudging audiences to eat his chicken. Spurlock declined to comment for this story. The activist documentarian Morgan Spurlock blended Michael Moore-style showmanship with Gen X bro appeal in his 2004 debut feature Super Size Me, a relentless examination of the fast food industry. Buttram Farms in Alabama raised the chicken served at the restaurant. Although chain restaurants now tout food that's "healthy," "organic," and "natural," filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores this new reality with an approach even more immersive and subversive than that used for his first film he sets out to open his own chicken franchise! at its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. They used the former as a movie prop resta. Holy Chicken, both the film and the franchise, aim to debunk the chicken industrys corporate mythology, breaking down what Spurlock says are misleading phrases like natural, artisan and free range., Spurlock said there are places that do actually raise chickens in the free-range environment people imagine: There are places where the chickens do actually get to go outside, but they're so few and far between of what is truly representative of the industry it's crazy.. The ultimate success of the chicken company depends on the farmer. This movie was shelved for two years, he said.