Food For Profit consists of three narrative layers. The first involves undercover investigations into intensive farming operations that receive public subsidies from the European Union. The second is Giulia and Pablo’s journey across Europe to the locations investigated. The third narrative layer explores the link between the meat industry, lobbying, and politics. These narrative layers intersect and intertwine throughout the film, providing a comprehensive understanding of why intensive farming, which creates pollution and also mistreats animals, is a production model promoted by politics, and why change is becoming increasingly necessary.

Everything filmed and edited in Food For Profit is real, often captured in very challenging conditions. Aiding our comprehension of these real-life contents are animation and graphics by Emmy winner Jonathan Reyes. The film concludes with “animal liberation”, an animation showing imprisoned animals managing to free themselves, and setting fire to the prisons they’re confined in – a symbolic representation of the end of the intensive farming model.