Partitions — Partitions gives an intimate glimpse of the ethical struggles that five small-scale meat farmers face when their animals are slaughtered.  In contrast to larger industrial farmers, small-scale farmers have closer contact with their animals, often giving them names and sometimes treating them as pets. In this film, we see farmers interacting with the animals they will eventually transform into food (chickens, pigs and cattle). The farmers confront very difficult questions posed by the filmmaker about why they think their approach to processing of meat is different than that of factory farming. Although the farmers can answer that their animals are treated more humanely, their discomfort regarding the slaughter process is visually and audibly obvious, and can paradoxically be both disconcerting and comforting to the audience.