The System is a movie about the dutch animal farming. It gives us deadly virusses, resistance, due to too much use of antibiotics, hurts the envirement and kills millions of animals "but we earn a living" The solution from the government? Meat-tax? Less consumption of meat? Even if the whole of the Netherlands would stop eating meat today, the intensive meatproduction will not. We call one disaster after another upon us, we develop a good chance of extreme and very dangerous diseases and do our utmost to make sure that a small famrmer cannot survive. Economical reasons? Based on what? Without any valid reason there is the choice of growing and growing, efficiency, more and more animals in one stable. Scientists, microbiologists, politicians, the pigfarmer, the civilian, the housedoctor, animalprotection etc. This documentary gives inspiration to find friendlier and healthier solutions.