Earthlings

[LipzLikeMurder]

Warning - extremely graphic and may piss some of you off...sorry.

My teacher who is a vegetarian made me watch it - she made me take it home and watch it.

I am a vegetarian, but I have pledged to be so for only a year. However, after watching this movie, I have decided to eat way less meat and then eat only grass fed beef, etc. if I ever do go back to eating meat.

And it's not just about cruelty to animals. It's about the waste and excess that Americans bring with their meat heavy diet.

If I can live a year without meat or meat products, then we all can. If we chose not to, we should be educated on the impact that has on our world.

YouTube - Earthlings Trailer (Director Shaun Monson)

Our genetics teacher (who is hardcore vegetarian) had us watch Food Inc. and now a fourth of the the class is afraid to eat any big corporation meat after seeing the effects of corn fed livestock and how it is treated.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Bri they say this in the film

They say that it isn't the standard - that these are bad examples of these practices being done by the largest meat manufacturers only.

The film focuses on mass production gone awry not just meat.










BTW the film also talks about animals in science, as pets, for entertainment and as clothing.

They said in the beginning that it was industry standards, I paused and read it 5 times in a row.

Some of the things they talked about were true, pets, dolphins, over fishing, and the effects on the environment. They said that all the things I listed, docking tails, dehorning, debeaking, etc. were extremely cruel practices, when, as I said, they are not; they are depicted incorrectly in this film, half the people were doing it right, they just make it look like the most terrible thing that ever happened.

They made rodeo's look awful, when they are not. They made science look awful, when it's not (most of the time). And yes, that stuff in India is partially true, but most of our clothes do not come from India (unlike what they said in film).

I will agree, most fur factory farms are terrible, but hunting and trapping is both needed and not cruel. Circuses are terrible; but zoo's (that follow AZA standards) are fantastic and most definitely 100% needed, ones that don't follow AZA standards shouldn't be allowed to operate. The thing they fail to talk about in zoo's is that most animals come from people who tried to raise them as pets and they only breed animals who are endangered in the wild, as to keep them from going extinct due to things like deforestation and poaching.

Oh and the quote I had the biggest problem with "All animals raised for food, entertainment, and clothing, die from the same thing: pain" Ummmm, no, my goats don't either die or live in pain. Most animals don't.

The problem I have with this film, is I know for a fact that most of what they said about America agricultural industries were lies; so how can I possibly take what they said about anything else seriously?

 

[Jessica]

I thought it would be exaggeration.....