The "Earthlings" Documentary

[Gentleman_Reptile]

This year, a documentary simply entitled "Earthlings" was released and I have just sat through the entire thing. Heres the skinny for those who have no idea what it is.

The film is about the relationship between humans and animals, and shows, in uncensored detail, our ugly relationship with industries such as scientific research, circuses, fur, pets, whaling, mass consumption, and cruelty.

It's an extremely difficult film to watch, especially if you love our four legged friends, but it makes alot of very valid points and brings to light the graphic and brutal underbelly of the food industry and various other ugly departments that the public has been lucky enough to put out of mind.

Basically I'd like to know what you opinions are on the film. Whether or not it went overboard with its footage, and whether or not you agree with its message.

Or if you havent seen it, any views you have on the complexities of our current treatment of animals.

 

[Exterminas]

I have not seen this movie, but as you discribe it's message pretty detailled, I will comment on that:

Why is it an accepted fact that human doing to gain food is wrong? Nobody tells a lion to be more gentle to his prey. Industry is just the way humans gain food our days. We are part of nature. Mankind isn't excluded from the animals, just like them we have our preferred means to survive.

Sure one could make the point that humans being the only animal with a rational mind and such things, would have a responsibility towards nature. I agree on that. But I think that responsibility is limited to the "how" not to the what. Raising, keeping and killing animals to thrive on their death? That's fine. That's just how things work. Letting them live in their own filth and darkness, until their death in agony? That's not okay, because it could be easily avoided without hindering anyones buisness or survival.

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

Raising, keeping and killing animals to thrive on their death? That's fine. That's just how things work. Letting them live in their own filth and darkness, until their death in agony? That's not okay, because it could be easily avoided without hindering anyones buisness or survival.

Thats pretty much the point of the movie yeah and its what it focuses on.

 

[Exterminas]

On the way of picturing such things: Peta makes a lot of gross fottage to raise awareness. I don't quite unterstand that. Pictures of chicken dying in boxes are gross and horrbily, of course. But You could make an equally horrbile movie by filming a corpse in the jungle.

Nature and Feeding of Animals is never a pretty thing.

 

[zHellas]

...Weird. I posted here and I don't see it.