Thursday 5 May 2011

Earthlings

I hope you can watch this


12 comments:

  1. I think i don't need to see this ... i became a vegetarian at the age of 18, which now feels like 100 years ago ... the reason was not that i would think people should not eat animals in general, it is just that i hate how animals are treated in an industrial environment - like products, like things, like they have no rights or feelings whatsoever.

    I have always stayed with dairy products though, but would avoid industrial milk and rather buy the more expensive stuff from open range cows. Just the same with eggs.

    Recently i got back to eating fish, but also: No industrial mass production type shit, i want the animals to have a relatively nice life before they are killed for my convenience...

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  2. Das, I watched 20 or so minutes of it and couldn't take any more, but ended up going back to watch the rest. Broke my heart, but reminded me why I became veggie 6 years ago.

    Meat eaters will, no doubt, choose to ignore this, they don't want to know the torture their food goes through. I think everyone should have their eyes opened.

    I recently turned vegan, which isn't as hard as I thought, especially since I found there is choccy which tastes alright.

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  3. Lately I've been feeling very cynical and sad. I think all of the crap in the world is starting to get to me, and I think I sometimes lose hope and just say, "Fuck it." I saw this a while ago and I thought how terrible our species is for being so terribly anthropocentric and awful. I tried to get some of my friends to watch this, because I know that the first step needed for change is learning and getting angry, but they all ignored me, and I felt worse and even more cynical.

    So during these times where I feel like the world is coming to a swift end and no one gives a crap, it makes me happy to see that people like you are encouraging others to learn and hopefully change what we have. I get a fuzzy feeling inside and it makes me less cynical.

    Also this.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMdXhfO-Wk

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  4. In the past few months I have made the effort to watch documentaries similar to this. This one was the most difficult to watch. Even if this video shows the worst case scenario, it's shameful that it happens at all. The demand for more and more and more has created an industry where just hatched, fuzzy yellow chicks are de-beaked. And that's a minor offense compared to other things that happen. There's got to be a better way, but I don't see it hitting my supermarket shelf any time soon.

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  5. Alejandro, aww glad you're on my wavelength. As Leo Tolstoy said, As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

    Hundewanderer, as long as people are happy to buy and not question, there will be no end to it.

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  6. Makes you want to kill every human and start again from amoebas.

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  7. Yeah! It makes you wonder why people are riddled with diseases...natures way of killing them off.

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  8. I watched this awhile ago and tried to encourage others to watch it....FAILED ...I do enjoy the look on peoples face when they learn that I do not eat meat or dairy .....I am not exactly what most folk have in mind when they picture a "leaf eater".

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  9. Mutil8or...fantastic, there's more of us...I think we're all thinking the same thing here...photo!!!

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  10. Photo? I do my best to avoid cameras....nothing really different it's just that I am 6' tall and weigh 225lbs. .......
    I am the second one from the left...

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  11. Helps to post the link doesn't it ?

    http://s532.photobucket.com/albums/ee321/Mutil8or/?action=view&current=1fb717a5.jpg

    duh! >;P

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  12. Coolest photo ever, although I'm having difficulty picking you out ;-)

    You certainly don't look like a rabbit food eater...you are proof that we don't need dead animals and cholesterol.

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