I watched Earthlings and ate chicken the same day. I have nothing against vegans and I think factory farming has a lot of terrible practices, but that movie was awful. It starts out by comparing the treatment of animals to the holocaust, which is flat out disgusting and I'd rather personally slaughter 10,000 cows than ever agree with a sentiment like that. Then it goes on to show all the standard PETA type footage of animals being abused and slaughtered, which sucks, but I realized the film itself was a crock of emotionally manipulative shit when I felt really sad watching someone fishing. I see people fishing all the time and I have no problem with it, but add in some seriously over the top music and anthropomorphization and you get some great reactions.
Then it just pisses me off that they go so far as to try to make you think fish are just like people, but they completely ignore insects along with a host of other issues like how many (usually native) animals are killed and have their habitats destroyed by vegetable and grain farming.
Just wanted to provide a different perspective :P since I've only ever heard people praising the shit out of it.
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Date: 2012-02-07 06:00 am (UTC)Then it just pisses me off that they go so far as to try to make you think fish are just like people, but they completely ignore insects along with a host of other issues like how many (usually native) animals are killed and have their habitats destroyed by vegetable and grain farming.
Just wanted to provide a different perspective :P since I've only ever heard people praising the shit out of it.