Earthlings. Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix

[patrick t. cakes]

WARNING: Very, very graphic.

And very, very sad.

<http://www.unleashed.org.au/features/earthlings/>



"If I could make everyone in the world see one film, I'd make them see Earthlings." - Peter Singer

Considered the most persuasive documentary ever made, EARTHLINGS is an award-winning film about the role animals play as food, fashion, pets, entertainment and medical research.

The film is narrated by Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix and features music by platinum-selling recording artist Moby.

EARTHLINGS is by far the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation between nature, animals, and human economic interests. There are many worthy animal rights films available, but this one transcends the setting. EARTHLINGS cries out to be seen, not just by animal lovers but by everyone.

[beam me up scottie]

1. k&r to watch Monday.

I cannot watch this alone tonight, I know it will haunt me forever. I will watch it with my bf so that he can better understand why I feel so much pain when I see animals suffer. Maybe it will have a profound effect on his life.

The Voice of the Voiceless

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

I am the voice of the voiceless:
Through me, the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world's ear be made to hear
The cry of the wordless weak.

From street, from cage and from kennel,
From jungle and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.

For love is the true religion,
And love is the law sublime;
And all that is wrought, where love is not
Will die at the touch of time.

Oh, shame on the mothers of mortals
Who have not stopped to teach
Of the sorrow that lies in dear, dumb eyes,
The sorrow that has no speech.

The same Power formed the sparrow
That fashioned man - the King;
The God of the whole gave a living soul
To furred and to feathered thing.

And I am my brother's keeper,
And I will fight his fight;
And speak the word for beast and bird
Till the world shall set things right.

~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[patrick t. cakes]

2. i understand

i'm halfway through and had to stop for the night.
horrible but necessary (to watch)

[beam me up scottie]

3. bf brought home The Cove dvd a few weeks back, thought I'd like it because it was about dolphins.

He doesn't get it. Thank you for reminding me I'm not so alone.

[patrick t. cakes]

4. Not at all. Your definitely not alone.

:toast:

[beam me up scottie]

5. Thanks again.

I'll come round in the morning, see if your thread needs kicking. :)

[David Zephyr]

14. Thank you for posting "The Voice of the Voiceless"

:)

[beam me up scottie]

17. One of my favorites.

You're welcome, my brother.

[Heidi]

6. Recommended.

:kick:

[xchrom]

7. recommend

[CBGLuthier]

8. Considered the most persuasive documentary ever made

By whom?

This is some grade A market speak. Anybody got an actual review?

I think Errol Morris would question that claim.

[Canuckistanian]

9. K&R

[sdnewbie]

10. Watched it.

In its entirety. Cried, so much. We all need to see it. And be changed by the facts. Thank you, Unleashed. I am paying attention. Thank you, patrick t. cakes. Again, DU makes me a better person.

[Odin2005]

11. Cool! I need to see this!

[eShirl]

12. no thanks, can't watch films this graphic

whether it's real like this is, or fake "hollywood" special effects

[beam me up scottie]

13. I tried, I really did.

I am not emotionally able to see this film at this time, I am sorry. I will still air it for my bf but I will not be in the room.

I became a vegetarian and vowed to use only cruelty-free products 17 years ago because I learned what went on behind those doors, I do not think I can stand seeing it all over again.

I will watch excerpts, though, and I will recommend it to everyone I know - not because I'm naive enough to think everyone will become a vegetarian or even slightly change their buying habits, but because I believe we have an obligation to know where our products come from and what they really cost.

Thank you for reminding us.


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"If the use of animal food be, in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and the barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice that they may drag out a short and miserable existence of slavery and disease, that their bodies may be mutilated, their social feelings outraged. It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery."

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

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[deaniac21]

15. The central analogy to the civil rights movement and the women’s

movement is trivializing and ahistorical. Both of those social movements were initiated and driven by members of the dispossessed and excluded groups themselves, not by benevolent men or white people acting on their behalf. Both movements were built precisely around the idea of reclaiming and reasserting a shared humanity in the face of a society that had deprived it and denied it. No civil rights activist or feminist ever argued, “We’re sentient beings too!” They argued, “We’re fully human too!” Animal liberation doctrine, far from extending this humanist impulse, directly undermines it. -Peter Staudenmaier

[superduperfarleft]

16. Great movie, but very hard to watch. n/t

[Heidi]

18. Kick.

:kick: