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skysailor April 6 2005, 22:05:34 UTC
Some of the info's inaccurate, and some of the biases in the narrator's speaking are obvious, but it makes a good point. Maybe I'll stick to tofu in college. After all, consumption of beef also contributes to world hunger -- square acreage required for raising cattle is higher per pound of meat than square acreage for growing grain.

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fevrierinfidele April 7 2005, 03:06:36 UTC
yeah i'll agree. it's clearly biased, but i don't see how they could fake the video footage.

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skysailor April 7 2005, 03:21:15 UTC
Well, they didn't fake it, but likely (or definitely) they selected where they got their footage from, and they MOST DEFINITELY selected what they showed. For example, in one of the shots with the pigs, it was obvious that it couldn't possibly be your standard factory because using two men to slowly slaughter two pigs at a time by hand with relatively small, shallow cuts (compared to a killing cut) is inefficient and wouldn't be practiced in factories BECAUSE it's inefficient. Not to mention the random coming in and beating chickens also seems inefficient and therefore unlikely to happen in a normal factory-based system.

Film is a manipulative medium.

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fevrierinfidele April 7 2005, 22:26:52 UTC
It was the not quite killing them entirely and letting them suffer that really made me angry. It was extremely inhumane. You're right, that probably wasn't a normal factory because PETA does get reports of the most poorly run facilities and use the grusomist *typo* for the public to see.

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le_swashbuckler April 6 2005, 23:38:50 UTC
why are you so mad????? is the nazi going all....nazi on you again?

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fevrierinfidele April 7 2005, 03:10:45 UTC
Because those butchers are extremely cruel to innocent animals who did nothing, except to try to live. And these people only see them as food and therefore will continue the horror and the torture regardless of the safety of the animals or the humans who consume their battered flesh.

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le_swashbuckler April 7 2005, 03:16:12 UTC
i like your passionatness about that...and i know i spelt that wrong but i dont care lol...hopefully one day people will realize what they are doing is wrong..but that would require all the people in the world to stop eating meat...and i dont see that happening anytime in the near future.

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fevrierinfidele April 7 2005, 22:20:37 UTC
yeah that's very true. That would take a total reformation of the entire world's food industry.

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whatsyourhurry April 7 2005, 02:32:08 UTC
The whole time i just hear morrissey's voice singing "meat is murder" =)

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fevrierinfidele April 7 2005, 03:11:43 UTC
A great, great song =)

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