what's more depressing than watching a dolphin dragged behind a truck?

[misledyouth00]

i broke down and wept like a baby.

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/earthlings.php

only if you watch this and THEN tell me you don't see anything wrong with exploiting animals, will i be able to listen to yr argument.

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What's More Depressing than Withching a Dolphin Dragged Behind a Truck?

[angrygraysmoke]

Watching a kitten glued to the space shuttle!

Hah-chachachachaaaaa! [rim shot]

Er, seriously, though. That's pretty fucked up.

[spirulinai]

oh my, but this quote at the start of the movie gave me a serious case of the wobblies:

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.

We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." Henry Betson, The Outermost House

[misledyouth00]

but nobody warned me how SAD it would be!

....i guess i shoulda expected it though, huh? i couldn't even make it to the end, is it at least hopeful?

[spirulinai]

I'm going at it in sections. The magnitude of it is just too much to absorb all at once. So far I've made it to the fishing industry - Most difficult for me to get through so far was the kosher butcher bit.. augh, god. It's wrenching.

I have the sinking feeling they're saving the worst for last - I'm gonna have to work my way up to the "why humans kill for kicks" section. *shudder*

[spirulinai]

also

if it's so unexpectedly powerful for a vegan who knows all this stuff already, i wonder how omnivores take it? i wonder if it would be feasible to find a friend with a dvd burner and just... leave copies of it places.