I was never a person who cared much about what landed on the plate and where it came from. Recently I watched a short clip about McDonald's food that doesn't start to rot or smell or anything, even after four years. I stoppped eating fastfood after that, because I simply don't want to eat something that be anything else but solely made out of chemical waste. Also, we know that the meat can't be from healthy animals. You already feel it when you swallow a bite of a hamburger. Full of flavour enhancers, tasting like 'unhappy' meat. Believe me or not, it really happens that way for me.
Now, what I wanted to talk about: Watch Earthlings. It's a movie about how we humans mistreat animals. How they get abused, brutally slaughtered and senselessly tortured by soulless assholes. (One scene in particular, where a man tries to shoot a pig and repeatedly says things like 'Oh, I missed you. I will get you, you motherfucker. Oooh, missed again! But don't worry, I will get you!' has really shocked me.)
I cannot grasp why anybody would want to inflict such pain on helpless animals. They have a heart, a soul and a brain, like we do. They may not be as highly developed in their skill to express their feelings as we are, but they are earthlings, equal to us.
What I also thought the whole time throughout the movie was, that if anybody ever did those things to another human (hanging them on ropes and slitting their throats or skinning them while they are still conscious, for example), they would get their asses into jail and rot there until oblivion. If anybody ever cut a baby's foot and cut off their ears at the same time, without giving them anaesthesia, they would be killed immediately.
But no, they are animals, let's not care about what is done to them. They can't feel the pain anyways, oh just screw it and take pleasure from killing them.
What may also sound sadistic, but is reasonable, is that I found the scenes where the elephants took their small revenge and trampled over people in a circus and in the streets and almost killed them a little bit satisfying. (But they got shot in the end, so we humans won again.)
To sum it up: I've never cried and shouted and swayed back and forth like a baby so much in one evening. Almost all of the scenes are horrible and unbelievable, even though you just KNOW that it's happening right now, at this moment, and again, and again.
What you should consider while watching the movie is a) What if that weren't animals but humans? (In every single scene.)
b) What did the animals do to those calling them motherfuckers and mistreating them cruelly?
c) Eat less meat.
We've always bought from organic farmers, even though it's a lot more expensive, but knowing where the meat comes from and that the animals lived a happy life is priceless. You don't have to eat meat every single day. You can taste the difference, like I said. You know that you wouldn't let the same things happen to yourself. If you can still feel good about eating cheap meat after hearing the screams of the tortured animals and seeing the blood splatter out of their heads, you are definitely sick. Or just like so many ignorant other people.
I have promised myself that I will cut back on meat, only buy organic products and won't buy leather, fur or make-up that is tested on animals. I won't go to circuses, zoos or buy pets from a store. I will adopt animals from animal shelters. I will make sure that they lead a good life as long as they are in my care.
So, enough of the talk, here is the movie: (I hope this works!)
Make the Connection. EARTHLINGS.com
5 comments:
Wow, that film seems... disturbing. Wouldn't it be so much better if all meat was from animals that died naturally? Only problem is, they wouldn't be able to make enough, I guess.
I NEVER eat McDonalds though, no way...
Well, that isn't possible. Animals that die naturally would have too bad meat left on their bones, that wouldn't work.
I've made it, I haven't eaten sad food this week!
I do eat at McDonald's from time to time and nothing's gonna make me stop doing that. Besides, the animal is already dead. It would be a waste to simply not eat it.
Y'know, some pretty horrible stuff happens to humans, too (you can get away with anything in Hinamizawa). As a rule of thumb, I would just do whatever makes me happy.
I don't see anything wrong with eating meat if the animal is dead in the first place. Besides, the animal will die anyway. It might as well be killed for meat.
Of course, if cutting down on the amount of meat consumed is somehow satisfying, then I don't see anything wrong with that either.
Well yes, I eat at McDonald's too, but I won't put up with eating fucking chicken eyes that I haven't ordered with my Chicken McNuggets. And it's no meat that we eat McDonald's. It's waste, it never rots.
Then again, they do have nice potato things, and even if they are better when I make them myself, I like them there, too.
You do know that they won't stop torturing the animals if you think that way, do you? And if everybody'd stop eating that cheap, horrible meat, organic meat would become a lot cheaper than it is right now.
Demand justifies the price, why do you think that unhappy meat is so cheap?
The animal would die after leading a long, 'happy' life. But I don't understand your point, because it doesn't explain the fact that veals get so overfed until they almost burst and are then slaughtered brutally. That wouldn't happen to them normally.
I don't say anything against organic butchers, where you can look at the animals, can see that they are alright and feel good while eating them.
And you do know that the pigs/cows/etc.. are fed with antibiotics because they tend to get ill, of course? If you don't know that, then you won't know that we digest the meds with the meat. And in turn, we develop resistances and that antibiotic cannot do anything against diseases anymore.
Then there's also the bitter taste of the stress the animal felt before dying. If you compare 'good' meat to 'bad' meat, you can find the difference.
Ahh, sorry for getting so worked up, but I get kinda annoyed when I see arguments similar to yours (but I don't think that you mean them in the way I have heard them before.)
Sorry again ._.
It's fine, really. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Of course, I would like the animals I'm eating to have had a nice, happy life. But just because a relatively small amount of people are cruel to animals so that they can maximise profits doesn't mean that I'm going to give up eating what I enjoy eating.
Oh, and the thing about McDonald's food not going mouldy? That was proven to be fake. She had removed all the moisture inside beforehand so that mould couldn't form. In the film Super Size Me it is shown that their food does decompose, in fact.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to believe some of these documentaries which make stuff up just to prove a point. The only way I'm going to change my mind is if there is solid, rigid proof. And there is none.
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