Here is the trailer of Earthlings, that I keep on my server for people living in China, to give you an idea… I won’t warn you about the content, because you need to see it, and think about your own lifestyle, and what it implies:
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I am a vegetarian. It’s not for healthy reasons, but for philosophical ones… if you think about it, all reasons link to each other in the end. You make good choice (understand: unselfish ones), you end up being happier, and also being healthier. That’s it. It’s something I know for sure, and I hope you know too.
I am vegetarian because I love life, love animals. I don’t understand how we can love pets, love them often more than other humans, as many masters agree to say, and on the other hand, butcher animals in industrial farms for the pleasure of our stomach. Well, I understand in fact: it’s called lack of empathy. The same lack of empathy Western people had for slaves working in sugarcane farms and cotton fields. Blacks were considered as creatures with no soul. If you were a slave master, and someone came and said « They are human beings too, they have feelings » I bet you’d have a good laugh!
You would probably answer:
– If I’d free them, they wouldn’t know where to go or what to do. They’d die sooner. They are of no use on their own. They like me as their master, anyway! It’s in the order of things. And I wouldn’t be able to farm my land without them, I have no one to replace them! I’d go banckrupt!
Well, today farmers do well enough without slaves, as far as I know.
But why did things change? The answer is simple: a step forward in widening our level of empathy. We are now able to love, or understand, or at least tolerate people different from us, and not abuse (too much of) them.
Before there was a king, nobles, and the shity underclasses. Women were just objects of trade, reproduction, and sexual pleasure. Kids were obedient to their parents in everything. Poor people were like slaves. Now things are much better. Women got the right to vote… mainly during the 20th century. Kids are considered smart at 18 years old, whereas before it was not until 30+ (for vote rights, for example).
Since we travel more, and further, we are less afraid of the unknown, and we don’t slaughter each other so much. Not like before, where war was a natural state between neighboring countries. Well, things improved now. I really think so. But we still see horrid things happen daily under our eyes, like in the video below, and think it’s fine ! In America, like in India, like in China.
I tell you one thing: we don’t need to eat meat, like the slave master didn’ t need his slaves. It’s just we are used to things being that way, and don’t want to think further. Because we have already a lot of things to fear about after watching TV news. I would say: Close your F… TV and open your mind to the outside world, that is just at your doorstep! See! Too far? No, it’s in your plate, and it was brought up in a small box since it was born, in which its bones were malformed, it developed diseases, got his members half eaten by his cellmates that got crazy and… oh, and you are afraid of being infected by a certain cow disease? You are afraid of eating pork? I wonder why… Hmm…
Life is at this: you bring love, you have love returned to you. You bring chaos, you get chaos.
You respect animals life, and you get: 80% less pollution (caused by animal industrial farms, or to be more precise, by animal shit), a sexy healthy body, animals bringing warmth to your environment and dolphins to swim by your side during your holidays… and… and… probably no more wars! Ever! Why: because the day you respect and understand animals, you do also understand and respect the ones of your own kind, and they do the same in return.
You don’t want anyone to treat you like you do treat them in those extermination-camps-like farms. I say « you », because you heard of it, and you still don’t try to know more about it. The same way no Germans wanted to know about what was happening in their backyard…
There is no evil more than the one in ourselves. So change now! Change things before you become a shame for the next generations, like you have shame for the nobles treating their subjects as donkeys, whites treating blacks and asians as cattle, and men treating women as flesh on a bone.
Don’t say it’s natural to do what we do, because:
– no animals do what we do with the cruelty we have.
– we are completely out of our natural bonds, as I don’t remember anyone lighting fires with stones, or still walking 100 miles on foot to bring a message to someone.
– we have a brain.
– we have a heart.
– we have a soul.
– You brain, heart and soul, would independently deny the fact that’s it’s natural to inflict massive pain to the huge majority of animal reign, and say it’s natural.
– we don’t need to eat meat, or if you are looking for a middle way, we don’t need to eat a lot of meat. It’s written, it’s proven, and millions of healthy vegetarians prove it every day.
– It’s not natural to consider creatures with less intelligence than us, as not deserving to live.
– It’s not natural to consider some living forms as useless, as some do. Everything has a place in the order of life. Ask a biologist, or even a physicist.
– It’s not natural to kill weaker than you because you can. If it was like that, you wouldn’t dare letting your kids out. Or your grandma. Or your friend in a wheelchair. Or your wife (or not without a scarf hiding her face). Or yourself? You don’t want to live in a world where dogs eat dogs, and where the stronger wins. So, maybe you could decide to not behave that way?
We are beyound nature, overpowerful creatures. We need to control that power for the good of other lives on this planet.
Consider yourself as a big brother looking after his younger brothers and sisters…
This documentary is, according to me, of huge importance, to explain the feelings some of us feel towards humanity. Their is no way we will ever live in a better world, if we don’t respect all the kinds of lives that exist on Earth, be it other animals, plants, or even stones…
This movie is about the animals.
– You can find a short explanation on IMDB, the biggest database about movies.
– You can view it in French on Google video (unless you live in China…)
– You can view it in English on Google video with Chinese subtitles (unless you live in China…)
– Watch with Chinese subtitles for faster speed for people living in China.
– Another information links: VegTV with many available language subtitles for the movie
– Official website, with the same trailer you have at the beginning.
Many websites I would like to reference are not viewable in China, so I can’t really check if they are still available or updated. I will let you make your own search, in case you want to know more…
You can download the full movie from a torrent website, if you know how to do, or ask a friend good in computers to do it for you.
You can also view the movie here, if it works (I can’t check from where I am…) :
Be brave, and speak about it around you…