http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142&ei=q6DMSZn8G4GyqAKewvHdCQ&q=earthlings
WARNING:
Here is another disturbing thing to see.... ..you may again feel sad, perturbed, angry, traumatized ...
...the images may well be be shocking to some people who are not used to seeing the way these animals are treated - be they pigs, chickens or not even those cuddly ones we see!
"This is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers."
The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby.
How cruel we humans are...*gulps*
i've begun watching this. looks interesting and heavy.
ReplyDeletebagay sa holy week itong mga docus, perfect for pondering. dealing with diffucult subject matter
oo nga eh..ponder our sins...:-(
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, I shed some tears on this...I have a soft for dogs..so its really difficult when I see all these scenes..and others..
ReplyDeleteKakatrauma tong docu. Ayoko na nga panoorin, audio nalang
ReplyDeleteGirl I'm officially traumatized.
ReplyDeletekaya nga nag add na ako ng WARNING sa taas..
ReplyDeleteactually, audio ako kanina..then once in a while I look at the scenes after I read or send an email...
last year I think, I saw a film on some channel in cable..where it was shown how in China some people slaughter some particular delicacies..and animals for their coats.....mierde! grabe talaga Marie....they were skinning them alive..and then they threw the still-alive na bodies sa truck..di man lang pi-nut-out of their misery and pain...
back home whenever we had to kills chickens, turkeys or pigs (long time ago when pwede pa mag lechon sa bahay)..I always insisted painumin ng mallorca (its like cooking wine) coz I could never stand hearing the pigs squeal or the chickens squack and flap their wings...at least if you kill them for food, yun namang wala na silang malay...
to see how they slit it here, maski yung pigs lang and dunking them into the vats....
I passed by the meat section on Monday (though I don't buy meat) and I was just imagining, what if this was another world, and it was pieces of human beings carved up and displayed there on the slabs and counters..tapos aliens ang nag-queue to buy them...yeah, yeah..overactive naman imagination ko...
I had to stop sa "Pigs" na part. Hindi ko kinaya. Mahina sikmura ko sa ganito. Baka mapanaginipan ko mamaya.
ReplyDeleteGrabe yung kosher factory sobrang hindi kosher yung procedures
free range sana no..
ReplyDeleteWell kung hindi naman nasusunod ng tama yung practice walang kwentang label lang yung 'kosher' or 'free range'
ReplyDeleteShucks natrauma ako dun sa mga baboy na may abnormal mass sa katawan
and I bet F8 would be happy to be called talaga a vegetarian at this point...lucky I don't eat meat much these days unless I go back to Cebu...
ReplyDelete*grin*
ReplyDeleteam sorry Marie...I was in a "aargh" mode...when I read this sentence and instead giggled..
but..you don't eat pork....
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry kafatid..naku di na nga muna ako mag post ng mga ganito..
ReplyDeletehanap ako something else to add and post here na medyo naman light...
even now, I've lost my appetite..and to think I had cooked crepe 30 minutes before this..
Hi Cat,
ReplyDeleteI just watched this trailer as I don't have time to watch the whole movie now. It looks pretty powerful.
Take care.
Thanks Ted, the message is powerful...some scenes are just hard to swallow and accept that its what is happening...
ReplyDeleteOk lang, don't let my trauma prevent you from posting whatever you like or kung ano man nakakainterest sayo. Minsan necessary ang trauma sa learning. Saka given naman kasi talaga sa subject matter yung pagiging, well, violent ng material e. I'm glad I saw this. I might even finish it all the way through, malay mo
ReplyDeleteJust finished watching the entire thing. Talagang kailangan tapangan ang sikmura dito! Actually, after catching my breath, and reflecting on what I just saw, parang inatake ako ng konsensya dito. Kahit ano pa ang sabihin natin na mabait tayo sa mga animals, one cannot escape/avoid that the fact that by patronizing food from these earthlings, or enjoying seeing them in captivity in some zoo (no matter how they may be designed to look like the wild), or in whatever other appearance they may take, we are accomplices in what is called "speciesism." This is more than depressing. It is distressing as well!
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, I begin to wonder though if it is any better to be a "vegetarian." In the sense that plants like animals are also beings living on earth, they too are no less earthlings than we humans are or the animals inhabiting the earth. I've read somewhere that plants also react to stress. Sabi nga ng iba, mas maganda daw ang growth ng mga flowering plants kapag kina-kausap.
So, pano yan!
Heavy pero tutoo...some vegetarians I know, have this guilt..
ReplyDeleteAy naku...kakaguilty no?
Oo nga. So ano ba puedeng kainin? I thought of just drinking water na lang. Pero even that is in a sense also an "earthling," after all the earth is two-thirds water! I think I may just start starving soon... :-)
ReplyDeleteI look forward to the day wherein I don't have to cook, or chew...
ReplyDeletetablets na lang which I will just swallow...pang 30th century high-tech ba?
don't worry Chito..we humans are still not the highest in the food chain...
ReplyDelete- just get yourself bitten by a mosquito to salve your conscience a teeny little bit :-)
Yes, but somehow that doesn't really sound very comforting... nor conscience-clearing.
ReplyDeleteThere's one word though that I've been hearing throughout the film - the term "humanely." I think it is not appropriate to say "treat the animals humanely." We can treat other humans humanely but we can't treat animals humanely, can we? By treating animals humanely, do we mean treating them in a way that is acceptable to humans? Is there a manner of treating animals that is acceptable to animals?
ReplyDeletewell, in the wild, how would lions or hyenas or vultures eat...it involves pain din..and death...
ReplyDeleteBut these creatures are not bothered by conscience. None of them have the capability to produce a feature length film that is obviously aimed deliberately at or designed to elicit feelings of guilt.
ReplyDeleteDo these creatures of the wild eat their prey knowing that they are inflicting pain and suffering?
teka muna..let me relish my imagination running havoc with the picture of an orangutan holding a videocam and shooting some scenes from animals' daily lives in Africa...
ReplyDeleteI don't think its a matter of conscience ...its more of instinct...nature built it that way...some animals are said to have some modicum of intelligence...
ReplyDeletea dolphin for instance or some of our brods and sisters in the ape family...does it mean fishes and bananas won't be part of their diet...
am not condoning the cruelty...ako I accept that some people will eat meat, some people choose to eat plants..and some may just subsist on chocolate *ehem*
IMHO I think for example that human beings were not meant to eat meat really...coz of our teeth..its not designed to tear stuff like that...unlike the full-range equipment of those predators...
what I don't like is that pwede naman to kill without purposely inflicting pain, regardless of whether the victims/animals understand it or not or end up as fodder for the homo sapiens' stomach...
You hit the nail right on the head, so to speak, Cat. Just like any other earthling, we do have the instinct to survive. We do not kill these animals, or plants for that matter, with extreme prejudice and with deliberate intent to inflict pain. Even the use of animals for sport or fashion and science may be even considered instinctive on our part. After all, vanity is also an animal trait.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, when I catch an episode on Nat Geo about predators in the wild, I really get so distressed seeing a lion or hyena eating the entrails of their prey even as the prey is still alive!
In the classic movie Planet of the Apes, roles have become reversed somewhat between man and animals, apes in particular. Apes, who have taken over the earth wanted to use the humans for their scientific experiment. I know it is a classic, but I thought it was a lousy hard sell effort by animal rights activists to push their agenda in the decade of the 60s.
ReplyDeleteah yes, I saw this movie...but the version is yung si Helena Bonham Carter na...didn't see the orig one...
ReplyDeleteit is interesting speculating on this kind of scenario..what for example if insects where the dominant species of this planet? or lions and piranhas...and humans were just 1 inch high...
hay..life...
Chits, ang madalas ko na kainin these days, banana...totoo yan..
ReplyDeleteI guess, hindi dapat talaga tayo maguilty, yung dating lang nung film ang nakakaguilty, but it has it's own good point of view.
Di ba pinaubaya sa atin ang lahat..the thing is, we humans parang walang care, no more respect and care for nature and animals..
along my marriage with Arno, although he's an animal lover, one part of his philosophy is, if we want to eat meat, we should also actually learn how to slaughter..we raised rabbits then. later on, i realized that not all are meant to learn how to slaughter. i told him, kaya nga may slaughter house, may sewers, my priest, may biologist like you..kasi we cannot do everything..di ba?
would you believe at the start, vegetarian kami..okay lang sa akin...but later on, with kids it wasn't so simple not to vary food..
eh Chito, it's a very good thing to drink...
I guess what matters is we know how to care about every creation, respect habitats of animals and discipline in eating, not pollute the air and conserve energy...
:(
ReplyDeleteHi Nons. Sensya na kung medyo I got carried away dito sa issue na ito. After all, talaga naman may kaka-ibang emotional tug or hatak sa damdamin ang topic na 'to.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you (and Cat as well) na ang importante ay ang respeto natin bilang tao sa bawat nilalang dito sa ating mundo pati na sa kalikasan. We live in a planet that is the only one of its kind. And though we know that earth will still be around for a long long time after we are gone, we should also be aware that many things here on earth are no longer renewable or will take eons, if ever, to replenish. Thus, we should use, manage and care for every "earthling" prudently.
I think I read somewhere that natives of a certain country who still live much like in the olden days when food was sourced through hunting, that before they actually start the hunt and after they have made a kill, they do a ritual where they apologize to the animals they capture or kill. They also only hunt or take only what they need, i.e. even if the come upon a number of their prey, they only take what they need and leave the rest to roam free.
arrgh! ano na eat natin nyan?
ReplyDeletewith the thread of replies here...i can't help but be reminded of the movie, solyent green...tama ba yung title ko chito?
apir tito chito. feel na feel ko rin yung trauma mo. buti natapos mo yung docu. hindi ko nakaya. try ko uli next time. i want to see it to the end. kahit audio na muna. pero actually dapat mapanood talaga e. its an important lesson dun sa 'know where your food comes from', hindi yung abstract notion lang na packaged na sya, nasa freezer ng supermarket, binibili per kilo.
ReplyDeletesa totoo lang iniisip ko rin ano ba pwedeng kainin. kasi parang for me hindi realistic na absolutely no meat.
naisip ko: seafood na muna? at least hindi kasing brutal i-raise ang mga ito for food? ewan, baka mali ako dito.
isa pang naisip ko, what if we just patronize vendors na tama ang practice. siguro naman meron yan, we just need to research. like siguro sa muslim communities merong halal suppliers ng karne.
for chicken i've read about a vendor called solyara sunshine chicken
http://solraya.blogspot.com/
they sell grass fed, free ranged, naturally grown chickens. kung baga happy chickens.
last resort: grow and raise your own meat. tapos like what bubu34 said learn how to slaughter properly.
one other thing na pumasok sa isip ko - gano kaya ka traumatized yung mga butcher ano? all that howling and suffering and blood they encounter on a daily basis.
i am sure numb na sila...
ReplyDeletei have yet to gain much courage to actually view this docu...
Soylent Green.
ReplyDeleteChito..okay lang..no need to say sensya..:)
ReplyDeleteI know that Indians used to do this rituals..buti pa sila no? so nature-oriented and with respect..
siguro, sa school dapat bigyan ng stress ang topic na ito..not that they will be scared and won't eat things anymore..but that they would at a young age, the rule and turn of nature..