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Herbicidal Maniac posted:I'll definitely have a lot to watch in the coming weeks, this is awesome. Add me to the list of people who couldn't even make it through the trailer for this documentary. I think I made it about 55 seconds in before I decided I'd seen enough.
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Fatkraken posted:So Earthlings doesn't say whether what they show is legal or illegal, or standard practice versus exceptional? Does it go into ways people are trying to improve things? Changes in legislation or enforcement? Things the public can do to avoid being complicit, such as farming certification schemes or specific regions to avoid buying meat from? saying LOOK AT THIS is all well and good, but without context and information, it's not really that useful except to the small number of people who will go whole-hog and become vegans. Earthlings is basically an animal snuff film. I'm trying hard to find its artistic merit beyond that, but it seems like someone took the most graphic animal deaths they could find and looped it over images of slaughterhouses in order to scare the human race into not eating meat. That said, there are rare moments in the film where it shows a real cow being slaughtered in a humane fashion and you feel genuinely sorry for the cow. These moments are drowned out by some of the sickest acts of depravity ever carried out against animals though. Humans are butchered in disgusting ways every day too, it's a sick act carried out by sick individuals, and I feel like the makers of this film are exploiting some absolutely disgusting footage to get their point across.
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Curly Shuffle posted:I think any GBS thread concerning Richard Dawkins will explain it. Many Americans apparently find that kind of accent to be condescending. Dawkins is pretty much the dictionary definition of condescending, it has nothing to do with his accent. Attenborough is fantastic. I have a feeling they only change the narrators over here simply because Oprah and Weaver are bigger names in the US and they feel like it's likely to draw in a bigger audience, and they're probably right.
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