EARTHLINGS
(watch it, because this will make you a better human)
Make a small effort and picture yourself in these situations: skinned alive, boiled while still conscious, beaten to death but not quite, your throat slitted slowly and painfully, caged all your life without moving an inche, drawn, hanged, mutilated, deformed, covered in sores... A terror movie? No, just everyday life for billions of animals on the account of humans and our selfish, greedy behavior that allows the most grotesque torture to take place by our own hands. Exploitation and cruelty to animals is just another bussiness for large corporations.
For those of you who are too afraid to watch this documentary because of the graphic animal abuse...just remember that they have to live through this violence each and every day, every minute and every second. If you're a moral, honest human being this documentary will have the pretended effect on you: the self-realisation that there is no need on this earth to justify taking an animal's life. You will be devastated, saddened, these images will haunt you in your dreams, you'll cry for days... and yet it will be nothing compared to the suffering of the billions of animals at the will of humans today right this second. After watching this you won't be able to justify anymore the way we treat animals, whereas it is for food, entertainment, clothing, science or pets. We owe it to them to see it. Because the more we see the more we know. And the more we know, the better we can speak out against it. How we choose to live and interact with the world around us and its other creatures is a direct reflection of who we are inside. This movie will touch you and you won't be the same after.
Many ignorant people will convince themselves and others that fighting for animal rights is secondary to fighting for human rights, a minor cause compared to the thousands of suffering humans. Think twice. I will quote Ghandi because his philosophy and compassion extended to all people and actively included animals. A champion of humane farming and moral vegetarianism, Gandhi believed that speaking out on behalf of animals is both a necessity and an obligation:
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.
I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
I feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.