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STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY
"Earthlings: Make the Connection" with Oscar-winning Actor Joaquin Phoenix - P5/6
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The images
in the following program
are very sensitive
and may be
as disturbing to viewers
as they were to us.
However,
we have to show the truth
about cruelty to animals.
Honored viewers, today’s
Stop Animal Cruelty
program features our
presentation of Part 5 of
the award-winning
2005 documentary
on animal suffering
“Earthlings”
directed by vegan US
filmmaker Shaun Monson,
co-produced by
noted vegan US actresses
Persia White and
Maggie Q and narrated
by Golden Globe- and
Grammy-winning vegan
actor and artist
Joaquin Phoenix.
The film features music
by the world-famous
vegan DJ
and musician Moby
from the United States.
“Earthlings” has received
numerous honors,
including
the Proggy Award
given by the US-based
animal welfare group
People for
the Ethical Treatment
of Animals, and the Best
Documentary Award
in the Animal Advocacy
category at the International
Artivist Film Festival,
held annually
in California, USA.
The film is known
as “the vegan maker”
because it has prompted
so many people
to transition to
the compassionate
and life-affirming
plant-based diet.
Such individuals include
the Emmy award-winning
US talk show host
Ellen DeGeneres
as well as the well-known
Canadian professional
ice hockey player
George Laraque.
Last week on our program,
Joaquin Phoenix
described how our
innocent animal friends
are first tortured and
abused and then violently
slaughtered to make
so-called “fashion items”
from leather and fur.
This week covers
how animals
are exploited, demeaned,
and killed for so-called
“entertainment.”
Director Shaun Monson
now introduces
this week’s segment
of “Earthlings.”
Part four, entertainment
–- circuses, zoos, rodeos,
bullfights,
I mean worldwide,
animals used
for entertainment.
I was in Rome (Italy)
this last year
working on this new film,
and I went to the arena
and I stood
inside that arena.
I looked around
and thought,
“There was a time here,
2,000 years ago,
when people literally
gathered together and
watched the slaughtering
of humans and animals.”
I mean the sands of
the arena were just
wet with blood.
We wouldn’t tolerate that
today.
We’d look back on that
and sort of be abhorred
by it, to think
that a civilization
would go and eat food,
sit there in the sun, and
be entertained by this!
Okay, we don’t do that
anymore today.
However we have
a different sort of
gladiator games going on
today, which are the ones
I mentioned with
the circuses and the zoos
and the rodeos and the
bull fights and so forth,
and I would go
as far as to say that
future generations will
look back on us and
see that as abhorrent.
You know, you wonder
and ask yourself,
“What will future
generations look back
on us and say?”
“What are they thinking!
Are they blind?
Total apathy
for the well-being.”
So that’s what
we cover in the film, we
show some of these areas
that animals are abused.
The zoo’s people say,
“Well, the zoo
is educational, it’s…
the animals are safe, they
are better than the wild.”
And I always think
“better than the wild?”
The animal naturally
lives in the wild.
So this is a whole new
forced enclosed space
and they have their
problems there as well,
they are under
the domain of humans,
they’re fed the diets
that humans determine
is best for them.
And they are isolated and
they suffer and they die,
as we see a lot with
the elephants for instance.
We now present
the fifth installment
of “Earthlings,”
a documentary that seeks
to awaken humanity to
adopt a more empathetic
and compassionate way
of living.
PART FOUR
ENTERTAINMENT
And so we move on
to entertainment.
Mark Twain once said,
"Of all the creatures
ever made, he (man)
is the most detestable.
He's the only creature
that inflicts pain for sport,
knowing it to be pain."
rodeos
In rodeos, bulls
and broncos don't buck
because they're wild, but
because they're in pain.
A belt called a flank strap
or a bucking strap
is secured
around the animal's body
over the genital area.
As the animal leaves
the chute, a tight jerk
on the belt is enough to
start him bucking in pain.
Apart from other injuries
animals incur at rodeos......
such as broken legs......
they are also worked up
by being slapped, teased,
given electric prods,
and otherwise tormented,
to bolt out of the chute
in a frenzy.
roping
Roping, as seen here,
involves throwing a rope
around the neck
of a frightened animal
running full speed,
jerking the poor creature
to a halt,
and slamming him or her
to the ground.
gambling
Like any other business,
dog racing
and horse racing are
industries motivated by
a common denominator:
profit.
fair grounds
At fair grounds
across the country,
animals are used to race,
bet with, and spectate over.
Training for these events
is accomplished
by withholding food
and sometimes water.
These animals, unfamiliar
with their surroundings,
the noise, the crowds,
even what they're
supposed to be doing, are
all too often injured and
discarded, in pointless,
trivial, outlandish contests
designed to make profits
and entertain.
hunting
Besides loss of habitat,
hunting is
the number one threat
to wildlife today.
Hunters kill
over 200 million animals
every year.
Deer, rabbits, and squirrels
top the list
of desirable targets.
There is no denying it,
if hunting is a sport,
it is a blood sport.
The targets are living,
and they undergo
violent deaths.
fishing
Fishing is also
a death sport, wherein the
nonhuman animal suffers.
Researchers
have distinguished that
fish show pain behavior
the same way
mammals do.
Anatomically,
physiologically,
and biologically,
the pain system in fish
is virtually the same
as in birds and mammals.
In other words, fish are
sentient organisms, so
of course they feel pain.
For those who think
fish die "gentler" deaths,
consider that
their sensory organs are
highly developed, their
nervous systems complex,
their nerve cells very
similar to our own...
...and their responses
to certain stimuli
immediate and vigorous.
When we return,
we’ll hear from
Joaquin Phoenix on
the horrendous conditions
animals kept in zoos
and circuses, endure.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
This is Stop Animal Cruelty
on Supreme Master
Television.
We now resume
our presentation
of the documentary
“Earthlings” with
this segment focusing
on the immense brutality
inflicted on
our animal co-inhabitants
for the sake of so-called
“entertainment.”
circuses
When going to the circus,
rarely do we stop
for a moment and consider:
What incites an animal to
do something unnatural,
even dangerous, such as
jumping through flames,
balancing on one foot,
or diving into water
from shaky platforms
high in the air?
Animal trainers would like
for the public to believe
that animals are coaxed
into such behaviors with
the promise of rewards.
But the truth is that
animals perform because
they fear punishment.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
All right, let's go.
Let's get going.
In essence, circuses
condemn animals
who are wild by nature to
live out their days isolated
in tiny, barren cages,
denied normal exercise
and socialization......
shuttled around
from place to place......
and shackled in chains
for up to 95%
of their lives.
training
Elephants are
taught to perform with
positive reinforcement
and never hit.
Never hit.
Never, never, never
will you see
anyone use the ankus
as anything other than
a guide or a tool.
No.
Dominance, subservience,
and pain are integral parts
of the training process.
Hurt him. Don't touch him!
Make him scream.
If you're scared
to hurt him......
don't come in this room.
When I say rip his
You know how I am
about touching him, right?
So, if I say rip his head off,
rip his foot off,
what does that mean?
'Cause it's very important
to do it, right?
When he starts
squirming too much,
both hands, boom!
Right under that chin!
Sit, and he better back up.
Don't grab that leg.
You sink that hook
and give everything
you've got.
And when it's in there go....
And he's going
to start screaming.
When you hear that,
then you know
you've got their attention
a little bit!
Right here in the barn.
Can't do it on the road.
She's going to do
what I want.
And that's just
the way it is.
All right, let's go.
Becky! Becky!
Get up here!
Come here, Becky.
Move up, Becky.
Move up, Becky.
All right, Tubs. Tubs!
Come here, Tubs!
Hey, get Loony.
Hey, Becky.
Go on, move up.
Hey, I'm alive.
I'm not a dead man.
Move up! Come in line.
Come in line, Becky.
Yeah, come over here.
Yeah, come in line.
Come here, Tommy.
Why do they have to
go through that.
because you don't want
to listen? Back up.
it's just the way they die.
We know animals feel.
They feel fear,
loneliness, and pain,
just like humans do.
What animal would
choose to spend their
entire life in captivity
if they had a choice?
retaliation
On the count of three!
One. Two. Three.
Take him.
You've got to shoot.
zoos
Are zoos valuable
educational and
conservation institutions?
Sure, zoos are interesting,
but they are only
educational in the sense
that they teach
a disregard for the natures
of other living beings.
Besides,
what can we learn
about wild animals by
viewing them in captivity?
Zoos exist because we are
intrigued by exotic things.
And to zoo-goers,
zoo animals are just that:
things.
In both cases,
at circuses or zoos,
wild and exotic animals
are captured, caged,
transported,
and trained to do what
humans want them to do.
bullfighting
At best, the term
"bullfighting"
is a misnomer......as
there is little competition
between the sword of
a nimble matador, which
is Spanish for "killer,"
and a confused, maimed,
psychologically tormented,
and physically
debilitated bull.
Many prominent
former bullfighters report
that bulls are
intentionally debilitated
with tranquilizers
and laxatives,
beatings to the kidneys,
and heavy weights
hung around their necks
for weeks before a fight.
Some of the animals
are placed in darkness
for 48 hours
before the confrontation,
then are released, blinded
into the bright arena.
In a typical event,
the bull enters and is
approached by men who
exhaust and frustrate him
by running him in circles
and tricking him
into collisions.
When the bull is tired
and out of breath, he is
approached by picadors,
who drive lances into its
back and neck muscles,
twisting and gouging
to ensure a significant
amount of blood loss
and impairing the bull's
ability to lift his head.
Then come
the banderilleros
who distract
and dart around the bull
while plunging
more lances into him.
Weakened from blood loss,
they run the bull
in more circles until he is
dizzy and stops chasing.
Finally, the matador,
this "killer," appears
and, after provoking
a few exhausted charges
from the dying animal,
tries to kill the bull
with his sword.
And this bloody form of
amusement is bullfighting.
The pleasure derived
from all of these activities
and sports......
a communion with nature,
some would say,
can be secured
without harming
or killing animals.
The commercial
exploitation of wildlife
erroneously assumes that
the value of wild animals
is reducible to their utility
relative to human interests,
especially
economic interests.
But wild animals are
not a renewable resource,
having value only relative
to human interests.
That perception can only
be that of a speciesist.
Nevertheless,
these practices exist only
because we do not take
seriously the interests
of other animals.
In this light, are humans
not the most callous
speciesists of all?
By always refusing
to patronize events where
animals are being used
for entertainment, we can
end this heartless and
savage treatment of them.
We would like to
sincerely thank
Shaun Monson,
Joaquin Phoenix
and all those involved in
the making of “Earthlings”
for speaking
on behalf of the voiceless.
May we all soon
switch to the loving,
organic vegan diet
so all animals
can live in peace forever.
"Earthlings" may be
viewed online at
www.Earthlings.com
The "Earthlings" DVD
is available
at the same website.
Please join us
next Tuesday for Part 6
of “Earthlings” here
on Stop Animal Cruelty.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
May our world only know
kindness and virtue.
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