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STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY
"Earthlings: Make the Connection" with Oscar-winning Actor Joaquin Phoenix - P4/6
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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.
Respected viewers, today’s
Stop Animal Cruelty
program features our
presentation of Part 4 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 Part 3
of our program,
Joaquin Phoenix
described the
horrendous conditions
and unfathomable suffering
endured by animals
raised for food.
This week, we will see
how animals are brutally
exploited and undergo
unimaginable cruelty
and torture to
provide us with clothing.
Let us first hear from
“Earthlings” director
Shaun Monson on why
he decided to collaborate
with Joaquin Phoenix on
this extraordinary project.
I wanted him from the start.
I’d heard
he’d been a vegan since
he was three years old.
He was in Venezuela or
some place, I don’t know,
don’t quote me exactly
on that, but
he had seen fishermen
as a boy, throwing fish
against a wall to kill them.
They’d catch them
in these nets
and just throw them
against this wall to kill them
and he was so horrified
by that, he wouldn’t eat
animals anymore.
I’d heard this about him.
And he was young,
he is younger than I am
and he was becoming
better known as an actor
and I thought
he was interesting
and I wanted him to do it.
I wanted to get someone
who was vegan.
I thought someone
who was living it already,
might come through
the voice box
just a little bit different.
That was the theory anyway,
that it would work,
which was true with him.
We now present
the fourth installment
of “Earthlings”;
a life-changing documentary
that serves as a voice
for our precious
animal co-inhabitants.
PART THREE CLOTHES
The demand for leather
comes primarily
from the United States,
Germany, and the UK.
Just about everybody
wears it,
with little or no thought
of where it came from.
Thousands of India cows
are slaughtered each week
for their skins, purchased
from poor families
in parts of rural India
who sell them only after
the assurance that
the animals will live out
their lives on farms.
Shoeing and roping
To relocate the animals
to a state where
they can legally be killed,
since cattle slaughter
is forbidden
in most of India,
the animals must be
shoed and roped together
in preparation for a
harrowing "death march,"
which could last
for several days.
Forced to walk through
the heat and dust
without food or water,
coupled with
the sheer stress of
this terrifying experience
for them, many of
the animals collapse and
are unable to continue.
Bear in mind
that most of the cattle
are being placed
in a truck for the first time
in their lives and
are likely to be frightened,
especially if they
have been handled
hastily or roughly
by the men
loading the trucks.
The noise and motion
of the truck itself
is also a new experience,
one which makes them ill.
After one or two days
inside the truck
without food or water,
they are desperately
thirsty and hungry,
especially since it is normal
for such cows
to eat frequently
throughout the day.
tail breaking
But when the cattle
become weary
and grow faint,
the bones in their tails
are broken in an effort
to get them back up
on their feet.
This is done by
repeatedly pinching the tail
in several areas.
handlers
Handlers must constantly
keep the cattle moving,
pulling them by nose ropes,
twisting their necks,
horns, or tails.
They lead, or rather force,
the cattle down
embankments and
in and out of trucks
without ramps,
causing injuries like
broken pelvises, legs, ribs,
and horns.
chili pepper
Chili pepper and tobacco
are also used to
keep the animals walking.
This practice is done
by rubbing the pepper
directly into their eyes,
in order to
stimulate the animal
back onto his or her feet.
slaughter
And all this
before the slaughter.
As many as
half of the animals
will already be dead
by the time they arrive
at the slaughterhouse.
But to make the experience
even more traumatic
and terrifying,
they are often killed
in full view of each other.
And instead of
the required "quick slice"
across the throat
with a sharp knife,
they are generally killed
through hacking and
sawing with a dull blade.
tanning
Afterwards, the skins
from these animals
are sent to tanneries that
use deadly substances
like chromium
and other toxins
to stop decomposition.
Remember,
leather is dead flesh.
It is dead skin, and,
therefore, natural for it to
decompose and rot away
unless treated with
such potent substances
as these.
And for people,
the health effects
of such chemicals
in tanneries, in lieu of
the continued demand
for leather goods,
is yet another issue.
retail
Ultimately,
leather from Indian cattle
make their way
to clothing stores
all around the world.
Most major chains sell
Indian leather.
Leather that comes from
completely different cows
than those we eat.
When we return,
Joaquin Phoenix
discusses the despicable
and appalling treatment
of animals killed
and skinned for their fur.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
Viewed
French language
version of “Earthlings”
What’s the main message?
The main message is that
we’re all connected –
humans, animals,
and the environment.
And we need to
look at that interaction,
that synergy to make
the world a better place
for all beings.
And are we starting
to see the effects
of such a message
here on the population
in Quebec?
We are.
People are changing
their habits all the time.
If you look in
grocery stores, the amount
of vegetarian/vegan
products is growing
all the time.
This is Stop Animal Cruelty
on Supreme Master
Television.
We now resume
our presentation
of the documentary
“Earthlings”
with this segment
focusing on how our
vulnerable and innocent
animal co-inhabitants
are subjected
extreme violence
and heartless abuse
in the process of
being turned into
so-called “clothing”
and “fashion items.”
fur
And what about fur?
Over 100 million
wild animals are murdered
for their pelts every year,
25 million
in the United States alone.
These animals, obtained
by hunting and trapping,
are kept on fur farms
in conditions like these.
cage madness
Naturally,
these undomesticated,
wild animals
are not accustomed
to being caged.
And cage madness
develops when frightened
and frustrated animals
are driven crazy from
the stress of confinement.
These wild,
free-roaming animals
and their offspring
find themselves unable
to live a natural life,
can never take even
a few steps or feel the Earth
beneath their feet.
Instead, they are reduced
to scratching, circling,
and pacing endlessly.
The physical injuries
these animals endure
on fur farms
involve broken and
exposed bones......
blindness......
ear infections,
dehydration and
malnutrition, exposure
to freezing temperatures,
lack of veterinary care,
and slow death.
No laws indicate
the killing of animals
on fur farms.
Therefore, the least
expensive methods
are the most appealing.
Carbon-monoxide
poisoning,
strychnine, suffocation,
breaking the neck,
and anal electrocution
are some of the more
common methods used.
Removed from
his or her cage
with a heavy neck pole,
the animal is walked
past the rows of bodies of
slaughtered foxes, sables,
raccoons, and wolves,
among others.
Death by anal electrocution
is a crude process
that requires a probe to
be inserted in the rectum
while the animal bites down
on a metal conductor.
Oftentimes
this inept procedure
must be repeated to
actually kill the animal.
And the skinned
carcasses seen here
will later be ground up
and fed to the animals
still caged.
How much does this run?
This is $49,500.
Shaun Monson has
the following thoughts
on the fashion industry.
The fashion industry
amazes me because
these designers,
they’re amazing;
they’re tremendous,
they are so gifted.
I have no fault
recognizing their skill
in designing clothing,
for instance.
Why they feel that animal
is the quintessential
be-all, end-all, Holy Grail
of source material
baffles me! That need
to have the alligator boot
or the python bag
or something exotic.
I heard of one company,
this is shocking,
I cannot believe this,
that couldn’t find fur
that was soft enough, and
so it would take an animal,
may have been
a baby lamb or something.
A mother would
go almost full term
with the baby,
then they would abort it
just before, weeks before.
Because inside the womb
the fur was the softest
of all.
And so you think about
this and you think,
“You guys can design
bags and clothes and
jackets and pants and
stuff out of anything,
textiles of all kinds,
manmade materials,
whatever the case
may be, make it
look fantastic, really.”
So it be great
if the designers
frankly had the guts
to not be afraid to say,
“I’m not going to
use leather for this.”
Because to get leather,
which isn’t from
the same cows that we eat,
a different bunch of cows.
For instance,
we break their tails,
we stick chili pepper
in their eyes,
we do all the stuff
you see in the film
to get this part
that you then wear.
So we find another way.
Wouldn’t it be fantastic
if a company could create
a product that wasn’t
at the expense of humans,
animals or ecology.
Am I asking
for the Moon here?
I mean,
am I asking for too much?
Wouldn’t it be great
to create
conscious products,
totally conscious products?
There is something that
every one of us can do
to stop
this unspeakable cruelty
to our fellow
animal co-inhabitants
and that is
to vote with our wallets.
Before buying any product,
whether it is a food
or clothing item, consider
if an animal had to suffer
in order to produce it.
Then act with compassion
and choose not to support
violence and inhumanity.
We would also like to
convey our
humble appreciation to
director Shaun Monson
and all those
involved in the making
of “Earthlings”
for their passionate
and sincere efforts
to protect all beings.
May we all soon
switch to the loving,
organic vegan diet
so our animal friends can
always be at peace and free.
"Earthlings"
may be viewed online at
www.Earthlings.com
The "Earthlings" DVD
is available
at the same website.
Thank you for joining us
for today’s program.
Please watch Part 5 of
our six part presentation
of “Earthlings”
next Tuesday
on Stop Animal Cruelty.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
May all beings on Earth
be forever respected
and protected.
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