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STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY
"Earthlings: Make the Connection" with Oscar-winning Actor Joaquin Phoenix - P1/6
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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.
Caring viewers, today’s
Stop Animal Cruelty
program features
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 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.
“Earthlings” affects
many viewers
so profoundly that they
immediately decide to
adopt the compassionate,
plant-based diet.
For example,
after watching the film
professional
ice hockey player
Georges Laraque of Canada
became a vegan
and agreed to narrate the
French language version.
Popular US talk show host
Ellen DeGeneres
and Australian actress
Portia de Rossi
both cite this film
as a key reason they
decided to become vegan.
Snowboarder
Hannah Teeter
of the United States,
a gold and silver medalist
in the 2006 and 2010
Winter Olympics
respectively,
stopped eating meat
a year ago following
watching Earthlings.
Today
in the first installment of
our six-part presentation
of Earthlings,
we’ll learn about the
heart-wrenching cruelty
perpetrated
by the pet industry
and about “speciesism,”
a concept promoted
by Dr. Peter Singer,
considered the father of
the animal rights movement
and author
of the 1975 classic
“Animal Liberation.”
The images
you are about to see
are not isolated cases.
These are
the Industry Standard
for animals bred
as Pets, Food, Clothing,
for Entertainment
and Research.
Viewer discretion
is advised.
THE THREE STAGES
OF TRUTH
1. RIDICULE
2. VIOLENT OPPOSITION
3. ACCEPTANCE
E A R T H L I N G S
earth-ling: noun.
One who inhabits the earth.
Since we all
inhabit the Earth, all of us
are considered earthlings.
There is no sexism,
no racism, or speciesism
in the term earthling.
It encompasses
each and every one of us:
warm- or cold-blooded,
mammal, vertebrate,
or invertebrate, bird,
reptile, amphibian, fish,
and human alike.
Humans, therefore,
being not the only species
on the planet,
share this world
with millions
of other living creatures,
as we all
evolve here together.
However,
it is the human earthling
who tends to
dominate the Earth,
oftentimes treating
other fellow earthlings
and living beings
as mere objects.
This is what is meant
by “speciesism.”
FESTIVAL
OF THE BULLS, SPAIN
By analogy
with racism and sexism,
the term speciesism is
a prejudice or attitude
of bias in favor of
the interests of members
of one's own species and
against those of members
of other species.
If a being suffers,
there can be
no moral justification
for refusing
to take that suffering
into consideration.
No matter what
the nature of the being,
the principle of equality
requires that one's suffering
can be counted equally
with the like suffering
of any other being.
Racists violate
the principle of equality
by giving greater weight
to the interests of members
of their own race
when there's a clash
between their interests
and the interests
of those of another race.
Sexists violate
the principle of equality
by favoring the interests
of their own sex.
Similarly, speciesists
allow the interests
of their own species
to override
the greater interests of
members of other species.
In each case,
the pattern is identical.
Though
among the members
of the human family
we recognize the moral
imperative of respect,
every human is a somebody,
not a something, morally
disrespectful treatment
occurs when those
who stand at the power
end of a power relationship
treat the less powerful as
if they were mere objects.
The rapist does this
to the victim of rape.
The child molester
to the child molested.
The master to the slave.
In each and all such cases,
humans who have power
exploit those who lack it.
Might the same
be true of how humans
treat other animals
or other earthlings?
Undoubtedly
there are differences,
since humans and animals
are not the same
in all respects.
But the question
of sameness
wears another face.
Granted, these animals
do not have all the desires
we humans have.
Granted, they do not
comprehend everything
we humans comprehend.
Nevertheless,
we and they do have
some of the same desires
and do comprehend
some of the same things.
The desires for food
and water, shelter
and companionship,
freedom of movement,
and avoidance of pain.
These desires are shared
by nonhuman animals
and human beings.
As for comprehension,
like humans,
many nonhuman animals
understand the world in
which they live and move.
Otherwise,
they could not survive.
So beneath
the many differences,
there is sameness.
Like us, these animals
embody the mystery and
wonder of consciousness.
Like us, they are not only
in the world,
they are aware of it.
Like us, they are
the psychological centers
of a life
that is uniquely their own.
In these fundamental
respects, humans stand
"on all fours," so to speak,
with hogs and cows,
chickens and turkeys.
What these animals
are due from us,
how we morally ought to
treat them, are questions
whose answer begins with
the recognition of
our psychological kinship
with them.
So the following film
demonstrates, in five ways,
just how animals have
come to serve mankind......
lest we forget.
I WILL FEED YOU
AND CLOTHE YOU.
Nobel Prize winner
Isaac Bashevis Singer
wrote in
his best-selling novel,
“Enemies, A Love Story,”
the following.... “
As often as Herman
had witnessed the slaughter
of animals and fish,
he always had
the same thought:
In their behavior
toward creatures,
all men were Nazis.
The smugness
with which man could do
with other species
as he pleased exemplified
the most extreme racist
theories, the principle
that might is right.”
The comparison here
to the Holocaust is both
intentional and obvious.
One group of living beings
anguishes beneath
the hands of another.
Though some will argue
the suffering of animals
cannot possibly compare
with that of former Jews
or slaves,
there is, in fact, a parallel.
And for the prisoners and
victims of this mass murder,
their holocaust
is far from over.
In his book,
The Outermost House,
author Henry Beston wrote,
“We need another
and a wiser and perhaps
a more mystical concept
of animals.
Remote from
universal nature
and living by
complicated artifice,
man in civilization
surveys the creatures
through the glass
of his knowledge
and sees thereby
a feather magnified
and the whole image
in distortion.
We patronize them
for their incompleteness,
for their tragic fate
of having taken form
so far below ourselves.
And therein we err,
and greatly err.
For the animal shall not
be measured by man.
In a world
older and more complete
than ours, they move
finished and complete......
gifted with extensions
of the senses we have lost
or never attained......
living by voices
we shall never hear.
They are not brethren.
They are not underlings.
They are other nations,
caught with ourselves
in the net of life
and time... ...
fellow prisoners
of the splendor
and travail of the Earth.”
PART ONE PETS
For most of us,
our relationship
with animals involves
the owning of a pet or two.
So where do our pets
come from?
Of course, one of
the most obvious ways
animals serve man
is as companions.
Breeders
For these pets,
it starts with a breeder.
Though not all breeders
are considered professional.
In fact, in this profession,
just about anyone and
everyone can be a breeder.
pet stores
and puppy mills
For pet stores,
most of their animals
are acquired
from puppy mills, even if
they may not know it.
Puppy mills are low-budget
commercial enterprises
that breed dogs for sale
to pet shops
and other buyers.
They are often
backyard operations that
expose animals to filthy,
overcrowded conditions
with no veterinary care
or socialization.
Dogs from puppy mills
often exhibit physical and
psychological problems
as they grow up.
strays
Strays, if they are lucky,
will be picked up and
taken to a shelter or pound,
where they can only hope
to find a new home again.
An estimated
25 million animals become
homeless every year.
And as many as 27%
of purebred dogs
are among the homeless.
Of these 25 million
homeless animals,
an average of 9 million
die on the streets
from disease......
starvation......
exposure...... injury......
or some other hazard
of street life.
Many others are strays,
some of whom
were presumably dumped
in the streets
by their caretakers.
The remaining 16 million
die in pounds or shelters
that have no room
for them and
are forced to kill them.
Sadly, on top of all this,
almost 50% of the animals
brought to shelters
are turned in
by their caretakers.
Many people claim
they don't visit shelters
because it's depressing
for them.
But the reason
animals are crowded
into such dreary places
as these is because of
people's refusal to spay
or neuter their pets.
Several pet owners feel,
particularly men
for some reason,
that neutering a pet
emasculates the owner
somehow.
Or they may just
want their children
to someday experience
the miracle of life,
so to speak.
In either case, pet owners
like these unknowingly
take part in the euthanasia
of over 60,000 animals
per day.
Euthanasia,
generally defined as the
act of killing painlessly
for reasons of mercy,
is usually administered
by an injection in the leg
for dogs, and sometimes
in the stomach for cats.
It is a quick and painless
procedure for the animals
and by far the most humane.
But not always
the most affordable.
Due to the increase
of euthanasia in shelters
and the growing,
constant demand
for drugs like Euthasol,
some shelters
with budget constraints
are forced to
use gas chambers instead.
gas chambers
In a gas chamber,
animals are packed
very tightly and can take
as long as 20 minutes to die.
It is, by far, less merciful,
more traumatic,
and painful.
But the procedure
is less expensive.
Perhaps some
of the tough questions
we should ask ourselves
about animals that we keep
as companions are:
Can we keep animals
as companions and
still address their needs?
Is our keeping
companion animals
in their best interest,
or are we exploiting them?
The answers
to these questions
may lie in the attitudes
of the human caretakers
and their abilities to provide
suitable environments
for companion animals.
Most human beings
are speciesists.
This film shows that
ordinary human beings,
not a few exceptionally
cruel or heartless humans,
but the overwhelming
majority of people,
take an active part,
acquiesce in,
and allow their taxes
to pay for practices
that require the sacrifice
of the most important
interests of members
of other species,
in order to promote
the most trivial interests
of our own species.
The hope for the animals
of tomorrow
is to be found
in a human culture which
learns to feel beyond itself.
We must learn empathy.
We must learn to see
into the eyes of an animal
and feel that
their life has value
because they are alive.
We would like to thank
director Shaun Monson
and the others
involved in its production
for allowing us
to air this powerful,
moving documentary.
Let’s all immediately
adopt the loving,
organic vegan diet and
end the heartless cruelty
inflicted on
our animal friends
so they are allowed to live
in peace and happiness.
The DVD edition of
Earthlings is available at
www.Earthlings.com
Thank you for joining us
today on our program.
Please watch Part 2 of
our six part presentation
of Earthlings
next Tuesday on
Stop Animal Cruelty.
Coming up next is
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after Noteworthy News.
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