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.
Wise viewers, today’s
Stop Animal Cruelty
program features our
presentation of Part 6 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.
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 animals
are exploited, demeaned,
and killed for so-called
“entertainment.”
This week the utterly
heartless world of
animal experimentation
is examined.
Medical research
is probably some
of the hardest footage
I ever watched.
They have a process
called LD50.
LD50, Lethal Dose 50,
which is when they’re
testing some new drug,
they’ll test it to a degree
that kills 50%
of test subjects,
for instance the rats,
and then start to back it off
from there,
until it gets under 50.
And then it becomes safer
for human consumption,
that’s the idea, so that’s
LD50 for instance.
We now present
the final installment
of “Earthlings,”
a documentary that seeks
to awaken humanity to
adopt a more empathetic
and compassionate way
of living.
PART FIVE
SCIENCE
vivisection
The term vivisection
is used to apply to
all types of experiments
on living animals
and is said to be a form
of medical science.
The reason
for experimentation
of this type is to allegedly
discover cures for human
ailments and illnesses.
But those
who hope to find remedies
for human ills
by inflicting deliberate
sufferings on animals
commit two fundamental
errors in understanding.
The first is the assumption
that results
obtained on animals
are applicable to mankind.
The second concerns
the inevitable fallacy
of experimental science
in respect to the field
of organic life.
Since animals
react differently from
human beings, every
new product or method
tried out on animals
must be tried out again
on man through
careful clinical tests,
before it can be
considered safe.
This rule knows
no exceptions.
Tests on animals
are not only dangerous
because they lead to
wrong conclusions, but,
furthermore, they retard
clinical investigation,
which is the only valid kind.
Just remember the fact
that any disease
deliberately provoked
is unlike any disease
that arises spontaneously.
medical experiments
Unfortunately,
such methods
still sail today
under the flag of science,
which is an insult
to true science, as well as
human intelligence.
And so, vivisection applies
to medical experiments,
done with
the administration
of noxious substances......
electric or
traumatic shocks......
unanesthetized
operations... burns......
drawn-out deprivations
of food and drink......
physical and
psychological tortures
that lead to
mental imbalance,
infections, and so on.
Head injury research
Head injury research
involves partially or
fully conscious baboons
strapped down
with restraints
and their heads cemented
into a metal helmet,
which will be thrust
at a 60 degree angle at
a force of up to 1,000 Gs.
The purpose
of this experiment is
to simulate auto crashes,
football, boxing, and
other head-related injuries.
And this process is often
repeated again and again
on the same animals.
military research
And finally,
military research.
This one speaks for itself.
From sending monkeys
into outer space......
and testing atomic blasts
on helpless dogs,
to exposing primates
to nuclear radiation.
20 years ago,
the number of animals
dying of tortures through
the practice of vivisection
was astronomical,
estimated at 400,000
per day worldwide,
and growing
at an annual rate of 5%.
Today
that number is almost
beyond comprehension.
19,000 per minute.
10 billion per year.
Some uneducated persons
pretend to know that
less intelligent animals
don't feel pain
the same way we do.
In truth,
we know very little about
how specific animals
may "feel," except that
they must also submit
to the universal law that
causes every organism
dying by unnatural means
to suffer greatly
before that final release.
But it's nonsense to say
that the animals
do not suffer because
they have a lower order
of intelligence.
Pain is pain, conveyed
by nerves to the brain.
And there are other nerves
than those of intelligence,
nerves such as sight,
smell, touch, and hearing.
And in some animals,
these nerves are much more
highly developed
than in man.
We know that there
has never been an epoch
in which we could
learn something about
the physiology of man
by torturing animals.
We only learned
something about animals.
And if there is something
we can learn from them
on the psychological level,
it is not by means of steel
or electricity,
much less so through
psychic violences.
The systematic torture
of sentient beings,
whatever the pretext and
in whatever form,
cannot achieve anything
more than it already has:
to show us
what is the lowest point
of debasement
man can reach.
If that's what
we want to know.
"As long as there are
slaughterhouses......
there will be battlefields."
Leo Tolstoy
Ignorance is
the specieist's first line
of defence.
Yet it is easily breached
by anyone with the time
and determination
to find out the truth.
Ignorance has prevailed
so long only because
people do not want to
find out the truth.
"Don't tell me.
You'll spoil my dinner,"
is the usual reply to
any attempt to tell someone
just how that dinner
was produced.
Even people
who are aware that
the traditional family farm
has been taken over
by big business interests,
that their clothes come
from slaughtered cows,
that their entertainment
means the suffering and
death of millions of animals,
and that some
questionable experiments
go on in laboratories,
still cling to a vague belief
that conditions
cannot be too bad,
or else the government or
the animal welfare societies
would have done
something about it.
But it is not the inability
to find out what is going on,
as much as a desire
not to know about facts
that may lie heavy
on one's conscience,
that is responsible for
this lack of awareness.
After all, the victims
of whatever it is
that goes on
in all these awful places
are not members
of one's own group.
It all comes down
to pain and suffering.
Not intelligence,
not strength,
not social class
or civil right.
Pain and suffering are,
in themselves,
bad and should be
prevented or minimized,
irrespective of
the race, sex, or species
of the being that suffers.
When we return we’ll
present the conclusion
of “Earthlings.”
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
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on Supreme Master
Television.
We now feature
the concluding segment
of Shaun Monson’s
“Earthlings.”
We are all animals
of this planet.
We are all creatures.
And nonhuman animals
experience sensations
just like we do.
They, too, are strong,
intelligent, industrious,
mobile, and evolutional.
They, too, are capable of
growth and adaptation.
Like us, first and foremost,
they are earthlings.
And like us,
they are surviving.
Like us, they also seek
their own comfort
rather than discomfort.
And like us, they express
degrees of emotion.
In short,
like us, they are alive.
Most of them being,
in fact, vertebrate,
just like us.
As we look back
on how essential animals
are to human survival,
our absolute dependence
on them,
for companionship,
food, clothing, sport
and entertainment,
as well as medical and
scientific research......
ironically, we only see
mankind's complete
disrespect for these
nonhuman providers.
Without a doubt,
this must be what it is:
to "bite the hand
that feeds us."
In fact, we have actually
stomped and spit on it.
Now we are faced with
the inevitable aftermath.
Diseases caused by
meat eating
This is evident
in health reports
due to our over-excessive
consumption of animals.
Cancer, heart disease,
osteoporosis, strokes,
kidney stones, anemia,
diabetes, and more.
Even our food
has now been effected,
and at its very source.
With antibiotics used to
promote weight gain
in animals
who can't gain weight
under the stressful,
overcrowded
living conditions
in factory farms,
with the overuse of
pesticides and insecticides,
or artificial hormones
designed to
increase milk production,
litter size, and frequency,
with artificial colors,
herbicides, larvicides,
synthetic fertilizers,
tranquilizers, growth
and appetite stimulants,
it’s no wonder
that Mad Cow Disease,
Foot and Mouth Disease,
Pfiesteria, and a host
of other animal-related
abnormalities
have been unleashed
on the human public.
Nature is not responsible
for these actions. We are.
Nature is not responsible
for these actions. We are.
So a change is inevitable.
Either we make it ourselves,
or we will be forced
to make it by nature itself.
The time has come
for each of us to reconsider
our eating habits,
our traditions,
our styles and fashions,
and, above all, our thinking.
So, if there is any truth
to the age-old saying:
"What goes around,
comes around,"
then what do they get
for their pain?
Do we even give it
a second thought?
If what goes around
comes around,
what do they get
for their pain?
They are earthlings
They are earthlings.
They have the right
to be here just
as much as humans do.
Perhaps
the answer is found in
another age-old saying.
And one equally true.
"We reap just what we sow."
So of course animals feel,
and of course
they experience pain.
After all,
has nature endowed
these wonderful animals
with wellsprings
of sentiment so that
they should not feel?
Or do animals have nerves
in order to be insensitive?
Reason demands
a better answer.
they all die from pain.
Each and every one
But one thing
is absolutely certain.
Animals used for food,
used for clothing,
used for entertainment, and
in scientific experiments,
and all the oppression
that is done to them
under the sun,
they all die from pain.
Each and every one.
Isn't it enough that
animals the world over
live in permanent retreat
from human progress
and expansion?
And for many species,
there is simply
nowhere else to go.
It seems the fate
of many animals is either
to be unwanted by man
or wanted too much.
We enter
as lords of the Earth,
bearing strange powers
of terror and mercy alike.
But human beings
should love animals
as the knowing love
the innocent,
and the strong love
the vulnerable.
When we wince at
the suffering of animals,
that feeling speaks well
of us, even if we ignore it.
And those who dismiss love
for our fellow creatures
as mere sentimentality
overlook a good
and important part
of our humanity.
But it takes nothing away
from a human
to be kind to an animal.
And it is actually within us
to grant them
a happy life,
and a long one.
On the heath, King Lear
asked Gloucester,
"How do you see the world?"
And Gloucester,
who is blind, answered,
"I see it feelingly."
"I see it feelingly."
Three primary life forces
exist on this planet.
Nature. Animals.
And humankind.
We are the earthlings.
Make the connection.
We are the earthlings.
Make the connection.
Here are some
final thoughts from
“Earthlings” director
Shaun Monson
on animal exploitation.
Don't buy products that
are tested on animals.
Medications
that come from animals
later have after effects
and people have to
stop using them.
This is when we get back
to food that you eat –
that your food
can be your remedy
and your healing,
not some product that
coats and hides something.
There is a way
to be compassionate
for everything
and have greater health
as well and not at
the expense of anything.
To end animal cruelty
the key step
we all can take
is adopting
the organic vegan lifestyle.
To not harm animals
or the environment
in our daily lives is
the most benevolent way
of being.
We would like to
sincerely thank
Shaun Monson
and Joaquin Phoenix
as well as all those
involved in the making
of “Earthlings”
as their documentary
serves as a powerful voice
for all animals
in the world by
calling on humanity
to return to
its original noble nature.
"Earthlings"
may be viewed online at
www.Earthlings.com
The "Earthlings" DVD
is available
at the same website.
Thank you for joining us
for our presentation
of “Earthlings”
on Stop Animal Cruelty.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment
after Noteworthy News.
May we restore peace
and harmony
on our planet by
honoring the rights
of all sentient beings.