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
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
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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.
Informed viewers, today’s
Stop Animal Cruelty
program features our
presentation of Part 2 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.
Mr. Laraque
was so moved by the film
he agreed to narrate the
French language version
of the documentary.
We spoke with Mr. Laraque
about his efforts
to promote the film.
Yes, every time I show it
there’re a lot of people
that make lots of changes,
lots of people
that became vegan.
So that’s why today
I did a presentation
with a nutritionist
because people
want to know options;
what they could eat.
Because now there’re
more and more people
that are making
the big change,
so it’s really good.
And I keep doing stuff
and try to get
as many people as we can.
Because everybody
that is vegan,
it’s a step forward
towards the direction
of a better environment
around us.
Last week on Part 1,
“Earthlings” covered
why animals should be
respected and loved and
given the same liberties
and freedoms
that humans enjoy.
The horrors
of the pet industry
were examined including
the untold suffering
of our canine friends in
puppy mills and shelters
that euthanize animals
after a period
if they are not adopted.
This week “Earthlings”
explores the nightmarish
lives of animals
raised for food.
Before we begin,
let us first hear from
director Shaun Monson
about the cruelty
of the dairy industry.
It’s not all grazing
green flowing grass
and cows singing
like in the cheese ads
you see here for instance
in California (USA),
where they’re all happy.
I mean some animal groups
tried to sue them
for misrepresentation
because show us this place!
Where is this place where
the three cows have acres
of rolling land and
are just walking around?
That’s not the case;
those cows aren’t
churning out cheese
like that.
They have to be
perpetually pregnant
because cows aren’t
pregnant 12 month a year,
24/7. They are not.
So they have to be kept
continually pregnant.
Instead of
a 20-year lifespan
they actually fall over
from exhaustion
after four years;
they literally just fall over.
And when the calf is born
one of two things
will happen.
If it’s a female she will
become a milking cow,
if it’s a male
they become veal.
So the milk industry
is directly related
to the veal industry.
And naturally,
as I said earlier, animals
are very similar to us
in some of
the most basic areas.
A mother certainly loves
her child, her offspring.
And the day they come to
remove that baby
which is two, three days
after it’s born, the mother
will do everything
in her power
to get in the way
of them doing that.
And they use usually
some sort of a barrier that
they can move and carry.
They try to put a wedge
between the mother
and her young
and divide them, and
they can separate the two,
and the mother will be
literally pounding it.
They’ll break their necks
trying to get to their baby,
calling out.
And you know what’s
really, really amazing?
Talk about the emotion
of compassion
in another species, is that
when they take that baby
away in that truck,
and it goes away
and the baby is bleating,
bleating out, calling out
for its mother and
the mother is mooing,
calling out for her calf,
the mother will clearly
show signs of depression.
She will literally
just mope and go down.
And what’s truly remarkable
is that the others cows
come around
and try to boost her up,
bolster her up,
try to lift her up,
try to encourage her.
We now present Part 2
of the documentary
“Earthlings.”
PART TWO FOOD
Oh, I missed.
I missed you, honey.
But I'll get you again!
I got you!
What happens
in slaughterhouses
is a variation on the theme
of the exploitation
of the weak by the strong.
I got you! Good boy!
More than 10,000 times
a minute, in excess of
six billion times a year,
just in the United States,
life is literally
drained from so-called
"food animals."
Having the greater power,
humans decide when
these animals will die,
where they will die,
and how they will die.
The interests of
these animals themselves
play no role whatsoever
in the determination
of their fate.
Killing an animal is,
in itself, a troubling act.
It has been said that if we
had to kill our own meat,
we would all be vegetarians.
Certainly very few people
ever visit a slaughterhouse,
and films of
slaughterhouse operations
are not popular
on television.
People might hope that
the meat that they buy
came from an animal
who died without pain.
But they don't really
want to know about it.
Yet those who,
by their purchases,
require animals to be killed,
do not deserve
to be shielded from this
or any other aspect
of the production
of the meat they buy.
So where does our food
come from?
For those of us
living on a meat diet,
the process
these animals undergo
is as follows.
branding
For beef, the animals
are all branded.
In this instance, on the face.
dehorning
Dehorning usually follows.
Never with anesthetic.
But rather
a large pair of pliers.
transportation
In transportation,
animals are packed
so tightly into trucks,
they are practically
on top of one another.
Heat, freezing
temperatures, fatigue,
trauma, and
health conditions
will kill some of
these animals en route
to the slaughterhouses.
milking
Milking cows
are kept chained
to their stalls all day long,
receiving no exercise.
Pesticides and antibiotics
are also used to increase
their milk productivity.
Eventually, milking cows,
like this one,
collapse from exhaustion.
Normally, cows can live
as long as 20 years.
But milking cows
generally die within four,
at which point
their meat is used
for fast-food restaurants.
meat
At this slaughterhouse,
the branded
and dehorned cattle
are brought into a stall.
captive bolts
The captive bolt gun,
which was designed
to reduce animals
unconscious
without causing pain......
fires a steel bolt
that is powered
by compressed air,
or a blank cartridge,
right into the animal's brain.
bleeding
Though various methods
of slaughter are used,
in this Massachusetts
facility, the cattle
is hoisted up and
his or her throat is slit.
Along with the meat,
their blood will be used
as well.
Though the animal has
received a captive bolt
to the head,
which is supposed
to have rendered him
or her senseless,
as you can see,
the animal is still conscious.
This is not uncommon.
Sometimes they are
still alive even after
they have been bled
and are well on their way
down the assembly line
to be butchered.
knocking boxes
kosher slaughter
This is the largest
glatt kosher meat plant
in the United States.
Glatt, the Yiddish word
for "smooth," means
the highest standard
of cleanliness.
And rules
for kosher butchering
require minimal suffering.
The use of electric prods
on immobilized animals
is a violation.
Inverting frightened
animals for the
slaughterer's convenience
is also a violation.
The inversion process
causes cattle
to aspirate blood, or
breath it in, after incision.
Ripping the trachea
and esophagi
from their throats is
another egregious violation,
since kosher animals
are not to be touched
until bleeding stops.
And by dumping
struggling and dying steers
through metal chutes
onto blood soaked floors,
with their breathing tubes
and gullets dangling out......
this "sacred task"
is neither clean
or compassionate.
Shackling and hoisting
is ruled
yet another violation,
nor does it correspond
to the kosher way
of treating animals.
If this was kosher,
death was neither quick
nor merciful.
When we return
we’ll continue
with our presentation
of “Earthlings.”
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”
that was directed by
Shaun Monson
and narrated by
Golden Globe
and Grammy winner
Joaquin Phoenix.
veal
Veal,
taken from their mothers
within two days of birth,
are tied at the neck
and kept restricted
to keep muscles
from developing.
Fed an iron-deficient
liquid diet, denied bedding,
water, and light,
after four months of
this miserable existence,
they are slaughtered.
pigs
Sows in factory farms
are breeding machines,
kept continually pregnant
by means of
artificial insemination.
Large pig market factories
will "manufacture,"
as they like to call it,
between 50,000 and
600,000 pigs a year each.
FACTORY CONDITIONS
GESTATION CRATES
RUPTURES &
ABSCESSES
CANNIBALISM
WASTE PITS
tail docking
Tail docking is a practice
derived from
the lack of space and
stressful living conditions
so as to keep pigs from
biting each other's tails off.
This is done
without anesthetic.
ear clipping
Ear clipping is
a similar procedure,
also administered
without anesthetic.
teeth cutting
As well as teeth cutting.
castration
Castration is also done
without painkillers
or anesthetic and will
supposedly produce
a more fatty grade of meat.
electric prods
The electric prods are
used for obvious reasons:
handling.
electrocution
Electrocution is another
method of slaughter,
as seen here.
throat slitting
Throat slitting, however,
is still the least expensive
way to kill an animal.
boiling and hair removal
After knife sticking,
pigs are shackled,
suspended on a bleed rail,
and immersed
in scalding tanks
to remove their bristle.
Many are still struggling
as they are dunked
upside down in tanks
of steaming water,
where they are
submerged and drowned.
We conclude
today’s program
with some thoughts
from the compassionate
Shaun Monson.
To be a vegan it's not just
the food you consume,
it’s the products
that you wear.
So it's clothing, leather
and animal products
that might be
in cleaning products
in your home,
that sort of thing.
So you become mindful
more and more of that
and you make a choice.
It's like every time
you spend a dollar, you
essentially cast a vote.
So you just choose,
“Well I'm not going to
vote for that anymore.”
That's the power
the consumer always has
every day.
We would like to thank
director Shaun Monson
and the others
involved in its production
for allowing us
to air this
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.
"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 3 of
our six part presentation
of “Earthlings”
next Tuesday
on Stop Animal Cruelty.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
May the Divine light
of Heaven
shine within all of us.
Here, warm surprises
are waiting for you
at every corner!
People can sit down
and kiss a pig and
hug lots of horses.
It’s a very warm and
spontaneous tour.
What happens depends
a lot on what free range
animals are approaching
us on a tour….
Join us on
Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants
for an inspiring visit
to a caring home
for farm animals
in New York, USA
founded by vegan author
Kathy Stevens on
“Catskill Animal Sanctuary,
A Green Haven for All”
with Part 1 airing Friday,
April 9 and Part 2
on Saturday, April 10.
In our society,
the law only punishes
someone who has done
something wrong
to the society.
The animals, they have
never done us any wrong.
They live their life
quietly, they’re eating
whatever God provides
them; they don’t harm us
in any way.
If we want to
call ourselves
a civilized human race,
we must protect
the animals’ lives, which
are linked to ours.
We have to protect them
because they are us –
because if we don’t
protect them,
we are vulnerable
because Heaven will not
forgive us, if we treat
other co-inhabitants
unkindly.
Also because now
we are at the point where
we must change
while there is still time,
otherwise we will face
disastrous consequences
and we might lose
the whole world,
our lives altogether.
If we want to receive
the mercy of Heaven for
our life here on Earth,
we must first be merciful
in granting the same
dignity and freedom
of life to the animals.
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.
Knowledgeable viewers,
today’s
Stop Animal Cruelty
program features our
presentation of Part 3 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 2
of “Earthlings” we heard
from Joaquin Phoenix
on the horrific suffering
of animals raised for food,
in particular the noble
and sensitive cow
and our intelligent friend
the pig.
Staying on the topic
of the abuse and
violent slaughter
of animals raised for meat,
Part 3 examines the lives
of our avian and marine
animal co-inhabitants.
Before we begin, let us
hear from Persia White
as to why “Earthlings”
is such an important,
must-see documentary.
I recommend everyone
to take a moment
to watch “Earthlings.”
I can't say enough
good things about it.
It’s changed
more people's lives
then any piece of media
that I’ve ever come across
in over 20 years
of being a vegetarian.
And there's books,
there's data, there's talking
but there's nothing
more beautiful than
when you have the power
to weave together images
with words
and communication
and let people know that
this is just information
you should know,
regardless of whether
you are a vegetarian or
whether you are thinking
about it or whether
you never wanted to be.
You should at least know
what you're doing and
what you're contributing to
when you do participate
in some of
these industries
unknowingly, because
most of us don't know.
And it's all about informing
and provoking people
to think.
Even if they don't change
immediately, sometimes a
seed can be buried just
from knowing something,
and then at the time
when it's ripe it blooms
and you become changed.
So I recommend it
to everybody
to help the planet
be a better place.
It's definitely
worth watching.
We now present Part 3
of the documentary
“Earthlings.”
POULTRY
Americans currently
consume as much chicken
in a single day as they did
in an entire year in 1930.
The largest broiler
companies in the world
now slaughter more than
8.5 million birds
in a single week.
debeaking
Debeaking prevents
feather-pecking
and cannibalism
in frustrated chickens,
caused by overcrowding
in single areas,
where they are unable to
establish a social order.
Today,
done with infant chicks,
the procedure is
carried out very quickly,
about 15 birds a minute.
Such haste means
the temperature
and sharpness
of the blade varies,
resulting in sloppy cutting
and serious injury
to the bird.
living conditions
As for their
living conditions,
anywhere from 60,000
to 90,000 birds
can be crowded together
in a single building.
The suffering
for these animals
is unrelenting.
It is a way of life.
Although their beaks
are severed, they attempt
to peck each other.
For hens, they live
in a laying warehouse,
crammed inside
so-called "battery cages."
Many lose their feathers
and develop sores
from rubbing
against the wire cage.
Crowding prevents them
from spreading their wings,
and the hens
cannot even fulfill
minimal natural instincts.
transportation
During transportation,
all animals suffer,
and many die.
And they suffocate
when other animals pile
on top of them
in overcrowded,
poorly loaded cages.
slaughter
Chickens and turkeys
are slaughtered
in numerous ways.
Some may be clubbed
to death or
have their heads cut off.
But most are brought
through the assembly lines
of factory farms.
Dangled upside down
on a conveyor belt,
their throats are slit......
and they are left
to bleed to death.
Others may be placed
head-first in tubes
to restrict their movement
while they slowly bleed
to death.
Surely, if slaughterhouses
had glass walls,
would not all of us
be vegetarians?
But slaughterhouses
do not have glass walls.
The architecture
of slaughter is opaque,
designed in the interest
of denial, to insure
that we will not see
even if we wanted to look.
And who wants to look?
Let's go!
Don't stop.
Let's go, let's go!
Come on!
It was Emerson
who observed,
more than 100 years ago:
"You have dined, and
however scrupulously
the slaughterhouse
is concealed
in the graceful distance
of miles,
there is complicity."
When we return
we’ll continue
with our presentation
of “Earthlings.”
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”
that was directed by
Shaun Monson
and narrated by
Golden Globe
and Grammy winner
Joaquin Phoenix.
seafood
And for those who think
eating seafood is healthier
than land animals,
just remember how much
irretrievable waste and
contaminated sediments
are dumped into our oceans.
In the past, oil, nuclear,
and chemical industries
have done little
for the protection
of marine environments,
and dumping on
or under the seabed
has always proved
a convenient place
to dispose
of inconvenient wastes.
commercial fishing
Today's commercial fishers
intensify this situation
on massive scales.
They use
vast factory trawlers
the size of football fields
and advanced
electronic equipment
to track and catch fish.
Huge nets stretch
across the ocean,
swallowing up everything
in their path.
These factory trawlers,
coupled with
our increased appetites
for seafood, are emptying
the oceans of sea life
at an alarming pace.
Already, 13 of the 17
major global fisheries
are depleted
or in serious decline.
The other four
are overexploited
or fully exploited.
disease
The recent outbreak
of Pfiesteria,
a microorganism
1,000 times more potent
than cyanide, spawned
from millions of gallons
of raw hog feces and urine,
poured into rivers, lakes,
and oceans,
turning their ecosystems
into unflushed toilets,
is proving
the most alarming.
Threatening sea life
and humans alike,
Pfiesteria has killed
over one billion fish,
the Southeast's largest fish
kill on record.
And it's spreading.
Traces of Pfiesteria
have already been found
from Long Island
to the Florida Gulf,
at distances
of up to 1,000 miles.
In fact, this water-based
Pfiesteria invasion
stands as one of
the worst outbreaks of
a virulent microorganism
in U.S. history.
It is a Level 3 Biohazard.
Ebola is a 4.
AIDS is a 2.
And this bug mutated
as a direct result
of our mass consumption
of animals,
particularly pork.
With hog farms
fattening millions of pigs
for slaughter,
grain goes in
and waste comes out.
This waste finds its way
into our oceans and
water-supply systems,
contaminating the animals
that live in it, as well as
those who eat from it.
whaling
Finally, whaling.
Though the International
Whaling Commission
prohibited
commercial whaling
in 1985, many countries
continue to kill whales
for their so-called
"exotic meat."
They use harpoons......
firearms......
blunt hooks......
even explosives......
or drive them into
authorized whaling bays,
where they are made
to beach and
can be killed with knives
in the shallows.
dolphins
Every winter,
between the months of
October through March,
thousands of dolphins
are confined
and brutally killed in
small towns across Japan.
Sounding rods
beneath the water's surface
interfere with
the dolphin's sonar.
Once disoriented and
enclosed within the nets,
the dolphins panic.
Fisherman often injure
a few captive dolphins
with a spear thrust
or knife slash, since
dolphins never abandon
wounded family members.
Mothers and babies
call out in distress
as they are separated,
hoisted up, and dragged off,
soon to be mercilessly
hacked to death.
These are benign
and innocent beings.
And they deserve better.
Yet here, as they lay
stricken and needful,
writhing helplessly
on cement floors,
they are cut open
with machetes...... and
left to slowly suffocate.
Convulsing and
contorting in the throes
of agony, while
schoolchildren walk on by.
Dolphin meat
is later sold in markets
and restaurants,
though often mislabeled
as "whale meat."
But as though cruelty toward
animals raised for food
wasn't enough,
we've also found ways
of making use of them
for all our clothes.
Jackets, shoes, belts,
gloves, pants, wallets,
purses, and so on.
The next question is
obviously, "Where do
our clothes come from?"
In an interview
with Supreme Master
Television,
director Shaun Monson
shared his experiences
of visiting a factory farm
in India.
I was in India last year,
shooting for
this new documentary
I’m working on now,
which is a follow up
to Earthling, and
they do debeaking there
with the chickens,
as we do here.
Debeaking which you see
in the film, which is,
because chickens
have a social order,
like humans do.
You put too many humans
in too tight of a space,
too close together,
someone is probably going
to push somebody else
after a few minutes,
or longer.
But in any case,
we have a social order,
and animals do too.
And so the chickens,
you know when you put
five hens in a battery cage
that’s about
the size of our chair,
right here, they fight.
So, what happens is they,
instead of giving them
more space, which is
the most logical solution,
is that they sever the beaks
so that they can’t peck
each other.
And they do this
with a hot iron,
so they press the beak
against this hot iron.
And they do this
when they’re chicks,
they do this
when they’re quite young.
And I thought this was
horrific to see this
in America,
and when I was in India,
I saw it in India as well.
It was more crude in India,
but still hot iron, you know,
searing down the beak.
It was,
fundamentally the same.
Finally,
here are two students
with a message
for Mr. Monson
after they watched
a screening of “Earthlings”
at Chaffey College
in California, USA
Keep doing
what you’re doing.
Because I think
people are becoming
more conscious
and more self-aware
of what they’re eating.
I just want to say
thank you so much
for doing this, because
it’s opened the eyes
of a lot of people,
and definitely me.
I just really hope
you can get it out
on public television and
things like that, and just
get it on DVD to people,
and it’s more worldwide
so people can open
their eyes.
We would like to thank
director Shaun Monson
and the others
involved in its production
for allowing us to air this
moving documentary.
May we all soon
adopt the loving,
organic vegan diet
so our animal friends
can always live
in peace and happiness.
"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 4 of
our six part presentation
of “Earthlings”
next Tuesday
on Stop Animal Cruelty.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
May we all soon realize
our inherent unity
with all beings and
always show compassion
to our animal brothers
and sisters.
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.
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.
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.
This is Stop Animal Cruelty
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.