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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
"Earthlings" documentary
Have any of you seen it? I've only made it though the trailer twice, and both times I have ended up sobbing. I know I can't handle watching the entire documentary.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you can watch the trailer here. But, warning you, it is VERY graphic and heartbreaking.
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Re: "Earthlings" documentary
I hadn't heard of it.
That is so terrible. I can't get one (of many) of those images out of my head.
Yeah, probably the only people who will ever watch this movie are people who don't need to. They already don't support the inhumane treatment of animals.
I'm certain I will never watch it (considering I can't even make it through the trailer). Like PP said, one of the images in particular is seriously burned in my brain. I actually had a nightmare about it. Just wondering if anyone here has actually made it through the whole thing.
Wth? I've posted about this documentary on this board twice and never got one response.
Anywho, yes....unfortunately or fortunately I've seen it. It was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. It was heartwrenching and made me sick. I mean really sick. It stayed with me for days, if not weeks.
I had already changed the way I eat animals after reading fast Food Nation and Omnivore's Dilemma. But this....well this made me really consider going veg. Until I saw this, I was feeling really good about myself for getting our meat through local, humane sources. But the scenes from the slaughterhouses made me so so sad. Especially since one of the scenes was take from inside a Massachusetts slaughterhouse. To put that in perspective, we only have TWO slaughterhouses in the entire state. So there is a 50/50 chance my happy pastured animal met a horrible horrible inhumane end.
I felt absolutely compelled to watch this movie. It really stuck with me when they said (this is not a quote, just what I remember) that if you are going to eat meat, then you should not be shielded from the truth. Ignorance is not an excuse. Everyone who eats meat, needs to watch this movie.
Yes, that is the part that traumatized me. The first time I watched the trailer, I literally sat on our sofa clutching my dog Nina and bawling my eyes out. That is what I had the nightmare about.
How can these people sleep at night after performing such acts? If an animal must be put to death for food, why can't it be quickly and humanely? I just don't understand how humans can be so cruel.
I'm sorry!! I must not have seen your posts, somehow!
That is my fear, that I'll end up having nightmares from this. I already know how terrible the animal industry is, and about the awful things that happen to so many kinds of animals.
I agree that if you are going to eat meat you should know the whole story. It drives me crazy, the attitude some people have of laughing it off and not wanting to know about their food, be it meat or disgusting ingredients. Its not funny at all, and if you have to hide things from yourself and delude yourself to eat things, that's wrong.
More and more I'm liking just eating fish. I have to admit that while I don't feel any animal should be tortured or suffer, I don't feel a lot of guilt..ok, any guilt... over eating fish and seafood. I
Sorry, I didn't see it when you posted about it. I lurk on this board a few times a week, but I'm usually on D&R.
That is so tragic about the slaughterhouse!
I'm definitely not gonna eat any seals!
The only leather I have is a purse second-hand.
And all my fish is sustainably caught. I pretty much only eat local wild salmon, dungeness crab, and sustainably farmed shrimp.
I rented the movie from netflix a few weeks ago. I had not seen a trailer for it, so i had no idea how disturbing this movie was. I only got about 15 minutes into it and I was crying so hard and terrified as to what they would show next....I turned it off and sent the movie right back.
What? That was a dog? Now I'm in tears again. WHY would someone do that?
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My husband and I watched this on Sunday night. We hadn't heard about it until Saturday, when a FB friend told me her husband became vegan after watching it. It's the most shocking movie I've ever seen about the animal food industry. It was extremely difficult for us both to watch. It just got worse and worse. It left me wondering why people are so cruel and heartless. How can people treat animals like that? How does our society ignore these situations. So many questions and thoughts.
We are already vegetarians but after watching the movie have decided to try becoming vegans. We're going to slowly transition so we can use the dairy products we have. Thankfully, we don't have too many things left to use.
My husband and I also wondered how people could watch the movie and still support the animal food industry. I know there are alternative means to buying meat and dairy, but we decided we'd feel better not eating food sources from any animals. We'd rather just be vegans.
No, the nest is like the dryer that goes back in time and eats the sock you are wearing!!
WTF?
I know you posted a long response because I read it, and responded to it! You said you wished you had all the seafood options I do and mentioned the problems with Chesapeake Bay, and I responded about how ticked off I am that cheap chicken farms are allowed to increase profits by just allowing waste to run off, costing taxpayers money, killing off the waterways, and destroying the local fishing industry.
I'm a private home and couldn't just let my sewer line spew onto the street so why can they? Oh yeah... lobbyists and political donations. Ugh.
But back to the earlier point...where did our posts go???
I don't know! It's so bizarre. When I did an ETA I got an error, but when I went back to the post the ETA portion was there, so I didn't think anything of it. I figured you would have responded to me since I said sometime particularly about you, and was like W T F Nest?!?
I completely agree about the chicken farm. One of my favorite satirical (sp) posters is about the government bailout of GM. It says:
"You probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. Maybe you even thought the years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our process and designing our products with better quality in mind. But you forgot one thing: We spend a sh!tload of money on lobbyists. So now you're out $25 billion, plus the cost of your Subaru. Maybe next time you'll buy American like a real man. Either way, we're cool.
We're the Big Three. We don't need to compete."
Yea, I didn't make it through the whole trailer.
As a side note, kind of neat that Moby does the music, and he's a vegetarian (or vegan?).
I worked at Farm Santuary for a summer and watched some pretty graphic movies. People have often thought I'm vegetarian because i think animals are cute, but it is because of seeing images like were in that trailer.
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Movies like this honestly disappoint me. I am intimately familiar with the practices of conventional agriculture, and while they are appalling in many ways, scenes like the ones shown in this movie are exceedingly rare. Now, rare occurances are not good enough. These things should NEVER, EVER happen.
But rather than throw up my hands and go vegan, I did something worthwhile about it. I walked out of industrial ag, and started my own farm. We raise our chickens and livestock on lush pasture and they are incredibly well cared-for. I butcher my chickens myself in small batches and they are never treated with cruelty. I personally know the people butchering my larger animals and their facility handles only a few livestock each day, as opposed to hundreds of thousands per day like the larger plants. The horrible images you saw in Earthlings will absolutely never take place with my animals because I am able to supervise every step of the process.
You as a consumer should be able to visit the farm where you buy your meat, and be allowed to watch the butchering process. If a farm won't allow you to do this, then they have something to hide. Personally, I welcome my customers to watch: the process is so different from what you see in the movie that it will make you want to cry in relief!
The problem with movies like Earthlings is that they offer no solution. There are farmers who are doing right by their animals. They should be supported or else they will go out of business, and industrial ag will be all that is left. If that is the case, then these sad stories will continue to occur.
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