EARTHLINGS

[leyley904]

 Has anyone here watched this documentary? I have, it’s changed my life. I’m now a vegetarian, and my love of animals plus this documentary have made me try and spread the word of animals cruelty, ect.

It will make you cringe, but I suggest everyone watch it. It’s a great insight into the hidden world of animal cruelty. It’s is extremely graphic, if you are squeamish, just listen to it an don’t watch. It has great quotes in it, too. 

Here is one that another thread made me think of:

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight

-Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

Here is another:

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far beneath ourselves. And therein we err, we greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complex 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.
-Henry Beston

 AND:

 

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated… I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

-Mahatma Gandhi

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
-Leonardo Da Vinci

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that’s the essence of inhumanity.
-George Bernard Shaw

 

 

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Thanks for sharing

I think I especially like this

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight

-Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Its like, I’m involved with some animal groups and occaisionally I can’t look at the pictures-they make me sick, they keep me up at night. But I have to remind myself.

“These animals endured this. I can AT LEAST do the courtesy of witnessing and acknowledging it”

And it makes me realize how many eat meat while ignoring that animal who left them this food. Honestly I think that’s why meat eaters give veggies a hard time-because we all remember when we were kids and found out what that food was we were eating. And some of us couldn’t eat it anymore. Not that they are doign anything wrong, just saying if they would let themselves acknowledge it, they wouldn’t eat it anymore.

[blackfang]

I never saw it before. Thanks for letting me know! I’m looking forward to watch this documentary!

[MimzMum]

The vegetarian cookbook I used in my early twenties, called Laurel’s Kitchen, had a quote similar to Ghandi’s in it. It was my siggy for awhile: “All animal life looks to us for protection, how can we bear to be it’s predators?”
Where exactly can this documentary be seen? Is it on satellite or somewhere on the net?
I think the worst graphic pictures I’ve seen of animal cruelty came from an insert from PETA I got about a year ago. Made me want to go and thwomp some stupid heads.
Is it considered further cruelty if you want to beat cruelty out of a fellow human being? I mean, I can’t help but have a visceral reaction to some of this stuff.

[LittlePuffyTail]

It truly is terrible what humans do to animals. Just because we can exploit and kill them does not give us the right. I’m involved with many animal right groups and have heard many heartwrenching stories of the cruelty animals suffer at the hand of man. Here are some of my fave quotes:

The question is not,
Can they reason? nor,
Can they talk? but,
Can they suffer?

By Jeremy Bentham

I am the voice of the voiceless;
Through me the dumb shall speak,
Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear
The wrongs of the wordless weak.

From street, from cage and from kennel,
From stable and zoo, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.

Oh, shame on the mothers of mortals
Who have not stopped to teach
Of the sorrow that lies in dear, dumb eyes,
The sorrow that has no speech.

The same force formed the sparrow
That fashioned man the king;
The God of the whole gave a spark of soul
To furred and to feathered thing.

And I am my brother’s keeper,
And I will fight his fight,
And speak the word for beast and bird,
Till the world shall set things right.

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.

By Linda McCartney

[leyley904]

Those quotes are really great; I love them!

You can purchase or watch the documentary online here:
http://www.earthlings.com/earthlings/video-full.php

I suggest watching it in at least 3 different sittings. It’s just too much to handle all at once, in my opinion. Oh, and it’s much worse that Peta, just because of the… blood…. and…. brutality. I wish you luck! I was home alone and at one point I was screaming/crying. I was definitely in tears the whole way through. I don’t mean to scare you away!  I would just start the documentary, and at bad parts cover your eyes if you need to. That’s what I did.

“Is it considered further cruelty if you want to beat cruelty out of a fellow human being? I mean, I can’t help but have a visceral reaction to some of this stuff.”

HAHAHA! Seems to make sense, right?!

[leyley904]

Okay, I’m listening to it right now (I’m not actually watching it again right now. I may someday) and it says this:
It’s not a famous quote, it’s just what the narrator says:

“A bell prize winner, Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote in his best selling novel, Enemies: A Love Story,
‘As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish,
he always had the same thought:
In their behavior towards creatures,
all men were Nazis.
The smugness with which man could do with other species as he please exemplify the most racist theories the principle that might is right’
The comparison here to the holocaust is both intentional and obvious. One group of living being 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.”

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