I'm glad to hear you're doing some introspection, and making changes right away. Earthlings is what originally pushed me over the edge. Something about bearing witness to the horror meant I had to take action.
Oh man, I've never watched Dominion, but I did watch Lucent, which is a full documentary just about pigs in Australia, going over their entire life from birth to death. It's so long, it's almost boring, like the monotony of a horror that just goes on and on, and things just never get better :(
I don't think the images will or should be permanently out of our minds, personally. They're often a huge part of what breaks the walls that our brains put up to defend our habits. Of course, we learn to deal with them in our own ways. I'm not constantly thinking about the grisly consequences of treating animals as commodities. But when I do, it usually lights a fire in me.
After having already sat through the treatment of dogs, cats, cows, pigs, and chickens, the footage of circus animals and the whaling industry in Earthlings broke me. Far from a happy moment, but it was vitally important, and I don't ever want to forget what I felt then. Not until every cage is empty, at least.
I'm glad to hear you're doing some introspection, and making changes right away. Earthlings is what originally pushed me over the edge. Something about bearing witness to the horror meant I had to take action.
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Oh man, I've never watched Dominion, but I did watch Lucent, which is a full documentary just about pigs in Australia, going over their entire life from birth to death. It's so long, it's almost boring, like the monotony of a horror that just goes on and on, and things just never get better :(
I don't think the images will or should be permanently out of our minds, personally. They're often a huge part of what breaks the walls that our brains put up to defend our habits. Of course, we learn to deal with them in our own ways. I'm not constantly thinking about the grisly consequences of treating animals as commodities. But when I do, it usually lights a fire in me.
After having already sat through the treatment of dogs, cats, cows, pigs, and chickens, the footage of circus animals and the whaling industry in Earthlings broke me. Far from a happy moment, but it was vitally important, and I don't ever want to forget what I felt then. Not until every cage is empty, at least.
I almost couldn't finish Earthlings. It really does drive the point home about introspecting on our interaction with animals and the planet.