There is no distinction between high and low species, there are only sad people.

Stan 2022-09-26 16:45:37

Sometimes I think that humans may be the lowest creatures on earth, because we have lost all our perception of nature. What's the reason why you don’t eat dogs or cats but you eat pigs, cows and sheep? Keeping a pet is just to relieve loneliness. Isn't it true that pet pigs, cows and sheep deserve to die? The award-winning "Dolphin Bay" in the United States is about the bloody Japanese whaling industry. If we condemn them, then we should also be ashamed of ourselves who eat meat every day. It is forbidden to eat dog meat, cat meat and dolphins, why not ban pigs, cattle and sheep? Do pigs, cattle and sheep deserve to be eaten?

My dislike of Japanese whalers is purely because the killers disrespect the individual life. This is manifested in the perverted behavior of whalers through torturing their prey to achieve physical or psychological pleasure in the process of hunting. However, from a historical perspective, I think it is not worth the Chinese to make a fuss about such a move by a nation like Japan. However, the developed countries that have become accustomed to it can't stand it at first sight, so they began to criticize Japan for this behavior, and the whaling behavior has also been upgraded from "how to catch" to "should or not to catch". The problem is to look at the slaughterhouse in this film. The meat we eat is slaughtered so humanely every day and then sent to the major vegetable farms.

If you want to say that you just like fish or dogs purely, and think they are friends or spiritual, then what is it that you can work hard to cultivate a cow that will cry silently before you die? This kind of discrimination is as disrespectful to life as you think that people who are beautiful should survive, and those who are ugly should be shot to death. There is no distinction between high and low species, there are only sad people. If you can't just eat vegetarian food, don't be brave enough to ask others to treat a race as a friend. Either be cruel and become a vegetarian, even if it's just one day a week. Or don't pretend to think that you love animals. I don't like watching people say not to eat dogs, but turning a blind eye to the chicken, duck and goose on the table. Is it true that only dogs are the only animals in the world?

If you alone think that dogs are friends and not food, is it discrimination against other species? How can human beings be qualified to distinguish between the noble and the bad of other species? Seeing that the killing of a certain creature under the butcher knife is terrible, I urge everyone to refuse to eat that species. Think about it, isn't the slaughter of other species like this? May I ask which species would find this kind of slaughter so cool and feel that they deserve to be eaten by humans? Of course, we hope that every butcher can respect the individual of life and minimize the pain to him when he ends his life. But today in the process of industrialization, it is almost impossible. This documentary reveals everything. I can hear the howling of pigs at four o'clock in the morning every day in my hometown. If these images are filmed, would you carry out the "Pigs are friends, not food" activities?

Life is a complete individual, and the value of judging life should not lie in the external image of this individual. Moreover, the survival of the fittest in nature is a natural law. Many people understand the principle of the food chain. It is obvious that wolves hunt elk, birds eat insects, and even whales eat small fish. If you don’t eat fish today, it will be eaten by the same kind tomorrow. Fighting has never stopped! What I'm complaining about is this cruel way of slaughter. Of course, it might be better if everyone is vegetarian, but it seems that this society will never be completely vegetarian. I don’t know if anyone has ever thought about it. It is said that many plants such as piranhas in the Amazon forest will be cautious in order to obtain food. Then how can we be sure that plants have no thinking ability and soul?

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    title card: earth-ling n. - One who inhabits the earth.

    Narrator: Since we all inhabit the earth, we are all considered earthlings. There is no sexism, 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.

  • Narrator: 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'. By analogy with racism and sexism, speciesism is a prejudice or attitude or bias in favor of the interests of the members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.