What needs to change is the way we get along with nature

Einar 2022-12-21 11:18:53

This documentary tells the fact that pets, food, furs, entertainment and scientific experiments are related to animals, but it has a clear orientation and is too biased.
Yes, during the period, I covered my face and cried several times, unable to face the cruel scenes. Although as a vegetarian, I never ask everyone to choose a vegetarian diet. The wrong thing is not eating meat, but the way we get along with nature.
In order to satisfy the ever-explosive appetite of human beings, large-scale breeding farms have emerged. Enterprises are of course driven by economic interests, so they must adopt standardized and most economical breeding methods, poor breeding environment, the use of antibiotics, etc. to shorten the growth cycle and improve quality, crowded and unsecured transportation, and brutal and cruel slaughter and processing. Everything is the model of a large feedlot.
In the countryside, people have feelings about raising poultry by themselves. People can't bear to slaughter livestock at will, and they end their lives in a relatively painless way.
What should be banned is the large-scale killing of large-scale fishing boats for commercial gain, and non-Inuit people merely satisfy the survival of fishing.
What should be banned is the large and improper commercial pastures, not the grazing of nomads.
In the vast ice fields and vast grasslands, carnivorous is a local lifestyle that has been handed down for thousands of years. It is not that they are inhumane, but that the environment dictates. This way of life can be naturally digested and accepted.
But for human beings who lack land and resources in cities, advertisements are full of meat and delicacies, attracting consumption and earning profits. Our food is no longer just to satisfy our basic needs, but to pursue more improper possession, comparison and show off.
"Although humans and animals are not the same race, they are just trapped together in the web of life and time, experiencing the glory and suffering of the earth together."
Since the development of mankind, we have become self-righteous and dominate. Our lifestyle, economic model, and superstructure have gradually lost our instinct and perception of nature. So, take the time to ask your own heart.

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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.