There are also directors who maliciously cut the shots to create that he is a hero oppressed by the animal husbandry group. For example, after talking about the murder of the Brazilian nun, he cut to the US environmental protection organization that was reluctant to be interviewed. It seems that the animal husbandry group controls the whole country. The world, the director has also received physical threats in the United States. And all the environmental protection organizations have been bought and threatened by the animal husbandry industry. Only a few experts he found dared to tell the truth. This conspiracy theory is really common all over the world. In my opinion, the director did not intend to discuss environmental issues at all. From the very beginning, he went to the conclusion that he should be vegetarian. From the beginning, he said that animal husbandry is not good, ocean fishing is not good, dairy products are not good, natural grazing is not good, family farms are not good, in short To block all the sources of meat you want to eat, these are harmful, there is no point in discussing environmental protection. I don’t intend to discuss the authenticity of the conspiracy theory and the director’s true intentions here. The following is mainly to abuse the ideas revealed in the film.
The vegans in the documentary are full of arrogance about the world. One is the arrogance of the earth. Humans who have only existed for a few million years have mastered modern technology in just a few hundred years, and realized environmental problems in just a few decades. They actually think that they have mastered the existence of 4.6 billion The development law of the earth in the past year, think we can save the earth by doing this? Humans can't even figure out their own history, yet they can actually decide how to do better for the earth? Everything they do is just for the sake of human beings. The earth never needs anyone's rescue. The earth doesn't care about environmental pollution, greenhouse effect, desertification, sea level rise and other issues. The earth is the earth, even if there is a madman the next day Just launched a nuclear bomb and wiped out all living things on the earth, the earth still exists, the earth has existed for 4.6 billion years, and is confident that it will exist longer than human beings. Being above the earth is really disrespecting the earth.
The second is arrogance towards everyone else. At the end of the film, the director could not help but tell the truth. We must live a moral vegetarian life. The director believes that vegetarians are more moral and full of superiority. bursting. Are these truths not self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Until some vegans tell us it's happier and more ethical? I believe that everyone has the right to choose their own life. No one can stand on the high ground of morality and ask others to follow his morality. Maybe the 1 billion hungry people in the world who may not have eaten meat do not know that someone has already replaced it. They decided it was immoral to eat meat in the future. Of course, some people will say that you consume more resources by eating meat. Why do we vegetarians pay for you? I think this is "democracy". If more than half of the world's 7 billion people choose to eat meat and are swept away by the flood, then please vegetarians prepare their own Noah's Ark, because people have the right to choose to fall and destroy, even God can't save them.
Of course I have to admit that I had some misunderstandings about the director. At first I thought he was a mild environmentalist. He is not the same as those coquettish bitches who want us to give up modern technology and go back to the original state. He just wants us to Just be a vegetarian, but I was wrong, this is not an initiative of a moderate environmentalist, this is an ultra-radical environmentalist's coercion of early environmentalists. Conservationists are finally getting their hands on what we eat, they used to limit our use of fossil fuels, let us drive less, use less air conditioning, save water, and now someone is finally telling us to eat less meat, and in a very ironic way way, to question the aforementioned environmentalists, just like extreme Muslims questioning moderate Muslims for not being religious enough, the director forced them to ask them why they were unaware of the various problems caused by eating meat. The answer is very simple, because we want to eat it!
Human desires cannot be restrained, here please review the lines from Episode 8 of "The Victor is Justice 2": "Noble ideas are powerless in the face of desires. After all, human beings are just creatures full of desires, and people can't deny this when they live. One point, it is precisely because of this desire that civilization has evolved so far, and it will continue to evolve in the future. It will never go backwards. It will build fuel waste treatment plants, build highways, build shopping malls, continue to reduce forest areas, and rare species are on the verge of extinction. One day This place has become like a normal city, so they feel sad and sigh as they reminisce about the past, but everyone wants to do this, how great!"
Human desire and human technology have always been complementary to each other, and it is only when there is desire that To promote the progress of science and technology, it is precisely because of the progress of science and technology that human desires are further expanded. People in the ancient agricultural society, their desires are limited to food and clothing, and today, people still expect people to reduce their desires to the level of food and clothing instead of pursuing them. Enjoy, in essence, is another plunder from developed countries to developing countries. In the past, they came to plunder resources and lived a happy life, but now they look back and say to us: No, if the whole world is like us, the earth will be finished, we must restrain our desires, and we can eat meat at will. The era is over. It's gone, let's go vegetarian together in the future. Vegetarianism is as good as meat, or even better. What do the people in the back think? People in developed countries have seized the choice of latecomers and prevented them from going the way they have traveled.
Regarding the population issue, the director believes that with the current population size, only plant cultivation can meet the population's food and clothing needs without damaging the environment. In the end, what caused the population explosion is not because modern technology has brought about a large increase in food. Now because there are too many people, we can only eat vegetarian food. It is a typical way to meet the status quo by suppressing demand. Satisfying desires is achieved, not by suppressing their own needs. Modern technology has brought about the problem of population growth. We should let these people eat what they want through the development of science and technology, so that civilization will develop and human beings will develop. It will continue, not to say that we will not eat meat, we can survive anyway, yes, we didn't have a bad life when we ate fruit on the tree before, right?
And about the end of the film, the director really revealed his intentions perfectly here, he proposed an ideal society where we can keep everything we have now, as long as we are vegetarian, the environmental problems will be solved, to be honest if not the end So blatantly stupid to shout such slogans, I'm "almost" about to be persuaded by this documentary. I've always been skeptical of the idea that we can solve all problems by simply doing it. Such people may not be very familiar with history. Japan's animal mercy order can't stop people from eating meat, and America's prohibition order can't stop people from committing crimes. History has proven countless times that there is never a simple solution to complex problems. It allows us to solve all the problems in one fell swoop. Here, the director's arrogance is again exposed, thinking that he has thought of a solution that no one else can think of.
If the whole world really gave up animal husbandry and carried out planting, no matter how huge changes it would cause to the employment population of the industry, the world economy, etc., because I can't say it at all, but it is definitely not completely beneficial as the director said. Harmless, the new situation will inevitably bring new problems. The output of the planting industry will be much higher than that of the animal husbandry. Just thinking about the introduction of high-yield crops such as corn and sweet potatoes in China from the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population has grown from 100 million to four. billion, how much the world's population will grow on the current basis. In the final analysis, animal husbandry is to meet the needs of human beings. There is no resource consumed by a large number of animals. These overflowed resources are transferred to human beings. After a large population increase, human beings will still approach the limit of their own survival. This is the power of human desire. Maybe at that time, we must consider whether we should suppress our free reproductive rights, and then the director needs to come to our country to learn from it.
The director's indictment of animal husbandry satisfies people's illusions about big capital. We would rather feed grain to livestock to pursue profits than to feed grain to hungry humans, so that each of us can be happy. Is the inequality of human beings animal husbandry? Caused by karma? Is the hunger problem because we don't produce enough food? In the final analysis, modern animal husbandry is also a form of production developed by human beings to meet their own needs. The director complained about animal husbandry while enjoying all the other conveniences brought by modern civilization. Any other economic activity linked and erased alone.
All in all, although there are problems in animal husbandry, vegetarianism will not solve the problems, but will also bring new problems. The most important thing is that no one has the right to guide the lives of others. Besides, capital is always profit-seeking. If animal husbandry is profitable today, it will expand animal husbandry. If planting industry is profitable tomorrow, it will expand planting industry. Now that vegetarianism has become a trend, related industries have begun, at least vegetarian restaurants. There are a lot more, how can those barrages at station B be so sure that the director is to resist the dark empire of animal husbandry, not to create a new vegetarian empire?
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