Recently, the world-renowned luxury brand Chanel announced that it would stop using exotic leathers in its designs, and the banned list includes crocodiles, lizards, snakes and stingrays.
In the future, animal furs such as raccoons, minks and rabbits will also be discontinued.
As soon as the news came out, PETA excitedly tweeted: 2018 is the year out of the Stone Age!
Here is a signal:
The fashion circle that creates expensive luxury is no longer just counting money with its eyes closed, it is also gradually fulfilling its social responsibility, at least it will be a little bit better for those animals, if only a little bit.
I know that to some people, these words are a little irrelevant and a little hypocritical.
But when you really understand the blood behind beauty, you will never think so--
Earth Citizen
Earthlings
This is a documentary I've seen before.
On the poster, plants, animals, and humans occupy an equal area, and they appear to be very equal and harmonious with each other.
This situation seems to have a bit of Three Kingdoms meaning.
Is that true?
Indian bull.
In India, cows are equivalent to my country's giant pandas. While their status is respected, the local people regard cows as gods and regard them as "sacred animals", which is related to belief.
But in a country like this, thousands of cattle are still slaughtered every week for their hides.
These cows were purchased from poor families, and the purchaser promised not to kill the cows, and the cows would live on the farm for their entire lives.
In fact, the cows were then moved to areas where cattle slaughter was legally permitted, and died in grief.
Nose with ropes, feet nailed with iron hooves, without food and water, or forced to drive all the way through the scorching sun and flying dust.
Or being rudely put on a truck, finally unable to hold back in the crowded space and constant jolts.
In order to prevent the cow from falling down, the cattle driver kept pulling the tail of the cow, causing the tail bone of the cow to break.
In order to keep the cattle walking, the herders smeared the irritating things such as chili, pepper, and tobacco into the eyes of the cattle.
Many cattle died before reaching the slaughterhouse.
Slaughterhouse regulations require a knife to seal the throat when slaughtered, but in most cases the animals are killed by dull knives or cuts or saws.
In order to prevent the peeled hides from decomposing and rotting, tanneries workers must use highly toxic chemicals for processing.
The use of a large amount of chemical agents is a huge threat to the workers, the villagers who live within a few miles around the factory, and the entire local ecological environment.
animal fur
A leather jacket, a belt, a pair of shoes, an expensive fur are in stores all over the world for people to buy, and sometimes they are a sign of status and wealth.
Behind this, 100 million wild animals have been slaughtered because of their fur, and there are as many as 25 million in the United States alone.
Either hunting or trapping, the activity venues of these wild animals have changed from the vast forest green space to narrow cages.
Like being imprisoned, fear and anxiety force them to keep scratching, circling, and spinning in the cage.
While fear causes psychological damage, they also suffer physical damage of all kinds, broken bones, exposed bones, blindness, ear infections, chronic death...
Since there are currently no laws and regulations related to the slaughtering methods of fur farms, in many cases, the cheapest one becomes the most acceptable for everyone.
Carbon monoxide poisoning, strychnine, suffocation, neck breaking, and anal electric shocks are the more commonly used methods. The cruelest thing is that some procedures are repeated several times on animals in order to ensure complete killing.
The skinned animal carcasses are also thrown into the machine to be minced and used to feed other animals that have not yet been slaughtered.
What is even more incredible is that some animals experience plucking and skinning while they are alive, and their shaking bodies and grinning mouths are all expressing heart-piercing pain.
Earth Citizen is directed by Sean Monson.
He started making this documentary in 1999. After 6 years of investigation and evidence collection and filming, Sean overcame all kinds of difficulties before finally completing the film.
For example, in the film, the camera shake is relatively strong, and the perspective is relatively secretive, most of which are secretly shot by Sean at risk.
There is a sentence in the film that particularly impressed Xiaoying, to the effect that few people visit the slaughterhouse, and those who have been there will easily choose to be vegetarian.
It is not difficult to imagine what they saw.
And these are just animal encounters that are used for fur raw materials.
If it is served as a meal on a plate, in some places, beef cattle must be branded. The red-hot iron is directly slapped on the face, and the horns must be pulled out by big tongs.
If they are used as pets for human entertainment, some will face the situation of being abandoned halfway and living on the street. Among them, there are also consequences caused by the owner's refusal to sterilize the animal.
Usually the home of wild cats and dogs becomes animal shelters.
But shelters have limited space, and given the high cost of euthanasia at the humanitarian level, gas chambers will replace euthanasia in most cases.
If used as a prop for scientific experiments, animals will experience the effects of every new drug and the efficacy of every new treatment before humans.
Although sometimes the results obtained in animals do not apply to humans.
Vivisection, indiscriminate use of toxic substances, electroshock, traumatic shock... In addition to the scope of science, some animals are also used in military research.
There is no horror film that will have a greater impact on Xiaoying than this film.
I still remember that at the beginning of the film, there is this paragraph:
The scenarios you see are not isolated incidents. These are industrialized standards developed by humans for the use of animals that are raised for humans to use as pets, food, clothing, entertainment and research, etc. This film is not suitable for children, and minors need to be accompanied by their parents to watch.
It really reminds us that these pictures and shots are real.
In order to avoid making everyone feel uncomfortable, Xiaoying tried not to use video images in the article, or used pictures that looked a little more restrained.
It is conceivable that if these facts have not been taken seriously and contained since then, in the more than ten years from 2005 to the present, the above-mentioned things may have been staged every day.
Many people who watched the film said the most common sentence is "I want to be a vegetarian".
Xiaoying doesn't think that after watching this movie, you have to be a vegetarian. This is unrealistic, or it has nothing to do with eating meat at all.
Could it just provide a better environment when raising them?
When killing them, is it really possible to kill them with one knife?
Can you feel a little more empathy when dealing with them?
After all, they are one of the thousands of species that live on this planet, just like us.
A little more compassion for them is also a little more compassion for us.
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