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Oct. 23rd, 2006 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchildLast night, Jarrod and I went to see a movie at the art museum, called "Our Daily Bread." It's scenes of food production, no music, no narration, just the film speaking for itself. The movie was filmed in Europe--boxes and equipment were labeled in something close to German, it sounded like people were speaking German as well.
I have to say, after watching it, that I've never been so glad I'm vegan.
Yes, the plant farming was hard on people--it's obvious they work long-ass hours doing very physical work, and sometimes handling dangerous chemicals. But that pales in comparison to what the animals deal with.
The way Jarrod put it was something like: "It was factory farming at its most perfect--the most humane, the cleanest--but it's still factory farming." We still saw cows and chickens and pigs die. They showed piglets being held down in a little device so a woman could cut off their tails without anesthetic. We saw whole live broiler chickens being pulled up with a vaccuum-cleaner kind of thing and shoved into big drawers before they were slaughtered.
In some ways I think it was a more powerful film than, say, "Meet Your Meat," because it's not trying to push any kind of agenda. It's just saying, Here it is, deal with it.
Afterwards, I saw a pregnant woman in the bathroom whose eyes were red. I couldn't help but wonder to myself if she was a vegetarian before this--and if not, if she was considering it now.
Time to get ready for work--I'm 7 to 4 this week. Ugh.
There's a squirrel living in our ceiling. S/he woke us up this morning, trying to break a nut open, the neighbor has a walnut tree. It's disconcerting to hear a squirrel knocking on your ceiling.
I have to say, after watching it, that I've never been so glad I'm vegan.
Yes, the plant farming was hard on people--it's obvious they work long-ass hours doing very physical work, and sometimes handling dangerous chemicals. But that pales in comparison to what the animals deal with.
The way Jarrod put it was something like: "It was factory farming at its most perfect--the most humane, the cleanest--but it's still factory farming." We still saw cows and chickens and pigs die. They showed piglets being held down in a little device so a woman could cut off their tails without anesthetic. We saw whole live broiler chickens being pulled up with a vaccuum-cleaner kind of thing and shoved into big drawers before they were slaughtered.
In some ways I think it was a more powerful film than, say, "Meet Your Meat," because it's not trying to push any kind of agenda. It's just saying, Here it is, deal with it.
Afterwards, I saw a pregnant woman in the bathroom whose eyes were red. I couldn't help but wonder to myself if she was a vegetarian before this--and if not, if she was considering it now.
Time to get ready for work--I'm 7 to 4 this week. Ugh.
There's a squirrel living in our ceiling. S/he woke us up this morning, trying to break a nut open, the neighbor has a walnut tree. It's disconcerting to hear a squirrel knocking on your ceiling.
