We made it for about 30 minutes, then we had to get up and walk away.  I wonder if the film ever backed off from the horror that was being shown for the last few minutes we were watching, but we couldn't stand to wait and see if it ever gave any relief. 

I was hoping for something more persuasive and the film started that way.  The mistreatment, which really amounted to unintentional torture was not something I could sit and watch.   

pretty much spells it out in enough detail for me, even though there were some inaccuracies.

I don’t like animals to suffer.  If we are to harvest them for food or clothing, we need to kill them quickly and painlessly.  If we use them for medical experiments they need to be medicated so they don’t feel pain or suffer.  There is a need for change in how we deal with animals in the corporate world.

As for hunting, in most cases the animal is killed rather quickly.  Yes, sometimes things go amiss and it is a slower death.  But most of the time, their death is quicker and more painless than if they are killed as natural prey.  Most of us have seen prey vs predator movies, and it isn’t pretty, and usually it’s far from quick.  So if I shoot an elk or a cougar kills an elk, the elk is dead.  The animal rights movement isn’t going to stop death and suffering of animals. Tthat will continue if we all became vegans tomorrow.  Also, wildlife management provides for less suffering from starvation, over-predation, and also issues arising from loss of habitat.  A deer being shot by a hunter is a lot more humane and easier to see than a deer starving to death.

I wonder how many people are moved by the movie to stop eating meat, and wearing leather, etc. yet are in support of a “woman’s right to choose”?  Or worse yet, how many opposed the partial birth abortion ban, like Obama?  Killing a fully viable human being by cutting through the base of the neck and skull and sucking it’s brains out is pretty disturbing too.  We have this movement in this country to elevate the animal's right to live to a human level, all the time we are killing our own young.  Seems to be a bit of societal disconnect somewhere to me.      

"...terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam...(Robert B Spencer, author)

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and your analogy is more off the mark than my question. But there is relevance from the stand point that a peaceful and civilized society would likely not kill animals or execute its prisoners, and certainly wouldn't kill their young.

I don't want to change this thread into an abortion discussion, Lord knows it will make the 100 club if it does. I just think, for some, their priorities are a bit skewed.

"...terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam...(Robert B Spencer, author)

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So much for the prehensile-thumb envy theory!