christianbourneproductions This may have spoilers but to be honest that's a joke phenomenon compared with the spoiled lives of the animals within the film.I honestly am at a loss here. I don't know what to think anymore. Some reviews here say they were moved and ashamed to be human after watching it - while others feel its shock propaganda.I think somehow - juxtapositioning Moby's tunes with baby pigs squealing as some smiling worker snips its ears off kind of reminded me of the scene in "A Clock Work Orange" where the droog guy is forced to watch war footage with his eyes pinned open to the beautiful music of Beethoven. That's where I turned it off. Just too too much for me.I honestly don't know the answer here guys. OK its a collection of the hardest hitting animal torture scenes ever, and deliberately so. It's hellish. I felt ashamed. And I do mean ashamed. And humans are also the victims here. We don't know what we do, as Jesus apparently said. Do I want to be vegan? Yes of course! Can I apply selective blindness and continue to eat meat despite this documentary? I think sadly we know the truth to that answer. That is what scares me the most, my ability to choose to care or not. Would I die for this cause? Would I give my life for these animals. I don't know. Somehow the need to survive no matter what atrocities go on, can override us. We all must live with ourselves. If I killed myself and left a note saying, I died for the enslaved animals, would that be respectful to myself and the animals? Perhaps it would be. Because the currency here, is only, life. Another review said, it's just life! And to an extent I can accept that- although, you know, it's OK as long as it's not happening to you right? Or to a creature you really care about. Then it's a problem. I think personally, there's a time for feeling guilty but it's better spent trying to sort this mess out. Lets just start laying down our arms, and only offering love? Too hard right? Because if you do that, you know what will happen? You and everyone you love, will die. Just like the Native American Indians did. So live fighting or die for what you believe in?End.

alicead-167-859380 Basically this movie turned me into a vegan overnight. I could never bare to finance others into the level of cruelty inflicted to innocent beings for the sole reason of tasty food (which is not tasty to me anymore after eating vegan for 4 years). This movie is a real life horror story. The worst I've seen but also the best, because ignorance hurts, it hurts a lot and it feels great to redeem ourselves. Ignorance causes pain and cruelty in our planet and it's time for us to realize it, to educate ourselves and choose. We place our vote into the world with every coin we spend. This movie is truly hard to watch, you'll cry a lot if you happen to be sensitive or not at all. It's eye opening not only as a human person but as an Earthling.Interestingly it doesn't leave you with a bad taste of mouth but on the contrary, full of hope and action. This movie calls for action.I thank the brave cameramen and camerawomen who shot this documentary, as well as everyone involved in its making.A must watch.

jamiesteelman1 Considering the popularity of humane animal farming. And the fact that it looks like he chose the worst of the bad venues. This film doesn't seem that relevant any longer. And there isn't much the USA can do about countries that don't follow the same laws as we do. I just can't see how people handle things in 3rd world countries is our fault. It is a given that anyone that owns animals should treat them humanely. I grew up going to my Grandparents farm in California and they always treated their animals fairly. Even when it cam to slaughtering them. So in my opinion this is just a shock film that doesn't really pertain to anyone but poverty stricken countries for the most part or bad slaughter houses that should be controlled by the FDA. They should never have been allowed to develop that way. Albeit that there were some pertinent moments about circus animals, but I don't go to circuses or zoos for that matter. And I have always thought Bull fighting was barbaric. Attention would be better focused on the people of these countries. some of them were in worse situations than the animals.

Gert Frobe I feel the need to respond to some of the criticisms I read in the comments on here. In many of the low reviews people cite two main reasons, they call it vegan/PETA propaganda or they say it is too violent and disgusting. Obviously it is "propaganda" for animal rights activists, that is the whole point of the movie. Everything documentary, book, pamphlet, speech etc. that was directed towards a purpose in the past was propaganda too. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech was propaganda for the civil rights movement, that did not mean he did not have a point or he was wrong, but he certainly did not give the arguments of white southerners equal weight did he? Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Susan B. Anthony, and every other human rights campaigner in history did the same. But please remember, none of these now famous civil rights campaigns were universally accepted in the past. Nelson Mandela was put in jail (and not just by the white South African government, the US government supported them for many many years). MLK was shot, female suffragettes were beat up and ridiculed. The pattern is the same, and the documentary identifies it in the first minute. Resistance to the truth Step 1: Ridicule (call it propaganda) Step 2: Violent Resistance Step 3: Acceptance.For all the others who say its too violent, well that is the point, it is showing the reality of the animal product consumption industry. Do you complain that a documentary about the holocaust is too violent? Get real. Using this as a criticism is honestly sickening and it shows just how detached from reality some people are. Reality does not have a Hollywood happy ending. This is what happens, this is where your meat comes from. Shutting your eyes to the reality and ignoring it will not make it go away. How many Germans simply shut their eyes to what was happening around them? Yes nature is cruel, yes lions kill zebra and eat them alive. Does that mean that we humans as sentient self-aware creatures are justified in doing the same? It reminds me a debate that Friedrich Hayek and John Rawls had about what constitutes a just society. Hayek said that nature is inherently "unfair" and the sooner "liberals" like Rawls deal with that fact the better off we will be. Rawls brilliantly responded that nature is neither fair nor unfair, it simply is nature, and how we deal with that fact is what makes our society fair or unfair.I am not saying Earthlings is the best documentary ever, nor do I completely agree with all of PETA or the documentary's positions. I am also not a vegan. This film is difficult to watch, and it should be.