Global Earthlings

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
- Albert Schweitzer

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■ About Earthlings:
Earthlings is a 2005 multi-award winning documentary written, produced and directed by Shaun Monson and co-produced by Persia White. The film was narrated by Hollywood actor and animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix. Earthlings also features an original score by musician and activist Moby.

Earthlings is a documentary about mankind's dependence on animals for pets, food, clothing, entertainment and use in experimentation.

With an in-depth study into pet stores, puppy mills and animal shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries, and finally the medical and scientific profession, Earthlings uses hidden cameras and footage to chronicle the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world which rely on animals for profit.

Phoenix has commented on the documentary that "Of all the films I have ever made, this is the one that gets people talking the most. For every one person who sees Earthlings, they will tell three."
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■ Reviews On Earthlings:

"If I could make everyone in the world see one film, I’d make them see Earthlings.”
-Peter Singer, author Animal Liberation

"Earthlings is the definitive film of all time that Americans don’t want to see."
-Gretchen Wyler, The Humane
Society of the United States

"Earthlings is the passion of the christ of Animal Rights films."
-Aint It Cool News

"For those who watch Earthlings, the world will never be the same.”
-Tom Regan, author A Case
for Animal Rights

"Earthlings may be the most powerful Film experience I have ever known"
-Brent Emery, Senior VP, Maverick Films

"Earthlings is nothing short of a Masterpiece!”
-Lionel Friedberg, producer Animal Planet

"Provocative and defiant. This is a definitive milestone."
-Edmund Stone, In Defense of Animals

"Watching earthlings is the greatest gift I have ever received. I cannot believe how ignorant I have been in the past."
-Bryce Dallas Howard, actress

"It is a rare experience to be changed by a Film. Earthlings has that power."
-Persia White, actress/activist

"The Citizen Kane of documentary films. "
-Linda Blair, actress/activist

"A real testament to the quality of a Film. Earthlings is amazing!"
-Professor Cristina Gibson, UC Irvine

"One of the most persuasive motion pictures ever made!”
-Ron Lipshultz, director
Green Reel Film Festival

"Viewers will never be the same"-Carly Harrill, 944 Magazine

"Best documentary film of the year!"
-Progressive Awards, PETA

"Absolutely Epic!"
-John Feldmann, musician Goldfinger
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http://www.isawearthlings.com
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■Watch Earthlings:

Trailer 3 Min:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6680124262218306190&q=earthlings+trailer

Trailer 7 min:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9166678144528748251&q=earthlings+trailer

Full Film:

- Hebrew Subbed
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7294975991929906674

- Sous-Titres Français
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=801102045106765290

- Subtitulos Español (Castellano)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7776202604288555272

- Legendado Português
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1717800235769991478

-Erdlinge, Deutsche Untertitel
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3664359489218547625

- Sottotitoli Italiano
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7014142368277769502

- Γήινοι, Greek Subtitles
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5165231031895551470

- Swedish Subtitles
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5267892283800968462

- Pozemšťané, Czech Subtitles
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2252588966161406164
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■What You Should Do?
A- Watch The Whole Movie
B- Think About It Seriously
C- Tell Your Friends To Do A, B And C
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■ Animal Rights/Vegetarian Links

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http://www.chooseveg.com/
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■ Animal Rights Quotes:

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Recently, while I was in the street, my eye was caught by a poulterer's shop; I stared unthinkingly at his piled-up wares, neatly and appetizingly laid out, when I became aware of a man at the side busily plucking a hen, while another man was just putting his hand in a cage, where he seized a live hen and tore its head off. The hideous scream of the animal, and the pitiful, weaker sounds of complaint that it made while being overpowered transfixed my soul with horror. Ever since then I have been unable to rid myself of this impression, although I had experienced it often before."
- Richard Wagner

"No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does."
- Henry David Thoreau

"We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do."
- Rabinadranath Tagore


"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
- Henry David Thoreau

"We are, at least speaking for myself, what I'm doing, is going along with the fact that I live in a society where meat eating is accepted as the norm. And it requires a level of sort of a social courage, which I haven't yet produced, to break out of that. It's a little bit like the position which anybody, not everybody, but many people would have been, a couple of hundreds of years ago, over slavery, where lots of people felt kind of morally uneasy about slavery, but went along with it, because, I don't know, the whole economy of the South depended upon slavery. "Of course, none of us like the idea of slavery, but you can't seriously contemplate doing away with it, I mean, you know, the economy would collapse. So, I find myself in something like that situation. I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness raising movement, so that we all become vegetarian, and then I mean it would be so much easier for those us who find it difficult to go along with that. And quite apart from that, you'd then have brilliant chefs making wonderful recipes and you wouldn't have to …"
- Richard Dawkins


"Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs."
- Jane Goodall

"Thousands-millions and billions-of animals are killed for food. That is very sad. We human beings can live without meat, especially in our modern world. We have a great variety of vegetables and other supplementary foods, so we have the capacity and the responsibility to save billions of lives. I have seen many individuals and groups promoting animal rights and following a vegetarian diet. This is excellent."
– Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

"I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice. For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
- Plutarch

"As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer


"Grant animals a ray of reason, imagine what a frightful nightmare the world is to them: a dream of cold-blooded men, blind and deaf, cutting their throats, slitting them open, gutting them, cutting them into pieces, cooking them alive, sometimes laughing at them and their contortions as they writhe in agony. Is there anything more atrocious among the cannibals of Africa? To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of men. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous.—And that is the unpardonable crime. "
- Romain Rolland

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
- Albert Schweitzer

"My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity."
- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, nothing so surely unmortars a society; nothing, we might plausibly argue, will so harden and degrade the minds of those that practice it. And yet we ourselves make much the same appearance in the eyes of the Buddhist and the vegetarian. We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions, and organs with ourselves; we feed on babes, though not our own; and the slaughter-house resounds daily with screams of pain and fear. We distinguish, indeed; but the unwillingness of many nations to eat the dog, an animal with whom we live on terms of the next intimacy, shows how precariously the distinction is grounded."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"As for me, I could never so much as endure, without remorse and griefe, to see a poore, sillie, and innocent beast pursued and killed, which is harmelesse and voide of defence, and of whom we receive no offence at all.
- Montaigne

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How pitiful, and what poverty of mind, to have said that the animals are machines deprived of understanding and feeling . . .
Judge (in the same way as you would judge your own) the behaviour of a dog who has lost his master, who has searched for him in the road barking miserably, who has come back to the house restless and anxious, who has run upstairs and down, from room to room, and who has found the beloved master at last in his study, and then shown his joy by barks, bounds and caresses. There are some barbarians who will take this dog, that so greatly excels man in capacity for friendship, who will nail him to a table, and dissect him alive, in order to show you his veins and nerves. And what you then discover in him are all the same organs of sensation that you have in yourself. Answer me, mechanist, has Nature arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may he incapable of suffering?"
- Voltaire

"If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed."
"It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence."
"Not long ago I had a talk with a retired soldier," writes Tolstoy in Recollections and Essays, "and he was surprised at my assertion that it was a pity to kill animals for food, and said the usual things about its being ordained. But afterwards he agreed with me: 'Especially when they are quiet, tame cattle. They come, poor things trusting You. It is very pitiful.'
"The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner."
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
"The Young Woman: You know, to me this is a funny sort of lunch. You begin with the dessert. We begin with the entrees. I suppose it's all right: but I have eaten so much fruit and bread and stuff, that I don't feel I want any meat.
THE PRIEST: We shall not offer you any. We don't eat it.
THE YOUNG WOMAN: Then how do you keep up your strength?
THE PRIEST: It keeps itself up."
"We are the living graves of murdered beasts,
Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
We never pause to wonder at our feasts,
If animals, like men, can possibly have rights.
We pray on Sundays that we may have light,
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread.
We're sick of war, we do not want to fight -
The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread,
And yet - we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat,
Regardless of the suffering and the pain
we cause by doing so, if thus we treat
defenceless animals for sport or gain,
how can we hope in this world to attain,
the PEACE we say we are so anxious for.
We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain,
to God, while outraging the moral law,
thus cruelty begets its offspring - WAR. "

-George Bernad Shaw

"The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service."
"One of the proofs that the taste of flesh is not natural to man is the indifference which children exhibit for that sort of meat, and the preference they all give to vegetable foods, such as milk-porridge, pastry, fruits, etc. It is of the last importance not to de-naturalise them of this primitive taste and not to render them carnivorous, if not for health reasons, at least for the sake of their character. For, however the experience may be explained, it is certain that great eaters of flesh are, in general, more cruel and ferocious than other men. This observation is true of all places and of all times. English coarseness is well known. The Gaures, on the contrary, are the gentlest of men. All savages are cruel, and it is not their morals that urge them to be so; this cruelty proceeds from their food. They go to war as to the chase, and treat men as they do bears. Even in England the butchers are not received as legal witnesses any more than surgeons. Great criminals harden themselves to murder by drinking blood. Homer represents the Cyclopes, who were flesh-eaters, as frightful men, and the Lotophagi [lotus-eatersj as a people so amiable that as soon as one had any dealings with them, one straightway forgot everything, and one's country, to live with them."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I undertake to cultivate compassion and learn ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life."
"Now We also know that we eat vegetarian to save the earth"

-Thich Nhat Hanh


"'So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. "

- Albert Einstein

“I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it. "
"I hold today the same opinion as I held then. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. "
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." (Originally by Arthur Schopenhauer)
"Vivisection is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing against God and his fair creation. It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practise elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures."

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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■Famous Vegetarians:
Jim Carrey, Leona Lewis, Bob Marley, Moby, Joss Stone, Sir Paul McCartney, Ellen Degeneres, Sir Ringo Starr, Alanis Morrissette, Alicia Silverstone, Alyssa Milano, Natalie Portman, Carrie Underwood, Ziggy Marley, Joaquin Phoenix, Anthony Kiedis, Christina Applegate, Sir Ian McKellen, Andre 3000, Kirk Hammett, Milo Ventimigliam, Clint Eastwood, ... Read MoreTobey Maguire, Woody Allen, Naomi Watts, Dr Jane Goodall, Billie Jean King, Annie Lennox, Prince, Suzanne Vega, Shania Twain, Lisa Simpson, Linda McCartney, Pamela Anderson, Julia Butterfly Hill, Woody Harrelson, Sinead O'connor, Missy Higgins, Benjamin Zephaniah, Bill Cosby, Bryan Adams, Casey Affleck, Dennis Kucinich, Albert Einstein, Boy George, Brad Pitt, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leonard Cohen, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Tracy Chapman, Ed. Begley Jr, George Harrison and Paul Watson.
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■ Books We Recommend:
*Tom Regan:

-Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights
-The Case for Animal Rights
-All That Dwell Therein: Essays on Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics
-Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science
-Defending Animal Rights

* Peter Singer:
-Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals

Others:
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Saints/Authors/authors.htm
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