I dedicate this to the: 10 healthy and beloved pigs killed in their sanctuary on 20 Sept 2023 at the Associazione Progetto Cuori Liberi by the Italian State on behalf of the pork, prosciutto and all pig derivatives industry; all the passive resisters who were beaten, punched, insulted, arrested and left to help themselves once they were…
speciesism
Are animal documentaries educational or speciesist?
Animal documentaries feel like a scam we don’t even think about as a scam anymore. They’re rationalised as educational and, arguably, they can be. Often, they’re ghoulish displays of supreme speciesism. On the one hand We often have scenes of natural behaviour from eating, including predation, to mating, nesting and taking care of young. At…