It is not yet dawn, and two people carrying cameras are walking toward a high chain link fence. They are wearing camouflage, and have just parked a car very deep in the forest. As they get closer to the fence, terrible cries puncture the stillness, like dogs being beaten, crying out from a rain of vicious blows. The two human figures climb the fence. Rows and rows of cages become visible. One of the humans puts her camera to a cage and begins taking photographs. The flash goes off. Sad eyes blink back, full of fear and confusion.
These are not dogs, but foxes; and the anguished cries, not the sound of dogs being beaten, but of beautiful foxes going insane; foxes wild with despair; foxes losing their minds. As the camera comes close, a stunning white fox with intelligent eyes and an air of defeat grunts inquisitively and repeatedly, without malice; he is clearly trying to speak. In another filthy cage, a trembling mother with huge, wet eyes spreads herself across her cowering babies. Another baby, in another cage, lovingly licks his mother’s face. They will all be anally electrocuted. They will all die terrified and confused. The camera illuminates one sorrowful scene after another: utter dejection, injury, and indignity, yet, even born in captivity, the eyes of each animal burn with old knowledge of what it means to be free. These animals are incomplete. Only their suffering is complete.
Jo-Anne McArthur with Sonny the rescued dairy calf, at Farm Sanctuary.
One of the photographers is Jo-Anne McArthur, creator and author of We Animals, and the protagonist of the documentary, The Ghosts in Our Machine, beautifully conceived and directed by Liz Marshall. The film explores the lives of individual animals living within, and rescued from, the mechanized prison of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of acclaimed animal photographer McArthur, we become intimately familiar with an unforgettable cast of animal subjects. Each story and photograph is a window into global animal industries: Food, Fashion, Entertainment and Research. The film asks the question: Are non-human animals property to be owned and used, or are they sentient beings deserving of rights?
AUTRE EXTRAIT AVEC NOTRE ETERNELLE QUESTION
LA QUESTION LA PLUS IMPORTANTE QUAND ON LUTTE POUR DEFENDRE LES ANIMAUX:
"COMMENT EVEILLER L' EMPATHIE, COMMENT RENDRE LES GENS CONSCIENTS DE TOUTES CES TORTURES?? POUR LA NOURRITURE, LA MODE LES RESERCHES ET AUTRES??
The greatest obstacle that animal rights activists face, and a question we are constantly revisiting, is how to make people care. If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my years as an animal activist, it’s that no matter how compelling, reasonable, scientific, or just plain heartbreaking your information about animals may be, just putting it out there is not going to be enough to make everyone care, even if it should be. So how do we get people to care about animals exploited for food, fashion, entertainment, research, and other human ends? -
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