Opinion Survey Needed

[LiveVegan]

Hello everyone!

I'm starting a new thread to pull together some opinions.

I have tons of animal rights movies, videos, etc. I'm looking to hold a lecture and a movie veiwing soon. My survey to you good people, is can you please list the movie and/or undercover video that made the biggest impact on you and others you know. Also, then tell me the one who had the littlest impact on you if you have one. If you want to give me the reason behind your choices that would be great too.

Thanks guys.

[Yamato]

Had no idea about the male chicks until this video:
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery/

This video made my gf want to become a vegan on the spot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dOauM9LNTc

Powerful veg/environmental video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTS2Yp-UgI0

Meet your Meat did not have much effect for me. It is too overwhelming.
It's best to deal with one topic at a time IMHO.

[SeanMichael]

How long of a movie do you want? I haven't seen Meet Your Meat, but my vote is for Earthlings. It's a 95 minute long movie, and it's very powerful. I still can't get some of those images out of my head. After the intro, it starts talking about household pets, so it really helps most people relate to the animals much more. By the time they start showing livestock footage, the audience is already hooked and horrified. My mom watched it, and went vegetarian on the spot. She's been veggie for 2 years now, and is close to going vegan.

[LiveVegan]

Yamato, thanks for all the sites, I'll look at them after I leave work (no access to youtube at work).

SeanMicheal, I was leaning towards Earthings also.

I've seen meet your meat about 20 times at other showings. In the darkness you can hear people gasping and when the lights turned on, they are usually sitting there with this "deer in the headlight" look. Its a good powerful video but I'm looking for something that will stick in their heads and make them think. Earthlings was really good. I want something like that that inspires them to do something and see things another way.

Thank you both for your responses. :)

[Yamato]

Its a good powerful video but I'm looking for something that will stick in their heads and make them think. Earthlings was really good. I want something like that that inspires them to do something and see things another way.


The environmental video I mentioned has a great deal "stickiness". It's a video that is not the common animal abuses (which a lot of people have seen), but bombards you with facts about the effect of livestock (meat eating) on the environment. I have watched it at least 15 times to get a jolt of inspiration. :up:

[LiveVegan]

The environmental video I mentioned has a great deal "stickiness". It's a video that is not the common animal abuses (which a lot of people have seen), but bombards you with facts about the effect of livestock (meat eating) on the environment. I have watched it at least 15 times to get a jolt of inspiration. :up:

Ohhhh that sounds really good too. :) Thanks.

[parrot]

The video should be chosen by looking at the type of audience you are showing it to:
An earthling type video would have the greatest impact on people who live with domestic animals.

Example: Earthlings

An environmental video would have the greatest impact on people who already is interested in global warming.


Powerful veg/environmental video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTS2Yp-UgI0

Please note that an older audience would often just be irritated by an Earthling type video, because they think you are criticizing them. (I guess your audience is omnivores.)

The one Yamato mentioned gives you more time to discuss it with you audience. It also has more to discuss than the Earthling type, because most people know that this kind of treatment of animals is just wrong. You could tip the audience on Earthlings at the end and tell them to watch it at home as a reminder.

These are just my thoughts on how I would do it, I have never showed such videos to anyone else, yet. I guess the one which had the greatest impact on me would be Earthlings.

I wish you good luck on educating your audience :up:

[Earthling]

Earthlings.

If your audience are mostly veg*n, then Behind the Mask.

[LiveVegan]

Will be omni audience.

Thanks for your suggestions.

[adam antichrist]

I think peaceable kingdom has had the most impact, because it shows you can do something about the cruelty rather than just bombarding you with brutality like in earthlings etc. It also focuses on the compassion of people so it uses positive reinforcement rather than negative reinforcement from relying solely on images of suffering to get the message across.

[FitChick99]

Earthings for sure. I don't know how people could not go vegan after they see it. Definitely hard to watch though.

I have never seen Peaceable Kingdom, but I do plan on seeing the new version that comes out in, I think, December on DVD.

[imahag]

GoVeg.com // Butterball's House of Horrors: A PETA Undercover InvestigationI watched the hidden video taken at the butterball turkey plant. Broke my heart. When I saw how some of these animals were hanging upside down to get their throat cut by a machine and it missed and sliced their bellies open or their thighs. Too much. When they showed how the little chicks got their beaks sliced off with a hot saw, that really did it. The look in the little chicks eyes is stuck with me forever.

[Her Jazz]

I recently saw the film A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms and thought it was spot on for an omni audience. They talk about animal abuse but at the same time they really drive home the fact that this isn't just about the animals...it's about YOUR wellbeing and safety. And most of the omni's I know won't become vegetarians because they don't know what's in it for THEM.
This video talks about the hazards of factory farms and how they are polluting our air and water supply etc. and has a very "normal" sounding American guy hosting it that most omni's will identify with. Only well into the video do they start suggesting a vegetarian diet and they even suggest eating local produce etc.

Very effective movie and the first one on the subject that I think I could get my parents to watch.