Has anyone one seen this film? I watched it last night and it was very interesting. It was an interesting perspective on raising animals since most of what I hear and see from the veggie community is about factory farming. This film took place on a small family farm who decided that if they were going to eat meat then they were going to raise and slaughter the animals themselves. I actually grew up in the same area as this farm (rural Nova Scotia) and some of the farms they visited I was familar with. Factory farms is not something you see often around here, so I was able to relate more to the moral questions this film brought up. In the end, Jason Young, after a year long struggle with his conscience, couldn't kill his animals anymore, but for some reason he was still able to disconnect from the animal he was friends with and the food on his plate, getting someone else to kill his favorite cow, JB. I didn't argue (edit: I mean AGREE not argue!)) with a lot of his reasoning, i.e, using all of the animal = respect, we are animals and animals eat other animals etc. If you are not a veg*n this film probably won't make you one, and if you are one, then this film will help reaffirm why.

He couldn't kill them but was still fine with ordering a hit? That's the same as killing the animals himself, IMO. How sad that he was still hungry enough for beef that he was willing to have his friend slaughtered and butchered to appease his tastebuds.

While it's "nicer" for the animals when they're alive to be treated well, as opposed to being tortured, at the end of the day as they're being slaughtered I really don't think they give a damn how much "respect" their killer has for them. If they really respected the animal they'd get over their own selfish desire for steak.

That's like saying 'I have too strong a conscience to murder someone so I'll just hire a hitman to do it for me'. In fact, it's worse, because hitmen usually bump off your sworn enemies, not an innocent that you reckon would go well with some mustard.

That's like saying 'I have too strong a conscience to murder someone so I'll just hire a hitman to do it for me'. In fact, it's worse, because hitmen usually bump off your sworn enemies, not an innocent that you reckon would go well with some mustard.

i *love* that comment. totally agreed.

I watched that with my dad a while back.

Yeah, hiring someone else to kill who you can't kill yourself is just even more cowardly.

I don't want to ruin the end for anyone, but the poor cow, JB, although he may have a had a nice life certainly didn't die in a nice way. I didn't cry throughout the film, but at that moment I lost it, I cried my eyes out.

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