Virtual Reality Factory Farm Animals

Perhaps the most remarkable feat of the animal agriculture industry is the distance at which it has kept the public from its massive killing apparatus. Despite the fact that hundreds of millions of animals are slaughtered every single day for their meat in this country, most of us have never witnessed a single instance of this violence.

The non-profit organization Animal Equality aims to change this, with the help of virtual reality. In its new VR documentary film called Factory Farm, which is part of its iAnimal project, the organization’s cofounder Jose Valle leads viewers through the final moments in the lives of several pigs in a factory farm and slaughterhouse in Mexico. The film made its public debut at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, earlier this month.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Inside the Lives of Chickens

Penelope Kaporos Chicken

The next time someone calls you “chicken,” you should take it as a compliment. It means that you have an unbreakable spirit — like Penelope, a chicken who lives with Vanessa and Steve Dawson in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. “She went through so much, and it was so clear that she wasn’t giving up. She inspired me,” Vanessa tells LAIKA. “Steve and I would say watching her, ‘Chicken means brave,’ not fearful.”

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Nonhuman Rights Animal Personhood

“I understand how incredibly cognitively complex the chimpanzee is. I also understand how extraordinarily social of a being a chimpanzee is.”

 

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