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I recommend to everyone the documentary Earthlings, you can see it for free at http://earthlings.com/?page_id=32

Earthlings is an animal snuff film. Why the hell would you recommend to anyone such a horrid viewing experience??

It's actually pretty spot on. If you go and visit some of the places depicted in the film, without prior approval and scheduling, and you'll see it first hand.

I say this as someone who use to work for an organization that sourced and inspected chicken and beef processing facilities and, I've visited them regularly.

You're missing my point: it's a horrid film. I shudder just thinking about it and I'd certainly never recommend it to anyone.

Besides, I cannot believe that some of the shit in that film, like seals being skinned alive, is par for the course.

Sadly, it is. The types of conditions in processing facilities make a lot of the employees temporarily insane. They're asked to do inhumane things and thus become what they do. I even pity the workers. Most of them are illegal immigrants being paid shit wages to do horrible things to these animals. Do you honestly believe that if it was not commonplace that this bill would have even been considered?

Sometimes, the truth is horrible.

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