I know I have mentioned these on the show and the blog, but it is time to collect them all under one roof:
The Meatrix:
The Meatrix 2:
and The Meatrix 2.5:
Technorati Tags: meatrix, factory farming, livestock, humane animal treatment, consumer awareness
I just visited the Farm Bureau Young Farmers Blog http://www.fb.org/blog and noticed
you were criticizing them for linking to PETA. Do you realize the MEATRIX
videos were produced by PETA? You too are referencing PETA. Just thought
you would be interested in knowing this since you were upset with them for
allowing reference to PETA on their site.
Hmmm. . .PigsRus, you’re going to have to prove that one to me. The Meatrix series is tied to Sustainable Table, who promote it. I think they are pretty much on the opposite side of the fence from P∑TA and do not promote radical vegetarian or veganism, or extreme animal rights in any way that I know of.
The Meatrix movies were created by Free Range Graphics who have no obvious ties to extreme animal rights activism, but are pretty anti-corporate control of everything. And Food & Water Watch–another anti-corporate, pro-consumer freedom group–promotes the Meatrix movies internationally.
Unless I am missing something there isn’t even the slightest suggestion that P∑TA produced, distributed or contributed money to the Meatrix movies. I am sure they support the movies because they do play into their agenda of freeing Animal from human control and trying to instill human rights on animals. I cannot even find any statement linking the Meatrix Series to P∑TA or that they agree with it.
Please restore your credibility and give us some links to back up your statements. I will happily change my position and openly state so if I have proof. Thanks.
http://blog.peta2.com/2004/07/everyone_loves_animation_right.html
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Everyone loves animation right? July 7, 2004
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All the best animal rights animations such as “The Meatrix”, “Thereﾌs a Fufanu in My Collar, Too!”, and “Veal: Fughedaboutit!” are now up at PETA2 TV.
Which animation is your favorite? Personally, I LOVE Cows With Guns.
Here is the proof you asked for. They have been on the PETA
website for a long time. They used to be on their regular PETA site but
are now located at PETA2. I have not viewed them for many years but
this is where I first learned about these videos. National Pork Producers
did an article about these being on the PETA site many years ago.
http://blog.peta2.com/2004/07/everyone_loves_animation_right.html
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After the long weekend, more news from PETA2. | Main | News From Warped and a New Mission.
Everyone loves animation right? July 7, 2004
Posted by nc | Permalink | Comments ( 0 )
All the best animal rights animations such as “The Meatrix”, “Thereﾌs a Fufanu in My Collar, Too!”, and “Veal: Fughedaboutit!” are now up at PETA2 TV.
Which animation is your favorite? Personally, I LOVE Cows With Guns.
Again, this proves nothing. P∑ta2tv merely linked to the first Meatrix video in 2004. That link is no longer operational and leads you somewhere else now, BTW. Their current video site has no links to any of the Meatrix videos, nor any of the other great films by Free Range Graphics. But thanks for spurring me into action. I have emailed Sustainable Table and Free Range Graphics to get their take on this debate so we all may learn.
BTW the Meatix isn’t so much an animal rights movement as an effort to stop a run-away meat industry which values their customers about as much as they value the commodity they trade in, which just happens to be animals. The “humane”, caring, careful treatment of the animals which become our food is only proper and just in a rational civilization. Just as the proper and fitting end of a bean might be a Cassoulet, so to the duck and the pig which join it. Food which is raised and eaten with respect becomes part of something much more.
Okay. . .Here is the official response I just received from Free Range Graphics: