EARTHLINGS

[xLovexsharexsmilex]

Sixth month of being a 16 year old vegan in a non-vegan world and none of the questions or stupid comments from ignorant people matter when I watch this. Changing the world...one meal at a time :)

[peaksnow1]

This creates a question in my mine why is the creation of life so beautiful and the destruction of life so tolerable? What does take to open ones Heart and let the love in and out to be shared?

[aurabalaura]

...we are still doing this!

[aurabalaura]

and again even in here people are acting as the most stupid being among animals - arguing. We were not born to have so much hate in our souls, or to destroy all that we are surrounded by - we had a lot of options but we have chosen the most cruel one! we preferred to develop our human race and while doing that we became all murderers - directly or indirectly. We changed the nature, we assaulted the animals territories, we killed everything that was in our way...and the most sad thing of all is

[Heavymetalgamer28]

Saw it. Absolutely riverting, Definitely going to go vegetarian/vegan soon. 

[treaclecarp]

a friend of mine is a gamekeeper his old gun dog was ill so he took it to his vet who said the dog was not suffering just old ,as time went on the dog got slower and more stressed one day he helped the dog into the garden an area the dog knew well he fell asleep the gamekeeper shot the dog, the vet told him of a lady who had spent a fortune on operations to keep her dog alive that dog is paralysed in the back legs and now gets around on a set of wheels on his legs who is best the keeper or lady

[TheMightyBlighty]

@treaclecarp These animals are not old or terminally ill you plonker....

[blackopx54]

Ok so I'm going to go and start slaughtering people to balance it out a bit. Happy now assholes?

[jakalkid1997]

I TOTALY LOLED' AT 2:40 xD

[missraw]

@jakalkid1997 It's so painfully obvious what an ignorant child you are. That was a woman in the photo who was being sold into slavery. Stupid ignoramus.

[jakalkid1997]

@missraw and i care why ? ;)

[missraw]

@jakalkid1997 If you don't care, that proves my point. Look at you on Youtube watching a trailer for this documentary... It's obvious that you're just simply too ridiculously ignorant to grasp what this movie is really telling you. Otherwise, you wouldn't sit there and "LOLED" at that picture of a woman being sold into slavery. Do you know your history, you little oaf? Huh? No? Than focus on your STUDYING, stupid.

[missraw]

@jakalkid1997 Age isn't an excuse for disrespect. Even at age 14, I wasn't as dumb as you are. I actually knew what slavery was about and it wasn't something to laugh at.

[jakalkid1997]

@missraw you know nothing of my intellect. i know about slavery . what what proof/evidence do you have of me that makes me as dumb as any other 14 year old? non! making false assumptions is "dumb" as you have no evidence to back up your point.

[missraw]

@jakalkid1997 "I TOTALY LOLED' AT 2:40 xD," is proof enough, sweetheart. Go back to playing your toys, brat.

[jakalkid1997]

@missraw how is that proof ? it mearly shows immaturity. wow u realy are dumb :L

[missraw]

@jakalkid1997 "It MEARLY shows immaturity."

Amazing. Glad to see that you don't find immaturity a lack of intelligence, and love it how you called me dumb but then misspelled "mearly".

[jakalkid1997]

@missraw <3

[missraw]

@jakalkid1997 Great way to get out of a tough situation! Just "<3" and that's that. Now mature people would apologize for being stupid...

[TwinFish529]

This is ridiculous. I can't believe that video was flagged so that only people 18 and over can watch it. No matter how horrible the truth is, I refuse to hide or cover my eyes from it. We need to see what levels our humanity has stooped to, and the earlier the better. Facing the truth makes you more compelled to bring change.

[XxShadowfootxX]

People are soo darn cruel!!

this is making me cry! I'm glad I'm going Vegan.

I love animals.

[pablo8174]

fuck cows nigga

[FinalPre]

an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

[FinalPre]

The Biggest Crime is police and coverment..Jesus say Humans don´t kill..But the Coverment kill for oil usw..And when Animal kill animals he say is Nature ..But the human is a animal and kill is nature..When i kill a Animal cruelty im crime ??? I say not i must become for this a medal for saver world ..Fuck the Police and the rest .Animals are the future not a human .A human is the crime of the plenet and destroy the world ..Greetings from Germany

[cloudani]

Anyone agree that this makes no difference with Holocaust? Is the human suffering more important than the animal?

I watched all the documentary and saw nothing but the major Holocaust, only that animals doesn't describe their pain as we do.

[intothevoid0208]

i dont think they are less intelligient there just isnt enough known to know how intelligient they really are...but a couple clicks is certainly not them discussing politics or scientific theories hah

[intothevoid0208]

jpicko94, fully agree

what needs to be changed is the cruelty that is not benefiting us (ie: rodeos, pigeon bowling, horse racing, fur as this isnt necessary anymore etc) and the number of animals being consumed.. eating meat is normal but we eat way too much and the way these animals are being killed in the slaughterhouses is messed up too, ideally all the animals should be cage-free/free-range.

[jpicko94]

I agree intention animal cruelty is wrong, however without animals, and using animals, we would not survive as a species. We would not have stood the harsh temperatures without clothing from animal skins, would not have lived and transformed into such a wide-spread and powerful population if we did not have food. This large population means advancement in technology, without it people would die because of lack of meds, same goes for animals that depend on us for meds, food, water and shelter.

[jpicko94]

It is natural for all species to think of themselves first; for survive. Charles Darwin said that evolution is the survival of the fittest and this is what the evolution of our species has led us to become. We have complex thinking and are considered the fittest of all. We once dieted on meat to live because there were many animals; less vegetation. This video shows just one view on a topic, and you should not just believe that we are cruel and forget that we are just living, like everyone else.

[florescents]

Omy. Feeling really depressed :'(

[SerenityShootingStar]

@florescents

If you're a contributor to the mass murder than hopefully this'll enlighten you as well as making you feel depressed.

[donnyab]

lets hope the asteroid arrives soon

[AmitOrgad]

Amazing film, a MUST for everyone with any hope for a better future.

[tammi4695]

i love this movie . Its so sad . But it´s the ugly truth ..

[kunntz]

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields - Tolstoy

[superwhuffo1]

@kunntz you've got that right...search The Dawn of Intelligence

[kunntz]

@superwhuffo1 I will. Thanks.

[kanela911]

so sad..but true!humans are the worst beings in the world

[busybee1952]

I think what it really boils down to is the cruelty inflicted on helpless beings.

[woodwired1]

Incredible.

[mitziocean]

If u want to know how your lifestyle effects life. 

[iluvSpectacular011]

omg this is sad! When i saw this i ran to my dog! I HATE ANIMAL CRUELTY!

[bpalzer73]

I just watched this recently with my girlfriend Katie, she and it have changed my life...FOREVER!

[bakechad]

aff n precisa mata caxorro gato

ate pq os gatos e cachorros fazem parte do nosso grupo tbm comem carne

[cuntface578]

you haters should watch the whole movie b4 you talk shit.

[EpicnessPivotMaster]

Awesome documentary. I WILL be vegan.

[dconrad000]

The same people that want you to keep eating animal products, also want you to keep taking vaccines.

[intothevoid0208]

i made a video for this as well... Sums up the documentary very well if you have a hard time sitting through it.. but I think it is better to watch it

[laurenAmbrose]

Definitely better to watch it. Time of ignorance is over.

[intothevoid0208]

@donnyab i don't think they are more intelligient, cant talk, cant discuss philosophy :).. i haven't read enough about their intelligience levels but i do know a recent observation is they were able to choose which food/'snack' they wanted based on picking different sound frequencies

[intothevoid0208]

@donnyab no creature on this planet is as intelligient as humans but i am not saying that animals aren't smart/great survivers.. but.. can they speak the language of physics for example? c'mon.  i'm an animal lover and didnt say they are STUPID.. just that they aren't AS intelligient.

[intothevoid0208]

@donnyab point taken.. i can't argue that.. but they can't discuss ethics or anything such as that,.. humans have a greater understanding about topics that no other animal even begins to ponder.

[intothevoid0208]

@donnyab i want dolphins to start talking hah that would be awesome

[andreas28mw2]

@intothevoid0208 u are the perfect example for a human who thinks that animals are retarted and he isnt ..with one word ..asshole!! the only thing u can do is to kill yourself !! because of people like u ..humans are more retarder than all the other animnals!! humans can live together with anything execpet of other humans!! think about it and read a book about ecology ..!!

[intothevoid0208]

@donnyab removing your comments? yeah..never even got to read.

[donnyab]

@intothevoid0208

Ok I'm confused now.

The comment you just replied to was six months old according to my screen, but you have already relpied to me a few times over the last week or two.

(I delete comments because people of YT are unfortunately 90% "arsehole" and sometimes if I am in the middle of doing a bit of work on the computer, I log in to YT to listen to some music and read a reply which is rude or racist or ignorant and six months later ! (not yours!). I just get fed up with it.)

[VICARIVFILII]

...And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered...

[jredubr]

What's the name of that song that plays since the beggining of the video until the part when the narrator says the quotes?

[powaniki]

thanks for the video, it is very clear the hate humanoids have for non-human animals. Their minds twisted, they deserve the worst. Luckily not humans are bastards monsters like them.

[funnystuff123d3]

Non-human animal? Humans are not animals. And animals are not humans. Why is he trying to confuse the terms?

[vam4TWO]

humans are fucking animals

[MechEngTr]

humans are animals...We are mamals, and u should accept that u are an animal that can think!

[funnystuff123d3]

We do not fit any definition of animals. We are above animals. Maybe you are an animal but the rest of us are not.

[MechEngTr]

yes u r funny like ur nick...do u know anything about biology? or anathomy? i guess not...and intelligence is makin' human above animals...but we r still made from flesh and blood...so we are not plants or fungus or insects or fish...and all resemblance and other stuff makes us animals...u can deny all u want, that doesnt change the truth :) even makes u more animal, lack of intelligence...

[funnystuff123d3]

Animals live out in the wild and hunt. We sit on the couch and hunt for the TV remote.

Animals build nests while we build cities and complex machines.

Animals eat shit. Most of us are smart enough not to. . .

Animals migrate based on their food supplies and weather conditions. We control our food supplies and use heaters and A/C for weather.

Animals lack culture. Humans have culture/religion/status/ceramo­nies

Humans are not animals

[kko589]

U

ARE

STUPID

no comments for you

[kko589]

my comment was to funnystuff

[funnystuff123d3]

Your comment to me "no comments for you"

Looks like you wrote a comment to tell me you have no comment for me?

[powaniki]

You should have studied at school that there are 3 kindoms: the animal kingdom includes us. We are animals.

[funnystuff123d3]

Define an animal then. We don't fit the definition.

[powaniki]

Instead of having the "bad wave" of demanding me to define animal, you could have typed "animal definition" in your computer & would have the immediate answer.

[powaniki]

Anyway, here is:

Any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation

[funnystuff123d3]

animal

Noun

1. Zool any living being that is capable of voluntary movement and possesses specialized sense organs

2. any living being other than a human being

3. any living being with four legs

4. a cruel or coarse person

5. Facetious a person or thing: there's no such animal

Take note of #2

[powaniki]

The BIOLOGIC definition is that humans belong to the animalia kingdom. Now, maybe you look for a religious definition (considering the existence of a SOUL, then, we are different.

[funnystuff123d3]

I got As and Bs in Science and no we are not animals, see below:

1. any member of the kingdom Animalia (. . .)

2. any such living thing other than a human being.

3. a mammal, as opposed to a fish, bird, etc.

4. the physical, sensual, or carnal nature of human beings; animality: the animal in every person.

5. an inhuman person; brutish or beastlike person: She married an animal.

[powaniki]

I don't know from where you got those definitions, but they contradict themselves... didn't you notice? (i.e. #1 and #3. ) If only mammals are animals... fish and birds are not (it is not true), but still we are animals (we are mammals)

[funnystuff123d3]

I took your advice and looked it up on two separate sites, both say that humans are not animals. I'm sure there are other sites that say the same thing but I don't want to waste my time.

We are living breathing mammals but we are not animals. There is no contradiction.

Humans are above animals. Humans are at the top of the food chain. We are in a different class than animals.

[kko589]

DEFINITION OF THE ANIMAL

1 Being organized living, endowed with high sensitivity and capable of movement

2 Being animated other than the man.

But I dont think earthlings only deals with this subject.

The man treats the animal as an object, turned it into a business. its something more serious I think; then let me tell you something you're stupid bcoz u think that is normal

[powaniki]

I appreciate you bother to find that humans are animals.We are animals, and also belong to the classification of "primates' (like it or not). Here the debate is not about who is "superior" to who. But anyway, there are humans that are less than a roach, and animals who love their family more than us, "humans". There are things that humans can do and the non-humans can't, AND VICEVERSA. what is it worth to be "superior" if we kill our wife, children, any other living creature we are able to ?

[funnystuff123d3]

"But I dont think earthlings only deals with this subject.

The man treats the animal as an object, turned it into a business. its something more serious I think; then let me tell you something you're stupid bcoz u think that is normal"

When did I ever say mistreating animals was normal?!?!?

YOU are stupid because you put words in peoples mouths.

I have had animals all my life. I have never mistreated them. If anything I spoil them.

[kko589]

in a house on fire: there is a human and a cat who saves you?

[funnystuff123d3]

It all depends. If you are asleep with the cat and the door is closed the cat will start meowing and may even claw you to wake you.

If the neighbors see your house on fire they will call 911 and save you and your cat.

What is the point of your question exactly?

[kko589]

LOL

for someone who called funnystuff u are really funny

God bless you goodbye

[funnystuff123d3]

You are a strange person. You asked me who would save me if my house is on fire a human or a cat. I said the human could save me and the cat could also save me. Yet you think that is funny. Do you think that animals are unable to save people in danger?

[cj150000118]

same arguemnt applies with people that sy"if u were on a desert island wud u eat a chicken/pig"?

you then say, if they are alive, I can be alive too x

[funnystuff123d3]

@cj150000118 and your point is what?

[IHaveABeard123]

Here's the thing > how do you actually get most people from the general public to watch this? I can guarantee as soon as they do they'll have sympathy and compassion for animal cruelty, but most people don't take the time to watch.

[mycrusade]

exactly my thoughts. i wish i could sit all of my family and friends down to watch this.

[Palm7ree]

lolololololololollolololololol­

[Palm7ree]

animals have no souls.

[arafel1964]

Animals are aware and interact with their environment. They may be not as intelligent as we are to genocide a whole group or make nukes but they can certainly be compared with little children's brains. They do have souls and even if they don't have one, which I'm sure it is not the care, it is still no excuse to abuse and beat up animals.

[ryudo113]

ur a fucking douchebag i hope u suffer the same faith as all these poor animals did.

[Palm7ree]

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[animalliberation0961]

May we all find mercy and peace. The sooner the better.

[33fgfhjj]

is this the video that left leaflets and notes every where around muswell hill

[DiamonInDaStone]

lol hippys HAHAHAHA

[Surinaris]

hippys are against war

idiot

[funnystuff123d3]

no they are not. They support war that benefit them

[animalliberation0961]

You fuckin' dick. I'd like to see you in their place!

[IHaveABeard123]

your a fucking dick

[coquisvrindavana]

Es terrible pero la gente no se da cuenta de la gravedad del asunto prefieren evitar verlo y seguir manteniendo mataderos, yo me canso mucho con la gente así de cómoda y que no se comprometen con la causa y doble moral, que pecado de los animales pero venga comamosnoslo, esa es la verdadera hipocrecía.

[hcoreeninjaa]

i havent cried so much in like..the last year.

this movie really moved me, and before this i was vegetarian.

ive been vegan for a couple months now.

and i'm very grateful for his video.

it helped to open my eyes.

oh, and you can see the full video on google video.

:)

[JCasR3]

I think the flaw came when meat and animal nourishment (milk, eggs, lard, etc) became big money and people realized ... "hey if i don't sell you these eggs you'll starve so i can charge you what i want, i have power over you"

Ancient and old world societies used animals for meat, and fur, and transport and companionship but they did it with respect and honor because with out them we wouldn't survive.

[perfectsky5]

I haven't cried that hard since i watched Passion of the Christ. Thanks for your interview Shawn at the Hollywood Climate Change Conference. If enough of the people's consciousness changes, and the government can provide legislation like subsidizing farmers who quit factory farming, then over the next few years, hopefully this film won't be true anymore. What a f***ing wake up call. I want to make a real movie where teenagers stumble across a factory farm and are shocked to see the reality ...

[PandoraMexBel]

RadicalForLiberty,

We keep our livestock locked up in pins where they can hardly move, some even have broken bones. They never see sunlight. At the end of their miserable short lives they are taken on day long transports in deplorable conditions that some animals don´t even survive. Upon arrival they are slaughtered horribly (which I have seen and it is awful).

So, yes I see a HUGE difference between the bear eating fish living freely in the river and us abusing locked up animals.

[Tactums]

I watched this on google video... all i can say is yeh, they have a point and i totally agree with them - just as per usual they do nothing to sugest ways of solving this - or the alternatives. This film is worse than any horror movie, 2girls1 cup or the pain olympics - is not for the squeemish nor those who can empathise well.

however i will not go against the use of animals for medical/scientific research, ofcourse that does not include cosmetic companies.

Good documentary over all.

[RadicalForLiberty]

"Speceism..." All species are speciests.. Every species on this planet is in pursuit of it's own self interest. Every species on this earth will use all of its talents and abilities to survive and flourish. If a certain activity amounts to benefiting one species at the expense of another, that activity will be pursued regardless. This is not exclusive to humans. We are not evil motherfuckers. I don't see any of you condemning the bear for eating a fish. There is no difference when a human does.

[000fm000]

i truly wish you were entirely correct, RadicalForLiberty, but, unfortunately, there are some 'evil motherfuckers' in our world. but, one of the main points that this film brings to light is the procedures and conditions that are being used in the slaughtering of 'our' live stock. we're an intelligent 'species'. we can choose to either do things with compassion for 'others' or we can do things with disregard for 'others' & alot of what i saw in this film was a display of disregard for 'others'.

[parisfr12]

@000fm000 Same bullshit as the 'green propaganda': Wash yourselves less, do not waste water!

Households use the 10% of the energy, and the industry the rest 90%. So, they are trying to convince us that we have to reduce that 10% to 8%, to save the planet. And for the 92% of the industry? we do not give a fuck?

[BusterRogue]

excellent film, shaun!

"Earthlings" is 'definitely' a must see.

you rock!

[000fm000]

..this film is definately one of the most, if not thee most, important message for all human beings of earth.

[parisfr12]

@000fm000 This video is completely stupid. This guy is trying to persuade us that that human habits and traditions harm other species. Wrong! Massive production of multinational companies harms other species, not a fisherman who wants to feed his family!

[Jupiterconjunct]

@parisfr12, it is you who is completely stupid.

[parisfr12]

@Jupiterconjunct no....I m sorry...

we are afraid of the truth... the production of multinational companies harm is what harms... either you accept or not, that s the truth.

If macdonald and kfc want to be competitive, what you see there is the result.

[gaaranarutosasuke1]

this video is so sad and so true...

[orcagirl]

thanks for this. i have replaced the what i guess was a pirated video with this one, and linked to your site for online viewing. will pass to everyone i know. best of luck