Le Sang des bêtes (Blood of the Beasts) part 1/3

[dearmalika]

sorry I cant watch it more! Poor horse! Poor all this animals!

[clioandminnie]

All to satisfy man's inhumanity. Why are some animals slaughtered in a such grotesque, brutal and babaric manner compared to others. The poor innocent calves deserved a more humne method of killing instead of being treated as inate, unfeeling objects.

[johnsoncm65]

That horse was killed in a far more humane manner than commonly occurs in today's slaughterhouses. The horse showed no sign of being frightened. It was well treated to the last moment. While I do not want horses to be killed for any reason except to end suffering, the treatment of that horse long ago was better than many would receive today at slaughter. Perhaps we can learn something from the past. Such as more compassionate treatment even of animals that are headed for the menu.

[ghostbuster16]

After watching this film, I'm still going to consume meat, because this is in human nature and we can't deny it; all in all one of 1st professions was hunting. But I gained higher level of awareness. I wish we could eat only what we need not more, and not waste food like back in a day .

[Aleque]

poor horsie

[stolpsgti]

I was in Paris this summer and went looking for restaurants that served horse - I didn't find any; with all the uproar that surrounds the consumption of horse (vs. the relative quiet surrounding other animals), I was hoping to at least compare the flavor to beef. I suspect it's becoming less popular...

[Gloumie1]

Men always ate meat and they always will. Centuries ago vegan did not exists, nobody would have understood it. We are now much more too sensitive to face some realities (I closed my eyes numberless times watching this) This doc is from 1949. I've been in a slaughterhouse recently and I can tell you that nothing you just saw exists anymore. + I'm surprised nobody spoke about those poor men working hard in death and blood.

[thehazierhazy]

@Gloumie1 you are right. none of these exist anymore.

Now is worse.

[cammarkgross]

I'm Doing MY Senior Presantation On horse slaughter, Could I use some clips from this for the video part of it??

[Writerandartiste]

I really wanna turn vegetarian now. Killing those sentient beings for food is just not right. We as humans need to make a conscious choice whether or not such bloodbath is needed for our future generations. Need, not greed and gluttony, should guide our dietary choices.

[TorrechiaraCinema]

@Writerandartiste Killing is fine, it's natural. We do it in unneeded excess, that's the problem. There is nothing finer in life than a nicely cooked Filet Mignon with a side of string beans and potatoes but that is a luxury I only rarely have.

[zarbar2]

Ok, I'm going to stop this documentary at "specialized in the slaughtering of HORSES", because shit damn, even if I was Hitler and a horse was my Jew, I would never hurt a horse. That animal is too gorgeous and too powerful for me to even think about it. Horrible.

[Melissaamorx]

the picture of 5:58 makes me despise the human race even more

[OriEchelon]

@pbauw WTF it`s wrong with you??? It is not fucking funny idiot >.<

[idawestberg123]

I know a teacher who showed the students (11yearold!!!!) this is school! That's great if you ask me

[Brummfussel]

Diese Pferde mußten keine schlimmen Langstreckentransporte hinter sich bringen.Sie kamen sicher aus der Umgebung.Keine industrielle Schlachtung.Der Schimmel hat sicher bis zum letzten Tag gearbeitet,dann brachte ihn ein Mensch zum Schlachthof...der tödliche Schuß - Ende...ohne Leiden.

Auch ich werde mein Pferd nicht an einen Pferdehändler verkaufen,denn damit gebe ich meine Verantwortung für ihn auf.Ich bring ihn direkt zum Schlachter und bleib bis zum Schluß bei ihm.

[KuschelZoey]

wie kann man den pferden sowas antuhen?!? :'( ich wünsche den pferde schlachtern einen grauenvollen tot!!!!

[LaDyFlabiA]

AwFuL =/

[pbauw]

Hmmm delicious horse steak nom nom nom!

[jaguar4u2012]

what kind of retards eating a horse?

poor horse!

and how can they slaughter the horse, this is disgusting and evil!

eat chicken and Fish, isnt that enough?

[RedSoxForObama]

@jaguar4u2012

Why is killing a horse any better than killing a cow?

And why kill any of them, for Christ's sake?

[jaguar4u2012]

@RedSoxForObama

did I said its ok?

This is real horror!

[RedSoxForObama]

@jaguar4u2012

I'm sorry if you meant that it's all killing, but I've had too much exposure to the 'OMG horses are teh beutifull and killng them is EVUL!1!!!11' group who still happily eat pork and beef. It's rather tiresome.

And I don't eat chicken or fish, and I never will. I find the idea of killing either of them (especially fish, they die a horrible death) repugnant.

[jaguar4u2012]

@RedSoxForObama

its not about the beauty,

its jsut that smaller creatures are more premitive and easy to cnock down, and they multiply very quickly

I mean after all, everything in the world that you eat comes from Biological beings, exept Salt and Water

Apples got living cells as well, its a living thing, and it dies when you eat it!

eating meat is important for health

after all predators like Tigers eat meat too, they even eat people!

but its important to know the limit

[RedSoxForObama]

@jaguar4u2012

Bullshit. I have been just fine without eating meat. Apples do not have brains; they cannot think, nor are they slaughtered. I do not kill THINKING BEINGS, beings that feel pain and consciously avoid death. And I cannot understand why people would.

PS. Apples have evolved to be eaten.

[petard84]

@RedSoxForObama Ever killed a mosquito, spider, fly? The average person swallows 8 spiders a year so I'd wager you have. All kidding aside though apples have evolved to spread their seed, nothing more. The fact that they provide sustenance is a bonus.

Thankfully I've evolved to eat meat. 

[RedSoxForObama]

@petard84

Herp derp don't understand concept of harm reduction as opposed to elimination.

[thehazierhazy]

@petard84 why do people who kill for eating like to say the vegs actually kill animals (accidentally)? do you think that's an argument? is so stupid and you use it because you do not have anything else to say.

i would like to see you read one of hundreds research studies about how eating meat is awfully bad for human body.

[petard84]

@thehazierhazy Ignorance, It's not just accidentally. My original post was, meant as a joke, hence the next sentence reads, "All kidding aside..." Clearing land for crops kills millions of animals each year. Rabbits, ground hogs, moles, among other field animals. So next time you sit on your high horse to enjoy your animal free meal realize your salad is just as bloody as my rare steak.

Send me some links, I'd love to read some good research. Interested to see who funds it also.

[TorrechiaraCinema]

@RedSoxForObama As far as WE know Apples are not thinking beings. Also just as Apples have evolved to be eaten so have animals, it's kind of how life works on this planet; you should get a copy of the tourist brochure, some interesting stuff in there.

[towely]

@jaguar4u2012 Horse is generally healthier than many other common meat products(venison, beef, ect.) in many ways. Why is it so horrible to kill a horse but a chicken or fish is ok? And no, chicken and fish isn't enough. If your meat intake consists only of chicken and fish you have a HORRIBLE diet.

[jaguar4u2012]

@towely

No! not at all!

its a great diet!

Red Meat and pork got lots of fats and are very dificult for our stumeck

and yes the Chickens and the Fish are poor cute fellows to

[letsbesubtle]

@jaguar4u2012

Whatbthe fuck is a stumeck ?

[frankbooth64]

@towely "Chicken or fish isn't enough?" For what? Are you a time traveller from the Fifties? How about NO meat intake? How about all those THRIVING vegan bodybuilders and triathletes? You must be a horse meat salesman.

[ronanthebadbrain]

@frankbooth64 I am THE horse-meat-salesman

[frankbooth64]

Respond to this video... "Why is it so horrible to kill a horse but a chicken or fish is ok?" This is your only valid point. You're right, it's hypocrisy.

[Melissaamorx]

@frankbooth64

Because chickens and fish can't think about pain, horses can suffer. Fish and chickens cant, they only exist through a few nervecells in their brains making them do what they do.

[h1a2l3l4o5o6o7]

how can someone do this to an earthling? how can that man look the horse in it's eyes and just kill it? i call that humanity.

this movie shows how humans really are. nothing but cruel and too imbecile from all that cerebral matter.

some call this a masterpiece? i gotta barf!

[Ricepatch1]

I have yet to eat horse meat. Would love to try some. Why did we stop eating them here in the states?

[Nostalgamagic]

@Ricepatch1 A cultural thing, I guess. I heard that the English are appalled by the thought of eating horse.

Here in Sweden I've only eaten it as a sandwich topping, I don't think I've ever seen a steak or anything being sold. It tastes alright.

[zibilotto]

Dio che orrore..

[ErikRicardoLC]

Can I haz a Cheezburguer?

[DanDeePee]

excuse me all you vegetarian hippies out there, just because were the intelligent species, were supposed to break the break the food chain and overpopulate every once abused species that a few people felt bad for? I thought being vegetarian was about being against mistreatment of animals, not trying too control the "circle of life"

[DanDeePee]

excuse me all you vegetarian hippies out there, just because were the intelligent species, were supposed to break the break the food chain and overpopulate every once abused species that a few people felt bad for? I thought being vegetarian used to be about being against mistreatment of animals, not trying too control the "circle of life"

[picbing]

These images haunt me. If they didn't something would be wrong with me I think. Though I really don't think tht any of theses animals suffered. The guys really knew what they were doing. From what I've heard modern slaughterhouse workers are more amateur.

[alezander666]

HERE'S MY STORY,WE EAT MEAT,I EAT MEAT,IF I HAD TO KILL,I WOULD NOT,EXCEPT FISH,YES,I WOULD FISH.we are like the germans in their predicament in the world war,AS LONG AS WE DO NOT SEE,WE ARE SAFE,AND RIGHT.what is the result of this film,NOTHING,PEOPLE STILL HUNT,EAT MEAT,AND ENJOYING,A LIFE OF FISH,EGG,ECT,SEEMS BORNING,WHAT IS THE SOLUTION,LIKE THE "GERMANS",I PROFIT WHILE OTHERS HIDDEN DO THE "DIRTY WORK",ALL CULTURES,ALL,EAT PORK,MEAT,FOWL,ECT,SINCE TIME BEGAN,WHY TORTURE ANIMALS,NEVER

[jeanmunn]

My father owned a small slaughterhouse in Scotland many years ago, we only had four employees. I never went near the place on Tuesdays, thats when we slaughtered the horses.

We had a back area for the men where we kept clean linen, it was awful, I was in my mid teens and I used to have this young boy fuck me almost every day.

I loved the smell of the sweat and blood from him when he was pounding me over the linen baskets.

I still have these fantasies about men raping me in a slaughterhouse ?

[Melissaamorx]

this is horrible! HORRIBLE

[MorseCoach]

@Melissaamorx

Please delete your comment. It's really embarassing. You don't realize this document is a staple in higher education. You also fail to realize Homo sapiens would not have come to be had it not been for the consumption of red meat. I won't even get into to symbolism meant in the film. Just please delete and move on, thanks.

[MorseCoach]

@Melissaamorx

Please delete your comment. It's really embarassing. You don't realize this document is a staple in higher education. You also fail to realize Homo sapiens would not have come to be had it not been for the consumption of red meat. I won't even get into to symbolism meant in the film. Just please delete and move on, thanks.

P.S:. you can rest assured knowing there is no relationship between animal cruelty and this masterpiece.

[Melissaamorx]

@MorseCoach

Sorry.. I'm just 16 years old. And a massive horselover since I grew up with them.. It's just really shocking for me to see a horse being killed. A living creature.. And then the blood and.. No I'm scarred forever now..

[MorseCoach]

@Melissaamorx you're forgiven. Remember this when you're in college ;) Actually, the film is supposed to be very hard to watch and is considered by many the most violent film ever shown. Read some of the other comments, they explain the purpose well.

Sorry, I had a fight with a hard-line vegetarian today in class over this film. Didn't mean to take it out on you. But it is a masterwork. I love horses too

[Melissaamorx]

@MorseCoach

ah cool. ok. im in college btw:P

xx

[EstebanMigui]

A Masterpiece.

Le plus incroyable du cinéma français.

[XXplaythegamesXX]

this is one of the best movies in centuries !!!!!....see this prof men,they can realy do the job.so fast,clean.i wish,we had them all in todays slaughterhouses.

[zfranciose]

this film is a wake up call, to a society who refuses to acknowledge the truths.

It is also a testament to the workers, "those who kill without anger"

It is nothing more than their job, former world champion boxers, great people who have taken a job that society shuns and refuses to acknowledge.

It is not to explore the evil of slaughterhouses, it is a documentary exposing what we turn our heads away from and refuse to look, even if it happens "on the outskirts of town where the children play"

[RICKROLLBLENDER]

moral of this story: shit happens

[pasheditor]

evil .... that beautiful hoarse !!!

[Elcore]

"It's a reminder that what is inevitable may also be spiritually unendurable, that what is justifiable may be atrocious... that, like our Mad Mother Nature, our Mad Father Society is an organization of deaths as well as of lives..."

[ammayak20]

fucking !!!deadly!

[Dothd00d]

The horse didn't see it coming....

Quick and painless though, from what I saw of course.

[Itasattc]

Thank You David Lynch

[CampEpsilon]

@Itasattc Yep, curiosity got to me, too

[randall2020]

"Beasts" is a bit strong for the translation. "Bêtes" also simply means "animals" in French. But I don't know the directors intention.

[godofwar166]

I wish that some of the idiots commenting here would be in the movie instead of the animals..

[marculpa]

Sehr guter Film.

Vielen Dank!

Marculpa

[HoovesAndWings]

humans disgust me. That poor horse didn't know what was coming, didn't know it'd be his last breath.

[axderaq]

Oh my...

[jimmystaples1]

where can i watch the french version

[psykoosi]

Everyone should read Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation". Really.

[ESTETTE]

Atroce vision, d'une réalité dont on ne veut rien savoir. La barbarie au quotidien. Le meurtre de masse institutionnalisé.

[StexeGod]

3:50 lulz at the horse.

We saw this film in our horror class. Great film and very powerful (2 girls couldn't even watch it and had to leave). I do prefer the french narration with subtitles though -- the beauty of the french language in contrast with the horrific things happening. Although one has to question the horror -- humans have been doing this for over 10,000 years. Why do we see it as horror now? Interesting commentary in contrast to the mechanical killing of Jews in the Holocaust.

[adamisuber]

I like this movie because it has pictures and movie

[daisiesanddaydreams]

this was a french documentary.

[gothabillygirl]

Anything that provokes a bunch of vegans /vegetarians to proclaim their internet superiority is fine with me. Hysterical. And it proves that most American veggie types only respect other cultures in theory.

[KrisMTL]

wow, what are you saying?

[daisiesanddaydreams]

@WTP2k if that's what let's you sleep at night after eating meat than do what you have to do. but get it right it's not the meat you need it's the nutrients/ proteins/ etc that you need. there are PLENTY of meat subsitutes that exist to fulfll those requirements that don't require the death of an animal or need for allocating our already diminishing resources (water/land) to the mass and often inhumane raising and slaughtering of an animal.

[alittlebitofperil]

@daisiesanddaydreams - so what happens when we lose all power, all means of farming and have to go back to living off hte land? i can assure you daisies that you will not survive without meat in your diet if you are living in a harsh climate. Its easy to be vegetarian in the western world, it is not in poor parts. Animals eat animals and will always do so. It is the way of nature, the cycle of life. I think it should be done humanely however.

[peoplelaurenpeople]

woow is this real?

[peoplelaurenpeople]

That music is driving me insane lol. x

[TheVampireSunday]

O_O

3:57

wtf...

[TheStarWarriorHorse]

I HATE horse slaughter but I find it interesting that the hooves of horses are sometimes used as fetilizer. However, I doubt that it is used in American fertilizer. Praise the Lord for that!

[ledepotesta]

it's used in organic fertilizer, for phosphorus more specifically.

[lowfiwhiteguy]

@TheStarWarriorHorse

horses are delish.

[TheStarWarriorHorse]

Dude, I would rather eat my own vomit before I'd nip out a morsle of horse meat. In my opinion, horses are the greatest animals on the planet and I feel that it is a very serious crime to slaughter a horse for food or any other purpose unless you are suffering from starvation and there is no other choise. Besides, I live in the US and it is illegal to buy or sell horse meat. Think of it this way: horse slaughterhouse = H*ll. DX

[lowfiwhiteguy]

@TheStarWarriorHorse

enjoy your vomit then i guess.

[Anonymous1337lulz]

@TheStarWarriorHorse i bet it will taste like chicken dude.

[peymaania]

The lesson of life as a famous Persian poet once said; "Don't Let your Body (your Temple) become the grave yard of Animals. Once you defile your temple, it will take 7 years for it to be completely

cleaned out. Your stomach is not a grave yard. Decaying flesh in the body leads to

disease of the body, and a diseased body leads to a diseased mind. You'll find

that peoples who follow the Bhuddish diet in Asia in the East and the Mediterranean diet in the West live longest. Eg: Okinawa & Sardinia

[wallabyj]

I think you meant Hindu don't eat cows, and you do raise some valid points. However (and I'm completely NOT against a vegan or vegetarian diet by any means), meat does provide nutrition that can't be attained except through modern nutritional suppliments. It is true that improperly digested meat can retain in your GI tract. However, a good amount of fiber in your diet from plants etc. should keep you clean. Man should not live by meat alone. As far as a Japanese diet, their staple is fish: meat

[wallabyj]

And what DOESN'T give you cancer these days, seriously. You could take a pleasant bicycle ride, and BLAM! cancer. Also worth mentioning, humans are not carnivores, we're omnivores, which ties into what I said before about having a good amount of fiber in your diet.

[rusefilms]

WTF INTENSE.

[KerriAnn42]

this is what happens when you dont run fast enough

[joshmb24]

its something that definitely shouldn't be filmed, who the hell would enjoy watching this?

[peymaania]

Perhaps you should consider choking next time you stuff meat down your gullet!

[wallabyj]

David Lynch, who directed me to this.

[JaxHad]

me too

[Primorcon]

ditto

[louicoba]

No trial .Choose knowing the truth is honesty.Franju great films maker and joseph Cosma music is always sublime.I believe the only tribute to the animals sacrified .Helas, Wallabj !Before that, was the last "animals trip".Thank you for this document."

[constablekidd]

I dont see the problem here. How else are we supposed to eat meat?

[lorent75008]

Faites chiez les végétariens !!!!

[TROISCOURONNES]

L'HOMME EST UNE VRAIE MERDE

[cryptoclassic]

you tube comments cannot do justice to this masterpiece. Through the unflinching and humanist documentation of our often cruel dominion over the creatures we place at our service should cause us to pause and soberly consider how we are complicit in the cruelty. Is the abattoir indispensable? Are we trapped in a food chain that compels us to destroy life in order to live?

[OscarMaris]

@cryptoclassic that's nature, buddy

[dear1337er]

@cryptoclassic

If your point is represented by your first question, then no, I think people in the first world can get by without eating meat. As to whether we should - that's a point I'm not going to go into. Do bear in mind though that for many people around the world, raising livestock/herding/hunting is an economic necessity or otherwise tied in deeply with cultural beliefs.

[dear1337er]

@cryptoclassic

Your the second question is ... wrong. All things that live do so at the expense of everything else that could have lived given the resources necessary to sustain life. That's not just some cliched circle-of-life truism, it's a ecological and physical fact; the earth receives a finite amount of sunlight per day which sustains all life, and more complex life forms consume simpler life forms to survive. So the words 'trapped' and 'destroy' don't really make sense in this context.

[dear1337er]

@cryptoclassic

Even if we accept the framing of 'destroying life', not eating meat doesn't absolve us of any perceived moral culpability, or even significantly affect our impact on other life forms; it just makes us feel better about not killing animals that we can identify with closely, and to which the death of impacts us in a visceral way (specifically, barnyard mammals that we learned about anthropomorphically when we were 4).

[cryptoclassic]

@dear1337er to clarify, by "destroying life" I probably intended to include herbavors eating plants. Didn't the movie inspire in you thought that food and eating transcends morality? That, despite our empathy for the slaughtered lamb, hunger compels all animals to equivalent savagery? I feel humans are spectacular only in our simultaneous capacity to perfect the method of slaughter and endlessly debate it's necessity.

[dear1337er]

@cryptoclassic

The human ability to rationalize away and ignore moral issues is one of the most interesting topics for me. We have a fascinating ability to shrug our shoulders and learn to live with moral problems, and this film does a great job in challenging that complacency. I love meat, so the cognitive dissonance from watching this film is driving me crazy.

I don't see the results of hunger as savagery though.

I like that last sentence, and the idea that food transcends morality.

[dear1337er]

If we look at the total impact of everything that's required for humans to live, the cost is inconceivably greater than just consuming meat.

Pesticides kill (probably painfully) untold trillions of insects and small rodents every year. Even without pesticides, farmers still hunt down any animals eating their crops (killing not only those animals, but all animals that depend on those for food), remove any plants competing for nutrients, and clear vast swathes of natural habitat for farmland.

[dear1337er]

@cryptoclassic

Not eating meat would result in less destruction of life. But if life and cruelty are the values, then there's a lot more to address than abattoirs. We are no more 'trapped' in a food chain than we are trapped in the laws of physics. We no more 'destroy life' than any other life form that exists at the expense of another.

There's a lot more to say, but I'm going to abridge my point here because trying to present this idea in 500 character chunks is fucking painful. Stupid youtu-

[cryptoclassic]

@dear1337er Oh youtube, things I posted a year ago come back to haunt me. I guess my word choice was intended poetically and probably will not withstand rigorous philosophical abrasion. At the risk of condescending a rhetorical question shouldn't be considered right or wrong, but rather as a means of illustrating a point. In this instance the thoughts that were running through my head as I watched the video were roughly those of posed in the questions.

[dear1337er]

@cryptoclassic

haha, my old online comments make me cringe.

I did realize that you meant what you wrote in an impressionistic way. I guess my point was less directed towards your specific comment and more towards the general air of responses that alternate between unrepentance and lazy moralizing. I wanted to provide a more accurate depiction of humanity's impact on Earth. Youtube comments are probably not the best forum for this.

Sorry for the deluge of emails, if youtube sent you mail.

[towely]

@cryptoclassic "Are we trapped in a food chain that compels us to destroy life in order to live?" Yes? It's called being an omnivore... They teach about it in gradeschool. I have no problem with this. The animal was killed humanely and quickly. Very interesting video though.

[frankbooth64]

@towely If you had an old, sick pet, I'm sure you'd happily bring it to a slaughterhouse like this to be killed "humanely." Right?

[wallabyj]

Now granted, not a fan of killing any animals, and I don't eat horse so I don't see the necessity, but I'm surprised at how humanely that bolt gun actually killed it. It was pretty much dead instantly. When I went into this I was expecting so much worse. I know when I watched Fast Food Nation they were skinning the cows even as they were still alive. It gave me some comfort (if I can call it that) to know the animal at least died very quickly before it's preparation.

[Blondhorsecrazy]

it seemed to be a "humane" kill, but now days they use different "captive bolt" devises that DO not kill in first hit. it leaves the horses just rendered "helpless" but aware of their surroundings. They have outlawed Equine slaughterhouses in the US, but we are now shipping our beloved horses to other countries to slaughter them. There has also been "backyard" slaughterhouses found here in the US. I think more people need to be aware of this.

[wallabyj]

That is unfortunate. However, I do agree that there really isn't a need to slaughter horses any longer, we can create synthetic glues much cheaper now, and no one that I know of eats horse meat, so it seems outdated. As far as "backyard" slaughter houses, that really is just the same as someone who raises chickens or cows for their own food, so if it's for that purpose I can't be against it, if it's for outdated things (i.e. glue), then I don't understand it.

[jlamour]

Good times.

[peymaania]

Yes Indeed!

[paranoidboytoy]

aww the poor little horsey did they think about his wittle chidren

[manhattanprojec7]

oh my.. that was my immediate reactionary statement out of horror and anger to when we first witnessed the slaughtering of the horse. very good documentary.

[prolsit]

wtf is wrong with ppl??

[carolaparade]

Einstein: " human serenety will go by vegetalism.".

fuck barbary to animals means fuck barbary to humans.

[peymaania]

vegetalism??? What's that? please explain yourself.

[jkanavel]

delicious. btw where can I get one of those bolt guns. my neighbor's dog is plump and annoying.

[kingleonidas1097]

lol.

[legendarywelker]

HMMM TASTY HAMBURGER! DELICIOUS!

[shubidubar]

SLAY THEM ALL!

[jetty1989]

Video makes me embarrassed to be a human being...We are a fuckin disease to the earth.

[doobiesmoke15]

are we really any worse than chimps or baboons?

[Sirius484]

You think that chimpanzees and baboons would make better if they were on our place?

[doobiesmoke15]

No, they would likely be about the same as us.

[peymaania]

Yes, last time I checked chimps and baboons don't build slaughterhouses

for other animals. We are far worse...

far far far worse!

[doobiesmoke15]

it is all just a matter of degree

[peymaania]

Well some people clearly have no respect for life, whatever form it comes in.

Slaughter is slaughter, Killing is Killing.

We have lied to ourselves for so long as to justify anything and everything.

[wallabyj]

nothing in life is EVER that black and white. NOTHING. Slaughterhouses during the 1800's to early 1900's sustained out country, and gave jobs and great diversity to our culture, without them, there's no telling what this country would be like. Without killing animals humans wouldn't exist period. So like I said, there is NO black and white about it. Plus meat tastes good I don't care what anybody says.

[peymaania]

yes, but Indian civilization has managed to sustain life for over 5,000 years by being primarily vegetarian, and the same is true for many other parts of Asia. I realize Europe and N.America are much

colder, but let's face the facts, the humand digestive tract is very long over 30 feet from your Mouth to your Anus. Most

carnivors have very short digestive tracts. When meat remains in your G.I. Tract for

very long it causes also sorts of problems, including polyps which lead to colon cancer.

[WTP2k]

Preymania we are meant to eat meat as part of our diet. Although our GI tract is longer than say cats (which are obligate carnivores) and dogs which are omnivores but rely heavily on meat) we do not have a digestive system adapted to eating purely plants, however much you would like to think this.

This is anatomical fact. A fact that no amount of talking and arguing will change.

[luigithe42nd]

this film gave me chills, shortly after watching it, i saw one of those tiny horses made out of horse hair, and i thought, "thats really messed up."

[blatanville]

viewing this film in film school was a key part of my becoming vegetarian 17 years ago.

stunning imagery. and so telling that the meat industry learned immediately to NEVER let filmmakers see the inside of the abattoir again...this is powerful, persuasive footage that can damage their business

[Ricepatch1]

Im hungry!

[tinylittlelifeform]

that horse was very strong and healthy. why they kill it? useful good horse. makes no sence to kill.

[blackleejack]

useless heart, that's what you seen to have.

[doktorkloride]

Marvelous!

[bob93bob22]

MIAM..MIAM..MIAM..delicieux ;)

[CowgirlCandice]

JESUS!!!!

[peymaania]

Jesus, was he a vegetarian? a vegan?

[dantemustdie24]

this is sickening... but an excellent film - i also replayed the falling of the horse - looked fetal...

[davidgrahamscott]

A good comment for that is what we all return to in death

[Juicy7Juice]

Wow, this is such a unique film. I don't disagree with horse slaughter, everyone has to eat. But I do agree that this way of slaughter seems a hell of a lot more humane then what they do these days. I had to watch the horse fall a few times, it was so strange to see that.

[JesseG88]

After seeing that, I'm hungry.

[Jimmyhaflinger]

stop horse slaughter!

[JesseG88]

Keep in mind, this video was made in 1949.

[sergiogk]

yes! stop cow slaughter as well

[DGS120]

A great film completely ruined by English voice-over. Get a subtitled version. The poetry of the French language is part of the film's charm.

[turdferguson2]

why don't YOU go get a subtitled version, you twat.

[davidgrahamscott]

He made a justified comparison and was right in many ways.

[peymaania]

So true, it's always more sophistaced to

watch slaughter while listening to a pretty

latin language. Personally I prefer Italian.

Perhaps there should be an Opera called

'Slaughter' sung in Italian. Although German somehow seems more befitting

of hideous acts as depicted in this great

documentary.

[TheWhateverReviewer]

You know what I think? I think we should never be progressive. I think we should never dare make a movie that'll make you think or possibly piss off PETA. If only our forefathers knew of all the atrocities that would be attributed to art and progression. I think they should have killed Galileo, Chopin, and most of all Copernicus. Cause I was much happier back when I thought we were the center of the universe and when I had to work every day for 18 hours.

If you don't want to watch it, then don't

[Zeennee86]

This is one of the best documentaries that I've ever seen; maybe one of the best films.

[Acidmarx]

gracias

[thisisablackcat]

Very surreal. I like the contrast of the children playing against the slaughter house.