http://yourmommykillsanimals.com GO YOUR MOMMY KILLS ANIMALS In this information-dense documentary, filmmaker Curt Johnson gives representatives from various animal-rights and animal-welfare groups (there's a difference) a chance to state their case. Saving the Fidos and Fluffys of the world from abandonment or medical experimentation, it turns out, is a complicated, anger-filled enterprise. Actually, the animal-welfare folks would say that the animal-rights people aren't interested in saving Fido at all, with many accusing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) of killing more dogs than it saves. PETA, which once put out a comic book for kids titled Your Mommy Kills Animals, declined to participate in this film, as did the Humane Society of the United States, another mega-money organization with few friends in this crowd. And it is a crowd — Johnson's film has almost too much testimony, the most incendiary of which is centered around the so-called SHAC-7. These young American members of an international group that uses the combative tactics of anti-abortionists to vilify those who're doing business with a major products-testing company were recently labeled terrorists by the FBI and put on trial. That one can't quite decide if these charming men are heroes or villains is a mark of Johnson's calm, even approach to an issue seemingly fueled by emotions run amok.
Fuck those SHAC TOOLS!
rehwr 10 months ago