Curt Johnson Your Mommy Kills Animals Part 8.mp4

http://yourmommykillsanimals.com Curt Johnson's objectively impassioned documentary, "Your Mommy Kills Animals," is necessary viewing for anyone who assumes an animal shelter owner, someone screaming at a medical research facility and a PETA representative feel the same way about animal rights. Ending institutionalized cruelty toward the furry and four-legged may be the constant among activists, but thorny, divisive issues of domestication, mercy killing, public shaming, and law-breaking tactics give the movement a moral complexity and provocativeness that Johnson explores rigorously through his opinionated spectrum of interviewees: calm sanctuary proprietors, outspoken critics, fiery liberation proponents and those who have been branded the worst kind of danger by our government. Ad-savvy PETA (responsible for a cheeky, comic book-style tract that gives this movie its name) undergoes its own kind of vivisection from Johnson's more vociferous sources, who deride the group's hypocritical, celeb-based marketing techniques and rarely advertised, astonishingly high euthanasia rate (85%, as one document shows) for its supposedly rescued creatures. But perhaps the greatest service Johnson does is to turn the event that spurred him to make the film -- the FBI labeling animal rights activists the top domestic terrorist threat -- into a crucial dialogue, using his many collected viewpoints to create a cross-cutting debate about terrorism, free speech and the intersection of the two in this turbulent political era.

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