[821] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: "Babe" - reactions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Fri Mar 1 16:08:54 1996
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 01 Mar 1996 15:22:58 -0500.
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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 16:05:59 EST
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
This might be more appropriate for the seta list, but....
I've not seen the movie either, and will not be going tomorrow
because I'll be out of town, but I've heard it is very good and
it has received kudos from various vegetarian/animal rights groups.
> I
> usually try to avoid patronizing movies made with animal entertainers
> because i belive that the use of animals in entertainment is generally
> bogus and that the animals are usually mistreated and generally exploited
> without having any interest in the enterprise themselves.
I have to wonder why you think this. Virtually all movies that
have animals in them are monitored and carry a notice in the credits
that no animals have been abused, etc. in the filming.
> here's been a really
> strange phenomenon lately of animal-rights-ish movies coming out that
> totally abused and/or exploited animals in the making. I'm not sure what
> to make of this. Examples: Free Willy and Project X and Fluke.
I've never seen any of these movies. How were animals exploited
in them?
+ Richard
