英文版解說詞

from: Miranda

英文版解說詞

The images you are about to see are not isolated cases. These are the Industry Standard for animals bred as Pets, Food, Clothing, for Entertainment and Research. Viewer discretion is advised. 您看到的這些情景,並不是孤立的事件。這些是人類爲利用動物的工業化標準,這些動物供人類作爲寵物,食物,衣物,娛樂和研究等。本片少-兒-不-宜,未成年人需要在家長陪同下方能觀看。

THE THREE STAGES OF TRUTH

1. RIDICULE

2. VIOLENT OPPOSITION

3. ACCEPTANCE真-相爲人們所接受的三個階段1. 嘲笑2. 強烈反對3. 承認

EARTHLINGS earth'ling: n.

One who inhabits of the earth. Since we all inhabit the earth, all of us are considered earthlings. There is no se-xism, no racism or speciesism in the term earthling. It encompasses each and every one of us: warm or cold blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, and human alike. Humans, therefore, being not the only species on the planet, share this world with millions of other living creatures, as we all evolve here together. However, it is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, often times treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by speciesism.

地球公民:名詞,指地球上的'一切居民。由於我們都居住在同一個星球上,一切衆生都是地球的公民。作爲地球公民,彼此之間沒有性別歧視,種族歧視和物種歧視。它包含着地球上的每一個生命,溫血或冷血,哺乳的或脊椎動物或非脊椎動物,鳥類,爬行類,兩棲類,魚類和人類。因此,人類並不是這個星球上的唯一物種,成千上百萬的其它生物和人類一樣,共同演化,共同生活在這個星球上。然而,人類卻妄想獨佔地球,經常象對待東西一樣對待地球上其它種類的居民或生命,這就是所謂的物種歧視。

FESTIVAL OF THE BULLS, SPAIN

By analogy with racism and se-xism, the term "speciesism" is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species. If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that one's suffering can be counted equally with the like suffering of any other being. Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater eight to the interests of members of their own race when their is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own se-x. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other each case, the pattern is identical. Though among the members of the human family we recognize the moral imperative of respect (every human is a somebody, not a something),morally disrespectful treatment occurs when those who stand at the power end of a power relationship treat the lepowerful as if they were mere objects. The rapist does this to the victim of rape. The child molester to the child molested. The master to the slave. In each and all such cases, humans who have power exploit those who lack it. Might the same be true of how humans treat other animals, or other earthlings? Undoubtedly there are differences, since humans and animals are not the same in all respects. But the question of samenewears another face. Granted, these animals do not have all the desires we humans have; granted, they do not comprehend everything we humans comprehend; nevertheless, we and they do have some of the same desires and do comprehend some of the same things. The desires for food and water, shelter and companionship, freedom of movement and avoidance of pain? These desires are shared by nonhuman animals and human beings. As for comprehension: like humans, many nonhuman animals understand the world in which they live and move. Otherwise, they could not survive. So beneath the many differences, there is sameness. Like us, these animals embody the mystery and wonder of consciousness. Like us, they are not only in the world, they are aware of it. Like us they are the psychological centers of a life that is uniquely their own. In these fundamental respects humans stand "on all fours", so to speak, with hogs and cows, chickens and turkeys. What these animals are due from us, how we morally ought to treat them, are questions whose answer begins with the recognition of our psychological kinship with them. So the following film demonstrates in five ways just how animals have come to serve we forget.