It’s the stuff of nightmares. The images are often bloody, emotive and effective. Wallets are opened and people give, give, give to stop the suffering. These are films of animal life being taken, legally and illegally, “animal snuff films”, footage that is sometimes real, too often staged. From the unfamiliar world of medical experimentation done for both animal and human benefit to the routine slaughter of cattle for steak, the images are often not what they appear to be. Animal “snuff” films, which chronicle the death-throes of animals, are big business today with most of the large animal-based protection groups maintaining a library.… or how to make money from snuff. Dollar Farming… or how to make money from snuff. Produced by the Belgian association Brok (a freedom-of-choice movement) in cooperation with the Belgian Fur Trade Federation. As with any weapon, videotape too can be misused. There is evidence that the media, constantly in need of images, has become a co-dependent in a “supplier and addict” relationship.Craig Van Note of Monitor Consortium, a Washington DC-based consortium of 30-plus animal rights groups (including the Animal Protection Institute, the Animal Welfare Institute, Earth Island Institute, Fund for Animals, Greenpeace, Humane Society International, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare), stated in National Fisherman Magazine, “No doubt about it, videotape is the most powerful weapon we have.furcommission/saving-society-from-animal-snuff-films/
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 01:11:51 +0000
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