This must be one of the hardest documentaries I've ever watched. Loving animals and a meat-eater, I've been ignorant in this part of the meat-production, as I guess most other meat-eaters are. The video clips in this documentary aren't easy to watch. They show unsencored clips of what human beings are capable of doing to defenceless animals. I must say I had to pause and take a break from watching a few times during it due to strong scenes. Although the strong scenes, they give a perspective noone want to talk about.I hope it's gotten better since 2005, and I hope this sort of animal cruelty is a part of the past. One thing is certain, I will eat alot less meat from now on, all thanks to this documentary, and I think we all might be better off doing the same.10/10 because this is a good documentary, lifechanging, and one I will remember for years to come. Also mindblowing what the human race is capable of doing to animals.

This may have spoilers but to be honest that's a joke phenomenon compared with the spoiled lives of the animals within the film.I honestly am at a loss here. I don't know what to think anymore. Some reviews here say they were moved and ashamed to be human after watching it - while others feel its shock propaganda.I think somehow - juxtapositioning Moby's tunes with baby pigs squealing as some smiling worker snips its ears off kind of reminded me of the scene in "A Clock Work Orange" where the droog guy is forced to watch war footage with his eyes pinned open to the beautiful music of Beethoven. That's where I turned it off. Just too too much for me.I honestly don't know the answer here guys. OK its a collection of the hardest hitting animal torture scenes ever, and deliberately so. It's hellish. I felt ashamed. And I do mean ashamed. And humans are also the victims here. We don't know what we do, as Jesus apparently said. Do I want to be vegan? Yes of course! Can I apply selective blindness and continue to eat meat despite this documentary? I think sadly we know the truth to that answer. That is what scares me the most, my ability to choose to care or not. Would I die for this cause? Would I give my life for these animals. I don't know. Somehow the need to survive no matter what atrocities go on, can override us. We all must live with ourselves. If I killed myself and left a note saying, I died for the enslaved animals, would that be respectful to myself and the animals? Perhaps it would be. Because the currency here, is only, life. Another review said, it's just life! And to an extent I can accept that- although, you know, it's OK as long as it's not happening to you right? Or to a creature you really care about. Then it's a problem. I think personally, there's a time for feeling guilty but it's better spent trying to sort this mess out. Lets just start laying down our arms, and only offering love? Too hard right? Because if you do that, you know what will happen? You and everyone you love, will die. Just like the Native American Indians did. So live fighting or die for what you believe in?End.

Early on, Earthlings, a documentary film by Shaun Monson, presents striking images of Nazi genocidal atrocities towards Jews, which elicit a curious cognitive dissonance in the viewer's mind - certainly the Jews were cruelly "treated like animals", but on this occasion we are moved to ask a different question: should even animals be treated this way? Or did the Nazi treatment of Jews stem in fact from the socially accepted reduction of animals to mere objects? From there on, it goes on to discuss the extent of modern society's pervasive speciesism, successively covering five expanses: Pets, Food, Clothes, Entertainment and Science. The ordering of this sequence is cunning and effective, and it helps Monson make his case about the endemic nature of speciesism in our society.Earthlings speaks to our innate sense of compassion. Something that is there inside all of us, but needs a reawakening. It is a movie that examines our spiritual conscience, personal evolution and so much more. I did have to prepare myself before I watched it mentally not to cry through the entire movie. I managed to get by with tears welling up in my eyes, and some trickling down my face, but that was unavoidable. If you have at least a bit of a heart within you, this movie is going to make you cringe at times and evoke some serious emotion, but that is not a good enough reason not to see it. I'm not going to attempt to describe the ghastly scenes in Earthlings. There were parts I missed because I had to turn away. At other times I acted like a little kid watching a horror film, covering my face with my hands, only watching what could slip through the cracks between my fingers. But this is no horror movie. Earthlings is real. Yes, it is inconvenient to find this out. Yes, it is going to make you rethink your ways, and yes, it may lead you to make some major changes in your life, but that is what evolution of the human being and spirit is all about.As a production, Monson's Earthlings is a meticulously crafted work, featuring narration by Joaquin Phoenix, a moodily effective musical score by Moby, and rare footage from inside the animal factory farming industry that must have been difficult to acquire, giving it the right atmosphere and the right facts to really drive the message home.Earthlings forcefully, sometimes disturbingly, reminds us of an essential character of our consciousness, something about ourselves that our culture often dismisses: compassion and empathy. Along the way it shows and tells some inconvenient truths that most of us would probably prefer to avoid, laying bare a mass hypocrisy that we mindlessly accept. Earthlings shows us what is right there to see, if we would only look directly and honestly.

It is amazing how we go on living our lives while all this is happening. We should not be doing this to our earth! This is a movie which shows the ugliness and arrogance of humans more than anything else. All the info seems to be in the other reviews already, but I would take my time to urge everyone to show this movie to their friends and family, and even to their kids, if they can handle it. We should spread the word about this. Really why we continue to allow such atrocities?? It is beyond me. The director did an excellent job, if indeed we can use such a word for the horrors shown here. If you hesitate to watch this, don't. Watch it. Your life will be changed.