You Eat Other Animals? | Sci-Fi Comedy Short Film | Vegan Aliens

A sci-fi comedy in which two happy-go-lucky men are being taken to an alien planet and untold wonders when their vegan hosts discover something stomach-churning. Starring Evanna Lynch, Anna Ballantine, James Eeles and Michael Jinks (and an AFTER-CREDITS scene!)... #evannalynch #vegan #scifi #comedy #plantbased ** Please don’t pirate and upload this film elsewhere. You’d be stealing from animal charities. If you want to spread the message, share this or the trailer! ** Producer: Henriette-Mercedes Spiering; DP: Rob Jarvis; Editor: Jim Page; Casting: Zita Zutic Konak @ ET Casting; Costume: Isabella Van Braeckel; Makeup: Tabiatha Mae-Bo Li; VFX Sups: Daniel Cuevas. Qian Han. Josh Barham. Allar Kaasik; Composer: Raphael Fimm; Band Leader: Harry Maund Vocalist: Natalie Oliveri; Sound Designer: Dom Lee; Sound Mixer: Michalianna Theofanolpolou; Special thanks: Raw Capture. ET Casting. Brunel Uni. SHL Lighting. This short comedy was inspired by someone claiming chickens were slaughtered towards the end of their natural lives. I focused on keeping it fun rather than labouring points (like pigs are smarter than dogs). Whether I succeed is up to you (people seem keen to let me know when they don’t like it), but clips from the film have had tens of millions of views across socials, and at least one person stopped eating meat after watching it (the biggest win). The reference to Chinese, like the reference to Japanese and Canadians, refers to the people in the country (and the Yulin Dog Meat Festival specifically, though millions of dogs are eaten annually in China) rather than the Han ethnic group. COMMON ARGUMENTS AGAINST VEGANISM: I didn’t address these in the film as I was unaware people used such arguments to justify their support for animal agriculture (while the aliens are surprised such a highly evolved species would choose to eat animals), but if I respond here I can just ask commenters to read this: “Other animals eat other animals!“ Other animals have no choice. Carnivores especially will routinely commit infanticide, while some animals eat their own young. Other animals do not wear clothes. The logic of basing your behaviour on what other animals do is clearly flawed, or we should have no compunction in killing babies with our genitalia on show, perhaps eating said babies. Here’s a great short that imagines humans copying the natural animal behaviour that is rape: “We’re meant to eat meat!“ We evolved as omnivores, but there is now no need to eat an omnivorous diet. We can attain the nutrition we need without meat. That’s just a fact. An amino acid is an amino acid. Cobalamin is cobalamin. The film “The Game Changers“ explores much of the mythology around meat. The scientific consensus is that a plant-based diet is the healthiest with research dating to the 1960s (Adventists). It’s possible we can continue to evolve. The Southern States made similar arguments for maintaining slavery: that it’s something humans had always done and is “natural“ (Stephens). Slavery existed for millennia and the majority (who weren’t slaves) thought it was fine so, clearly, neither a historical norm nor the majority view is necessarily the correct or moral one. “Eating plants is no better!“ This runs along the lines of plants being “alive“, “sentient“ or having “feelings“. Plants are alive but are not sentient and do not have feelings. If you can’t see the difference between a cow and cowslip please read this paper - - which addresses the research that has led to meat-eaters claiming plant sentience in a rather desperate attempt at deflection. It may also be worth noting that trees bear fruit specifically so the fruit will be eaten. I am unaware of any livestock that wants us to eat bits of them. “Animals are killed growing crops!“ Animals are killed harvesting crops though the data is poor (they count populations before and after harvesting so do not account for animals that simply move when the combine harvester approaches). However, not only is killing animals not the main purpose of arable farming (and tens of billions more animals are killed in animal agriculture each year) but the majority of human-edible crops go to feeding livestock, so meat-eaters are still responsible for more of these deaths than vegans (even before the animals are slaughtered for their meat). If you’re concerned about creatures being chopped up, veganism would be the best course.