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Christspiracy
2024 · Film · documentary · 111 min
Directed by Kameron Waters, Kip Andersen
The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit from their exploitation, as informed by world religions. A historical explanation of how the current global situation came to be.
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I was introduced to this idea by the excellent documentary https://christspiracy.com/
Video is an interesting format but I'm glad you shared that page, text is more appropriate to dive into a subject.
> modern breeding can select for heifers with ~90% confidence
May you expend on this? I know we kinda have selection techniques for eggs to crush them before hatch but I guess that’s not what’s happening with milk caws as the diary is the main target and the cow need to give birth to start lactation. Or perhaps it’s the impregnating technique or some hormone therapy that tricks the odds?
> in this day of age of high-priced beef, even if you get the occasional bull you're not exactly complaining either.
I depends on the breed: in this days of high volume diary and meat consumption, most of what people eat comes from specialised breeds that hare very good at producing milk OR muscle. The non-desired sexed are not so valuable. Switzerland (and others countries I can’t remembers) recently passed a calves handling low to require farmers caring them for a minimum days in response to industrial sloped into unethical territories.
That documentary shows another practice in India : some invaluable calve are just roped to a fence and forget until dehydration. https://christspiracy.com
He seems not trying to mimic apostles but follow personal reasons not directly tied to religion :
> For reasons of spirituality, morality and health, I stopped eating all animal products (meat, fish, dairy, eggs, etc) adopting instead, the diet of my great grandparents: Plants; local, seasonal and whole.
Loosely related : this documentary brings new and interesting points regarding Jesus’s animals consumption. It stands that todays bible traduction inherits past’s conflicts of interests of monks, but none of the originals clearly depict Jesus encouraging fish, meat or milk consumption - quite the opposite in fact, with a brillant relecture of the cleansing of the Temple.
Christspiracy: https://m.imdb.com/fr/title/tt29630794/
Theres a fascinating recent (free) movie that develop the theory of Jesus avoiding eating other animals. Theology is a very special discipline that embrace all at once history, human psychology and strong lobbies. Not easy to propose alternative lectures of the bible but I think this one have a great point.
https://christspiracy.com/