‘Citizen Animal’: Watch the documentary of a family that travelled throughout Europe asking ‘Do animals have civil rights?’
Do animals have civil rights? The Pegasus family travelled more than 12,000 kilometers throughout Europe to give voice to the animals of this world by posing this question to animal activists, lawyers, vegan chefs, sanctuary founders and business professionals.
AV CLUB: “Do animals have Civil Rights?” An unusual and provoking question. The Pegasus family, have travelled more than 12.000 kilometers throughout Europe to give voice to the animals of this world. The animals ask; animal activists, lawyers, vegan chefs, sanctuary founders and business professionals had to answer.
Dr. Antoine F. Goetschel (Global Animal Law), Paul Watson (Sea Shepherd), Dr. Jane Goodall, Dr. Edmund Haferbeck (PETA), Christa Blanke (Animals’ Angels), Garret John LoPorto (Civil Rights activist) and many more can be heard and seen in the film. The filming started in the small Spanish village Trigueros del Valle where, in July 2015, mayor Pedro Perez Espinosa decided to grant Civil Rights to the animals of his village.
Deciding to do this quest deliberately in a naive way, they were trying to find answers for the questions of the animals. They themselves are learning, a development that takes the audience into the journey. Instead of just indoctrinating. Their own thoughts on animals’ rights are the golden thread and thus connect the off speakers and the animals. In Graz (Southern Austria) they even met two free-learning families, whose children surprised them with their own approach towards the rights of the animals. SOURCE…
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