{"id":754130,"date":"2018-08-04T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754130"},"modified":"2018-08-04T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:31:22","slug":"do-anti-meat-movies-actually-change-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754130","title":{"rendered":"Do Anti-Meat Movies Actually Change Minds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The turn to vegetarianism or veganism following an extreme film appears to come either from a mental line of reasoning or a visceral, gut rejection.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHARLES BRAMESCO:<\/strong> &#8216;<em>Eating Animals and its brethren in the fight against factory farming \u2014 Super Size Me, Food Inc., Cowspiracy, the whole stomach-turning lot \u2014 are action-oriented cinema, expressly made with the intention of swaying a viewer to their way of thinking. Still, nobody (including this meat-eating writer) likes feeling pitched-to, least of all via images of concentration-camp-style poultry prisons and farmers fisting their cows. It\u2019s a hell of a thing, cognitive dissonance&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>What is the thought process when a person sees a movie and decides to make a radical life change as a result? Do they think of their diet as a political or ethical choice? Does suffering only become real once we\u2019ve seen it?&#8230; Canvassing friends, friends of friends, casual acquaintances, and cooperative strangers from the internet, answers to these questions started to take fuzzy shape. The interviews form a portrait of a highly personal process that\u2019s often a far cry from the immediate road-to-Damascus moment one might imagine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Following the release of Bong Joon-ho\u2019s agitprop E.T. riff Okja, Google results for \u201cveganism\u201d spiked by 65 percent, and in the wake of Super Size Me, McDonald\u2019s enacted changes to their menu and branding to compete with rising rates of vegetarianism&#8230; Respondents saw the light with the help of a wide array of films&#8230; Forks Over Knives was a common response, as was Earthlings and A Place at the Table&#8230; Okja was a popular mention, along with Babe and Charlotte\u2019s Web&#8230; The turn to vegetarianism or veganism following an extreme film appears to come either from a mental line of reasoning or a visceral, gut rejection&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/07\/do-anti-meat-movies-actually-change-minds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9E6sa0OtjSE?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLES BRAMESCO: &#8216;Eating Animals and its brethren in the fight against factory farming \u2014 Super Size Me, Food Inc., Cowspiracy, the whole stomach-turning lot \u2014 are action-oriented cinema, expressly made with the intention of swaying a viewer to their way of thinking. 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