{"id":781753,"date":"2026-08-13T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=781753"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:08:04","slug":"the-beast-the-shepherd-what-happens-when-a-shepherd-can-no-longer-bear-the-fate-of-his-own-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=781753","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Beast &#038; The Shepherd&#8217;: What happens when a shepherd can no longer bear the fate of his own animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong>In a remote corner of rural France, a shepherd grows deeply attached to his lambs and struggles with the prospect of sending them to slaughter. Torn between compassion and tradition, he reaches out to an animal rights activist (269 Lib\u00e9ration Animale) whose views challenge everything he has known. Together, they work in secret to save a few lives, forging an unlikely alliance.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>WE ANIMALS:<\/strong> \u201cThe Beast &amp; The Shepherd\u201d is a powerful new film from award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist Rebecca Loviconi. In a remote corner of rural France, a shepherd grows deeply attached to his lambs and struggles with the prospect of sending them to slaughter. Torn between compassion and tradition, he reaches out to an animal rights activist (269 Lib\u00e9ration Animale) whose views challenge everything he has known. Together, they work in secret to save a few lives, forging an unlikely alliance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The online premiere of \u201cThe Beast &amp; The Shepherd\u201d on YouTube is scheduled for Thursday, August 27 at 1 p.m. EDT. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/weanimals.org\/2026\/07\/28\/we-animals-presents-the-beast-the-shepherd-online-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>SOURCE<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSpxsJMEXPM?si=vEfjw__mlUXaiAFb\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remote corner of rural France, a shepherd grows deeply attached to his lambs and struggles with the prospect of sending them to slaughter. Torn between compassion and tradition, he reaches out to an animal rights activist (269 Lib\u00e9ration Animale) whose views challenge everything he has known. Together, they work in secret to save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,21,22,23,25],"tags":[26,27,30,31,35,38],"class_list":["post-781753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-morality","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781760,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781753\/revisions\/781760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}