Invisible Activists: Marketing for a movement that can’t promise anything in return
Invisible Activists: Marketing for a movement that can’t promise anything in return
When it comes to marketing ourselves, animal activism is in a challenging position compared to other social movements. Other movements directly help the people involved (women’s rights benefit women). With our animal activist campaigns, it seems we get nothing that improves personal lives. True, there are benefits like environmental impact and pandemic preparedness, but they lack the bite of personal motivation. Instead, we could be positioning ourselves as a small band of renegades taking on corrupt corporate giants. ‘Project Slingshot’ is already exploring this narrative angle to some success. Their campaigns spotlight the agricultural industry’s lies. Rather than making people feel […]
‘Cleansed’: New documentary explores the question: ‘If we clean ourselves, can we clean the world?’
‘Cleansed’: New documentary explores the question: ‘If we clean ourselves, can we clean the world?’
From producer/director Kip Ansersen, co-creator of the Netflix hits ‘Cowspiracy’, ‘What The Health’, ‘Seaspiracy’, and ‘Christspiracy’, comes the new investigative documentary ‘Cleansed’. What began as an investigation into what’s getting inside us became an exploration of our bodies, our habits, our choices, and our connection to the world around us. CLEANSED FILM: From producer/director Kip Ansersen, co-creator of the Netflix hits ‘Cowspiracy’, ‘What The Health’, ‘Seaspiracy’, and ‘Christspiracy’, comes the new investigative documentary ‘Cleansed’. The film is about what’s getting inside us, whether we can get it out, and what happens when we do? What began as an investigation into what’s […]
TAKE NAMES: Animal rights group releases new video showing university experiments on infant monkeys
TAKE NAMES: Animal rights group releases new video showing university experiments on infant monkeys
The video released by animal rights group PETA reveals, for the first time, filmed experiments at the University of Washington’s National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC). After prenatal exposure to a neurotoxin, newborn monkeys were subjected to neurological tests to investigate whether exposure to domoic acid in the womb had damaged their brains. With electrodes attached to their heads, the baby monkeys appear distressed as they clutch blankets, suck their fingers, screech, and jerk as experimenters shave their heads and test their reflexes and memory. The monkeys were killed after the experiments were concluded. THE GUARDIAN: Footage released by the animal-rights group […]
