‘The Dying Trade’: New film documents a vegan activist’s relationship with his father, a slaughterhouse worker
‘The Dying Trade’: New film documents a vegan activist’s relationship with his father, a slaughterhouse worker
Jack is a vegan activist. His father is a slaughterhouse worker. After years of avoiding the subject, Jack sets out to confront the unspoken tension between them. This intimate and contemplative documentary follows a son’s attempt to understand his father – and the industry that stands between them. PLANT BASED NEWS: ‘The Dying Trade’, a new documentary film from Jack Hancock-Fairs, unpacks the “hidden human cost” of the meat processing industry on its workers… ‘The Dying Trade’ focuses on Hancock-Fairs himself, a filmmaker and vegan activist, and his father, a career slaughterhouse worker, as they discuss the negative impact of […]
Animal advocacy has existed for millennia, going back to ancient Greek philosophers such as Plutarch, who compared the slaughter of animals to the slaughter of human beings. But for those same millennia, no one has really listened to us. ‘Yes, animal cruelty is not great,’ the authorities say. ‘But it’s not that big of a deal.’ But it is that big of a deal. The average experience of a land animal on Earth is that of a tortured creature trapped in a cage. What is happening to other animals, is an emergency. A crime. An atrocity. And we now have […]
Closed rescues do a significantly better job when it comes to saving the lives of animals, and the numbers prove this without a shadow of a doubt. Over the entire history of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), the lives saved is numbered in the millions. When compared to the number of animals that the open rescue network has saved — roughly a few hundred — it becomes very clear who the winner is if the metric is damage caused to the target or animals’ lives saved. Open rescue is great for media stunts and exposure that can change hearts and […]
