Episode 0075-Raw Vegan Radio-Earthlings and Unity with Shaun Monson
June 9, 2009
Today show features an exclusive interview with writer, director, and film maker Shaun Monson of the animal rights ground-breaking film “Earthlings”.
You’ll discover:
>>The raw food connection in Shaun’s upcoming film “Unity”
>>How to motivate your loved ones to learn the truth behind the food they consume
>>The importance of awareness about animal abuses
>> Why raw food is a step in the right direction for conscious living
Shaun Monson’s credits include the comedy Bad Actors, a certified Dogme 95 film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001. After 9/11 he directed a one-hour documentary on the Taliban called Holy War, Unholy Victory, hosted and narrated by Academy Award winning actor George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke).
Shaun has also written several screenplays, a biopic on legendary filmmaker Orson Welles. Shaun spent five years making Earthlings for Nation Earth, a film production company dedicated to socially urgent issues, and is currently working on volume two of the Earthlings trilogy, entitled Unity.
Inspiring. Vegans may not think they “need” to watch Earthlings, but I guarantee that if you do, you will stay vegan for life.
As to outlawing exposing animal industry, there’s a right to free speech, and no right to make profit. Thank you for publicizing this film, though I have to say I hate its attitude that pets are acceptable and especially any implication that they’re ambassadors of why we should care for our effects on other lifeforms, it makes it into a carrot-and-stick thing instead of reinforcing the much more important, larger picture of ecology, that without animals, our inhabiting the environment becomes impossible, too.
Tremendously eye-opening as to what happens out there. I was not aware of how our nicely packaged meats are actually produced, and being a meat-lover, I was saddened to see how many animals are treated, and wish I had seen such a documentary years ago. While I think there is a happy medium where we may be able to breed animals for meat ‘humanely’ and ‘responsibly’, NO animal should ever be treated as depicted in this documentary. I will not eat meat for a long time…and when I do, I will make sure that it’s end was not like what I saw in the documentary, if that is at all possible. Luckily I also love vegetables…