Just watched episode 2 of Omnivore, the- Tuna.
Some quotes:
""Death affords this fish a Monetary value
Ownership, even legal protection
A yellow tag becomes it's passport.
..the time from catch to kitchen has shrunk dramatically
Today it's all about freshness, maintaining the cold chain, unbroken.
The internal temperature of tuna in transit must never rise above 4 Degrees Celcius.""
Written another way:
Compassion is for humans only, not for animals. They are objects, they can not suffer. A tag on them means we can do with them what we wish. Let's grow the economy at all cost, we can use unlimited energy, exert unlimited carbon to fulfill our lust for exotic meat, the internal temperature of Tuna must be 4 Celcius, forget the 2.5 C of the Paris agreement, that's for someone else in the future to ponder.
This documentary romanticizes food in a predictable human tune. It is this -something- at the core of our delusion on humanity's ecological role.
Our Vanity has transformed our existence into a factual scourge upon the Earth.
That said, It's well shot, the cinematography is good, they pander as much as possible to not outright call out the audience, humanity's extreme hypocrisy. You the audience, you're good people, look at these beautiful images of violence against nature, these fine craftsmen of killing, industrial chain of murder and destruction. This Japanese butcher, he's spent years mastering the craft, what a hero.
