You Eat Other Animals? | Sci-Fi Comedy Short Film | Vegan Aliens

A sci-fi comedy in which two happy-go-lucky men are being taken to an alien planet and untold wonders when their vegan hosts learn a stomach-churning truth about humans. Starring Evanna Lynch, Anna Ballantine, James Eeles and Michael Jinks, and an AFTER-CREDITS scene! #evannalynch #vegan #scifi #comedy ** Please don't pirate this film. You'd be stealing from animal charities! ** Producer: Henriette-Mercedes Spiering; DP: Rob Jarvis; Editor: Jim Page; Casting: Zita Zutic Konak @ ET Casting; Costume: Isabella Van Braeckel; Makeup: Tabiatha Mae-Bo Li; VFX Sups: Daniel Cuevas. Qian Han. Josh Barham. Allar Kaasik; Composer: Raphael Fimm; Band Leader: Harry Maund Vocalist: Natalie Oliveri; Sound Designer: Dom Lee; Sound Mixer: Michalianna Theofanolpolou; Special thanks: VegFund. Raw Capture. ET Casting. Brunel Uni. SHL Lighting. This short comedy was inspired by a friend claiming chickens were slaughtered towards the end of their natural lives. I tried to keep it fun rather than labouring points (like pigs being smart). People seem keen to let me know when they think I've failed, but at least one person stopped eating meat after watching it. In case you're confused, the aliens are aware of predation but are surprised humans would still choose to eat animals given that we are obviously advanced enough to do otherwise, while the reference to Chinese, like Japanese and Canadians, refers to inhabitants (and the Yulin Dog Meat Festival specifically) rather than ethnicity. COMMON ARGUMENTS AGAINST VEGANISM: I didn't address these arguments in the film as I was unaware people used them to justify their support for animal suffering, while this article explains why meat eaters feel the need to defend their behaviour and attack vegans: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-motivated-mind/202307/14-ways-meat-eaters-let-themselves-off-the-hook "Other animals eat animals!" Other animals have no choice, lack moral agency, and act on instinct. Other animals routinely commit infanticide, while some eat their young. The logic of basing your behaviour on what other animals do is clearly flawed, or we should have no compunction in eating babies with our genitalia out (which I believe is frowned upon). Here's a great drama short that imagines humans copying the natural animal behaviour that is rape: https://youtu.be/poxl0K9UrP0 "We're meant to eat meat!" We evolved as omnivores, but there is now no need to consume meat (please also read https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-humanity-have-to-eat-meat/ and https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/30/africa/morocco-ancient-humans-paleo-diet-scn/index.html regarding the meat-made-us-human myth, or ask why Neanderthals, who consumed more meat, lost out). The scientific consensus is that a meat-free diet is healthier, with research dating back to the 1960s (Adventists). The Southern States also made the "natural" argument to defend slavery, which existed for millennia with the majority thinking it fine: neither a historical norm nor the majority view is necessarily the correct or moral one. Rather, your ethics are likely formed by cultural ethical relativism (Einstein referred to meat eaters being imprisoned by delusion). "Eating plants is no better!" Humans have to eat things that live, but plants are not sentient like animals. They do not have brains, pain receptors or feelings. If you can't see the difference between a cow and cowslip please read this paper - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052213/ - which debunks the research that has led to some meat eaters claiming plant sentience in a desperate attempt at deflection (while ignoring that more plants go to feeding livestock than humans). It is worth noting that trees bear fruit specifically to be eaten (no livestock wants us to eat them), while the argument that eating one life form is no worse than eating any other life form is to also argue people should be eating golden retrievers: calling vegans hypocrites for distinguishing between the plant and animal kingdoms while distinguishing between different orders of mammal is beyond absurd. Indeed, this whole argument is so embarrassingly inane I'm surprised I have to address it. "Animals are killed feeding vegans!" Animals are killed harvesting crops but the data is poor. Populations are counted before and after harvesting so animals that simply leave (research suggests the majority) when the combine harvester approaches are ignored. Regardless, not only is killing animals not the purpose of arable farming (and tens of billions more animals are killed in animal agriculture each year) but more crops go to feeding livestock than (directly) to feeding humans, so meat eaters are still responsible for more of these deaths than vegans (even before the animals are slaughtered for their meat). If you're concerned about creatures being chopped up, veganism would be the best course. A vegan diet results in far fewer animal deaths than other diets.