30 Days-Hunter lives with vegan family for 30 days
Posted by mama2veggie on Jun 17, 2008 · Member since Jun 2005 · 84 posts
>:( Are any of you watching FX right now? The 30Days guy has a show that comes on FX and the show tonight is about a NC hunter who goes to live with a vegan/activist family in LA for 30 days.
Check it out if you get a chance. www.fxnetworks.com
The sad reality about some of the footage on the show is that I used to live in CA and saw the dead animals on the side of the road waiting to be carted away like trash. :'( :'( :'(
I saw an advertisement for that. It looks like the show is going to take the side of the omni and make the vegans looks some kind of fanatics. Doesn't look a very good show at all, just a show to pick on veg*ns and make them look dumb. Media seems to like to do that, they don't like to tell show veg*anism is healthy, better for environment, etc. they just show all of us as fanatics. I hate the media!
I heard about it but forgot to watch it last night. I read a synopsis that said the family work for PETA or someone in the family is involved with PETA. I said "on no, they are going to portray them as crazy vegans. This doesn't look good." It didn't watch it though so hopefully they were fair to show both sides.
I made arrangements to go to the parent's house to watch this, as we have no cable. I thought it was wonderful.
Morgan Spurlock's wife is a vegan chef, so I knew that he wouldn't portray any of the vegans in a negative light. I could go on and on, but I have to get back to work.
I was very excited this was going to be on, and I was not dissapointed. The avid hunter/meat eater that stayed with the vegan family really came away with a lot of knowledge and compassion in the end. Plus, the moments with him and Sugar the calf left me more than once in tears.
YAY! for Morgan Spurlock.
Ditto, Sprinkles! This episode was really great. For those who didn't catch it, I wonder if you can watch it online somewhere? I recommend it, and can honestly say that the vegans looked pretty good! But the show was also fair to the hunter & didn't make him look like an insensitive hick or anything... Prior to his 30 days in the vegan household, he just had the mentality that most people, unfortunately, have: animals are food & here for our use. It was a good portrayal of both sides (minus a KFC protest that made the vegans look a little nuts, IMO; they "butchered" someone wearing a Colonel Sanders suit ::)).
The hunter even walked away proclaiming himself an "animal rights activist." He said he is still going to hunt, and he's "no more vegan now than when got there," but he thinks animals have rights, deserve to be treated humanely, and that all this abuse is disgusting & unnecessary. That's a step in the right direction!
I hope they do a follow up episode or even an online update to show where the hunter is now that he's had some time away from the vegan family. I hope he found some sort of support system or group to get involved with so he can be with like-minded people... His family & friends seemed incredibly unsupportive before he left, so I can't imagine they were very supportive of his new attitude & outlook. :-\
I hope this show ends up portraying veg*ns in a positive light. I am so sick of people automatically stereotyping any veg*n as some radical, crazy activist! I've been getting alot of that lately.... >:(
I enjoyed that they tried to show both sides in a positive light. The guy was really attached to the calf named Sugar. That made my heart melt when he went to see the calf before he went back to NC. :)>>>
I saw that show and it was great!! One exception was when the female owner of Animal Acres Sanctuary kept comparing farm animal slaughter to the Nazis killing the Jews in the holocaust. That's a little extreme of a comparison for the average TV viewer- I wish she would have pointed out some of the more subtle points like the health benefits of not eating animal products and the environmental impacts of farming- some points that would strike home with people!
The dairy farm part was absolutely horrifying- both my boyfriend and I were in tears. If only everybody knew the reality of how their food got to their plate!
It will be available to watch on hulu.com on June 25th.
I saw that show and it was great!! One exception was when the female owner of Animal Acres Sanctuary kept comparing farm animal slaughter to the Nazis killing the Jews in the holocaust. That's a little extreme of a comparison for the average TV viewer- I wish she would have pointed out some of the more subtle points like the health benefits of not eating animal products and the environmental impacts of farming- some points that would strike home with people!
I agree! When I was watching this and she kept talking about Jews & the Holocaust, I finally yelled at the TV, "Oh, come off it! Stop!" As a vegan, I can see her point, and I understand where she's coming from... We compartmentalize things & say "killing humans (especially in mass numbers) is horrifying; killing animals (especially in mass numbers) is normal." I get it. But it seems very insensitive & outrageous to someone who's never thought about animal rights & doesn't at all understand why eating animals is morally wrong.
I'm so glad George was exposed to other activists (with whom he got along much better) & witnessed various animal treatment horrors for himself. That really seemed to affect him, and by the end, he said that the "Holocaust lady" (sorry--I can't remember her name!) had "the biggest heart in the world," and he really appreciated what she was doing. He even said that if someone like him can be moved & woken up to these issues, anyone can. ;)b
I also agree with the Holocaust mention. It made me cringe, and made me worry that people would not take the whole thing seriously after they heard that. The vegans would just be cuh-razy activists. Oh, well.
Still ecstatic that the show was made. Indeed.
I saw that show and it was great!! One exception was when the female owner of Animal Acres Sanctuary kept comparing farm animal slaughter to the Nazis killing the Jews in the holocaust. That's a little extreme of a comparison for the average TV viewer- I wish she would have pointed out some of the more subtle points like the health benefits of not eating animal products and the environmental impacts of farming- some points that would strike home with people!
The dairy farm part was absolutely horrifying- both my boyfriend and I were in tears. If only everybody knew the reality of how their food got to their plate!
Yeah, I was sort of put off by her saying that. I agree that she should have used a better example of why animal abuse is wrong. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.(Please don't take that so literal----okay?)
found it here
http://video.supernovatube.com/play.php?viewkey=df05793592f5fab95138
PS: the animal acres woman is also one of the folks on Peaceable Kingdom. Anyone seen it?
:) Thanks so much for posting the link to this show! I only have basic cable. It was very interesting and I thought it was quite fairly done. Yes, it would be interesting to see what changes the hunter (his name escapes me at the moment) has made since then, if any, after he got back home. I felt that if he could change his views to the degree that he did, from feeling animals are merely things here to serve humans to feeling they at least deserve the right not to suffer, there is hope for mankind. I agree his interactions with Sugar were very moving. :)>>>
I have been waiting a looonngg time for the updated Peaceable Kingdom to come out. In fact, I was looking it up just last night. It appears it is still not completed or ready for distribution. I can't wait to see it when it finally is available! ;)b
Thanks for posting the link! I couldn't find the video. I think that went as well as it could have. I was nice, and the vegan family didn't look too crazy. Maybe the animal acres woman did, though.
Finally watched it and agree with basically all that's been said - excellent episode all around. My omni dad watched it with me and had similar sentiments. He didn't like the comparison to the Holocaust (as none of us seemed to) but thought the show made valid points and was a good ep overall, very fair and informative.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's episode as well. I think that 30 Days is one of the better shows to come on TV in a while.