Do not watch Earthlings if you are the deciding vote on the issue of whether or not humanity should live because you will vote against yourself. Everyone should be required to watch this unblinking film, which is available on YouTube. I don’t think that you’ll become a vegan after watching it, but you will be convinced that if a business benefits from the death of a living being, the road to that death will be cost-efficient, i.e. astonishingly cruel & excessively evil even if there are more merciful ways to accomplish the same goal, which the movie does a good job of highlighting. By the end of the movie, I wondered if all industries related to animals, including the food industry, didn’t hide a bunch of budding serial killers. You didn’t even need the narration because the footage speaks for itself, and I’ll be haunted by it: a beagle with a broken jaw, a guy gleefully bullying elephants, repeated (because it usually doesn’t work the first time) anal electrocution of a fox, a pig’s throat being slashed & not waiting for it to die before throwing it in a boiling hot shower assembly line. The clear cries of pain from the animals & the glee of their tormentors are astonishing. There is a race to the bottom! When the elephants begin revolting & killing their captors, even though you know that it will lead to them being shot, those scenes are the feel-good moments in the movie. What I wish the movie would have done: tell us what we can do to stop this systematic & widespread evil &/or provide an exhaustive list of businesses highlighted in the film (probably couldn’t because it would be all of them). If we outlawed every animal-related product tomorrow, that would just lead to more death of animals since they would no longer be of “use,” but to cause needless daily physical & psychological pain to a living creature is evil, and we are evil by association by benefiting from this pain. The only negative: the movie begins with comparing speciesism with racism and sexism, which I felt detracted from the documentary because it created an unnecessary opposition from the viewer at the outset that the footage then has to drown out.