Activist group People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals and actor Alec Baldwin have joined forces in producing a documentary that allows people to meet their meat by showing images of animals raised and slaughtered for food.
Both Baldwin and PETA decided against copyrighting the video in hopes that those purchasing the DVD or VHS will make bootleg copies or upload it to the Internet. The documentary is available from the PETA Web site (http://www.peta.org) for $5.
By not copyrighting the documentary, the activist group and Baldwin have made a good choice by creating an outlet for their message. Because the video is a voluntary output and people are not being forced to watch it, people should not complain about the video's contents.
While the video might leave some perturbed by the showing of what animals go through when raised and killed for food, the non-copyrighted documentary is a reasonable effort by PETA to try and get people to understand their stance on the treatment of animals. Making this video available is more appropriate than previous PETA measures which have included throwing paint on fur coats, throwing tofu cream pies at executives or putting nude women in cages.
In an Associated Press article, Baldwin said the film "makes the case for Americans to adopt a vegetarian diet and enact humane legislation to weed out the worst abuses (to animals)." While not all that view the documentary are going to say "no more meat," the lack of copyright allows a chance for people to look at PETA's position on the subject and enables the viewer to walk away with the choice of believing what they want to believe.
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