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!

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** Please don't pirate and upload this film elsewhere. 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 someone 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 clips from the film have had tens of millions of views across socials, and at least one person stopped eating meat after watching it (the biggest win). The reference to Chinese, like the reference to Japanese and Canadians, refers to inhabitants (and the Yulin Dog Meat Festival specifically) rather than the Han ethnic group.

COMMON ARGUMENTS AGAINST VEGANISM:

I didn't address these in the film as I was blissfully unaware people used such fallacious arguments to justify their support for suffering (while the aliens are surprised humans would still eat animals), but if I respond here I can just ask commenters to read this:

"Other animals eat other animals!"
Other animals have no choice. Other animals routinely commit infanticide, while some animals also eat their own young. Other animals do not wear clothes. The logic of basing your behaviour on what other animals do is clearly flawed, or we should have no compunction in killing or eating babies with our genitalia out (I believe this is frowned upon). Here's a great drama short that imagines humans copying the natural animal behaviour that is rape:    • "Norm" - A Short Film  

"We're meant to eat meat!"
We evolved as omnivores, but there is now no need to consume meat. That's just a fact. Please read https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... and https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/30/af..., which shows that the meat-centric paleo diet is a myth. The scientific consensus is that a meat-free diet is the healthiest with research dating to the 1960s (Adventists), while the Southern States made similar arguments for maintaining slavery: that it's something human civilisations had always done (true) and is perfectly "natural" (Stephens). Slavery existed for millennia and the majority thought it was fine so, clearly, neither a historical norm nor the majority view is necessarily the correct or moral one (instead your ethics are likely formed by cultural ethical relativism).

"Eating plants is no better!"
This runs along the lines of plants being "alive", "sentient" or having "feelings". Plants are alive but are not sentient and do not have feelings. If you can't see the difference between a cow and cowslip please read this paper - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... - which addresses the research that has led to some meat eaters claiming plant sentience (equivalent to animal sentience) in what seems like a rather desperate attempt at deflection. It may also be worth noting that trees bear fruit specifically so the fruit will be eaten (I am unaware of any livestock that wants us to eat bits of them) and the argument that eating one life form is no better than eating another life form is to also argue that eating dogs, chimps and dolphins is no worse than eating cows, lambs and pigs. Calling vegans hypocrites for distinguishing between the plant and animal kingdoms while meat eaters distinguish between different orders of mammal is beyond absurd.

"Animals are killed growing crops!"
Animals are killed harvesting crops though the data is poor (they count populations before and after harvesting so do not account for animals that simply leave when the combine harvester approaches). However, not only is killing animals not the main purpose of arable farming (and tens of billions more animals are killed in animal agriculture each year) but the majority of human-edible crops go to feeding livestock, 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.