THE VIDEO SHELF · animal agriculture cruelty
Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]
Dominion is a two-hour documentary using drones and hidden cameras to expose conditions in animal agriculture, including food, clothing, entertainment and research. It questions humanity's dominion over animals.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters push it, often forcefully, as the video to watch to see what factory farming really involves, and some say it changed their diet.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Farm Transparency Project
- Topic
- animal agriculture cruelty
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 10
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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By which definition of "relevant" are animal cruelty[0] and pandemic-level diseases not included? COVID-19 is very "tame" compared to what's possible. There's a sense in which we're lucky that we got this pandemic as a practice round for something which we know has the potential …
rewq4321 on Hacker News · 2020-09
In Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%> If you can determine the sex of a hatching egg you can entirely dispense with the culling of live male chicks Here is the video, timestamped (24m30s) to the "culling" of male chicks. Trigger Warnings: NSFL, Gore. [VIDEO] On a purely personal note, this …
beigeoak on Hacker News · 2020-11
In World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018)Because it involves causing extreme suffering, and we definitively do not need to do it to live long healthy lives. Literally just watch Dominion. Watch it to see the suffering I’m talking about. Why do you think animals deserve this so that you can eat …
sweetheart on Hacker News · 2021-06
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