...to have been inspired by the movie Jurrasic World: Fallen Kingdom to want to be veggie and eventually vegan? ***SPOILERS***

[LadyPrigsbottom]

I watched this last night and I found it really emotional! At the end, when the little girl says "because they're alive, like I am" omfg.

Maybe I'm losing my tiny mind, but it has really made me want to try going veggie and maybe vegan eventually.

Go for it

Bit weird it took a movie about dinosaurs for you to realise animals are alive before they are eaten

Eat what you want. This is not an AIBU.

What @araiwa said

Don’t watch Babe if you ever want to eat Bacon again..

You know plants are alive right?
They also "scream" (emit distress signals/electronic pulse) when cut.

There is no science to prove that plants are sentient or that any signals they emit are signs of “distress”.

Animals absolutely are sentient and YANBU.

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@araiwa

Go for it

Bit weird it took a movie about dinosaurs for you to realise animals are alive before they are eaten

I mean, yes, I realised, but there was definitely something more emotional about the dinosaurs... also the evil henchmen with cattle prods! I mean, I grew up around animals and know a lot of farmers. I get that they are alive. But, but, the dinosaurs! I think I'm losing it.

@OpenWheelRace, behave, plants do NOT scream when they're cut.. do they ?

If only velociraptors felt the same way.....

@Saucery, eh...BLUE??? Have you seen it?

I'll let you into a secret.

They're. Not. Real.

I'd have thought that any decisions regarding animal rights, consumption or food choices would have been covered by things about animals that are actually alive now - like sheep, pigs and chickens - rather than schmaltzy movies (that aren't even as good as any of the other films in the series) - but if it's taken CGI to do it, do what you want.

Not this one, but I hold a huge grudge against velociraptors from the first couple of films. I just don’t think they’d ever return the favour and not eat me, that’s all.

Joking aside, it sometimes takes a particular ‘thing’ to make you consider becoming vegetarian or vegan. Whether that’s looking at a field of cattle or a CGI dinosaur the end result is the same, so good on you for considering it.

Wasn’t it horrible OP when the boat was pulling away from the island and you could see all the dinosaurs standing on the coast surrounded by volcano smoke and making such sad noises of distress as the lava was getting nearer and nearer to them and they were trapped. There was a particular brachiosaurus that made the saddest noise in the world and it was like he was saying, “Come back, come back,” as he watched the boat drift away - very similar to the way in which Rose called out the lifeboats in Titanic.

I really struggle watch that scene - poor little brachiosaurus

Yes!!! That scene with the brachiosaurus was horrendous. Because they got left alone on a rapidly disintegrating island, when humans had created them on purpose for their own entertainment- JUST LIKE WE BREED FARM ANIMALS and...the planet. See? Seeeeee? Symbolism innit.

I wonder if they used remastered animal distress sounds? That’s been done before, mainly for horror films (abattoir noises cut with Mercedes McCambridge’s voice in The Exorcist, for example). The sounds of a film are often under appreciated but can have a subliminal effect.

@Saucery The velociraptor call is apparently the sound of horny mating tortoises..

Yes, I remember reading that! Sound design and foley effects are fascinating!
Being hunted around a kitchen by a horny tortoise wouldn’t be so scary, unless you were a non-horny tortoise

Jesus, I'll never look at Blue the same way again 🐢😂

@QueenofmyPrinces

Wasn’t it horrible OP when the boat was pulling away from the island and you could see all the dinosaurs standing on the coast surrounded by volcano smoke and making such sad noises of distress as the lava was getting nearer and nearer to them and they were trapped. There was a particular brachiosaurus that made the saddest noise in the world and it was like he was saying, “Come back, come back,” as he watched the boat drift away - very similar to the way in which Rose called out the lifeboats in Titanic.

I really struggle watch that scene - poor little brachiosaurus

Yep 🥺

A friend watched it before i did and said ‘ you are so gonna cry at one scene...not telling you which one but you’ll know it’

Did I cry?

No, but it was really close!

I went veggie after watching Watership Down and Animal farm as a child! What these animals go through everyday is horrendous,before they even get near a slaughter house. The slaughter house near me kills 10,000 chickens every hour and 9,000 pigs a day. It's heart breaking seeing the trucks pass by my house everyday. They leave one kind of hell to enter one that is worse than any horror movie I've ever watched.

Has everyone forgotten what even the little, cute dinosaurs did in the first couple of films?
And now they have tame names like ‘Blue’ and bleat pathetically at approaching lava? 🤮

I read animal farm on Christmas eve and told my mum and dad i wasnt eating meat any more 😀

They begged me to wait til boxing day

(I’m a guilty pescatarian now)

@Saucery

Has everyone forgotten what even the little, cute dinosaurs did in the first couple of films? And now they have tame names like ‘Blue’ and bleat pathetically at approaching lava? 🤮

😂😂😂

Well, tbf, the triceratops in the first one was very sweet and helpless. I think the brontesauruses / brachiosauruses at the beginning when they get to the park are fairly cute too.

If it's any compensation, there are plenty of himans getting munched by dinosaurs in this. It isn't all cutesy. And there are always evil humans who are the real monsters. See? Deep. .

Have a go - I would advise vegetarian first though or pescatarian- going vegan can be hard straight away. I’m not either, but dd is mainly vegan (she can’t tolerate lactose and won’t eat meat) and it’s difficult at first. There’s loads of resources out there now.

And there are always evil humans who are the real monsters

Also, Nature Finds A Way. Always.

a lot of dinosaur sounds (in the jurassic films) are walrus songs.