Animal Exploitation on Movies

So last night me and my big sister were having dinner with the TV left on. The trailer for this Tony Gonzaga-Sam Milby movie came on and she said she wanted to watch it. People of the world, meet my sister: She's cool, but she can be so jologs sometimes.

And while we were on the subject of movies, she asked about this movie "Snakes on a Plane", if it was already on theaters. I told her that even if it was, I wont watch it. I felt it was exploiting the animals. The snakes for this matter.

My sister told me that the movie used mostly animation and CGI and probably that there were no animals harmed. Well, I agree on that. They should be treated humanely for these animals are what brings in their massive box office income. But what I was trying say is that they may have been treated well in a physical aspect, but they are obviously depicted with a very bad image.

A humane society/completely-against-animal-exploitation organization may have certified that animals were never physically harmed in the production of these kinds of movies but that's all they can do, can they? No one can certainly assure us that these movies will not make ignoramies go out and kill all snakes they can see for they were led to believe that snakes have the tendency to go on a killing rampage any minute.

I tried to search the internet to support my claim that snakes only eat once a month but I could'nt find a single sentence about it. Well, my Dad took take care of over 10 snakes in a span of my childhood years and what I clearly remember was that he used to force feed the snakes with chunks of meat.

He would use a pencil's eraser end to push the chunk through its mouth and he'd slowly wriggle the food through it's body. Seems brutal but very crucial for it might die if it wasnt forced to eat. And I can bet on my body that it was done atleast once to twice a month only. Talk about a snake on a diet. Hows that for a claim?

I strongly believe that these kinds of movies should never be supported. Movies like Jaws and its endless sequels which is now a thriller classic, Anaconda and Anacondas, Deep Blue Sea, and a whole lot more. There's also this new one about rabid dogs called "The Breed". I also remember one very cheap hollywood movie about killer crocodiles which was shot here in P.I. and it featured some local actors as well.

They're just animals, for crying out loud! They make millions of money by exploiting animals. They ride on the people's natural fear of the wild and unknow and misunderstood. Now, Im all for entertainment, but these are just downright wrong.

If you have National Geographic, and you watch it, then you might have already known that its the humans who go after these animals. Shows like "Snake Wranglers" where the documentarist/scientist would fearlessly come up to a snake bigger than him and show it to the camera. Awe the open minded people about its fangs, its huge constrictor body and whatever the creature might have in its arsenal.

In these shows, I pity the animal for being disturbed in its peaceful slumber (in some instances, they even come across two mating snakes, talk about invasion of privacy!). But these are scientists, they do it for education. With every one creature's day to day life disturbed, who knows how many uninformed viewers become enlightened by their unexpected TV exposure?

I have seen Jaws, J.Lo's Anaconda, LL Cool J's Deep Blue Sea, and the cheap Croc movie. But Im proud to say I never paid a cent to see them. I just saw them on cable and well, I dont pay for the cable anyway.

I might have enjoyed them before, but let this be my stand that from now on, being the poser animal rights activist that I am, I'll never support these exploitative movies. These blatant show of how ignorant people can be. Small as it may be, but my money will never be spent to make these movie honchos a few cents richer.

Animals are not wild killing machines. Well, they are, but they're definitely not murderers. Its us humans who are.

With that said… any more poser animal rights activists out there who would like to join in on my battle cry?