The cruelty behind animal agriculture has been well-hidden, with food packages plastered with images of happy cows on idyllic farms and chickens roaming in wide pastures — and misleading terms like “free-range” and “humane” make us feel proud about our choices.
In recent years, however, the curtains have been slowly peeling away. The horrors that occur behind the scenes of slaughterhouses, egg farms, and circus tents are getting harder to ignore.
And now, writer-director-producer Chris Delforce brings us Dominion, an upcoming feature-length documentary that sheds light on the numerous ways animals are used by humans for food, entertainment, and clothing. It’s not just about a few “bad guys” performing illegal acts of cruelty. It’s about the the standardized brutality that happens every day behind the closed doors of some of the world’s biggest industries. Using secret cameras and drones, Dominion exposes the norms that many of us simply aren’t aware of.
DOMINION (2018): A feature-length documentary (Indiegogo campaign) from Aussie Farms on Vimeo.
“Industries that profit from the exploitation and abuse of animals hide behind a wall of secrecy,” said Delforce. “They know that if consumers were to see for themselves what actually occurs in the production of meat, dairy, eggs, leather, etc., they’d stop being consumers and those industries would quickly cease to exist.”
Rather than simply asking, “how can we be nicer to the animals,” the film sheds light on the concept of humankind’s right to use animals for its own gains.
Image Courtesy Dominion
The term dominion addresses concepts like power, authority, and sovereignty. So what makes us think we have the right to take over other species’ lives? No matter how “humane” or “free range” we try to make it seem, the fact is that animals do not want to be harmed for our benefit.
“They don’t want to die and it is within every viewer’s power to make it stop. Unlike other prevalent social justice issues, we’re not trying to persuade a backwards government to do the right thing – this is entirely up to us as consumers. It’s in our hands and it’s our responsibility,” said Delforce.
The film is currently raising funds on indiegogo.com, and is set to premiere in Melbourne, Australia on March 29, 2018, with showings in North America in May 2018.
People, just stop eating so much damned meat. We’re not only promoting horrible cruelty on animals, we are destroying the planet. I once saw a documentary about carbon foot prints and one bloody cheeseburger leaves a huge one, because all the production and transportation and crap that go in to it to produce ONE stupid, cheeseburger at a greasy burger joint, now multiply that by billions. Most of the fields and farmland in the US are used to raise corn to feed the gazillion green house gas emitting cows.
Someone commented on Pinterest that we can recycle all we want, all day, everyday and everything, and try to save all the water, but that’s not going to do squat, if we humans don’t stop consuming so much dead animal flesh every single day. Besides, it’s just not healthy (for both animal and human) to eat so much of it
Very few people are aware of the cruelty and torture many animals endure in the name of food production, this should be exposed and ppl need to be made aware of what really happens to animals, the packaging is not only misleading but blatantly false!
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When people become self-centered and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things to buy, own and consume. It becomes almost impossible to accept the limits imposed by reality. In this horizon, a genuine sense of the common good also disappears. As these attitudes become more widespread, social norms are respected only to the extent that they do not clash with personal needs. So our concern cannot be limited merely to the threat of extreme weather events, but must also extend to the catastrophic consequences of social unrest. Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.
I looked at ethical slaughter for the first 10 seconds and had to find the back button, I literally had to turn it off, I didn’t want to have to work every day on UN seeing what the filmmaker had to witness to get the word out. I think I am going a bit nuts, I think of the animals every time I go to the market and walk down the isles of meat and chicken, what they go through for us. I want to weep. What kind of human being can seek out and TAKE A JOB like this? They’re sadistic. Thanks to the filmmaker, I donated. Please donate, it takes a lot of money to get a film made and he is passionate to get the word out. He is going to get this done, hope he is up for an Academy Award so the billion viewers will learn the truth.
lets hope this documentary starts the fire that is needed to move along the discourse in any way shape or form that is needed especially in this more than opportune time when around the world animals and their treatment in all venues, circuses-pet stores-puppy mills-shelters-slaughter-transport (with a specific country and bet ween countries)-hoarding-manufacture of clothing-etc etc etc etc is on the front burner as they say for all to see and make right, this time may never come again. lets move forward.
this is a shame of our century !!!
There is no reason to be inhumane to farm animals I understand a lot of people are meat eaters but there’s no reason to miss treat these animals.
This documentary is very important for people to see. People just don’t know how cruel farming is these days. This is an extra important documentary and sounds like they are gonna tell it all. This documentary needs to be shown all around the world. People need their eyes opened. We all know false advertisements happen all the time on a product is different but when you falsely advertise about farming that’s a whole different playing field because your talking about animal’s lives. Make this documentary come alive glad to see that someone is gonna to do this Great news.
Cruelty has gone past the limits in EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY…including the good ol’ USA!! Astonishing that so called human beings are the culprit behind the reasons God will destroy us!! This “new age” bullshit produces the worse of the worse hellbound satanic, barbaric slaves to evil I have ever heard of in my 60 years of living. Not sure how it got started, but I just know about the only way it’s going to end is for somebody to push the button! Those responsible of doing all this to these helpless innocent creatures that are so near and dear to my heart, and I love their every breath they take, should be tortured to a slow, painful, agonizing death! Every single thing that does this and it doesn’t matter what it is what kind of barbaric horrible activity is on our animals should be an isolated in the most painful way that another good human can think of!! Who agrees with me?? And do you have the balls to back it up. I have mafia balls, I just need a few good people to stand with me to do worse to them than what happened to our pre joys fur children. Pm me if you feel you meet the standard of mafia bitch.
I wish they would bring the film to Jamaica but it’s probably not something that would appeal to the majority, and as always decisions are made on the basis of how much money they will bring in. Ugh!
Of course slaughtering animals is cruel. They’re disrespected & shown no compassion by the humans????? that do the dirty deed & not always quickly & it’s without mercey. These poor innocents feel fear & pain. Any foolish idiot that says differently needs sectioning!!!!
Lynn well said you have hit the nail right on the head, Hala meat is even worse and our town is full of these butchers shops, its about time Hala meat was baned here in the UK and any other country its a barbaric way to murder animals but then these people are cruel to animals, i would like to see more control in slaughter houses like CCTV but then i still will not eat meat murdering animals is wrong they have a right to a life!!!
I,not so long ago found out about the inhumane factory farm industry and it really opened my eyes to how horrible the animals are treated.I no longer eat animal meat. We can make choices of what we want to eat and people who care about and respect animals will come to the same consciousness.I’m not perfect,I still eat some seafood,but it’s a journey worth taking.
I know all to well of the horrors of abuse and neglect. This is why i do not eat pork or beef.
The poultry industry in the US, at least, is bad, as well. And the seafood that we eat probably has plastic in it because the oceans are so polluted with garbage and plastic. I live in Los Angeles and heard on the news a few days ago that there’s plastic in the water that come out of our faucets. Yay/notYay.
search ‘Hope and glory farm’ on youtube
Will this documentary be aired in the United Kingdom as well? I think we ALL need to be made fully aware of the inherent, vicious brutality in the animal industry, because it happens here too!!
PLEASE can the documentary be made available to the UK – I believe BBC1 and ITV would be the best TV channels for this.
And South Africa would be a good target as well………
Can we be kept updated on this please?
it’s already available: search ‘Hope and glory farm’ on youtube
Thank you so much for the documentary – let us hope it creates a change in the way we treat animals. Could animal welfare laws be introduced and enforced for farm animals???? Surely, in 2017 we could farm animals in a civilised way??????
There is nothing humain about murdering animals thats why i will not eat meat, i hate slaughter houses so much cruelty goes on when will it ever stop.
I hope his documentary achieves it’s objective and makes people more aware oof what is going on behind closed doors.