Babe, a pig not so gallant
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https://doi.org/10.31056/2250.5415.v12.n2.38333Keywords:
Movies, Bioethics, Animal ethics, Farm animals, Social construction, SpeciesismAbstract
Babe, a Little pig goes a long way is a film that has generally been used as a fable with the moral of each individual is the owner of his own destiny, but the lesson does not end there, from a critical perspective, the moral is if you don’t want to be food, you should help taking care of the food-animals. From anthropomorphizing animals as narrative subjects that inside their animality have a life story to tell, this movie exposes the way as humans have classified animals according to arbitrary parameters as use and the inconformity of some animals because of the place humans have given them in the world. Beginning with duck Ferdinand and young pig babe search of not being the dinner, I pretend to expose the necessity of being an indispensable animal in a human world, the individualism that brings his search and the high cost that comes with being emancipated from food category.
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