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Oktubre 01-07, 2018
Histories Onscreen: Gen. Luna and
Goyo, THE MOVIE
By:
John
Lara
Christoper
A.

Filipinos are known
to be lovers of entertainment
particularly movies or motion
pictures. Through these, we are
also able to express ourselves,
our culture and most importantly,
our past. Nowadays, a couple of
great masterpieces are proving
how effective it is as platform of
reminiscing and learning about
our rich history; General Luna
and GOYO the movie.

These two great films
directed by Jerrold Tarog are
now considered as top grosser
and box office hits especially
to the students. A lot of people
especially the professionals have
recognized and appreciated these
works in gathering the interests
of the youth and spreading
awareness of how our heritage
and freedom were fought for by
our heroes. This also helped a lot
for us to appreciate and can add
up to the glory and that we have
as Filipinos.

How they tackled the
story of General Luna despite its
tragic story was delivered in a
mixture of serious, patriotic and
humorous sense. Plus, the main
protagonist had become really
remarkable to all the viewers also
because of the great performance
Vegans versus butchers
PARIS, France — When
the stone slabs crashed into
her butcher’s shop window
last week, Elisabeth Cure
became the latest victim of
“radical vegans” who are
trying to force a change in
eating habits in traditionally
meat-loving France.

The attack in a quiet
town of Saint-Arnoult-en-
Yvelines, 50 kilometers
(30 miles) southwest of
Paris, took place at 3:00 am,
startling Cure as she slept
above the store.

As in other similar
incidents around France
over the last year, her
tormentors left a tell-tale tag
scrawled on the shopfront:
“End the Repression”.

“That’s how I knew
it was radical vegans,” she
told AFP.
Incidents
of
vandalism and intimidation
have reached such a level
that the country’s butchers’
confederation, representing
18,000 businesses, sounded
the alarm publicly in June
and asked the government
for protection.

“Since the start of
the year, we’ve seen 17
butcher shop windows
destroyed and dozens of
acts of vandalism,” Jean-
Francois Guihard, head of
the CFBCT confederation,
told AFP.

“The state needs
to take necessary steps,”
he said, characterizing the
campaign against meat
producers as a “form of
terrorism”.
Overnight
on
Thursday-Friday, an abattoir
in the east of France was
partly burned down, again
raising suspicions that anti-
meat campaigners could be
responsible.

The heads of the
cattle and pork associations,
Interbev and Inaporc, issued
a joint statement on Friday
urging President Emmanuel
Macron to intervene and
even warning of a “civil
war” over the issue.
Animal genocide?
Health
scares,
higher prices and growing
awareness about animal
rights have led to a gradual
fall in meat consumption
in France since the end of
the 1990s, but most natives
remain proudly carnivorous.

In the country that
brought the world boeuf
bourguignon, coq au vin
and foie gras, vegetarianism
and particularly veganism
remain marginal, with most
French children still fed
meat four days a week at
school.

But a small fringe of
radical animal rights groups
is determined to change
attitudes by highlighting
abuses and cruelty in the
farming and meat industry.

Traditionally their
campaigns have involved
handing out leaflets or
organizing demonstrations,
but in recent years they
have turned to direct
action, invading abattoirs
or throwing fake blood over
processing plants.

Although no groups
have been blamed for the
recent attacks on butcher
shops, activist networks such
as L214, 269 Life France or
Boucherie Abolition are at
the forefront of these more
muscular tactics.

The latter group
fights “for the abolition
of the genocide called
butchery,” its spokeswoman
Solveig
Halloin
told
AFP. “Animal breeding
should not be a career. The
methods of rearing animals
are violent and amount to
persecution.”

Halloin does not say
whether her group is behind
the attacks on butcher
shops, but neither does she
condemn the violence.

“The extremists in
brutality are the butchers,”
she said.
Applying
the
word
“genocide”
to
the
5
of the actor while, the sequel
which is GOYO maintained the
momentum and greatly left the
viewers wanting for more. The
difference was it was considered
unique because of its unique
angle and it has also shown some
dark stories of our heroes which
is seldom being tackled and
included in our history books and
classes.
Although there are a lot of different
genres to choose from which can
give more entertainment which
we Filipinos are longing, still,
it is good that many of us are
starting to also consider these
kinds of movies. Also, it also
paves way for our local directors
and filmmakers to be known and
recognized not only here but also
all over the globe.

There are a lot more
movies out there depicting different stories of different
important personalities significant
to our country and to our history.
It is good that we also continue to
expose and engage ourselves to
these not only to be entertained
but also to learn where we come
from and to appreciate the things
that we have now.

This surely helps build
patriotism
and
nationalism
especially now that our nation is
being challenged by a lot of issues
and conflicts which divides our
people. Hopefully through this,
we also advance and develop our
unity and love for our country.

Imagine how good it is
to have this kind of rich history
that never fades even through
time. This little things makes us
proud as Filipinos and hopefully
we remain proud of who we are
forever.
slaughtering of animals —
the term is a specific legal
crime applied to the killing
of humans on account of
their race or identity —
reflects the “speciest” beliefs
of radical groups such as
Boucherie Abolition.
S o - c a l l e d
“speciests” reject the idea
of an animal hierarchy that
places humans at the top,
arguing instead that all
animals should be treated
equally.
Veganism gains ground
Last
Saturday,
Boucherie Abolition and
269 Life France organized
demonstrations in front of
dozens of butchers’ shops
across France.

In Paris, Vincent
Aubry
and
another
campaigner carried around
a young pig — which are
prized for their tenderness
when roasted.
Aubry
did
not
condemn the smashing of
butchers’ windows either
and he said he was “prepared to go to prison if needed.”

“Our only limit is
violence against human
beings,” he said.
The
risk
of
confrontation between those
who depend on rearing and
slaughtering animals for
their living and those who
are determined to stop what
they consider to be mass
killing appears to be rising.
The
CFBCT
confederation accuses the
vegans of “wanting to
impose on the immense
majority of people their
lifestyle, or even their
ideology.”

Marianne Celka, a
researcher at the Paul-Valery
University in Montpellier
in southern France, sees
“no chance of conciliation”
between the two sides.

But she highlights
how veganism is gaining
ground in France, with
some major supermarkets
now stocking “100 percent
vegan”
products
—
sometimes opposite their
meat aisles.
A member of the radical militant group anti-species and vegan “Butcher abolition” poses in front of a butcher’s shop
with a dead piglet in his arms during a demonstration, in Paris, on 22 September 2018. (AFP photo)