Narrated by Academy Award Nominee Joaquin Phoenix and featuring music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby, EARTHLINGS is a documentary film about humankind’s complete economic dependence on animals raised for pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, EARTHLINGS chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Powerful, informative, controversial and thought-provoking, EARTHLINGS is by far the most comprehensive documentary ever produced [...]

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the [...]

By Linda Conner Lambeck
STAFF WRITER – ConnPost
BRIDGEPORT — Ask students in Melinda Stygles’ second-grade class at Roosevelt School what they like best about the circus and, overwhelmingly, the cheers go to clowns, jugglers and high-wire acrobats.
Not one of the kids mentioned elephants, let alone a bloody, bandaged pachyderm.
But that’s what fellow Roosevelt students and their parents saw Tuesday afternoon as school let out. Sort of.
Ellie, the wounded PETA elephant, aka Ariela Rubin, of New York City, in a full-body elephant [...]