Last month, CBC aired a special called Cruel Camera, which was about animals used in the entertainment industry. I missed the airing, but it is available online- and it's incredible. Anyone who has any degree of compassion in their bones will be moved by this. It's a must see and a must pass along...

Here's the link:
www.cbc.ca/fifth/cruelcamera/video.html

Cruel Camera
Twenty-five years ago, Bob Mckeown and a fifth estate crew stunned the country with an investigative report that showed that many of the wildlife documentaries we'd grown up watching on television (remember the famous footage of the lemmings going off the cliff or some of the memorable moments from shows like Wild Kingdom?) were staged for the television cameras. As well, they revealed that animals often died during the making of movies; all for the sake of the entertainment value.

Now, Bob McKeown and an investigative team have returned to the subject to find out what has changed since the fifth estate's first Cruel Camera documentary. What they found may astonish you.