After his father died in 2011, Jay Wilde inherited his family’s small beef farm in the English county of Derbyshire, and quickly found himse
For 2019, the BAFTA winner for Short Film is a touching documentary on Jay Wilde, a vegetarian who inherited a beef farm from his father, and the process of saving the cows from slaughter and moving them to an animal sanctuary.
Here’s a scenario that’s most likely talked about but rarely seen in real life: the conversion of an animal farm into something that eliminates slaughter and exploitation. It’s a painstaking process that’s not likely to yield positive results overnight, but it is possible. More importantly, I think it’s something that starts when we consider animals as worthy of moral consideration, as sentient beings who deserve to live lives free from exploitation. After all, the moral precepts we hold are powerful motivating factors for our actions.
