At UMKC today through Friday: Watch a grisly animal rights video, get paid

Looking to make a quick buck? I mean literally one dollar. Still interested? Me, too!

The Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), an international nonprofit promoting vegan lifestyles and animal rights, is setting up a large, customized truck on the UMKC campus today, tomorrow and Friday. Inside, eight TV screens with headphones are set up for viewers to come in and watch a four-minute video of undercover factory-farm and slaughterhouse footage. If you do that, they’ll give you a dollar. 

I just watched the video. Here are some of things to be prepared for:

A rotating blade slicing chickens’ throats. 
A dairy cow having its tail ripped off.
A pig having its testicles cut off. 
A pig shot with a bolt gun and being bled to death.
A chicken having its beak seared off. 

You’re also, of course, reminded that pigs are intelligent creatures, and chickens are social animals, and cows are loving mothers, and farm animals are not really any different from the dogs and cats we love and keep in our homes. It’s depressing as hell. I ate so much chicken vindaloo last night. 

I’d still recommend watching the video, whether online (you can do that here) or in front of UMKC’s Atterbury Student Success Center, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. today (Wednesday) through Friday.