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‘Gunda’ Director Victor Kossakovsky On Empathy For Farm Animals And Finding His Porcine “Meryl Streep”

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Imagine a mother raising a large family, nurturing her children from birth, tending to their every need, only to have them plucked from her, not knowing where they’ve been taken.

Imagine the mother’s panic and worry.This is the scenario of Gunda, the Oscar-shortlisted documentary by Victor Kossakovsky.

Does it matter that Gunda is a sow and her family a litter of piglets? Not to the director. The inescapable inference from his film is that Gunda experiences emotions just as humans do, and when her children are suddenly snatched, trucked off to slaughter, she suffers terrible emotional distress.“If you look to Gunda, you see her soul,” Kossakovsky tells Deadline. “Even a chicken has intellect, even a cow has intellect…Don’t be stupid,

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