Dominion (2018 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Dominion

| image = Dominion poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Chris Delforce

| writer = Chris Delforce

| producer = Chris Delforce, Matthew Lynch, Farm Transparency Project

| narrator = Joaquin Phoenix
Rooney Mara
Sadie Sink
Sia
Kat Von D

| music = Asher Pope

| editing = Chris Delforce

| released = {{Film date|2018|03|29|Melbourne, Australia|df=y}}

| runtime = 120 minutes

| country = Australia

| language = English

}}

Dominion is a 2018 Australian documentary film filmed primarily with drones and hidden cameras inside Australian slaughterhouses and macro-farms with the aim to expose an opaque and inhumane system, according to the film's writer, director, and producer, Chris Delforce, an animal rights activist.{{cite web |last1=Albeck-Ripka |first1=Livia |title=Protests in Australia Pit Vegans Against Farmers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/world/australia/vegans-protest-farms.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=23 July 2023 |date=10 April 2019}} The film documents multiple animal abuse industries in Australia, especially agricultural livestock, while focusing its message on animal rights.{{cite journal |last1=Alonso-Recarte |first1=Claudia |date=20 January 2022 |title=Tiger King and the Exegesis of COVID-19 Media Coverage of Nonhuman Animals |journal=Journalism and Media |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=99–114 |doi=10.3390/journalmedia3010008 |quote=There are also documentaries such as Earthlings (Monson 2005) and Dominion (Delforce 2018) that construct their shock tactics with the accumulation of footage of wanton cruelty and abuse in a number of industries (food, clothing, entertainment, tourism, the pharmaceutical and medical research industries, etc.). |doi-access=free}}{{Cite book |last=von Mossner |first=Alexa Weik |title=Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2021 |isbn=978-3-030-53282-6 |series=The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series |pages=248 |chapter=Feeling Bad? Veganism, Climate Change, and the Rhetoric of Cowspiracy |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-53280-2_10 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-53280-2_10 |s2cid=236717428}} Dominion portrays the killing of animals through methods such as using carbon dioxide to gas pigs, maceration of chicks, and skinning foxes alive.{{Cite web |last=Cuthbertson |first=Debbie |date=2019-04-12 |title=Vegan protests: Flash in the pan or seismic social shift? |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/vegan-protests-flash-in-the-pan-or-seismic-social-shift-20190411-p51da3.html |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}{{cite web |date=8 April 2019 |title=What is the 'Dominion' documentary vegan protesters are promoting? |url=https://www.9news.com.au/national/news-animal-activist-protests-promoting-vegan-documentary-dominion/000cc94d-64df-41fc-8003-3a83c018eaff |access-date=24 July 2023 |website=www.9news.com.au}}{{cite news |title=Pork industry hits back at slaughter process criticism after 'distressing' footage of gassing made public |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-03-28/pig-slaughter-methods-defended-by-pork-industry/102153822 |access-date=23 August 2023 |work=ABC News |date=28 March 2023 |language=en-AU}}