[operator-name]

In the west we have “No Animals Were Harmed in the making of …”, which I’m only just learning comes from the American Humane Society: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Humane_Society#No_A...

I had always thought it were a generic phrase!

[talideon]

And "filmed in front of a live studio audience", which doesn't prevent the addition of laugh tracks.

[Buildstarted]

I read a long time ago that Fran Drescher of The Nanny fame was huge in replacing those audiences with extras instead of random people.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/how-fran-...

[germinalphrase]

Tripwiring (and thus fatally wounding) horses was quite a thing back in the day.

[apt-apt-apt-apt]

Still happening in 2022, though hopefully the outrage and changes after this incident avoids most future ones. Even the description in the article is really sad.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/asia/south-korea-horse-death-...

[kulahan]

Wasn't there some horrible story about the number of animals killed in the filming of Homeward Bound or some similar movie? I simply cannot comprehend the callousness of people towards animals back then. I guess our cultures are simply too different, but it genuinely seems like people saw all animals as "things" until, like, the 1950s or something like that. What the heck?

[aidenn0]

One comedy (I think State and Main) had something like "Only 2 animals were harmed in the production of this film" as a joke in the credits.

[CGMthrowaway]

Certified for free for SAG union productions (funded by the union at $1200/day). A perk of unionized production

[small_scombrus]

> funded by the union at $1200/day

Haha WHAT

That's an insane amount of money to come out of union dues

[eddythompson80]

Western YouTubers often say something like this article title whenever they get a large amount of food for a review or something. Rhett and Link say that almost every video.

[kelseyfrog]

We also have "No one was harmed in the making of this video" and similar, which has become so prevalent that its absence is sometime used to infer that someone was indeed injured or killed in the clip.

[ern]

I've seen clips on Reddit where animals are harmed for engagement. Usually "nature is brutal" type clips, where one animal kills another.

I mean nature is brutal, but typing down an animal to be consumed by another isn't natural.

Anyway, I don't think movies and TV are the main source of animal cruelty anymore.

[rendaw]

The growth of youtube has basically undone that. There's lots of very sketchy youtube/shorts/etc videos out there...