Having been a voice actor in this project, I figure I might as well weigh in. As always, Jack's animation talents are excellent, and my acting colleague, Sarah, does a fine job, too, which is why it gets more than 3 stars from me. However, I’m reluctant to rate it higher, because it’s not as fun as the Game of Thrones and Dragonball parodies I worked on with him. The imagery in most of the piece is so explicitly grim that it’s hard to sit through and easy to lose sight of the parody within a parody that highlights many humans’ ambivalence about eating meat, and the efforts of some activists to convert others to veganism. (Of course, an alien race advanced enough to conquer us clever apes would not be as grossly inefficient in processing us.)
I have no such ambivalence, myself, about meat eating, per se—after all, there are plenty of other animals who eat meat, too, and the methods of killing can be more horrific than what happens to most domestic livestock. It won’t dissuade me from enjoying a good steak dinner, any more than PETA’s obnoxious propaganda. Yet the piece is certainly food for thought (ba-dump-bump) as evidenced by all the commentary it’s received and thus deserving of making the Daily Picks.