My new favorite film

I'm a vegan, right down to all the clothes I wear and all the toiletries/household cleaners/medicines I use and I try my best to purchase as many other animal-free products as I possibly can without going bankrupt and I try my best to avoid being forced to use non-food items derived from animals in situations where it's out of my control (refusing to sit on leather furniture in offices is the most common example/problem),and I felt Sweetgrass was an intoxicating highly sensorial sublime masterpiece from curtain to curtain, and while I cringed during the interiour barn segment I recognized that there practical reasons for why the sheep were treated that way and that the straightforward depiction of that treatment had to be included in the documentary because the whole point of the documentary was to capture the rigourous harsh reality of a frontier lifestyle within a capitalistic framework that treats animals as capital livestock commodity, not household pets. What occurs in the interiour sheep pens during the first part of the film is harsh but practical - one of the female sheep had enough milk to feed multiple newborns and another female sheep lacked milked so the farmer moved the newborn to the mother with an abundance of milk. One newborn could not be matched with any nursing mother so the farmer nursed the newborn. One female sheep was ignoring her newborn so the newborn was covered with, I think he said pigskin, but it was slathered with the amniotic fluid of another newborn, and the covered newborn was taken back to the mother in the hope that the mother would smell the newborn-scent and allow her baby to nurse. The farmers were making sure the newborns were feeding. They were also helping mothers give birth quickly. The farmers were intentionally treating the sheep roughly and brusquely because what they were doing had to be done with an emotional disconnect and without struggle and very quickly (otherwise baby sheep starve and newborn scents quickly fade and mother's milk dries up and birthing is painful and might also become complicated) because they had hundreds of sheep to raise, the brisqueness was necessary to getting the job done. Within a capitalistic framework, farming isn't cuddling with animals, farming is factory line assembly work, and that factory-line structure is also imposed upon farms attempting to maintain a free-ranging, naturalistic, frontieresque farming methodology.The film begins in the harshness of winter when the sheep are confined due to the weather and the farmers are very brusque from the bitter cold and, like the sheep, exhibiting terse and ornery behaviour, the farmers are just as penned up just as the sheep, but when the winter begins to break into spring the attitude of the farmers begins to defrost and the bewildered newborns are paternally shepherded outside the penned building for light grazing, the land still formless under a thin layer of mothgrey frost, then every shade of green imaginable bursts across the screen as spring is in full bloom and the fragrant holy sweetgrass covers the whole of the earth and the entire herd is shepherded through the unbounded arcadian formless primordial sweetgrass wilderness of a mountainous frontier, the landscape like fine art, leaping from the screen, the farmers so blended into the greenery they vanish from the screen, swallowed up by the landscape, a slight spatial disorientation from the transition, a reminder that earth swallows us up and all that remains is earth in her pure radiant limitless glory.Earth, that nourished thee, shall claimThy growth, to be resolved to earth again,And, lost each human trace, surrendering upThine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements.......The camera eye magically captured the silent roar of humanity forever trapped in a contradictory existence with nature, an existence predicated upon fighting against nature for survival and working in concert with nature for survival, the universal natural need to use natural resources which results in exploitation (and destruction) of natural resources, and the universal desire to not destroy nature, and how capitalism has turned that struggle into a brutal war between man and his environment and man with himself, and the end result is nature and mankind are losing. While the older farmer is savouring and musing over his last shepherding journey, the younger farmer, the man who is the current generation and who will be shaping the minds of the next generation, hates the job and can't wait to finish the journey and move on to a new way of life. Who then will become intoxicated with the holy fragrance of the sweetgrass? What holy manna will the sheep be munching now? Chemical feed? What then can possibly provide humans with the same spiritual and physical enrichment as the challenge and experience of trekking through the wilderness with a hungry flock of sheep to shepherd and protect? What will happen when the "conventional" farming industry culminates to the point that it dominates all farming and machines do all the work and ALL the animals remain locked in a one-foot-by-one-foot pen 24/7, never to see sunlight or breathe fresh air? All the animals forced to eat chemicals and only a handful of "farmers" left in the US? This film is an indictment against a capitalistic society forcibly bringing an end to a way of rough-but-humane naturalistic free-ranging farming methodology that is essential for the preservation of animalkind's health and well-being, for the preservation of the quality of animals' lives, for keeping humankind deeply connected to animals and working in harmony with nature, for the survival of the planet, for the preservation of a way of life in which humankind are the protectors of the earth, a way of life being snuffed out by the capitalistic method of "conventional" farming that is immeasurably cruel and inhumane and has turned farming into a war between man and the earth and between man and himself and is brutally destroying animalkind on an unprecedented scale and also destroying the spirit of humankind and the planet on an unprecedented scale.