The All Time Lows

I go to Yahoo! today and one of the headlines is: "Von Trier cuts film's donkey butchery scene." For those of you unfamiliar with the work of Lars Von Trier, he is the director of such samily films as Breaking the Waves, a story about a woman who's husband becomes incapacitated and urges her to have sex with another man and tell him the details, and last year's Dogville, a movie about Nicole Kidman getting raped around 30 times, which turns out is the first episode in a trilogy about America from the Danish filmmaker. The second film in the trilogy, Manderlay, is reportedly about slavery, though it also is reportedly set in the the 1930s. Seems Lars decided he needed to slaughter an actual donkey and film it for a scene in the movie, though after an onslaught of letters from animal rights activists, he agreed to cut it, releasing this statement, "My personal feeling is that I acted conscientiously, and I don't suppose we'll ever agree on that."

Update: Here's Daniel Taylor's take on it. (It is the official stance of Mesh Magazine that Daniel Taylor is an asshole.)