1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:04,357 --> 00:00:07,278 The images you are about to see are not isolated cases. 3 00:00:07,279 --> 00:00:10,299 These are the Industry Standard for animals bred as Pets, 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 5 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:14,684 Food, Clothing, for Entertainment and Research. 6 00:00:14,685 --> 00:00:17,405 Viewer discretion is advised. 7 00:00:22,663 --> 00:00:26,096 THE THREE STAGES OF TRUTH 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,200 1. RIDICULE 9 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:35,700 2. VIOLENT OPPOSITION 10 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:42,200 3. ACCEPTANCE 11 00:00:56,798 --> 00:01:04,153 EARTHLINGS 12 00:01:25,685 --> 00:01:33,185 earth'ling: n. One who inhabits of the earth. 13 00:01:35,078 --> 00:01:41,638 Since we all inhabit the earth, all of us are considered earthlings. 14 00:01:41,961 --> 00:01:47,323 There is no sexism, no racism or speciesism in the term earthling. 15 00:01:47,324 --> 00:01:50,000 It encompasses each and every one of us: 16 00:01:50,001 --> 00:01:54,595 warm or cold blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, 17 00:01:54,596 --> 00:01:59,312 bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, and human alike. 18 00:02:01,029 --> 00:02:04,267 Humans, therefore, being not the only species on the planet, 19 00:02:04,268 --> 00:02:11,079 share this world with millions of other living creatures, as we all evolve here together. 20 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,882 However, it is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, 21 00:02:14,883 --> 00:02:19,887 often times treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. 22 00:02:19,888 --> 00:02:22,047 This is what is meant by speciesism. 23 00:02:22,048 --> 00:02:24,768 FESTIVAL OF THE BULLS, SPAIN 24 00:02:24,933 --> 00:02:28,417 By analogy with racism and sexism, the term "speciesism" is a prejudice 25 00:02:28,418 --> 00:02:32,750 or attitude of bias in favor of the interests 26 00:02:32,751 --> 00:02:38,558 of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species. 27 00:02:38,559 --> 00:02:41,466 If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for 28 00:02:41,467 --> 00:02:44,795 refusing to take that suffering into consideration. 29 00:02:44,796 --> 00:02:49,535 No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires 30 00:02:49,536 --> 00:02:57,936 that one's suffering can be counted equally with the like suffering of any other being. 31 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:15,342 Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater eight 32 00:03:15,343 --> 00:03:17,074 to the interests of members 33 00:03:17,075 --> 00:03:20,554 of their own race when their is a clash between their 34 00:03:20,555 --> 00:03:25,675 interests and the interests of those of another race. 35 00:03:29,771 --> 00:03:34,437 Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring 36 00:03:34,438 --> 00:03:37,478 the interests of their own sex. 37 00:03:43,694 --> 00:03:50,533 Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species 38 00:03:50,534 --> 00:03:56,837 to override the greater interests of members of other species. 39 00:03:59,133 --> 00:04:02,893 In each case, the pattern is identical. 40 00:04:09,913 --> 00:04:15,402 Though among the members of the human family we recognize the moral imperative of respect 41 00:04:15,403 --> 00:04:18,687 (every human is a somebody, not a something), 42 00:04:18,688 --> 00:04:21,972 morally disrespectful treatment occurs when those who stand at the power end of a 43 00:04:21,973 --> 00:04:28,853 power relationship treat the less powerful as if they were mere objects. 44 00:04:32,395 --> 00:04:35,753 The rapist does this to the victim of rape. 45 00:04:35,754 --> 00:04:39,190 The child molester to the child molested. 46 00:04:39,191 --> 00:04:41,749 The master to the slave. 47 00:04:42,173 --> 00:04:49,094 In each and all such cases, humans who have power exploit those who lack it. 48 00:04:49,095 --> 00:04:56,615 Might the same be true of how humans treat other animals, or other earthlings? 49 00:04:57,609 --> 00:04:59,687 Undoubtedly there are differences, 50 00:04:59,688 --> 00:05:05,368 since humans and animals are not the same in all respects. 51 00:05:06,921 --> 00:05:11,561 But the question of sameness wears another face. 52 00:05:12,969 --> 00:05:19,369 Granted, these animals do not have all the desires we humans have; 53 00:05:19,390 --> 00:05:23,611 granted, they do not comprehend everything we humans comprehend; 54 00:05:23,612 --> 00:05:26,465 nevertheless, we and they do have some of the same desires 55 00:05:26,466 --> 00:05:30,211 and do comprehend some of the same things. 56 00:05:30,212 --> 00:05:34,983 The desires for food and water, shelter and companionship, 57 00:05:34,984 --> 00:05:38,218 freedom of movement and avoidance of pain? 58 00:05:38,219 --> 00:05:44,139 these desires are shared by nonhuman animals and human beings. 59 00:05:45,871 --> 00:05:48,295 As for comprehension: like humans, 60 00:05:48,296 --> 00:05:53,287 many nonhuman animals understand the world in which they live and move. 61 00:05:53,288 --> 00:05:56,488 Otherwise, they could not survive. 62 00:05:58,402 --> 00:06:03,282 So beneath the many differences, there is sameness. 63 00:06:04,415 --> 00:06:10,310 Like us, these animals embody the mystery and wonder of consciousness. 64 00:06:10,311 --> 00:06:15,029 Like us, they are not only in the world, they are aware of it. 65 00:06:15,030 --> 00:06:21,729 Like us they are the psychological centers of a life that is uniquely their own. 66 00:06:21,730 --> 00:06:26,384 In these fundamental respects humans stand "on all fours", so to speak, 67 00:06:26,385 --> 00:06:30,246 with hogs and cows, chickens and turkeys. 68 00:06:30,247 --> 00:06:34,264 What these animals are due from us, how we morally ought to treat them, 69 00:06:34,265 --> 00:06:37,685 are questions whose answer begins with the recognition of our 70 00:06:37,686 --> 00:06:40,646 psychological kinship with them. 71 00:06:42,271 --> 00:06:44,137 So the following film demonstrates 72 00:06:44,138 --> 00:06:48,544 in five ways just how animals have come to serve mankind 73 00:06:48,545 --> 00:06:52,356 ...lest we forget. 74 00:07:04,453 --> 00:07:09,218 Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote in his bestselling novel 75 00:07:09,219 --> 00:07:12,474 'Enemies, A Love Story' the following: 76 00:07:12,475 --> 00:07:17,143 "As often has Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, 77 00:07:17,144 --> 00:07:21,411 he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, 78 00:07:21,412 --> 00:07:26,042 all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species 79 00:07:26,043 --> 00:07:30,391 as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, 80 00:07:30,392 --> 00:07:33,752 the principle that might is right". 81 00:07:36,337 --> 00:07:41,497 The comparison here to the holocaust is both intentional and obvious: 82 00:07:41,498 --> 00:07:46,834 one group of living beings anguishes beneath the hands of another. 83 00:07:46,835 --> 00:07:50,225 Though some will argue the suffering of animals cannot possibly compare 84 00:07:50,226 --> 00:07:55,983 with that of former Jews or slaves, there is, in fact, a parallel. 85 00:07:55,984 --> 00:08:01,527 And for the prisoners and victims of this mass murder, their holocaust 86 00:08:01,528 --> 00:08:03,777 is far from over. 87 00:08:21,385 --> 00:08:26,269 In his book 'The Outermost House' author Henry Beston wrote 88 00:08:26,270 --> 00:08:29,729 "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical 89 00:08:29,730 --> 00:08:31,570 concept of animals. 90 00:08:33,630 --> 00:08:38,382 Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, 91 00:08:38,383 --> 00:08:40,182 man in civilization surveys 92 00:08:40,183 --> 00:08:44,823 the creatures through the glass of his knowledge 93 00:08:45,438 --> 00:08:50,144 and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. 94 00:08:50,145 --> 00:08:52,912 We patronize them for their incompleteness, 95 00:08:52,913 --> 00:08:58,587 for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. 96 00:08:58,588 --> 00:09:02,108 And therein we err, and greatly err. 97 00:09:03,430 --> 00:09:07,830 For the animal shall not be measured by man. 98 00:09:08,084 --> 00:09:11,719 In a world older and more complete than ours 99 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,760 they move finished and complete, 100 00:09:17,388 --> 00:09:23,948 gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, 101 00:09:26,101 --> 00:09:29,701 living by voices we shall never hear. 102 00:09:34,736 --> 00:09:39,296 They are not brethren; they are not underlings; 103 00:09:41,023 --> 00:09:43,263 they are other nations, 104 00:09:44,259 --> 00:09:48,776 caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, 105 00:09:48,777 --> 00:09:54,457 fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth". 106 00:09:59,648 --> 00:10:02,912 PART ONE: PETS 107 00:10:04,662 --> 00:10:11,441 For most of us, our relationship with animals involves the owning of a pet or two. 108 00:10:11,442 --> 00:10:14,562 So where do our pets come from? 109 00:10:15,835 --> 00:10:23,115 Of course, one of the most obvious ways animals serve man is as companions. 110 00:10:23,814 --> 00:10:25,678 BREEDERS 111 00:10:25,705 --> 00:10:31,672 For these pets it starts with a breeder, though not all breeders are considered professional. 112 00:10:31,673 --> 00:10:36,448 In fact, in this profession, just about anyone and everyone can be a breeder. 113 00:10:36,449 --> 00:10:39,009 PET STORES AND PUPPY MILLS 114 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:44,516 For pet stores, most of their animals are acquired from puppy mills, 115 00:10:44,517 --> 00:10:47,477 even if they may not know it. 116 00:10:50,943 --> 00:10:52,840 Puppy mills are low-budget 117 00:10:52,841 --> 00:11:00,281 commercial enterprises that breed dogs for sale to pet shops and other buyers. 118 00:11:08,182 --> 00:11:10,904 They are often backyard operations 119 00:11:10,905 --> 00:11:19,705 that expose animals to filthy, overcrowded conditions with no veterinary care or socialization. 120 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,356 Dogs from puppy mills often exhibit 121 00:11:24,357 --> 00:11:29,317 physical and psychological problems as they grow up. 122 00:11:31,889 --> 00:11:32,688 STRAYS 123 00:11:34,084 --> 00:11:38,113 Strays, if they are lucky, will be picked up and taken to a 124 00:11:38,114 --> 00:11:44,834 shelter or pound, where they can only hope to find a new home again. 125 00:11:49,230 --> 00:11:54,830 An estimated 25 million animals become homeless every year. 126 00:11:57,409 --> 00:12:03,249 And as many as 27% of purebred dogs are among the homeless. 127 00:12:15,372 --> 00:12:19,173 Of these 25 million homeless animals an average of 9 million 128 00:12:19,174 --> 00:12:22,294 die on the streets from disease, 129 00:12:22,381 --> 00:12:24,813 starvation, 130 00:12:26,345 --> 00:12:28,584 exposure, 131 00:12:29,717 --> 00:12:34,037 injury, or some other hazard of street life. 132 00:12:34,546 --> 00:12:40,439 Many others are strays, some of whom were presumably dumped in the streets by their caretakers 133 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,572 The remaining 16 million die in pounds or shelters that have no 134 00:12:44,573 --> 00:12:48,733 room for them and are forced to kill them. 135 00:12:54,675 --> 00:12:56,628 Sadly, on top of all this, 136 00:12:56,629 --> 00:13:04,309 almost 50% of the animals brought to shelters are turned in by their caretakers. 137 00:13:05,806 --> 00:13:12,363 Many people claim they don't visit shelters because it's depressing for them. 138 00:13:12,364 --> 00:13:17,370 But the reason animals are crowded into such dreary places as these, 139 00:13:17,371 --> 00:13:23,154 is because of people's refusal to spay or neuter their pets. 140 00:13:23,155 --> 00:13:27,367 Several pet owners feel, particularly men for some reason, 141 00:13:27,368 --> 00:13:32,488 that neutering a pet emasculates the owner somehow ... 142 00:13:33,188 --> 00:13:42,548 ... or they may just want their children to someday experience the "miracle of life", so to speak. 143 00:13:49,733 --> 00:13:55,172 In either case, pet owners like these unknowingly take part in the euthanasia 144 00:13:55,173 --> 00:13:58,293 of over 60,000 animals per day. 145 00:14:00,806 --> 00:14:07,393 Euthanasia, generally defined as the act of killing painlessly for reasons of mercy, 146 00:14:07,394 --> 00:14:11,722 is usually administered by an injection in the leg for dogs, 147 00:14:11,723 --> 00:14:15,483 and sometimes in the stomach for cats. 148 00:14:20,955 --> 00:14:27,911 It is a quick and painless procedure for the animals, and by far the most humane, 149 00:14:27,912 --> 00:14:31,272 but not always the most affordable. 150 00:14:34,266 --> 00:14:37,377 Due to the increase of euthanasia in shelters, 151 00:14:37,378 --> 00:14:41,637 and the growing, constant, demand for drugs like Euthasol, 152 00:14:41,638 --> 00:14:48,918 some shelters with budget constraints are forced to use gas chambers instead. 153 00:14:50,504 --> 00:14:51,704 GAS CHAMBERS 154 00:14:52,381 --> 00:14:55,812 In a gas chamber, animals are packed very tightly 155 00:14:55,813 --> 00:15:00,133 and can take as long as 20 minutes to die. 156 00:15:11,493 --> 00:15:14,373 It is, by far, less merciful, 157 00:15:14,552 --> 00:15:17,112 more traumatic and painful. 158 00:15:18,068 --> 00:15:21,508 But the procedure is less expensive. 159 00:15:29,412 --> 00:15:33,191 Perhaps some of the tough questions we should ask ourselves about animals 160 00:15:33,192 --> 00:15:36,232 that we keep as companions are: 161 00:15:36,804 --> 00:15:40,934 Can we keep animals as companions and still address their needs? 162 00:15:40,935 --> 00:15:44,078 Is our keeping companion animals in their best interest, 163 00:15:44,079 --> 00:15:46,554 or are we exploiting them? 164 00:15:46,555 --> 00:15:52,044 The answers to these questions may lie in the attitudes of the human caretakers 165 00:15:52,045 --> 00:15:59,005 and their abilities to provide suitable environments for companion animals. 166 00:16:24,737 --> 00:16:27,942 (CYANIDE POISON) Most human beings are speciesists. 167 00:16:27,943 --> 00:16:32,356 This film shows that ordinary human beings (not a few exceptionally 168 00:16:32,357 --> 00:16:36,164 cruel or heartless humans, but the overwhelming majority of people), 169 00:16:36,165 --> 00:16:40,225 take an active part in, acquiesce in, and allow their taxes 170 00:16:40,226 --> 00:16:44,416 to pay for practices that require the sacrifice of the most important 171 00:16:44,417 --> 00:16:48,294 interests of members of other species, in order to promote the most 172 00:16:48,295 --> 00:16:51,815 trivial interests of our own species. 173 00:16:53,333 --> 00:16:56,752 STRAY OVERPOPULATION IN TURKEY 174 00:17:03,594 --> 00:17:06,055 The hope for the animals of tomorrow is 175 00:17:06,056 --> 00:17:12,536 to be found in a Human Culture which learns to feel beyond itself. 176 00:17:19,588 --> 00:17:22,386 We must learn empathy, 177 00:17:26,838 --> 00:17:29,226 we must learn to see into the eyes 178 00:17:29,227 --> 00:17:36,187 of an animal and feel that their life has value because they are alive. 179 00:17:49,466 --> 00:17:52,779 PART TWO: FOOD 180 00:17:55,434 --> 00:18:06,129 "Oh, I missed. I missed you, honey. But I'll get you again!" 181 00:18:08,368 --> 00:18:14,338 "I got you! Good boy!" 182 00:18:14,755 --> 00:18:17,166 What happens in slaughterhouses 183 00:18:17,167 --> 00:18:24,447 is a variation on the theme of the exploitation of the weak by the strong. 184 00:18:36,142 --> 00:18:38,610 More than ten thousand times a minute, 185 00:18:38,611 --> 00:18:43,320 in excess of six billion times a year, just in the United States, 186 00:18:43,321 --> 00:18:48,237 life is literally drained from so-called "food animals". 187 00:18:48,238 --> 00:18:52,770 Having the greater power, humans decide when these animals will die, 188 00:18:52,771 --> 00:18:54,319 where they will die, 189 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,560 and how they will die. 190 00:18:57,470 --> 00:18:59,446 The interests of these animals themselves 191 00:18:59,447 --> 00:19:04,841 play no role whatsoever in the determination of their fate. 192 00:19:04,842 --> 00:19:08,941 Killing an animal is, in itself, a troubling act. 193 00:19:08,942 --> 00:19:10,878 It has been said that if we had 194 00:19:10,879 --> 00:19:14,781 to kill our own meat, we would all be vegetarians. 195 00:19:14,782 --> 00:19:17,864 Certainly very few people ever visit a slaughterhouse, 196 00:19:17,865 --> 00:19:22,585 and films of slaughterhouse operations are not popular on television. 197 00:19:22,586 --> 00:19:28,368 People might hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, 198 00:19:28,369 --> 00:19:31,195 but they don't really want to know about it. 199 00:19:31,196 --> 00:19:35,718 Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed, 200 00:19:35,719 --> 00:19:41,032 do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production 201 00:19:41,033 --> 00:19:42,872 of the meat they buy. 202 00:19:42,873 --> 00:19:46,153 So where does our food come from? 203 00:19:47,670 --> 00:19:52,665 For those of us living on a meat diet, the process these animals 204 00:19:52,666 --> 00:19:54,986 undergoes is as follows. 205 00:19:55,849 --> 00:19:57,421 BRANDING 206 00:20:00,863 --> 00:20:04,783 For beef, the animals are all branded ... 207 00:20:04,994 --> 00:20:08,274 ... in this instance, on the face. 208 00:20:11,157 --> 00:20:12,240 DEHORNING 209 00:20:14,284 --> 00:20:18,203 Dehorning usually follows. Never with anesthetic. 210 00:20:18,204 --> 00:20:21,564 But rather a large pair of pliers. 211 00:20:36,289 --> 00:20:37,790 TRANSPORTATION 212 00:20:39,676 --> 00:20:43,552 In transportation, animals are packed so tightly into trucks, they are 213 00:20:43,553 --> 00:20:45,974 practically on top of one another. 214 00:20:45,975 --> 00:20:50,615 Heat, freezing temperatures, fatigue, trauma, and health conditions 215 00:20:50,616 --> 00:20:54,812 will kill some of these animals in route to the slaughterhouses. 216 00:20:54,813 --> 00:20:55,708 MILKING 217 00:20:57,689 --> 00:20:59,645 Milking cows are kept chained 218 00:20:59,646 --> 00:21:04,686 to their stalls all day long, receiving no exercise. 219 00:21:05,072 --> 00:21:12,272 Pesticides and antibiotics are also used to increase their milk productivity. 220 00:21:25,941 --> 00:21:32,101 Eventually, milking cows, like this one, collapse from exhaustion. 221 00:21:32,564 --> 00:21:36,479 Normally, cows can live as long as twenty years, 222 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,640 but milking cows generally die within four. 223 00:21:40,833 --> 00:21:46,328 At which point, their meat is used for fast food restaurants. 224 00:21:46,329 --> 00:21:47,875 MEAT 225 00:21:52,378 --> 00:21:53,587 At this slaughterhouse, 226 00:21:53,588 --> 00:21:57,846 the branded and dehorned cattle are brought into a stall. 227 00:21:57,847 --> 00:21:59,819 CAPTIVE BOLTS 228 00:22:00,681 --> 00:22:02,695 The captive bolt gun, which was designed 229 00:22:02,696 --> 00:22:07,496 to reduce animals unconscious without causing pain, 230 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:13,420 fires a steel bolt, that is powered by compressed air or a blank cartridge, 231 00:22:13,421 --> 00:22:15,614 right into the animal's brain. 232 00:22:15,615 --> 00:22:17,643 BLEEDING 233 00:22:20,168 --> 00:22:26,056 Though various methods of slaughter are used, in this Massachusetts facility, 234 00:22:26,057 --> 00:22:31,124 the cattle is hoisted up and his or her throat is slit. 235 00:22:31,125 --> 00:22:36,485 Along with the meat, their blood will be used as well. 236 00:22:45,547 --> 00:22:49,507 Though the animal has received a captive bolt to the head, 237 00:22:49,508 --> 00:22:52,008 which is supposed to have rendered him 238 00:22:52,009 --> 00:22:58,409 or her senseless ... as you can see the animal is still conscious. 239 00:22:58,443 --> 00:23:00,523 This is not uncommon. 240 00:23:01,010 --> 00:23:05,051 Sometimes they are still alive even after they have been bled, 241 00:23:05,052 --> 00:23:11,452 and are well on their way down the assembly line to be butchered. 242 00:23:16,042 --> 00:23:18,829 KNOCKING BOXES 243 00:23:55,966 --> 00:23:58,631 KOSHER SLAUGHTER 244 00:24:00,689 --> 00:24:05,328 This is the largest glatt kosher meat plant in the United States. 245 00:24:05,329 --> 00:24:13,089 Glatt, the Yiddish word for "smooth", means the highest standard of cleanliness ... 246 00:24:15,912 --> 00:24:21,672 ... and rules for kosher butchering require minimal suffering. 247 00:24:27,659 --> 00:24:33,819 The use of electric prods on immobilized animals is a violation. 248 00:24:35,541 --> 00:24:38,021 SHEKHITA - RITUAL SLAUGHTER 249 00:24:40,170 --> 00:24:44,274 Inverting frightened animals for the slaughterer's convenience 250 00:24:44,275 --> 00:24:46,275 is also a violation. 251 00:24:52,422 --> 00:25:00,662 The inversion process causes cattle to aspirate blood, or breath it in, after incision. 252 00:25:02,610 --> 00:25:06,698 Ripping the trachea and esophagi from their throats is another 253 00:25:06,699 --> 00:25:11,381 egregious violation, since kosher animals are not to be touched ... 254 00:25:11,382 --> 00:25:14,080 ... until bleeding stops. 255 00:25:26,762 --> 00:25:30,501 And by dumping struggling and dying steers through metal chutes 256 00:25:30,502 --> 00:25:32,902 onto blood soaked floors, 257 00:25:33,801 --> 00:25:38,761 with their breathing tubes and gullets dangling out, 258 00:25:42,380 --> 00:25:47,420 this "sacred task" is neither clean or compassionate. 259 00:25:49,892 --> 00:25:53,902 Shackling and hoisting is ruled yet another violation, 260 00:25:53,903 --> 00:25:59,823 nor does it correspond to the kosher way of treating animals. 261 00:26:00,132 --> 00:26:05,652 If this was kosher, death was neither quick nor merciful. 262 00:26:07,027 --> 00:26:08,971 VEAL 263 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,948 Veal, taken from their mothers within two days of birth, are tied 264 00:26:13,949 --> 00:26:19,393 at the neck and kept restricted to keep muscles from developing. 265 00:26:19,394 --> 00:26:22,370 Fed an iron-deficient liquid diet, 266 00:26:22,371 --> 00:26:25,571 denied bedding, water, and light, 267 00:26:26,058 --> 00:26:30,130 after four months of this miserable existence they are slaughtered. 268 00:26:30,131 --> 00:26:31,926 PIGS 269 00:26:35,557 --> 00:26:38,947 Sows in factory farms are breeding machines, kept 270 00:26:38,948 --> 00:26:43,823 continually pregnant by means of artificial insemination. 271 00:26:43,824 --> 00:26:47,743 Large pig market factories will "manufacture", 272 00:26:47,744 --> 00:26:54,944 as they like to call it, between 50,000 and 600,000 pigs a year... each. 273 00:26:55,312 --> 00:26:56,992 FACTORY CONDITIONS 274 00:27:13,787 --> 00:27:17,106 GESTATION CRATES 275 00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:29,000 RUPTURES & ABSCESSES 276 00:27:41,915 --> 00:27:46,557 CANIBALISM 277 00:28:09,459 --> 00:28:12,508 WASTE PITS 278 00:28:34,243 --> 00:28:38,978 Tail docking is a practice derived from the lack of space and stressful 279 00:28:38,979 --> 00:28:45,206 living conditions so as to keep pigs from biting each other's tails off. 280 00:28:45,207 --> 00:28:47,688 This is done without anesthetic. 281 00:28:47,689 --> 00:28:48,889 EAR CLIPPING 282 00:28:50,694 --> 00:28:57,574 Ear clipping is a similar procedure, also administered without anesthetic. 283 00:29:07,317 --> 00:29:09,938 As well as teeth-cutting. 284 00:29:29,245 --> 00:29:31,408 CASTRATION 285 00:29:32,193 --> 00:29:36,809 Castration is also done without painkillers or anesthetic, and will 286 00:29:36,810 --> 00:29:41,290 supposedly produce a more fatty grade of meat. 287 00:29:50,175 --> 00:29:51,686 ELECTRIC PRODS 288 00:29:53,368 --> 00:29:58,888 The electric prods are used for obvious reasons: handling. 289 00:30:24,694 --> 00:30:26,457 ELECTROCUTION 290 00:30:29,201 --> 00:30:34,801 Electrocution is another method of slaughter, as seen here. 291 00:30:38,293 --> 00:30:39,733 THROAT SLITTING 292 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,735 Throat slitting, however, 293 00:30:41,736 --> 00:30:46,776 is still the least expensive way to kill an animal. 294 00:31:09,008 --> 00:31:12,882 BOILING AND HAIR REMOVAL 295 00:31:15,190 --> 00:31:18,511 After knife sticking, pigs are shackled, 296 00:31:18,512 --> 00:31:25,310 suspended on a bleed-rail and immersed in scalding tanks to remove their bristle. 297 00:31:25,311 --> 00:31:31,065 Many are still struggling as they are dunked upside down in tanks of steaming water, 298 00:31:31,066 --> 00:31:34,586 where they are submerged and drowned. 299 00:32:11,020 --> 00:32:13,183 POULTRY 300 00:32:15,307 --> 00:32:21,351 In regard to poultry, Americans currently consume as much chicken in a single day 301 00:32:21,352 --> 00:32:25,192 as they did in an entire year in 1930. 302 00:32:28,285 --> 00:32:32,829 The largest broiler companies in the world now slaughter more than 303 00:32:32,830 --> 00:32:36,350 8.5 million birds in a single week. 304 00:32:47,015 --> 00:32:48,718 DEBEAKING 305 00:32:52,507 --> 00:32:56,923 Debeaking prevents feather-pecking and cannibalism in frustrated chickens, 306 00:32:56,924 --> 00:33:05,644 caused by over-crowding in single areas, where they are unable to establish a social order. 307 00:33:10,096 --> 00:33:15,175 Today, done with infant chicks, the procedure is carried out very quickly, 308 00:33:15,176 --> 00:33:17,576 about 15 birds a minute. 309 00:33:17,621 --> 00:33:23,589 Such haste means the temperature and sharpness of the blade varies, resulting in 310 00:33:23,590 --> 00:33:27,950 sloppy cutting and serious injury to the bird. 311 00:33:27,951 --> 00:33:29,551 LIVING CONDITIONS 312 00:33:30,161 --> 00:33:34,843 As for their living conditions, anywhere from sixty to ninety thousand birds can be 313 00:33:34,844 --> 00:33:38,444 crowded together in a single building. 314 00:33:49,229 --> 00:33:55,102 The suffering for these animals is unrelenting. It is a way of life. 315 00:33:55,103 --> 00:34:01,423 Although their beaks are severed, they attempt to peck each other. 316 00:34:05,451 --> 00:34:13,451 For hens, they live in a laying warehouse, crammed inside so-called "battery cages". 317 00:34:14,018 --> 00:34:16,302 BATTERY CAGES 318 00:34:17,346 --> 00:34:24,786 Many lose their feathers and develop sores from rubbing against the wire cage. 319 00:34:26,930 --> 00:34:31,542 Crowding prevents them from spreading their wings, and the hens cannot 320 00:34:31,543 --> 00:34:35,143 even fulfill minimal natural instincts. 321 00:34:35,731 --> 00:34:37,442 TRANSPORTATION 322 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:43,180 During transportation, all animals suffer, and many die. 323 00:34:44,751 --> 00:34:48,545 And they suffocate when other animals pile on top of them 324 00:34:48,546 --> 00:34:51,906 in overcrowded, poorly loaded cages. 325 00:34:53,889 --> 00:34:56,097 SLAUGHTER 326 00:34:59,624 --> 00:35:07,030 "THE HANG PEN" MOOREFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA 327 00:35:34,209 --> 00:35:39,255 Chickens and turkeys are slaughtered in numerous ways. 328 00:35:39,256 --> 00:35:44,936 Some may be clubbed to death or have their heads cut off. 329 00:35:55,460 --> 00:36:01,700 But most are brought through the assembly lines of factory farms. 330 00:36:04,572 --> 00:36:10,248 Dangled upside down on a conveyor belt, their throats are slit, 331 00:36:10,249 --> 00:36:13,849 and they are left to bleed to death. 332 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,208 Others may be placed head-first in tubes to restrict their movement 333 00:36:25,209 --> 00:36:28,409 while they slowly bleed to death. 334 00:36:30,823 --> 00:36:38,073 Surely, if slaughterhouses had glass walls, would not all of us be vegetarians? 335 00:36:38,074 --> 00:36:40,523 But slaughterhouses do not have glass walls. 336 00:36:40,524 --> 00:36:45,174 The architecture of slaughter is opaque, designed in the interest of denial, 337 00:36:45,175 --> 00:36:50,399 to insure that we will not see even if we wanted to look. And who wants to look? 338 00:36:50,400 --> 00:37:01,531 "Go mother fucker! Don't fuckin' stop". 339 00:37:01,532 --> 00:37:11,549 "Let's go, let's go!!! Come on, bitch!" 340 00:37:20,305 --> 00:37:23,623 It was Emerson who observed, more than a hundred years ago, 341 00:37:23,624 --> 00:37:29,152 "You have dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in 342 00:37:29,153 --> 00:37:34,193 the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity". 343 00:38:19,135 --> 00:38:21,286 SEA FOOD 344 00:38:25,075 --> 00:38:29,736 And for those who think eating seafood is "healthier" than land animals, 345 00:38:29,737 --> 00:38:34,054 just remember how much irretrievable waste and contaminated sediments 346 00:38:34,055 --> 00:38:36,695 are dumped into our oceans. 347 00:38:37,106 --> 00:38:42,399 In the past ... oil ... nuclear ... and chemical industries have done little for the 348 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,975 protection of marine environments ... 349 00:38:44,976 --> 00:38:51,603 ... and dumping on or under the seabed has always proved a convenient place 350 00:38:51,604 --> 00:38:54,804 to dispose of inconvenient wastes. 351 00:39:00,307 --> 00:39:02,708 COMMERCIAL FISHING 352 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:11,717 Today's commercial fishers intensify this situation on massive scales. 353 00:39:11,718 --> 00:39:14,582 They use vast factory trawlers the size of 354 00:39:14,583 --> 00:39:21,543 football fields and advanced electronic equipment to track and catch fish. 355 00:39:23,578 --> 00:39:30,497 Huge nets stretch across the ocean, swallowing up everything in their path. 356 00:39:30,498 --> 00:39:35,107 These factory trawlers, coupled with our increased appetites for seafood, 357 00:39:35,108 --> 00:39:40,628 are emptying the oceans of sea life at an alarming pace. 358 00:39:44,633 --> 00:39:51,690 Already, thirteen of the seventeen major global fisheries are depleted or in serious decline. 359 00:39:51,691 --> 00:39:55,944 The other four are overexploited or fully exploited. 360 00:39:55,945 --> 00:39:57,817 DISEASE 361 00:40:03,704 --> 00:40:06,084 The recent outbreak of Pfiesteria, 362 00:40:06,085 --> 00:40:10,410 a microorganism 1,000 time more potent than cyanide, 363 00:40:10,411 --> 00:40:15,589 spawned from millions of gallons of raw hog feces and urine, poured into rivers, 364 00:40:15,590 --> 00:40:20,293 lakes, and oceans, turning their ecosystems into unflushed toilets, 365 00:40:20,294 --> 00:40:23,094 is proving the most alarming. 366 00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:29,921 Threatening sea life and humans alike, Pfiesteria has killed over 1 billion fish, 367 00:40:29,922 --> 00:40:33,694 the southeast's largest fishkill on record, 368 00:40:33,695 --> 00:40:36,772 and it's spreading. 369 00:40:38,065 --> 00:40:43,739 Traces of Pfiesteria have already been found from Long Island to the Florida Gulf, 370 00:40:43,740 --> 00:40:47,180 at distances of up to 1,000 miles. 371 00:40:47,235 --> 00:40:50,290 In fact, this water-based Pfiesteria invasion 372 00:40:50,291 --> 00:40:56,341 stands as one of the worst outbreaks of a virulent microorganism in U.S history. 373 00:40:56,342 --> 00:41:02,582 It is a Level Three Biohazard. Ebola is a Four. AIDS is a two. 374 00:41:03,737 --> 00:41:08,851 And this bug mutated as a direct result of our mass consumption of animals, 375 00:41:08,852 --> 00:41:10,532 particularly pork. 376 00:41:12,622 --> 00:41:20,294 With hog farms fattening millions of pigs for slaughter, grain goes in and waste comes out. 377 00:41:20,295 --> 00:41:23,735 HURRICANE FLOYD NORTH CAROLINA, 1999 378 00:41:24,498 --> 00:41:27,495 This waste finds its way into our oceans and water-supply systems, 379 00:41:27,496 --> 00:41:30,951 contaminating the animals that live in it, 380 00:41:30,952 --> 00:41:34,392 as well as those that eat from it. 381 00:41:35,773 --> 00:41:37,530 WHALING 382 00:41:41,787 --> 00:41:43,615 Finally, whaling. 383 00:41:44,053 --> 00:41:48,965 Though the International Whaling Commission prohibited commercial whaling in 1985, 384 00:41:48,966 --> 00:41:55,926 many countries continue to kill whales for their so-called "exotic meat". 385 00:42:04,527 --> 00:42:06,376 They use harpoons, 386 00:42:07,585 --> 00:42:08,875 firearms, 387 00:42:10,263 --> 00:42:11,558 blunt hooks, 388 00:42:12,710 --> 00:42:14,440 even explosives, 389 00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,881 or drive them into authorized whaling bays 390 00:42:18,882 --> 00:42:26,242 where they are made to beach and can be killed with knives in the shallows. 391 00:42:48,757 --> 00:42:50,988 DOLPHINS 392 00:42:55,099 --> 00:43:01,204 Every winter, between the months of October through March, thousands of dolphins are 393 00:43:01,205 --> 00:43:06,645 confined and brutally killed in small towns across Japan. 394 00:43:09,839 --> 00:43:17,199 Sounding rods beneath the water's surface interfere with the dolphin's sonar. 395 00:43:20,308 --> 00:43:26,548 Once disoriented and enclosed within the nets, the dolphins panic. 396 00:43:29,701 --> 00:43:35,175 Fisherman often injure a few captive dolphins with a spear thrust or knife slash ... 397 00:43:35,176 --> 00:43:40,056 since dolphins never abandon wounded family members. 398 00:43:41,915 --> 00:43:45,547 Mothers and babies call out in distress as they are separated, 399 00:43:45,548 --> 00:43:52,268 hoisted up and dragged off ... soon to be mercilessly hacked to death. 400 00:43:59,908 --> 00:44:03,996 these are benign and innocent beings ... 401 00:44:04,757 --> 00:44:10,038 ... and they deserve better. 402 00:44:44,790 --> 00:44:48,121 Yet here, as they lay stricken and needful, 403 00:44:48,122 --> 00:44:53,692 wreathing helplessly on cement floors, they are cut open with machetes 404 00:44:53,693 --> 00:44:56,733 and left to slowly suffocate ... 405 00:45:06,802 --> 00:45:15,282 ... convulsing and contorting in the throes of agony ... while school children walk on by. 406 00:45:30,803 --> 00:45:36,070 Such images of slaughter and bloody red water clearly show the Japanese government has 407 00:45:36,071 --> 00:45:40,792 little respect for the state of the world's oceans with their inhumane methods of 408 00:45:40,793 --> 00:45:45,571 fishing ... often in violation of international treaties, laws and conventions designed 409 00:45:45,572 --> 00:45:49,065 to protect over-exploiting the oceans ... 410 00:45:49,066 --> 00:45:52,906 ... and the creatures that live in them. 411 00:45:55,101 --> 00:45:58,768 Dolphin meat is later sold in markets and restaurants, 412 00:45:58,769 --> 00:46:02,529 though often mislabeled as "whale meat". 413 00:46:05,017 --> 00:46:10,378 But as though cruelty toward animals raised for food wasn't enough, 414 00:46:10,379 --> 00:46:14,876 we've also found ways of making use of them for all our clothes. 415 00:46:14,877 --> 00:46:20,764 Jackets, shoes, belts, gloves, pants, wallets, purses, and so on, 416 00:46:20,765 --> 00:46:25,362 the next question is obviously: where do our clothes come from? 417 00:46:25,363 --> 00:46:31,285 PART TREE: CLOTHES 418 00:46:39,782 --> 00:46:40,342 (LEATHER) 419 00:46:40,343 --> 00:46:45,871 The demand for leather comes primarily from the United States, Germany, and the U.K. 420 00:46:45,872 --> 00:46:48,752 Just about everybody wears it, 421 00:46:48,821 --> 00:46:52,110 with little or no thought of where it came from. 422 00:46:52,111 --> 00:46:53,475 (INDIA COWS) 423 00:46:53,476 --> 00:46:56,935 Thousands of India cows are slaughtered each week for their skins, 424 00:46:56,936 --> 00:47:00,601 purchased from poor families in part of rural India who sell them 425 00:47:00,602 --> 00:47:05,973 only after the assurance that the animals will live out their lives on farms. 426 00:47:05,974 --> 00:47:08,018 SHOEING AND ROPING 427 00:47:16,683 --> 00:47:19,454 To relocate the animals to a state where they can legally be killed, 428 00:47:19,455 --> 00:47:22,832 since cattle slaughter is forbidden in most of India, 429 00:47:22,833 --> 00:47:27,905 the animals must be shoed and roped together in preparation for a harrowing "death march", 430 00:47:27,906 --> 00:47:31,186 which could last for several days. 431 00:47:38,349 --> 00:47:39,842 (TRANSPORTATION AND FATIGUE) 432 00:47:39,843 --> 00:47:44,160 Forced to walk through the heat and dust without food or water, coupled with the sheer stress of 433 00:47:44,161 --> 00:47:51,579 this terrifying experience for them, many of the animals collapse and are unable to continue. 434 00:47:51,580 --> 00:47:56,521 Bear in mind that most of the cattle are being placed in a truck for the first time in 435 00:47:56,522 --> 00:47:58,906 their lives and are likely to be frightened, 436 00:47:58,907 --> 00:48:03,427 especially if they have been handled hastily or roughly by the men loading the trucks. 437 00:48:03,428 --> 00:48:05,027 The noise and motion of the truck itself 438 00:48:05,028 --> 00:48:08,732 is also a new experience; one which makes them ill. 439 00:48:08,733 --> 00:48:13,551 After one or two days inside the truck without food or water, they are desperately thirsty 440 00:48:13,552 --> 00:48:18,868 and hungry, especially since it is normal for such cows to eat frequently throughout the day. 441 00:48:18,869 --> 00:48:20,149 TAIL BREAKING 442 00:48:27,573 --> 00:48:32,861 But when the cattle become weary and grow faint, the bones in their tales are broken in 443 00:48:32,862 --> 00:48:37,262 an effort to get them back up on their feet. 444 00:48:37,768 --> 00:48:42,881 This is done by repeatedly pinching the tail in several areas. 445 00:48:42,882 --> 00:48:44,399 HANDLERS 446 00:48:51,664 --> 00:48:54,992 Handlers must constantly keep the cattle moving, 447 00:48:54,993 --> 00:48:57,005 pulling them by nose ropes, 448 00:48:57,006 --> 00:48:58,847 twisting their necks, 449 00:48:58,848 --> 00:49:01,393 horns, or tails. 450 00:49:03,444 --> 00:49:04,980 They lead, or rather force, 451 00:49:04,981 --> 00:49:09,377 the cattle down embankments and in and out of trucks without ramps, 452 00:49:09,378 --> 00:49:15,138 causing injuries like broken pelvises, legs, ribs, and horns. 453 00:49:22,472 --> 00:49:24,123 CHILI PEPPER 454 00:49:25,212 --> 00:49:30,201 Chili pepper and tobacco are also used to keep the animals walking. 455 00:49:30,202 --> 00:49:35,715 This practice is done by rubbing the pepper directly into their eyes, in order to stimulate 456 00:49:35,716 --> 00:49:39,396 the animal back onto his or her feet. 457 00:49:42,573 --> 00:49:44,339 SLAUGHTER 458 00:49:52,850 --> 00:49:56,130 And all this before the slaughter. 459 00:49:57,286 --> 00:50:01,044 As many as half of the animals will already be dead by the time they 460 00:50:01,045 --> 00:50:03,765 arrive at the slaughterhouse. 461 00:50:21,073 --> 00:50:26,415 But to make the experience even more traumatic and terrifying, they are 462 00:50:26,416 --> 00:50:29,379 often killed in full view of each other. 463 00:50:29,380 --> 00:50:34,219 And instead of the required "quick slice" across the throat with a sharp knife, 464 00:50:34,220 --> 00:50:41,020 they are generally killed through hacking and sawing with a dull blade. 465 00:50:53,801 --> 00:50:55,626 TANNING 466 00:50:58,863 --> 00:51:03,883 Afterwards, the skins from these animals are sent to tanneries that use deadly 467 00:51:03,884 --> 00:51:09,335 substances like Chromium and other toxins to stop decomposition. 468 00:51:09,336 --> 00:51:12,944 Remember, leather is dead flesh. 469 00:51:13,585 --> 00:51:19,942 It is dead skin, and, therefore, natural for it to decompose and rot away unless treated 470 00:51:19,943 --> 00:51:23,463 with such potent substances as these. 471 00:51:23,595 --> 00:51:28,983 And for people, the health effects of such chemicals in tanneries, in lieu of the 472 00:51:28,984 --> 00:51:34,424 continued demand for leather goods, is yet another issue. 473 00:51:34,472 --> 00:51:36,535 RETAIL 474 00:51:41,268 --> 00:51:45,721 Ultimately, leather from Indian cattle make their way to clothing stores 475 00:51:45,722 --> 00:51:47,802 all around the world. 476 00:51:59,169 --> 00:52:03,009 Most major chains sell Indian leather ... 477 00:52:03,830 --> 00:52:10,382 ... leather that comes from completely different cows than those we eat. 478 00:52:10,383 --> 00:52:11,934 FUR 479 00:52:13,294 --> 00:52:15,214 And what about fur? 480 00:52:15,218 --> 00:52:18,163 Over 100 million wild animals are murdered 481 00:52:18,164 --> 00:52:23,232 for their pelts every year, 25 million in the United States alone. 482 00:52:23,233 --> 00:52:28,885 These animals, obtained by hunting and trapping, are kept on fur farms in conditions like these. 483 00:52:28,886 --> 00:52:30,902 CAGE MADNESS 484 00:52:33,402 --> 00:52:40,395 Naturally, these undomesticated, wild animals are not accustomed to being caged, 485 00:52:40,396 --> 00:52:45,054 and cage madness develops when frightened and frustrated animals are driven crazy 486 00:52:45,055 --> 00:52:48,913 from the stress of confinement. 487 00:52:50,029 --> 00:52:51,941 These wild, free-roaming animals, 488 00:52:51,942 --> 00:52:56,378 and their offspring, find themselves unable to live a natural life, 489 00:52:56,379 --> 00:53:02,552 can never take even a few steps or feel the earth beneath their feet. 490 00:53:02,553 --> 00:53:07,750 Instead, they are reduced to scratching, circling and pacing endlessly. 491 00:53:07,751 --> 00:53:09,797 (INJURIES AND SLOW DEATH) 492 00:53:09,798 --> 00:53:13,138 The physical injuries these animals endure on fur farms ... 493 00:53:13,139 --> 00:53:16,719 involve broken and exposed bones ... 494 00:53:20,217 --> 00:53:22,906 ... blindness ... 495 00:53:24,743 --> 00:53:27,175 ... ear infections ... 496 00:53:27,210 --> 00:53:29,068 ... dehydration and malnutrition ... 497 00:53:29,069 --> 00:53:32,749 ... exposure to freezing temperatures ... 498 00:53:32,814 --> 00:53:35,694 ... lack of veterinary care ... 499 00:53:36,218 --> 00:53:39,834 ... and slow death. 500 00:53:45,973 --> 00:53:47,959 (KILLING) 501 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,646 No laws indicate the killing of animals on fur farms, therefore, 502 00:53:50,647 --> 00:53:54,982 the least expensive methods are the most appealing. 503 00:53:54,983 --> 00:53:59,902 Carbon monoxide poisoning, Strychnine, suffocation, 504 00:53:59,903 --> 00:54:06,790 breaking the neck, and anal electrocution are some of the more common methods used. 505 00:54:06,791 --> 00:54:12,891 Removed from his or her cage with a heavy neck-pole, the animal is walked past 506 00:54:12,892 --> 00:54:20,732 the rows of bodies of slaughtered foxes, sables, raccoons and wolves, among others. 507 00:54:21,161 --> 00:54:25,958 Death by anal electrocution is a crude process that requires a probe to be inserted 508 00:54:25,959 --> 00:54:32,119 in the rectum while the animal bites down on a metal conductor. 509 00:54:38,309 --> 00:54:45,749 Often times this inept procedure must be repeated to actually kill the animal. 510 00:54:56,504 --> 00:55:05,599 And the skinned carcasses seen here will later be ground up and fed to the animals still caged. 511 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:09,408 CHINESE FUR FARM 512 00:55:37,904 --> 00:55:42,805 CANADIAN SEAL HUNT 513 00:56:32,489 --> 00:56:34,809 - How much is this one? 514 00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,124 - This is... $49,500 515 00:56:40,123 --> 00:56:42,617 PART FOUR: ENTERTAINMENT 516 00:56:42,868 --> 00:56:46,308 And so we move on to entertainment. 517 00:56:48,356 --> 00:56:50,675 Mark Twain once said, 518 00:56:50,710 --> 00:56:56,558 "Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. 519 00:56:56,559 --> 00:57:03,999 He's the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain". 520 00:57:06,402 --> 00:57:08,580 RODEOS 521 00:57:09,114 --> 00:57:15,413 In rodeos, bulls and broncos don't buck because they're wild, but because they're in pain. 522 00:57:15,414 --> 00:57:18,213 A belt, called a flank strap or a bucking strap, is secured around 523 00:57:18,214 --> 00:57:21,945 the animal's body over the genital area. 524 00:57:21,946 --> 00:57:25,453 As the animal leaves the chute, a tight jerk on the belt is enough 525 00:57:25,454 --> 00:57:28,961 to start him bucking in pain. 526 00:57:31,771 --> 00:57:36,296 Apart from other injuries animals incur at rodeos ... 527 00:57:36,297 --> 00:57:38,857 ... such as broken legs ... 528 00:57:41,008 --> 00:57:44,737 ... they are also worked up by being slapped ... 529 00:57:44,738 --> 00:57:46,018 ... teased ... 530 00:57:46,337 --> 00:57:48,542 ... given electric prods ... 531 00:57:48,543 --> 00:57:50,794 ... and otherwise tormented ... 532 00:57:50,795 --> 00:57:54,875 ... to bolt out of the chute in a frenzy. 533 00:58:39,336 --> 00:58:41,010 ROPING 534 00:58:48,496 --> 00:58:54,115 Roping, as seen here, involves throwing a rope around the neck of a frightened animal running 535 00:58:54,116 --> 00:59:02,596 full speed, jerking the poor creature to a halt, and slamming him or her to the ground. 536 00:59:12,879 --> 00:59:14,871 GAMBLING 537 00:59:15,412 --> 00:59:17,789 Like any other business, dog racing and horse racing are industries motivated 538 00:59:17,790 --> 00:59:20,167 by a common denominator: 539 00:59:20,522 --> 00:59:21,418 profit. 540 00:59:32,325 --> 00:59:34,096 FAIR GROUNDS 541 00:59:34,429 --> 00:59:39,679 At fair grounds across the country, animals are used to race, 542 00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,498 bet with, and spectate over. 543 00:59:43,942 --> 00:59:49,466 Training for these events is accomplished by withholding food and sometimes water. 544 00:59:49,467 --> 00:59:54,152 These animals ... unfamiliar with their surroundings ... the noise ... the crowds ... 545 00:59:54,153 --> 01:00:03,524 even what they're supposed to be doing ... are all-too-often injured and discarded ... 546 01:00:03,525 --> 01:00:10,533 (PIGEON BOWLING) in pointless ... trivial ... outlandish contests ... designed to make profits and entertain. 547 01:00:10,534 --> 01:00:13,083 HUNTING 548 01:00:14,673 --> 01:00:20,913 Besides loss of habitat, hunting is the number one threat to wildlife today. 549 01:00:20,914 --> 01:00:25,456 Hunters kill over 200 million animals every year. 550 01:00:25,457 --> 01:00:31,457 Deer, rabbits, and squirrels top the list of desirable targets. 551 01:00:32,504 --> 01:00:38,225 There is no denying it, if hunting is a sport it is a bloodsport. 552 01:00:38,226 --> 01:00:40,466 The targets are living, 553 01:00:41,005 --> 01:00:44,045 and they undergo violent deaths. 554 01:00:55,013 --> 01:00:56,505 FISHING 555 01:00:57,307 --> 01:01:03,707 Fishing is also a death sport, wherein the nonhuman animal suffers. 556 01:01:04,838 --> 01:01:12,135 Researchers have distinguished that fish show pain behavior the same way mammals do. 557 01:01:12,136 --> 01:01:16,404 Anatomically, physiologically, 558 01:01:16,405 --> 01:01:21,681 and biologically, the pain system in fish is virtually the same as in birds and mammals. 559 01:01:21,682 --> 01:01:24,533 In other words, fish are sentient organisms, 560 01:01:24,534 --> 01:01:27,334 so of course they feel pain. 561 01:01:36,101 --> 01:01:39,088 For those who think fish die 562 01:01:39,089 --> 01:01:43,241 "gentler" deaths, consider that their sensory organs are highly developed, 563 01:01:43,242 --> 01:01:48,891 their nervous systems complex, their nerve cells very similar to our own, 564 01:01:48,892 --> 01:01:54,732 and their responses to certain stimuli immediate and vigorous. 565 01:01:56,037 --> 01:01:59,117 CIRCUSES 566 01:02:02,245 --> 01:02:07,877 When going to the circus, rarely do we stop for a moment and consider: 567 01:02:07,878 --> 01:02:13,466 What incites an animal to do something unnatural, even dangerous, such as jumping through 568 01:02:13,467 --> 01:02:22,027 flames, balancing on one foot, or diving into water from shaky platforms high in the air? 569 01:02:30,901 --> 01:02:34,166 Animal trainers would like for the public to 570 01:02:34,167 --> 01:02:41,767 believe that animals are coaxed into such behaviors with the promise of rewards. 571 01:02:42,838 --> 01:02:49,238 But the truth is that animals perform because they fear punishment. 572 01:03:00,475 --> 01:03:04,801 In essence, circuses condemn animal 573 01:03:04,802 --> 01:03:09,837 who are wild by nature to live out their days isolated in tiny, barren cages, 574 01:03:09,838 --> 01:03:13,812 denied normal exercise and socialization, 575 01:03:17,326 --> 01:03:20,766 shuttled around from place to place, 576 01:03:22,131 --> 01:03:25,767 WINTER QUARTERS 577 01:03:28,396 --> 01:03:33,596 and shackled in chains for up to 95% of their lives. 578 01:03:35,647 --> 01:03:38,069 TRAINING 579 01:03:39,945 --> 01:03:44,910 "Elephants are taught to perform with positive reinforcement, and never hit". 580 01:03:44,911 --> 01:03:50,674 "Never hit. Never, never, never 581 01:03:50,675 --> 01:03:58,195 will you see anyone use the ankus as anything other than a guide or a tool". 582 01:04:13,337 --> 01:04:20,537 Dominance, subservience, and pain are integral parts of the training process. 583 01:04:49,434 --> 01:04:51,843 - Hurt him. Don't touch him! 584 01:04:51,844 --> 01:04:53,268 Make him scream! 585 01:04:53,269 --> 01:04:57,919 If you're scared to hurt him, don't come in this room. 586 01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:01,815 When I say rip his fuckin' --- you know how I am about touchin' him, right? 587 01:05:01,816 --> 01:05:06,084 So if I say rip his head off ... rip his fuckin' foot off, what does that mean? 588 01:05:06,085 --> 01:05:09,193 Because it's very important to do it, right? When he starts squirming too fuckin' much - 589 01:05:09,194 --> 01:05:12,927 both fuckin' hands - BOOM! Right under that chin! 590 01:05:12,928 --> 01:05:15,222 Sit ... and he better back up. 591 01:05:15,223 --> 01:05:17,688 Then when he fucks around too much, don't grab that leg ... 592 01:05:17,689 --> 01:05:23,275 ... you fuckin' sink that hook and give everything you've got ... and when it's in there go, ee-eeee-ee!!! 593 01:05:23,276 --> 01:05:25,407 And he's gonna start screaming. 594 01:05:25,408 --> 01:05:31,178 When you hear that screaming, then you know you've got their attention a little fuckin' bit! 595 01:05:31,179 --> 01:05:35,097 Right here in the barn. Can't do it on the road. 596 01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:39,650 She's gonna fuckin' do what I want. And that's just the fuckin' way it is. 597 01:05:39,651 --> 01:05:41,491 Alright, let's go. 598 01:05:41,959 --> 01:05:43,399 Becky! Becky!!! 599 01:05:46,813 --> 01:05:48,600 You motherfucker. 600 01:05:49,911 --> 01:05:53,591 Get your motherfuckin' --- get up here! 601 01:05:53,775 --> 01:05:54,997 Motherfucker! 602 01:05:56,656 --> 01:05:58,336 Come here, Becky. 603 01:05:59,902 --> 01:06:01,422 Move up, Becky. 604 01:06:02,619 --> 01:06:04,139 Move up, Becky. 605 01:06:07,158 --> 01:06:08,547 Alright, tubs. 606 01:06:08,997 --> 01:06:10,619 Tubs! 607 01:06:13,331 --> 01:06:14,851 Hey, get loony. 608 01:06:14,999 --> 01:06:16,655 Hey, Becky. Go on, move up. 609 01:06:16,656 --> 01:06:17,959 Hey, I'm alive. 610 01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:19,335 I'm not a dead man. 611 01:06:19,336 --> 01:06:20,216 Move up. 612 01:06:20,561 --> 01:06:21,921 Come in line. 613 01:06:22,132 --> 01:06:24,132 Come in line, Becky. 614 01:06:24,359 --> 01:06:25,559 Motherfucker! 615 01:06:25,613 --> 01:06:27,373 Move, motherfucker! 616 01:06:31,482 --> 01:06:35,082 Yeah, come in line. Come here, Tommy. 617 01:06:35,457 --> 01:06:43,537 Why do they have to go through that because you motherfuckers don't want to listen? 618 01:06:44,727 --> 01:06:46,224 Back up. 619 01:06:46,347 --> 01:06:52,827 You got a pussy-ass fuckin' attitude, it's just the way they die. 620 01:06:59,488 --> 01:07:01,568 We know animals feel. 621 01:07:05,416 --> 01:07:11,016 They feel fear, loneliness, and pain, just like humans do. 622 01:07:11,877 --> 01:07:16,061 What animal would choose to spend their entire life in captivity ... 623 01:07:16,062 --> 01:07:18,542 ... if they had a choice? 624 01:07:18,603 --> 01:07:21,464 RETALIATION 625 01:08:35,782 --> 01:08:37,677 - On the count of three. 626 01:08:37,678 --> 01:08:38,352 One. 627 01:08:39,440 --> 01:08:40,187 Two. 628 01:08:40,695 --> 01:08:41,255 Tree. 629 01:08:41,891 --> 01:08:45,011 Take him. You've got to shoot. 630 01:09:10,565 --> 01:09:12,228 ZOOS 631 01:09:15,133 --> 01:09:20,653 Are zoos valuable educational and conservation institutions? 632 01:09:20,912 --> 01:09:24,982 Sure, zoos are interesting, but they are only educational in the sense that they 633 01:09:24,983 --> 01:09:30,503 teach a disregard for the natures of other living beings. 634 01:09:31,551 --> 01:09:38,751 Besides, what can we learn about wild animals by viewing them in captivity? 635 01:09:40,158 --> 01:09:45,278 Zoos exist because we are intrigued by exotic things, 636 01:09:45,376 --> 01:09:50,594 and to zoo-goers, zoo animals are just that: things. 637 01:09:53,115 --> 01:09:56,913 In both cases, at circuses or zoos, 638 01:09:57,274 --> 01:10:01,157 wild and exotic animals are captured, caged, 639 01:10:01,158 --> 01:10:07,158 transported and trained ... to do what humans want them to do. 640 01:10:10,374 --> 01:10:12,977 BULLFIGHTING 641 01:10:13,398 --> 01:10:17,242 At best, the term "bullfighting" is a misnomer, 642 01:10:17,243 --> 01:10:21,137 as there is little competition between the sword of a nimble matador 643 01:10:21,138 --> 01:10:23,545 (which is Spanish for killer), 644 01:10:23,546 --> 01:10:31,146 and a confused, maimed, psychologically tormented, and physically debilitated bull. 645 01:10:32,809 --> 01:10:36,140 Many prominent former bullfighters report 646 01:10:36,141 --> 01:10:40,449 that bulls are intentionally debilitated with tranquilizers and laxatives, 647 01:10:40,450 --> 01:10:49,250 beatings to the kidneys, and heavy weights hung around their necks for weeks before a fight. 648 01:10:49,863 --> 01:10:55,956 Some of the animals are placed in darkness for 48 hours before the confrontation, 649 01:10:55,957 --> 01:11:00,606 then are released blinded into the bright arena. 650 01:11:02,166 --> 01:11:07,442 In a typical event, the bull enters and is approached by men who exhaust and 651 01:11:07,443 --> 01:11:14,192 frustrate him by running him in circles and tricking him into collisions. 652 01:11:14,193 --> 01:11:16,954 When the bull is tired and out of breath, 653 01:11:16,955 --> 01:11:22,787 he is approached by picadors, who drive lances into his back and neck muscles, 654 01:11:22,788 --> 01:11:26,939 twisting and gouging to ensure a significant amount of blood loss, 655 01:11:26,940 --> 01:11:31,900 and impairing the bull's ability to lift his head. 656 01:11:32,166 --> 01:11:34,886 Then come the banderilleros 657 01:11:34,887 --> 01:11:41,742 who distract and dart around the bull while plunging more lances into him. 658 01:11:41,743 --> 01:11:44,499 Weakened from blood loss, 659 01:11:44,500 --> 01:11:49,869 they run the bull in more circles until he is dizzy and stops chasing. 660 01:11:49,870 --> 01:11:55,434 Finally, the matador, this "killer", appears and, after provoking a few exhausted 661 01:11:55,435 --> 01:12:02,155 charges from the dying animal, tries to kill the bull with his sword. 662 01:12:03,633 --> 01:12:08,753 And this bloody form of amusement ... is bullfighting. 663 01:12:10,212 --> 01:12:14,622 The pleasure derived from all these activities and sports 664 01:12:14,623 --> 01:12:17,735 (a communion with nature, some would say), 665 01:12:17,736 --> 01:12:22,536 can be secured without harming or killing animals. 666 01:12:22,652 --> 01:12:26,945 The commercial exploitation of wildlife erroneously assumes that the value of wild 667 01:12:26,946 --> 01:12:31,708 animals is reducible to their utility relative to human interests, 668 01:12:31,709 --> 01:12:34,931 especially economic interests. 669 01:12:36,290 --> 01:12:45,090 But wild animals are not a renewable resource, having value only relative to human interests. 670 01:12:46,510 --> 01:12:51,310 That perception can only be that of a speciesist. 671 01:12:55,597 --> 01:12:59,257 (SEAL HARVEST, ST. PAUL ISLAND) Nevertheless, these practices exist 672 01:12:59,258 --> 01:13:05,898 only because we do not take seriously the interests of other animals. 673 01:13:09,436 --> 01:13:15,836 In this light, are humans not the most callous speciesists of all? 674 01:13:17,244 --> 01:13:21,493 PART FIVE: SCIENCE 675 01:13:24,848 --> 01:13:26,768 VIVISECTION 676 01:13:27,298 --> 01:13:31,106 The term vivisection is used to apply to all types of experiments 677 01:13:31,107 --> 01:13:37,267 on living animals and is said to be a form of medical science. 678 01:13:37,682 --> 01:13:40,021 The reason for experimentation of this 679 01:13:40,022 --> 01:13:46,582 type is to allegedly discover cures for human ailments and illnesses. 680 01:13:47,710 --> 01:13:52,459 But those who hope to find remedies for human ills by inflicting deliberate 681 01:13:52,460 --> 01:13:57,132 sufferings on animals commit two fundamental errors in understanding. 682 01:13:57,133 --> 01:13:58,929 The first is the assumption 683 01:13:58,930 --> 01:14:03,675 that results obtained on animals are applicable to mankind. 684 01:14:03,676 --> 01:14:05,822 The second concerns the inevitable 685 01:14:05,823 --> 01:14:11,625 fallacy of experimental science in respect to the field of organic life. 686 01:14:11,626 --> 01:14:16,172 Since animals react differently from human beings ... every new product 687 01:14:16,173 --> 01:14:18,900 or method tried out on animals must be tried 688 01:14:18,901 --> 01:14:26,817 out again on man ... through careful clinical tests, before it can be considered safe. 689 01:14:26,818 --> 01:14:29,698 This rule knows no exceptions. 690 01:14:29,887 --> 01:14:35,123 Tests on animals are not only dangerous because they lead to wrong conclusions 691 01:14:35,124 --> 01:14:39,301 but, furthermore, they retard clinical investigation - 692 01:14:39,302 --> 01:14:42,182 which is the only valid kind. 693 01:14:43,139 --> 01:14:45,642 Just remember the fact that any disease 694 01:14:45,643 --> 01:14:51,991 deliberately provoked is unlike any disease that arises spontaneously. 695 01:14:51,992 --> 01:14:54,860 MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS 696 01:14:55,275 --> 01:14:58,489 Unfortunately, such methods still sail today 697 01:14:58,490 --> 01:15:00,275 under the flag of science 698 01:15:00,276 --> 01:15:06,836 - which is an insult to true science, as well as human intelligence. 699 01:15:18,281 --> 01:15:23,241 And so vivisection applies to medical experiments ... 700 01:15:23,865 --> 01:15:29,225 ... done with the administration of noxious substances ... 701 01:15:32,974 --> 01:15:36,254 ... electric or traumatic shocks ... 702 01:15:46,852 --> 01:15:49,783 ... unanesthetized operations ... 703 01:15:59,660 --> 01:16:02,089 ... burns ... 704 01:16:32,299 --> 01:16:36,779 ... drawn-out deprivations of food and drink ... 705 01:16:38,747 --> 01:16:41,736 ... physical and psychological tortures ... 706 01:16:41,737 --> 01:16:43,566 ... that lead to mental imbalance ... 707 01:16:43,567 --> 01:16:46,287 ... infections ... and so on. 708 01:16:48,033 --> 01:16:51,964 (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) Head injury research involves partially 709 01:16:51,965 --> 01:16:55,510 or fully conscious baboons strapped down with restraints ... 710 01:16:55,511 --> 01:16:58,302 ... and their heads cemented into a metal helmet, 711 01:16:58,303 --> 01:17:05,583 which will be thrust at a 60 degree angle at a force of up to 1,000 Gs. 712 01:17:32,426 --> 01:17:36,833 The purpose of this experiment is to simulate auto crashes ... 713 01:17:36,834 --> 01:17:42,012 ... football ... boxing ... and other head related injuries. 714 01:17:42,013 --> 01:17:48,642 And this process is often repeated again and again on the same animals. 715 01:17:48,643 --> 01:17:50,171 MILITARY RESEARCH 716 01:17:50,172 --> 01:17:53,052 And finally, military research. 717 01:17:53,879 --> 01:17:56,519 This one speaks for itself. 718 01:17:57,893 --> 01:18:01,493 >From sending monkeys into outer space, 719 01:18:02,045 --> 01:18:06,125 and testing atomic blasts on helpless dogs, 720 01:18:06,297 --> 01:18:10,805 to exposing primates to nuclear radiation. 721 01:18:12,451 --> 01:18:14,638 Twenty years ago, the number of animals 722 01:18:14,639 --> 01:18:19,278 dying of tortures through the practice of vivisection was astronomical, 723 01:18:19,279 --> 01:18:23,199 estimated at 400,000 per day world wide, 724 01:18:23,228 --> 01:18:27,553 and growing at an annual rate of five percent. 725 01:18:27,554 --> 01:18:29,649 Today that number is almost 726 01:18:29,650 --> 01:18:35,683 beyond comprehension. 19,000 per minute. 10 billion per year. 727 01:18:42,852 --> 01:18:45,148 Some uneducated persons pretend to 728 01:18:45,149 --> 01:18:52,029 know that less intelligent animals don't feel pain the same way we do. 729 01:18:52,038 --> 01:18:58,232 In truth, we know very little about how specific animals may "feel", 730 01:18:58,233 --> 01:19:03,206 except that they must also submit to the universal law that causes every 731 01:19:03,207 --> 01:19:10,567 organism dying by unnatural means to suffer greatly before that final release. 732 01:19:12,505 --> 01:19:14,938 But it's nonsense to say that the animals 733 01:19:14,939 --> 01:19:20,939 do not suffer because they have a lower order of intelligence. 734 01:19:22,666 --> 01:19:25,316 FORCE-FEEDING GEESE "FOIE GRAS" 735 01:19:25,317 --> 01:19:29,671 Pain is pain, conveyed by nerves to the brain, 736 01:19:29,672 --> 01:19:33,975 and there are other nerves than those of intelligence... 737 01:19:33,976 --> 01:19:39,047 ...nerves such as sight, smell, touch, and hearing. 738 01:19:40,194 --> 01:19:47,554 And in some animals these nerves are much more highly developed than in man. 739 01:19:49,984 --> 01:19:52,653 We know that there has never been an epoch 740 01:19:52,654 --> 01:19:59,416 in which we could learn something about the physiology of man by torturing animals; 741 01:19:59,417 --> 01:20:02,617 we only learned something about animals. 742 01:20:02,618 --> 01:20:06,991 And if there is something we can learn from them on the psychological level, 743 01:20:06,992 --> 01:20:13,340 it is not by means of steel or electricity, much less so through psychic violences. 744 01:20:13,341 --> 01:20:18,233 The systematic torture of sentient beings, 745 01:20:18,338 --> 01:20:22,864 whatever the pretext and in whatever form, cannot achieve anything more than it already has: 746 01:20:22,865 --> 01:20:29,185 to show us what is the lowest point of debasement man can reach. 747 01:20:35,762 --> 01:20:39,232 If that's what we want to know. 748 01:20:39,758 --> 01:20:46,973 "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields". 749 01:20:48,056 --> 01:20:52,193 - Leo Tolstoy 750 01:21:06,207 --> 01:21:10,565 Ignorance is the speciesist's first line of defense. 751 01:21:10,566 --> 01:21:17,693 Yet it is easily breached by anyone with the time and determination to find out the truth. 752 01:21:17,694 --> 01:21:26,014 Ignorance has prevailed so long only because people do not want to find out the truth. 753 01:21:26,076 --> 01:21:28,672 "Don't tell me, you'll spoil my dinner" 754 01:21:28,673 --> 01:21:35,109 is the usual reply to any attempt to tell someone just how that dinner was produced. 755 01:21:35,110 --> 01:21:37,099 Even people who are aware that 756 01:21:37,100 --> 01:21:42,950 the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests... 757 01:21:42,951 --> 01:21:47,983 ...that their clothes come from slaughtered cows, that their entertainment means the 758 01:21:47,984 --> 01:21:52,232 suffering and death of millions of animals... and that some questionable 759 01:21:52,233 --> 01:21:54,625 experiments go on in laboratories, 760 01:21:54,626 --> 01:22:00,442 still cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, 761 01:22:00,443 --> 01:22:04,024 (PREGNAT MARE URINE AKA: "PREMARIN") 762 01:22:05,024 --> 01:22:07,804 or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it. 763 01:22:07,805 --> 01:22:14,526 But it is not the inability to find out what is going on as much as a desire not to know about 764 01:22:14,527 --> 01:22:21,979 facts that may lie heavy on one's conscience that is responsible for this lack of awareness - 765 01:22:21,980 --> 01:22:28,492 - after all, the victims of whatever it is that goes on in all these awful places 766 01:22:28,493 --> 01:22:32,013 are not members of one's own group. 767 01:22:38,183 --> 01:22:41,544 It all comes down to pain and suffering. 768 01:22:41,545 --> 01:22:47,555 Not intelligence, not strength, not social class or civil right. 769 01:22:47,556 --> 01:22:52,258 Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, 770 01:22:52,259 --> 01:22:58,819 irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. 771 01:23:01,381 --> 01:23:04,580 We are all creatures. 772 01:23:05,614 --> 01:23:10,288 And non-human animals experience sensations just like we do. 773 01:23:10,289 --> 01:23:16,844 They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. 774 01:23:16,845 --> 01:23:19,989 They too are capable of growth and adaptation. 775 01:23:19,990 --> 01:23:24,519 Like us, first and foremost, they are earthlings. 776 01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,640 And like us, they are surviving. 777 01:23:29,651 --> 01:23:34,218 Like us, they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. 778 01:23:34,219 --> 01:23:38,619 And like us, they express degrees of emotion. 779 01:23:40,182 --> 01:23:44,089 In short, like us, they are alive; 780 01:23:44,540 --> 01:23:49,740 most of them being, in fact, vertebrae, just like us. 781 01:24:08,719 --> 01:24:13,986 As we look back on how essential animals are to human survival; 782 01:24:13,987 --> 01:24:16,947 our absolute dependence on them 783 01:24:17,541 --> 01:24:19,289 (for companionship ... food ... 784 01:24:19,290 --> 01:24:20,730 ... clothing ... 785 01:24:21,013 --> 01:24:23,579 ... sport and entertainment ... 786 01:24:23,580 --> 01:24:27,841 ... as well as medical and scientific research), 787 01:24:27,842 --> 01:24:36,002 ironically ... we only see mankind's complete disrespect for these non-human providers. 788 01:24:36,131 --> 01:24:39,715 Without a doubt, this must be what it is... 789 01:24:39,716 --> 01:24:43,316 ... to "bite the hand that feeds us". 790 01:24:45,379 --> 01:24:50,259 In fact, we have actually stomped and spit on it. 791 01:24:52,816 --> 01:24:56,380 Now we are faced with the inevitable aftermath. 792 01:24:56,381 --> 01:25:01,526 This is evident in health reports due to our over-excessive consumption of animals. 793 01:25:01,527 --> 01:25:02,306 Cancer, 794 01:25:02,798 --> 01:25:04,158 heart disease, 795 01:25:04,234 --> 01:25:05,582 Osteoporosis, 796 01:25:05,881 --> 01:25:06,681 strokes, 797 01:25:07,201 --> 01:25:08,561 kidney stones, 798 01:25:08,688 --> 01:25:09,877 Anemia, 799 01:25:10,301 --> 01:25:12,141 diabetes, and more. 800 01:25:16,539 --> 01:25:22,417 Even our food has now been effected ... and at its very source. 801 01:25:22,418 --> 01:25:25,587 With antibiotics used to promote weight gain in animals 802 01:25:25,588 --> 01:25:31,445 (who can't gain weight under the stressful, overcrowded living conditions in factory farms); 803 01:25:31,446 --> 01:25:36,135 with the over-use of pesticides and insecticides; 804 01:25:36,136 --> 01:25:37,580 or artificial hormones 805 01:25:37,581 --> 01:25:43,294 (designed to increase milk production, litter size and frequency); 806 01:25:43,295 --> 01:25:48,825 with artificial colors, herbicides, larvicides, 807 01:25:48,826 --> 01:25:56,658 synthetic fertilizers, tranquilizers, growth and appetite stimulants ... 808 01:25:57,001 --> 01:26:00,868 ... it's no wonder that Mad Cow Disease ... Foot and Mouth Disease ... Pfiesteria ... 809 01:26:00,869 --> 01:26:03,726 and a host of other animal related abnormalities have been 810 01:26:03,727 --> 01:26:07,727 (POLLUTION) unleashed on the human public. 811 01:26:08,325 --> 01:26:12,320 Nature is not responsible for these actions. 812 01:26:12,321 --> 01:26:14,823 (DEFORESTATION) We are. 813 01:26:19,959 --> 01:26:25,143 So a change is inevitable. Either we make it ourselves, 814 01:26:25,144 --> 01:26:29,703 or we will be forced to make it by Nature Itself. 815 01:26:29,704 --> 01:26:33,783 The time has come for each of us to reconsider our eating habits, 816 01:26:33,784 --> 01:26:35,345 our traditions, 817 01:26:35,810 --> 01:26:38,038 our lifestyles and fashions, 818 01:26:38,039 --> 01:26:41,900 and above all, our way of thinking. 819 01:26:49,101 --> 01:26:52,040 So, if there is any truth to the age-old saying, 820 01:26:52,041 --> 01:26:57,962 "What goes around, comes around", then what do they get for their pain? 821 01:26:57,963 --> 01:27:02,222 Do we even give it a second thought? 822 01:27:02,661 --> 01:27:09,141 If what goes around comes around, what do they get for their pain? 823 01:27:11,553 --> 01:27:13,754 They are earthlings. 824 01:27:14,926 --> 01:27:20,686 They have the right to be here just as much as humans do. 825 01:27:20,958 --> 01:27:26,115 Perhaps the answer is found in another age-old saying ... 826 01:27:26,116 --> 01:27:28,516 ... and one equally true: 827 01:27:30,767 --> 01:27:34,975 We reap just what we sow. 828 01:27:39,904 --> 01:27:45,984 So of course, animals feel, and of course they experience pain. 829 01:27:47,581 --> 01:27:53,332 After all, has nature endowed these wonderful animals with well-springs of sentiment 830 01:27:53,333 --> 01:27:56,453 so that they should not feel ... 831 01:27:56,787 --> 01:28:02,307 ... or do animals have nerves in order to be insensitive? 832 01:28:04,775 --> 01:28:08,104 Reason demands a better answer. 833 01:28:10,846 --> 01:28:17,698 But one thing is absolutely certain: animals used for food, used for clothing, 834 01:28:17,699 --> 01:28:22,426 used for entertainment, and in scientific experiments 835 01:28:22,427 --> 01:28:26,138 and all the oppression that is done to them under the sun 836 01:28:26,139 --> 01:28:29,641 they all die from pain. 837 01:28:30,032 --> 01:28:32,076 Each and every one. 838 01:28:35,279 --> 01:28:36,957 Isn't it enough that animals 839 01:28:36,958 --> 01:28:42,949 the world over live in permanent retreat from human progress and expansion? 840 01:28:42,950 --> 01:28:48,790 And for many species ... there is simply nowhere else to go. 841 01:28:49,790 --> 01:28:55,018 It seems the fate of many animals is either to be unwanted by man ... 842 01:28:55,019 --> 01:28:57,343 ... or wanted too much. 843 01:28:58,949 --> 01:29:05,479 We enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike ... 844 01:29:05,480 --> 01:29:08,742 But Human beings should love animals as ... 845 01:29:08,743 --> 01:29:13,991 the knowing love the innocent, and the strong love the vulnerable. 846 01:29:13,992 --> 01:29:17,752 When we wince at the suffering of animals, 847 01:29:17,753 --> 01:29:22,384 that feeling speaks well of us even when we ignore it, 848 01:29:22,385 --> 01:29:27,620 and those who dismiss love for our fellow creatures as mere sentimentality 849 01:29:27,621 --> 01:29:32,581 overlook a good and important part of our humanity. 850 01:29:32,909 --> 01:29:38,974 But it takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal. 851 01:29:38,975 --> 01:29:41,502 And it is actually within us 852 01:29:41,503 --> 01:29:46,143 to grant them a happy life ... and a long one. 853 01:29:49,257 --> 01:29:55,776 On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester: "How do you see the world?" 854 01:29:55,777 --> 01:29:59,553 And Gloucester, who is blind, answered: 855 01:29:59,945 --> 01:30:03,701 "I see it feelingly". 856 01:30:05,076 --> 01:30:09,266 I see it feelingly. 857 01:30:10,022 --> 01:30:14,582 Three primary life forces exist on this planet: 858 01:30:14,601 --> 01:30:16,660 Nature, 859 01:30:17,129 --> 01:30:19,094 Animals 860 01:30:20,727 --> 01:30:24,392 and Humankind. 861 01:30:26,623 --> 01:30:29,351 We are the Earthlings. 862 01:30:32,555 --> 01:30:35,668 Make the connection. 863 01:30:38,645 --> 01:30:47,363 subtitles: by bobef, because animals do not make chocolate