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The images you are about to
see are not isolated cases.

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These are the Industry Standard
for animals bred as Pets,

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Food, Clothing, for
Entertainment and Research.

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Viewer discretion is advised.

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THE THREE STAGES OF
TRUTH

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1. RIDICULE

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2. VIOLENT OPPOSITION

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3. ACCEPTANCE

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EARTHLINGS

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earth'ling: n.
One who inhabits of the earth.

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Since we all inhabit the earth,
all of us are considered earthlings.

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There is no sexism, no racism or
speciesism in the term earthling.

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It encompasses each and every one of us:

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warm or cold blooded, mammal,
vertebrate or invertebrate,

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bird, reptile, amphibian, fish,
and human alike.

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Humans, therefore, being not the
only species on the planet,

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share this world with millions of other living
creatures, as we all evolve here together.

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However, it is the human earthling
who tends to dominate the earth,

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often times treating other fellow earthlings
and living beings as mere objects.

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This is what is meant by speciesism.

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FESTIVAL OF THE BULLS, SPAIN

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By analogy with racism and sexism,

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or attitude of bias
in favor of the interests

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of members of one's own species and
against those of members of other species.

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If a being suffers there can be
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refusing to take that
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No matter what the nature of the
being, the principle of equality requires

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that one's suffering can be counted equally
with the like suffering of any other being.

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Racists violate the principle of
equality by giving greater eight

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to the interests of members

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of their own race when
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interests and the interests
of those of another race.

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Sexists violate the principle of
equality by favoring

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the interests of their own sex.

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Similarly, speciesists allow
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to override the greater interests
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In each case, the pattern is identical.

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Though among the members of the human family
we recognize the moral imperative of respect

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(every human is a somebody, not a something),

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morally disrespectful treatment occurs
when those who stand at the power end of a

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power relationship treat the less powerful
as if they were mere objects.

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The rapist does this to the victim of rape.

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The child molester
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The master to the slave.

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In each and all such cases, humans who
have power exploit those who lack it.

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Might the same be true of how humans
treat other animals, or other earthlings?

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Undoubtedly there are differences,

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since humans and animals are
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But the question of sameness
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Granted, these animals do not have
all the desires we humans have;

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granted, they do not comprehend
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nevertheless, we and they do have
some of the same desires

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and do comprehend some of the same things.

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The desires for food and water,
shelter and companionship,

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freedom of movement
and avoidance of pain?

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these desires are shared by
nonhuman animals and human beings.

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As for comprehension: like humans,

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many nonhuman animals understand the
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Otherwise, they could not survive.

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So beneath the many differences,
there is sameness.

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Like us, these animals embody the
mystery and wonder of consciousness.

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Like us, they are not only in the world,
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Like us they are the psychological
centers of a life that is uniquely their own.

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In these fundamental respects humans
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with hogs and cows,
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What these animals are due from us,
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are questions whose answer begins
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psychological kinship with them.

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So the following film demonstrates

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in five ways just how animals
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...lest we forget.

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Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer
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'Enemies, A Love Story' the following:

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"As often has Herman had witnessed
the slaughter of animals and fish,

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he always had the same thought:
in their behavior toward creatures,

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all men were Nazis. The smugness with
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as he pleased exemplified the most
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the principle that might is right".

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The comparison here to the holocaust
is both intentional and obvious:

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one group of living beings anguishes beneath
the hands of another.

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Though some will argue the suffering
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with that of former Jews or slaves,
there is, in fact, a parallel.

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And for the prisoners and victims
of this mass murder, their holocaust

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is far from over.

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In his book 'The Outermost House'
author Henry Beston wrote

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"We need another and a wiser
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concept of animals.

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Remote from universal nature,
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man in civilization surveys

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the creatures through
the glass of his knowledge

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and sees thereby a feather magnified
and the whole image in distortion.

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We patronize them for their incompleteness,

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for their tragic fate of having taken
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And therein we err, and greatly err.

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For the animal
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In a world older and
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they move finished and complete,

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gifted with extensions of the senses
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living by voices we shall never hear.

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They are not brethren;
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they are other nations,

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caught with ourselves
in the net of life and time,

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fellow prisoners of the splendor
and travail of the earth".

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PART ONE: PETS

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For most of us, our relationship with animals
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So where do our pets come from?

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Of course, one of the most obvious ways
animals serve man is as companions.

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BREEDERS

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For these pets it starts with a breeder,
though not all breeders are considered professional.

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In fact, in this profession, just about anyone
and everyone can be a breeder.

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PET STORES AND PUPPY MILLS

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For pet stores, most of their animals
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even if they may not know it.

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Puppy mills are low-budget

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commercial enterprises that breed dogs
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They are often backyard operations

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that expose animals to filthy, overcrowded
conditions with no veterinary care or socialization.

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Dogs from puppy mills often exhibit

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physical and psychological
problems as they grow up.

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STRAYS

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Strays, if they are lucky,
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shelter or pound, where they
can only hope to find a new home again.

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An estimated 25 million animals become
homeless every year.

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And as many as 27% of purebred dogs
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Of these 25 million homeless animals
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die on the streets from disease,

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starvation,

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exposure,

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injury, or some other hazard
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Many others are strays, some of whom were
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The remaining 16 million
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room for them and are forced to kill them.

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Sadly, on top of all this,

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almost 50% of the animals brought to
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Many people claim they don't visit shelters
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But the reason animals are crowded
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is because of people's refusal
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Several pet owners feel,
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that neutering a pet
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... or they may just want their children to someday
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In either case, pet owners like these
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of over 60,000 animals per day.

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Euthanasia, generally defined as the act
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is usually administered by
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and sometimes in the
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It is a quick and painless procedure for
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but not always the most affordable.

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Due to the increase of
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and the growing, constant,
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some shelters with budget constraints
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GAS CHAMBERS

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In a gas chamber,
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and can take as long as
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It is, by far, less merciful,

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more traumatic and painful.

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But the procedure is less expensive.

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Perhaps some of the tough questions
we should ask ourselves about animals

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that we keep as companions are:

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Can we keep animals as companions
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Is our keeping companion animals
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or are we exploiting them?

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The answers to these questions may lie
in the attitudes of the human caretakers

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and their abilities to provide suitable
environments for companion animals.

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(CYANIDE POISON)
Most human beings are speciesists.

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This film shows that ordinary
human beings (not a few exceptionally

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cruel or heartless humans, but the
overwhelming majority of people),

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take an active part in,
acquiesce in, and allow their taxes

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to pay for practices that require
the sacrifice of the most important

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interests of members of other species,
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trivial interests of our own species.

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STRAY OVERPOPULATION IN TURKEY

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The hope for the animals of tomorrow is

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to be found in a Human Culture
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We must learn empathy,

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we must learn to see into the eyes

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of an animal and feel that their
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PART TWO: FOOD

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"Oh, I missed. I missed you, honey.
But I'll get you again!"

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"I got you! Good boy!"

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What happens in slaughterhouses

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is a variation on the theme of the
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More than ten thousand times a minute,

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in excess of six billion times a
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life is literally
drained from so-called "food animals".

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Having the greater power,
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where they will die,

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and how they will die.

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The interests of these animals themselves

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play no role whatsoever
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Killing an animal is,
in itself, a troubling act.

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It has been said that if we had

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to kill our own meat, we
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Certainly very few people
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and films of slaughterhouse operations
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People might hope that the meat they buy
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but they don't really
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Yet those who, by their purchases,
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do not deserve to be shielded from this
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of the meat they buy.

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So where does our food come from?

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For those of us living on a meat diet,
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undergoes is as follows.

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BRANDING

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For beef, the animals are all branded ...

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... in this instance, on the face.

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DEHORNING

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Dehorning usually follows.
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But rather a large pair of pliers.

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In transportation, animals are packed
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practically on top of one another.

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Heat, freezing temperatures,
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will kill some of these animals
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MILKING

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Milking cows are kept chained

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to their stalls all day
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Pesticides and antibiotics are also
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Eventually, milking cows,
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Normally, cows can live
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but milking cows
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At which point, their meat is
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MEAT

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At this slaughterhouse,

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the branded and dehorned
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CAPTIVE BOLTS

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The captive bolt gun, which was designed

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to reduce animals unconscious
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fires a steel bolt, that is powered
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right into the animal's brain.

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BLEEDING

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Though various methods of slaughter
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the cattle is hoisted up
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Along with the meat, their blood will
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Though the animal has received
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which is supposed to have rendered him

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or her senseless ... as you can see
the animal is still conscious.

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This is not uncommon.

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Sometimes they are still alive
even after they have been bled,

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and are well on their way down
the assembly line to be butchered.

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KNOCKING BOXES

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KOSHER SLAUGHTER

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This is the largest glatt kosher
meat plant in the United States.

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Glatt, the Yiddish word for "smooth",
means the highest standard of cleanliness ...

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... and rules for kosher
butchering require minimal suffering.

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The use of electric prods
on immobilized animals is a violation.

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SHEKHITA - RITUAL SLAUGHTER

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Inverting frightened animals
for the slaughterer's convenience

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is also a violation.

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The inversion process causes cattle to
aspirate blood, or breath it in, after incision.

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Ripping the trachea and esophagi
from their throats is another

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egregious violation, since kosher
animals are not to be touched ...

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... until bleeding stops.

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And by dumping struggling
and dying steers through metal chutes

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onto blood soaked floors,

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with their breathing tubes
and gullets dangling out,

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this "sacred task" is neither
clean or compassionate.

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Shackling and hoisting is
ruled yet another violation,

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nor does it correspond to the
kosher way of treating animals.

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If this was kosher, death was
neither quick nor merciful.

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VEAL

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Veal, taken from their mothers
within two days of birth, are tied

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at the neck and kept restricted
to keep muscles from developing.

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Fed an iron-deficient liquid diet,

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denied bedding,
water, and light,

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after four months of this miserable
existence they are slaughtered.

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PIGS

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Sows in factory farms are
breeding machines, kept

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continually pregnant by means
of artificial insemination.

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Large pig market factories
will "manufacture",

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as they like to call it, between 50,000
and 600,000 pigs a year... each.

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FACTORY CONDITIONS

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GESTATION CRATES

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RUPTURES & ABSCESSES

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CANIBALISM

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WASTE PITS

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Tail docking is a practice derived
from the lack of space and stressful

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living conditions so as to keep pigs
from biting each other's tails off.

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This is done without anesthetic.

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EAR CLIPPING

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Ear clipping is a similar procedure,
also administered without anesthetic.

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As well as teeth-cutting.

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CASTRATION

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Castration is also done without
painkillers or anesthetic, and will

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supposedly produce a more
fatty grade of meat.

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ELECTRIC PRODS

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The electric prods are used for
obvious reasons: handling.

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ELECTROCUTION

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Electrocution is another method
of slaughter, as seen here.

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THROAT SLITTING

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Throat slitting, however,

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is still the least expensive
way to kill an animal.

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BOILING AND HAIR REMOVAL

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After knife sticking, pigs are shackled,

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suspended on a bleed-rail and immersed
in scalding tanks to remove their bristle.

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Many are still struggling as they are dunked
upside down in tanks of steaming water,

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where they are submerged and drowned.

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POULTRY

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In regard to poultry, Americans currently
consume as much chicken in a single day

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as they did in an entire year in 1930.

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The largest broiler companies
in the world now slaughter more than

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8.5 million birds in a single week.

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DEBEAKING

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Debeaking prevents feather-pecking
and cannibalism in frustrated chickens,

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caused by over-crowding in single areas, where
they are unable to establish a social order.

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Today, done with infant chicks,
the procedure is carried out very quickly,

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about 15 birds a minute.

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Such haste means the temperature and
sharpness of the blade varies, resulting in

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sloppy cutting and serious
injury to the bird.

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LIVING CONDITIONS

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As for their living conditions, anywhere
from sixty to ninety thousand birds can be

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crowded together in a single building.

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The suffering for these animals is
unrelenting. It is a way of life.

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Although their beaks are severed,
they attempt to peck each other.

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For hens, they live in a laying warehouse,
crammed inside so-called "battery cages".

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BATTERY CAGES

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Many lose their feathers and develop
sores from rubbing against the wire cage.

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Crowding prevents them from
spreading their wings, and the hens cannot

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even fulfill minimal natural instincts.

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TRANSPORTATION

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During transportation,
all animals suffer, and many die.

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And they suffocate when other
animals pile on top of them

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in overcrowded, poorly loaded cages.

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SLAUGHTER

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"THE HANG PEN"
MOOREFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA

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Chickens and turkeys are
slaughtered in numerous ways.

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Some may be clubbed to death
or have their heads cut off.

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But most are brought through
the assembly lines of factory farms.

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Dangled upside down on a conveyor belt,
their throats are slit,

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and they are left to bleed to death.

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Others may be placed head-first
in tubes to restrict their movement

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while they slowly bleed to death.

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Surely, if slaughterhouses had glass walls,
would not all of us be vegetarians?

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But slaughterhouses do not have glass walls.

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The architecture of slaughter is opaque,
designed in the interest of denial,

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to insure that we will not see even if
we wanted to look. And who wants to look?

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"Go mother fucker!
Don't fuckin' stop".

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"Let's go, let's go!!!
Come on, bitch!"

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It was Emerson who observed,
more than a hundred years ago,

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"You have dined, and however scrupulously
the slaughterhouse is concealed in

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the graceful distance of miles,
there is complicity".

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SEA FOOD

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And for those who think eating seafood
is "healthier" than land animals,

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just remember how much irretrievable
waste and contaminated sediments

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are dumped into our oceans.

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In the past ... oil ... nuclear ... and chemical
industries have done little for the

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protection of marine environments ...

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00:38:41,476 --> 00:38:48,103
... and dumping on or under the seabed has
always proved a convenient place

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to dispose of inconvenient wastes.

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COMMERCIAL FISHING

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Today's commercial fishers intensify
this situation on massive scales.

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They use vast factory
trawlers the size of

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football fields and advanced electronic
equipment to track and catch fish.

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Huge nets stretch across the ocean,
swallowing up everything in their path.

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These factory trawlers, coupled with
our increased appetites for seafood,

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are emptying the oceans of
sea life at an alarming pace.

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Already, thirteen of the seventeen major global
fisheries are depleted or in serious decline.

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The other four are
overexploited or fully exploited.

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DISEASE

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The recent outbreak of Pfiesteria,

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a microorganism 1,000 time
more potent than cyanide,

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spawned from millions of gallons of
raw hog feces and urine, poured into rivers,

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lakes, and oceans, turning their
ecosystems into unflushed toilets,

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is proving the most alarming.

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Threatening sea life and humans alike,
Pfiesteria has killed over 1 billion fish,

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the southeast's largest fishkill on record,

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and it's spreading.

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Traces of Pfiesteria have already been found
from Long Island to the Florida Gulf,

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at distances of up to 1,000 miles.

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In fact, this water-based
Pfiesteria invasion

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stands as one of the worst outbreaks of
a virulent microorganism in U.S history.

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It is a Level Three
Biohazard. Ebola is a Four. AIDS is a two.

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And this bug mutated as a direct result
of our mass consumption of animals,

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particularly pork.

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With hog farms fattening millions of pigs for
slaughter, grain goes in and waste comes out.

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HURRICANE FLOYD
NORTH CAROLINA, 1999

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This waste finds its way into our oceans and
water-supply systems,

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contaminating the animals that live in it,

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as well as those that eat from it.

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WHALING

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Finally, whaling.

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Though the International Whaling Commission
prohibited commercial whaling in 1985,

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many countries continue to kill
whales for their so-called "exotic meat".

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They use harpoons,

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firearms,

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blunt hooks,

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even explosives,

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or drive them into
authorized whaling bays

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where they are made to beach and can
be killed with knives in the shallows.

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DOLPHINS

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Every winter, between the months of October
through March, thousands of dolphins are

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confined and brutally killed
in small towns across Japan.

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Sounding rods beneath the water's surface
interfere with the dolphin's sonar.

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00:43:16,808 --> 00:43:23,048
Once disoriented and enclosed
within the nets, the dolphins panic.

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Fisherman often injure a few captive dolphins
with a spear thrust or knife slash ...

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00:43:31,676 --> 00:43:36,556
since dolphins never abandon
wounded family members.

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00:43:38,415 --> 00:43:42,047
Mothers and babies call out in
distress as they are separated,

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hoisted up and dragged off
... soon to be mercilessly hacked to death.

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these are benign and innocent beings ...

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... and they deserve better.

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Yet here, as they lay
stricken and needful,

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wreathing helplessly on cement
floors, they are cut open with machetes

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00:44:50,193 --> 00:44:53,233
and left to slowly suffocate ...

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00:45:03,302 --> 00:45:11,782
... convulsing and contorting in the throes
of agony ... while school children walk on by.

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00:45:27,303 --> 00:45:32,570
Such images of slaughter and bloody red water
clearly show the Japanese government has

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00:45:32,571 --> 00:45:37,292
little respect for the state of the world's
oceans with their inhumane methods of

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fishing ... often in violation of international
treaties, laws and conventions designed

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00:45:42,072 --> 00:45:45,565
to protect over-exploiting the oceans ...

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00:45:45,566 --> 00:45:49,406
... and the creatures that live in them.

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00:45:51,601 --> 00:45:55,268
Dolphin meat is later sold in
markets and restaurants,

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though often mislabeled as "whale meat".

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00:46:01,517 --> 00:46:06,878
But as though cruelty toward animals
raised for food wasn't enough,

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we've also found ways of making
use of them for all our clothes.

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Jackets, shoes, belts, gloves,
pants, wallets, purses, and so on,

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the next question is obviously:
where do our clothes come from?

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PART TREE: CLOTHES

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(LEATHER)

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The demand for leather comes primarily from
the United States, Germany, and the U.K.

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00:46:42,372 --> 00:46:45,252
Just about everybody wears it,

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with little or no thought of
where it came from.

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(INDIA COWS)

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00:46:49,976 --> 00:46:53,435
Thousands of India cows are
slaughtered each week for their skins,

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purchased from poor families
in part of rural India who sell them

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only after the assurance that the
animals will live out their lives on farms.

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SHOEING AND ROPING

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To relocate the animals to
a state where they can legally be killed,

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00:47:15,955 --> 00:47:19,332
since cattle slaughter
is forbidden in most of India,

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00:47:19,333 --> 00:47:24,405
the animals must be shoed and roped together
in preparation for a harrowing "death march",

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which could last for several days.

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(TRANSPORTATION AND FATIGUE)

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Forced to walk through the heat and dust without
food or water, coupled with the sheer stress of

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this terrifying experience for them, many of
the animals collapse and are unable to continue.

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Bear in mind that most of the cattle are
being placed in a truck for the first time in

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their lives and are likely to be frightened,

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especially if they have been handled hastily
or roughly by the men loading the trucks.

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00:47:59,928 --> 00:48:01,527
The noise and motion of the truck itself

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00:48:01,528 --> 00:48:05,232
is also a new experience;
one which makes them ill.

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00:48:05,233 --> 00:48:10,051
After one or two days inside the truck without
food or water, they are desperately thirsty

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and hungry, especially since it is normal for
such cows to eat frequently throughout the day.

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00:48:15,369 --> 00:48:16,649
TAIL BREAKING

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00:48:24,073 --> 00:48:29,361
But when the cattle become weary and grow
faint, the bones in their tales are broken in

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00:48:29,362 --> 00:48:33,762
an effort to get them back up on their feet.

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00:48:34,268 --> 00:48:39,381
This is done by repeatedly pinching the
tail in several areas.

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HANDLERS

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Handlers must constantly
keep the cattle moving,

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00:48:51,493 --> 00:48:53,505
pulling them by nose ropes,

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00:48:53,506 --> 00:48:55,347
twisting their necks,

447
00:48:55,348 --> 00:48:57,893
horns, or tails.

448
00:48:59,944 --> 00:49:01,480
They lead, or rather force,

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00:49:01,481 --> 00:49:05,877
the cattle down embankments and
in and out of trucks without ramps,

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causing injuries like
broken pelvises, legs, ribs, and horns.

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CHILI PEPPER

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Chili pepper and tobacco are also used
to keep the animals walking.

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This practice is done by rubbing the pepper
directly into their eyes, in order to stimulate

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the animal back onto his or her feet.

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SLAUGHTER

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And all this before the slaughter.

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As many as half of the animals will
already be dead by the time they

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arrive at the slaughterhouse.

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But to make the experience even more
traumatic and terrifying, they are

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often killed in full view of each other.

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And instead of the required "quick slice"
across the throat with a sharp knife,

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they are generally killed through
hacking and sawing with a dull blade.

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TANNING

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Afterwards, the skins from these animals
are sent to tanneries that use deadly

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substances like Chromium and other toxins
to stop decomposition.

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00:51:05,836 --> 00:51:09,444
Remember, leather is dead flesh.

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00:51:10,085 --> 00:51:16,442
It is dead skin, and, therefore, natural for
it to decompose and rot away unless treated

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with such potent substances as these.

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And for people, the health effects of
such chemicals in tanneries, in lieu of the

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00:51:25,484 --> 00:51:30,924
continued demand for leather goods, is
yet another issue.

471
00:51:30,972 --> 00:51:33,035
RETAIL

472
00:51:37,768 --> 00:51:42,221
Ultimately, leather from Indian cattle
make their way to clothing stores

473
00:51:42,222 --> 00:51:44,302
all around the world.

474
00:51:55,669 --> 00:51:59,509
Most major chains sell Indian leather ...

475
00:52:00,330 --> 00:52:06,882
... leather that comes from completely
different cows than those we eat.

476
00:52:06,883 --> 00:52:08,434
FUR

477
00:52:09,794 --> 00:52:11,714
And what about fur?

478
00:52:11,718 --> 00:52:14,663
Over 100 million wild
animals are murdered

479
00:52:14,664 --> 00:52:19,732
for their pelts every year, 25
million in the United States alone.

480
00:52:19,733 --> 00:52:25,385
These animals, obtained by hunting and trapping,
are kept on fur farms in conditions like these.

481
00:52:25,386 --> 00:52:27,402
CAGE MADNESS

482
00:52:29,902 --> 00:52:36,895
Naturally, these undomesticated, wild animals
are not accustomed to being caged,

483
00:52:36,896 --> 00:52:41,554
and cage madness develops when frightened
and frustrated animals are driven crazy

484
00:52:41,555 --> 00:52:45,413
from the stress of confinement.

485
00:52:46,529 --> 00:52:48,441
These wild, free-roaming animals,

486
00:52:48,442 --> 00:52:52,878
and their offspring, find themselves
unable to live a natural life,

487
00:52:52,879 --> 00:52:59,052
can never take even a few steps
or feel the earth beneath their feet.

488
00:52:59,053 --> 00:53:04,250
Instead, they are reduced to
scratching, circling and pacing endlessly.

489
00:53:04,251 --> 00:53:06,297
(INJURIES AND SLOW DEATH)

490
00:53:06,298 --> 00:53:09,638
The physical injuries these
animals endure on fur farms ...

491
00:53:09,639 --> 00:53:13,219
involve broken and exposed bones ...

492
00:53:16,717 --> 00:53:19,406
... blindness ...

493
00:53:21,243 --> 00:53:23,675
... ear infections ...

494
00:53:23,710 --> 00:53:25,568
... dehydration and malnutrition ...

495
00:53:25,569 --> 00:53:29,249
... exposure to freezing temperatures ...

496
00:53:29,314 --> 00:53:32,194
... lack of veterinary care ...

497
00:53:32,718 --> 00:53:36,334
... and slow death.

498
00:53:42,473 --> 00:53:44,459
(KILLING)

499
00:53:44,460 --> 00:53:47,146
No laws indicate the killing of
animals on fur farms, therefore,

500
00:53:47,147 --> 00:53:51,482
the least expensive methods
are the most appealing.

501
00:53:51,483 --> 00:53:56,402
Carbon monoxide poisoning,
Strychnine, suffocation,

502
00:53:56,403 --> 00:54:03,290
breaking the neck, and anal electrocution
are some of the more common methods used.

503
00:54:03,291 --> 00:54:09,391
Removed from his or her cage with a heavy
neck-pole, the animal is walked past

504
00:54:09,392 --> 00:54:17,232
the rows of bodies of slaughtered foxes,
sables, raccoons and wolves, among others.

505
00:54:17,661 --> 00:54:22,458
Death by anal electrocution is a crude
process that requires a probe to be inserted

506
00:54:22,459 --> 00:54:28,619
in the rectum while the animal
bites down on a metal conductor.

507
00:54:34,809 --> 00:54:42,249
Often times this inept procedure must
be repeated to actually kill the animal.

508
00:54:53,004 --> 00:55:02,099
And the skinned carcasses seen here will later
be ground up and fed to the animals still caged.

509
00:55:02,100 --> 00:55:05,908
CHINESE FUR FARM

510
00:55:34,404 --> 00:55:39,305
CANADIAN SEAL HUNT

511
00:56:28,989 --> 00:56:31,309
- How much is this one?

512
00:56:31,380 --> 00:56:34,624
- This is... $49,500

513
00:56:36,623 --> 00:56:39,117
PART FOUR: ENTERTAINMENT

514
00:56:39,368 --> 00:56:42,808
And so we move on to entertainment.

515
00:56:44,856 --> 00:56:47,175
Mark Twain once said,

516
00:56:47,210 --> 00:56:53,058
"Of all the creatures ever made
he (man) is the most detestable.

517
00:56:53,059 --> 00:57:00,499
He's the only creature that inflicts
pain for sport, knowing it to be pain".

518
00:57:02,902 --> 00:57:05,080
RODEOS

519
00:57:05,614 --> 00:57:11,913
In rodeos, bulls and broncos don't buck because
they're wild, but because they're in pain.

520
00:57:11,914 --> 00:57:14,713
A belt, called a flank strap or a
bucking strap, is secured around

521
00:57:14,714 --> 00:57:18,445
the animal's body over the genital area.

522
00:57:18,446 --> 00:57:21,953
As the animal leaves the chute, a tight
jerk on the belt is enough

523
00:57:21,954 --> 00:57:25,461
to start him bucking in pain.

524
00:57:28,271 --> 00:57:32,796
Apart from other injuries animals
incur at rodeos ...

525
00:57:32,797 --> 00:57:35,357
... such as broken legs ...

526
00:57:37,508 --> 00:57:41,237
... they are also worked up by being slapped ...

527
00:57:41,238 --> 00:57:42,518
... teased ...

528
00:57:42,837 --> 00:57:45,042
... given electric prods ...

529
00:57:45,043 --> 00:57:47,294
... and otherwise tormented ...

530
00:57:47,295 --> 00:57:51,375
... to bolt out of the chute in a frenzy.

531
00:58:35,836 --> 00:58:37,510
ROPING

532
00:58:44,996 --> 00:58:50,615
Roping, as seen here, involves throwing a rope
around the neck of a frightened animal running

533
00:58:50,616 --> 00:58:59,096
full speed, jerking the poor creature to
a halt, and slamming him or her to the ground.

534
00:59:09,379 --> 00:59:11,371
GAMBLING

535
00:59:11,912 --> 00:59:14,289
Like any other business, dog racing
and horse racing are industries motivated

536
00:59:14,290 --> 00:59:16,667
by a common denominator:

537
00:59:17,022 --> 00:59:17,918
profit.

538
00:59:28,825 --> 00:59:30,596
FAIR GROUNDS

539
00:59:30,929 --> 00:59:36,179
At fair grounds across the country,
animals are used to race,

540
00:59:36,180 --> 00:59:38,998
bet with, and spectate over.

541
00:59:40,442 --> 00:59:45,966
Training for these events is accomplished
by withholding food and sometimes water.

542
00:59:45,967 --> 00:59:50,652
These animals ... unfamiliar with their
surroundings ... the noise ... the crowds ...

543
00:59:50,653 --> 01:00:00,024
even what they're supposed to be doing ...
are all-too-often injured and discarded ...

544
01:00:00,025 --> 01:00:07,033
(PIGEON BOWLING)
in pointless ... trivial ... outlandish contests
... designed to make profits and entertain.

545
01:00:07,034 --> 01:00:09,583
HUNTING

546
01:00:11,173 --> 01:00:17,413
Besides loss of habitat, hunting
is the number one threat to wildlife today.

547
01:00:17,414 --> 01:00:21,956
Hunters kill over 200 million
animals every year.

548
01:00:21,957 --> 01:00:27,957
Deer, rabbits, and squirrels top the list of
desirable targets.

549
01:00:29,004 --> 01:00:34,725
There is no denying it, if hunting is a
sport it is a bloodsport.

550
01:00:34,726 --> 01:00:36,966
The targets are living,

551
01:00:37,505 --> 01:00:40,545
and they undergo violent deaths.

552
01:00:51,513 --> 01:00:53,005
FISHING

553
01:00:53,807 --> 01:01:00,207
Fishing is also a death sport,
wherein the nonhuman animal suffers.

554
01:01:01,338 --> 01:01:08,635
Researchers have distinguished that fish show
pain behavior the same way mammals do.

555
01:01:08,636 --> 01:01:12,904
Anatomically, physiologically,

556
01:01:12,905 --> 01:01:18,181
and biologically, the pain system in fish is
virtually the same as in birds and mammals.

557
01:01:18,182 --> 01:01:21,033
In other words, fish are sentient organisms,

558
01:01:21,034 --> 01:01:23,834
so of course they feel pain.

559
01:01:32,601 --> 01:01:35,588
For those who think fish die

560
01:01:35,589 --> 01:01:39,741
"gentler" deaths, consider that their
sensory organs are highly developed,

561
01:01:39,742 --> 01:01:45,391
their nervous systems complex,
their nerve cells very similar to our own,

562
01:01:45,392 --> 01:01:51,232
and their responses to certain stimuli
immediate and vigorous.

563
01:01:52,537 --> 01:01:55,617
CIRCUSES

564
01:01:58,745 --> 01:02:04,377
When going to the circus, rarely do
we stop for a moment and consider:

565
01:02:04,378 --> 01:02:09,966
What incites an animal to do something unnatural,
even dangerous, such as jumping through

566
01:02:09,967 --> 01:02:18,527
flames, balancing on one foot, or diving into
water from shaky platforms high in the air?

567
01:02:27,401 --> 01:02:30,666
Animal trainers would
like for the public to

568
01:02:30,667 --> 01:02:38,267
believe that animals are coaxed into such
behaviors with the promise of rewards.

569
01:02:39,338 --> 01:02:45,738
But the truth is that animals
perform because they fear punishment.

570
01:02:56,975 --> 01:03:01,301
In essence, circuses condemn animal

571
01:03:01,302 --> 01:03:06,337
who are wild by nature to live out their
days isolated in tiny, barren cages,

572
01:03:06,338 --> 01:03:10,312
denied normal exercise and socialization,

573
01:03:13,826 --> 01:03:17,266
shuttled around from place to place,

574
01:03:18,631 --> 01:03:22,267
WINTER QUARTERS

575
01:03:24,896 --> 01:03:30,096
and shackled in chains
for up to 95% of their lives.

576
01:03:32,147 --> 01:03:34,569
TRAINING

577
01:03:36,445 --> 01:03:41,410
"Elephants are taught to perform with
positive reinforcement, and never hit".

578
01:03:41,411 --> 01:03:47,174
"Never hit. Never, never, never

579
01:03:47,175 --> 01:03:54,695
will you see anyone use the ankus as
anything other than a guide or a tool".

580
01:04:09,837 --> 01:04:17,037
Dominance, subservience, and pain
are integral parts of the training process.

581
01:04:45,934 --> 01:04:48,343
- Hurt him. Don't touch him!

582
01:04:48,344 --> 01:04:49,768
Make him scream!

583
01:04:49,769 --> 01:04:54,419
If you're scared to hurt him,
don't come in this room.

584
01:04:54,420 --> 01:04:58,315
When I say rip his fuckin' ---
you know how I am about touchin' him, right?

585
01:04:58,316 --> 01:05:02,584
So if I say rip his head off ...
rip his fuckin' foot off, what does that mean?

586
01:05:02,585 --> 01:05:05,693
Because it's very important to do it, right?
When he starts squirming too fuckin' much -

587
01:05:05,694 --> 01:05:09,427
both fuckin' hands - BOOM!
Right under that chin!

588
01:05:09,428 --> 01:05:11,722
Sit ... and he better back up.

589
01:05:11,723 --> 01:05:14,188
Then when he fucks around too much,
don't grab that leg ...

590
01:05:14,189 --> 01:05:19,775
... you fuckin' sink that hook and give everything
you've got ... and when it's in there go, ee-eeee-ee!!!

591
01:05:19,776 --> 01:05:21,907
And he's gonna start screaming.

592
01:05:21,908 --> 01:05:27,678
When you hear that screaming, then you know
you've got their attention a little fuckin' bit!

593
01:05:27,679 --> 01:05:31,597
Right here in the barn.
Can't do it on the road.

594
01:05:31,598 --> 01:05:36,150
She's gonna fuckin' do what I want.
And that's just the fuckin' way it is.

595
01:05:36,151 --> 01:05:37,991
Alright, let's go.

596
01:05:38,459 --> 01:05:39,899
Becky! Becky!!!

597
01:05:43,313 --> 01:05:45,100
You motherfucker.

598
01:05:46,411 --> 01:05:50,091
Get your motherfuckin' --- get up here!

599
01:05:50,275 --> 01:05:51,497
Motherfucker!

600
01:05:53,156 --> 01:05:54,836
Come here, Becky.

601
01:05:56,402 --> 01:05:57,922
Move up, Becky.

602
01:05:59,119 --> 01:06:00,639
Move up, Becky.

603
01:06:03,658 --> 01:06:05,047
Alright, tubs.

604
01:06:05,497 --> 01:06:07,119
Tubs!

605
01:06:09,831 --> 01:06:11,351
Hey, get loony.

606
01:06:11,499 --> 01:06:13,155
Hey, Becky.
Go on, move up.

607
01:06:13,156 --> 01:06:14,459
Hey, I'm alive.

608
01:06:14,460 --> 01:06:15,835
I'm not a dead man.

609
01:06:15,836 --> 01:06:16,716
Move up.

610
01:06:17,061 --> 01:06:18,421
Come in line.

611
01:06:18,632 --> 01:06:20,632
Come in line, Becky.

612
01:06:20,859 --> 01:06:22,059
Motherfucker!

613
01:06:22,113 --> 01:06:23,873
Move, motherfucker!

614
01:06:27,982 --> 01:06:31,582
Yeah, come in line. Come here, Tommy.

615
01:06:31,957 --> 01:06:40,037
Why do they have to go through that because
you motherfuckers don't want to listen?

616
01:06:41,227 --> 01:06:42,724
Back up.

617
01:06:42,847 --> 01:06:49,327
You got a pussy-ass fuckin' attitude,
it's just the way they die.

618
01:06:55,988 --> 01:06:58,068
We know animals feel.

619
01:07:01,916 --> 01:07:07,516
They feel fear, loneliness, and
pain, just like humans do.

620
01:07:08,377 --> 01:07:12,561
What animal would choose to
spend their entire life in captivity ...

621
01:07:12,562 --> 01:07:15,042
... if they had a choice?

622
01:07:15,103 --> 01:07:17,964
RETALIATION

623
01:08:32,282 --> 01:08:34,177
- On the count of three.

624
01:08:34,178 --> 01:08:34,852
One.

625
01:08:35,940 --> 01:08:36,687
Two.

626
01:08:37,195 --> 01:08:37,755
Tree.

627
01:08:38,391 --> 01:08:41,511
Take him.
You've got to shoot.

628
01:09:07,065 --> 01:09:08,728
ZOOS

629
01:09:11,633 --> 01:09:17,153
Are zoos valuable educational
and conservation institutions?

630
01:09:17,412 --> 01:09:21,482
Sure, zoos are interesting, but they are
only educational in the sense that they

631
01:09:21,483 --> 01:09:27,003
teach a disregard for the
natures of other living beings.

632
01:09:28,051 --> 01:09:35,251
Besides, what can we learn about
wild animals by viewing them in captivity?

633
01:09:36,658 --> 01:09:41,778
Zoos exist because we
are intrigued by exotic things,

634
01:09:41,876 --> 01:09:47,094
and to zoo-goers,
zoo animals are just that: things.

635
01:09:49,615 --> 01:09:53,413
In both cases, at circuses or zoos,

636
01:09:53,774 --> 01:09:57,657
wild and exotic animals
are captured, caged,

637
01:09:57,658 --> 01:10:03,658
transported and trained ... to
do what humans want them to do.

638
01:10:06,874 --> 01:10:09,477
BULLFIGHTING

639
01:10:09,898 --> 01:10:13,742
At best, the term "bullfighting"
is a misnomer,

640
01:10:13,743 --> 01:10:17,637
as there is little competition
between the sword of a nimble matador

641
01:10:17,638 --> 01:10:20,045
(which is Spanish for killer),

642
01:10:20,046 --> 01:10:27,646
and a confused, maimed, psychologically
tormented, and physically debilitated bull.

643
01:10:29,309 --> 01:10:32,640
Many prominent former
bullfighters report

644
01:10:32,641 --> 01:10:36,949
that bulls are intentionally debilitated
with tranquilizers and laxatives,

645
01:10:36,950 --> 01:10:45,750
beatings to the kidneys, and heavy weights hung
around their necks for weeks before a fight.

646
01:10:46,363 --> 01:10:52,456
Some of the animals are placed in darkness
for 48 hours before the confrontation,

647
01:10:52,457 --> 01:10:57,106
then are released
blinded into the bright arena.

648
01:10:58,666 --> 01:11:03,942
In a typical event, the bull enters and
is approached by men who exhaust and

649
01:11:03,943 --> 01:11:10,692
frustrate him by running him in
circles and tricking him into collisions.

650
01:11:10,693 --> 01:11:13,454
When the bull is tired and out of breath,

651
01:11:13,455 --> 01:11:19,287
he is approached by picadors, who
drive lances into his back and neck muscles,

652
01:11:19,288 --> 01:11:23,439
twisting and gouging to ensure
a significant amount of blood loss,

653
01:11:23,440 --> 01:11:28,400
and impairing the bull's
ability to lift his head.

654
01:11:28,666 --> 01:11:31,386
Then come the banderilleros

655
01:11:31,387 --> 01:11:38,242
who distract and dart around the bull
while plunging more lances into him.

656
01:11:38,243 --> 01:11:40,999
Weakened from blood loss,

657
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:46,369
they run the bull in more circles
until he is dizzy and stops chasing.

658
01:11:46,370 --> 01:11:51,934
Finally, the matador, this "killer",
appears and, after provoking a few exhausted

659
01:11:51,935 --> 01:11:58,655
charges from the dying animal,
tries to kill the bull with his sword.

660
01:12:00,133 --> 01:12:05,253
And this bloody form of amusement ...
is bullfighting.

661
01:12:06,712 --> 01:12:11,122
The pleasure derived from all these
activities and sports

662
01:12:11,123 --> 01:12:14,235
(a communion with nature, some would say),

663
01:12:14,236 --> 01:12:19,036
can be secured without
harming or killing animals.

664
01:12:19,152 --> 01:12:23,445
The commercial exploitation of wildlife
erroneously assumes that the value of wild

665
01:12:23,446 --> 01:12:28,208
animals is reducible to their
utility relative to human interests,

666
01:12:28,209 --> 01:12:31,431
especially economic interests.

667
01:12:32,790 --> 01:12:41,590
But wild animals are not a renewable resource,
having value only relative to human interests.

668
01:12:43,010 --> 01:12:47,810
That perception
can only be that of a speciesist.

669
01:12:52,097 --> 01:12:55,757
(SEAL HARVEST, ST. PAUL ISLAND)
Nevertheless, these practices exist

670
01:12:55,758 --> 01:13:02,398
only because we do not take
seriously the interests of other animals.

671
01:13:05,936 --> 01:13:12,336
In this light, are humans not
the most callous speciesists of all?

672
01:13:13,744 --> 01:13:17,993
PART FIVE: SCIENCE

673
01:13:21,348 --> 01:13:23,268
VIVISECTION

674
01:13:23,798 --> 01:13:27,606
The term vivisection is used
to apply to all types of experiments

675
01:13:27,607 --> 01:13:33,767
on living animals and is said to be
a form of medical science.

676
01:13:34,182 --> 01:13:36,521
The reason for experimentation of this

677
01:13:36,522 --> 01:13:43,082
type is to allegedly discover cures
for human ailments and illnesses.

678
01:13:44,210 --> 01:13:48,959
But those who hope to find remedies
for human ills by inflicting deliberate

679
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:53,632
sufferings on animals commit
two fundamental errors in understanding.

680
01:13:53,633 --> 01:13:55,429
The first is the assumption

681
01:13:55,430 --> 01:14:00,175
that results obtained on animals
are applicable to mankind.

682
01:14:00,176 --> 01:14:02,322
The second concerns the inevitable

683
01:14:02,323 --> 01:14:08,125
fallacy of experimental science in
respect to the field of organic life.

684
01:14:08,126 --> 01:14:12,672
Since animals react differently
from human beings ... every new product

685
01:14:12,673 --> 01:14:15,400
or method tried out on animals must be tried

686
01:14:15,401 --> 01:14:23,317
out again on man ... through careful clinical
tests, before it can be considered safe.

687
01:14:23,318 --> 01:14:26,198
This rule knows no exceptions.

688
01:14:26,387 --> 01:14:31,623
Tests on animals are not only dangerous
because they lead to wrong conclusions

689
01:14:31,624 --> 01:14:35,801
but, furthermore,
they retard clinical investigation -

690
01:14:35,802 --> 01:14:38,682
which is the only valid kind.

691
01:14:39,639 --> 01:14:42,142
Just remember the fact that any disease

692
01:14:42,143 --> 01:14:48,491
deliberately provoked is unlike any
disease that arises spontaneously.

693
01:14:48,492 --> 01:14:51,360
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

694
01:14:51,775 --> 01:14:54,989
Unfortunately, such
methods still sail today

695
01:14:54,990 --> 01:14:56,775
under the flag of science

696
01:14:56,776 --> 01:15:03,336
- which is an insult to true science,
as well as human intelligence.

697
01:15:14,781 --> 01:15:19,741
And so vivisection applies to medical
experiments ...

698
01:15:20,365 --> 01:15:25,725
... done with the administration of noxious
substances ...

699
01:15:29,474 --> 01:15:32,754
... electric or traumatic shocks ...

700
01:15:43,352 --> 01:15:46,283
... unanesthetized operations ...

701
01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:58,589
... burns ...

702
01:16:28,799 --> 01:16:33,279
... drawn-out deprivations of food and drink ...

703
01:16:35,247 --> 01:16:38,236
... physical and psychological tortures ...

704
01:16:38,237 --> 01:16:40,066
... that lead to mental imbalance ...

705
01:16:40,067 --> 01:16:42,787
... infections ... and so on.

706
01:16:44,533 --> 01:16:48,464
(UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)
Head injury research involves partially

707
01:16:48,465 --> 01:16:52,010
or fully conscious baboons
strapped down with restraints ...

708
01:16:52,011 --> 01:16:54,802
... and their heads
cemented into a metal helmet,

709
01:16:54,803 --> 01:17:02,083
which will be thrust at a 60
degree angle at a force of up to 1,000 Gs.

710
01:17:28,926 --> 01:17:33,333
The purpose of this experiment
is to simulate auto crashes ...

711
01:17:33,334 --> 01:17:38,512
... football ... boxing ...
and other head related injuries.

712
01:17:38,513 --> 01:17:45,142
And this process is often repeated
again and again on the same animals.

713
01:17:45,143 --> 01:17:46,671
MILITARY RESEARCH

714
01:17:46,672 --> 01:17:49,552
And finally, military research.

715
01:17:50,379 --> 01:17:53,019
This one speaks for itself.

716
01:17:54,393 --> 01:17:57,993
>From sending monkeys into outer space,

717
01:17:58,545 --> 01:18:02,625
and testing atomic blasts on helpless dogs,

718
01:18:02,797 --> 01:18:07,305
to exposing primates to nuclear radiation.

719
01:18:08,951 --> 01:18:11,138
Twenty years ago, the number of animals

720
01:18:11,139 --> 01:18:15,778
dying of tortures through the practice
of vivisection was astronomical,

721
01:18:15,779 --> 01:18:19,699
estimated at 400,000 per day world wide,

722
01:18:19,728 --> 01:18:24,053
and growing at an annual rate of five percent.

723
01:18:24,054 --> 01:18:26,149
Today that number is almost

724
01:18:26,150 --> 01:18:32,183
beyond comprehension. 19,000
per minute. 10 billion per year.

725
01:18:39,352 --> 01:18:41,648
Some uneducated persons pretend to

726
01:18:41,649 --> 01:18:48,529
know that less intelligent animals
don't feel pain the same way we do.

727
01:18:48,538 --> 01:18:54,732
In truth, we know very little about how
specific animals may "feel",

728
01:18:54,733 --> 01:18:59,706
except that they must also submit to
the universal law that causes every

729
01:18:59,707 --> 01:19:07,067
organism dying by unnatural means to
suffer greatly before that final release.

730
01:19:09,005 --> 01:19:11,438
But it's nonsense to
say that the animals

731
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:17,439
do not suffer because they have
a lower order of intelligence.

732
01:19:19,166 --> 01:19:21,816
FORCE-FEEDING GEESE
"FOIE GRAS"

733
01:19:21,817 --> 01:19:26,171
Pain is pain,
conveyed by nerves to the brain,

734
01:19:26,172 --> 01:19:30,475
and there are other nerves
than those of intelligence...

735
01:19:30,476 --> 01:19:35,547
...nerves such as sight,
smell, touch, and hearing.

736
01:19:36,694 --> 01:19:44,054
And in some animals these nerves
are much more highly developed than in man.

737
01:19:46,484 --> 01:19:49,153
We know that there
has never been an epoch

738
01:19:49,154 --> 01:19:55,916
in which we could learn something about
the physiology of man by torturing animals;

739
01:19:55,917 --> 01:19:59,117
we only learned
something about animals.

740
01:19:59,118 --> 01:20:03,491
And if there is something we can learn
from them on the psychological level,

741
01:20:03,492 --> 01:20:09,840
it is not by means of steel or electricity,
much less so through psychic violences.

742
01:20:09,841 --> 01:20:14,733
The systematic torture of sentient beings,

743
01:20:14,838 --> 01:20:19,364
whatever the pretext and in whatever form,
cannot achieve anything more than it already has:

744
01:20:19,365 --> 01:20:25,685
to show us what is the
lowest point of debasement man can reach.

745
01:20:32,262 --> 01:20:35,732
If that's what
we want to know.

746
01:20:36,258 --> 01:20:43,473
"As long as there are slaughterhouses,
there will be battlefields".

747
01:20:44,556 --> 01:20:48,693
- Leo Tolstoy

748
01:21:02,707 --> 01:21:07,065
Ignorance is the speciesist's
first line of defense.

749
01:21:07,066 --> 01:21:14,193
Yet it is easily breached by anyone with the
time and determination to find out the truth.

750
01:21:14,194 --> 01:21:22,514
Ignorance has prevailed so long only because
people do not want to find out the truth.

751
01:21:22,576 --> 01:21:25,172
"Don't tell me, you'll spoil my dinner"

752
01:21:25,173 --> 01:21:31,609
is the usual reply to any attempt to tell
someone just how that dinner was produced.

753
01:21:31,610 --> 01:21:33,599
Even people who are aware that

754
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:39,450
the traditional family farm has been
taken over by big business interests...

755
01:21:39,451 --> 01:21:44,483
...that their clothes come from slaughtered
cows, that their entertainment means the

756
01:21:44,484 --> 01:21:48,732
suffering and death of millions of
animals... and that some questionable

757
01:21:48,733 --> 01:21:51,125
experiments go on in laboratories,

758
01:21:51,126 --> 01:21:56,942
still cling to a vague belief
that conditions cannot be too bad,

759
01:21:56,943 --> 01:22:00,524
(PREGNAT MARE URINE AKA: "PREMARIN")

760
01:22:01,524 --> 01:22:04,304
or else the government or the animal welfare
societies would have done something about it.

761
01:22:04,305 --> 01:22:11,026
But it is not the inability to find out what
is going on as much as a desire not to know about

762
01:22:11,027 --> 01:22:18,479
facts that may lie heavy on one's conscience
that is responsible for this lack of awareness -

763
01:22:18,480 --> 01:22:24,992
- after all, the victims of whatever it is that goes on in
all these awful places

764
01:22:24,993 --> 01:22:28,513
are not members of one's own group.

765
01:22:34,683 --> 01:22:38,044
It all comes down to pain and suffering.

766
01:22:38,045 --> 01:22:44,055
Not intelligence, not strength,
not social class or civil right.

767
01:22:44,056 --> 01:22:48,758
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad
and should be prevented or minimized,

768
01:22:48,759 --> 01:22:55,319
irrespective of the race, sex,
or species of the being that suffers.

769
01:22:57,881 --> 01:23:01,080
We are all creatures.

770
01:23:02,114 --> 01:23:06,788
And non-human animals experience
sensations just like we do.

771
01:23:06,789 --> 01:23:13,344
They too are strong, intelligent,
industrious, mobile, and evolutional.

772
01:23:13,345 --> 01:23:16,489
They too are capable of
growth and adaptation.

773
01:23:16,490 --> 01:23:21,019
Like us, first and foremost,
they are earthlings.

774
01:23:21,020 --> 01:23:24,140
And like us, they are surviving.

775
01:23:26,151 --> 01:23:30,718
Like us, they also seek their own comfort
rather than discomfort.

776
01:23:30,719 --> 01:23:35,119
And like us, they express degrees
of emotion.

777
01:23:36,682 --> 01:23:40,589
In short, like us, they are alive;

778
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:46,240
most of them being, in fact,
vertebrae, just like us.

779
01:24:05,219 --> 01:24:10,486
As we look back on how essential
animals are to human survival;

780
01:24:10,487 --> 01:24:13,447
our absolute dependence on them

781
01:24:14,041 --> 01:24:15,789
(for companionship ... food ...

782
01:24:15,790 --> 01:24:17,230
... clothing ...

783
01:24:17,513 --> 01:24:20,079
... sport and entertainment ...

784
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:24,341
... as well as medical and scientific research),

785
01:24:24,342 --> 01:24:32,502
ironically ... we only see mankind's complete
disrespect for these non-human providers.

786
01:24:32,631 --> 01:24:36,215
Without a doubt, this must be what it is...

787
01:24:36,216 --> 01:24:39,816
... to "bite the hand that feeds us".

788
01:24:41,879 --> 01:24:46,759
In fact, we have actually stomped
and spit on it.

789
01:24:49,316 --> 01:24:52,880
Now we are faced
with the inevitable aftermath.

790
01:24:52,881 --> 01:24:58,026
This is evident in health reports due to
our over-excessive consumption of animals.

791
01:24:58,027 --> 01:24:58,806
Cancer,

792
01:24:59,298 --> 01:25:00,658
heart disease,

793
01:25:00,734 --> 01:25:02,082
Osteoporosis,

794
01:25:02,381 --> 01:25:03,181
strokes,

795
01:25:03,701 --> 01:25:05,061
kidney stones,

796
01:25:05,188 --> 01:25:06,377
Anemia,

797
01:25:06,801 --> 01:25:08,641
diabetes, and more.

798
01:25:13,039 --> 01:25:18,917
Even our food has now been effected ...
and at its very source.

799
01:25:18,918 --> 01:25:22,087
With antibiotics used to
promote weight gain in animals

800
01:25:22,088 --> 01:25:27,945
(who can't gain weight under the stressful,
overcrowded living conditions in factory farms);

801
01:25:27,946 --> 01:25:32,635
with the over-use of
pesticides and insecticides;

802
01:25:32,636 --> 01:25:34,080
or artificial hormones

803
01:25:34,081 --> 01:25:39,794
(designed to increase milk
production, litter size and frequency);

804
01:25:39,795 --> 01:25:45,325
with artificial colors,
herbicides, larvicides,

805
01:25:45,326 --> 01:25:53,158
synthetic fertilizers, tranquilizers,
growth and appetite stimulants ...

806
01:25:53,501 --> 01:25:57,368
... it's no wonder that Mad Cow Disease ...
Foot and Mouth Disease ... Pfiesteria ...

807
01:25:57,369 --> 01:26:00,226
and a host of other animal related
abnormalities have been

808
01:26:00,227 --> 01:26:04,227
(POLLUTION)
unleashed on the human public.

809
01:26:04,825 --> 01:26:08,820
Nature is not responsible for these actions.

810
01:26:08,821 --> 01:26:11,323
(DEFORESTATION)
We are.

811
01:26:16,459 --> 01:26:21,643
So a change is inevitable.
Either we make it ourselves,

812
01:26:21,644 --> 01:26:26,203
or we will be forced to
make it by Nature Itself.

813
01:26:26,204 --> 01:26:30,283
The time has come for each of us
to reconsider our eating habits,

814
01:26:30,284 --> 01:26:31,845
our traditions,

815
01:26:32,310 --> 01:26:34,538
our lifestyles and fashions,

816
01:26:34,539 --> 01:26:38,400
and above all,
our way of thinking.

817
01:26:45,601 --> 01:26:48,540
So, if there is any truth
to the age-old saying,

818
01:26:48,541 --> 01:26:54,462
"What goes around, comes around",
then what do they get for their pain?

819
01:26:54,463 --> 01:26:58,722
Do we even give it a second thought?

820
01:26:59,161 --> 01:27:05,641
If what goes around comes around,
what do they get for their pain?

821
01:27:08,053 --> 01:27:10,254
They are earthlings.

822
01:27:11,426 --> 01:27:17,186
They have the right to be here
just as much as humans do.

823
01:27:17,458 --> 01:27:22,615
Perhaps the answer is found
in another age-old saying ...

824
01:27:22,616 --> 01:27:25,016
... and one equally true:

825
01:27:27,267 --> 01:27:31,475
We reap just what we sow.

826
01:27:36,404 --> 01:27:42,484
So of course, animals feel,
and of course they experience pain.

827
01:27:44,081 --> 01:27:49,832
After all, has nature endowed these
wonderful animals with well-springs of sentiment

828
01:27:49,833 --> 01:27:52,953
so that they should not feel ...

829
01:27:53,287 --> 01:27:58,807
... or do animals have nerves
in order to be insensitive?

830
01:28:01,275 --> 01:28:04,604
Reason demands a better answer.

831
01:28:07,346 --> 01:28:14,198
But one thing is absolutely certain:
animals used for food, used for clothing,

832
01:28:14,199 --> 01:28:18,926
used for entertainment,
and in scientific experiments

833
01:28:18,927 --> 01:28:22,638
and all the oppression that is done to them
under the sun

834
01:28:22,639 --> 01:28:26,141
they all die from pain.

835
01:28:26,532 --> 01:28:28,576
Each and every one.

836
01:28:31,779 --> 01:28:33,457
Isn't it enough that animals

837
01:28:33,458 --> 01:28:39,449
the world over live in permanent retreat
from human progress and expansion?

838
01:28:39,450 --> 01:28:45,290
And for many species ...
there is simply nowhere else to go.

839
01:28:46,290 --> 01:28:51,518
It seems the fate of many animals
is either to be unwanted by man ...

840
01:28:51,519 --> 01:28:53,843
... or wanted too much.

841
01:28:55,449 --> 01:29:01,979
We enter as lords of the earth bearing
strange powers of terror and mercy alike ...

842
01:29:01,980 --> 01:29:05,242
But Human beings
should love animals as ...

843
01:29:05,243 --> 01:29:10,491
the knowing love the innocent,
and the strong love the vulnerable.

844
01:29:10,492 --> 01:29:14,252
When we wince at the
suffering of animals,

845
01:29:14,253 --> 01:29:18,884
that feeling speaks well of
us even when we ignore it,

846
01:29:18,885 --> 01:29:24,120
and those who dismiss love for our fellow
creatures as mere sentimentality

847
01:29:24,121 --> 01:29:29,081
overlook a good and
important part of our humanity.

848
01:29:29,409 --> 01:29:35,474
But it takes nothing away from
a human to be kind to an animal.

849
01:29:35,475 --> 01:29:38,002
And it is actually within us

850
01:29:38,003 --> 01:29:42,643
to grant them a happy
life ... and a long one.

851
01:29:45,757 --> 01:29:52,276
On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester:
"How do you see the world?"

852
01:29:52,277 --> 01:29:56,053
And Gloucester, who is blind, answered:

853
01:29:56,445 --> 01:30:00,201
"I see it feelingly".

854
01:30:01,576 --> 01:30:05,766
I see it feelingly.

855
01:30:06,522 --> 01:30:11,082
Three primary life forces
exist on this planet:

856
01:30:11,101 --> 01:30:13,160
Nature,

857
01:30:13,629 --> 01:30:15,594
Animals

858
01:30:17,227 --> 01:30:20,892
and Humankind.

859
01:30:23,123 --> 01:30:25,851
We are the Earthlings.

860
01:30:29,055 --> 01:30:32,168
Make the connection.

861
01:30:35,145 --> 01:30:43,863
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