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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,
the term "speciesism" is a prejudice

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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
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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
not the same in all respects.

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But the question of sameness
wears another face.

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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
everything we humans 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,
they are aware of it.

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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,
chickens and turkeys.

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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,
will be picked up and taken to a

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shelter or pound, where they
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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,
in order to promote the most

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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
exploitation of the weak by the strong.

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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,
like this one, collapse from exhaustion.

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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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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
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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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00:38:44,976 --> 00:38:51,603
... 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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00:43:20,308 --> 00:43:26,548
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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00:43:35,176 --> 00:43:40,056
since dolphins never abandon
wounded family members.

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00:43:41,915 --> 00:43:45,547
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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and left to slowly suffocate ...

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... convulsing and contorting in the throes
of agony ... while school children walk on by.

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00:45:30,803 --> 00:45:36,070
Such images of slaughter and bloody red water
clearly show the Japanese government has

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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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00:45:45,572 --> 00:45:49,065
to protect over-exploiting the oceans ...

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... and the creatures that live in them.

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Dolphin meat is later sold in
markets and restaurants,

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00:45:58,769 --> 00:46:02,529
though often mislabeled as "whale meat".

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00:46:05,017 --> 00:46:10,378
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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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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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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00:47:00,602 --> 00:47:05,973
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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00:47:19,455 --> 00:47:22,832
since cattle slaughter
is forbidden in most of India,

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00:47:22,833 --> 00:47:27,905
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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00:47:58,907 --> 00:48:03,427
especially if they have been handled hastily
or roughly by the men loading the trucks.

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00:48:03,428 --> 00:48:05,027
The noise and motion of the truck itself

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00:48:05,028 --> 00:48:08,732
is also a new experience;
one which makes them ill.

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00:48:08,733 --> 00:48:13,551
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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TAIL BREAKING

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But when the cattle become weary and grow
faint, the bones in their tales are broken in

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00:48:32,862 --> 00:48:37,262
an effort to get them back up on their feet.

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00:48:37,768 --> 00:48:42,881
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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pulling them by nose ropes,

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00:48:57,006 --> 00:48:58,847
twisting their necks,

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00:48:58,848 --> 00:49:01,393
horns, or tails.

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00:49:03,444 --> 00:49:04,980
They lead, or rather force,

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00:49:04,981 --> 00:49:09,377
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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Remember, leather is dead flesh.

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00:51:13,585 --> 00:51:19,942
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

470
00:51:28,984 --> 00:51:34,424
continued demand for leather goods, is
yet another issue.

471
00:51:34,472 --> 00:51:36,535
RETAIL

472
00:51:41,268 --> 00:51:45,721
Ultimately, leather from Indian cattle
make their way to clothing stores

473
00:51:45,722 --> 00:51:47,802
all around the world.

474
00:51:59,169 --> 00:52:03,009
Most major chains sell Indian leather ...

475
00:52:03,830 --> 00:52:10,382
... leather that comes from completely
different cows than those we eat.

476
00:52:10,383 --> 00:52:11,934
FUR

477
00:52:13,294 --> 00:52:15,214
And what about fur?

478
00:52:15,218 --> 00:52:18,163
Over 100 million wild
animals are murdered

479
00:52:18,164 --> 00:52:23,232
for their pelts every year, 25
million in the United States alone.

480
00:52:23,233 --> 00:52:28,885
These animals, obtained by hunting and trapping,
are kept on fur farms in conditions like these.

481
00:52:28,886 --> 00:52:30,902
CAGE MADNESS

482
00:52:33,402 --> 00:52:40,395
Naturally, these undomesticated, wild animals
are not accustomed to being caged,

483
00:52:40,396 --> 00:52:45,054
and cage madness develops when frightened
and frustrated animals are driven crazy

484
00:52:45,055 --> 00:52:48,913
from the stress of confinement.

485
00:52:50,029 --> 00:52:51,941
These wild, free-roaming animals,

486
00:52:51,942 --> 00:52:56,378
and their offspring, find themselves
unable to live a natural life,

487
00:52:56,379 --> 00:53:02,552
can never take even a few steps
or feel the earth beneath their feet.

488
00:53:02,553 --> 00:53:07,750
Instead, they are reduced to
scratching, circling and pacing endlessly.

489
00:53:07,751 --> 00:53:09,797
(INJURIES AND SLOW DEATH)

490
00:53:09,798 --> 00:53:13,138
The physical injuries these
animals endure on fur farms ...

491
00:53:13,139 --> 00:53:16,719
involve broken and exposed bones ...

492
00:53:20,217 --> 00:53:22,906
... blindness ...

493
00:53:24,743 --> 00:53:27,175
... ear infections ...

494
00:53:27,210 --> 00:53:29,068
... dehydration and malnutrition ...

495
00:53:29,069 --> 00:53:32,749
... exposure to freezing temperatures ...

496
00:53:32,814 --> 00:53:35,694
... lack of veterinary care ...

497
00:53:36,218 --> 00:53:39,834
... and slow death.

498
00:53:45,973 --> 00:53:47,959
(KILLING)

499
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,646
No laws indicate the killing of
animals on fur farms, therefore,

500
00:53:50,647 --> 00:53:54,982
the least expensive methods
are the most appealing.

501
00:53:54,983 --> 00:53:59,902
Carbon monoxide poisoning,
Strychnine, suffocation,

502
00:53:59,903 --> 00:54:06,790
breaking the neck, and anal electrocution
are some of the more common methods used.

503
00:54:06,791 --> 00:54:12,891
Removed from his or her cage with a heavy
neck-pole, the animal is walked past

504
00:54:12,892 --> 00:54:20,732
the rows of bodies of slaughtered foxes,
sables, raccoons and wolves, among others.

505
00:54:21,161 --> 00:54:25,958
Death by anal electrocution is a crude
process that requires a probe to be inserted

506
00:54:25,959 --> 00:54:32,119
in the rectum while the animal
bites down on a metal conductor.

507
00:54:38,309 --> 00:54:45,749
Often times this inept procedure must
be repeated to actually kill the animal.

508
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.

509
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:09,408
CHINESE FUR FARM

510
00:55:37,904 --> 00:55:42,805
CANADIAN SEAL HUNT

511
00:56:32,489 --> 00:56:34,809
- How much is this one?

512
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,124
- This is... $49,500

513
00:56:40,123 --> 00:56:42,617
PART FOUR: ENTERTAINMENT

514
00:56:42,868 --> 00:56:46,308
And so we move on to entertainment.

515
00:56:48,356 --> 00:56:50,675
Mark Twain once said,

516
00:56:50,710 --> 00:56:56,558
"Of all the creatures ever made
he (man) is the most detestable.

517
00:56:56,559 --> 00:57:03,999
He's the only creature that inflicts
pain for sport, knowing it to be pain".

518
00:57:06,402 --> 00:57:08,580
RODEOS

519
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.

520
00:57:15,414 --> 00:57:18,213
A belt, called a flank strap or a
bucking strap, is secured around

521
00:57:18,214 --> 00:57:21,945
the animal's body over the genital area.

522
00:57:21,946 --> 00:57:25,453
As the animal leaves the chute, a tight
jerk on the belt is enough

523
00:57:25,454 --> 00:57:28,961
to start him bucking in pain.

524
00:57:31,771 --> 00:57:36,296
Apart from other injuries animals
incur at rodeos ...

525
00:57:36,297 --> 00:57:38,857
... such as broken legs ...

526
00:57:41,008 --> 00:57:44,737
... they are also worked up by being slapped ...

527
00:57:44,738 --> 00:57:46,018
... teased ...

528
00:57:46,337 --> 00:57:48,542
... given electric prods ...

529
00:57:48,543 --> 00:57:50,794
... and otherwise tormented ...

530
00:57:50,795 --> 00:57:54,875
... to bolt out of the chute in a frenzy.

531
00:58:39,336 --> 00:58:41,010
ROPING

532
00:58:48,496 --> 00:58:54,115
Roping, as seen here, involves throwing a rope
around the neck of a frightened animal running

533
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.

534
00:59:12,879 --> 00:59:14,871
GAMBLING

535
00:59:15,412 --> 00:59:17,789
Like any other business, dog racing
and horse racing are industries motivated

536
00:59:17,790 --> 00:59:20,167
by a common denominator:

537
00:59:20,522 --> 00:59:21,418
profit.

538
00:59:32,325 --> 00:59:34,096
FAIR GROUNDS

539
00:59:34,429 --> 00:59:39,679
At fair grounds across the country,
animals are used to race,

540
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,498
bet with, and spectate over.

541
00:59:43,942 --> 00:59:49,466
Training for these events is accomplished
by withholding food and sometimes water.

542
00:59:49,467 --> 00:59:54,152
These animals ... unfamiliar with their
surroundings ... the noise ... the crowds ...

543
00:59:54,153 --> 01:00:03,524
even what they're supposed to be doing ...
are all-too-often injured and discarded ...

544
01:00:03,525 --> 01:00:10,533
(PIGEON BOWLING)
in pointless ... trivial ... outlandish contests
... designed to make profits and entertain.

545
01:00:10,534 --> 01:00:13,083
HUNTING

546
01:00:14,673 --> 01:00:20,913
Besides loss of habitat, hunting
is the number one threat to wildlife today.

547
01:00:20,914 --> 01:00:25,456
Hunters kill over 200 million
animals every year.

548
01:00:25,457 --> 01:00:31,457
Deer, rabbits, and squirrels top the list of
desirable targets.

549
01:00:32,504 --> 01:00:38,225
There is no denying it, if hunting is a
sport it is a bloodsport.

550
01:00:38,226 --> 01:00:40,466
The targets are living,

551
01:00:41,005 --> 01:00:44,045
and they undergo violent deaths.

552
01:00:55,013 --> 01:00:56,505
FISHING

553
01:00:57,307 --> 01:01:03,707
Fishing is also a death sport,
wherein the nonhuman animal suffers.

554
01:01:04,838 --> 01:01:12,135
Researchers have distinguished that fish show
pain behavior the same way mammals do.

555
01:01:12,136 --> 01:01:16,404
Anatomically, physiologically,

556
01:01:16,405 --> 01:01:21,681
and biologically, the pain system in fish is
virtually the same as in birds and mammals.

557
01:01:21,682 --> 01:01:24,533
In other words, fish are sentient organisms,

558
01:01:24,534 --> 01:01:27,334
so of course they feel pain.

559
01:01:36,101 --> 01:01:39,088
For those who think fish die

560
01:01:39,089 --> 01:01:43,241
"gentler" deaths, consider that their
sensory organs are highly developed,

561
01:01:43,242 --> 01:01:48,891
their nervous systems complex,
their nerve cells very similar to our own,

562
01:01:48,892 --> 01:01:54,732
and their responses to certain stimuli
immediate and vigorous.

563
01:01:56,037 --> 01:01:59,117
CIRCUSES

564
01:02:02,245 --> 01:02:07,877
When going to the circus, rarely do
we stop for a moment and consider:

565
01:02:07,878 --> 01:02:13,466
What incites an animal to do something unnatural,
even dangerous, such as jumping through

566
01:02:13,467 --> 01:02:22,027
flames, balancing on one foot, or diving into
water from shaky platforms high in the air?

567
01:02:30,901 --> 01:02:34,166
Animal trainers would
like for the public to

568
01:02:34,167 --> 01:02:41,767
believe that animals are coaxed into such
behaviors with the promise of rewards.

569
01:02:42,838 --> 01:02:49,238
But the truth is that animals
perform because they fear punishment.

570
01:03:00,475 --> 01:03:04,801
In essence, circuses condemn animal

571
01:03:04,802 --> 01:03:09,837
who are wild by nature to live out their
days isolated in tiny, barren cages,

572
01:03:09,838 --> 01:03:13,812
denied normal exercise and socialization,

573
01:03:17,326 --> 01:03:20,766
shuttled around from place to place,

574
01:03:22,131 --> 01:03:25,767
WINTER QUARTERS

575
01:03:28,396 --> 01:03:33,596
and shackled in chains
for up to 95% of their lives.

576
01:03:35,647 --> 01:03:38,069
TRAINING

577
01:03:39,945 --> 01:03:44,910
"Elephants are taught to perform with
positive reinforcement, and never hit".

578
01:03:44,911 --> 01:03:50,674
"Never hit. Never, never, never

579
01:03:50,675 --> 01:03:58,195
will you see anyone use the ankus as
anything other than a guide or a tool".

580
01:04:13,337 --> 01:04:20,537
Dominance, subservience, and pain
are integral parts of the training process.

581
01:04:49,434 --> 01:04:51,843
- Hurt him. Don't touch him!

582
01:04:51,844 --> 01:04:53,268
Make him scream!

583
01:04:53,269 --> 01:04:57,919
If you're scared to hurt him,
don't come in this room.

584
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:01,815
When I say rip his fuckin' ---
you know how I am about touchin' him, right?

585
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?

586
01:05:06,085 --> 01:05:09,193
Because it's very important to do it, right?
When he starts squirming too fuckin' much -

587
01:05:09,194 --> 01:05:12,927
both fuckin' hands - BOOM!
Right under that chin!

588
01:05:12,928 --> 01:05:15,222
Sit ... and he better back up.

589
01:05:15,223 --> 01:05:17,688
Then when he fucks around too much,
don't grab that leg ...

590
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!!!

591
01:05:23,276 --> 01:05:25,407
And he's gonna start screaming.

592
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!

593
01:05:31,179 --> 01:05:35,097
Right here in the barn.
Can't do it on the road.

594
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.

595
01:05:39,651 --> 01:05:41,491
Alright, let's go.

596
01:05:41,959 --> 01:05:43,399
Becky! Becky!!!

597
01:05:46,813 --> 01:05:48,600
You motherfucker.

598
01:05:49,911 --> 01:05:53,591
Get your motherfuckin' --- get up here!

599
01:05:53,775 --> 01:05:54,997
Motherfucker!

600
01:05:56,656 --> 01:05:58,336
Come here, Becky.

601
01:05:59,902 --> 01:06:01,422
Move up, Becky.

602
01:06:02,619 --> 01:06:04,139
Move up, Becky.

603
01:06:07,158 --> 01:06:08,547
Alright, tubs.

604
01:06:08,997 --> 01:06:10,619
Tubs!

605
01:06:13,331 --> 01:06:14,851
Hey, get loony.

606
01:06:14,999 --> 01:06:16,655
Hey, Becky.
Go on, move up.

607
01:06:16,656 --> 01:06:17,959
Hey, I'm alive.

608
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:19,335
I'm not a dead man.

609
01:06:19,336 --> 01:06:20,216
Move up.

610
01:06:20,561 --> 01:06:21,921
Come in line.

611
01:06:22,132 --> 01:06:24,132
Come in line, Becky.

612
01:06:24,359 --> 01:06:25,559
Motherfucker!

613
01:06:25,613 --> 01:06:27,373
Move, motherfucker!

614
01:06:31,482 --> 01:06:35,082
Yeah, come in line. Come here, Tommy.

615
01:06:35,457 --> 01:06:43,537
Why do they have to go through that because
you motherfuckers don't want to listen?

616
01:06:44,727 --> 01:06:46,224
Back up.

617
01:06:46,347 --> 01:06:52,827
You got a pussy-ass fuckin' attitude,
it's just the way they die.

618
01:06:59,488 --> 01:07:01,568
We know animals feel.

619
01:07:05,416 --> 01:07:11,016
They feel fear, loneliness, and
pain, just like humans do.

620
01:07:11,877 --> 01:07:16,061
What animal would choose to
spend their entire life in captivity ...

621
01:07:16,062 --> 01:07:18,542
... if they had a choice?

622
01:07:18,603 --> 01:07:21,464
RETALIATION

623
01:08:35,782 --> 01:08:37,677
- On the count of three.

624
01:08:37,678 --> 01:08:38,352
One.

625
01:08:39,440 --> 01:08:40,187
Two.

626
01:08:40,695 --> 01:08:41,255
Tree.

627
01:08:41,891 --> 01:08:45,011
Take him.
You've got to shoot.

628
01:09:10,565 --> 01:09:12,228
ZOOS

629
01:09:15,133 --> 01:09:20,653
Are zoos valuable educational
and conservation institutions?

630
01:09:20,912 --> 01:09:24,982
Sure, zoos are interesting, but they are
only educational in the sense that they

631
01:09:24,983 --> 01:09:30,503
teach a disregard for the
natures of other living beings.

632
01:09:31,551 --> 01:09:38,751
Besides, what can we learn about
wild animals by viewing them in captivity?

633
01:09:40,158 --> 01:09:45,278
Zoos exist because we
are intrigued by exotic things,

634
01:09:45,376 --> 01:09:50,594
and to zoo-goers,
zoo animals are just that: things.

635
01:09:53,115 --> 01:09:56,913
In both cases, at circuses or zoos,

636
01:09:57,274 --> 01:10:01,157
wild and exotic animals
are captured, caged,

637
01:10:01,158 --> 01:10:07,158
transported and trained ... to
do what humans want them to do.

638
01:10:10,374 --> 01:10:12,977
BULLFIGHTING

639
01:10:13,398 --> 01:10:17,242
At best, the term "bullfighting"
is a misnomer,

640
01:10:17,243 --> 01:10:21,137
as there is little competition
between the sword of a nimble matador

641
01:10:21,138 --> 01:10:23,545
(which is Spanish for killer),

642
01:10:23,546 --> 01:10:31,146
and a confused, maimed, psychologically
tormented, and physically debilitated bull.

643
01:10:32,809 --> 01:10:36,140
Many prominent former
bullfighters report

644
01:10:36,141 --> 01:10:40,449
that bulls are intentionally debilitated
with tranquilizers and laxatives,

645
01:10:40,450 --> 01:10:49,250
beatings to the kidneys, and heavy weights hung
around their necks for weeks before a fight.

646
01:10:49,863 --> 01:10:55,956
Some of the animals are placed in darkness
for 48 hours before the confrontation,

647
01:10:55,957 --> 01:11:00,606
then are released
blinded into the bright arena.

648
01:11:02,166 --> 01:11:07,442
In a typical event, the bull enters and
is approached by men who exhaust and

649
01:11:07,443 --> 01:11:14,192
frustrate him by running him in
circles and tricking him into collisions.

650
01:11:14,193 --> 01:11:16,954
When the bull is tired and out of breath,

651
01:11:16,955 --> 01:11:22,787
he is approached by picadors, who
drive lances into his back and neck muscles,

652
01:11:22,788 --> 01:11:26,939
twisting and gouging to ensure
a significant amount of blood loss,

653
01:11:26,940 --> 01:11:31,900
and impairing the bull's
ability to lift his head.

654
01:11:32,166 --> 01:11:34,886
Then come the banderilleros

655
01:11:34,887 --> 01:11:41,742
who distract and dart around the bull
while plunging more lances into him.

656
01:11:41,743 --> 01:11:44,499
Weakened from blood loss,

657
01:11:44,500 --> 01:11:49,869
they run the bull in more circles
until he is dizzy and stops chasing.

658
01:11:49,870 --> 01:11:55,434
Finally, the matador, this "killer",
appears and, after provoking a few exhausted

659
01:11:55,435 --> 01:12:02,155
charges from the dying animal,
tries to kill the bull with his sword.

660
01:12:03,633 --> 01:12:08,753
And this bloody form of amusement ...
is bullfighting.

661
01:12:10,212 --> 01:12:14,622
The pleasure derived from all these
activities and sports

662
01:12:14,623 --> 01:12:17,735
(a communion with nature, some would say),

663
01:12:17,736 --> 01:12:22,536
can be secured without
harming or killing animals.

664
01:12:22,652 --> 01:12:26,945
The commercial exploitation of wildlife
erroneously assumes that the value of wild

665
01:12:26,946 --> 01:12:31,708
animals is reducible to their
utility relative to human interests,

666
01:12:31,709 --> 01:12:34,931
especially economic interests.

667
01:12:36,290 --> 01:12:45,090
But wild animals are not a renewable resource,
having value only relative to human interests.

668
01:12:46,510 --> 01:12:51,310
That perception
can only be that of a speciesist.

669
01:12:55,597 --> 01:12:59,257
(SEAL HARVEST, ST. PAUL ISLAND)
Nevertheless, these practices exist

670
01:12:59,258 --> 01:13:05,898
only because we do not take
seriously the interests of other animals.

671
01:13:09,436 --> 01:13:15,836
In this light, are humans not
the most callous speciesists of all?

672
01:13:17,244 --> 01:13:21,493
PART FIVE: SCIENCE

673
01:13:24,848 --> 01:13:26,768
VIVISECTION

674
01:13:27,298 --> 01:13:31,106
The term vivisection is used
to apply to all types of experiments

675
01:13:31,107 --> 01:13:37,267
on living animals and is said to be
a form of medical science.

676
01:13:37,682 --> 01:13:40,021
The reason for experimentation of this

677
01:13:40,022 --> 01:13:46,582
type is to allegedly discover cures
for human ailments and illnesses.

678
01:13:47,710 --> 01:13:52,459
But those who hope to find remedies
for human ills by inflicting deliberate

679
01:13:52,460 --> 01:13:57,132
sufferings on animals commit
two fundamental errors in understanding.

680
01:13:57,133 --> 01:13:58,929
The first is the assumption

681
01:13:58,930 --> 01:14:03,675
that results obtained on animals
are applicable to mankind.

682
01:14:03,676 --> 01:14:05,822
The second concerns the inevitable

683
01:14:05,823 --> 01:14:11,625
fallacy of experimental science in
respect to the field of organic life.

684
01:14:11,626 --> 01:14:16,172
Since animals react differently
from human beings ... every new product

685
01:14:16,173 --> 01:14:18,900
or method tried out on animals must be tried

686
01:14:18,901 --> 01:14:26,817
out again on man ... through careful clinical
tests, before it can be considered safe.

687
01:14:26,818 --> 01:14:29,698
This rule knows no exceptions.

688
01:14:29,887 --> 01:14:35,123
Tests on animals are not only dangerous
because they lead to wrong conclusions

689
01:14:35,124 --> 01:14:39,301
but, furthermore,
they retard clinical investigation -

690
01:14:39,302 --> 01:14:42,182
which is the only valid kind.

691
01:14:43,139 --> 01:14:45,642
Just remember the fact that any disease

692
01:14:45,643 --> 01:14:51,991
deliberately provoked is unlike any
disease that arises spontaneously.

693
01:14:51,992 --> 01:14:54,860
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

694
01:14:55,275 --> 01:14:58,489
Unfortunately, such
methods still sail today

695
01:14:58,490 --> 01:15:00,275
under the flag of science

696
01:15:00,276 --> 01:15:06,836
- which is an insult to true science,
as well as human intelligence.

697
01:15:18,281 --> 01:15:23,241
And so vivisection applies to medical
experiments ...

698
01:15:23,865 --> 01:15:29,225
... done with the administration of noxious
substances ...

699
01:15:32,974 --> 01:15:36,254
... electric or traumatic shocks ...

700
01:15:46,852 --> 01:15:49,783
... unanesthetized operations ...

701
01:15:59,660 --> 01:16:02,089
... burns ...

702
01:16:32,299 --> 01:16:36,779
... drawn-out deprivations of food and drink ...

703
01:16:38,747 --> 01:16:41,736
... physical and psychological tortures ...

704
01:16:41,737 --> 01:16:43,566
... that lead to mental imbalance ...

705
01:16:43,567 --> 01:16:46,287
... infections ... and so on.

706
01:16:48,033 --> 01:16:51,964
(UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)
Head injury research involves partially

707
01:16:51,965 --> 01:16:55,510
or fully conscious baboons
strapped down with restraints ...

708
01:16:55,511 --> 01:16:58,302
... and their heads
cemented into a metal helmet,

709
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.

710
01:17:32,426 --> 01:17:36,833
The purpose of this experiment
is to simulate auto crashes ...

711
01:17:36,834 --> 01:17:42,012
... football ... boxing ...
and other head related injuries.

712
01:17:42,013 --> 01:17:48,642
And this process is often repeated
again and again on the same animals.

713
01:17:48,643 --> 01:17:50,171
MILITARY RESEARCH

714
01:17:50,172 --> 01:17:53,052
And finally, military research.

715
01:17:53,879 --> 01:17:56,519
This one speaks for itself.

716
01:17:57,893 --> 01:18:01,493
>From sending monkeys into outer space,

717
01:18:02,045 --> 01:18:06,125
and testing atomic blasts on helpless dogs,

718
01:18:06,297 --> 01:18:10,805
to exposing primates to nuclear radiation.

719
01:18:12,451 --> 01:18:14,638
Twenty years ago, the number of animals

720
01:18:14,639 --> 01:18:19,278
dying of tortures through the practice
of vivisection was astronomical,

721
01:18:19,279 --> 01:18:23,199
estimated at 400,000 per day world wide,

722
01:18:23,228 --> 01:18:27,553
and growing at an annual rate of five percent.

723
01:18:27,554 --> 01:18:29,649
Today that number is almost

724
01:18:29,650 --> 01:18:35,683
beyond comprehension. 19,000
per minute. 10 billion per year.

725
01:18:42,852 --> 01:18:45,148
Some uneducated persons pretend to

726
01:18:45,149 --> 01:18:52,029
know that less intelligent animals
don't feel pain the same way we do.

727
01:18:52,038 --> 01:18:58,232
In truth, we know very little about how
specific animals may "feel",

728
01:18:58,233 --> 01:19:03,206
except that they must also submit to
the universal law that causes every

729
01:19:03,207 --> 01:19:10,567
organism dying by unnatural means to
suffer greatly before that final release.

730
01:19:12,505 --> 01:19:14,938
But it's nonsense to
say that the animals

731
01:19:14,939 --> 01:19:20,939
do not suffer because they have
a lower order of intelligence.

732
01:19:22,666 --> 01:19:25,316
FORCE-FEEDING GEESE
"FOIE GRAS"

733
01:19:25,317 --> 01:19:29,671
Pain is pain,
conveyed by nerves to the brain,

734
01:19:29,672 --> 01:19:33,975
and there are other nerves
than those of intelligence...

735
01:19:33,976 --> 01:19:39,047
...nerves such as sight,
smell, touch, and hearing.

736
01:19:40,194 --> 01:19:47,554
And in some animals these nerves
are much more highly developed than in man.

737
01:19:49,984 --> 01:19:52,653
We know that there
has never been an epoch

738
01:19:52,654 --> 01:19:59,416
in which we could learn something about
the physiology of man by torturing animals;

739
01:19:59,417 --> 01:20:02,617
we only learned
something about animals.

740
01:20:02,618 --> 01:20:06,991
And if there is something we can learn
from them on the psychological level,

741
01:20:06,992 --> 01:20:13,340
it is not by means of steel or electricity,
much less so through psychic violences.

742
01:20:13,341 --> 01:20:18,233
The systematic torture of sentient beings,

743
01:20:18,338 --> 01:20:22,864
whatever the pretext and in whatever form,
cannot achieve anything more than it already has:

744
01:20:22,865 --> 01:20:29,185
to show us what is the
lowest point of debasement man can reach.

745
01:20:35,762 --> 01:20:39,232
If that's what
we want to know.

746
01:20:39,758 --> 01:20:46,973
"As long as there are slaughterhouses,
there will be battlefields".

747
01:20:48,056 --> 01:20:52,193
- Leo Tolstoy

748
01:21:06,207 --> 01:21:10,565
Ignorance is the speciesist's
first line of defense.

749
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.

750
01:21:17,694 --> 01:21:26,014
Ignorance has prevailed so long only because
people do not want to find out the truth.

751
01:21:26,076 --> 01:21:28,672
"Don't tell me, you'll spoil my dinner"

752
01:21:28,673 --> 01:21:35,109
is the usual reply to any attempt to tell
someone just how that dinner was produced.

753
01:21:35,110 --> 01:21:37,099
Even people who are aware that

754
01:21:37,100 --> 01:21:42,950
the traditional family farm has been
taken over by big business interests...

755
01:21:42,951 --> 01:21:47,983
...that their clothes come from slaughtered
cows, that their entertainment means the

756
01:21:47,984 --> 01:21:52,232
suffering and death of millions of
animals... and that some questionable

757
01:21:52,233 --> 01:21:54,625
experiments go on in laboratories,

758
01:21:54,626 --> 01:22:00,442
still cling to a vague belief
that conditions cannot be too bad,

759
01:22:00,443 --> 01:22:04,024
(PREGNAT MARE URINE AKA: "PREMARIN")

760
01:22:05,024 --> 01:22:07,804
or else the government or the animal welfare
societies would have done something about it.

761
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

762
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 -

763
01:22:21,980 --> 01:22:28,492
- after all, the victims of whatever it is that goes on in
all these awful places

764
01:22:28,493 --> 01:22:32,013
are not members of one's own group.

765
01:22:38,183 --> 01:22:41,544
It all comes down to pain and suffering.

766
01:22:41,545 --> 01:22:47,555
Not intelligence, not strength,
not social class or civil right.

767
01:22:47,556 --> 01:22:52,258
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad
and should be prevented or minimized,

768
01:22:52,259 --> 01:22:58,819
irrespective of the race, sex,
or species of the being that suffers.

769
01:23:01,381 --> 01:23:04,580
We are all creatures.

770
01:23:05,614 --> 01:23:10,288
And non-human animals experience
sensations just like we do.

771
01:23:10,289 --> 01:23:16,844
They too are strong, intelligent,
industrious, mobile, and evolutional.

772
01:23:16,845 --> 01:23:19,989
They too are capable of
growth and adaptation.

773
01:23:19,990 --> 01:23:24,519
Like us, first and foremost,
they are earthlings.

774
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,640
And like us, they are surviving.

775
01:23:29,651 --> 01:23:34,218
Like us, they also seek their own comfort
rather than discomfort.

776
01:23:34,219 --> 01:23:38,619
And like us, they express degrees
of emotion.

777
01:23:40,182 --> 01:23:44,089
In short, like us, they are alive;

778
01:23:44,540 --> 01:23:49,740
most of them being, in fact,
vertebrae, just like us.

779
01:24:08,719 --> 01:24:13,986
As we look back on how essential
animals are to human survival;

780
01:24:13,987 --> 01:24:16,947
our absolute dependence on them

781
01:24:17,541 --> 01:24:19,289
(for companionship ... food ...

782
01:24:19,290 --> 01:24:20,730
... clothing ...

783
01:24:21,013 --> 01:24:23,579
... sport and entertainment ...

784
01:24:23,580 --> 01:24:27,841
... as well as medical and scientific research),

785
01:24:27,842 --> 01:24:36,002
ironically ... we only see mankind's complete
disrespect for these non-human providers.

786
01:24:36,131 --> 01:24:39,715
Without a doubt, this must be what it is...

787
01:24:39,716 --> 01:24:43,316
... to "bite the hand that feeds us".

788
01:24:45,379 --> 01:24:50,259
In fact, we have actually stomped
and spit on it.

789
01:24:52,816 --> 01:24:56,380
Now we are faced
with the inevitable aftermath.

790
01:24:56,381 --> 01:25:01,526
This is evident in health reports due to
our over-excessive consumption of animals.

791
01:25:01,527 --> 01:25:02,306
Cancer,

792
01:25:02,798 --> 01:25:04,158
heart disease,

793
01:25:04,234 --> 01:25:05,582
Osteoporosis,

794
01:25:05,881 --> 01:25:06,681
strokes,

795
01:25:07,201 --> 01:25:08,561
kidney stones,

796
01:25:08,688 --> 01:25:09,877
Anemia,

797
01:25:10,301 --> 01:25:12,141
diabetes, and more.

798
01:25:16,539 --> 01:25:22,417
Even our food has now been effected ...
and at its very source.

799
01:25:22,418 --> 01:25:25,587
With antibiotics used to
promote weight gain in animals

800
01:25:25,588 --> 01:25:31,445
(who can't gain weight under the stressful,
overcrowded living conditions in factory farms);

801
01:25:31,446 --> 01:25:36,135
with the over-use of
pesticides and insecticides;

802
01:25:36,136 --> 01:25:37,580
or artificial hormones

803
01:25:37,581 --> 01:25:43,294
(designed to increase milk
production, litter size and frequency);

804
01:25:43,295 --> 01:25:48,825
with artificial colors,
herbicides, larvicides,

805
01:25:48,826 --> 01:25:56,658
synthetic fertilizers, tranquilizers,
growth and appetite stimulants ...

806
01:25:57,001 --> 01:26:00,868
... it's no wonder that Mad Cow Disease ...
Foot and Mouth Disease ... Pfiesteria ...

807
01:26:00,869 --> 01:26:03,726
and a host of other animal related
abnormalities have been

808
01:26:03,727 --> 01:26:07,727
(POLLUTION)
unleashed on the human public.

809
01:26:08,325 --> 01:26:12,320
Nature is not responsible for these actions.

810
01:26:12,321 --> 01:26:14,823
(DEFORESTATION)
We are.

811
01:26:19,959 --> 01:26:25,143
So a change is inevitable.
Either we make it ourselves,

812
01:26:25,144 --> 01:26:29,703
or we will be forced to
make it by Nature Itself.

813
01:26:29,704 --> 01:26:33,783
The time has come for each of us
to reconsider our eating habits,

814
01:26:33,784 --> 01:26:35,345
our traditions,

815
01:26:35,810 --> 01:26:38,038
our lifestyles and fashions,

816
01:26:38,039 --> 01:26:41,900
and above all,
our way of thinking.

817
01:26:49,101 --> 01:26:52,040
So, if there is any truth
to the age-old saying,

818
01:26:52,041 --> 01:26:57,962
"What goes around, comes around",
then what do they get for their pain?

819
01:26:57,963 --> 01:27:02,222
Do we even give it a second thought?

820
01:27:02,661 --> 01:27:09,141
If what goes around comes around,
what do they get for their pain?

821
01:27:11,553 --> 01:27:13,754
They are earthlings.

822
01:27:14,926 --> 01:27:20,686
They have the right to be here
just as much as humans do.

823
01:27:20,958 --> 01:27:26,115
Perhaps the answer is found
in another age-old saying ...

824
01:27:26,116 --> 01:27:28,516
... and one equally true:

825
01:27:30,767 --> 01:27:34,975
We reap just what we sow.

826
01:27:39,904 --> 01:27:45,984
So of course, animals feel,
and of course they experience pain.

827
01:27:47,581 --> 01:27:53,332
After all, has nature endowed these
wonderful animals with well-springs of sentiment

828
01:27:53,333 --> 01:27:56,453
so that they should not feel ...

829
01:27:56,787 --> 01:28:02,307
... or do animals have nerves
in order to be insensitive?

830
01:28:04,775 --> 01:28:08,104
Reason demands a better answer.

831
01:28:10,846 --> 01:28:17,698
But one thing is absolutely certain:
animals used for food, used for clothing,

832
01:28:17,699 --> 01:28:22,426
used for entertainment,
and in scientific experiments

833
01:28:22,427 --> 01:28:26,138
and all the oppression that is done to them
under the sun

834
01:28:26,139 --> 01:28:29,641
they all die from pain.

835
01:28:30,032 --> 01:28:32,076
Each and every one.

836
01:28:35,279 --> 01:28:36,957
Isn't it enough that animals

837
01:28:36,958 --> 01:28:42,949
the world over live in permanent retreat
from human progress and expansion?

838
01:28:42,950 --> 01:28:48,790
And for many species ...
there is simply nowhere else to go.

839
01:28:49,790 --> 01:28:55,018
It seems the fate of many animals
is either to be unwanted by man ...

840
01:28:55,019 --> 01:28:57,343
... or wanted too much.

841
01:28:58,949 --> 01:29:05,479
We enter as lords of the earth bearing
strange powers of terror and mercy alike ...

842
01:29:05,480 --> 01:29:08,742
But Human beings
should love animals as ...

843
01:29:08,743 --> 01:29:13,991
the knowing love the innocent,
and the strong love the vulnerable.

844
01:29:13,992 --> 01:29:17,752
When we wince at the
suffering of animals,

845
01:29:17,753 --> 01:29:22,384
that feeling speaks well of
us even when we ignore it,

846
01:29:22,385 --> 01:29:27,620
and those who dismiss love for our fellow
creatures as mere sentimentality

847
01:29:27,621 --> 01:29:32,581
overlook a good and
important part of our humanity.

848
01:29:32,909 --> 01:29:38,974
But it takes nothing away from
a human to be kind to an animal.

849
01:29:38,975 --> 01:29:41,502
And it is actually within us

850
01:29:41,503 --> 01:29:46,143
to grant them a happy
life ... and a long one.

851
01:29:49,257 --> 01:29:55,776
On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester:
"How do you see the world?"

852
01:29:55,777 --> 01:29:59,553
And Gloucester, who is blind, answered:

853
01:29:59,945 --> 01:30:03,701
"I see it feelingly".

854
01:30:05,076 --> 01:30:09,266
I see it feelingly.

855
01:30:10,022 --> 01:30:14,582
Three primary life forces
exist on this planet:

856
01:30:14,601 --> 01:30:16,660
Nature,

857
01:30:17,129 --> 01:30:19,094
Animals

858
01:30:20,727 --> 01:30:24,392
and Humankind.

859
01:30:26,623 --> 01:30:29,351
We are the Earthlings.

860
01:30:32,555 --> 01:30:35,668
Make the connection.

861
01:30:38,645 --> 01:30:47,363
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