(turkeys rustling and clucking)
Hey guys, sorry the stream dropped again.
I don't know if YouTube's gonna, sometimes when the stream drops and I haven't cut it intentionally,
it might lose the video but I hope it doesn't because I want people to be able to see this.
(turkeys gobbling)
So, I'm going to stay with them as long as I can.
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
(truck engine followed by turkeys gobbling)
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
I'm so sorry babies. I'm so sorry.
This isn't fair.
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
(loud metal enclosure rattling)
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
(truck engine followed by turkeys gobbling)
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
(beeping in the background)
It's another truck.
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
(turkey loudly kicking or hitting its metal enclosure)
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
It's freezing out here too.
They might be coming soon.
They've cleared out the other shed I think.
They might be coming, so if they are then I might cut the stream, we'll see...
I can't tell... (turkeys gobble)
(truck engine noises and turkeys gobble more)
This is supposed to be our symbol of togetherness, and family, and gratitude,
and what we're thankful for is to gather around the corpses of these, of these innocent beings.
They're hooking up one of the trucks right now.
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
(no audio)
(turkeys rustling and clucking)
I'll keep this on, I might keep you guys in the less obvious position as I walk across the open space, OK?
It's really hard to leave them.
It's really hard to leave them. (sniffles)
This isn't worth a meal, this isn't something to be grateful for. (sighs)
I've said it before our traditions don't dictate the value of someone else's life, you know.
There's plenty of things that we have done for a long time as a species that we now look back at in horror.
My hands and feet are like frozen right now, I did not think it was as cold as it is today.
Also, really... Can't tell.
I mean, it's like, I have nothing to complain about you know, I have nothing to complain about. (sigh)
One of the trucks, they came and got one of the trucks. I don't think, obviously they didn't see me.
You can see now, one of them's gone.
All of them.
Pass around the facility and as far as I can, as far as I've found, they slaughter about 20,000 or so turkeys in a day.
Which is just a drop in the bucket as far as our entire nation, let alone the world.
I'm going to turn you around one more time.
That's the shed.
That's where all the turkeys are in those trucks.
There's another shed inside of the gates of the slaughterhouse.
This is some houses where... (audio cuts out)
(no audio)
And then, right there is the playground.
I mean how crazy is that?
That kids, kids come here and they play on these swings and the slides and right here...
You know when I live streamed at...
In the UK, at the pig slaughterhouse, I did a live stream and
at that, at that slaughter house the gas chambers...
I mean they're so loud, the pigs screaming are so loud that you could hear them screaming...
Around the entire neighborhood, and there's people who live right there and people who walk right by...
that, that slaughterhouse. And they hear the screams.
And it's just like they, they ignore them, and I mean that's what we have to do.
That's what we have to do.
It takes an astounding amount of energy and denial to continue doing what we do.
... On the swing sets?
And you know, it can seem, it can seem really confusing and really baffling
as to why people can't possibly see it when it's right in front of them.
But it also makes sense.
Because we have to, we have to willfully disconnect.
Because the pain of seeing that for what it is...
it's too much for most people to face.
Because it means realizing that...
we are the monsters.
We are the perpetrators, we are the ones that we will try to protect our children from.
We're killers.
Sadistic killers.
I mean, these turkeys have been sitting there for hours upon end today.
You know? And it's, it's not the dead of winter yet but just imagine when it gets to below freezing.
And in the summer it's extreme. (video cut) There's usually exceptions for poultry.
They're the most exploited
of all of the non-human animals.
(sigh) The less relatable we can find them, the easier it is for us.
To completely distance ourselves from them and to treat them like objects...
All you have to do though is look in their eyes, you just have to look in their eyes.
Terrified.
Some of them are dying already.
Some of them are so sick.
Alright guys, I think I'm gonna... (whew)
Think I'm gonna head back to my place. I'm going to be running out of battery again soon.
I just want to be back over there with them, because they're just sitting there. Waiting.
Every single on of them that I saw today, and I've been spending hours with them,
this is, this is their last day.
It's their last day.
Pretty soon families are going to come together and give thanks...
(no audio)
Oh, there they go.
He's pulling out now.
There they go.
But, regardless of intelligence, you know and I even say that pigs are smarter than dogs
and even outperform three year old children, and it's true.
But, you know intelligence... since when is intelligence a marker of one's rights?
You know? I mean, imagine if we applied that to humans.
Does your intelligence level dictate if you feel pain?
Does it dictate if you grieve? If you feel fear?
It has nothing to do with anything.
I mean if we want to go down that route, you know, that's...
just another tactic to distance ourselves from what it is that we're doing.
Because if we can believe that they're stupid, and that they don't feel...
Then we don't have to, we don't have to confront our behaviors and our actions.
"The Africans have lower intelligence" or you know "They're more animalistic because of this, this and this."
That's the only way to justify what was happening.
And we do the same thing with non-humans.
I mean, Thanksgiving...
I talked about in my very first Thanksgiving video ever that we're celebrating genocide with genocide.
Thanksgiving is a marker of a massacre of the indigenous people of this country.
And we give thanks for that over the corpses of these beings.
You know, celebrating the largest ongoing holocaust in our entire world's history.
It's absurd.
It's utterly absurd.
Collectively, our entire species, we've been living a lie for so long and to protect the integrity of that lie
in our own denial, we've had to just heap falsehood upon falsehood upon falsehood and it is so convoluted at this point.
It's like we don't even know what's real anymore, you know?
There is so much corruption and so much unnecessary... suffering.
It really doesn't have to be this way. It does not have to be this way.
(no audio)
It was important... for you to be here and see them
No matter what we tell ourselves to feel okay about doing this...
...our justifications have no comfort for them.
If you have any doubt, if you think; "Oh well, but what about humane? What about free-range? What about cage-free?".
Please take the time, I know it's a long video and YouTube, you know, people have a 30 second attention span,
but please watch the speech "The Best We Have To Offer".
Because I go into what is the best, you know. What is the very highest standards that we have and what does that really mean for the animals?
All of this is just kind of...
We really need to re-evaluate our priorities.
They aren't products.
Okay, you guys...
I'm kind of waxing philosophical and wandering around a bit, so I think it's kind of time.
Um
Let's, uh...
(Seat belt clicking)
Cause um
I know not all of you were here...
...the first time we did a drive.
(blinker noises)
So this is where the kids play. Once again, we've got the swing sets.
(blinker noises)
So, you can see... hold on...
So we're gonna go back out.
(inaudible)
(blinker noises)
I'm gonna head home and then as soon as I get back, I will jump online and see if I can find these videos and
everything and decide as well about the other video, but...
please
please get out there, you know, if you're not vegan...
please just open your eyes and look at them
you know, it's not... it's not about being a bad person, it's not about shaming yourself, it's about...
just aligning your actions with your values
I have to say I think the vast majority of people in this world would not put living beings into that kind of situation.
They wouldn't be okay with it.
They certainly wouldn't do it themselves.
I know that it's hard, but it is so important to see what's really happening.
To see what other people are doing in your name.
You're paying for this.
You're paying for this to happen; this abject misery, this brutalization.
It's what you feed to your children!
(inaudible)
Corporations: The thing is all they do is they are fulfilling the demand; they're supplying the demand.
So it's up to us. It's up to every single one of us... to dictate... what the demand is.
If we stop asking for it, they will stop providing it.
Because it's business. That's what it is. It comes down to money.
I mean, and...
It's incredibly perverse that it all comes down to money. Even the "humane" guidelines come down to the cent
of 'how much is it to stab them in the throat vs to stab them in the chest?'.
I've read the charts, I've seen the details behind these "humane" regulations where they break it down
to the decimal point. How much is it to chain them, how much is it to electrocute them. How much is it to grind the baby chicks vs gas the baby chicks.
But the great thing about it coming down to money is that each of us has incredible power
You might think one person can't do something, but if all of us think that, then yeah, nothing's gonna happen.
I live in the state that created ag-gag laws
This is where that was started.
I live in a country where what I just did could be deemed terrorism under the animal enterprise terrorism act that is still active in our country.
But I try
You know, I never know if what I'm doing is right. I don't know if it's the best thing.
But I just keep trying.
You know, and if I can do it, anyone can.
So now I'm going all over the place.
I just always want (jump cut) I don't have to make stuff up. I don't have to... forge figures. I don't have to... exagerate things.
Because it's bad enough. The truth is enough.
And I don't care how long you've eaten meat or what you might think of vegans, I really do believe that the vast majority of people are not okay with what happens...
...if they actually allow themselves to admit it.
I know it's a lot safer and it's a lot more comfortable and it's a lot less scary to stay in that comfort, or to hide in the "humane".
You know, 'now I'm just gonna buy cage-free eggs'. But it's so important to see what is really happening.
I mean this isn't even touching on the environmental and the health aspect.
So that this doesn't become a ten hour thing, I'm gonna really go this time you guys.
It's hard, because I could talk about this all day, you know, I could talk about this for weeks and everything.
And now I gotta figure out what to do about today. And see this is why I say; "If I can do it, anyone can do it",
Because I am such a structured neurotic person and so I'm already freaking out about 'will I have this video queued today and now what do I do?'.
But, you know what? Sometimes there are things that are more important.
If you're someone who you don't know what to do, you don't know what to say, you have anxiety, you're not sure...
you feel like you're gonna say the wrong thing to people, just get out there, just do it.
Cause I fall on my face every single day.
(inaudible)
Okay, thank you guys for watching. Thank you for being here. Thank you for bearing witness to them.
Please. Please get active, you know, find your voice. Find what it is that you're passionate about. If it's art, do art.
If you're a writer, do that. If you're a teacher do that. It doesn't have to look like anybody else's activism.
It just needs to be something that you connect with, because if you connect with it, other people are going to connect with you.
You know, they'll feel that; the genuine passion.
It's not gonna reach everybody.
It's better than doing nothing.
Okay.
Guess that's it, you guys.
I'll check in soon. Thank you for everything. Thank you for watching.
Please, once I get. I don't know where YouTube put these videos. Once I get them together, if you [could put them out there] (Video cut)
Okay guys
Please think about them
Please think about them on this "Thanksgiving".
Don't forget them.
Cause it might just seem like trucks full of identical birds, you know, one is the same as the other,
but those are individuals
For each one of them, this is their life, this is their only life. This is their last day
They are about to go inside and experience something that none of us can even fathom.
It's their life.