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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.26,0:00:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bestiality is a topic so taboo, the word alone\Nis enough to elicit reactions ranging from
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.30,0:00:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discomfort and disgust to moral outrage and\Nethical condemnation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.61,0:00:15.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite its relevancy within a wide range\Nof fields, bestiality is largely absent from
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.45,0:00:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,public discourse.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.98,0:00:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if these much-reviled acts aren’t\Nsome rare perversion of human sexuality relegated
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.18,0:00:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the darkest corners of the Internet, but\Nactually common everyday practices supported
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.82,0:00:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and enjoyed by the vast majority of society.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.14,0:00:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi it's Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome\Nto another vegan nugget.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.08,0:00:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The definition of the term “bestiality”\N(or bestiality, for any non-Americans wishing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.21,0:00:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pronounce it as it’s actually spelled)\Nhas evolved overtime, from its origins signifying
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.41,0:00:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,depraved conduct befitting an animal, to the\Nmodern denotation of “sexual relations between
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.24,0:00:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humans and animals.”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.50,0:01:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to note that for the sake of clarity\Nand expediency, I will mostly be using the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.87,0:01:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,term “animal” in place of the more accurate\N“non-human animal,” a decidedly awkward
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.03,0:01:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,afterthought attempting to rectify a false\Ndivision addressed in this very video!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.28,0:01:17.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And rest assured, I won’t be showing any\Nimages or depictions of bestiality today…which
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.57,0:01:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably cost me a couple viewers…
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.88,0:01:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Additionally, you can find detailed citations\Nto everything I state, as well as a bibliography
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.00,0:01:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and loads of additional resources and things\NI didn’t have time to fit in this video
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.88,0:01:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the blog post linked in the description\Nbelow.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.73,0:01:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With that out of the way, time to take on\Nthis timeless taboo!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.72,0:01:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bestiality may seem like a pretty black and\Nwhite matter: sex with animals is wrong, end
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.60,0:01:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of story.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.60,0:01:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But such a quick dismissal, hastened no doubt\Nby the discomfort of the subject, neglects
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.84,0:01:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to account for the cultural permeation of\Nbestiality throughout history and our everyday
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.43,0:01:55.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.43,0:02:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ancient mythology is rife with gods taking\Nthe form of animals in order to copulate with
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.14,0:02:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humans, among many other bestial themes we\Nreadily teach children in middle school.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.04,0:02:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But were a teacher to hand out a story involving\Nsex between humans and animals written in
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.77,0:02:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the modern-day, suddenly a cultured appreciation\Nof the Classics would become a potentially
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.46,0:02:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,criminal distribution of pornography.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.73,0:02:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while many states in America have strictly-enforced\Nlaws against as much as photographing a child
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.38,0:02:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,posed with an animal in even a remotely suggestive\Nmanner, kids in America’s farmland can participate
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.36,0:02:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in wholesome afterschool programs with lessons\Nin boar semen management, and how to sexually
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.67,0:02:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stimulate a pig.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.79,0:02:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we attempt to evaluate these examples objectively,\Nwhich the subject matter admittedly makes
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.41,0:02:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,challenging if not impossible, the division\Nbetween the educational and the immoral or
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.96,0:02:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,criminal becomes largely a matter of cultural\Ncontext.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.14,0:03:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which begs the question: what, exactly, is\Nso bad about bestiality?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.42,0:03:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Criminologist Piers Beirne points to the Mosaic\Ncommandments (Exodus 22:19, Leviticus 18:23
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.16,0:03:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 20:15-16, and Deuteronomy 27:21) as “the\Nearliest and most influential justification
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.78,0:03:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for censures of bestiality,” with “the\Nprescribed penalty [of[ death.”
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.70,0:03:15.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remnants of this moral origin are evidenced\Nin the language of some of today’s secular
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.100,0:03:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,legislation, with several states in America,\Nfor example, retaining terminology such as,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.93,0:03:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"crime against nature," "unnatural," "perverted,"\N"abominable," "detestable" and, my favorite,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.21,0:03:28.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"buggery."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.79,0:03:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Astoundingly enough, bestiality remained punishable\Nby death throughout the early modern period,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.42,0:03:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Sweden executing up to 700 people between\N1635 and 1778, along with the non-human animals
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.43,0:03:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involved, and the last known hanging for bestiality\Nin the United States carried out by order
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.26,0:03:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of The Connecticut Superior Court in January\Nof 1800.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.65,0:03:55.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Given it’s even pre-biblical censure, it\Nmay be surprising to hear that many countries
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.05,0:04:00.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still lack any laws addressing sexual contact\Nbetween humans and animals.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.81,0:04:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2015, Denmark was the last northern European\Ncountry to ban bestiality, leaving Finland,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.74,0:04:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romania and Hungary as the only holdouts in\Nthe European Union.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.56,0:04:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States, bestiality remains legal\Nin at least eight states, and Washington D.C.,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.53,0:04:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with about seventeen of the remaining 42 having\Nonly enacted legislation since 1999—though
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.26,0:04:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technically Ohio’s brand new legislation\Nsigned just last month still won’t take
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.97,0:04:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,effect until March of this year…and only\Nincluded a ban on bestiality as a way to pass
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.14,0:04:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an unpopular bill.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.47,0:04:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Will ideally list the states and date enacted\Nonscreen)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.90,0:04:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yay, moral integrity…
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.77,0:04:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of the states with laws already enacted, penalties\Nand sentencing range from a misdemeanor with
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.87,0:04:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no set minimum (Nebraska) to a felony with\Nimprisonment of no less than 7 and up to 20
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.34,0:04:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years (Rhode Island).
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.72,0:04:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The modern resurgence of legislation has revealed\Na shift in the conceptualization and legal
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.53,0:05:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,classification of bestiality from “a crime\Nagainst public morals,” to an act of animal
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.66,0:05:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cruelty, with California and Oregon even going\Nso far as to call it “sexual assault of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.06,0:05:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an animal.”
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.06,0:05:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Attorney Rebecca F. Wisch of the Animal Legal\N& Historical Center proposes that this terminology
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.18,0:05:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“may reflect these states' assessment that\Nanimals are incapable of consenting,” essentially
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.04,0:05:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,granting non-human animals “victim” status.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.81,0:05:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the extreme variation from state to state\N(much less country to country!) of not only
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.87,0:05:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the criminal classification of and penalty\Nfor bestiality, but also the very definition
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.66,0:05:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what the act entails, we’re once again\Nleft with the question of what precisely makes
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.79,0:05:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bestiality so objectionable.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.25,0:05:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All bestiality legislation includes exceptions\Nfor accepted animal industry practices.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.49,0:05:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So by eliminating any permissible actions,\Nwe can hopefully hone in on the root wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.09,0:05:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of bestiality.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.09,0:05:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don’t we start with the rather inadequate\Nparameters of what was traditionally considered
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.80,0:05:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the legal benchmark for sexual violation:\Npenetration.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.94,0:06:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This may appear to offer a clear-cut line\Nin the sand, until we consider the long list
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.46,0:06:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of farming practices, not to mention animal\Nexperimentation and fur “harvesting” methods
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.80,0:06:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involving penetration.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.70,0:06:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if penetration itself isn’t the issue,\Nwhat about harmful penetration?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.54,0:06:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That can’t be the issue either, as animal\Nexperimentation and fur harvesting and common
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.68,0:06:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,farming practices involving penetration can\Nand do cause harm.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.37,0:06:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Animals in the fur industry are routinely\Nkilled via genital and anal electrocution.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.71,0:06:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we don’t even have time to list all\Nof the bizarre manners in which animal experimentation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.40,0:06:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in various fields of research involves an\Ninfinite array of harmful and painful penetration.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.48,0:06:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in the food industry, for example, the\Nvast majority of farmed animals today are
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.47,0:06:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bred via artificial insemination.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.03,0:06:53.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cows in the dairy industry are repeatedly\Nimpregnated through AI in order to maintain
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.46,0:06:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the flow of milk for human consumption.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.16,0:06:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like us, they only produce milk for their\Nbabies, who are taken from their mothers immediately
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.50,0:07:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.66,0:07:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Females are kept as future milk producers\Nand males are either sent to a veal farm or
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.58,0:07:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shot.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.58,0:07:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aside from the psychological and emotional\Nimpact of having their babies taken time and
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.49,0:07:14.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again, the insemination process itself can\Nbe physically damaging, especially when considering
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.41,0:07:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that most inseminations are performed by non-veterinarians.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.01,0:07:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since AI training involves practicing on live\Ncows, some courses are held at slaughterhouses,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.21,0:07:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though one UK vet advised that “novice inseminators\Nshould not practice on cows unless they are
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.49,0:07:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be slaughtered on the training day.”
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.52,0:07:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps the objectionable element separating\Nroutine farming practices from bestiality
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.61,0:07:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the deliberate use of force during penetration?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.68,0:07:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For this I turn to author Jim Mason’s account\Nof his time working in a turkey breeding facility
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.32,0:07:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he describes standard industry practice:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.79,0:07:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“They put me to work first in the pit, grabbing\Nand "breaking" hens…
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.91,0:07:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breaking hens was hard, fast, dirty work.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.03,0:07:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to reach into the chute, grab a hen\Nby the legs, and hold her, ankles crossed,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.42,0:07:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in one hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.42,0:08:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, as I held her on the edge of the pit,\NI wiped my other hand over her rear, which
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.98,0:08:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pushed up her tail feathers and exposed her\Nvent opening.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.97,0:08:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The birds weighed 20 to 30 lbs., were terrified,\Nand beat their wings and struggled in panic…
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.80,0:08:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the hen thus "broken," the inseminator\Nstuck his thumb right under her vent and pushed,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.23,0:08:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which opened the vent…
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.35,0:08:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Into this, he inserted the semen tube...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.50,0:08:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then both men let go and the hen flopped away\Nonto the house floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.03,0:08:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two breakers did 10 hens a minute, or each\Nbreaker broke 5 hens a minute — one hen
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.35,0:08:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every 12 seconds.”
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.30,0:08:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the pig meat industry, piglets are the\Nproduct, so mother pigs, much like dairy cows,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.34,0:08:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are subjected to a constant cycle of pregnancies.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.06,0:08:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in the EU, where tethering stalls in\Nwhich pigs were chained in place were outlawed,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.16,0:08:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,artificial insemination is one of a number\Nof built-in exceptions wherein pigs may legally
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.03,0:08:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be chained in place.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.03,0:08:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if forceful penetration of an animal’s\Nvagina, anus, or cloaca resulting in physical
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.53,0:08:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and/or psychological harm and eliciting clear\Nsigns of distress is not what’s objectionable,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.43,0:09:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe it’s when the action performed upon\Nan animal is itself overtly sexual, not just
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.06,0:09:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the body part(s) involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.42,0:09:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take the following account:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.62,0:09:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Each boar had his own little perversion\Nthe man had to do to get the boar turned on…
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.33,0:09:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He might have to hold the boar’s penis in\Nexactly the right way that the boar liked,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.77,0:09:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he had to masturbate some of them in exactly\Nthe right way.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.65,0:09:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was one boar, he told me, who wanted\Nto have his butt hole played with.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.69,0:09:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I have to stick my finger in his butt,\Nhe just really loves that,” he told me….he’s
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.56,0:09:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the best in the business.”
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.04,0:09:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without context where would you place this\Non the line between the pornographic and permissible?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.38,0:09:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would your answer change if I told you the\Npassage was written by an internationally
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.13,0:09:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,renowned and well-respected specialist in\Nlivestock handling and animal welfare?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.87,0:09:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If so, what changed about the account itself?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.12,0:09:48.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That excerpt comes from Dr. Temple Grandin’s\Nbook, “Animals in Translation,” wherein
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.61,0:09:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she’s described in the “about” section\Nas “a role model for hundreds of thousands
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.73,0:09:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of families and people.”
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.43,0:09:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grandin continues her tour of porcine breeding\Npractices, describing how unlike cows, female
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.77,0:10:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pigs have to be sexually excited in order\Nto conceive—so workers must manually arouse
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.88,0:10:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them prior to insemination.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.77,0:10:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay…if the highly individualized, manual\Nmasturbation of male pigs to completion and
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.88,0:10:19.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sexual stimulation of females prior to the\Ninsertion of boar semen are acts openly recounted
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.71,0:10:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a respected professor and role model to\Nfamilies, I fear our common sense assessment
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.50,0:10:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may be an exercise in futility.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.60,0:10:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially when we take into account semen\Ncollection methods for bulls, namely the use
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.83,0:10:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an artificial vagina, electroejaculation,\Nor transrectal massage.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.17,0:10:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first method often uses a “teaser”\Nbull, “usually a specimen of low breeding
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.14,0:10:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,value,” who is retrained—sometimes painfully\Nvia a ring through his nose—and functions
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.66,0:10:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the “mount” for the “donor” bull,\Nsince the force can injure females.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.56,0:10:54.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most troubling technique, electroejaculation,\Ninvolves inserting a probe into the bull’s
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.69,0:10:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anus and delivering electric shocks to stimulate\Nejaculation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.92,0:11:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s widely known to be painful and has\Nbeen banned in some EU countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.38,0:11:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet you can watch footage of electroejaculation\Non the Irish Farm Journal’s YouTube channel,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.80,0:11:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as—across the platform–hundreds\Nof semen procurement and insemination videos,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.57,0:11:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including how to sexual excite a female pig,\Na topic covered in-depth in the youth education
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.73,0:11:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resources of the Pork Checkoff program.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.52,0:11:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my video “Do Animals Want to Be Eaten,”\NI provide examples of the sexualized portrayal
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.61,0:11:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of animals in advertising, often seducing\Nthe would-be consumers of their carcass.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.58,0:11:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even mainstream television shows feature footage\Nthat, were the context even slightly altered,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.01,0:11:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could result in the network losing its license\Nand inviting a wave of lawsuits.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.74,0:11:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a quick personal aside, I find the fact\Nthat YouTube’s wide array borderline bestiality
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.84,0:11:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,videos remain unrestricted and even monetized,\Nyet the video of one of my speeches remains
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.39,0:12:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,age-restricted, despite it’s censure violating\NYouTube’s own polices, just the slightest
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.51,0:12:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bit frustrating…
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.51,0:12:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moving on…
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.51,0:12:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to say, I think our comparative evaluation\Nhas hit a dead end.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.90,0:12:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only element we’ve yet to assess, is\Nthe intention and experience of the human
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.90,0:12:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,committing the act.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.12,0:12:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the determining factor in several\Nstate bestiality laws, like Delaware’s,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.84,0:12:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which specifies the contact be “for purposes\Nof sexual gratification.”
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.72,0:12:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if that’s really the root of our objection\Nto bestiality, then we’ve essentially gone
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.66,0:12:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full-circle to the original moral basis for\Nits censure, despite the modern shift towards
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.74,0:12:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,animal cruelty classification, and establishment\Nof animals as victims.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.33,0:12:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How exactly does the intention of the person\Ninvolved, or whether the act is part of their
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.44,0:12:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,job description, or carried out in a medical\Ncontext, help the individual being violated?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.66,0:12:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would imagine that someone’s job title\Nwould be of little comfort to the cow restrained
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.35,0:12:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and forcefully penetrated for her next round\Nof heartbreak.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.42,0:12:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the enjoyment or lack thereof derived\Nby the worker operating the anal probe wouldn’t
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.09,0:13:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do much to dull the painful electric current\Nshocking a bull’s pelvic nerves.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.12,0:13:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such absurdities are the result of our arbitrary\Nshifting of animals from property to family
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.64,0:13:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to victim to profit margin, depending on our\Nneeds.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.93,0:13:17.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as their roles shift, so too do the kinds\Nof harms we may inflict upon them.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.71,0:13:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In her response to philosopher Peter Singer’s\Ncontroversial book review essay Heavy Petting,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.74,0:13:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dr. Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns\Naddresses this progressive commodification:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.79,0:13:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Historically, animal agriculture has facilitated\Nbestiality, not simply because of the proximity
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.81,0:13:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of farmed animals, but because controlling\Nother creatures' bodies invites this extension
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.57,0:13:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a license that has already been taken.”
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.36,0:13:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one of the unfortunately numerous cases\Nof extreme sexual abuse of animals within
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.87,0:13:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the food industry that fall so far outside\Nof the prescribed norms they lead to criminal
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.34,0:13:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,charges, undercover footage and detailed notes\Nfrom the investigators showed routine abuse
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.75,0:13:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a pig breeding facility in Iowa, where\Nthousands of mother pigs are kept in cramped
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.87,0:13:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gestation crates.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.58,0:14:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Workers beat pregnant pigs with blunt metal\Nobjects, kicked them in the stomach and head,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.02,0:14:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forced rods into their vaginas and anuses,\Nand attacked lame and injured pigs with an
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.40,0:14:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,electric prod, among other offenses.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.74,0:14:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The video also captured workers cutting off\Nthe tails and tearing out the testicles of
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.77,0:14:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,piglets, “including some with…scrotal\Nhernias, whose intestines would fully protrude
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.47,0:14:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when snipped”—all without any anesthetic.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.79,0:14:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, in one of the most-cited offenses by\Nthe media, workers were shown slamming sick
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.29,0:14:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or deformed piglets against the ground, leaving\Nthem, according investigators, to die slowly,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.66,0:14:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their “skull[s]-crushed, paddling their\Nlegs and twitching, gasping for air, as others
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.26,0:14:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were piled on top of them in giant bins.”
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.70,0:14:42.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An article on NBC News includes comments from\Nnone other than Temple Grandin, described
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.41,0:14:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as “a leading animal-welfare expert,”\Nwho “said that while those are standard
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.33,0:14:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,industry practices, the treatment of the sows\Non the video was far from it,” calling it
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.30,0:14:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“atrocious animal abuse.”
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.35,0:14:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just to clarify, in case it wasn’t obvious,\Nbeating and violating the mother pigs was
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.09,0:14:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the “atrocious animal abuse.”
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.94,0:15:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The “standard industry practices” Grandin\Nrefers to are the unanaesthetized mutilation
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.37,0:15:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of newborn piglets and brutal slamming of\N“defective” babies against concrete.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.86,0:15:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only are these practices legal, they are\Ngovernment-sanctioned methods within, but
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.04,0:15:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not limited to, the United States, Canada,\Nand European Union.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.46,0:15:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, that's the great thing about standard\Npractices—I don't know about you, but if
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.45,0:15:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was shown that video and asked what was\Nabuse and what was routine, I’d have gotten
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.44,0:15:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it totally wrong!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.59,0:15:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it comes to our relationships with non-human\Nanimals, we posses a remarkable level of cognitive
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.17,0:15:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dissonance complete with ample blind spots.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.24,0:15:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One need only observe how we designate individuals\Nas “friend or food,” by such arbitrary
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.65,0:15:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,factors as geographical location or possession\Nof a human-given name.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.81,0:15:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one country, a dog is viewed as a “pet”—even\Na family member.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.96,0:15:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet born in a different part of the world,\Nthe very same dog would be viewed as “dinner.”
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.53,0:16:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing about the dog herself has changed—only\Nher geographical location and, more importantly,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.21,0:16:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the perception of her role and value by the\Nhumans deciding her fate.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.03,0:16:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such subjective shifting of assigned worth\Nis the very basis of anthropocentrism, a belief
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.96,0:16:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system that “regards humans as separate\Nfrom and superior to nature and holds that
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.18,0:16:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human life has intrinsic value while other\Nentities (including animals, plants, …and
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.49,0:16:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so on) are resources that may justifiably\Nbe exploited for the benefit of humankind.”
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.17,0:16:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our anthropocentric worldview explains many\Nbizarre displays of human doublethink.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.49,0:16:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An example I covered in my speech “The Best\NWe Have To Offer,” which concerns legislative
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.98,0:16:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,issues pertaining to animal cruelty, was when\Nthe European Union signed the Treaty of Lisbon,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.40,0:16:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognizing non-human animals legally sentient,\Ndeserving freedom from hunger, thirst, discomfort,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.25,0:16:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pain, injury, disease, fear, distress and\Nmental suffering—and then use this very
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.60,0:17:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognition of their capacity to feel the\Nsame emotions and sensations as we do to design
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.56,0:17:10.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the exact manner in which humans may legally\Nviolate, imprison, cut, burn, alter, and murder
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.51,0:17:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.51,0:17:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A preliminary report for the new legislation\Ncompared the financial cost of gassing verses
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.48,0:17:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grinding alive the estimated 335 million unwanted\Nday-old male chicks born into the EU egg industry
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.28,0:17:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every year.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.41,0:17:31.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finding live grinding, or maceration, to be\Nfar more cost-effective, it was codified as
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.35,0:17:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the method of choice in the resulting groundbreaking\Nanimal protection legislation.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.14,0:17:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In her article “Pets or Meat,” Professor\Nof Law Marry Anne Case highlights the complications
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.15,0:17:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arising from the condemnation of bestiality\Non the grounds of incapacity to consent.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.00,0:17:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Citing how even the training of one’s pets\Nis a form of persuasion difficult to “differentiate…with
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.12,0:17:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reference to consent,” Case concludes that:
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.79,0:17:58.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“If we think there should be more strict\Nor rigorous legal controls on having one's
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.75,0:18:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pets trained to do what would violate the\Nbestiality laws than on other stupid pet tricks,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.13,0:18:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should acknowledge straightforwardly that\Nit is our attitude toward sex, more than our
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.68,0:18:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concern for animal freedom of choice or animal\Nwelfare, that motivates us.”
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.61,0:18:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Far from having the animals’ interests at\Nheart, it appears that, as Dr. Davis wrote,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.75,0:18:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“the primary mainstream objection to bestiality…is\Nthat sex between humans and nonhumans, regardless
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.67,0:18:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the circumstances in which it occurs including\Nrape, is ‘an offence to our status and dignity
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.22,0:18:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as human beings.’”
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.62,0:18:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s the power of human perception.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.08,0:18:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That our violation of their bodies is an affront\Nto our “dignity.”
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.34,0:18:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Davis describes how, in regards to bestiality,\Nsome animal advocates advanced the argument
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.31,0:18:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that “nonhuman animals are not in a position\Nto give informed consent…by virtue of [their]
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.08,0:18:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presumed inherent intellectual inferiority\Nto humans.”
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.86,0:19:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in their supposed defense, we insult\Nthem.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.38,0:19:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why, in “Rethinking Bestiality,”\None of the few essays focusing on the issue
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.05,0:19:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of bestiality from an animal rights standpoint,\Ncriminologist Piers Beirne calls for “a
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.28,0:19:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concept of interspecies sexual assault,”\Nindependent of moral outrage, empty allusions
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.90,0:19:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to victim status, and lack of consent through\Nidiocy.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.61,0:19:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Referencing Carol J Adams, Beirne lays the\Nfoundation for a truly victim-centered approach
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.36,0:19:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the sexual assault of animals:
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.32,0:19:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“...in seeking to replace anthropocentrism\Nwith an acknowledgement of the sentience of
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.10,0:19:37.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,animals, we must start with the fact that\Nin almost every situation humans and animals
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.71,0:19:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exist in a relation of potential or actual\Ncoercion…
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.13,0:19:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For genuine consent to sexual relations to\Nbe present…both participants must be conscious,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.80,0:19:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fully informed and positive in their desires…
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.82,0:19:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bestiality involves sexual coercion because\Nanimals are incapable of saying yes or no
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.78,0:19:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to humans in forms that humans can readily\Nunderstand…
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.72,0:20:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we cannot know whether animals consent\Nto our sexual overtures, then we are as much
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.90,0:20:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at fault when we tolerate interspecies sexual\Nrelations as when we fail to condemn adults
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.85,0:20:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have sexual relations with infants or\Nwith children or with…[others]—who, for
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.10,0:20:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever reason, are unable to refuse participation.”I\Nhope this rather intensive analysis of bestiality
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.46,0:20:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave you some food for thought.
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Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.55,0:20:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder how long this will stay on YouTube...