1 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:08,880 Oh! Well that didn't work well. 2 00:00:10,540 --> 00:00:14,380 Hi guys! I don't know if you guys are still there. 3 00:00:15,380 --> 00:00:20,400 My phone totally died, I've been here for a while, pretty early... 4 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:28,280 and I also under-estimated how cold it is, so my hands are a bit not functional at the moment. 5 00:00:28,460 --> 00:00:33,340 I had to come back to the... I got, cause this is the kinda person I am... 6 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:39,700 I got this rental car. I don't have a car so I got a rental car explicitly to come and do this. 7 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:41,700 Totally worth it. 8 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,340 So right in front of me, I'm going to flip you guys around... 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,380 Hold on... I just found out I can do that. 10 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:51,660 So, that is the shed that we were in. 11 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:53,800 You can see it there. 12 00:00:53,900 --> 00:01:04,060 So there's this, it's a shed, and there's rows of fans that go between the trucks. 13 00:01:04,060 --> 00:01:05,840 They park the trucks between the fans. 14 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:16,540 And during the hot months, they're blowing and the turkeys sit on these trucks for hours and hours. 15 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:20,600 And they're just crammed in there, I mean if you... 16 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,940 It's kind of a perverse holiday, honestly. 17 00:01:27,010 --> 00:01:32,280 These are living beings. 18 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,140 I don't know how long they're going to sit on the trucks today. 19 00:01:37,940 --> 00:01:41,840 They're still there. They were there when I got here. 20 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:50,920 I got here a little later than I wanted because I saw a truck pull over at a gas station with pigs. 21 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,680 So I also was with pigs this morning. 22 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,060 And they were so... 23 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:05,380 They were so trusting, these pigs. 24 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:10,819 It was coming right up to me and... 25 00:02:10,820 --> 00:02:16,170 Some of them looked just so terrified. 26 00:02:16,170 --> 00:02:20,830 It's so hard leaving them too because for them and for these turkeys, 27 00:02:20,830 --> 00:02:26,840 this is...this is their death day. This is the last day of their lives. 28 00:02:27,460 --> 00:02:32,600 They, you know, bring them and unload them in the night and in the early morning. 29 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,680 There's actually a job posting right now online for this facility, of... 30 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,520 The position is literally called "Live Hang." 31 00:02:43,660 --> 00:02:49,500 So your job is to pull the turkeys out of the truck and hang them. 32 00:02:51,420 --> 00:02:54,220 Here's another great thing... oh that's my face, hold on. 33 00:02:54,220 --> 00:02:58,260 There's... Well I guess you can't see the school bus. 34 00:02:58,440 --> 00:02:59,900 There's a school bus right here. 35 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:08,040 Earlier this morning when I first got here, 36 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:13,860 there was a school bus that pulled in to the turkey shed for a little bit. 37 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:20,380 So let's see if we can go through. 38 00:03:22,490 --> 00:03:25,230 See if I don't lose you. 39 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,760 This is where we were earlier... 40 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:45,680 in between these trucks. 41 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,280 There's where families live. 42 00:03:54,380 --> 00:03:57,820 Kids play right here, and then here's another one. 43 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:07,500 Inside, earlier this morning there were, it was full of trucks that were full. 44 00:04:07,510 --> 00:04:09,950 But now uhm... 45 00:04:12,260 --> 00:04:17,840 Now they've been emptied. 46 00:04:23,740 --> 00:04:27,860 Okay so let me flip you guys back around. 47 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,340 So... (sigh) 48 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:39,020 You can kind of see, I mean this is, it's a huge, huge building and facility. 49 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:45,900 And basically... 50 00:04:45,940 --> 00:04:51,880 There's kind of like a, it's like a really celebrated story actually, this place. 51 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:59,600 And, you know it was, it was like a slaughter facility, a slaughter house, and it was going to close. 52 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:08,420 And then the local turkey farmers here kind of banded together and raised funds and everything. 53 00:05:08,540 --> 00:05:12,260 And then they, they bought the facility. 54 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:16,800 So now, what it is today, it's primarily a processing plant. 55 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:25,660 So they bring in, you know, like... carcasses of other species too. You know, cows and pigs. 56 00:05:25,780 --> 00:05:32,000 They process the meat all the way through to package ready, like Balogna and these kind of things. 57 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,160 But, they still slaughter turkeys. 58 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:40,060 So the turkeys are, are the only animals that they, they slaughter here. 59 00:05:40,060 --> 00:05:46,360 But most of it is, is like a plant for processing the other animals. 60 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:53,800 So it's kind of seen as this like, David and Goliath story of like... 61 00:05:56,110 --> 00:06:02,410 you know, like a victory for the farmers. 62 00:06:02,540 --> 00:06:07,000 But no one thinks of the turkeys though. 63 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:35,180 I also have to be careful because eventually they're gonna wonder 64 00:06:35,180 --> 00:06:40,240 why I'm doing so many drive-bys with an iPhone. 65 00:06:42,580 --> 00:06:47,800 So again here's the, some of the trucks are in here full. 66 00:06:48,310 --> 00:06:50,910 All of these were full. 67 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:10,240 OK, so that's kind of, that's kind of the runaround there. 68 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,900 I mean, and you know there's like a (sigh) 69 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:29,820 like I said there's a playground right there... 70 00:07:29,820 --> 00:07:36,080 There's, you know, kids playing in their houses right next to... 71 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:39,840 This shed of turkeys. 72 00:07:41,610 --> 00:07:46,729 It's heartbreaking. 73 00:07:46,729 --> 00:07:50,629 I don't think... 74 00:07:50,629 --> 00:07:53,249 I don't know if I have enough battery guys 'cause like, 75 00:07:53,249 --> 00:07:58,489 I mean, I'm on... I'm like charging my phone literally plugged into this car, 76 00:07:58,550 --> 00:08:02,930 because I ran out of battery while filming the turkeys. 77 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:10,200 So I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get enough charge to bring you guys back... 78 00:08:11,020 --> 00:08:14,600 To bring you back for the turkeys. I'm hoping... 79 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,460 Alright, I'm trying to see if I can... 80 00:08:20,460 --> 00:08:22,020 I can't see my battery right now! 81 00:08:22,020 --> 00:08:28,960 And, trying to check my batteries to see if I can take you guys back in there real quick. 82 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,500 Before they take them. 83 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:37,500 Alright... 84 00:08:38,430 --> 00:08:40,979 Alright guys, I'm going to... 85 00:08:40,979 --> 00:08:46,419 I'm gonna stop this stream really quick, and check my battery. 86 00:08:46,420 --> 00:08:54,080 And see if I have enough to be able to bring you guys back to the turkeys. OK? 87 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:04,060 I think we can make it work for just a little bit longer. 88 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:12,120 Although they might be coming out soon, the workers. So we'll see. 89 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:19,740 But, actually let's see if I can, let's see if I can keep you guys on here, and get out there. 90 00:09:19,850 --> 00:09:22,370 Hold on. 91 00:09:28,020 --> 00:09:31,560 I do have a video for you guys today by the way. 92 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,460 I got the, it's another Gregor, it's a new Gregor video. 93 00:09:36,460 --> 00:09:38,880 And I, you know, I worked on it all night. 94 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:43,660 I slept about 20 minutes so that I could get that video done and come here. 95 00:09:44,460 --> 00:09:52,040 So I'll still post that today but I just felt that this was really important 96 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,740 to share with you guys as soon as I could. 97 00:09:55,850 --> 00:10:00,350 Alright, let's see if we can get back over there. (door opens and shuts) 98 00:10:13,620 --> 00:10:14,640 Alright. 99 00:10:21,340 --> 00:10:22,760 (tumbling noises) 100 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,140 Oh! I dropped you! It's ok. 101 00:10:41,140 --> 00:12:10,860 (turkeys rustling and clucking) 102 00:12:12,140 --> 00:12:16,620 This is nothing to be thankful for. 103 00:12:17,300 --> 00:13:44,520 (turkeys rustling and clucking) 104 00:13:44,520 --> 00:14:18,700 (a turkey frantically clucks and struggles in another cage) 105 00:14:18,700 --> 00:15:10,820 (turkeys rustling and clucking) 106 00:15:10,820 --> 00:15:14,640 You know they have personalities, 107 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,080 and they certainly want to live. 108 00:15:22,300 --> 00:15:27,860 Even if we, even if we say that they're not intelligent, which I don't believe, 109 00:15:28,020 --> 00:15:34,700 intelligence doesn't have anything to do with wanting to live and with feeling pain. 110 00:15:37,700 --> 00:15:41,640 It's just one of the justifications we try to use. 111 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,600 I mean look at them and tell me that they don't know any better. 112 00:15:48,600 --> 00:26:04,800 (turkeys rustling and clucking) 113 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:17,480 A truck load of turkeys this morning.