1 00:00:05,470 --> 00:00:07,660 A meat packing facility. 2 00:00:07,660 --> 00:00:11,860 A slaughterhouse in the heart of California. 3 00:00:11,860 --> 00:00:16,640 These places exist in the shadows so we're never shown what happens 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,240 inside. 5 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:24,440 It begins on a factory farm, like Smithfield's Circle Four. 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:30,400 Hidden away from scrutiny in the Utah desert, inside the world's largest pig producer, 7 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:33,260 Individuals are reduced.. 8 00:00:33,260 --> 00:00:35,660 ..to units of production. 9 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:43,600 With mothers and their newborns trapped in metal cages, the machine of animal agriculture 10 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,440 does its work in secret.. 11 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,560 creating suffering on a scale never before imagined 12 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,000 and building the perfect storm for pathogens in the process. 13 00:01:00,380 --> 00:01:04,700 California voters have been trying to outlaw these operations.. 14 00:01:04,740 --> 00:01:07,140 ..but as an industry with little oversight.. 15 00:01:07,140 --> 00:01:12,900 ..the state continues to truck-in animals from places like Circle Four. 16 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:19,100 After six months of confinement at Smithfield, individuals who survive are crowded on top 17 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:26,520 of each other, up to 200 at a time, into steel transport trucks, for a 700 mile journey through 18 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,600 the heat of the Southwest.. 19 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,660 ..without food, or water, or anyone to care. 20 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,260 So I followed them, as they were driven all day and into the night.. 21 00:01:37,260 --> 00:01:40,700 while they dreamed of escape. 22 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,720 But this isn't their ride to freedom. 23 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:14,980 Thanks to a whistleblower, I was given a window into a business built on killing. 24 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:27,920 They arrive sick, thirsty and scared into unfamiliar surroundings, while they're beaten 25 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:32,640 in the holding pens, so the next truck load can come. 26 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:46,480 Some of them lay dead on the truck, while others are painfully crippled, and individuals 27 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:53,160 who've become too sick to walk on their own are executed with a bolt gun.. 28 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,360 instead of receiving medical attention. 29 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:08,540 Workers themselves suffer routine physical injuries, which are often unreported.. 30 00:03:08,540 --> 00:03:10,780 for fear of reprisal. 31 00:03:12,620 --> 00:03:17,780 And the psychological impact of the work has long lasting effects. 32 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,120 Carrying diseases from factory farms across the continent.. 33 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,940 ..some of the pigs continue to weaken, and die. 34 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,340 Those who perish suddenly are simply labeled "dead". 35 00:03:31,340 --> 00:03:38,160 Others who show obvious signs of illness are sometimes killed, and briefly examined.. 36 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,920 but only the symptoms of their diseases are ever determined. 37 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:57,960 To the industry, the misery endured by these individuals, and the risks of their diseases, 38 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:03,240 are merely an inconvenience to be covered up for the sake of profit. 39 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,440 So too are the workers treated.. 40 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,880 ..constantly exposed to suffering, disease and death.. 41 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,080 ..without understanding the risks.. 42 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,960 ..as though they were human expendables. 43 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:36,080 An industry so focused on profit over personal suffering can only create one terrible outcome. 44 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,040 Is this who we really are? 45 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,880 Even if they make it inside.. 46 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,320 ..their reward is one of the most cruel endings possible for anyone.. 47 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,000 ..a gas chamber. 48 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,800 As they are pushed forward, they limp into the loader together. 49 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:39,600 And for the first time in their life they see their own reflection.. 50 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,960 ..in a mirror used to lure their attention. 51 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,280 Before being forced into the gas chamber gondola.. 52 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,280 ..load after load. 53 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:15,360 The USDA tells us that gas chambers are humane.. but see for yourself. 54 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:51,520 Over 8,000 individuals are gassed like this at this facility every week. 55 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:00,000 These facilities are designed to profit on killing at any cost. 56 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,820 The industry wants to be trusted to regulate itself, but how do you regulate an operation 57 00:07:16,820 --> 00:07:19,600 so focused on bloodshed? 58 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,880 They're supposed to be killed before they wake up again, but the supervisors fail to 59 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,580 prevent routine mistakes in the slaughter process. 60 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:02,600 Infections are so common, and run so deep, an inspector is dedicated to cut out what 61 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:07,920 they can see, so the rest of their body can be sold as though they were healthy. 62 00:08:17,340 --> 00:08:22,100 This is animal agriculture. 63 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:27,000 The industry wants us to focus on what we put in our mouth or buy in a store; 64 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,640 on an object, not its origin. 65 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:36,040 But what happens if we ignore the warnings, while building our house on injustice? 66 00:08:46,140 --> 00:08:50,880 How can we achieve peace.. while a body means more than a life? 67 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,500 How can we nurture love.. when oppression is on our plate? 68 00:08:55,540 --> 00:08:57,800 And the truth is hidden from us? 69 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:02,400 Without laws to protect victims.. in a system created by greed. 70 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:20,560 We're basically building the highways for these microbes to transfer into our bodies. 71 00:09:20,860 --> 00:09:25,280 It's having tragic consequences right now with over 20 deaths, just in the last week. 72 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:29,320 People think "I'm not a cow..", "I'm not a pig..", "I'm not that animal.." 73 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:30,620 so they don't care. 74 00:09:30,620 --> 00:09:34,060 But people can think "I'm not this race..", or "I'm not this gender..". 75 00:09:36,220 --> 00:09:37,400 That doesn't make it right. 76 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,020 Rescue the victims of oppression. 77 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,040 Challenge violence with the power of compassion. 78 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,720 Create the laws that value morality. 79 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,680 End exploitation at its foundations. 80 00:09:57,820 --> 00:09:59,980 Expose the truth to protect our future; 81 00:10:02,820 --> 00:10:05,140 to prevent pandemics while we still can. 82 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,900 Turn towards suffering with the strength of mercy. 83 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,920 Because our fates are connected.. 84 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:20,160 If we don't stop this industry.