WEBVTT 00:00:05.470 --> 00:00:07.660 A meat packing facility. 00:00:07.660 --> 00:00:11.860 A slaughterhouse in the heart of California. 00:00:11.860 --> 00:00:16.640 These places exist in the shadows so we're never shown what happens 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:19.240 inside. 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:24.440 It begins on a factory farm, like Smithfield's Circle Four. 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:30.400 Hidden away from scrutiny in the Utah desert, inside the world's largest pig producer, 00:00:30.540 --> 00:00:33.260 Individuals are reduced.. 00:00:33.260 --> 00:00:35.660 ..to units of production. 00:00:36.900 --> 00:00:43.600 With mothers and their newborns trapped in metal cages, the machine of animal agriculture 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.440 does its work in secret.. 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:50.560 creating suffering on a scale never before imagined 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:55.000 and building the perfect storm for pathogens in the process. 00:01:00.380 --> 00:01:04.700 California voters have been trying to outlaw these operations.. 00:01:04.740 --> 00:01:07.140 ..but as an industry with little oversight.. 00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:12.900 ..the state continues to truck-in animals from places like Circle Four. 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:19.100 After six months of confinement at Smithfield, individuals who survive are crowded on top 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 00:01:26.520 --> 00:01:28.600 the heat of the Southwest.. 00:01:28.600 --> 00:01:32.660 ..without food, or water, or anyone to care. 00:01:33.080 --> 00:01:37.260 So I followed them, as they were driven all day and into the night.. 00:01:37.260 --> 00:01:40.700 while they dreamed of escape. 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:44.720 But this isn't their ride to freedom. 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:14.980 Thanks to a whistleblower, I was given a window into a business built on killing. 00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:27.920 They arrive sick, thirsty and scared into unfamiliar surroundings, while they're beaten 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:32.640 in the holding pens, so the next truck load can come. 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:46.480 Some of them lay dead on the truck, while others are painfully crippled, and individuals 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:53.160 who've become too sick to walk on their own are executed with a bolt gun.. 00:02:53.160 --> 00:02:56.360 instead of receiving medical attention. 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:08.540 Workers themselves suffer routine physical injuries, which are often unreported.. 00:03:08.540 --> 00:03:10.780 for fear of reprisal. 00:03:12.620 --> 00:03:17.780 And the psychological impact of the work has long lasting effects. 00:03:19.720 --> 00:03:23.120 Carrying diseases from factory farms across the continent.. 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:26.940 ..some of the pigs continue to weaken, and die. 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.340 Those who perish suddenly are simply labeled "dead". 00:03:31.340 --> 00:03:38.160 Others who show obvious signs of illness are sometimes killed, and briefly examined.. 00:03:38.200 --> 00:03:42.920 but only the symptoms of their diseases are ever determined. 00:03:50.760 --> 00:03:57.960 To the industry, the misery endured by these individuals, and the risks of their diseases, 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:03.240 are merely an inconvenience to be covered up for the sake of profit. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.440 So too are the workers treated.. 00:04:10.440 --> 00:04:14.880 ..constantly exposed to suffering, disease and death.. 00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:17.080 ..without understanding the risks.. 00:04:17.080 --> 00:04:20.960 ..as though they were human expendables. 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:36.080 An industry so focused on profit over personal suffering can only create one terrible outcome. 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:07.040 Is this who we really are? 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:10.880 Even if they make it inside.. 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:16.320 ..their reward is one of the most cruel endings possible for anyone.. 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:19.000 ..a gas chamber. 00:05:29.200 --> 00:05:33.800 As they are pushed forward, they limp into the loader together. 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:39.600 And for the first time in their life they see their own reflection.. 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:44.960 ..in a mirror used to lure their attention. 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.280 Before being forced into the gas chamber gondola.. 00:05:59.200 --> 00:06:01.280 ..load after load. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:15.360 The USDA tells us that gas chambers are humane.. but see for yourself. 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:51.520 Over 8,000 individuals are gassed like this at this facility every week. 00:06:55.360 --> 00:07:00.000 These facilities are designed to profit on killing at any cost. 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:16.820 The industry wants to be trusted to regulate itself, but how do you regulate an operation 00:07:16.820 --> 00:07:19.600 so focused on bloodshed? 00:07:27.840 --> 00:07:32.880 They're supposed to be killed before they wake up again, but the supervisors fail to 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:36.580 prevent routine mistakes in the slaughter process. 00:07:56.960 --> 00:08:02.600 Infections are so common, and run so deep, an inspector is dedicated to cut out what 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. 00:08:17.340 --> 00:08:22.100 This is animal agriculture. 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; 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:30.640 on an object, not its origin. 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:36.040 But what happens if we ignore the warnings, while building our house on injustice? 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:50.880 How can we achieve peace.. while a body means more than a life? 00:08:50.920 --> 00:08:55.500 How can we nurture love.. when oppression is on our plate? 00:08:55.540 --> 00:08:57.800 And the truth is hidden from us? 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:02.400 Without laws to protect victims.. in a system created by greed. 00:09:13.920 --> 00:09:20.560 We're basically building the highways for these microbes to transfer into our bodies. 00:09:20.860 --> 00:09:25.280 It's having tragic consequences right now with over 20 deaths, just in the last week. 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.." 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:30.620 so they don't care. 00:09:30.620 --> 00:09:34.060 But people can think "I'm not this race..", or "I'm not this gender..". 00:09:36.220 --> 00:09:37.400 That doesn't make it right. 00:09:38.920 --> 00:09:41.020 Rescue the victims of oppression. 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.040 Challenge violence with the power of compassion. 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.720 Create the laws that value morality. 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.680 End exploitation at its foundations. 00:09:57.820 --> 00:09:59.980 Expose the truth to protect our future; 00:10:02.820 --> 00:10:05.140 to prevent pandemics while we still can. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.900 Turn towards suffering with the strength of mercy. 00:10:12.400 --> 00:10:14.920 Because our fates are connected.. 00:10:16.900 --> 00:10:20.160 If we don't stop this industry.