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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.08,0:00:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today is about challenging appearances and\Nassumptions of extremism and normality.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.32,0:00:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today is a lesson in unlearning.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.11,0:00:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what better way to unlearn than to start\Nour journey at the end and work our way back
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.04,0:00:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the beginning?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.04,0:00:22.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what better way to question what’s accepted\Nas good and normal than with something as
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.67,0:00:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wholesome and every day as a glass of milk?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.80,0:00:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The source of milk is no big secret: it comes\Nfrom cows.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.17,0:00:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that’s about as far back as most people\Ntrace milk’s journey to our refrigerated
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.11,0:00:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grocery case.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.91,0:00:42.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of us grow up thinking that cows are\Nmade to be milked.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.53,0:00:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We may think they have a constant supply of\Nmilk and even that they need to be milked
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.64,0:00:49.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to relieve the pressure.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.70,0:00:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well let’s look at this critically for a\Nmoment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.86,0:00:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cows are mammals, just like us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.18,0:01:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And mammals produce milk for one reason: to\Nfeed their babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.46,0:01:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cows carry their babies for 9 months, just\Nlike we do, they lactate to feed their babies,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.82,0:01:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like we do, and after weaning, they stop\Nproducing milk, just like we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.46,0:01:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in order to have a constant supply of cow’s\Nmilk for human consumption, we need a constant
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.12,0:01:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supply of pregnant cows.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.94,0:01:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the dairy industry, cows are repeatedly\Ninseminated, which is a nice word for raped.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.47,0:01:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The restraining apparatus used to secure the\Ncows is literally referred to within the dairy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.47,0:01:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,industry, at least in America, as a “rape\Nrack,” so this isn’t a term dreamed up
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.47,0:01:29.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by vegans activists.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.47,0:01:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once a cow gives birth, we face another roadblock\Nto our milk’s journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.80,0:01:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Babies, after all, drink their mother’s\Nmilk.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.74,0:01:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to make sure there’s constant supply\Nof milk for us, the babies must be taken away
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.81,0:01:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,soon after birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.79,0:01:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is precisely what occurs in the dairy\Nindustry.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.20,0:01:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the calf is a male, he is sent to a veal\Nfarm where he is tied down, unable to move,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.14,0:01:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or locked in a cage where he cannot even turn\Naround until he’s slaughtered while still
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.43,0:01:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only a few weeks old.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.34,0:02:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Veal, an industry that even many meat-eaters\Noppose, wouldn’t exist without dairy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.85,0:02:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every cup of yogurt, every scoop of ice cream\Nand every glass of milk is directly connected
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.22,0:02:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the deaths of those baby calves.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.79,0:02:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we’re not quite done tracing milk’s\Npath to our cereal bowls.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.87,0:02:26.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the slaughter of babies is certainly\Nhorrific enough, we cannot forget the mothers
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.15,0:02:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,left behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.40,0:02:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cows bond intensely with their calves and\Nwill cry out for days when they are taken.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.73,0:02:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When residents of Newbury, MA called the police\Nto report disturbing noises emanating from
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.36,0:02:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sunshine Dairy farm at all hours of the\Nday and night, the police explained that the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.40,0:02:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mother cows were “lamenting the separation\Nfrom their calves”—but not to worry as
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.24,0:02:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“the cows are not in distress and that the\Nnoises are a normal part of farming practices.”
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.98,0:02:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not anthropomorphizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.05,0:03:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a mother’s grief and it’s utterly\Nheartbreaking to watch.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.49,0:03:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bodies of dairy cows generally give out\Nat age 4 or 5 and they are regarded as “spent,”
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.74,0:03:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite their natural lifespan of 20 years\Nor more.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.53,0:03:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re sent to slaughter for cheap meat\Nand pet food, deemed unfit for human consumption.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.50,0:03:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the slaughterhouse, many of these mothers\Nface their final and most brutal separation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.61,0:03:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from yet another child.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.70,0:03:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While formal statistics are difficult to obtain\Nas most studies focus on the economic cost
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.24,0:03:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of “fetal wastage,” accounts range from\Napproximately 10% to 70% of cows arriving
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.01,0:03:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the slaughterhouse pregnant.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.01,0:03:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this most horrific and final separation\Nof mother and child was just the last in a
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.26,0:03:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cycle of pregnancy after pregnancy and loss\Nafter loss.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.82,0:04:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we push onwards through to our dairy\Ncow’s beginning, back past the first pregnancy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.13,0:04:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before she became the broken, hollowed-out\Nshell eventually collapsing under the insane
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.38,0:04:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demands of her short life, we come to her\Nbirth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.42,0:04:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The moment she emerges into the world, wide-eyed\Nand brand new.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.25,0:04:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The moment she’s taken from her own mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.26,0:04:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see we talked about what happened to the\Nmale calves who are sent off for veal.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.95,0:04:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well the daughters of the dairy industry are\Nstill separated from their mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.27,0:04:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they’re kept around to take their mother’s\Nplace and keep the money machine going.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.67,0:04:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep the milk flowing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.74,0:04:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that in every grocery story, every corner\Nshop, every gas station, will be sure to stock
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.79,0:04:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this wholesome, normalized, entirely ordinary product.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.26,0:04:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are being sold the pus-filled
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.42,0:04:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ultimate outcome of rape, enslavement, \Nkidnapping, abuse, disease, torture,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.86,0:04:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infanticide, and murder—
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.30,0:05:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whitewashed into an image
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.00,0:05:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of wholesome nutrition.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.12,0:05:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As vegan activist Gary Yourofsky has said,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.40,0:05:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s the greatest magic trick ever performed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.30,0:05:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people say veganism is extreme.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.82,0:05:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The animal products we perceive as mundane,\Nwhen reverse engineered, reveal a perversely
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.47,0:05:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,complex and, to put it lightly, ethically\Nchallenging, journey from genesis through
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.83,0:05:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,processing and production to the end product.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.92,0:05:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is to say, from the animals’ birth,\Nthrough confinement, abuse, slaughter and
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.41,0:05:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,denigration of corpses to the shiny, happy,\Nstore-ready products we literally eat up
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.52,0:05:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without even a single thought \Nas to what the animals went through.