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Hi it's Emily from Bite Size Vegan and this is going to be a very different video.

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I'm actually in the process of moving, so I'm in an empty room and I wasn't planning on posting a video today.

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But this is really important.

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I make a very careful and intensive effort on my channel to talk about veganism

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in a way that's relatable and approachable to non-vegans.

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And I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt that maybe they just don't know any better.

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They don't know the truth. All of us started there.

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Sometimes things happen and people act in ways that make it very difficult to hold any hope.

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Sometimes there are acts of such utter malice and apathy and cruelty.

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Knowing what goes on every second of every day in this world, and what we're doing to animals

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on such an astounding scale - is very difficult to live with.

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And fighting for them everyday and fighting to educate and bring the information to people.

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You have to hold out hope that someone will listen. That people can change.

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I'm going to share with you what happened, and you might have already seen

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because on Wednesday I posted my kid's video about the zoo. But on Instagram and Facebook,

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before I even posted a link to that video, I shared posts about this because...

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because it's incredibly important.

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So, if you didn't already hear - on Wednesday, a truck turned over in front of Fearmans Pork

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in Toronto, which is where we hold vigils - Toronto Pig Save.

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If you go to this news article you can see that the owner of Fearmans Pork said that,

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"Unfortunately, despite all the efforts, 42 hogs could not be saved."

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What he means is saved in order to be slaughtered. But even in that, it's a lie.

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We can watch the video on this news page where they're bringing the pigs out

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in what seems a pretty orderly fashion. The pigs seem okay.

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If you look at some of the footage from the activists there, tells a little bit of a different story.

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Just listen.

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And believe it or not, that's not even the worst part of this entire thing.

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So, they walked the surviving pigs to their death. They walked them to slaughter.

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They're herding them through the parking lot of the slaughterhouse to get them back

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so they can put them in CO2 chambers that are incredibly painful.

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They'll burn from the inside out.

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Then they'll hang them upside down and bleed them.

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I have videos all over my channel about these chambers.

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They're in the Ireland talk that I just did, I just did a live stream from an England slaughterhouse.

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It's brutal. It's absolutely brutal.

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There's even one pig here who's suffering from a prolapse.

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Still, they're going to make her walk to her death.

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This is a death march.

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If it sounds like a war zone - it is.

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There were some injured pigs.

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Who were not fit to be processed, meaning they couldn't be slaughtered for food.

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They sat in the grass for hours. Steve Jenkins, one of Esther The Wonder Pig's fathers was there.

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And he was begging them to allow him to take the injured pigs to sanctuary.

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Where they could be free. Because they can't slaughter them for food.

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They're not fit for consumption.

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But they wouldn't allow it.

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They wouldn't even show the mercy to these defective, injured pigs.

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So, what they did instead, is they killed them.

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They executed them.

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Out in the open. Trying to hide it with cardboard.

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These are the final moments.

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This might be the only time that she's ever felt the grass,

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and seen the sun, and the sky.

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You can see the bolt gun in his hand.

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They're trying to hide it.

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He just shot her.

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She's convulsing.

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She's writhing in pain. And they're trying to hide this with cardboard.

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So then, they take her carcass and they load her into a bin so they can throw her in the dumpster like garbage.

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These pigs were still alive. They could have healed.

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They just were too injured to walk.

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And one of the laws is that pigs have to be able to walk themselves to their death.

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There is no justification for this. This is murder.

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There were people there willing, ready, wanting to take them to safety.

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To take them somewhere where they could live out their life.

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And they couldn't even allow that.

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Couldn't even give these pigs that much mercy. They weren't going to use them.

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They weren't going to slaughter them. They're just going to throw them in the dumpster.

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And what you're seeing now is those who didn't survive the crash.

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All of those who died in the truck in pain, screaming, trapped.

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And just imagine - what if this was people? What if this was even dogs?

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How would we react differently?

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If you wonder how this could happen, if you're wondering how people could be so heartless

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why can't they just at least let these two pigs go?

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If you can't comprehend how this is possible but you still eat meat, dairy, eggs,

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you've answered your own question.

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This wouldn't be happening if we weren't asking for it to happen.

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This is the supply to our demand.

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It doesn't matter how humane, free-range, cage-free, this is what you're supporting.

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I would encourage you to educate yourself.

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There's links down in the video description, all of the information is there.

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The truth is there. It's not even that well-hidden.

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It doesn't matter how far you are from the slaughterhouse, or if you don't hear their cries.

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They're marched to their death for your breakfast,

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for your sandwich.

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They're shot on the side of the road, executed and thrown in a dumpster for your sausage.

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The main reason they're trying so hard to get those pigs out of the truck

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is to make sure they don't lose their inventory.

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Try to reduce lost profits. Get them out of there as soon as possible

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so they're still alive so we can kill them.

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That's the insanity of our system.

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There's no excuse. There is no way to justify this.

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Please see the links, how to get involved, how to educate yourself.

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It's not rocket science. Stop eating animals.

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Bear witness to the reality. See the truth. Stop ignoring it.

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You don't have to look far, it's all around you.

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It's all around you, every moment of every day.

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It doesn't have to be this way.

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Make your choice.