WEBVTT 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:06.800 Hi it's Emily from Bite Size Vegan and this is going to be a very different video. 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:14.520 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. 00:00:15.260 --> 00:00:17.260 But this is really important. 00:00:19.700 --> 00:00:29.240 I make a very careful and intensive effort on my channel to talk about veganism 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:32.780 in a way that's relatable and approachable to non-vegans. 00:00:33.660 --> 00:00:40.260 And I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt that maybe they just don't know any better. 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:44.400 They don't know the truth. All of us started there. 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:57.920 Sometimes things happen and people act in ways that make it very difficult to hold any hope. 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:09.680 Sometimes there are acts of such utter malice and apathy and cruelty. 00:01:10.500 --> 00:01:15.960 Knowing what goes on every second of every day in this world, and what we're doing to animals 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:24.980 on such an astounding scale - is very difficult to live with. 00:01:26.260 --> 00:01:35.360 And fighting for them everyday and fighting to educate and bring the information to people. 00:01:36.860 --> 00:01:42.640 You have to hold out hope that someone will listen. That people can change. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.200 I'm going to share with you what happened, and you might have already seen 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:51.900 because on Wednesday I posted my kid's video about the zoo. But on Instagram and Facebook, 00:01:51.900 --> 00:01:58.100 before I even posted a link to that video, I shared posts about this because... 00:02:00.440 --> 00:02:02.920 because it's incredibly important. 00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:08.920 So, if you didn't already hear - on Wednesday, a truck turned over in front of Fearmans Pork 00:02:08.920 --> 00:02:13.860 in Toronto, which is where we hold vigils - Toronto Pig Save. 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:21.520 If you go to this news article you can see that the owner of Fearmans Pork said that, 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:26.620 "Unfortunately, despite all the efforts, 42 hogs could not be saved." 00:02:28.740 --> 00:02:35.120 What he means is saved in order to be slaughtered. But even in that, it's a lie. 00:02:35.940 --> 00:02:44.960 We can watch the video on this news page where they're bringing the pigs out 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.160 in what seems a pretty orderly fashion. The pigs seem okay. 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:55.680 If you look at some of the footage from the activists there, tells a little bit of a different story. 00:02:57.320 --> 00:02:58.540 Just listen. 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:49.300 And believe it or not, that's not even the worst part of this entire thing. 00:03:50.180 --> 00:03:56.420 So, they walked the surviving pigs to their death. They walked them to slaughter. 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:01.940 They're herding them through the parking lot of the slaughterhouse to get them back 00:04:02.920 --> 00:04:09.660 so they can put them in CO2 chambers that are incredibly painful. 00:04:10.420 --> 00:04:12.660 They'll burn from the inside out. 00:04:13.160 --> 00:04:16.300 Then they'll hang them upside down and bleed them. 00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:21.420 I have videos all over my channel about these chambers. 00:04:22.660 --> 00:04:28.160 They're in the Ireland talk that I just did, I just did a live stream from an England slaughterhouse. 00:04:31.820 --> 00:04:35.100 It's brutal. It's absolutely brutal. 00:04:35.900 --> 00:04:39.020 There's even one pig here who's suffering from a prolapse. 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.260 Still, they're going to make her walk to her death. 00:04:45.320 --> 00:04:47.140 This is a death march. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:52.080 If it sounds like a war zone - it is. 00:04:53.280 --> 00:04:55.220 There were some injured pigs. 00:04:56.300 --> 00:05:02.220 Who were not fit to be processed, meaning they couldn't be slaughtered for food. 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:13.060 They sat in the grass for hours. Steve Jenkins, one of Esther The Wonder Pig's fathers was there. 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:21.060 And he was begging them to allow him to take the injured pigs to sanctuary. 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:28.600 Where they could be free. Because they can't slaughter them for food. 00:05:29.380 --> 00:05:34.060 They're not fit for consumption. 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:38.840 But they wouldn't allow it. 00:05:41.400 --> 00:05:48.180 They wouldn't even show the mercy to these defective, injured pigs. 00:05:48.960 --> 00:05:53.860 So, what they did instead, is they killed them. 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:56.280 They executed them. 00:05:58.020 --> 00:06:01.580 Out in the open. Trying to hide it with cardboard. 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:04.960 These are the final moments. 00:06:07.700 --> 00:06:10.800 This might be the only time that she's ever felt the grass, 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.500 and seen the sun, and the sky. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.800 You can see the bolt gun in his hand. 00:06:24.100 --> 00:06:25.860 They're trying to hide it. 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:32.840 He just shot her. 00:06:36.840 --> 00:06:38.120 She's convulsing. 00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:47.720 She's writhing in pain. And they're trying to hide this with cardboard. 00:07:42.900 --> 00:07:53.580 So then, they take her carcass and they load her into a bin so they can throw her in the dumpster like garbage. 00:07:54.140 --> 00:07:58.580 These pigs were still alive. They could have healed. 00:07:59.220 --> 00:08:01.540 They just were too injured to walk. 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:08.740 And one of the laws is that pigs have to be able to walk themselves to their death. 00:08:09.580 --> 00:08:14.660 There is no justification for this. This is murder. 00:08:17.380 --> 00:08:23.660 There were people there willing, ready, wanting to take them to safety. 00:08:26.140 --> 00:08:29.740 To take them somewhere where they could live out their life. 00:08:31.900 --> 00:08:34.340 And they couldn't even allow that. 00:08:35.100 --> 00:08:42.160 Couldn't even give these pigs that much mercy. They weren't going to use them. 00:08:42.160 --> 00:08:46.020 They weren't going to slaughter them. They're just going to throw them in the dumpster. 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.880 And what you're seeing now is those who didn't survive the crash. 00:08:51.100 --> 00:08:59.300 All of those who died in the truck in pain, screaming, trapped. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:05.220 And just imagine - what if this was people? What if this was even dogs? 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:08.360 How would we react differently? 00:09:15.460 --> 00:09:21.700 If you wonder how this could happen, if you're wondering how people could be so heartless 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:25.960 why can't they just at least let these two pigs go? 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:36.040 If you can't comprehend how this is possible but you still eat meat, dairy, eggs, 00:09:36.340 --> 00:09:38.400 you've answered your own question. 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:46.420 This wouldn't be happening if we weren't asking for it to happen. 00:09:48.220 --> 00:09:51.420 This is the supply to our demand. 00:09:52.760 --> 00:10:01.040 It doesn't matter how humane, free-range, cage-free, this is what you're supporting. 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:06.120 I would encourage you to educate yourself. 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:10.100 There's links down in the video description, all of the information is there. 00:10:10.520 --> 00:10:13.960 The truth is there. It's not even that well-hidden. 00:10:14.580 --> 00:10:20.460 It doesn't matter how far you are from the slaughterhouse, or if you don't hear their cries. 00:10:21.740 --> 00:10:25.920 They're marched to their death for your breakfast, 00:10:27.020 --> 00:10:28.580 for your sandwich. 00:10:31.020 --> 00:10:40.580 They're shot on the side of the road, executed and thrown in a dumpster for your sausage. 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:47.640 The main reason they're trying so hard to get those pigs out of the truck 00:10:48.540 --> 00:10:52.620 is to make sure they don't lose their inventory. 00:10:53.940 --> 00:10:59.540 Try to reduce lost profits. Get them out of there as soon as possible 00:10:59.540 --> 00:11:02.340 so they're still alive so we can kill them. 00:11:03.820 --> 00:11:07.960 That's the insanity of our system. 00:11:10.520 --> 00:11:17.860 There's no excuse. There is no way to justify this. 00:11:18.660 --> 00:11:22.100 Please see the links, how to get involved, how to educate yourself. 00:11:24.180 --> 00:11:27.460 It's not rocket science. Stop eating animals. 00:11:29.540 --> 00:11:34.200 Bear witness to the reality. See the truth. Stop ignoring it. 00:11:35.260 --> 00:11:38.380 You don't have to look far, it's all around you. 00:11:39.660 --> 00:11:42.960 It's all around you, every moment of every day. 00:11:44.860 --> 00:11:46.860 It doesn't have to be this way. 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:52.160 Make your choice.