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I've Lost All Hope For Humanity...

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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.
Title:
I've Lost All Hope For Humanity...
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Video Language:
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11:54

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