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These are the Industry Standard
for animals bred as Pets,

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Food, Clothing, for
Entertainment and Research.

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Viewer discretion is advised.

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THE THREE STAGES OF
TRUTH

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1. RIDICULE

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2. VIOLENT OPPOSITION

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3. ACCEPTANCE

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EARTHLINGS

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earth'ling: n.
One who inhabits of the earth.

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Since we all inhabit the earth,
all of us are considered earthlings.

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There is no sexism, no racism or
speciesism in the term earthling.

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It encompasses each and every one of us:

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warm or cold blooded, mammal,
vertebrate or invertebrate,

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bird, reptile, amphibian, fish,
and human alike.

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Humans, therefore, being not the
only species on the planet,

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share this world with millions of other living
creatures, as we all evolve here together.

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However, it is the human earthling
who tends to dominate the earth,

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often times treating other fellow earthlings
and living beings as mere objects.

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This is what is meant by speciesism.

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FESTIVAL OF THE BULLS, SPAIN

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By analogy with racism and sexism,
the term "speciesism" is a prejudice

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or attitude of bias
in favor of the interests

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of members of one's own species and
against those of members of other species.

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If a being suffers there can be
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refusing to take that
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No matter what the nature of the
being, the principle of equality requires

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that one's suffering can be counted equally
with the like suffering of any other being.

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Racists violate the principle of
equality by giving greater eight

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to the interests of members

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of their own race when
their is a clash between their

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interests and the interests
of those of another race.

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Sexists violate the principle of
equality by favoring

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the interests of their own sex.

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Similarly, speciesists allow
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to override the greater interests
of members of other species.

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In each case, the pattern is identical.

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Though among the members of the human family
we recognize the moral imperative of respect

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(every human is a somebody, not a something),

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morally disrespectful treatment occurs
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power relationship treat the less powerful
as if they were mere objects.

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The rapist does this to the victim of rape.

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The child molester
to the child molested.

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The master to the slave.

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In each and all such cases, humans who
have power exploit those who lack it.

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Might the same be true of how humans
treat other animals, or other earthlings?

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Undoubtedly there are differences,

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since humans and animals are
not the same in all respects.

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But the question of sameness
wears another face.

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Granted, these animals do not have
all the desires we humans have;

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granted, they do not comprehend
everything we humans comprehend;

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nevertheless, we and they do have
some of the same desires

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and do comprehend some of the same things.

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The desires for food and water,
shelter and companionship,

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freedom of movement
and avoidance of pain?

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these desires are shared by
nonhuman animals and human beings.

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As for comprehension: like humans,

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many nonhuman animals understand the
world in which they live and move.

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Otherwise, they could not survive.

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So beneath the many differences,
there is sameness.

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Like us, these animals embody the
mystery and wonder of consciousness.

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Like us, they are not only in the world,
they are aware of it.

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Like us they are the psychological
centers of a life that is uniquely their own.

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In these fundamental respects humans
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with hogs and cows,
chickens and turkeys.

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What these animals are due from us,
how we morally ought to treat them,

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are questions whose answer begins
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psychological kinship with them.

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So the following film demonstrates

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in five ways just how animals
have come to serve mankind

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...lest we forget.

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Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer
wrote in his bestselling novel

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'Enemies, A Love Story' the following:

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"As often has Herman had witnessed
the slaughter of animals and fish,

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he always had the same thought:
in their behavior toward creatures,

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all men were Nazis. The smugness with
which man could do with other species

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as he pleased exemplified the most
extreme racist theories,

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the principle that might is right".

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The comparison here to the holocaust
is both intentional and obvious:

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one group of living beings anguishes beneath
the hands of another.

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Though some will argue the suffering
of animals cannot possibly compare

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with that of former Jews or slaves,
there is, in fact, a parallel.

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And for the prisoners and victims
of this mass murder, their holocaust

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is far from over.

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In his book 'The Outermost House'
author Henry Beston wrote

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"We need another and a wiser
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concept of animals.

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Remote from universal nature,
and living by complicated artifice,

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man in civilization surveys

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the creatures through
the glass of his knowledge

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and sees thereby a feather magnified
and the whole image in distortion.

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We patronize them for their incompleteness,

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for their tragic fate of having taken
form so far below ourselves.

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And therein we err, and greatly err.

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For the animal
shall not be measured by man.

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In a world older and
more complete than ours

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they move finished and complete,

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gifted with extensions of the senses
we have lost or never attained,

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living by voices we shall never hear.

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They are not brethren;
they are not underlings;

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they are other nations,

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caught with ourselves
in the net of life and time,

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fellow prisoners of the splendor
and travail of the earth".

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PART ONE: PETS

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For most of us, our relationship with animals
involves the owning of a pet or two.

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So where do our pets come from?

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Of course, one of the most obvious ways
animals serve man is as companions.

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BREEDERS

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For these pets it starts with a breeder,
though not all breeders are considered professional.

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In fact, in this profession, just about anyone
and everyone can be a breeder.

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PET STORES AND PUPPY MILLS

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For pet stores, most of their animals
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even if they may not know it.

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Puppy mills are low-budget

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commercial enterprises that breed dogs
for sale to pet shops and other buyers.

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They are often backyard operations

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that expose animals to filthy, overcrowded
conditions with no veterinary care or socialization.

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Dogs from puppy mills often exhibit

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physical and psychological
problems as they grow up.

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STRAYS

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Strays, if they are lucky,
will be picked up and taken to a

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shelter or pound, where they
can only hope to find a new home again.

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An estimated 25 million animals become
homeless every year.

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And as many as 27% of purebred dogs
are among the homeless.

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Of these 25 million homeless animals
an average of 9 million

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die on the streets from disease,

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starvation,

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exposure,

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injury, or some other hazard
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Many others are strays, some of whom were
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The remaining 16 million
die in pounds or shelters that have no

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room for them and are forced to kill them.

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Sadly, on top of all this,

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almost 50% of the animals brought to
shelters are turned in by their caretakers.

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Many people claim they don't visit shelters
because it's depressing for them.

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But the reason animals are crowded
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is because of people's refusal
to spay or neuter their pets.

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Several pet owners feel,
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that neutering a pet
emasculates the owner somehow ...

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... or they may just want their children to someday
experience the "miracle of life", so to speak.

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In either case, pet owners like these
unknowingly take part in the euthanasia

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of over 60,000 animals per day.

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Euthanasia, generally defined as the act
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is usually administered by
an injection in the leg for dogs,

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and sometimes in the
stomach for cats.

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It is a quick and painless procedure for
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but not always the most affordable.

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Due to the increase of
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and the growing, constant,
demand for drugs like Euthasol,

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some shelters with budget constraints
are forced to use gas chambers instead.

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GAS CHAMBERS

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In a gas chamber,
animals are packed very tightly

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and can take as long as
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It is, by far, less merciful,

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more traumatic and painful.

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But the procedure is less expensive.

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Perhaps some of the tough questions
we should ask ourselves about animals

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that we keep as companions are:

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Can we keep animals as companions
and still address their needs?

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Is our keeping companion animals
in their best interest,

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or are we exploiting them?

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The answers to these questions may lie
in the attitudes of the human caretakers

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and their abilities to provide suitable
environments for companion animals.

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(CYANIDE POISON)
Most human beings are speciesists.

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This film shows that ordinary
human beings (not a few exceptionally

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cruel or heartless humans, but the
overwhelming majority of people),

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take an active part in,
acquiesce in, and allow their taxes

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to pay for practices that require
the sacrifice of the most important

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interests of members of other species,
in order to promote the most

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trivial interests of our own species.

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STRAY OVERPOPULATION IN TURKEY

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The hope for the animals of tomorrow is

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to be found in a Human Culture
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We must learn empathy,

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we must learn to see into the eyes

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of an animal and feel that their
life has value because they are alive.

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PART TWO: FOOD

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"Oh, I missed. I missed you, honey.
But I'll get you again!"

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"I got you! Good boy!"

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What happens in slaughterhouses

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is a variation on the theme of the
exploitation of the weak by the strong.

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More than ten thousand times a minute,

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in excess of six billion times a
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life is literally
drained from so-called "food animals".

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Having the greater power,
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where they will die,

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and how they will die.

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The interests of these animals themselves

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play no role whatsoever
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Killing an animal is,
in itself, a troubling act.

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It has been said that if we had

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to kill our own meat, we
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Certainly very few people
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and films of slaughterhouse operations
are not popular on television.

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People might hope that the meat they buy
came from an animal who died without pain,

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but they don't really
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Yet those who, by their purchases,
require animals to be killed,

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do not deserve to be shielded from this
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of the meat they buy.

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So where does our food come from?

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For those of us living on a meat diet,
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undergoes is as follows.

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BRANDING

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For beef, the animals are all branded ...

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... in this instance, on the face.

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DEHORNING

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Dehorning usually follows.
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But rather a large pair of pliers.

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TRANSPORTATION

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In transportation, animals are packed
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practically on top of one another.

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Heat, freezing temperatures,
fatigue, trauma, and health conditions

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will kill some of these animals
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MILKING

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Milking cows are kept chained

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to their stalls all day
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Pesticides and antibiotics are also
used to increase their milk productivity.

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Eventually, milking cows,
like this one, collapse from exhaustion.

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Normally, cows can live
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but milking cows
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At which point, their meat is
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MEAT

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At this slaughterhouse,

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the branded and dehorned
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CAPTIVE BOLTS

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The captive bolt gun, which was designed

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to reduce animals unconscious
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fires a steel bolt, that is powered
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right into the animal's brain.

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BLEEDING

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Though various methods of slaughter
are used, in this Massachusetts facility,

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the cattle is hoisted up
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Along with the meat, their blood will
be used as well.

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Though the animal has received
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which is supposed to have rendered him

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or her senseless ... as you can see
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This is not uncommon.

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Sometimes they are still alive
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and are well on their way down
the assembly line to be butchered.

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KNOCKING BOXES

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KOSHER SLAUGHTER

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This is the largest glatt kosher
meat plant in the United States.

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Glatt, the Yiddish word for "smooth",
means the highest standard of cleanliness ...

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... and rules for kosher
butchering require minimal suffering.

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The use of electric prods
on immobilized animals is a violation.

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SHEKHITA - RITUAL SLAUGHTER

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Inverting frightened animals
for the slaughterer's convenience

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is also a violation.

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The inversion process causes cattle to
aspirate blood, or breath it in, after incision.

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Ripping the trachea and esophagi
from their throats is another

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egregious violation, since kosher
animals are not to be touched ...

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... until bleeding stops.

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And by dumping struggling
and dying steers through metal chutes

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onto blood soaked floors,

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with their breathing tubes
and gullets dangling out,

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this "sacred task" is neither
clean or compassionate.

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Shackling and hoisting is
ruled yet another violation,

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nor does it correspond to the
kosher way of treating animals.

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If this was kosher, death was
neither quick nor merciful.

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VEAL

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Veal, taken from their mothers
within two days of birth, are tied

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at the neck and kept restricted
to keep muscles from developing.

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Fed an iron-deficient liquid diet,

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denied bedding,
water, and light,

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after four months of this miserable
existence they are slaughtered.

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PIGS

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Sows in factory farms are
breeding machines, kept

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continually pregnant by means
of artificial insemination.

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Large pig market factories
will "manufacture",

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as they like to call it, between 50,000
and 600,000 pigs a year... each.

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FACTORY CONDITIONS

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GESTATION CRATES

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RUPTURES & ABSCESSES

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CANIBALISM

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WASTE PITS

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Tail docking is a practice derived
from the lack of space and stressful

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living conditions so as to keep pigs
from biting each other's tails off.

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This is done without anesthetic.

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EAR CLIPPING

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Ear clipping is a similar procedure,
also administered without anesthetic.

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As well as teeth-cutting.

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CASTRATION

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Castration is also done without
painkillers or anesthetic, and will

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supposedly produce a more
fatty grade of meat.

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ELECTRIC PRODS

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The electric prods are used for
obvious reasons: handling.

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ELECTROCUTION

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Electrocution is another method
of slaughter, as seen here.

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THROAT SLITTING

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Throat slitting, however,

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is still the least expensive
way to kill an animal.

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BOILING AND HAIR REMOVAL

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After knife sticking, pigs are shackled,

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suspended on a bleed-rail and immersed
in scalding tanks to remove their bristle.

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Many are still struggling as they are dunked
upside down in tanks of steaming water,

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where they are submerged and drowned.

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POULTRY

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In regard to poultry, Americans currently
consume as much chicken in a single day

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as they did in an entire year in 1930.

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The largest broiler companies
in the world now slaughter more than

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8.5 million birds in a single week.

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DEBEAKING

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Debeaking prevents feather-pecking
and cannibalism in frustrated chickens,

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caused by over-crowding in single areas, where
they are unable to establish a social order.

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Today, done with infant chicks,
the procedure is carried out very quickly,

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about 15 birds a minute.

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Such haste means the temperature and
sharpness of the blade varies, resulting in

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sloppy cutting and serious
injury to the bird.

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LIVING CONDITIONS

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As for their living conditions, anywhere
from sixty to ninety thousand birds can be

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crowded together in a single building.

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The suffering for these animals is
unrelenting. It is a way of life.

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Although their beaks are severed,
they attempt to peck each other.

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For hens, they live in a laying warehouse,
crammed inside so-called "battery cages".

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BATTERY CAGES

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Many lose their feathers and develop
sores from rubbing against the wire cage.

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Crowding prevents them from
spreading their wings, and the hens cannot

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even fulfill minimal natural instincts.

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TRANSPORTATION

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During transportation,
all animals suffer, and many die.

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And they suffocate when other
animals pile on top of them

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in overcrowded, poorly loaded cages.

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SLAUGHTER

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"THE HANG PEN"
MOOREFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA

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Chickens and turkeys are
slaughtered in numerous ways.

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Some may be clubbed to death
or have their heads cut off.

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But most are brought through
the assembly lines of factory farms.

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Dangled upside down on a conveyor belt,
their throats are slit,

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and they are left to bleed to death.

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Others may be placed head-first
in tubes to restrict their movement

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while they slowly bleed to death.

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Surely, if slaughterhouses had glass walls,
would not all of us be vegetarians?

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But slaughterhouses do not have glass walls.

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The architecture of slaughter is opaque,
designed in the interest of denial,

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to insure that we will not see even if
we wanted to look. And who wants to look?

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"Go mother fucker!
Don't fuckin' stop".

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"Let's go, let's go!!!
Come on, bitch!"

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It was Emerson who observed,
more than a hundred years ago,

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"You have dined, and however scrupulously
the slaughterhouse is concealed in

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the graceful distance of miles,
there is complicity".

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SEA FOOD

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And for those who think eating seafood
is "healthier" than land animals,

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just remember how much irretrievable
waste and contaminated sediments

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are dumped into our oceans.

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In the past ... oil ... nuclear ... and chemical
industries have done little for the

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protection of marine environments ...

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... and dumping on or under the seabed has
always proved a convenient place

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to dispose of inconvenient wastes.

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COMMERCIAL FISHING

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Today's commercial fishers intensify
this situation on massive scales.

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They use vast factory
trawlers the size of

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football fields and advanced electronic
equipment to track and catch fish.

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Huge nets stretch across the ocean,
swallowing up everything in their path.

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These factory trawlers, coupled with
our increased appetites for seafood,

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are emptying the oceans of
sea life at an alarming pace.

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Already, thirteen of the seventeen major global
fisheries are depleted or in serious decline.

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The other four are
overexploited or fully exploited.

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DISEASE

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The recent outbreak of Pfiesteria,

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a microorganism 1,000 time
more potent than cyanide,

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spawned from millions of gallons of
raw hog feces and urine, poured into rivers,

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lakes, and oceans, turning their
ecosystems into unflushed toilets,

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is proving the most alarming.

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Threatening sea life and humans alike,
Pfiesteria has killed over 1 billion fish,

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the southeast's largest fishkill on record,

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and it's spreading.

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Traces of Pfiesteria have already been found
from Long Island to the Florida Gulf,

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at distances of up to 1,000 miles.

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In fact, this water-based
Pfiesteria invasion

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stands as one of the worst outbreaks of
a virulent microorganism in U.S history.

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It is a Level Three
Biohazard. Ebola is a Four. AIDS is a two.

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And this bug mutated as a direct result
of our mass consumption of animals,

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particularly pork.

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With hog farms fattening millions of pigs for
slaughter, grain goes in and waste comes out.

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HURRICANE FLOYD
NORTH CAROLINA, 1999

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This waste finds its way into our oceans and
water-supply systems,

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contaminating the animals that live in it,

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as well as those that eat from it.

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WHALING

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Finally, whaling.

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Though the International Whaling Commission
prohibited commercial whaling in 1985,

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many countries continue to kill
whales for their so-called "exotic meat".

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They use harpoons,

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firearms,

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blunt hooks,

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even explosives,

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or drive them into
authorized whaling bays

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where they are made to beach and can
be killed with knives in the shallows.

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DOLPHINS

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Every winter, between the months of October
through March, thousands of dolphins are

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confined and brutally killed
in small towns across Japan.

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Sounding rods beneath the water's surface
interfere with the dolphin's sonar.

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Once disoriented and enclosed
within the nets, the dolphins panic.

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Fisherman often injure a few captive dolphins
with a spear thrust or knife slash ...

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since dolphins never abandon
wounded family members.

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Mothers and babies call out in
distress as they are separated,

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hoisted up and dragged off
... soon to be mercilessly hacked to death.

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these are benign and innocent beings ...

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... and they deserve better.

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Yet here, as they lay
stricken and needful,

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wreathing helplessly on cement
floors, they are cut open with machetes

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and left to slowly suffocate ...

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... convulsing and contorting in the throes
of agony ... while school children walk on by.

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Such images of slaughter and bloody red water
clearly show the Japanese government has

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little respect for the state of the world's
oceans with their inhumane methods of

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fishing ... often in violation of international
treaties, laws and conventions designed

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to protect over-exploiting the oceans ...

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... and the creatures that live in them.

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Dolphin meat is later sold in
markets and restaurants,

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though often mislabeled as "whale meat".

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But as though cruelty toward animals
raised for food wasn't enough,

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we've also found ways of making
use of them for all our clothes.

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Jackets, shoes, belts, gloves,
pants, wallets, purses, and so on,

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the next question is obviously:
where do our clothes come from?

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PART TREE: CLOTHES

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(LEATHER)

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The demand for leather comes primarily from
the United States, Germany, and the U.K.

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Just about everybody wears it,

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with little or no thought of
where it came from.

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(INDIA COWS)

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Thousands of India cows are
slaughtered each week for their skins,

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purchased from poor families
in part of rural India who sell them

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only after the assurance that the
animals will live out their lives on farms.

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SHOEING AND ROPING

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To relocate the animals to
a state where they can legally be killed,

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since cattle slaughter
is forbidden in most of India,

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the animals must be shoed and roped together
in preparation for a harrowing "death march",

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which could last for several days.

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(TRANSPORTATION AND FATIGUE)

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Forced to walk through the heat and dust without
food or water, coupled with the sheer stress of

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this terrifying experience for them, many of
the animals collapse and are unable to continue.

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Bear in mind that most of the cattle are
being placed in a truck for the first time in

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their lives and are likely to be frightened,

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especially if they have been handled hastily
or roughly by the men loading the trucks.

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The noise and motion of the truck itself

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is also a new experience;
one which makes them ill.

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After one or two days inside the truck without
food or water, they are desperately thirsty

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and hungry, especially since it is normal for
such cows to eat frequently throughout the day.

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TAIL BREAKING

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But when the cattle become weary and grow
faint, the bones in their tales are broken in

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an effort to get them back up on their feet.

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This is done by repeatedly pinching the
tail in several areas.

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HANDLERS

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Handlers must constantly
keep the cattle moving,

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pulling them by nose ropes,

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twisting their necks,

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horns, or tails.

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They lead, or rather force,

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the cattle down embankments and
in and out of trucks without ramps,

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causing injuries like
broken pelvises, legs, ribs, and horns.

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CHILI PEPPER

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Chili pepper and tobacco are also used

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This practice is done by rubbing the pepper
directly into their eyes, in order to stimulate

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the animal back onto his or her feet.

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SLAUGHTER

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And all this before the slaughter.

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As many as half of the animals will
already be dead by the time they

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arrive at the slaughterhouse.

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But to make the experience even more
traumatic and terrifying, they are

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often killed in full view of each other.

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And instead of the required "quick slice"
across the throat with a sharp knife,

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they are generally killed through
hacking and sawing with a dull blade.

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TANNING

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Afterwards, the skins from these animals
are sent to tanneries that use deadly

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substances like Chromium and other toxins
to stop decomposition.

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Remember, leather is dead flesh.

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It is dead skin, and, therefore, natural for
it to decompose and rot away unless treated

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with such potent substances as these.

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And for people, the health effects of
such chemicals in tanneries, in lieu of the

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continued demand for leather goods, is
yet another issue.

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RETAIL

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Ultimately, leather from Indian cattle
make their way to clothing stores

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all around the world.

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Most major chains sell Indian leather ...

474
00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:06,100
... leather that comes from completely
different cows than those we eat.

475
00:52:06,100 --> 00:52:07,600
FUR

476
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,900
And what about fur?

477
00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:13,900
Over 100 million wild
animals are murdered

478
00:52:13,900 --> 00:52:18,900
for their pelts every year, 25
million in the United States alone.

479
00:52:18,900 --> 00:52:24,600
These animals, obtained by hunting and trapping,
are kept on fur farms in conditions like these.

480
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,600
CAGE MADNESS

481
00:52:29,100 --> 00:52:36,100
Naturally, these undomesticated, wild animals
are not accustomed to being caged,

482
00:52:36,100 --> 00:52:40,800
and cage madness develops when frightened
and frustrated animals are driven crazy

483
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,600
from the stress of confinement.

484
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:47,600
These wild, free-roaming animals,

485
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:52,100
and their offspring, find themselves
unable to live a natural life,

486
00:52:52,100 --> 00:52:58,300
can never take even a few steps
or feel the earth beneath their feet.

487
00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:03,500
Instead, they are reduced to
scratching, circling and pacing endlessly.

488
00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:05,500
(INJURIES AND SLOW DEATH)

489
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:08,800
The physical injuries these
animals endure on fur farms ...

490
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,400
involve broken and exposed bones ...

491
00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:18,600
... blindness ...

492
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,900
... ear infections ...

493
00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:24,800
... dehydration and malnutrition ...

494
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,500
... exposure to freezing temperatures ...

495
00:53:28,500 --> 00:53:31,400
... lack of veterinary care ...

496
00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:35,500
... and slow death.

497
00:53:41,700 --> 00:53:43,700
(KILLING)

498
00:53:43,700 --> 00:53:46,300
No laws indicate the killing of
animals on fur farms, therefore,

499
00:53:46,300 --> 00:53:50,700
the least expensive methods
are the most appealing.

500
00:53:50,700 --> 00:53:55,600
Carbon monoxide poisoning,
Strychnine, suffocation,

501
00:53:55,600 --> 00:54:02,500
breaking the neck, and anal electrocution
are some of the more common methods used.

502
00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:08,600
Removed from his or her cage with a heavy
neck-pole, the animal is walked past

503
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:16,400
the rows of bodies of slaughtered foxes,
sables, raccoons and wolves, among others.

504
00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:21,700
Death by anal electrocution is a crude
process that requires a probe to be inserted

505
00:54:21,700 --> 00:54:27,800
in the rectum while the animal
bites down on a metal conductor.

506
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:41,400
Often times this inept procedure must
be repeated to actually kill the animal.

507
00:54:52,200 --> 00:55:01,300
And the skinned carcasses seen here will later
be ground up and fed to the animals still caged.

508
00:55:01,300 --> 00:55:05,100
CHINESE FUR FARM

509
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:38,500
CANADIAN SEAL HUNT

510
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:30,600
- How much is this one?

511
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,800
- This is... $49,500

512
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,300
PART FOUR: ENTERTAINMENT

513
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:42,000
And so we move on to entertainment.

514
00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:46,400
Mark Twain once said,

515
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:52,300
"Of all the creatures ever made
he (man) is the most detestable.

516
00:56:52,300 --> 00:56:59,700
He's the only creature that inflicts
pain for sport, knowing it to be pain".

517
00:57:02,100 --> 00:57:04,300
RODEOS

518
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:11,100
In rodeos, bulls and broncos don't buck because
they're wild, but because they're in pain.

519
00:57:11,100 --> 00:57:13,900
A belt, called a flank strap or a
bucking strap, is secured around

520
00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:17,600
the animal's body over the genital area.

521
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,200
As the animal leaves the chute, a tight
jerk on the belt is enough

522
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,700
to start him bucking in pain.

523
00:57:27,500 --> 00:57:32,000
Apart from other injuries animals
incur at rodeos ...

524
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,600
... such as broken legs ...

525
00:57:36,700 --> 00:57:40,400
... they are also worked up by being slapped ...

526
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:41,700
... teased ...

527
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,200
... given electric prods ...

528
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,500
... and otherwise tormented ...

529
00:57:46,500 --> 00:57:50,500
... to bolt out of the chute in a frenzy.

530
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:36,700
ROPING

531
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:49,800
Roping, as seen here, involves throwing a rope
around the neck of a frightened animal running

532
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:58,300
full speed, jerking the poor creature to
a halt, and slamming him or her to the ground.

533
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:10,600
GAMBLING

534
00:59:11,100 --> 00:59:13,500
Like any other business, dog racing
and horse racing are industries motivated

535
00:59:13,500 --> 00:59:15,900
by a common denominator:

536
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:17,100
profit.

537
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:29,800
FAIR GROUNDS

538
00:59:30,100 --> 00:59:35,400
At fair grounds across the country,
animals are used to race,

539
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,200
bet with, and spectate over.

540
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:45,200
Training for these events is accomplished
by withholding food and sometimes water.

541
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:49,900
These animals ... unfamiliar with their
surroundings ... the noise ... the crowds ...

542
00:59:49,900 --> 00:59:59,200
even what they're supposed to be doing ...
are all-too-often injured and discarded ...

543
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:06,200
(PIGEON BOWLING)
in pointless ... trivial ... outlandish contests
... designed to make profits and entertain.

544
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,800
HUNTING

545
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:16,600
Besides loss of habitat, hunting
is the number one threat to wildlife today.

546
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:21,200
Hunters kill over 200 million
animals every year.

547
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:27,200
Deer, rabbits, and squirrels top the list of
desirable targets.

548
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:33,900
There is no denying it, if hunting is a
sport it is a bloodsport.

549
01:00:33,900 --> 01:00:36,200
The targets are living,

550
01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:39,700
and they undergo violent deaths.

551
01:00:50,700 --> 01:00:52,200
FISHING

552
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:59,400
Fishing is also a death sport,
wherein the nonhuman animal suffers.

553
01:01:00,500 --> 01:01:07,800
Researchers have distinguished that fish show
pain behavior the same way mammals do.

554
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:12,100
Anatomically, physiologically,

555
01:01:12,100 --> 01:01:17,400
and biologically, the pain system in fish is
virtually the same as in birds and mammals.

556
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,200
In other words, fish are sentient organisms,

557
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:23,000
so of course they feel pain.

558
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,800
For those who think fish die

559
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:38,800
"gentler" deaths, consider that their
sensory organs are highly developed,

560
01:01:38,900 --> 01:01:44,600
their nervous systems complex,
their nerve cells very similar to our own,

561
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:50,400
and their responses to certain stimuli
immediate and vigorous.

562
01:01:51,700 --> 01:01:54,800
CIRCUSES

563
01:01:57,900 --> 01:02:03,600
When going to the circus, rarely do
we stop for a moment and consider:

564
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:09,200
What incites an animal to do something unnatural,
even dangerous, such as jumping through

565
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:17,700
flames, balancing on one foot, or diving into
water from shaky platforms high in the air?

566
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,900
Animal trainers would
like for the public to

567
01:02:29,900 --> 01:02:37,500
believe that animals are coaxed into such
behaviors with the promise of rewards.

568
01:02:38,500 --> 01:02:44,900
But the truth is that animals
perform because they fear punishment.

569
01:02:56,200 --> 01:03:00,500
In essence, circuses condemn animal

570
01:03:00,500 --> 01:03:05,500
who are wild by nature to live out their
days isolated in tiny, barren cages,

571
01:03:05,500 --> 01:03:09,500
denied normal exercise and socialization,

572
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:16,500
shuttled around from place to place,

573
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:21,500
WINTER QUARTERS

574
01:03:24,100 --> 01:03:29,300
and shackled in chains
for up to 95% of their lives.

575
01:03:31,300 --> 01:03:33,800
TRAINING

576
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:40,600
"Elephants are taught to perform with
positive reinforcement, and never hit".

577
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:46,400
"Never hit. Never, never, never

578
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:53,900
will you see anyone use the ankus as
anything other than a guide or a tool".

579
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:16,200
Dominance, subservience, and pain
are integral parts of the training process.

580
01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:47,500
- Hurt him. Don't touch him!

581
01:04:47,500 --> 01:04:49,000
Make him scream!

582
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:53,600
If you're scared to hurt him,
don't come in this room.

583
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:57,500
When I say rip his fuckin' ---
you know how I am about touchin' him, right?

584
01:04:57,500 --> 01:05:01,800
So if I say rip his head off ...
rip his fuckin' foot off, what does that mean?

585
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,900
Because it's very important to do it, right?
When he starts squirming too fuckin' much -

586
01:05:04,900 --> 01:05:08,600
both fuckin' hands - BOOM!
Right under that chin!

587
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:10,900
Sit ... and he better back up.

588
01:05:10,900 --> 01:05:13,400
Then when he fucks around too much,
don't grab that leg ...

589
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:19,000
... you fuckin' sink that hook and give everything
you've got ... and when it's in there go, ee-eeee-ee!!!

590
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,100
And he's gonna start screaming.

591
01:05:21,100 --> 01:05:26,900
When you hear that screaming, then you know
you've got their attention a little fuckin' bit!

592
01:05:26,900 --> 01:05:30,800
Right here in the barn.
Can't do it on the road.

593
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:35,400
She's gonna fuckin' do what I want.
And that's just the fuckin' way it is.

594
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,200
Alright, let's go.

595
01:05:37,700 --> 01:05:39,100
Becky! Becky!!!

596
01:05:42,500 --> 01:05:44,300
You motherfucker.

597
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:49,500
Get your motherfuckin' --- get up here!

598
01:05:49,500 --> 01:05:50,700
Motherfucker!

599
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:54,000
Come here, Becky.

600
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,100
Move up, Becky.

601
01:05:58,300 --> 01:05:59,800
Move up, Becky.

602
01:06:02,900 --> 01:06:04,200
Alright, tubs.

603
01:06:04,700 --> 01:06:06,300
Tubs!

604
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:10,700
Hey, get loony.

605
01:06:10,700 --> 01:06:12,400
Hey, Becky.
Go on, move up.

606
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:13,700
Hey, I'm alive.

607
01:06:13,700 --> 01:06:15,000
I'm not a dead man.

608
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:15,900
Move up.

609
01:06:16,300 --> 01:06:17,800
Come in line.

610
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:19,800
Come in line, Becky.

611
01:06:20,100 --> 01:06:21,300
Motherfucker!

612
01:06:21,300 --> 01:06:23,100
Move, motherfucker!

613
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:30,800
Yeah, come in line. Come here, Tommy.

614
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:39,500
Why do they have to go through that because
you motherfuckers don't want to listen?

615
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:42,000
Back up.

616
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:48,500
You got a pussy-ass fuckin' attitude,
it's just the way they die.

617
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:57,300
We know animals feel.

618
01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:06,700
They feel fear, loneliness, and
pain, just like humans do.

619
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:11,600
What animal would choose to
spend their entire life in captivity ...

620
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,300
... if they had a choice?

621
01:07:14,300 --> 01:07:17,200
RETALIATION

622
01:08:31,500 --> 01:08:33,400
- On the count of three.

623
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:34,100
One.

624
01:08:35,100 --> 01:08:35,900
Two.

625
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:37,000
Tree.

626
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,700
Take him.
You've got to shoot.

627
01:09:06,300 --> 01:09:07,900
ZOOS

628
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:16,600
Are zoos valuable educational
and conservation institutions?

629
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,600
Sure, zoos are interesting, but they are
only educational in the sense that they

630
01:09:20,700 --> 01:09:26,200
teach a disregard for the
natures of other living beings.

631
01:09:27,300 --> 01:09:34,500
Besides, what can we learn about
wild animals by viewing them in captivity?

632
01:09:35,900 --> 01:09:41,100
Zoos exist because we
are intrigued by exotic things,

633
01:09:41,100 --> 01:09:46,300
and to zoo-goers,
zoo animals are just that: things.

634
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:52,600
In both cases, at circuses or zoos,

635
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:56,900
wild and exotic animals
are captured, caged,

636
01:09:56,900 --> 01:10:02,900
transported and trained ... to
do what humans want them to do.

637
01:10:06,100 --> 01:10:08,700
BULLFIGHTING

638
01:10:09,100 --> 01:10:12,900
At best, the term "bullfighting"
is a misnomer,

639
01:10:12,900 --> 01:10:16,800
as there is little competition
between the sword of a nimble matador

640
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,200
(which is Spanish for killer),

641
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:26,800
and a confused, maimed, psychologically
tormented, and physically debilitated bull.

642
01:10:28,500 --> 01:10:31,800
Many prominent former
bullfighters report

643
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:36,200
that bulls are intentionally debilitated
with tranquilizers and laxatives,

644
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:45,000
beatings to the kidneys, and heavy weights hung
around their necks for weeks before a fight.

645
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:51,700
Some of the animals are placed in darkness
for 48 hours before the confrontation,

646
01:10:51,700 --> 01:10:56,300
then are released
blinded into the bright arena.

647
01:10:57,900 --> 01:11:03,100
In a typical event, the bull enters and
is approached by men who exhaust and

648
01:11:03,100 --> 01:11:09,900
frustrate him by running him in
circles and tricking him into collisions.

649
01:11:09,900 --> 01:11:12,700
When the bull is tired and out of breath,

650
01:11:12,700 --> 01:11:18,500
he is approached by picadors, who
drive lances into his back and neck muscles,

651
01:11:18,500 --> 01:11:22,500
twisting and gouging to ensure
a significant amount of blood loss,

652
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:27,600
and impairing the bull's
ability to lift his head.

653
01:11:27,900 --> 01:11:30,600
Then come the banderilleros

654
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:37,400
who distract and dart around the bull
while plunging more lances into him.

655
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:40,200
Weakened from blood loss,

656
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:45,600
they run the bull in more circles
until he is dizzy and stops chasing.

657
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:51,100
Finally, the matador, this "killer",
appears and, after provoking a few exhausted

658
01:11:51,100 --> 01:11:57,900
charges from the dying animal,
tries to kill the bull with his sword.

659
01:11:59,300 --> 01:12:04,500
And this bloody form of amusement ...
is bullfighting.

660
01:12:05,900 --> 01:12:10,300
The pleasure derived from all these
activities and sports

661
01:12:10,300 --> 01:12:13,400
(a communion with nature, some would say),

662
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:18,400
can be secured without
harming or killing animals.

663
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:22,400
The commercial exploitation of wildlife
erroneously assumes that the value of wild

664
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:27,400
animals is reducible to their
utility relative to human interests,

665
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,600
especially economic interests.

666
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:40,800
But wild animals are not a renewable resource,
having value only relative to human interests.

667
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:47,000
That perception
can only be that of a speciesist.

668
01:12:51,300 --> 01:12:55,000
(SEAL HARVEST, ST. PAUL ISLAND)
Nevertheless, these practices exist

669
01:12:55,000 --> 01:13:01,600
only because we do not take
seriously the interests of other animals.

670
01:13:05,100 --> 01:13:11,500
In this light, are humans not
the most callous speciesists of all?

671
01:13:12,900 --> 01:13:17,200
PART FIVE: SCIENCE

672
01:13:20,500 --> 01:13:22,500
VIVISECTION

673
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:26,800
The term vivisection is used
to apply to all types of experiments

674
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:33,000
on living animals and is said to be
a form of medical science.

675
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,700
The reason for experimentation of this

676
01:13:35,700 --> 01:13:42,300
type is to allegedly discover cures
for human ailments and illnesses.

677
01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:48,200
But those who hope to find remedies
for human ills by inflicting deliberate

678
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:52,800
sufferings on animals commit
two fundamental errors in understanding.

679
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:54,600
The first is the assumption

680
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:59,400
that results obtained on animals
are applicable to mankind.

681
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:01,500
The second concerns the inevitable

682
01:14:01,500 --> 01:14:07,300
fallacy of experimental science in
respect to the field of organic life.

683
01:14:07,300 --> 01:14:11,900
Since animals react differently
from human beings ... every new product

684
01:14:11,900 --> 01:14:14,600
or method tried out on animals must be tried

685
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:22,500
out again on man ... through careful clinical
tests, before it can be considered safe.

686
01:14:22,500 --> 01:14:25,600
This rule knows no exceptions.

687
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:30,800
Tests on animals are not only dangerous
because they lead to wrong conclusions

688
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:34,800
but, furthermore,
they retard clinical investigation -

689
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:37,900
which is the only valid kind.

690
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:41,300
Just remember the fact that any disease

691
01:14:41,300 --> 01:14:47,700
deliberately provoked is unlike any
disease that arises spontaneously.

692
01:14:47,700 --> 01:14:50,600
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

693
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:54,200
Unfortunately, such
methods still sail today

694
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:56,000
under the flag of science

695
01:14:56,000 --> 01:15:02,500
- which is an insult to true science,
as well as human intelligence.

696
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:18,900
And so vivisection applies to medical
experiments ...

697
01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:24,900
... done with the administration of noxious
substances ...

698
01:15:28,700 --> 01:15:32,000
... electric or traumatic shocks ...

699
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:45,500
... unanesthetized operations ...

700
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:57,800
... burns ...

701
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,500
... drawn-out deprivations of food and drink ...

702
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:37,400
... physical and psychological tortures ...

703
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:39,300
... that lead to mental imbalance ...

704
01:16:39,300 --> 01:16:42,000
... infections ... and so on.

705
01:16:43,700 --> 01:16:47,700
(UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)
Head injury research involves partially

706
01:16:47,700 --> 01:16:51,200
or fully conscious baboons
strapped down with restraints ...

707
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:54,000
... and their heads
cemented into a metal helmet,

708
01:16:54,000 --> 01:17:01,300
which will be thrust at a 60
degree angle at a force of up to 1,000 Gs.

709
01:17:28,100 --> 01:17:32,500
The purpose of this experiment
is to simulate auto crashes ...

710
01:17:32,500 --> 01:17:37,700
... football ... boxing ...
and other head related injuries.

711
01:17:37,700 --> 01:17:44,300
And this process is often repeated
again and again on the same animals.

712
01:17:44,300 --> 01:17:45,900
MILITARY RESEARCH

713
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And finally, military research.

714
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,200
This one speaks for itself.

715
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:57,200
>From sending monkeys into outer space,

716
01:17:57,700 --> 01:18:01,700
and testing atomic blasts on helpless dogs,

717
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to exposing primates to nuclear radiation.

718
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:10,300
Twenty years ago, the number of animals

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dying of tortures through the practice
of vivisection was astronomical,

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estimated at 400,000 per day world wide,

721
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and growing at an annual rate of five percent.

722
01:18:23,300 --> 01:18:25,400
Today that number is almost

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beyond comprehension. 19,000
per minute. 10 billion per year.

724
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:40,800
Some uneducated persons pretend to

725
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:47,700
know that less intelligent animals
don't feel pain the same way we do.

726
01:18:47,700 --> 01:18:53,900
In truth, we know very little about how
specific animals may "feel",

727
01:18:53,900 --> 01:18:58,900
except that they must also submit to
the universal law that causes every

728
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organism dying by unnatural means to
suffer greatly before that final release.

729
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,600
But it's nonsense to
say that the animals

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do not suffer because they have
a lower order of intelligence.

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FORCE-FEEDING GEESE
"FOIE GRAS"

732
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Pain is pain,
conveyed by nerves to the brain,

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and there are other nerves
than those of intelligence...

734
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...nerves such as sight,
smell, touch, and hearing.

735
01:19:35,900 --> 01:19:43,300
And in some animals these nerves
are much more highly developed than in man.

736
01:19:45,700 --> 01:19:48,400
We know that there
has never been an epoch

737
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in which we could learn something about
the physiology of man by torturing animals;

738
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we only learned
something about animals.

739
01:19:58,300 --> 01:20:02,700
And if there is something we can learn
from them on the psychological level,

740
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it is not by means of steel or electricity,
much less so through psychic violences.

741
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:14,000
The systematic torture of sentient beings,

742
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whatever the pretext and in whatever form,
cannot achieve anything more than it already has:

743
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to show us what is the
lowest point of debasement man can reach.

744
01:20:31,500 --> 01:20:34,900
If that's what
we want to know.

745
01:20:35,500 --> 01:20:42,700
"As long as there are slaughterhouses,
there will be battlefields".

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01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,800
- Leo Tolstoy

747
01:21:01,900 --> 01:21:06,300
Ignorance is the speciesist's
first line of defense.

748
01:21:06,300 --> 01:21:13,400
Yet it is easily breached by anyone with the
time and determination to find out the truth.

749
01:21:13,400 --> 01:21:21,800
Ignorance has prevailed so long only because
people do not want to find out the truth.

750
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,400
"Don't tell me, you'll spoil my dinner"

751
01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:30,800
is the usual reply to any attempt to tell
someone just how that dinner was produced.

752
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:32,800
Even people who are aware that

753
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:38,700
the traditional family farm has been
taken over by big business interests...

754
01:21:38,700 --> 01:21:43,700
...that their clothes come from slaughtered
cows, that their entertainment means the

755
01:21:43,700 --> 01:21:47,700
suffering and death of millions of
animals... and that some questionable

756
01:21:47,900 --> 01:21:50,300
experiments go on in laboratories,

757
01:21:50,300 --> 01:21:56,100
still cling to a vague belief
that conditions cannot be too bad,

758
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(PREGNAT MARE URINE AKA: "PREMARIN")

759
01:22:00,700 --> 01:22:03,500
or else the government or the animal welfare
societies would have done something about it.

760
01:22:03,500 --> 01:22:10,200
But it is not the inability to find out what
is going on as much as a desire not to know about

761
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facts that may lie heavy on one's conscience
that is responsible for this lack of awareness -

762
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- after all, the victims of whatever it is that goes on in
all these awful places

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are not members of one's own group.

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01:22:33,900 --> 01:22:37,200
It all comes down to pain and suffering.

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Not intelligence, not strength,
not social class or civil right.

766
01:22:43,300 --> 01:22:48,000
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad
and should be prevented or minimized,

767
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irrespective of the race, sex,
or species of the being that suffers.

768
01:22:57,100 --> 01:23:00,300
We are all creatures.

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And non-human animals experience
sensations just like we do.

770
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:12,500
They too are strong, intelligent,
industrious, mobile, and evolutional.

771
01:23:12,500 --> 01:23:15,700
They too are capable of
growth and adaptation.

772
01:23:15,700 --> 01:23:20,200
Like us, first and foremost,
they are earthlings.

773
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:23,300
And like us, they are surviving.

774
01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:29,900
Like us, they also seek their own comfort
rather than discomfort.

775
01:23:29,900 --> 01:23:34,300
And like us, they express degrees
of emotion.

776
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In short, like us, they are alive;

777
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most of them being, in fact,
vertebrae, just like us.

778
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:09,700
As we look back on how essential
animals are to human survival;

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01:24:09,700 --> 01:24:12,600
our absolute dependence on them

780
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:15,000
(for companionship ... food ...

781
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:16,400
... clothing ...

782
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... sport and entertainment ...

783
01:24:19,300 --> 01:24:23,300
... as well as medical and scientific research),

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ironically ... we only see mankind's complete
disrespect for these non-human providers.

785
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:35,400
Without a doubt, this must be what it is...

786
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:39,000
... to "bite the hand that feeds us".

787
01:24:41,100 --> 01:24:46,000
In fact, we have actually stomped
and spit on it.

788
01:24:48,500 --> 01:24:52,100
Now we are faced
with the inevitable aftermath.

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01:24:52,100 --> 01:24:57,200
This is evident in health reports due to
our over-excessive consumption of animals.

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Cancer,

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heart disease,

792
01:24:59,900 --> 01:25:01,300
Osteoporosis,

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strokes,

794
01:25:02,900 --> 01:25:04,400
kidney stones,

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Anemia,

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diabetes, and more.

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01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:18,100
Even our food has now been effected ...
and at its very source.

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With antibiotics used to
promote weight gain in animals

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(who can't gain weight under the stressful,
overcrowded living conditions in factory farms);

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with the over-use of
pesticides and insecticides;

801
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:33,300
or artificial hormones

802
01:25:33,300 --> 01:25:39,000
(designed to increase milk
production, litter size and frequency);

803
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:44,500
with artificial colors,
herbicides, larvicides,

804
01:25:44,500 --> 01:25:52,400
synthetic fertilizers, tranquilizers,
growth and appetite stimulants ...

805
01:25:52,700 --> 01:25:56,600
... it's no wonder that Mad Cow Disease ...
Foot and Mouth Disease ... Pfiesteria ...

806
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:59,400
and a host of other animal related
abnormalities have been

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(POLLUTION)
unleashed on the human public.

808
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:08,000
Nature is not responsible for these actions.

809
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,500
(DEFORESTATION)
We are.

810
01:26:15,700 --> 01:26:20,800
So a change is inevitable.
Either we make it ourselves,

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or we will be forced to
make it by Nature Itself.

812
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,400
The time has come for each of us
to reconsider our eating habits,

813
01:26:29,500 --> 01:26:31,000
our traditions,

814
01:26:31,500 --> 01:26:33,700
our lifestyles and fashions,

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and above all,
our way of thinking.

816
01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:47,700
So, if there is any truth
to the age-old saying,

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"What goes around, comes around",
then what do they get for their pain?

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01:26:53,700 --> 01:26:57,700
Do we even give it a second thought?

819
01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:04,800
If what goes around comes around,
what do they get for their pain?

820
01:27:07,300 --> 01:27:09,500
They are earthlings.

821
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They have the right to be here
just as much as humans do.

822
01:27:16,700 --> 01:27:21,800
Perhaps the answer is found
in another age-old saying ...

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... and one equally true:

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We reap just what we sow.

825
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So of course, animals feel,
and of course they experience pain.

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After all, has nature endowed these
wonderful animals with well-springs of sentiment

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so that they should not feel ...

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... or do animals have nerves
in order to be insensitive?

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Reason demands a better answer.

830
01:28:06,500 --> 01:28:13,400
But one thing is absolutely certain:
animals used for food, used for clothing,

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used for entertainment,
and in scientific experiments

832
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and all the oppression that is done to them
under the sun

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they all die from pain.

834
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Each and every one.

835
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:32,700
Isn't it enough that animals

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the world over live in permanent retreat
from human progress and expansion?

837
01:28:38,700 --> 01:28:44,500
And for many species ...
there is simply nowhere else to go.

838
01:28:45,500 --> 01:28:50,700
It seems the fate of many animals
is either to be unwanted by man ...

839
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... or wanted too much.

840
01:28:54,600 --> 01:29:01,200
We enter as lords of the earth bearing
strange powers of terror and mercy alike ...

841
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,400
But Human beings
should love animals as ...

842
01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:09,700
the knowing love the innocent,
and the strong love the vulnerable.

843
01:29:09,700 --> 01:29:13,500
When we wince at the
suffering of animals,

844
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that feeling speaks well of
us even when we ignore it,

845
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and those who dismiss love for our fellow
creatures as mere sentimentality

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overlook a good and
important part of our humanity.

847
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:34,700
But it takes nothing away from
a human to be kind to an animal.

848
01:29:34,700 --> 01:29:37,200
And it is actually within us

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to grant them a happy
life ... and a long one.

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01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:51,500
On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester:
"How do you see the world?"

851
01:29:51,500 --> 01:29:55,300
And Gloucester, who is blind, answered:

852
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"I see it feelingly".

853
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:04,800
I see it feelingly.

854
01:30:05,700 --> 01:30:10,300
Three primary life forces
exist on this planet:

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01:30:10,300 --> 01:30:12,400
Nature,

856
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:14,800
Animals

857
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:20,100
and Humankind.

858
01:30:22,300 --> 01:30:25,100
We are the Earthlings.

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01:30:28,300 --> 01:30:31,400
Make the connection.

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subtitles: by bobef,
because animals do not make chocolate