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Productions presents Mark Devries

A MARK DEVRIES film

I thought I had a pretty clear idea of how the world works.

Not exactly about everything in life, but on the basics of its operation.

I was mistaken.

Speciesism

Speciesism - the movie

He began to change when I came across with something that looked pretty innocuous.

And pretty stupid, really.

Wait a minute.

Let me give you an overview.

So this is me.

Working on the film you You are watching now.

I started researching and filming it in college,

as I was 20 years old.

I conceived as the most important thing I had never done.

And do not let my homework flow much.

I had to turn into a movie.

But I did not have much time.

Nor money.

Then I worked at Disney World and

at Starbucks and a museum.

And I put all my money in the film.

Last year, at 22,

when it was to study law,

I decided to postpone it

and move to my father's house for 1 year

to finish the film.

Of course I did not know how to make a movie,

but I made new friends along the way,

who helped me holding the camera.

As the candidate Alex name of PHD.

- I can hear me right in the headphones.

And my colleague, psychology student, name Alana

Sometimes they just They sat and watched.

So here we go, back to the movie.

- Hey, what do you say? - How many bears were killed today?

- I was already naked Florida, Arizona, Las Vegas ...

- Oops, I search for you Google then?

You are naked on the internet too?

- Yes I am.

I visited some other such Events for the Rights of Animals

- Boycott the Ringlings Brothers!

- A post on a blog of a former clown of Ringling ...

- (A former clown?)

- It is called "Why I I retired my red nose "

I decided to find out the reason of it.

There are many different organizations organizing this type of event.

So I started with the most important:

PETA, or "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals"

The co-founder and president of PETA is Ingrid Newkirk.

Then I went pro HQ PETA, in Norfolk, Virginia,

to see if I could talk to Ingrid.

I found the person who probably He spends most of his time with her.

- You are a personal assistant?

- Executive Assistant

- What does that mean?

- I plan everything to her, practically his right arm in PETA.

- After all, where is this office Ingrid Newkirk? It's at the top?

- Ã-huh.

- So just climb on top, she is at the top?

- She stays.

- She always stood at the top?

- I have no idea.

- You had to move north?

- Yes I wanted to move to north already. before planning move here.

I had to convince her to take me to the right place.

- This is the International Grassroots Campaign (dept. Popular Campaigns)

- Here is the Web production and computer science.

- This is the Corporate Affairs.

- Here, Marketing.

- They help to shape our campaigns.

- They are the best people, for the target audience of campanha.-

- There are many animals here ...

- Ã-huh.

- This is the Communications department.

- Is there any reason for the symbol chosen for him?

I think she was stalling, because when he left the department,

she even showed me the the mailroom.

- We have the post office department.

- Only then I met Ingrid.

- You have to do something provocative,

or controversial, or puzzling, or sexual,

so that each stop your busy life and take a look.

- And this is Bruce Friedrich.

Bruce is the Vice President of PETA for Policy and Government Affairs.

- There are some things we decided to do,

we leave behind, for fear that they were going too far.

- Like what?

- But I can not remember nothing inappropriate.

Other Vice President, Dan Mathews,

It is somewhat different from Bruce and Ingrid.

- Our actions have led us to one of MTV party in Miami,

by Andy Dick, that would be a presenter

And, a single weekend, it was a party, I met the Reverend Sharpton.

- Hello, I'm Reverend Al Sharpton, with PETA.

- That same weekend in Miami,

I was a hip-hop ballad, with a drag queen,

and thought we would be attacked,

and ... just ... the Drag-queen I knew the Dennis Rodman

I invited him to be the first athlete Pro naked pose our

Ad Campaign "No Fur" (without skin).

- It is with women who achieved a lot more attention because people are

more fascinated with naked women than men (except

for me, of course, because I'm gay).

- When you do something controversial, it creates conversation. And talk is good.

Discussion is good.

- Can anyone despise PETA, saying "Oh, that group only makes bullshit ...

... but you know? What they say It has some merit. "

- All right, they are good at getting public attention,

but the intensity of that place It was unusual.

I had to ask:

They are getting all the attention, exactly, for what?

- Much essentially smart people, who is living honestly,

- "Essentially"?

- Smart people who live well, politically awake,

I have no idea what's going on an industrial farm,

to what happens in a laboratory vivisection,

simply have no idea!

- "Industrial Farm"?

So I decided to see what they are.

Let PETA and visited the office

"Compassion Over Killing" (Compassion, not kill)

an organization that does research secret in the egg industry.

(Erica Meier - Executive Director) - Found when they began to put

all those birds so confined, intensively confined in cages,

the birds to escape the frustration, They began to peck each other,

they have a natural need for pecking, that most people know,

then, by this natural pecking order, if is a bird that is on the bottom of the cage,

You can not escape, so she will continue and peck, peck, peck.

So to avoid this, they began the pecking birds.

Overpopulation, diseases and injured, dead birds,

on any farm you visit, you will find.

- How can I prove that you You are not lying?

- You can go to a farm for yourself!

- This can only be the farm

eggs.

- Ã-huh.

- See the quarrel chickens with that tractor.

- What the hell are you doing?

- I do not want to be arrested. If they say who will call the police, we will say

"ok, we're leaving," right?

- Yes right. - Right.

- Oh, my God, just open the door, It is a horrible stench!

- Holy shit, that's right!

STOP. Biological security. All vehicles

should wash the tires before entering.

STOP. Do not enter. This is a biosafety area.

- Just follow me. Let's see if anyone I can talk to.

- Hello how are you? Well, maybe we are in the wrong place.

- We are looking for a farm.

- I think found.

- We're trying to find out ...

... Proof against those who They say there is something wrong in the treatment

ethical of animals on farms of eggs. - You can talk to John and Linda ....

I went looking for John and Linda and I I found her.

- Oh hi! I think we're looking for the person right, because you can share the ...

- You can not enter on our property.

- As?

- You can not enter on our property.

- Ah ... no way?

- Because ... if there is any way, perhaps we anticipate him,

we can come back and visit?

- No one left here ... analyze our chickens.

- Oh, but there's a reason? Is there any way? Because. what we are trying to do

It is to contradict those who claim that there is something wrong with the treatment of animals.

- That's bullshit, you know?

So is there anything we can do to show them?

Maybe we can visit, or give you the camera and you enter?

- No.

- Oh ...

- I know you do not know who you are.

You know, just do not let strangers enter. Especially to take pictures.

We do not mistreat our chickens.

- What is the size of the cage them?

- The cages are quite large.

- So, they are great for many chickens?

- I do not know ... that's business my husband.

- So you did not see the cages?

- I have been there, but would not know tell measures.

And we have cages of various measures.

- Not estimate?

- I can not even estimate, because I dont know.

- OK ... and ... and that cut the beak bid? That is not true, is it?

- They do this for a chicken do not kill each other in the cage.

- Oh!

- I took my coat "I Love Eggs" and returned to the car,

where we found some guys noting our plates.

- And they said "Oh yes, you can park here."

- Can I ask you, quickly, one thing?

What do you think of all the people, you know, who complain?

We are trying to prove that they are wrong.

- Let this camera over there ... - Yes, of course, hold the camera down ...

- So ... all these people claiming that animals are exploited, abused ...

- Do you believe that?

- I do not. And I want to prove them wrong.

- And how do we prove them wrong?

- What do you say to those who say "Hey, they live in small cages and ...

... And can not spread their wings and that sort of thing?

- It is based on science, in studies. Several universities studying ...

There resumes full of studies about animal welfare.

- He is right. There, yes, CVs Whole on animal welfare.

But it seems being developed exactly because of the attention

brought to light the problems about animal welfare.

(James Serpell, PhD - Veterinary Department University of Pennsylvania)

- The ability to feel pain is, probably something that

arose early in evolution animal.

- And be able to feel no pain bring together not a bit of the human being?

- No not a bit. It is virtually universal

in anything that has a nervous system.

I then visited Dr. Marc Bekoff,.

a recognized expert in feelings of animals.

He lives in a corner of mountains of Colorado.

- I get several of my lectures saying

"Nobody here thinks Dogs do not feel joy. "

And even at scientific meetings, no one disputes.

No one in their right mind can think of that dogs do not feel joy,

or chimpanzees do not grieve.

And neurobiology and ethology underlie it.

- The limbic system of the brain that is supports the processing of emotions.

- And all mammals have. The structure is practically the same, the

as well as neurochemical.

- So it seems that animals are able to experience physical sensations,

They are able to experience emotions. - Ã-huh.

- May not be as intense as in humans, these feelings, these emotions?

- Perhaps even more intense. Because, e.g. I can rationalize my fears.

- Animal emotions can be even more intense that human emotions.

Because we could say that they They are not "filtered".

- Human emotions guide our lifetime.

- And intense emotions! - Yup.

- And that's what life is, in practice! - Right.

- So what you're saying is that members of other species

experience even more intense emotions, perhaps the human.

What does that mean?

- It means, roughly, that we underestimated the extension of animal suffering.

From an ethical bias, we need to give the benefit of the doubt.

As would happen if the deparássemos

to a human who we could not communicate.

Most of the animals that ate lives in ordinary, large warehouses,

they seem warehouses. Are no windows, then you can not see inside.

And they contain thousands and thousands From animals.

- I am an undercover investigator in disguise. My job is

document the conditions of factory farms.

My identity is preserved because is disclosed,

it's likely that I can not further investigate.

Industry guidelines, university studies,

magazines of the industry branch,

They are quite clear about what are the standards.

They tell you exactly how animals are treated.

But until you see the footage, it is difficult to understand its meaning.

I can show you these shooting these investigations so that

when you are talking to the experts, you know what they are talking about.

- What has changed more rapidly in Industrial farms are the farms.

It has anything between 3 and 5 bird in a cage.

Not enough space for anything. They really can not do anything.

They are simply compressed ... that space.

His paws can be hurt by remain supported on the wire ever.

- They are effectively in wires? - Yup.

- And not really have way out of these cages? For how long?

- The average life of a laying hen It is less than 2 years.

- Years in those cages? - Oh, yeah, yeah.

- They come from the incubators, wherein 50% are female,

and are placed in the egg industry, and the other 50% will be killed,

because they do not have utility for the industry.

I've seen reports that birds They are suffocated.

Birds, these male chicks, being thrown alive into the trash,

They are macerated,

a rotary shaft, as a giant blender,

spinning and just go playing there ...

- Hard to believe ... that we ... We can do this with animals.

- On some level, it is so ... implacavalmente insensitive.

- I wanted to actually see some of these animals.

Then we went to a sanctuary for animals rescued from factory farms.

But we had some problems to enter.

- You are no longer familiar with gates than me?

- I'm not familiar with this band. Standing with a ratchet.

- Oh ok.

- Here is very strained. Very tensioned to release.

then we have to break here.

- OK.

- And ... I may have to call my father to learn how ...

- You go?

- These things are ... - No, no, no ... I think

you are going by wrong side, Alana.

- I think it's there, O.

I think it's only unlock.

- You're right.

- IT IS!

- Ah-ha!

- Yeah, it was nice to think it probably we would have tipped that beam.

- Each of the birds here ... (Terry Cummings - Animal Sanctuary Poplar Spring)

has a name, it has a personality.

And they are a lot like his personality. Some are shy,

some like to be pampered, others like to be hugged.

She lived a lifetime in battery cage.

She is very sweet, eat in your hand. We give you some treats, like corn and grapes.

- I asked to see a chicken that was created to be eaten and not to lay eggs.

- She can not walk at all.

She has a best friend, Silvia, here it is.

- They like to do everything together.

- She was whimpering a little because I took it and Sylvia was still in the barn.

- Chickens: an account for over 95% of animals raised for food in the US.

That means: more than 1 billion,

ie billion

in US factory farms, any time.

Thousands are kept in a single shed.

- Because they are so numerous and so densely stocked,

they tend to scratch on each other, to peck at each other.

They were selected to eat lots of food and lots

and swallow it as fast,

they get fat so extremely fast.

Essentially, they fatten well before their bones are fully hardened.

They are still very young, They have soft bones.

And what happens then is that while the joints of the bones come together,

It has fracture, arthritis, osteoarthritis.

The birds become lame, each time more lame progressively

until, occasionally, some not You can even walk.

- And why they are lame? Why is it painful?

- Because of the pain in the joints, yes.

Some can even walk. Just sit on the floor.

- Just because ...

- Pain.

- I thought so myself, if they can feel physical pain, like us,

like to be in pain all the time?

- My neck and my back They are broken in several places.

the left hip was displaced fitting,

and perhaps the nerves that area shrunk, literally.

- This is my father.

He was injured for years. But always He refuses to talk about it.

So far.

- I feel pain in both feet, as if they They were being milled.

I feel pain in all my fingers left hand.

And that leads me to squeeze them constamente, to try to scare away the pain.

I have pain in the lower back

as if being pushed against the wall,

If all those years not had passed,

and I suddenly felt these pains, I would be screaming,

like when you cut your finger: feels terrible pain, aluciante,

the world just disappears if you It has a cut on the little finger.

And it's a little cut, very small,

in a matter of moments, It's nothing.

But the moment you feel that pain, the world stops.

What we have is that horrible pain.

It is the only world, the only world that is.

And it's all yours, you're stuck in it, and there is no one with you.

The problem is when you feel that kind indistinctly pain.

And you can not escape.

Begins to transform who you are.

You begin to lose every point especially within us,

that makes life worth living in living.

- This building here is our sty.

Pigs have a little pasture more than 16mil square meters,

where they can run,

They have a great manger to wallow,

They have hay to eat.

They are gray, like cows and horses are also.

It is no coincidence that most these pigs come from North Carolina

It has the highest concentration of farms hogs than any other place.

But when I started researching the pig farms in that state,

almost all were found environmental problems.

As if something was crazy going on there.

Then we took the road back and were, certainly, going to the right place.

- I find it a pig truck.

- What you see here are all environmental impacts and studies done,

related to the river.

- I visited the office of the Foundation for Protection the Neuse River (Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation)

It was created to find the sources pollution of the Neuse River and others.

One of the main people involved it is Rick Dove.

- I spent 25 years in the US Navy.

I am very proud of my military service.

I was in Vietnam 2 times.

- Another is Larry Baldwin.

- I come from a ____ community.

Then I had some knowledge of What happens to pigs.

And as these things are done, so to speak.

But nothing is as what We have here in North Carolina.

- Rick does not like people associate that concern

with animals and the environment are a cause of the political left.

- I am a Republican, a conservative.

I believe in my country.

All wake up in the morning and eat your bacon,

as if there were no problems in the world in the field.

There is a big problem. Bacon has not been more established in family farms.

They are made in factory farms.

Where animals never see daylight.

Where do they go from the size of a fist weight of 115 Kg for 5 months!

If you take any road North Caroline,

Anywhere East North Carolina,

Almost one after the other, you will see ranches, farms and pig farms,

There will be containment buildings, there will be a huge pit,

what they call "pond".

There will be beautiful girls in swimsuits, Are those tanks!

They give the name "lagoon" but they are tanks.

They are full of animal waste untreated.

The only treatment that it receives They are decanting the meat inside.

When these tanks are full, they remove everything and spread,

the air in the field.

If you have a wind blowing, It will take you out of that place.

Even when they spread by that field nearby,

All those fields have ditches along them,

to remove excess liquid, espraiar,

and get him out, maintaining the drained field

All this in ditches desenbocam rivers, wetlands, streams and creeks.

- There are people still in the area.

Who have lived here all my life. They are afraid to enter the swamp.

They are afraid to get in touch by that, because they do not know if ...

- They ...

- They do not touch that?

- They do not want to be there, I do not want relar in water.

- We have communities that are well close these facilities,

wherein the groundwater It is contaminated.

Can not drink it, may not remove water from their wells.

- When it spreads in the field,

notes a mist on the ground, if there is any wind.

You can see it go down the field

and people living in these communities complain

on this spray over them, about their homes, their cars ...

- No!

- Of course they complain!

- We have problems with contaminants airborne,

welcome these facilities.

Wing Dr. Steven, University North Carolina,

It is doing a study on some junior high schools ...

- Children going to school (Steven Wing, PhD, UNC)

in which the school team It is poured,

where livestock prevails school construction

two or more per month, check

children ranging these schools

had symptom prevalence rate Asthma 25% higher.

Exactly what you will see.

They also had more physician-diagnosed asthma.

- If you really want to see what happens in Carolina and North Carolina,

you have to get on a plane, 1000 feet, flying over farms.

- Left hand here, step on the black area of ​​the wing.

- OK, I got it.

- Can I sit up?

- If you want to fly ...

- I will follow through here ...

- OK Alright.

- Almost that...

by the way, you stay with Mortgage also

- A little shaky today a little wind today, so ...

It will be a little uncomfortable.

- Some pretzels?

- What we are seeing now It is a typical farm of pigs.

- These pools can be of the size of a football field

They can count million liters waste

- Hey, Dennis, are espreiando right there, right in the way.

- What about people's homes, the cloud.

- And people know this?

- Uh ... Not exactly.

- You know the best stories about what happens

with people in the community They come from people in the community.

- I must talk to them?

- That's what you should do.

- To contact them? - IT IS!

- Where is your well?

- Just behind your car,

that building made of wood, and also covered ...

- That's where all your water come from?

(Inaudible)

- Less than 30 PD.

- And they release in the field over there?

- Okay, we are on the side of my field and I will show you how close they are.

- We're close?

- The things of them, the trinket them we arrive in ...

I will come and show you ...

- Why do they put these bushes here? And for...

- Just to hide they are doing.

- So are these businesses, these white trinket boxes that ...

- These bats appear behind ... and they throw waste.

- Launch waste to a 6m in both directions.

- By air? - Yeah, the air

- Turn a fog? - That, a mist.

- What needs to be pumped, you know it.

And the wind come against you

for to understand ... in Words can not really explain.

- Come this way.

- There are neighbors practicing target shooting here, come here.

- Hope you do not connect it. - IT IS !

- Take care.

- Look at this...

- Oh!

- I do not think we can get much closer. There is a fence.

- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! 10 Buildings.

- My father is bedridden right here, behind me...

- His father, Julien, He is dying of cancer.

- And you can not leave the house. Never.

- I hope we never see another pig ...

or a pig farm.

Because I can not breathe, I can not do anything.

If you go down there and happen catch a fish, you know what flavor it?

It is no longer a fish.

You are ... eating shit.

There were many times I fell out there ...

- You walked out there and fell, just because of the smell?

- Yup!

- If you can not breathe, what can you do?

When you work a lifetime and not You can go out and do anything,

It is unfortunate!

- Just for a piece of meat.

- One day, I drove my Production of pigs

and stopped at a shop where we used buy sandwiches ...

- Don Web had a pig farm. But chose to close it.

- The waste air between us, we had to inhale that stinky stuff,

they may have taken too man here, but not very human.

- The pork industry wants people think they are the owners

Happy farms, farms of "SEO John."

And they are old-fashioned farms.

But better late than never, the truth,

Small farms have not used 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 20 thousand piglets at one point.

- And that comes from the tanks, which come that operation with pigs behind.

- Are espreiando ... - What are espreiando?

- Feces and urine pork coming from the tanks.

- I am an American, I am not a Democrat, I am not a Republican: I am an American!

And the US has priority, not a political party.

nor a $ 1 bill.

People in the US, descência and honor, we have to warn each other,

that pollute my stream,

pollute my water,

to do stink my air it's wrong!

- ________ They are your sources?

They are a stinking pile so many American homes with

with feces and urine sheds corporate clubs.

- It happens all over the country.

And not only with pigs, they are with chickens, turkeys, cattle, dairy, ...

these are all based industries in cattle,

this industry abutting and fattening animals.

They are there.

And what's out there, I see, It is criminal.

- As soon as someone can take mind that pigs

They are as smart as dogs,

they have complex social life, in the wild,

They form matriarchal groups permanent.

These are created pigs for slaughter.

... For flesh, bacon, What it will be.

Some individuals begin to chew or eat the tails of others.

In the wild, this It never happens.

If you cut the tail, reduces occurrence of this behavior.

So if cut pig tail when it is no more than a puppy.

Castration is another mutilations standard that happen everywhere.

In pigs, it is done without anesthetic. They ...

They basically use a scalpel and to tear open

the testes are removed, physically.

The pig screams.

I mean, when are screams galore being castrated

- I would not do that with dogs, which also castrate,

always with anesthetic.

-The Things start to change.

But while this film is released, million parent nuts

that they were used to bring the pigs we use for food

They passed her pregnancy 4 months

in cages 2m x 0.6m.

They are named after "gestation crates."

- It is essentially cloistered all the time.

There, she can get up and lie down. But can not get around.

The animals will becoming less and less sensitive

to environmental stimuli.

It seems even if they quit. They do not call anymore.

It looks the same behavior catatonic people

with very severe depression.

It is certainly much stronger and intense than it would with a human.

- This is Sarah Friday, for the New Yorker,

(Daphne Merkin) and now I write for the magazine

the Sunday Times.

Last month of May, I wrote a long article

about being hospitalized for depression and experience from that.

I was in the building, Depression of the unit.

I would say that sorrow is more tolerable, as an emotion.

I think it's more ...

Much more hopeless.

I do not think anyone is in severe depression

for 2 years.

Just do not think.

- You could not?

- My feeling is you would not support ...

Not if it is severe, severe.

- How would you know?

- I think that kills you.

- They are less locked when out to pasture?

- Ah yes!

- They have friends and ...

- And I have special friends, particular with each other?

- Yes. For example, often animals arriving together,

They tend to stay together for life.

- When a die of cows is really very painful for everyone.

They lament, friends. They're friends!

- And the cows that spend their time with specific cows

veil, mourn for that cow? - Yup.

- It is found that the cattle raised for meat It seems to suffer less abuse.

They spend the first half of its life on a ranch.

Nevertheless, also undergo painful mutilations.

- Never witnessed castration in bulls.

Not exactly how it's done, which procedure involved.

- Presumably you're lucky. - HaHa! Yup!

- The bulls will be transported by containment corridors

and are fed with grain that their stomachs

They are not prepared to digest.

(Dairy Cattle Farm Of Southern California)

- Matrix factory farms.

- Good...

It seems that the front bays are empty but those behind are full.

Hello how are you?

- Good. - Good!

- Hi, my name is Mark.

- Ah okay, off there.

- Tava wondering if someone could talk about the activity here ...

I would not know who's here, but ...

- No one?

- I do not do those things here.

- Is there any reason? You just It is not in the mood or ...

- It's something we do not.

- Uh ...

- They tried to shoot before?

- Yes, they tried.

- (________ Some or you Decided it)? - IT IS...

- Do you know... - But ... ah!

There is a large percentage of dairy cows that are

in virtual confinement and not grow in the pasture, in any way.

(Temple Grandin, PhD - Department Science. Animal - University of Colorado)

And then I see a lot of trouble with well-being.

One is limp.

The incidence in the dairy herd National is 24%.

- Lameness, I mean they, they do not ...

- They are lame, you know. With walking difficulties.

Wounds in the feet, legs. And, you know, they walk but they will limping.

- Even worse, I discovered that many of them They can not walk at all

when it comes time to slaughter.

Because of the high levels of stress Physical lifelong.

There are numerous suffering from very painful infection in the breast.

It mastitis.

One symptom of mastitis is

pus and blood coming out in milk.

- The link between mothers and their children It's very strong.

Not only in humans, but in all mammals.

To keep that milk production, you have to let her have a cow,

from time to time.

And let's not let her caring the calf - because we want milk.

Then the calf is taken away.

Shortly after it was born.

AND...

this causes a big cow lasting anguish

The obstacle is a calf gate. Gate of anguish.

Sometimes the calf is placed in a kind of kennel,

somewhere near the mother.

And the mother can hear the calf calling.

And the cows call the calves.

It is a back-and-forth.

It's quite distressing to hear, as a matter of fact.

- Have you heard? - Ah yes. Ah yes.

- Many activist groups for animals

They pressed for major renovations. And major reforms took place.

- Well, it was time to revisit PETA.

As we begin to PETA,

I think I never imagined sit in a meeting room

a large company animal production.

Or raise questions before shareholders decisions.

But of course, because we did that, this persuasion and pressure,

what we call "PETA-push"

we noticed big changes.

- Also I went back to speak to Bruce.

He's taking a few years to teaching in a public school,

while doing his master's degree in Johns Hospkins.

(Bruce Friedrich - PETA) - When we campaign against

the MCDonalds and convinced the change of stance on

the slaughter of chickens,

to reduce the number of animals They are fully aware,

they went into the field and made them go the industrial average of 8 -

and some cages had up to 11 birds - for up to 5 birds.

- It's still disgusting, like chickens, pigs and turkeys are treated, but

great changes have happened.

- We are here at headquarters US Humane Society,

in Gathesburg, Maryland.

- It is a beautiful headquarters.

- Thank you.

(Paul Shapiro) - The Humane Society of the United States

It is the greatest protection association World Animal.

The vast majority of animals is exploited by humans.

Some of them are created to They are food.

And we believe very much in their suffering, trying to banish some of the practices

most inhumane and cruel against those animals confined.

- I am a partner at Cooper Law Firm, a very large law firm,

(David Wolfson) with about 500 lawyers,

on Wall Street.

I care for major acquisitions.

It's my day-to-day.

At the same time, I

voluntary professional work.

Then represent animal sanctuaries and other animal protection groups,

in the protection area for animals farm, specifically.

Also education laws about animals New York University

and Columbia Law School. And I write.

So it's a combination of different things.

- That's it? - Yeah, that's it.

- You are one of the few people behind

of the first major changes

for animal factory farms. - Yup.

- Yes it's true.

- In the early 2000s, in 2002

the state of Florida banned gestation crates.

In 2006, the state of Arizona has banned the crate gestation and veal.

In 2008, in California, they banned the two and battery cages.

I think it's always exciting be present when

a significant movement social justice begins.

- Compared with the previous decade,

this last decade had great changes in terms of animals

farm gain gradually new protections that until then had not.

Admitting that we still have a long road ahead.

- But the industry is also doing something else ...

- Any group that is effective address the industry,

and PETA is coming together in 5 different industries, at least.

will lead buckshot.

These industries will, in fact, by any means necessary,

trying to overthrow you, attack you, challenge your role.

And they have front groups, who do this for them.

- He seemed to assume that I knew who were "front groups" and

so I did not ask.

- For him.

- What are these "front groups"? What is all this?

(Melanie Sloan - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Whashington)

- A "front group" is formed by corporate interests

not wanting to be associated with ideals that the "front group" promotes.

There are charities or social assistance who do not have

to reveal who their donors.

Generally, they will use ads and websites evil, aggressive.

The pig industry will almost always fight back, but not advocating the cages,

but paying front groups to attack the Humane Society.

- Deliberademente, lead people to believe that

that group is engaged in a Because it is not.

- For example, "they are not using their funds properly ", or

"There is a real interest behind it all "...

- From a small error in one area, will

use that to try undermine the credibility

the organization in any matter.

- Use name calling, ... - "Radicals"?

- "That group is hardcore, extremist "

- Go to suggest that you are wrong: "Oh, just complain," or

"just cry."

- You'll see groups being called hypocrites, or,

It is called ...

Ah ... ah I do not know what else can call.

- So go to the public website that industry

and see how they respond criticism of.

In most cases, people have to be skeptical when

see ads like these,

it's likely that there is a big business behind it ....

You have to think about which sector might wish to promote

this opinion and does not want you to know. It is up to you.

- That got me to thinking: "And if you could go back?"

Back to the past and talk with these people

before you have to made female farmers.

- Well, there's a place for everything.

The "Convention for the Future US farmers "

in Indianapolis, Indiana.

For people who are female farmers.

In the future.

- Imitate a chicken!

- That Chicken! - Uh-hul!

The FFA goes well beyond "Future Farmers"

But there was still more than enough at present.

- Why, I say, if you think this is cruel?

... We have 9000 pigs in 2 buildings ...

there is something like ... 100 pigs per pen?

But if not ... and if it was good for pigs,

They would not be doing it.

- And that "my pig feeds your model student "?

- Is it really feeds.

- ... As the cage of gestation, who were banned in California and ...

Do you have any thoughts on this?

- I do not like, specifically ....

it's all aimed at money, when you call for it.

and ... it costs more than you give ... so not worth it to have.

- So ... I thought I had one view all

and was to follow trip when Bruce

He said something quite unexpected.

- When you get this idea "I can do that to you,

then I'll do it with you "

the peak of this form of "superiority"

the peak of this form of racism It is speciesism.

- Wait.

(spec-ism) - What?

- It seems that there is much more going on behind it all ...

There is a philosophical question much deeper.

- I went to Raleigh, North Carolina.

- Earth's largest nut in the world.

- What do you think of it? - It is beautiful!

- And also Dr. Tom Regan earth,

author of the influential book

"The case for animal rights."

Back in New York, I spoke to Dale Jameson,

director of the Center for Environmental Studies, the University of New York.

- Then I went to Whashington, talk to David DeGrazia,

Professor in the Department. Philosophy George Washington University.

Also went to "New York Ethics" talk with Sheryl Cole,

teacher in college Right Cornell.

And the New Jersey, New York, talk to Gary Francione,

professor at the College Right to Rutger.

- If we think of that and more

clear and certain in Ethics,

which basic ideas

They are accepted in all moral systems,

regardless of their major differences,

It is that we must not hurt people without a very good reason.

- There is a principle in damage basically states

that everything else being equal, it is wrong to cause damage.

- Is Speciesism using species.

Delete some of the beings moral community.

Beings who are, in a relevant way, Similar to members of the moral community.

And this exclusion is based only in species.

It's like racism or sexism in that has

relevantly similar individuals, some a moral communion,

and others are excluded grounds of race or sex.

- Speciesism, as I understand, is

exclude members of other species our ...

the field of moral concern.

Just because these individuals are members of other species.

- The main idea of ​​Speciesism is quite the same, it is analogous

to that found in sexism and racism,

where there is a prejudice in favor some, against each other.

- Peter Singer is considered the founder of animal rights,

by virtue of his 1975 book, "Animal Liberation".

- There are many philosophy books a bit more significant in terms

change world, changes in people.

- It's almost impossible exaggerate its significance.

- He is now Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University

and considered one of the philosophers most influential in the world, still alive.

- I titled the first chapter Animal Liberation

of "All animals they are the same"

and what they meant by it was

we should give them consideration equivalent

on your interests.

Whatever these their interests.

That's not to say give them equal treatment,

because they have diverse interests.

By the time they have an interest, for example,

of interest I do not feel pain,

It should be irrelevant

if they are members of a species homo sapiens, or

Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee), or Galus domesticus (called hens)

or whatever,

what does this have to do with "how bad you feel pain? "

- Obviously, there must be something wrong with their argument.

So did my research and found all possible objections.

- It's only natural that we use other animals?

- Well, the problem with concept of "natural"

It is that it means a lot, but many things even.

- Maybe even war is natural, since there is an argument

stating that war is natural to humans,

we always did,

since the days when We got records.

But that does not mean we We should not try to stop her.

We have the cost of war, the suffering involved,

and do the best to prevent wars.

- Rape is perhaps natural.

The rape for ... for men Strong can be natural,

in some sense, and adapted Biologically for this.

And, as seen in the world is less, It could be morally justified.

- I could not find anyone who I think a way to put

nature as an argument ethical.

Then finally, I found someone.

- Yes, we are still there.

The SS never effectively died, and SS is still bearing fruit.

When a man can take a country defeated, that is in shambles,

and in less than 4 years

turn it in one of the major powers that already existed,

we have, in spite of everything, look ahead and admit success.

- Man giving this panorama

is Lieutenant Schneider.

An officer of high rank in US Nazi party.

- Why should we follow the laws of nature?

- Nature is smarter than we suppose.

When we realize the Nature is much wiser than us.

Any type of weed, I say, by the laws of nature

It should be naturally

repressed and you, permanently.

- A trial for the second time in this country illegally,

should ensure implementation immediate.

- OK, I think it does not.

But there must be something special on humans.

I mean ...

We are smarter ...

- Well, at least most of of us are.

Babies are not.

The mentally disabled of all ages are not.

- If you can say that intelligence It is the foundation for

inclusion in the moral community,

and you can tell that primates non-human may be more

intelligent than some humans - but

they do not belong, as members, the moral community -

and those humans belong -

It sounds like a contradiction to me.

- No, that does not account well.

How about...

- Animals have no sense of morality, so why should we include them in it?

- Well, children do not have sense of morality ...

- And do not speak of them.

Babies and those who are seriously weakened.

We do not say "we are released to do deliberately what

we want with them. They must exist for us. "

- Damn! They got me again!

I began to get very desperate.

- They seem completely different from us.

- A different look not interests at all!

- Can not be used as a argument against animal rights?

- Do not think so.

I do not think the look I could care ...

As well as the appearance of man-elephant is

very different appearance of other human beings.

It has no relevance to their moral status.

- If we try to say that human They have a specific quality

What distinguishes them as superior,

or worthy of higher moral consideration which, for example, pigs,

I think we need to think about the fact that there

members of our "human community"

we believe they are entitled the formal consideration, but

who do not have the quality we we find so important.

Or who have this quality to a certain degree

comparable to an ordinary member other species such as a pig.

Pigs are very intelligent.

- What have we here?

- Ham sandwich with radish,

a little cheese and butter to help give a smeared.

- It is a collective residence for

- Do not call us Ba community -

for people living with people with disabilities.

- By knowing this place, I realized that,

no matter what characteristic we We believe to be unique to humans,

some level of intelligence, language,

the ability to form a social agreement,

to enter into agreements consensual,

thinking and acting under ethical principles,

No matter what criteria we us use to

believe that our suffering is more important,

there will always be some that human will not have that characteristic.

And it's not that these people are included in the ethics behind the scenes,

intruders around people that really matter,

we believe that they matter, ethically themselves.

- I wanted to say "But they are humans!".

- But just let me justify

trying to address the issue of belonging to a species,

again.

And the more I thought about this.

As obvious as it may seem that

Ethics has to do with those other characteristics first,

this is why humans with disabilities are included in Ethics.

What matters it had to be the characteristics that we share!

- We share...

the ability to rejoice,

the ability of the enervarmos,

sadness, fear,

what are your resources true intellectual or ...

make a difference, can be ... I think we all have ...

shared some basic needs.

- We all suffer, you know? We suffer in several ways.

I must be missing something obvious here

- So I decided to get out of my thoughts

and just ask around...

- Do you think the suffering of humans is ethically

that the suffering of animals? - Yup.

- And what have humans that make the most important?

- Ähmmm .. We have capabilities Higher ...

- What do you mean with "higher capacities"?

- Mental capacity.

- Many humans do not have this capability.

We do not have the intellectual capacity ... - Yes but

- And we do not explore.

- I know.

- Humans have more value than animals.

- Based on ... based on what?

- Uh ...

- I am a human being.

- I can relate better with human than animal.

- So if anyone else ... So It is because you are a member of this group?

- So if someone comes and says "I'm white and then

blacks are less important ": would this be ethical?

- No.

- So???

- No matter which color you It is, you are still a human being.

- And what's so special "human beings"?

Since he said the reason is you are a member of a group.

- Tsk ...

- So far, our legal system only defends human.

- Yes, but only up to a point advocated white men.

- So the legal system is not the reason.

- I mean...

is ... whatever ... Excuse me!

- We can talk to us like humans,

there are opinions ... and we can not talk to animals!

- Many humans also They can not do that!

There are many intellectual disabled. We must consider this Ethics.

So can be the base.

- Teacher, we need to go ... - IT IS!

- Concepts such as right or wrong...

- Right or wrong!

- Human, or most of them, They conceive it.

- Most? - IT IS!

- So those who do not ... they ... they are left out?

- What about the babies?

- It is, they may be less developed.

- They are less important, ethically ...

Their suffering is less important, ethically?

Babies?

- No, because they have a potential. - Ah okay.

- So humans with intellectual disabilities,

who have the potential, their suffering

It is less important? - No, it is no less important.

- We formed societies, We interact around the world ...

- But not many humans They are capable of this ...

then this feature does not match

"I am a member of the human species."

- The suffering of the human species It is ethically wrong and ... I ...

- Because?

- Because I tend toward to my own kind.

- You are not biased relation to race well, is it?

- No.

- Just checking.

- I am multiracial, which race I could possibly ...

- I mean, you do not seem to be multiracial and says he is inclined ....

something could be something more ... - I am inclined ...

- I just wanted to make sure you had nothing but that

just as the species. - IT IS...

- Just checking ...

- I can not find a logical reason for Speciesism.

- Why is it then that I just Speciesism feel that is justified?

- We are trained, very early,

to think things in this way.

- I refuse to believe that Speciesism is behind it all.

I refuse.

- And ... what do you mean?

You have to have some kind of argument?

- That this You may be right!

That would make the world as different.

That would make what We make to our animals

so significant ... - Right.

- It's ... it's impossible ... that is the case, it is concluded ...

... in the case that there must be something wrong.

- Put yourself in the position a slave in Virginia,

in, like, 1800.

- A person in that society, I could have said the same thing ...

someone who produce arguments stating that slavery was wrong.

- Some, for example, only They knew,

without explanations

that white people were higher than black.

Some people only they knew.

Without reasons.

A matter of intuition average, or average knowledge of that,

men are superior to women.

- In all these cases you have a dominant group, you know?

A group that holds power.

And who defines himself as superior.

And develops an ideology

to justify this and exclude others.

- If we were in 1820 and we had a discussion

about slavery,

there would be a consensus:

Slavery has always existed,

Slavery is the order natural things,

slavery is justified in the Bible,

... and that is slavery, hence moral.

Now, 190 years later, society has

diametrically view opposite of slavery.

What is relatively historically

estralar one's fingers.

It is truly a short 200 years,

throughout history.

We now have a vision diametrically opposed

What must we do with the Animal Liberation

Ethics is to align with Science.

Because we know, scientifically, that other species are cousins.

We know they feel pain the same way in the same proportion

And what we're doing with them It is a moral atrocity,

which is justified in the same way, similarly,

the atrocities of the past, as slavery.

(Biology - meeting room)

- At 200 years of Charles, Charlie, Chuck pros college friends ...

And while you eat, remember the legacy of this man.

- I thought that biologists had a special understanding.

So I went to a party for the anniversary 200 years of Charles Darwin,

held by the Department of Biology my university.

- You can not look at without Biology understand it by Darwinian perspective.

So as a biologist, this has enormous significance.

With the publication of "Origin of Species"

and a recognition that there is an evolutionary link between

all living beings,

and that human beings are just another an animal in this series,

there had to be an influence ethics and consideration of other

organisms in the same manner as We consider the relationship between humans.

There had to be an impact.

(____ ____) Ended, for now, here ...

- We could extend our essential ethical principles,

as opposed to causation damage by unnecessary misery

to other species.

And then I would not do things like use animals for clothing,

or for food or other ways that cause suffering ...

It is no longer justified.

- Uh ...

- Have you thought about that? - No, actually not.

- Perhaps no biologist does.

So I went to the Academy of Sciences of New York to

a number of studies "Science and the City"

I received the most influential live biologist:

- It is by far the lead world of what we propose here

in our fight "Science and the City"

promote understanding Public Science.

Obviously, it does not need presentations ...

- If you walk pro past,

for its hereditary chain, (Richard Dawkins - University of Oxford)

starting with their mother, her grandmother, great-grandmother -

we will be alone in the maternal line, for convenience -

his great-great grandfather and so on ...

you go, go, go go, go

back all you want,

and gradually, animals through which you pass,

while regresses to its ancestors,

will gradually and slowly, turning into something else.

When get to 6 or 7 million years in the past,

You see an animal It was the common ancestor

between us and the chimpanzees.

- Yes, prof. Dawkins,

the extreme similarity between us and

and other species that Biology evolution helps us to understand

do you think there is some ethical implications in terms

the treatment of non-human animals,

I mean, in my understanding, you are not a speciesist.

- I think so, there ethical implications.

If we think in the way we special treatment to humans,

for example, in the case of abortion,

human fetuses are treated as babies,

and many people think it is murder abort a human fetus.

It hardly happens with cows.

They have, of course, much more capacity for suffering than

than any human fetus.

Chimpanzees, which are very close to us,

They get nothing so much ethical, moral or legally protected,

They receive as humans.

Suppose we learned one relicária population

in the forests of Africa,

between humans and chimpanzees,

what would we do? what speciesist would,

a live specimen of Lucy, Afarensis Australophitecus,

was discovered?

It was a pure accident their extinction.

We must find a way, do something between our moral and our ethics.

Take into consideration that they may not have been extinguished.

- We should not ... this distinction huge ethical,

should not depend on the accident that is extinction.

- When we are involved very emotionally

use in other animals,

then we kinda decided have a moral principle

that will support this behavior,

rather than going elsewhere direction.

If we would come to the world a rough stone,

I think the reasons the speciesism would not persuade us.

- And if you could find a way to see the world as a rough stone?

If you could remember and ask my intuitions and stronger assumptions?

- It is the crack opening to the sky...

- Enter the Universe dimension It is the hardest job,

for astronomers or who thinks that.

AND...

Because it's so completely "nonhuman"

Distances are completely out of any everyday experience.

One way we can think about it,

since the distances They are so broad,

is to monitor how far the objects are,

calculating how long the light takes to get there.

Light travels at about 300 million meters per second.

There are 7 turns on earth in one second.

Then think about 1/7 of a second.

Travels all over our world.

The sun is 8 light-minutes away.

So it seems a distance well unbelievable, compared to Earth.

But ...

the distances between the stars are so

disconcertingly huge,

that light, even traveling as fast as you can,

You have to follow for four years to reach the nearest star.

Within the Milky Way, in the Sun orbit the region,

there are something like 100 billion stars.

There are about 100 000 light-years or more

to get from one side of the Via Milky to another.

And it's just one of Typical galaxies known ...

Our small local group Galaxies

It is on the edge of the periphery

an impressive cluster of galaxies, which has thousands of galaxies.

And more than 100 million, by scale,

you see that the clusters galaxies.

They are not distributed randomly.

They are assembled into filaments, sheets, in chains,

Space is so much greater today,

than what we dreamed astronomers

a few generations past.

Once after another, intuition is wrong.

No, it is not so.

The "common sense" disappoint you.

- And if, in fact, is only a prejudice?

And if we're just we all here?

On this planet?

After a billion years of evolution.

We could be only a species

more powerful,

Locke,

Bullying on all the others,

without stepping back to notice what we have done?

For all this time?

After all, we are capable of it.

We saw it. We are, Genetically

nothing different people engaged trade in human slavery,

for thousands of years.

And of civilized societies They took part in the genocide.

- As a Holocaust survivor,

I spent my childhood in a Warsaw ghetto,

by the end of 1942

when we escaped to the other side.

After the war, I visited some of the extermination camps

where my family was killed.

I was guided by the cell hair, glasses, boots,

Years later, it happened to go a slaughterhouse in the USA,

and again, I saw piles of hearts, hooves and other body parts

strung in iron,

and I found myself thinking

the highly efficient process,

cold, numb, It was used in both cases.

That the perpetrators, They did not feel any guilt

for what they did.

My fellow Jews They were transported in cattle cars.

I came to realize that the slogan we saw using,

"Never",

It was not exactly on the others might do to us,

- Oh my God!

I saw him!

- I can not pinpoint the moment I saw, I realized,

there was something in that reasoning.

It was a kind of process cumulative.

Right off the bat, there was no tip.

You go the other way up that in real ...

and is...

is ... it's almost ... let ... I do not know say ...

It is chilling ..

We are directly confronted the Holocaust

What happens everywhere, at all times.

And all those who know, those we love

and those who hate,

everywhere, are all participating.

And I am here, just talking about it!

Okay, I'm someone callously talking about it,

because I'm trying to work my feelings about it ...

When the only answer sensible to this

to this understanding, for this awakening

for this world we live in is a fucking blast!

Right? Must be the only answer possible!

... It's something that never happened before. I can not ... It's so bad

that ... that ... how I can stay talking as a holocaust

It happens everywhere, all the time?

Every day...

And all are included.

When you can talk about it while when it's just a

laughable matter when you brings forth?

when your friends and family they think it's "cute"

you have decided ... Do you know...

when you decided to have interest animals

in animal cause ...

"But you know what? I'm glad you made your choice, please

respect my choice. "

Like, damn, we can continue like this world?

How not to see the world, with everyone inside,

as dark, dangerous, irrational?

And how the hell do not look their life up to that point

you woke up, as something unforgivable?

I realized that

the thing is much deeper than I could imagine.

For people who try see past speciesism,

the world becomes very different.

Then I thought:

What are the consequences practices

a perspective not speciesist?

- In my research last,

I have used them to receive human tumors.

Special types of used mice

system which does not have Normal immune

that can grow tumors human them,

So I could really check the answers to agents

I'm trying to therapeutic develop.

And to make sure that these agents reach the tumor expected manner:

the tumor decrease or disappear.

and I... - It is painful for rats?

- I try to leave the painless as possible.

- When we asked if we would be capable of doing the same experiments

a human being at the same level of consciousness,

and if the answer is

"Yes, we would do in the case of a non-human but

no, we would not do in the case of a human"

it seems to exhibit a bias in favor of our species.

- But I put in tumors people to test?

- Yup. - No!

- Why not?

- As well, why not?

- You put even, animals below human beings?

- Yes it's right, I place.

- Because?

- Why do not they make moral choices.

- Interestingly,

anti-speciesist are not necessarily against all

the animal experiments.

Some ethical theories allowed experimentation

in humans without consent, in some circumstances.

While others do not.

However, at least

this experiment may contemplated help an anti-speciesist

decide which experiments not They are worthy of support.

- So,

what else one anti-speciesist should

begin to see differently?

How about another problem practical?

- The ALF - Animal Liberation Front (Front for Liberation Animal)

- You know, people who invade buildings,

destroy property, rescue animals and so on ...

Dr. Steven Best, University Texas, El Paso, studies the ALF.

- The basic idea of ​​tradition in civil disobedience

is that if the law is wrong,

the right thing to do It is infringe it.

In the US in the nineteenth century, slavery was legal.

And free a slave the captive was illegal.

But it was the right thing to do.

Animals are under attack!

They are being tortured, detained,

brutalized, killed,

the millions every day,

the billions every year.

It is a war!

Under Attack!

They are physically mistreated, tortured, caged,

traumatized, electrocuted, and and dead!

In myriad ways.

It is a war!

I decided to find someone work in these arguments.

So how ... how it was the federal prison?

- The prison was something that I spent seven other years

pounding in my head if it had been something ...

- As well 7 "other" years?

- Well, I spent seven years and a half as a fugitive, was wanted by the FBI.

So for 7 and a half years I knew that one day I would be arrested.

In 1997, I released thousands of mink about

about 6 different plants skin, in the Midwest.

What we did was to invade these factories in the night,

with pliers and wire cutters, we put the fences down

we went to these farms, we opened each cage.

The mink raised on farms They survived and prospered

in the wild, really.

Any arguments against break the law to save animals

is primarily an argument speciesist.

No one would argue that ...

it would be morally unjustified free slaves.

- I realized that by thinking on animal experimentation,

and ALF, I was avoiding another matter.

- What is the difference between sitting and watch a dogfight,

how I was doing, or allegedly doing,

and the rest of us, we sat down kiosks doing barbecues?

Oh ... and ... You know?

The grilled animal was tortured as well as animals that

Michael Vick puts to fight.

- Each year, the Church of St. John, the Divine in New York

has a beautiful celebration of San Francisco, complete with a parade of animals.

And transvestites, for some reason.

There, hundreds of people line up

to have their companions blessed animals.

- I brought him here today to see you blessed.

And I have been grateful to the Lord for a miracle:

he has kidney failure, I think a miracle to have hemodialysis for animals.

If I had an uncle or kidney failure, have medical treatment

I feel the same for animals.

Uh ... by pets.

- I was wondering if you could bless all the chickens ....

- All chickens?

- They are too many to bring them, so ... (Chicken x 9 billion)

... I was considering you some kind of blessing for them all.

- I know they are trapped in cages, warehouses and so on ...

- What can I do?

- The first thing you must do,

if you approach fear animal factory farms

It is to fail to keep them.

While you're shopping the products,

of all industrial farms, as you consume them,

or have people who buy by you,

this helps keep them.

- So if I will not buy industrial farms,

how about those farms "human," which I hear?

I found a "human" farm that sells for one of

Most reputable companies, Whole Foods.

It is described on the website of Whole Foods as a farm "free-range" (no confinement)

The owner even took me for a spin.

- We are doing things for the patterns Whole Foods,

which are high. - Very high human standards?

- Yes, high. - The best?

- Also, I think of the best.

We offer quality products quality, which are created

more naturally for people

We are looking for this type of product.

- How much space there is, per bird?

- Almost 1m².

Comparing with a ordinary creation,

is enough space.

To sell to Whole Foods,

you have to meet the many values.

Oh, they are very strict standards.

Ah ...

If you have an error rate greater than 1%, you are missing.

If you have more than 1% broken wings, you fail.

- Yes, this is very smelly.

- It is not? It's like a box my rabbit!

When I'm cleaning. - And is...

When I take the manure with a shovel loader, use a respirator,

one of those respirators anti ammonia, it filters everything.

So it does not affect the throat.

It is not good for us.

- Let us listen again, with more space,

our numbers are usually very low.

The ammonia levels are usually very low.

Turkeys, you know, is a both cannibals,

- So if anyone has a turkey wrong, 3 or 4 and each of them together,

may have this problem?

- Probably not, and even we also we do not have much of that,

because of the extra space.

- Really? - That we do not.

- So because of the extra space, they do not ...

- It does not seem so bad.

- Why did they grow so more quickly?

- Only advances in gene. You know?

Selecting the birds grow faster.

- Is there any problem the rapid growth?

- Hrããn ... yes, you can have problem in the legs,

and nails, as they grow. - Like what?

- They fall to the ground, on the legs.

- It reminded me of something I had almost forgotten.

- She has difficulty walking.

But she loves people, loves to be caressed,

- Yes, his name is Old Hat. - Hello, Old Bone.

- It took a while for her to used to people again,

because why?

- I think

I trusted not only in persons obviously, for a reason ...

- She seems to be opening wings ... which means?

- She likes to be stroked, It is taking advantage of ...

... Is pouring into me.

- That's it.

- Is the cart for the donation?

- Yes, every day we have one, two or three.

- If you put 3 or 4 in the wheelbarrow, you will get a date ... haha

- This is better than one Normal farm.

And there must be farms much better than these.

So ... are there farms non-speciesist?

- If animals must be in the moral community,

then we must give your interests equal consideration.

If animals are property, it is impossible to give them

equal consideration. Think about it a second.

When the collated interests of a well

against those of intesses owner of the well,

will always consider the interests the good

smaller than the interests of its owner.

So just like the case of human slavery,

there were some laws that protected, or supposedly protected,

human slaves.

But not working.

And it did not work because it tried balancing the interests of slaves

with the interests of the owners slave.

- Somehow, I had never thought on that contradiction.

Among consider the welfare of other animals comparably important

to our well-being. And then,

use them as economic commodities.

- It is also true that, if you eat meat,

you are adhering to a contractual relationship

in which you are paying other people

to mutilate animals,

unrelieved pain, even the best farms,

slicing throats of animals, opening them,

unrelieved pain.

You are paying people to abuse of animals,

if you eat meat.

- So you can not really reconcile, can not tell

"I am someone who is opposed to cruelty against animals "

and even "I consider acceptable pay for others

this mercenary relationship,

to go there and cut animal throats "

for something as inconsequential as a speech preference.

It is the subjugation of the apex.

Is literally eating the corpse of another being.

It's hard to imagine anything more especista.p

- I can not believe I never thought that before too!

But there is something bizarre in eat an animal.

Eating a corpse.

I wonder if people who stop be speciesist

They begin to see that eating animals is

It is how we see human cannibalism.

- Here is the final product? - Final product.

- There, two large, and above two heads, to have a great luau.

- Wow, a luau with their heads!

- Okay, here the two heads ...

- Why is it called "black pudding" (black pudding)?

- Because there's blood on it.

- And how like the neck? I never tasted the neck ...

- It is rabbit, is very tasty.

Here no one knows. In Germany, you have to

go to the butcher six weeks before to get.

- Oh really? It's because? - Because it's popular.

- I see ... they have so many (__ __?).

- Once removed from seabed,

eyes pop up for out of the head,

they literally die decompression,

when their bodies explore.

Or just gutted the decks

those huge fishing vessels Industrial farms fish.

Are cut in half, while They are still fully conscious.

So for many people They are trying vegetarianism

gradually,

many of them will cut meat first red,

by a cruel point of view, It is quite counterproductive.

- Some argue that we should go beyond.

And make ourselves vegans.

That is, replace all animal products in our diet.

- In my mind, veganism must be the master of the animal movement line.

Because, as I understand it, and I think empirically,

There is probably more suffering a glass of milk

or a cream pot than a kilogram of steak.

Of course all of them are torture, but the main idea

people make this distinction, "Oh, I do not eat meat, but as dairy"

Uh ... for me, it's a little insensitive saying "I do not like little cows,

but I like bigger cows. "

In fact, there is no difference.

There is suffering in dairy products. I say probably more because

think, used animals that industry

They are kept alive longer,

are treated worse shape,

- I never thought it too!

We consume is suffering!

- It is the most terrible pain that a mother can feel, being separated from her son.

And that is routine in dairy products.

If you have to do this to survive,

I can not imagine how I can live with yourself

and bear it.

- You can make the decision right now!

But I will not eat products of animal origin.

- Despite the arguments of vegetarians and vegans are stronger,

there must be a good reason not to become one another.

I mean... other animals

eat other animals.

- Suddenly, after debase animals, will mean ...

"Oh, look, if the lion eats antelope, I okay to eat the cow ".

But ... what is it? I never He said animals

They are a type of moral example we must follow.

- They just do it on which have no choice.

- OK, it made me I feel stupid.

I try to redeem myself.

- Animals are injured, at least accidentally,

when we do anything, most likely.

- Yes, that is absolutely true.

Humans are accidentally injured,

by directing every day.

But no one saw say "look, the Humans are accidentally injured,

then we should pick up their cars and make them hit,

reaching as many people we can. "

We will not, as a society, get to a place where

we take these damages in serious consideration,

if we still intentionally free of charge and without good reason,

They cause suffering to animals.

- And ... my last ditch ...

- And the plants?

(Jonathan Balcombe, PhD in the Department. Of Studies Animals, Humane Society)

- You need not worry with plants

because they are not sentient organisms.

They can not move from one place to another,

so that evolution is not the equipped with the need to feel

pain, pleasure to escape something, or move ....

And we understand the mechanics fluid whereby the flower

follows the sun across the sky, for example,

so we understand the operation a motor car.

- So I went back to the street.

- What would be the reason for you not want to be vegetarian?

- Because I need meat, I need protein.

- Proteins? - IT IS.

- I became vegan 8 December 1995.

I gained 34kg and turned a champion vegan bodybuilding.

There is a misconception to relate veganism as weakness or strength,

or lack of ability to obtain adequate nutrition, and the like.

But in reality, the primary sources nutrition, vitamins, minerals,

amino acids, fats, glucose, complete proteins,

all these things we need, They are found

in plant-based foods.

In their primary sources.

They are where they come from.

- Of course ... I'm not a doctor.

- I started as a indweller,

and spent the last eight years, essentially, as a clinician.

The justification we used for our abuse, mistreatment and exploitation of

nonhuman animals is that we we judge them as "the other"

as something less than us and

be seen as something for which I I am very sensitive, because

as African American, in this country We saw long as "other".

Once I became a vegetarian and convinced that a diet based on

in vegetables is more healthy diet to humans,

I definitely wanted to spend my life trying to educate people

the fact that they can live healthier,

without disease and longer life,

- OK OK.

So what else do we have?

- It's the same again and again.

- Yeah, you could explain ... food Vegetarian emerged as a mixture?

- Yeah, you know, may be a mixture, not much, a lot of variety.

- This is the Franchia a vegan restaurant in Manhattan.

- I am Shery Choi, the owner this restaurant

I'm vegan for over 15 years.

Soy chicken skewers,

It's better than chicken, and is fried lightly.

You pacifier in the chicken barbecue sauce and ... encased!

This is our Skewer lobster balls

The texture is very similar a real lobster.

This is our cheesecake.

Everyone loves, is fully no dairy.

We received comments such as "Oh, my God, oh my God,

is a vegan cheesecake, we did not know which tastes even better than a cheesecake!

- People even say which is better? - Yup!

- We decided to test this proposal.

- She likes. - That's it?

- It vegetarian lobster.

Not true lobster.

- Wow, that's real?

- Can I have the rest?

- If you go to supermarkets as Whole Foods, some of

stores "natural products"

you can buy soy sausages, soy meat,

If you are the shalt as Barnes & Nobles, you will have a shelf

only whole book vegetarian cuisine.

- Remember Paul Shapiro, of Humane Society?

He showed me some versions vegan of my favorite foods.

In his kitchen.

- Becoming vegan is not patrol your life,

take everything so as dramatic

No more than make a few free choices.

I am still a person who like running,

or lifting, play football....

Some of them have taste identical to the normal meat.

Some do not.

The question is not exactly mimic the taste.

If we were born eating vegan meat and we spent

eating animal flesh, we would say "Hey, you do not have the same flavor."

We are not talking about huge sacrifices here.

The biggest problem you can have

It is if your friends want to go a restaurant

that does not have many vegan options,

And you end up asking a mass or a salad, for want.

Nothing much.

- It is so easy to go buy vegan meats, go shopping as normal meat.

- Or you may have more options when demand for natural food stores.

Trader Joes and as Whole Foods.

Sites are so easy to go as mercadões.

What is then the excuse to buy animal products?

- Ra ... you know?

It was all ... Well, is essentially a matter of habit.

We were used to eating these products for so long,

it becomes "normal" to us.

But just because something has become habit, does not mean that

we have to continue making for life.

- If you lived at the time of animal slavery,

you think would be an abolitionist?

Or do you think that would probably with the majority and support slavery?

- I probably would an abolitionist.

- You would be an abolitionist, do you think?

- Hope so!

Over the past 4 years (Jon Camp - NGO Vegan Outreach)

I had the chance to distribute pamphlets in about 300 colleges,

delivering about 350,000 booklets so far.

I ... I like .. I'm trying to find something that does not seem

I am convinced, I'm boasting.

It is in our day to day lives that our pamphleteers,

our few pamphleteers, cross with people

and hear something that encourages ...

"Hey, I got a flyer with you a year ago

and do not eat meat, I will come vegan since. "

- Animal lovers They are changing the culture.

PETA alone in the last year,

It distributed more than 850,000 of our "Starter Kit to Vegetarianism."

And millions of leaflets vegetarians.

And we have more than 1 million People in our website

who are watching our video "Meet your Meat" (Know your meat).

- This move is effective?

- It is fantastically effective.

When we asked people why they adopted

a vegetarian diet, today,

the number one response is to have assisted the "Meet your Meat".

- When the Vegan Outreach started the program "Pioneering the Faculty"

We delivered over 8000 booklets the first year.

Seven years later, we are distributing over 1 million each year.

- A million?

- Yes, we have an increase of more than 10 times in those seven years.

And these booklets are having a huge impact

among college students.

- For a conservative estimate, have a million vegans,

we have much more than that.

If each of these people convince just one person

becoming vegan 5 years

and many of us have convinced much more than that,

we will have 2 million vegans in 5 years.

4 million in 10 years,

8 million in 15 years.

- The amount of vegetarian options and vegan will always increase,

It will become increasingly easier

for more and more people.

- You enter the Whole Foods, and 10 years ago they had

very few options vegan, now have

an entire vegan section!

And Burger King has a veggie cheeseburger.

- Do you think there will be a crucial turning point?

- Yes, I think it is inevitable that, at any moment,

we have to have a serious social discussion

on the ethics of creating and killing Pet food.

- We are making progress in speed of light.

compared to past movements social justice.

And we, as a species, we can only continue to deny science,

For so long.

We can only go on living, until then, out of our principles.

For so long.

We get there.

The Animal Liberation.

- But there is more.

Treatment of animals over which we talked,

It has been the legal standard treatment.

But it goes beyond that.

And you can go much further, often.

- We made dozens of Covert investigations

from coast to coast.

We not infrequently found deplorable conditions,

(Nathan Runkle - Executive Director of the NGO Mercy for Animals)

Animals that are neglected to die without veterinary care.

Whenever we encounter physical abuse in factory farms.

Every time we send researchers the factory farms, we find

find prey birds, or wedged in wire cages,

Loose iron enters the skin of these birds, tearing it.

The birds often die in these conditions.

Their bodies are left there, the birds still producing eggs

for human consumption.

We say investigations on farms milk production,

in which there is much manure, cows They slip in their own feces,

we also find nuts-mothers with untreated injuries

Everything from broken bones to Open wounds ...

It's something that industries want people believe that it is

isolated fact, an aberration.

But we know that this simply part of the deal farms.

- There was one last All he had to do.

Something I never imagined He would.

I had to talk to more people reputable, ethically engaged.

To find out if they can be wrong about something.

"Freedom is not a gift from God, we must fight for it every day "

- Simon Wiesenthal.

- Well, we are a leading organization Human Rights,

under Jewish auspices,

but we used the holocaust idea to educate people

against attacks schedule against Judaism.

Also on indifference, empathy.

- What's wrong with the comparison made between Holocaust and animals?

- Good...

- There are many problems?

- There are many, many difficulties involved.

The first is

which tends to put the human beings

and animals in the same level.

- And how will choose belonging as a Especia

as the dividing line of morality,

rather than humans with certain characteristics...

- Do not have to go that far ... - Right.

- Just say "no human, and there is everything else. "

- OK.

- I realized that he was a common speciesist.

So I left the subject of value non human suffering ....

And it was pro real reason I was there.

- Do you agree that, for example, beating a dog

cause him more grief than a small slap on a person?

- Oh, of course!

- It's just ... so ...

Many of these people say

if we can make some kind comparison,

they say that the suffering of animals in factory farms today

with billions of birds, pigs suffering ... throughout his life

physically and psychologically,

despite the discussion of which suffering is more important,

just as a matter of fact,

more suffering than what happened in the Holocaust.

- Never.

- I can not acr ...

- It's ridiculous ... and the Law of Animals defend others,

will only mark his point.

For others to hear them.

- So come on, let's explain why it is ridiculous ...

- I did not compare because ... It is also incomparable to scene

Animal suffering with human ...

- But we are not comparing the value, only a practical matter ....

no more suffering going on,

because they are intensively suffering for all life...

and there are billions of them.

And there were several million people who suffered in the Holocaust ...

and there is more suffering ....

- You can compare the suffering a female nut

which has its separate piglet,

the suffering of a woman or a man who has her baby

taken by the Nazis and dead?

- Why, that's what ...

- Can not. I do not think you can. I do not care how ...

- A pig is supposedly very very smart, but

I do not think he has one same feeling.

- But it has, he has, for example,

the nut parent spends his life in the cage small, they go crazy

and hit his head against the splitter bars ... mutilate themselves ...

- Still does not compare ... - Suffer a lifetime, and there are millions of them.

So they say ... forget how valuable you find suffering,

no more suffering going on there.

- I do not know.

I really do not know.

- When I left,

those same streets,

they seemed different.

And I think always will be.

But now you also know.

And you will.

In the streets.

It would be the largest the Speciesism weirdness that pacified humanity?

Could this be the ultimate choice?

Pretend it never we heard that?

Or take responsibility ara itself.

For us.

I do not know the answers to these questions.

But this film is not designed to give the answers ...

It is designed to submit questions.

Why is not my decision.

It is your decision!