June 5, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
09:00
Vegans vs. Bacon
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So we're walking in right now to Farmer John's slaughterhouse in Vernon, California, which is a city right outside of Los Angeles.
And we are here at the vigil for pigs.
Yeah, so what is it actually that we're setting up here and that we're putting on the wall?
unidentified
Oh, so this is, we call it our Batman light.
So we'll have, you know, famous quotes about animal rights or things that, you know, like the how many pigs are killed here every day and we project it right there on the wall so that people driving by can see it.
So this is a slaughterhouse, right, for Farmer John's.
And so this idea of giving water to the pigs, is this more of a, I'm not going to say like a sign of just like love, but what does this actually do?
Do you get what I'm saying?
Because they're already going to go into the slaughterhouse.
So like, is this just kind of like a sign memorium or an example to people of showing love?
Or what is the purpose of this?
unidentified
It's compassion.
We do something that's called Bearing Witness, which was coined by Leo Tolstoy.
Basically what that means, bearing witness, is to come closer when you see another being that is suffering and do whatever you can to comfort them and let the world know.
So you can start to see people are moving around a lot.
They're starting to pick up their supplies because a truck is coming and people start to get, I wouldn't say excited, but a little bit like nervous excitement as the truck comes.
And so we're going to come right over here.
People are shining the lights.
They're about to go in and they are using pump guns to give water and comfort to the pigs.
So what are some of the thoughts that are going through your head as you're giving these pigs water?
unidentified
You know, I just imagine what it would be like to be them.
I'm going to try and put myself in their position and it's just so sad that this is their last moment being alive.
So our priority right now is to give them the last sip of water which is the last comfort they'll ever receive before they get slaughtered just behind that wall right there.
It's just that all these things that we're doing needs to be documented and needs to be like shared on social media for people.
You just have to see it for yourself and that's when you know we'll try to get the word out and get more people to see it.
This is the part that people don't see.
Like what usually people see is the packaged meat at the supermarket and they don't really make that connection between what's packaged and what it was before it was packaged.
Most people think that vegan groups or animal groups are just a bunch of crazies.
It's not true, right, in this case?
unidentified
No, it's just like what a lot of people, like Trump supporters, they just get demonized as these radicals.
You know, it's easy to dismiss them when you've just had hominin in them.
Excuse me, I'm out of breath.
I ran over here.
Don't worry.
But they do the same thing.
I get it all the time.
Anytime I post something and I'll make, you know, just anything factual, you just get demonized as a radical, crazy extremist when, you know, it's just trying to show compassion to all living creatures.
After coming my first time to a vigil, just how hard it hit me to see the animals and see how similar we are to them, looking in their eyes, feeling what they feel and the other way around as well.
It just, you can't not come.
You see them and you just have to be there for them.
So I feel like someone needs to shed light on this.
And if not anyone, then like, why not me?
I think all life is sacred.
We're all animals.
We're human animals and non-human animals.
I think the lives of non-human animals and the lives of human animals are all sacred and I'm against taking any of them at any time.
What do you feel now that you see the truck leaving and you know that they're about to be slaughtered?
unidentified
definitely sad but you know glad that we did this so we have flowers right here What are these for?
Yeah, we're I'm passing out flowers.
We weave them through the fence because this is a vigil.
So it's similar to a funeral.
They will be slaughtered.
So it's out of kindness and respect.
You see people putting the flowers weave through the fence right now.
So it's just something we like to do for the ones we love that we're going to lose.
I mean most people have a heart.
Most people want good.
Most people want to do what's right.
And I know that, like myself, before I became vegan, I just thought, I don't know what I was thinking.
Actually, I just thought, oh, you know, it's in a pretty little package at the store.
I didn't really think about the process prior to me eating it.
Unfortunately, for the pigs, they are an average of six months old and they're put in gestation cages.
So their space is so tiny they can't even turn around.
A lot of them are gnawing on the bars of the cages because they're going crazy as anyone would to get out and then you know their piglets are on the outside of these bars nursing and as soon as they're big enough then they put them in their own cages and then they fatten them up and about six months old on average they take them for slaughter.
So their whole life is lived so that humans can consume them.
They are treated as a commodity and not a someone or a some you know someone.
They are living beings.
They all feel pain.
They all love and they all want to live just like you and I.
