 We're just having some food It's actually um, it's 10 to 2. We just arrived in Vienna last night It's actually the morning of my birthday and we're going to go um Bear witness inside of a slaughterhouse to pigs before they slaughter it so We're just getting ready. We're about to leave There's a fire inside your heart Let it light up the world We're at the we're out on we're on the main street. Is this where it is in the city, okay? Okay, we'll see you soon Might take this jacket off put that one on so I can that one can smell Friendly not very friendly where they're going Okay, so here we are at this small slaughterhouse in Austria just outside of Vienna We've got a pen full of pigs here and They are getting ready to be slaughtered in there, so Kill floors just past this holding pen. We're here to bear witness to the animals be with them before They meet the knife. So let's go meet the animals Yeah, so they're a little bit shy, but the longer that we're in here. They will get used to us Realized that we're not a threat. Hello, darling She's really shy and scared So the demeanor is exactly like a dog really timid and they express a lot with their eyes sniffing around They're just like shy puppy dogs But bigger and look a little bit different It looks so worried don't know when you look at this place The holding cell of a prison like a really you know maximum security dingy old prison But They'll be terrified in the last moments and being stunned electrically shocked I used to eat their body parts these animals Terrified animals who struggled and drowned in their own blood inside of a slaughterhouse here And I ate their body parts for years and years I remember eating like the piece of an animal like this and there would be hair on the on the flesh and I didn't think really nothing of it, you know Came from an individual Nothing disturbs me more now that I'm vegan than that Pigs don't do well confined with each other like in these holding pens They get stressed out really easily. They're highly anxious animal. They don't do well crammed together See them. They've got scratches on their backs From you know fighting with each other There's about four dozen here now They look pretty young They're gonna kill a lot of animals here this morning Apparently the kill floor starts at 5 30 a.m All of these animals are going to be killed this morning. What a tragedy Four little babies So adorable Look at you Look how beautiful you are. Oh my god Crazy these beautiful angels get turned into sausages minced up into sausages Beautiful sentient animals the way they are This is gonna be hard if we have to watch these animals be murdered It's gonna be tough. I don't think they have much of an idea of what's going to happen to them in there, but it's absolutely a tragedy Beautiful sentient animals. They're so adorable Exactly like dogs in every way except for the way they look and They're gonna choke on their own blood in there, you know Die a violent death so people can eat them in a sausage So So people are so disconnected look at this baby here Look at their beautiful eyes. Their eyes are so much like humans Having their own sentient subjective experience of reality Their own emotions our own fears Want desires they desire well-being they want to avoid suffering. They want to avoid a knife in the throat That's for sure, but they won't really have a choice in there Yeah, they'll be cornered shocked Electrically shocked and stabbed to death. What actually what disturbs me the most is that I used to eat them eat their bodies I didn't know who I was eating and It sickens me like it's sickens me. I've done a lot of things in my past that I regret You know being ex-gang member and things like that, but None More regretful than eating the body parts of these beautiful sentient animals I guess I'm what my message to people would be is When you dine on the flesh of an animal Don't think about what you're eating think about who you're eating. Who were they? How did they live? How were they killed? Look at them. They're so helpless like there's nothing they can do either There's nothing that we can really do that is defenseless animals. They're they're imprisoned behind these bars We can't really do anything to help them the best thing we can do is Tell their story for them and hope that the public connect with them and by realizing that they're the reason they're in here You know the consumer of the reason these places exist And hopefully they change their habits in these places in but at the moment Like there's just a feeling of helplessness I'm kind of grateful that the animals don't really know what they're about to face But they're gonna face it either way, you know, and they're probably gonna be able to cease Their friends being murdered before them, which is even more disturbing It's so curious so He comes to say hello have you You come to say hello Who am I? Who am I? What am I doing here? Why am I here? I'm your friend. I'm your friend We're trying to help you Is that tasty? My shoulder tastes nice My shoulder tastes nice You are adorable. Look at this one They are so beautiful I'm guilty of pigs being my favorite animal. I used to draw pictures of them And I'd eat ham sandwiches That is society's fault That is society's fault Having me drawing pictures of pigs while I'm eating them The remains of their bodies After they suffered and died in a place like this, you know It's actually quite crazy when you think about it Just don't eat any of the equipment, okay? That's why kids grow up confused, don't they? Teaching them to care about animals and draw pictures of them and watch Peppa Pig And then feeding them the body parts of Individuals like these that they would never Never eat if they Witness them on the kill floor All right, so we just had a break from burying witness from the pigs here just to charge my phone Kill floor starts up at 5 30 We don't know if the slaughterhouse Owner is going to let us on the kill floor We're going to go check now Just one Okay, let me get my hand So what's what's happening is that only one of us is allowed on the kill floor And because Lena said to the slaughterhouse owner, it's my birthday, which it actually is my birthday today I can get suited up and go on the kill floor. He said no cameras, but I'm going to bring my camera anyway Just my handheld camera camera man has to stay here. Yeah, so Sad disturbing hard but important Yeah, so one of the hardest parts for me about doing this is that when you offer the pigs compassion and you know They're a little bit unsure of you and you make them trust you and then you pat them I don't feel as comfortable with that knowing that they're about to be Shocked and stabbed to death I don't want them to trust people in there and I don't um, I feel like I'm kind of betraying them even though I'm not I feel like they might think that I was part of this betrayal because I was You know making them feel comfortable and petting them and then When they go in there, maybe they think they might get this receive the same sort of treatment But they won't they'll receive no mercy in there and be killed So it's a really hard situation for me to you know be petting them and you know kind to them and Making them trust human beings and then they go in there and get butchered and killed No, that's all right. He can't come What are we where are we getting? Okay, okay, so we're about to go inside to uh the kill floor where they will process the animals