 What's going on everyone welcome to another video this video I want to talk about One of the videos I posted a few days ago It was our first slaughterhouse vigil here in South Australia now just a little bit of a backstory We've never done a vigil here. I took the reins so to speak and just decided to organize one I went and scouted at a slaughterhouse and seen when a truck arrived. I thought it would be a good one to just Sort of for training sort of thing just to get the activists Used to it was new to all of us. We had never done it before so we decided I got in touch with Toronto Pig Save and got some tips and pointers and we decided to just go ahead and do it Did it turn out perfectly no the truck driver didn't want to stop even though he agreed At the window for him to stop he didn't stop we had activists in front and he was barging the activists and Obviously first time a bit nervous didn't know what he was going to do. We let him go after 20 seconds, but It did give us a chance to tell the pigs story, which is not a object failure So let's just have a look at some of the comments left by some of these people in the comments section Just trivializing the efforts here. Why didn't you actually do something to help these poor animals? It makes my blood boil seeing people stand around watching this wholesale murder and basically doing nothing Stand in front of the trucks and stop them. God this channel was such a waste of time a bunch of Ineffective enablers more concerned about making videos than saving animals from murder So this person just is saying that it was just a waste of time I'm a waste of time this channel was a waste of time and We basically did nothing keep that in mind because I want to show you I'm going to show you what this video actually did Here was another one. This is a big ring I think this I'm pretty sure this is a troll account from a bigger youtuber, but I'm not I'm not 100% on that What did all this actually achieve? Hopefully something down the track may be nothing But makes the activists feel good and gives them something to do on weekends. So trivializing and Making a mockery of animal saves vigils stopping trucks showing people the animals inside the trucks before they go to slaughter I think that that's absolute just complete garbage because I think it helps a lot of people seeing the faces of the animals before slaughter But let's just see the email that I've got from this lady, which is really really is actually amazing So I've got an email from her September last year 2016 hi, I'm Mallory 32 from Gold C8 USA that might be California near Sacramento So she found my video for a TV see just giving herself a little bit of a backstory here She watches my channel. So the question is how can I convert my son over to veganism? I've been trying what you said about showing him the truth. He's eight I know you don't have kids, but I thought you can help. He said he doesn't want to see any slaughterhouse videos I tried to explain him. It's bad for him The meat is bad for him, but he cuts me off and says he doesn't want to hear it Okay, so here she is. She's having some troubles trying to convert her son to veganism and I gave us some tips I said keep trying. I can't remember exactly what I said But because I'm not an expert on parenting you can only plant the seed with your kids and keep trying and keep trying to lead by example and Hope for the best. I know sometimes there's two parents one's eating meat and one's going vegan. So it can be tough but anyway, I got this email from her last night and It says hey Joey, I had to email you Three nights ago my son asked to watch one of your videos. So of course I said sure He said can I pick the video? I said sure So he wanted to watch the three-minute video you posted The other day about the truck full of pigs about to go to the slaughterhouse Then towards the end of the video. He started crying said. Oh, buddy. I Didn't know you were going to get so upset and when you said and here's the refrigerator truck that comes out after the pigs Have been chopped up into pieces. It's just clipped for him They come in as pigs and they come out cut up into pieces in these refrigeration trucks So after the video he told me he wanted to go vegan. I Don't know if you remember me telling you about how hard it was changing kids I wanted him to figure it out and make the decision for himself I switched last June my husband switch four months ago. My husband weight has dropped from 280 pounds down to 255 He's been riding his bike a lot Anyways, I've shown my son your videos any time he wanted to watch them Then he watched a few of bite-sized vegans videos to help him understand So day one must a son ate no animal products day two my dad took him to Subway and my son didn't know he Could order the veggie delight he will learn I will teach him how to order when he goes out to eat with my dad I also let my dad know so he can help him when I'm not there So thank you so much Joey you helped my son make the connection that I couldn't he was actually annoyed every time I tried to tell him info. I love all of your videos And I'm a voice for the voices every day to as many people as I can I consider myself an activist I hope to be out on YouTube one day soon That is awesome. Isn't that awesome? So This lady Mallory. Hope you're watching Mallory and to your son Keep going mate. It's awesome to hear you're doing a massive service for the animals and Like I said, they're suffering greatly and they need all the help they can get So I just wanted to make this video because I know like some activists You might not get the best responses sometimes for your work. Sometimes you might not get hardly no response I mean my channel isn't the biggest on YouTube But I try to be effective in the small reach that I have and I know there's a lot of other youtubers that might not Feel rewarded. I mean being an activist sometimes it's it's a rewardless work Especially those that are on the front lines going into the slaughterhouse getting the footage is no really They don't really get a pat on the back and good on you keep going, but this sort of thing here Getting emails like this really reinforces the work that we are doing as activists So if I never made that video her son might not have seen it well, he wouldn't have seen it and He wouldn't have gone vegan at this point. I think it it really helped and People like this saying a bunch of ineffective enable is more concerned about making videos than saving animals for murder Well, making videos is saving animals from murder. That's what people don't understand posting pictures from inside these trucks Helps people make the connection Okay, making a little effective short video with some music behind it to appeal to people's emotions So they can empathize with these animals. It is activism and it works and this is just evidence of it Makes the activists feel good and give them something to do on weekends Do you think we wanted to go out? Do you think this is what we want to do? We want to go out stop trucks so we can show people suffering faces of pigs Do you think that's like our favorite pastime? Not at all. It's Nerve-wracking going out and doing that stuff thinking I was a slaughterhouse worker gonna come out What's gonna happen like are the police gonna come? You know, it's it's uncomfortable it's a lot easier to go ride your bike up a hill and You know not worry about it drink some some juice and just forget about the animals. That's fine It's actually tough for these activists to go out and stop these trucks and it is effective I don't care what anyone says So to all the activists out there making videos keep going you never know who could be watching and You know who's gonna go vegan from it. So don't listen to what people say in the comments section I mean the majority of those comments were really positive. We're gonna keep doing vigils Keep showing people what these animals are going through and you know, we're all making a difference here together. So