 Hello everyone, welcome to another video. Now I decided to make a video in response to the media tirade that they have launched again on me this morning. Now what the media have done is they've gone through old posts of mine from 2015-2016. They must have some people doing research on me because they've basically gone through every single thing I've ever said in my entire life and are now making front page headlines about these old things that I used to say. Now Peaceful Vegan activist Joey Carpström compared dairy farmers to Hitler and told them to kill themselves. A while back I think it was a couple of years ago some there was a story on some dairy farmers where they were saying that some dairy farmers were suicidal because they had been losing profits and back then I was quite a passionate and you could say aggressive activists and I used to say things that I probably wouldn't say now. Well I definitely wouldn't say now and one of the things I said is that the dairy farmers should do the cows a favor basically. I looked at it from the cows perspective and from the animals perspective and in retrospect you know it was a bad thing to say. Do I stand by statements like that now? No, I do not advocate like that and I do not recommend any vegan activist advocates like that. Are compared dairy farmers to Hitler? Would I do that nowadays? No, no I wouldn't. Do I think what's happening to the animals is horrific? 100% it is. 100% it is. So what they've basically done is gone through my whole past of my substance abuse when I was using drugs. I've been very candid about my past. Obviously I was in gangs and I used to commit acts of violence. I was also a non-vegan. I used to eat animals three times a day. I used to pay for animals to be murdered on my behalf. They don't really talk about that though. They just want to attack my character and talk about all of my prior criminal history. They must have called the courts that sentenced me because they found out everything about my sentencing submissions. They found an old video, my four-year sober video where my family described how I used to be. But they obviously didn't find, they didn't include in the article how I am now because that whole video was about my transformation, how I used to be and how I am now. They miss all that. They miss all that. What my brother used this set of how I used to be, my conduct how it used to be. Obviously none of the ways, it's nothing to do with what I'm like now as a person. But basically they found old posts. I made a video once called ethical hunters deserve a bullet in the head. Now I was very angry with a particular person who I was debating with who was saying that there's a humane way to shoot an animal. And obviously that triggered me back then. And I've deleted these videos. Any of these videos that these posts, I've deleted them. They found a video where I'm talking about pacifism. I used to think that pacifism wasn't the way to advocate. Obviously I'm a peaceful advocate and I do nonviolent polite respectful education based activism. That's how I advocate. They found an old video where I'm saying that the way that the Jews were rescued was through violent intervention basically. Now of course I don't have that view on vegan activism. The way all of my activist workshops are online for people to see. The way I promote advocacy. I don't even swear when I advocate anymore. I used to swear all the time. So what the media are basically doing, they found a post where I said if you eat fish you're a disgusting psychopath. Which I do not stand by that statement either. I do not stand by these statements. I think a peaceful approach is best. Of course I do. I do not compare farmers to Nazis anymore. I don't think that that's a wise thing to do. I don't think it's a wise way to advocate. I think it creates a massive distraction and I think farmers are just a victim of a very violent society and they don't think that what they're doing is wrong. And I've stated many times I do not hate farmers. But of course the media are trying to, they're trying to demonize me. They're trying to, they're best to make me the villain. The Martin Luther King, sorry the Malcolm X quote that I posted today. If you're not careful the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. They can turn, they can turn the criminal into the victim and the peacemakers into the criminal. That's just what they do and they've done it with everyone throughout history. I just didn't realize they were gonna go through this much of my stuff to discredit me. I mean this is really, this is really full on. Like if you google my name you'll see the amount of articles these major media outlets are doing on me. The point of this is basically they are trying to shoot the messenger. They're trying to discredit the messenger because the message is powerful. The message is strong. Obviously these major media outlets are working for someone aren't they? There's a lot of money in meat, dairy and eggs and they're trying to make me out to be someone I'm basically I'm not anymore. Some of the things I used to say were extreme and I do not you know obviously don't stand by them. You know I used to be violent, I used to drink alcohol, I used to do all these things that I that I don't do anymore. I mean if we went through anyone's old stuff I'm sure we could find something that we could pin on anyone but they have got people researching everything about me in order to discredit me because my message is strong. I'm on national TV calling out the dairy industry for sexually abusing cows, for calling out the meat, dairy and egg industry for enslaving and murdering animals. People are starting to wake up to this, my message is strong and I'm not the only one with this message. Obviously there is millions of us vegans who know exactly what happens to animals for profit and we're not putting up with it anymore. I don't know I think they might be trying to distract me bash me or use me as instrument to discredit the whole vegan movement, use the things I said two three years ago which I do not I no longer stand by to discredit the whole vegan movement but I thought I'd just give you guys an idea of what's happening. These are major news outlets so reaching millions and millions and millions of people. The plus to this is they're bringing eyes to me and when they bring eyes to me they bring eyes to the animal message which whenever I open my mouth these days it's for animals it's on behalf of animals. I do not have some radical message I mean actually it might seem radical don't harm animals hey let's live in peace in harmony with animals and and and each other I want peace you know just as much as the next person but I'm just living in alignment that and that that's my message it's a strong message and it's about justice you know change is going to be uncomfortable and this is what's happening here I mean why why'd they got a little old me who's just you know speaking up against the sexual abuse in the dairy industry and other horrific forms of exploitation that we subject innocent animals to why they got a little old me demonizing me putting me up as the poster boy worldwide. I think maybe it's because I've got a little bit of things in my past that are easy to attack and they're using them to try to discredit veganism which they cannot discredit they can try to publicly you know discredit the message but we have the evidence right there it's right there for everyone to see I mean slaughterhouses are everywhere they're all around you just have to drive your car there and wait for truckloads of pigs to rock up and you can hear them screaming from out into the on the road. If you look at throughout history and the other social justice movements like the Civil Rights Movement the Suffragettes so Martin Luther King Jr Mahatma Gandhi up half-eyed these these outspoken activists were demonized by the media okay they were demonized by the media and they just wanted peace and this is what's happening with vegans now we just want peace and then the media are demonizing us I don't know who is pulling the strings behind all of this like whether it's big industry meet dairy and eggs and you know they've got connections with the media they want to they want to try their best to halt this movement the thing is that there's money in veganism so I don't understand that why don't they just switch over to more ethical industries I mean what what's with all the the kicking and screaming I mean but this is what we are dealing with but I just wanted to make this video just to give you an idea of where I'm at what's happening they have not stopped for the last two weeks the media every time I wake up there's like new articles I can't keep up I haven't saved all the articles there's probably about 20 or 30 up there now they've got a they've written a whole bio on me basically saying that I'm a drug addict that I am an ex-convict I'm a used to be a violent criminal gang member basically all these things in my bio so why would you listen to this person you know but then there is some positive so there's all eyes on me I'm speaking with conviction about procedures that that happen to animals and meet dairy eggs bringing eyes to the plot of animals which is all I really want to do I don't care if I'm looked at as some villain by people who don't know me I just want people to stop hurting animals so if they come to my page and and see my message they're not going to see any name calling to farmers on my page just going to be truth okay the truth about what's happening to animals there's not going to be me inciting violence to any people that work in animal agriculture that's not me and that's not my message my message is leave the animals alone let's create a more peaceful world and let's create industries around ethical alternatives basically any type of advocacy that is inflammatory I won't allow on my page I'll try my best to to go through and get rid of that but the point is I want a movement of peace and I want a movement full of advocates who want the same thing and who are sort of generating this sort of peaceful advocacy that's what I want we just want hey stop hurting animals we don't think you're bad people we don't think farmers are bad people for being brought up into this violent conditioned indoctrinated society shoot the messenger if you like I just want people to be peaceful to animals but anyways I want to leave that video there I just thought I'll let you guys know what's going on I've got more content coming obviously I've just been you know it's been quite full on at the moment with everything but uh yeah don't worry about me I'm good I'm going good yeah just thought I'd respond to some of the things the media is saying I can't respond to everything they're saying there's just so much of it uh the thing is I think what's happening is change change is happening which is why they are they're sort of fighting back but change is inevitable they can only try to hinder its progress they cannot stop it from progressing uh this is an issue of justice and as we know about issues of justice they always come to light injustice doesn't last forever sooner or later society catches up and that's what's happening here so anyway thank you for all for all of your amazing support sorry if that video this video was just a bit of you know me rambling on about the current situation but I just thought I'd just clear the air get it all out there for years if you want to go do a little google I don't really have time to link every single article that's been written about me you do a little google search joey card from you can see what um the media have kind of been up to obviously if you want to see how I advocate just look at my current videos okay I've gone through and deleted the the old content that I don't agree with if you find any content on there that you might uh deem as uh abusive or questionable let me know and I'll go have a look at it and see what I can do I will never stop speaking with passion and conviction for the plight of animals you will never get me saying that cows are not raped in the dairy industry you will never get me saying that um they're not animals aren't slaves you will never get me saying that animals aren't mercilessly murdered against their will that they are the real victims here that will never happen so I wouldn't even entertain that but the way I conduct myself is important and um I want to speak truth without any of the other inflammatory um conduct which I I have been in in the last year if you looked at my conduct in the last year uh minimum um I have been doing that so I've evolved a lot as an activist and as a person I will never stop speaking for animals until the day I die that is what I'm here to do to speak for the voiceless victims who do not get a platform like we have so um all of us vegans and all of us that know about this we now we need to strike while the iron's hot we need to all be there sharing content um waking up the masses together collectively okay we need to stop relying on other activists to do this job for us I know that we've so many of us are are in on this which is amazing we need more all of us the ones that watching that don't do much get out there start sharing start commenting start uh supporting other activists start sharing stuff about dairy let's let's all hit it all at once and let's show how powerful this movement is and let's do the animals the justice they deserve