 Well, here we are another year has passed 2019 has come to an end and I always love to do these recap videos Because sometimes you don't really know how far you've come until you take a look back So that's exactly what we're going to do in this video We're going to take a look back and look at some of the highlights of 2019 So after my exhausting light up the world tour in Europe from November onwards Retreated to a place in Indonesia to find cheap Accommodation where I could sit down and edit all of my footage, but because it was veganuary back in the UK I received a lot of emails from TV shows wanting me on their show this morning show Pierce Morgan's show good morning Britain. I actually got a call from Jeremy Vine. Is it wrong if I don't Bear in mind what happened to the animal that created it Is that the problem here? willful ignorance is kind of what drives these industries and it's what they rely on so I would be more conscious of what you're consuming and the animal that lost their life for that Saucer drill and just go for the vegan stuff. There's plenty of vegan options in the UK now It's absolutely blowing up over there. It's great. So I thought to myself well I've just done this exhausting Europe tour, but I think it's more important for me to be in the UK I decided to reply back to these emails and say I'll be in the UK now Specifically wanted to have another row with Pierce Morgan. So I flew flew back over now I didn't receive a reply from good morning Britain. They didn't get me back on the show So I was like well, you know pierce Morgan's being pretty mouthy They won't get me back on the show to debate with him So what I'll do instead is start a campaign Against Pierce Morgan. You think a bunch of vegans and they've been a howling music you're gonna bother me I don't care. I don't care. You hypocrites. I'm coming for you So Pierce Morgan What are you defending? So I got some help from one of my comrades in the movement Chris Hines and we set out on a little journey to expose Pierce Morgan and show exactly what he is defending when he opposes veganism We went to dairy farms gas chambers pig farms. The argument about milk is murder is a fatuous one This baby here Chucked in the bin of a piece of garbage. It's a beautiful angel. I'm in the UK right now This is what you defend when you oppose veganism. This is exactly what you defend this This is a British farm. Okay. This is where the majority of pork is coming from places like this exactly like this I'm here in the UK now You can bring me on the show right now to talk about what we're seeing in here The biggest mass murder in British food production history is insects murdered to make bread You ask yourself Pierce Morgan. Is there a moral distinction between this place here and vegans eating bread So the idea was to leverage off of the controversy Pierce Morgan was creating towards veganism and Do a little bit of advocacy of my own set up a website called what is Pierce defending now in this time as soon as I arrived Back to the UK. I was in a radio debate He did radio debate with a BBC presenter Are you opposed to animal cruelty? Am I opposed to animal cruelty? Yes I'm not opposed to what reason if they don't have moral value if I Because I don't want to torture something. So why do I don't why don't you want to torture animals if they don't have moral value Why don't want to torture? I didn't say animals don't have any moral so it's wrong to torture an animal Why is it wrong? Why isn't it wrong to shoot them in the head? I then was involved with a meat is murdered debate at Cambridge University, which is quite interesting. What is that difference? What is the morally significant difference between an infant baby and a lamb like you suggested that gives us justification to stab a lamb in the neck with a knife take their life from them and For some reason killing that baby child that human child would be considered murder Chris Hines was able to hook up a very controversial slaughterhouse tour Which ended up getting a lot of views how far does the bolt come out? You can show on my head, that's okay Okay, so the top of the forehead So it has to go to pierce through their brain was one of the more interesting interviews I've been a part of and she took me as a through a tour through her slaughterhouse Very very bizarre that was for me. So whilst campaigning against Pierce Morgan I released I was releasing the Europe tour videos There was some daily male controversy that stirred up in Australia after I responded to dairy farmers Who were upset that they were losing their dairy farms? We've had to make the decision that it's it for us rely on their practices being kept secret They like to perpetuate this humane dairy fairy tale and that's all coming to the light now You're feeling that get over it and find a new job is it sort of how you look at it? Well not that simply but I think it would be what I don't think they should just get over it and get a new job I mean, I didn't say it that bluntly in the video I think I gave a little bit more context than that There are victims who are suffering more than the dairy farmers and those are the cows and the calves who are separated and Sent to slaughterhouses and killed I then completed the eight part video campaign against Pierce Morgan and Channel seven from Australia the Sunday night show Contacted me to film a piece for them. So we went for about I think two or three days something like this gets out to enough people Good compassionate human beings wouldn't want to be funding a place like this And we could get millions of people to be on board with this and we have The only way a holocaust can take place is for good people to stand by and do nothing After these exhausting few months of campaigning I retreated back to my editing space to try to complete the tons of editing for the rest of the Europe tour now whilst I was there in Indonesia I was contacted by the today show who flew me out to be on their show to discuss my advocacy to Discuss some of the more controversial things I said and I had quite a successful in my view interview with the two ladies on the today show There's obviously absolutely nothing wrong with being a vegan Can you understand though but that perhaps some people find your approach to extreme? Or do you feel you have to take such measures to get your message heard is? Being a vegan who is against the exploitation and harm of animals extreme or our slaughterhouse is extreme our gas chambers extreme or Maserating one-day old male chicks in the egg industries in a big blender on the first day of life little baby chicks is that extreme Well, it gives you a lot to think about and obviously this reached millions of people not only in Australia But across the world via social media so another highlight for me was releasing the Vienna slaughterhouse footage This happened in November the year prior, but I only released the footage in 2019 We sat there with these pigs for hours and then followed them into the kill floor And we watched these innocent animals be hung up and murdered right in front of our eyes very distressing It was quite a traumatic experience, but the video reached hundreds of thousands of people across my platforms and hopefully had a positive impact It was one of the the most viewed videos of that Europe tour. So thank you to Lena for organizing that so shortly after that I've got news that the Sunday night show we're about to release the piece that we filmed for let's have a watch of this together and See how biased it is. Hey now this turned out to be the most shocking biased Garbage hit piece on veganism. I've ever seen in my entire life. I've never seen such malicious editing Powerless the use of like horror type music while activists were invading farms They played it out that activists with the villains did they show what the what the activists actually found there They were shot Yeah, how do you do mainly shoot a cow they completely omitted the fact that this farm had Dead cows who'd been shot in the head with a rifle Decomposing on the farm. It was a complete hit piece It was so suspicious and later on we found out that Channel 7 is privately owned by a billionaire beef tycoon named Kerry Stokes It's kind of making sense now this crazy media buyer story coming out of this guys The chairman of that that media company now. That's not even a conspiracy. This is just follow the money Follow the money. So it all came together Channel 7 is privately owned by a beef mogul I then began a crusade of videos Exposing Channel 7 and their lives calling the producers exposing Kerry Stokes and their connections It is the most cringiest piece I've ever seen and it's it's embarrassing It's really embarrassing Journalism with the help of a good friend Joanne from Australia and this took up a lot of my time like these are big players, man These are big players a multi-billionaire Meet industry media moguls. I'm telling you mate. If anything happens to Joey, you know, well, you know why you know why But seriously, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna shut up about it I'm gonna keep talking about it like so shortly after this I began filming with the BBC on a show called veganville now I was very nervous to start filming this veganville thing after being so badly messed over by Channel 7 I expressed my nerves. I was not comfortable, but I thought I'd take a risk They promised me they would be unbiased that they were not going to Be malicious in the editing. They're gonna be truthful. I had more trust in them than I did with Channel 7 I did three and a half weeks filming with veganville It turned out to be a very character building experience for me. The hardest part was leaving my platforms for three and a half weeks I'm very dedicated to spreading the vegan message on my platforms and to leave my platforms is like leaving my baby to Contribute to a project that I had no editing power with but it turned out for me to be a risk That was worth it. Now after this three and a half weeks of filming with veganville was done I was absolutely exhausted and I spent a bit of time on self-care So this was around the time my six-year sober video came out. It's been a journey I'm not gonna say staying sober for six years has been easy. There's been times where I've wanted to drink alcohol There's been times when I just wanted to let loose and party But I think when you have something to wake up for every day a purpose in your life And you've you really got to make that decision You really got to ask yourself has the actions you've been taking in your life up to this point led You to the point where you want to be at. So this was my six year of being sober. I had a bit of reflection I've been working with a therapist for my PTSD and we made big breakthroughs in my PTSD I really feel like I've put to bed a lot of my demons Went straight to the source of my trauma and we released a lot of it and I've felt so good ever since So therapy for me was amazing and I really love my therapist. Thank you so much with all my heart my mental health Has gotten Magnitudes better than where it was this year I also focused a lot on my physical training getting in shape being a good advocate in terms of You know looking my best. I've been having a bit of a a break a bit of a self-care break and I've been focusing on Myself and getting my mental state nice and clear of quick caffeine. I've been training every single day So my mental health that has improved vastly through therapy my physical shape hasn't proved a lot I really have started to you know show how you can be fit build muscle and also You know later on in the year I was showing how you can you know do athletic feats like run marathons without training Ultra marathons, you know with no running training just doing crazy stuff like that and that will continue that will continue So I'm adding another level to my advocacy when it comes to the my physical shape and athleticism So after releasing the last of my Europe tour which took six months for me to get up I mean there's a lot of editing that last video You know it really shows the highs and lows of the tour Really tough like this is a tough tour. I don't think this is sustainable So I don't think I think this is some sort of sustainable activism But thank you so much to Abdullah and have everyone helped organize that tour Abdullah was my sidekick camera man He went through it all with me. He realizes now how hard some of these tours can be I released the last video of my tour, which was a real highlight of the year I really wanted to get that last video up and I needed a new beginning a new beginning What was I gonna do? I was gonna get a team together and start campaigning in London So I've got a team together. I've got camera guy some editors and An assistant I got together in London started campaigning and setting up tables Doing some stunts Obviously I have obviously you have I can't I can't do this discussion with people here not here You can't okay. Where's the nearest public land public land to be outside the gate Looks like we did a last five minutes before being kicked out. So Really pumping social media Smashing social media's face in with vegan content going hard Going hard. I was putting in the work hours and hours and hours and grew my social media platforms We reached over a hundred thousand on each of the platforms this year. It was great. My platform has ticked over 100,000 subscribers It was a real milestone for me. I come from humble beginnings had a little iPhone 5 when I first started, you know and So it really meant a lot to to reach these milestones I put in a lot of work on my platform some heart and soul and I talk about very controversial issues on my channel I really do hit the hardcore topics on on my channel about the gas chambers and the rapes in the dairy industry I don't I don't skip out the animal message. You know, I was just it was just really Heartwarming to reach, you know, this milestone on my channel amassed millions of views this year on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube tens of millions of views reaching tens of millions of people on on Social media as well as actual media reaching tens of literally tens of millions of people So had a really big impact this year and you just cannot really measure the impact you're having on people I mean I get emails and messages all the time But there's people that don't email and message you and they go on to impact other people and so thank you so much for those Who have shared my videos watch my videos and sent me messages that you know, I've influenced you or my videos have inspired you This has just been an amazing year. So rounding up this year has been massive I mean I've transformed my body my mind my emotional mental state of my character I thought was so much wiser than when I first started. I want to be more systematic now with my activism I've never been planned. I've always just like you would think this is crazy But the way I do things I just go for it I just I just get a cameraman and just start filming and I just take take a flight go to a country plan a bunch of Activism and just go hard go as hard as I can but I want to be more systematic. I want to be more organized and You know, I want to develop as an activist and a public speaker and a fitness and health advocate I want to be more researched and set more goals and be more systematic and Now that I've got I'm under new management now And I'm really hoping to step it up a notch and be a more professional advocate and really take this to another level Seriously, you know, I don't want to be caught slacking or become complacent. That's just not me That would eat me alive inside so I want to keep stepping it up and keep pushing and pushing and pushing with this and I hope that that inspires you to to keep pushing yourself, you know Don't ever become complacent. That's that's how depression starts and just eat you alive inside You've got a purpose in your heart You need to get out there and you need to take the action Necessary to get it done and keep progressing and just because you've got an achievement Just because one of your videos got a million views. Don't stop there. Don't rest on your laurels That's what you used to do I want to see what you're doing now and what are you continuing to do in the future to make an impact and to live Your life of purpose. What is that for you? What values do you possess? Are you living in alignment with your values? Do you sit in there becoming complacent and becoming comfortable? Don't ever become comfortable in life Okay, so let's keep pushing ourselves and that's what I'm gonna do that now the end of this video I'm gonna say thank you Thank you first and foremost to my donors and patreons who have been with me Supporting me financially. I couldn't you know It's just you need finances to be able to reach lots of people It's just the way it is and thank you so much to those of you who do that for me This this year would not have been possible without you all and like since I've started patreon I've been able to reach millions of more people millions more people literally so it's been an amazing Gift really has been a gift and also want to thank everyone who's worked with me in various ways I know there's a lot of in-fighting in the movement and we don't all have to be friends But the fact that people cooperate with me and you know have really helped me out Whether it's been sending me research or you know I've rang for help and you or you've helped film with me or you've been there to help me edit Or you've helped me do do some captions here and there you've helped take the weight off in some way You've helped me organize something or you know You've given me a tip or you've left a comment or you've you've shared some of my videos Whatever it is whoever has helped me in those ways just the support in the comment section means so much to me Advice that you've given me whatever it is my therapist things like that just Whoever has helped me. I want to send a big heartwarming. Thank you to you all and I really cannot describe to you what it means to have people that have are there to support me in whatever way To help me get this message out there because I really am dedicated and I really want to Leave a lasting mark on the world and in the hearts of of people and I really do want to see animals liberated. So here's to an amazing 2019 and an even more amazing 2020 let's all step it up. Let's not become complacent. Let's all keep grinding work hard Stay committed live in alignment with your purpose Make an impact think of the animal suffering think what they're going through and what would you want if you were in their position Do you want someone like me fighting for you? Do you want to be the person to fight for these animals and get out there and do it? One foot in front of the other keep moving forward and arm in arm together as a movement. We can change the world peace