 Do you want a picture? Do you want a picture? Yeah, yeah, of course! Have you seen Tal? Hello, hello, give us a hug, hello! Good day! Thank you so much! How are you? Excited? Excited, that's good, okay. I can't really, I think I didn't sleep or eat for the last past two or three days. Yes, not just dinner, but you know, it's after a lot of hard work. Yeah. There's going to be a lot of people over here and we have to be honest, this is not your house. Wow! This is what we're going to do every time you're here. James and Joey, it's you! It's me, okay. What I see here in front of me today are some of the most passionate, dedicated, strong people I've ever seen in my life. Thank you to Tal and to the ALF for inviting me to March with you in your country. Don't ever let the meat, dairy and egg industries tell us that what we're doing isn't working. It is working and we are a powerful force and there are millions of us. It's not okay. It is not okay what we're doing inside a slaughterhouse. People often ask me Joey, how long to a vegan world? Will all happen a lot faster if we all stand up and work together? Never lose hope. I wish you a day until total animal liberation. So right behind me here is the slaughterhouse here in Haifa. It smells really bad. It smells like decomposing animal flesh. It smells like feces in there. A horrible place for animals. The screams that we were playing before were the screams of the calves. It can be hard as an activist but we have to stay strong and we must always remind ourselves no matter how hard it gets or where near as hard as what the animals go through every day of their existence. I want to remind you all that we need to be there to support each other. You inspired me a lot too. Last year you missed. The person next to you might be doing it a lot harder than you. So just asking another activist if they're okay could mean the world to them. Give us a hug. Thank you so much for... Thank you so much for everything. Thank you. Thank you. I love you too. Are you a vegan? Vegan. Vegan power. It's been a very emotional night. I've been quite exhausted. We've been putting in a lot of work but it's so heartwarming to see so many people that love and care for animals standing up for justice. A vegan world is possible. Before it to manifest we all need to collectively believe that it's possible. Okay, so we're in a taxi. We're on the way to the West Bank and it's behind the wall. There's a wall that separates Palestine from Israel and we have to go around to Abu Diz and we're going to go to the university there. You see the number? It's green and white. Okay, so we're at the front of our Quds University and inside they have a vegan restaurant so we're going to go in and show our support. Hello. Nice to see you. I'm Joey. So this wall here this is the wall that separates Jerusalem. So this side is the West Bank and on the other side is Israel. It's a sylvan deck. Okay, so behind us here is the vegan cafe and restaurant called Sudfer. It translates into coincidence which is pretty amazing and it looks really beautiful out here. So let's go inside. I'm Joey. We're a little bit upset we missed lunch, we could have had something to eat. So we work with more than 200 cans like trading many different things about identity, about human rights, children rights. Then we talk about violence and animal rights, circle of violence. What did you call it, the circle of violence? A circle of suffering. We're causing suffering and violence and death and it comes back around. A very important point to make. If you do good you get good in return. They gave us an example. The soldier in the street hit his father because the soldier who was having the power so the father would go home and take that out on him. I guess the wife for example. The wife for the older brother. The younger and the younger against the animal. You've been a victim of violence yourself you're more likely to take that out. We shouldn't be doing good to get good in return though. It should just come from empathy. It's a matter of justice. You want to be treated fairly, don't we? We all want to be treated fairly. That's what justice means, to be treated fairly. Equality. And this is why we don't treat animals in a way that we wouldn't want to be treated ourselves. So it's our rule that because we are victim that didn't give us the rule to hurt another victim. We have to feel these creatures. You're trying to make them express more empathy instead of going the other way which would be to commit the violence. So they come here they have a meeting about what they want to achieve and this gives them a safe space to talk about it and they bring it into action sort of thing. Wow. Is there any slaughterhouses in the west bank that slaughter animals? Is there like a... Shifter? There is a few, yeah. There's a film. Wow. When's this release? This is amazing. Big things are happening here. That's great. Good for animals and we definitely support it. We wanted to come and tell the story here because we're obviously over there in Israel telling the story of the animal rights movement there. We wanted to come here in the west bank tell the story here. We're willing to go everywhere to tell the story of the animal rights movement wherever we are and we want to tell the whole world no matter where you go there's people that are caring about animals. Here's the wall. It goes all the way around. All the way down. It's great that you still after the situation you can still show compassion for animals at the same time even after going there's obviously a lot going on here. Like animals they cannot speak as well. They're so vulnerable and they need people like us to speak up for them and let us think it's great. Very honourable and more people need to know about that. More people need to know. Okay so we're just on our way back from the university that was a really powerful discussion and it was such a beautiful place an amazing vegan restaurant and one of the things one of the guys said to me Hadi, which was really significant he said even if we can't get our own rights if we can't get our own human rights we'd at least try to get the rights for the animals a really humble thing to say so they're doing some great work here and I'm really glad I came. Thank you, thank you! Very happy to be back in Israel. The last time I come here was for the big march. It was amazing. We're talking to the public and showing them that hey we have a choice in what happens to these animals and obviously most people you talk to 99% of rational people care about animals. Who here thinks animals can feel? Yeah? Who here found that hard to watch? Hard to watch? That was hard to watch, yeah? It's interesting how when it's hidden from our eyes it's so easy to purchase and to eat, isn't it? It's so easy for us to contribute to something we never see happening but as soon as we show you hey, this is where it comes from it's a different story, isn't it? We're giving people sort of a visual idea of it. It's more powerful to say hey, these are the happy animals that are left alone these are the victims of our food choices it's a very powerful thing people cannot unsee what they've seen and I found it's probably the most effective thing you can do to leave a mark on someone they can never forget it and they will never look at their flesh on their plate the same ever again showing slaughterhouse footage does not lie Everyone else is doing it when I seen a burger I still got hungry I was like that's food but after a while of witnessing what animals I've been inside a slaughterhouse too like I was inside a slaughterhouse so now when I see it that's all I can see is animals being cut up into pieces so I guess it's a matter of reminding yourself it's interesting how these big corporations they're selling these animal bodies to us never show us this, do they? they keep this hidden from us do you think they'd have so much success excelling their product when we met the victims? because a big motivation for me was more than what other people thought of me the fact that the animals were getting hurt and they can't defend themselves and I felt responsible for that I had an epiphany and epiphany is a moment of realisation a great moment of clarity and all animal products harm animals the fact that they're chopped up on a plate means they were harmed doesn't it? and also there's like animals or I'm talking about caring about animals I think this is probably the most powerful thing because religion can have such a strong influence on people so here we are at the Wailing Wall this is a very religious place for Jews a very significant place for Jews so people come into Jerusalem believing they're either Messiah or King David or Jesus most of them, when they lead Jerusalem, it leads them it's not a city it's a spiritual mental state wow, Jerusalem syndrome, check it out thanks mate so apparently this is the grave of Jesus Christ okay so we're in a very religious place here and they have this piece of chopped up cow so they're chopping up killing animals and selling it to people in such a religious holy place I don't think it's okay to murder a chicken to gain forgiveness I personally don't think it's okay to use religion to justify killing an innocent animal it's interesting they worship all these books and all these pieces of rocks and walls and stuff like that but we don't show respect to the animals I think God is merciful compassionate loving we think of God being merciful and compassionate and of course they'd want us to show mercy to innocent beings if we have alternatives to killing animals of course they'd want us to go for the alternative yeah so we're killing God's creation selling it it's decapitated looks like a lamb a bit decapitated people think that God wants this birds birds chopped up birds more birds I think you can get forgiveness without murdering a chicken I think it's a bit ridiculous so forcibly breeding animals into existence so we can take their life from them and eat their bodies I don't think this is anything to do with God's wishes torture chambers and slaughterhouses animals being decapitated body parts sold like since when does killing give you forgiveness I just think it just increases the evil on earth I don't know what is sacred about selling the part of an animal who probably struggled for their last breath who wanted to live I just don't see the logic there and in there it smells like a slaughterhouse blood and muscles of animals bones chopped up I mean there's many things in religion that if we followed to the tea we'd be doing some really crazy things these are the tongues of animals I'm not sure what animals do testicles in the most holy city on earth if we can't even learn to respect sentient life how can we learn to respect each other Shabbat Shalom Shabbat Shalom is have a wonderful peaceful Shabbat for the next 24 hours they just have a good stuff happening just really peaceful and calm connecting up what does this mean when we eat the bread being thankful that we get to eat bread you know the God gave us this bread grateful that's what it is because it's not a given but I realized something there was a group of beings out there that were suffering much more and no one even recognized them as victims no one cared about them at all all of us in this room here we can all agree humans deserve the right to a life of freedom women deserve rights all types of races deserve the same equal right but who here can agree that a cow deserves the same right to life a pig a chicken a fish what does this human being expect fundamental rights of freedom and liberty not to be harmed exploited used and abused you expect the same rights for your children but you're excluding this whole other part of the sentient community that's pure hypocrisy we can't do that but I could walk into a place and people would laugh at me they would laugh at me if I asked the right for a cow to live in freedom and peace they would laugh at me and they do I stand out the front of slaughterhouses with a sign saying please don't eat these animals and they point their finger if I was speaking up for dogs would people beef and laugh and point their finger we don't want animal welfare we don't want happy slaves and we don't want bigger cages we want animals never to be used as products or to be treated as property ever again you can always excuse the fact that killing animals is like part of nature's way we don't look to nature to see what's right and wrong do we because otherwise we treat each other how lions treat gazelle human beings we have sort of obligation to act in a moral way animal welfare is looking after the treatment of an animal whilst they are still enslaved they're not free we're just saying ok we'll improve the conditions here we'll give them a bigger cage we'll set them out of their cage no more cage here they can walk around free but they'll still be used for their body viewed at as a product and killed at the end of the line how is this welfare this isn't welfare that is disgraceful what I support is leaving the animals alone stop breeding them into existence stop playing god with their lives set them free the difference between animal welfare and animal liberation is freedom they're treated as property that is the fundamental problem here and if we address that then we liberate animals they see it they don't have a choice in that now is that our fault that they are seeing something that they are directly funding no it's not and I agree not everyone should see this but we are not the ones paying for it to happen they have a responsibility for paying for this I prefer not to show it I prefer not to do something so forthright and just start showing slaughterhouse footage to people who haven't asked to see that but the animals didn't ask to be put in that slaughterhouse either now you don't have to show slaughterhouse to do advocacy about animal use and how it's wrong to use them and how it's an injustice to enslave an animal and to exploit them for their body you can have a positive conversation that someone will just go wow you don't need to show them what happens to animals but I've found that it's a very profound way a very quick way to snap someone out of it and go wait that's not food that is violence apparently if you put a little note in the wall it can come true I wish let's do it so it's your job as an outreacher to go on vegan outreach to never let them leave with the idea that this could be done better that's about animal welfare but we're about animal liberation we don't want animals to be used as products at all so we've had my wish here liberation the dairy industry or the meat industry and the egg industry telling us that our movement isn't working that they're not afraid of what's happening with our movement they're not worried about it don't ever let the opposition tell you what your movement is millions of us and we're a powerful force and they are concerned about that because their days are numbered with their exploiting animals that's for sure