 dinner okay now maybe yeah yes stop there we're trying to convince people to stop harming animals with their food choices mainly most animals are butchered and killed so people can eat their body parts horrible a graceful way have you ever seen anyone be killed in a graceful way i feel like any answer i give you is not going to be a good one well i was it's just a good i mean it's not a trick question i'm just asking have you ever seen anyone be killed in a graceful way any one yeah animals are someone so would you agree they're not the things they're sentient beings i agree with that yeah so if they are being there then there are someone there's a personality inside of there they want to live they have those desires and wants and needs they're not things like an object or oh i'm not even arguing we're having a conversation how is it being aggressive because i understand what you're saying i appreciate your opinion well we're just discussing whether or not animals are things i mean we're animals human beings are animals do you agree there's a fire inside your heart all right here we are in portugal this is the main city lisbon this is the center and in the middle here we have a circle of silence they're showing images of farming and animal agriculture so they're actually doing this action out the front of burger king here very fitting place they're selling corpse burgers i don't even know if they do a vegan burger in there even though you're not technically causing any more harm it's a representation you're representing everything you stand against the dilemma it's again like the representation in spending money on other clothes you have have you met an animal that you like a dog with a dog uh yeah not mine but yeah okay what's the dog's name uh kimba kimba you like kimba yeah imagine if kimba was shot killed skinned yeah i turned into a pair of shoes and the damage was done kimba was a pair of shoes okay would you wear those shoes that represented kimba's last moments in a slaughterhouse of violent death yeah i know what you're saying but that's a bit different how if i wouldn't um wear the skin of someone because of what it represents and that it's actually someone who was murdered in a slaughterhouse and they that struggled for their life i just it would haunt me it would make me feel disturbed kimba uh if kimba was a pair of shoes so we got up at about 2 30 am this morning so i'm noticeably tired and sometimes it's difficult when you're in outreach to maintain a certain level of you know chirpy energy when you are so tired so it's been a long day a long night and you can only try your best in the moment try on your best day try on my best mate all right apparently there's a lot of vegan stuff in this shop let's go have a look this is um it's like some vegan sausage or something blocks and blocks of satan satan is wheat meat and cut these into burgers vegano smoked tofu fruit doesn't smell like a slaughterhouse in here here we go here we go this is uh soy or yogurt vegan sausage it's dairy free cheese vegan ham check out the vegan cornettos they've got heaps of vegan stuff in here a lot i'm gonna have something to eat and then i'm gonna speech in a couple of hours to a hundred people about vegan activism doing a quite a simple dinner tonight a bag of salad a can of black beans a box of tomatoes i'm gonna put it all in the bowl yeah tonight's a healthy dinner oh look at that these tomatoes there's a couple on there don't want to over crowd the plate i wonder if this juice is salty it's heaps nicer a bit of the juice might be good as well all right so that's what we got i'm going to show you a little trick i brought this travel nutritional yeast you've probably seen it in previous episodes let's give it a sprinkle we don't have much of this it's gold dust a dollar's got some sauce so that's going to be our dressing look at that the sauce is what sets it off really hello everyone hello how are you hello everyone who's first vigil wow that's really good it's good that you come because that's the first step just coming in do you feel like expressing emotion don't have to hold it in it's okay we all understand all right so this slaughterhouse here they slaughter 1800 pigs a day so that's nearly 14 000 a week that is a lot of pigs they supposedly have to stop there because that's a way station really young like even five months old they're just covered in dirt terrified and they're going in there to be butchered okay so behind us here this is like a way station for the trucks it's just crazy that they're weighing these sentient slaves like they are products just completely money driven no regard of the animals inside they treat them like property like products just money that's it the slave trade it's a beautiful countryside hey it's a shame there's a hellhole on the hill beautiful portuguese countryside tainted with the smell of murder you know what's actually quite insane is that these pigs come in covered in their own feces smelling so bad if the food you eat defecated all over themselves out of fear before they died i wonder how that doesn't disturb people so there's an excess pool over there let's have a look okay so behind me here is like a treatment plant we're all the the waste from the slaughterhouse the blood and the feces the urine everything gets washed down into these big cesspools over here and they're treated with chemicals and then apparently it's pumped back out into the sewage there's so much waste because of animal agriculture so much feces these cesspools are toxic they run out into oceans and streams disgusting there's some seagulls hanging around probably getting chunks of whatever they can just a big disgusting cancer on this beautiful countryside with me on the camera are you too shy you don't have to it's up to you it's up to you oh actually maybe we can do there we go can you um what's your name sarah and this is your first time at a vigil yeah and you were upset before can you explain like what i thought what you felt um it happened so fast yeah i felt urge to take them out of the truck yeah and take him home take them home with me powerless helpless helpless yeah really really really sad really sad for them okay do you believe that you're helpless though no yeah no i finally understand what vigils are for yeah because you can take that emotion and you can transmute it into your advocacy yes and you can take your pictures and you can show them to people and you can tell their story for them and that's the best thing we can do yes definitely yeah so good can i have a piece yes oh thank you i'm really proud that you came out okay yeah so the empty trucks come out and there's just the pigs crap all the way down the side of the truck comes out empty and they're all probably stabbed to death by now so they're doing the old telling the trucks not to stop trick but we've got a trick of our own it's called the car trick stop stop stop stop stop no they're so making sure no one gets to see pigs he's he's he's he's literally escorting the trucks in that's how desperate they are i don't i don't think we should continue i don't think there's got any benefit to us being out here anymore and i think it's just best we let them calm down now and yeah they don't even want to let us see the animals 30 seconds man 30 seconds what what's the big deal you're stabbing them to death anyway where's the umbrella man i'm gonna try to go maybe debrief the activists i don't know i reckon we will probably get the camera in the car soon in that day and get going all right so we just in the back of the taxi we just finished a quite intense vigil actually it's piercing down with rain and we decided to stop off and do a quick workout get some food is here this is animals on the front hello everyone hello portugal not only are we speaking to non-vegans but we are traveling all around the world doing workshops to vegans encouraging them to be activists and giving them the tools and skills they need to be activists because you can turn one person vegan okay and you've helped a certain amount of animals but if you turn them into a vegan activist they're turning people vegan for the rest of their life okay and you can influence thousands and thousands and more more by turning someone into an activist and that's the next level and that's why we're seeing so much activism online and across the world if they can't agree that stabbing cows for burgers is wrong why would you have a moral discussion about backyard eggs with them when you view eggs as food that is what creates a demand and that's why animals are in that mess because we view eggs as food as a product like I can't believe the the things that have happened just on having an intention and an unwavering belief that it's possible a picture in my mind like the outcome was amazing before it even happened thank you my friend thanks for all your all right so we've been up since about 2 30 a.m it's now about 11 p.m and just finished doing a workshop speaking to everyone um saying goodbye and then that's Portugal done but for now it's bedtime thank you so much everyone for listening yeah so I'm really sick and really tired and we've got about 10 activists waiting out the front of this slaughterhouse here one of the most horrible things is animals waiting to be killed disgusting cesspool of blood violence fear feces in a beautiful forest on the portuguese hillside where animals are struggling right now gargling on their own blood being chopped up into pieces so people can have ham with their eggs in the morning disgusting they sit at home thinking their flesh just appeared magically in a package when really they were murdered in this torture warehouse