 Okay, so this is Smithfield Meat Markets. This is where the Animal Rebellion crew occupied yesterday and some amazing events happened here yesterday. They put up their own plant-based little market here, occupied here. They were singing and they had a candle lit vigil around this whole market here. This is a massive stronghold for meat supplying to this whole area here in London. So it's making quite a statement to do an action right here. There's going to be an action that we'll be attending later on. There'll be actions throughout the week that we'll be getting involved with and I'm looking forward to some really productive advocacy and activism with the Animal Rebellion team. Let's do it. This is the extinction rebellion people. Just not sure what the Animal Rebellion people are. Okay, I'm here because I share the same principles as Animal Rebellion. We want to end animal exploitation and I think it's becoming urgent now. It's becoming urgent a long time ago as a crisis, a climate crisis. Most of that is due to our use of animals for food and I'm here to stand in solidarity with Animal Rebellion and take action. We need a plant-based food system because it's destroying the environment, literally eating animal products. It's absolutely harming human health. The hospitals are filled up with sick human beings who are suffering and dying and animals are suffering beyond comprehension by the billions and it's just a complete, completely insane use of our resources and it's going to be the destruction of us all. I think they are distinct from each other, animal rights and environment but they're becoming two issues that are kind of sister groups aren't they? Because if we stop exploiting animals and stop breeding them into existence and speeding all these resources to them and using all this land and water that helps the environment. All the carbon emissions going into the air, the earth's heating up, you know, the oceans are becoming polluted with all the runoff from the factory farms. I mean these are one and the same. We cannot address one thing, the environment, without addressing the animal exploitation. People that are on the fence? Look, I think that most people hold the same principles that we do. They're against animal cruelty, they don't want to see animals be exploited and harmed and killed and they don't want to see the environment go to shit. So we're all on the same team. It's just our actions are in alignment with our principles and the people who are on the fence theirs aren't yet. But we all share the same values so we just need to align those values with our actions and join forces. We all want the same thing. We want to see an earth in the next 50 years. All right, so we're just heading back to the same site that we were out last night. It's now the next day. Apparently the police are starting to try to move the activists on. This is an XR site but the AR people are also here. Let's go see. Up with the vegan couple. Good morning Joey. Good morning. How are you? Good. Fancy seeing you here. Where else would we be? I know, I know. I saw you were sitting down holding the fort. What's going on here? It's been quite a morning. So the plans have changed several times. We have had to be very fluid. Basically we thought the camp was going to leave and then we decided to stay and we were called to sit on the road just to basically hold the camp, hold the fort. A number of people have left the premises for an action and they are the arrestables and everybody else is to stay here and just hold the space. And we're just keeping the morale super high by chanting and singing and letting the security, the police, the DEFRA, the department know that we're here. We're staying as much as we can and we're here to represent the animals. We're here to be a voice for them for the animal emergency amongst this climate emergency. Amazing. Thanks Tash and Luca what are your thoughts on everything so far? My thoughts are it's really important that we continue to hold this site Joey because we're outside DEFRA and DEFRA is responsible for policy making when it comes to animal agriculture and the fishing industries. So it's very symbolic that we're here. The government is the one that has the power to make the change that's needed for the environment, for the climate, for animals, for people that are suffering and so it's very very important that we continue to hold this site even in the face of fear and repression from police. Thanks so much guys I know you's are off the back of a very hectic tour and you're still here which is amazing to see. Yeah it's the least we can do as we always say. Amazing. You just have to keep going because if we were in the animal's positions, if we were the victims, we'd want people doing it for us so we have to keep that perspective no matter how tired we are, how fed up we are, whatever we're feeling it's nothing compared to what the animal victims experience so we just got to keep going for them otherwise it's never going to end right? Exactly. Thank you so much guys special thanks mate. I think this type of peaceful nonviolent direct action is a beautiful thing it fills me with a lot of warmth in my heart that there's so many people willing to stand out in the cold and through the weather to stand up for what they believe in and we need more people fighting like this peaceful warriors that are doing the right thing. Fantastic. If you could speak directly to the government about this issue about what we're standing up here for today what would you say? Well I would say that the government is just a group of human beings who have hearts, who have compassion, who have a conscience and they're against animal abuse, animal cruelty and they want the same thing we want which is a earth to live on but if they don't take action within the government then I don't think we have enough time or enough resources ourselves to make change that the power is kind of in the hands of the government here we need system change now we need things to happen now I mean advocacy can only work so far we're trying our hardest out here this is why we need to take action like direct action to to sort of force change within government I mean look inside your heart and think where your children's children gonna live what do you hope for the future I hope to see a vegan world where animals aren't exploited where humans aren't exploited and where the earth is clean and we all live together in peace that's what I want to see it's fantastic thank you very much thank you very much one of the deaf rebuilding here and we've got a group of activists from the animal rebellion chained on okay so here we are with Kira and Simone and you guys are coordinators of animal rebellion we have an action behind us what exactly is going on here yeah and this is the government building strictly linked to the animal farming and the fishing industry so that's the place that hold the keys of the plant-based future so we block the entrance because that's where we need to come to us climate justice but also animal justice yeah amazing we want our government to say there are strong strong undeniable links between our climate emergency and our animal emergency we can't address this climate emergency without talking about animal agriculture in the fishing industry is they need to come to an end and our governments need to tell us the truth about that and act on it it really is the elephant in the room isn't it yeah exactly all the cows in the room yeah yeah amazing thank you so much guys thank you thank you uh we as activists we witness a lot of suffering i've witnessed a lot of suffering as my time as an activist and you try to speak out against that suffering and you're met with ridicule and opposition and you know character assassination and we only want peace we only want justice for animals and it's amazing to be standing here with a bunch of good hearted human beings who feel the same way and who are willing to take action thank you so much what an insane use of our resources you know what an insane use of our resources forcibly impregnating animals innocent animals who can't speak for themselves keeping them away from the public's view in sheds factories with sentient beings in their suffering pleading for help are we the only ones listening yeah so sad we're using all of our land our water our resources our food while people are starving we're feeding it to animals and we're stabbing them in the neck and killing them and eating their body parts and you know good hearted people contributing to something so horrific on one hand they don't want to see the earth be destroyed in the other hand is a burger and they're not they're not educated on that that the burger is the cause of the same thing they're fighting against and you're looking at someone who ate meat for a quarter of a century steaks every night you know i just woke up and i was like what am i doing what are we doing to these resources what are we doing to these poor innocent animals i'm a vegan advocate so i do vegan advocacy but i realized that's not working fast enough unfortunately so direct action is what if that's what it takes then that's what it takes to get the government to listen i'll be here for the duration of these events thank you to everyone involved everyone who's uh you know put their heart and soul into organizing these events and we won't stand down until this industry ends thank you i guess i've been thinking about suffering a lot and i guess we're all kind of suffering with the animals and it takes a strong person to stand up for what's right in the face of ridicule and opposition and you know police and we're a very small percentage of the population and we just want animals to stop suffering we want the earth to be okay and um i guess i'm just overwhelmed with emotion just simply because i'm starting to understand that deeper and deeper as i the longer i'm an animal rights activist and um just uh just the yeah the event right here and people chained onto this building i just see this as a really pivotal time in history for the the animal rights movement and this the sense of urgency is just building and building and building and finally we're i feel like this these actions are happening closer together all over the world and i think we're making progress which is amazing yeah i haven't got it comes in waves it comes in waves but i never stopped fighting even if i you know i'm down or not feeling the best about everything but there's no there's no question that we keep on fighting no matter what so i won't stop i promise i promise thank you thank you so much we all know what's happening to animals and what happens to animals destroys our environment and for long times now we've been observing what xR have been doing and their amazing work and we thought but why isn't the method been told about animal agriculture and we've been watching from afar and often taking part joining forces with our environmental friends but the same time we felt there's something else needed to be done and our message needed to be heard as well and so that's why we're on the streets for the next two weeks and that's why we're all here in front of defra so that people are aware that when we hurt animals and we murder animals we are in effect hurting ourselves as well because we are destroying our planet for our gluttonous desire for their flesh and for their secretions and its absurdity and atrocity and insanity and one day we will make it end police are probably going to cut these activists off with angle grinders the police are now moving around the back of the site looks like the whole place has been surrounded this whole site has been surrounded by police been blocked off the roads have been blocked off so it's just a matter of time i don't know if they can hold this site for much longer so okay so we've been dispersed from the location the activists have been cut off the building and that was our second day with animal rebellion and i'm quite exhausted it was quite an emotional day very powerful very effective disruption and looking forward to the rest of the actions we will be participating in throughout the coming weeks and this is at the end so let's keep going