 So here we are we're in the UK behind me is Halifax Animal Save and we're here to bear witness to the animals before they go in. This is a Halos slaughterhouse. It comes in sloths. Religious slaughter. But the song is the same behind us. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes here we're not too... cows just by themselves just in distress. And we have heard the... the animals. Behind me is a chicken slaughterhouse here and across the road is a multi-animal little small holding slaughterhouse and today we're here to bear witness to the animals as they're going in and before they're slaughtered and I'm hoping to use my platform here to, you know, spread a message to people who pay for animals to be in these positions. So today's a sad day. It's a bit wet, raining, but yeah, we're going to do our best to give the animals a voice they need. Hey buddy, it's lawful. We're abiding by the law. Why not? We're here to film the animals in the slaughterhouse dude. Do what you want, I don't object. Bro, there's no need to get angry. We are lawfully... Why is that coming right at me? Hey dude, how do you know we're filming you? We're filming the slaughterhouse, we're filming everything and we're allowed to by law. Yeah, so it's actually lawful to film in a public space. We're on public land here. We're allowed to film here in the UK. Like, I don't know why he would get so upset. Maybe he doesn't want people to know that he's got a murder factory here slaughtering thousands of chickens. That's probably what I think. You know, it's not very... I wouldn't be very proud to work in a slaughter factory either. So that's probably what it is. Hey buddy, what's the matter? Where's your property start? This is your property line? That's full path to where it ends. Look man, we didn't want to make you upset or anything. I don't mind. You do what you want to do. I'm not angry about that. It's just that I don't like him. I didn't come up into that way. Yeah, but I've been doing this for four or five years now. And when there's police officers here, I've been to slaughterhouses all over the world. You're allowed to film lawfully in a public space. If we're standing off of your property, we're not trespassing. That's what you're doing right now. Yeah, I'll just come to get this. But as soon as you asked me to leave, I had to go off your property. I don't object. I don't mind. It's what you believe in. So if that's what you want to do, fine, you can do it. But do it in a nice way. I wouldn't do anything wrong. Like we were being completely lawful. This is how I do every single slaughterhouse we go to. Film the animals, film the trucks going in. Just do it peacefully. Well, of course. Peaceful. Yeah. Just do it in a nice way. So the thing is, if you do it in a nice way, you get more sympathy. Oh, dude. I've got something against what's happening to animals, but you're probably just culturally conditioned. There's still a few people in it, so what can you do? The people, you only have a job because people want chicken. Is that true? Otherwise, you'd be in a different business. Well, the thing is it's been spying demand from day one, isn't it? Yeah. So you'd be in a different business of people. So what we're trying to do is get people to make different consumer choices. That's all. But anyway, some people are vegan, some are vegetarian, some are meat eaters. Yeah. I think animals are being, you know, killed. You know, all the animals are factory farmed. Yes, well, there's certain farms that we don't agree with. Yeah. You know, as a responsible producer of meat, we know that some farms out there are horrible. Yeah. Well, most farms are in the UK. Most chickens are factory farmed. Some have got really bad records. I'd agree with you there, on welfare grounds, with me. The ones that have been exposed. Yeah. But so many haven't. But the thing is there's a lot of people out there that have good farms. Well, like you're talking about maybe cows and lambs have got higher welfare, but when you talk about pigs and chickens, they're all factory farmed here. You don't see them ever on the grass. But then you've got slaughterhouses, which are always... The thing is we do all our farms where our chickens come from anyway. So the people that supply our chickens, we know that they're taking care of them. Subjective. So it's a matter of opinion. Taking care of animals at the sanctuary maybe. You're not in a slaughterhouse. It already smells like a slaughterhouse here. Is that the kill floor there? Or is that the fridge? That's actually the kill floor. You look through there sometimes. There's like a conveyor belt where they're taking parts of the animals. Okay. Oh yeah, like sometimes they have like a waste conveyor belt that has the stomachs and all that, yeah. Then there's obviously the container bins there. And that's where usually it's just stacked up with like... Heads in that? Stacks and rows of fleeces. Yeah. Sometimes they're just stacked with like body... Just body parts like inside body parts. Yeah. But we start trying to clean up and hide a little bit more because we're here and not make everything so obvious. Check that out. See how they objectify the animals here. They've just got like pieces of the cow, the chuck, the rib, the loin, the sirloin, the rump, the round. That's a sentient being. Like imagine if you started like sectioning off a human being and just going, oh, this is a chuck, the flank, the rib, the loin. It's a bloody animal. They just treat them, commodify them, treat them like food. Yeah, they're worried. Yeah, because when you're like, see cows in the field, they're just chilling. They rarely move. It's a fridge truck. This is a fridge truck here. This will have a... It's either going in to pick up chicken carcasses or... Yeah, I call them a morgue van. It's a morgue truck. So would you say, how many trucks would you say come through here a day? Well, we see about four in three hours. In about four hours? Yeah. Yeah, I'd say it's pretty modest. Still horrible, though. I also got a truck full of chickens coming here. Oh, that smell of chicken's ammonia. Just never forget that smell once you smell it. Rolling in too fast to stop that guy. We're just doing a vigil for the animals here. There's a chicken slaughterhouse here, and there's a small-holdings slaughterhouse here. Yeah, well, most chickens in the UK are factory farmed, and most pigs are factory farmed as well. But yeah, they're all slaughtered, so we don't like animals being slaughtered. We think you can eat plants, be vegan. What do you think of slaughterhouses, mate? Don't think very well of them, or... Yeah. Have you thought about going vegan? Because all the egg-laying hens and the dairy cows are all slaughtered as well, you know? Uh-huh. Yeah. You have? Yeah. Well, thanks, brother. Well, let me just grab you something. I've got something for you. Thank you for that. No worries, man. My wife and I have been having discussions for a while now. Yeah. Ethically, we used to fight that. Yeah, man. But like... Right here, make your stance together. Yeah. These slaughterhouses only exist because people pay for them. Good people, like... I admire you, mate. Yeah. Yeah. Well, good to see you, mate. Thanks, brother. I'll make your stance. Appreciate it, man. Hey, take care. Legend, eh? He took a pamphlet and he's like, maybe this is... It's crazy how, like, just him seeing the signs. Like, what are you guys doing, uh... You know? These ones are, like, like, obviously a smallholder will roll up with a trailer with, like, a couple of animals in the back and you don't... Do they stop? They never stop. We do. I'm just going to follow them around if we can get them to sort of slow down. They're dairy cows. That's a spent dairy cow. Okay, so then we've got a smallholder bringing in some cows. One of them looked like a dairy cow, so it could possibly be a spent dairy cow, but, uh, a little local farm shop here sending their animals to be butchered. You can hear a cow in the holding pen there just really distressed. Cows don't usually sound that distressed. This cow is distressed. Uh, maybe they can smell the blood or they know what's going on or they're just getting really worried. Um, but, again, they reverse their truck right down in there so you can't see anything. So it's like, what's the problem? If this place is so humane, there's nothing wrong with what's going on here. Why don't you give us a tour? Why don't you let us in and see the slaughterhouse? Uh, see the slaughter process. Why don't, why don't you? Is there something wrong with what's going on here? Well, maybe there is, hey? They holstein cows. Hello slaughter. Hello slaughter. He said that's a hello slaughterhouse. So those cows, if what he's saying is true, will have their heads sliced off. Uh, fully conscious. No stun bolt. Horrible way to go. But who wants to be boltgunned in the head either? So, I don't know. I just don't understand how a farmer like that can raise animals, you know, connect with the animals and then take them here to have their head cut off. Makes no sense to me. Yeah. And sometimes they just, they laugh. They've always got the radio on. They laugh and then they joke. Yeah. They seem to do it harder. They laugh harder when they know what he is. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that's like a little defense mechanism from them or something. Or they're just, or they're just deliberately being, a bit of gill, bit of embarrassment, I don't know. All right. So these are the birds that are going into this hello slaughterhouse. And as you can see by their legs here, they're just overgrown. Their weight is way too heavy for their size. They just look really bad. Overgrown feathers dropping off. Darling. So tired. I don't know how long they've been on this truck for. Yeah. So this is how the trucks come in, stacked on top of each other, feces and urine dropping down to the levels below. They've been in a factory farm their entire life. Like you can smell the ammonia, the feces, just they've lived in their own feces. They're overgrown just infants, but in adult bodies. So they've grown too fast for their bones structure to be able to support. And it's just, this is just cruel. These are all individual sentient beings, all having their own subjective experience like we do. And you're just eating a piece of a suffered animal when you eat chicken. Chickens are the most abused land animal on Earth. By far. They're the most slaughtered land animal in England, in every single country. Apart from fish, chickens are the most abused animal on Earth. So it's just horrible. If you think of a parrot, which is also a bird, an eagle, which is also a bird, chickens are just birds. You wouldn't eat a parrot. So why would you eat a chicken? It's so normalized eating chickens. And to the point where they call the bird the same thing as they call the food. For those babies, they're about to go have their throat slashed open. This is a non-stun slaughterhouse. They're going to suffer horrific death in there. And that's it. Horrible life, horrible death. So just in here, there's some little cars, little toy cars here. So they must have children here. This is a slaughter facility where they murder animals, abuse them, stab them in the throat, shoot them in the skull, cut their heads off, electrically shock them to death. You know, horrible stuff goes on in here. Just indoctrinating them really young. This is a slaughterhouse here. These animals are going to be food. I wonder if they show them the entire slaughter process. Probably not. Probably too young for that. It might scar them for life. Yeah, so this conveyor belt through here is just, it looks like all the feathers that have been torn off. Guts and just bits and pieces of the chicken going in a bin. It's sort of disgusting really, like they massacre thousands of chickens, rip their feathers off, cut their feet off, cut their head off, rip their guts out of their stomach, drop it all into a bin, send the body parts out to supermarkets. People go in the supermarket, they don't see any of this. They smell the feces of the animal. They don't see the blood and the torture and the violence and the suffering and the terrified eyes on the birds. The head is completely cut off and all they see are these, you know, it's almost like just, just sanitary, like clinically cut up pieces of white flesh that they don't even look at it and think sentient animal. They just think, I'm going to cut that up and put it in my stir-fryer. It's just so much disconnect. If they come here and smelt the crap and smelt the blood, seeing the chickens pissing all over each other in the truck, just terrified poor little birds, maybe that would change their mind on it. Thank you very much. Thank you for stopping. Is she a vegan? I don't know. I don't know what she was saying. She never normally drives past here, but she just drove past because she was busy and she thinks it's brilliant what we do. So she told us to come and join us anytime. Spread the word. Ah, there's pigs in there. No, it's just the pigs don't like being in confinement, in a holding pen. So they fight, you know, and they get really anxious. So, they're just waiting to be slaughtered. It's strange because if they do Halal slaughter here too, but pigs are really haram, I think, eating pigs is haram. So, yeah. It's just, they're fighting in confinement there. Yes, if you see the chicken that they've got advertised in the window there, just looks really like a healthy chicken, doesn't it? But really, if they wanted to be more realistic, they would show like a model of the chickens that were in the back of that truck there with their feathers malted off, terrified look in their eyes, anemic comb, you know, just looking like scared, suffered factory farmed birds. Wouldn't that be like a more realistic advertisement? Like whenever I see, you know, these slaughterhouses and food groups advertising chickens, they're always looking so healthy, but you know, most chickens on earth, the majority of chickens on earth, they're farmed in horrible factories. So like, it's completely false advertising. They're conditioning you to believe that these animals are all looked after amazingly and dispatched without any pain. And you know, it's all humane and it's all nonsense. It's all a big fairytale. So we're about to call it a day here. We've been here for four hours now, had, you know, some interesting interactions with the public here. They're actually hosing down after probably slaughtering a bunch of animals in here, this slaughterhouse, sentient beings being treated like commodities. And, you know, these people that go into the supermarket and pay for this meat, you're paying for slaughterhouses to exist. All right? The same... Oh my God, there's a truck coming. I'll watch it burn. All right, so we'll try that again because a truck come full of chickens, which is really sad, so they've got another thousands of chickens. They're just going to cut their heads off, but I'm just asking for anyone who's not being able to stop paying for slaughterhouses to exist, please just stop funding these industries, eat plants, choose vegan options everywhere. You can be vegan in this day and age, especially in the UK and Australia and America. You've got no excuses. And to any vegans, please come and support places like this. This is Halifax Animal Save run by Gail. Great crew here. You can just come and show your support, give the animals a voice, talk to the public, film the animals, post it on your social media. Saves and vigils are a really great way to get involved with our grassroots activism. Okay.