 Mario! Mario! Mario! Mario! Mario! Mario! Mario! Mario! Mario! So obviously this is a stage prank, but I want you to analyse this video and see what is actually sickening about it. Just because he didn't cook Mario the chicken that is his friend, they did actually cook an actual chicken who was exactly like Mario in every single way. You just selected one chicken, you're okay, you don't have to be killed, but I will kill and eat many other chickens just because I like the way they taste. When his friend said yeah but Mario tastes good, he didn't think that that was an acceptable justification to kill Mario and that same justification shouldn't be used to kill other sentient beings who are exactly like Mario the chicken who has the capacity to be your friend. This kind of reminds me of when people say oh it's okay to eat dogs so long as it's not my dog. Is it okay to kill humans as long as they're not your friend or family? You might have more of an affinity to a certain animal, your dog at home or your cat at home, but that doesn't morally justify killing and eating other animals. You obviously recognise something about these animals when you become friends with them, that they are sentient beings intelligent, have their own personalities just like he did with Mario. What this video does is highlight the disconnect we as a society have when it comes to eating animals. Mario doesn't look like food when he saw the bird on the table, a roast chicken food. So when people see a pig in a reel and they're like oh look at that cute little piglet. When they go to their breakfast table and they see a chopped up piece of bacon, they see that as food. That's the disconnect, that's the disconnect. I wonder if this guy even cares that he has a massive contradiction there and he's eating birds who are exactly the same as Mario. Do people care that when they eat a pig they're eating an animal with a personality almost identical to that of a dog? We make the ethics of doing a bad thing about how it makes us feel when really we should think about how it makes the victim feel. When we look at it through the eyes of the victim we start to see things a lot more clearly. So it gets the takeaway message is whether an animal is or isn't your friend, that doesn't matter when it comes to the morality of killing animals to eat them. What truly matters is what matters to the victim, their life matters to them so it's unjustifiable to kill them to eat them when we can live healthy and happily as vegans.