 Hello everyone, welcome to another video I thought I'd do a little sit-down video for you all because I haven't actually sat down and chatted to you It's just like in a chill setting for a long time. It's always been Activism activism hate comments this and that so I thought I'd just you know Give you a little bit of update. Oh at where I'm at and also I want to talk about something that happened at an event last weekend And I was at an event organized by their animal activists Australia So it was a three-day activist event and we did a lot of activism You would have seen if you've been following my videos and stuff like that So first off, I've been going really well this week has been quite a big week for me I had a very big weekend in Melbourne and I Didn't stop. I didn't stop So had a really big weekend in Melbourne late nights lots of filming lots of activism very worked up and When I got back to Adelaide, I didn't stop. I didn't have a rest. I made videos I kept making videos two videos a day Facebook videos which take a lot of time and a lot of effort Responding to comments and it was just a very very big week and It paid off it really paid off sometimes you can go through a very Hard week, you know very hard week putting in the effort putting in the work mental stress You're putting in the physical exertion and sometimes at the detriment of your own health But it paid off and I'll tell you why I got an email this morning from Challenge 22 and they said they said that my link signed up 192 people. So 192 people try and veganism in one week Now that is a big milestone for me I haven't signed up that many people by myself and this doesn't include all the seeds I planted the people that don't sign up the Effect that you have the impact you have just can't be measured But this is a okay type of measurement. I felt like wow all that effort I put in all that physical exertion that emotional exertion You know paid off and that was the reward. You know, I don't know how many animals that lives that has saved I think it's like a thousand animals per person per year if some of these stay on on the vegan lifestyle Which if you do challenge 22 the probability of you staying on the vegan lifestyle is a lot higher because all your questions have been answered You have less excuses. They've showed you what to eat. You know, you can do it for 22 days So it's an amazing resource challenge 22 great But that's not what this is about it is kind of what it's about because of my emotional exertion how to pay off And this is what I want to talk about with you guys as an activist You're gonna have moments that affect you profoundly and emotionally especially if you're doing what us guys are doing Outreach on the streets Vigils facing what the animals are going through, you know bearing witness The amazing activists that go in and get footage that are never there anonymous. They'll never be known This can put a very heavy emotional burden on you if you don't find a way to channel that you're gonna self destruct It's gonna really affect you. It's gonna weigh you down and you're gonna feel helpless now How do I help feelings of helplessness? I'll tell you something that happened on the weekend? I did a vigil. It was sort of like a spontaneous vigil at a pig slaughterhouse first thing I want to get out of the way people say that vigils don't work now I've signed up 192 people to challenge 22 this week this vigil video went semi viral got 500,000 views reached a million people Okay, a profound video that planted many seeds many seeds. Okay. Now. This is the power of vigils. So that's that Completely refuted whoever wants to say that but At this vigil I I had a very emotional reaction now That's not like me usually I tell people to respond and don't react which I'll get into too But I had an emotional reaction because the police arrived and they wouldn't let us stop trucks anymore And they formed a line in front of us and I was frustrated I was frustrated because the police weren't interested in making it safe for us The police were interested in protecting the industry and stopping us from filming the pigs Okay, that's all they were interested in so it made me frustrated And then the pigs started screaming really really loud now I don't know if the slaughterhouse workers were in there tormenting the pigs more because they they knew protestors without the front which My friend Rob said to me and I think that that might have been true because they stuck for this 15 minute period They were screaming really really desperately now I had an emotional reaction and I vented that to the police if you watch the video There's a YouTube version which I'll link down below and you should watch it like it hasn't had many views Something happened where it got at the view count got stopped But I recommend you watch it and you see what actually happened I vented it to the police and I was very worked up I might not have shown it but in my heart and in my body was very worked up I had adrenaline Okay, it affected me a lot to the next day. I was doing outreach. Okay? I was doing outreach with anonymous something happened someone walked past and they said something Insensitive right and they it was just stupid like he looked at the screens talked to his mate And he said and he yelled out to the activist artist ate a salami stick and he laughed and I didn't let him get away with it Usually I would usually which I Always would tell other activists, you know respond to your motion Don't react and need jerk reaction and always remain positive calm and logical But this guy I don't think he was gonna respond to that and I didn't think of that anyway I just walked up and I said do you think that that's funny? I did swear I said do you think what's on that screen is funny? And he said, yeah, no, no, no He felt uncomfortable and I said what have you got a dog and he goes yeah And I said how would you like if someone kicked your dog to death? Would you think that's funny? No, I love my dog and I said well What makes you think that I'm making fun of this animal cruelty is funny He goes what do you like them? Do you care about them pigs? I said, yeah, they're my friends and I said to him grow up It was a little bit more animated than that. I was swearing I was worked up and this guy I don't know if he would have responded to Logical calm so chronic questioning anyway, but what I did to him is I rattled him up a little bit and he won't forget that I don't think that's not the point of whether that type of activism is effective I always adhere to I try to as much as I can adhere to my calm logical polite So cratic method, but I'll let my emotions get in the way. Okay, which is what I Invite most activists to to put to the side now I kind of lost it there But the thing is I could have went to this vigil been emotionally affected by it not had no channel Just this kept it in but I channeled it and I ventured to the police and I made a really good video that reached a lot of people Now this guy who said something about the salami stick. I did get worked up I did get worked up and I don't know if that was the best thing, but it happens I'm letting you know that I'm human and this stuff happens The main thing you need to know when you're having these emotional responses and you've worked your ass off and you feel Really emotional and worked to the ground you need to do something that rewards you and this is what happened I'm going to leave you with a video of what happened after the vigil and It gave me a sense of fulfillment. It's okay to get in these situations that make you feel sad Make you feel angry But if you don't channel these feelings of sadness and anger and these feelings of helplessness Into something positive you're going to burn out as an activist You're not going to be able to sustain yourself and I don't want anyone to that to happen to anyone Okay, I want you to make sure that you grab these emotions and you channel them into some positive outreach where you convert Someone to veganism or you inspire someone to be an activist and this is what's going to help you long term this guy this Interaction I'll post right now It was surmising on the cake to a very emotional weekend and also the week that nearly broke me mentally I've got a hundred ninety two sign-ups on my challenge 22 link, which is just amazing so many animals lives saved So thank you very much. It's my little update video and I'll leave you with this Okay, that's a dare-and-shoot. You know what happens when they can't produce any more milk Good guess. Yeah, they get usually second grade hamburger meat because their bodies are just So run down So they use them for second grade cuts the egg industry is Quite horrific to The males can't lay eggs So they separate them Okay, you know the males go happy farm where they get to live out their lives No, they get macerated in a big blender on the first day of life usually Yeah A baby chick can recognize their siblings nearly instantly when they're born So imagine being separated from your brother or sister and then they're going into a macerator females They lay eggs till they can't lay eggs anymore So they usually forced to lay 300 eggs when usually that's about 15 to 20 Okay, when they can't lay eggs anymore Go to the slaughterhouse Horrific they learn from videos like if you show a video of a chicken eating out a red bowl The chickens that watch it will eat not from the yellow bowl from the red bowl to they learn from videos They're really smart at a young age Either way, even if they weren't intelligent It's still wrong to do that to an animal that can't that can feel pain and suffer But they the fact is birds these birds are intelligent So the car so the cows so You're doing this to raise awareness We are trying to get the public which is used to say When you're at the supermarket, am I going to pay for them to go to these places? So by buying eggs by buying milk buying meat You're saying do this to animals for me so I can eat them without you These industries don't exist Different meat substitutes are coconut milk rice milk almond milk. We've got vegan cheese We've got everything we need All right, do a little bit of searching around it's fine The milk aisle has got 20 plant-based milks to choose from Arm and milk rice milk if you don't like rice milk try soy if you don't like soy try almond But why do we have to take the babies? Why do we have to kill them for their milk? It's their mother's milk So that's why we're here. We're just saying hey, can you guys Make a cruelty-free choice at the supermarket. They'll listen Let's do these animals go to slaughter Anyway, this is a card right right seek the truth Little bit of information on there, but on the back type that in you can do a challenge 22 days, I feel fantastic. I lost all this weight. Wow. I'm not contributing to this cruelty I'm going to continue doing it or you know all my hair fell out I died of protein deficiency I need my meat whatever at least you tried and you know that it's doable, right and How unnecessary this really is you'll realize vegan cheese might be a dollar or two All right, but it doesn't have the past blood Cruelty, you know, it feels good knowing hey, you know, it's just cheese I'm making a good choice here the burgers You know, there might be five bucks for a pack of burgers or some vegan hot dogs might be about seven bucks They might be a bit expensive, but you can eat rice beans potatoes Dahl, you know curries chickpeas all that stuff bread you can be cheap vegan So chicken rice is the cheapest food for calorie on earth. It's vegan. You know I'm saying so potatoes cheapest cheapest foods of us fruit and vegetable are But you know you can get all the good stuff, too. If you want ice cream get ice cream Vegan ice cream so good down Sign up right type that in this is my drink so you all know how many people have signed up for that You