Weeping on camera, for a change (vs. humane slaughter).

hey guys I don't really run out of
things to say to my own horror but I'm just gonna read out an email that a viewer sent to me I think a female who was especially moved and inspired by some of my recent videos that use the word idiot in the title used the word idiot and the thesis and used the word idiot liberally throughout but this is someone who was react to this positively and you're gonna see why and she talks about her own negative experience growing up with meat and animals on a farm being slaughtered in this kind of thing um her name is Stephanie I just use first names by the phone so Stephanie right sending me saying last night I explained to an omnivore roommate how chickens are humanely slaughtered on the farms where I'm from these are the picturesque small family farms which only grow sell and slaughter what they need i explained it in graphic detail because he was excited that he had found a farm where they raised chickens and gathered eggs humanely and in small broods so they could have better lives before being humanely processed he felt this would make me more comfortable with the eggs and meat in the fridge so this is a vegan who has a roommate who eats meat so they have to share a fridge so she's got to look at the eggs and the meat in her fridge right I felt he deserved to fully understand the process stew he was lapping up you so she's now describing the process of what actually happens on these farms you pick up the chicken and wrap it in a towel it's used to being picked up and coddled because you've been picking it up and cuddling it all of its life you talk to it soothingly call it by its name and pet it until it settles down and Nestle's on your lap you tell it what a good chicken it has been and thank it for its eggs you respect it for all it has and will give you you COO like you know how chickens love to be COO dad so it relaxes even more almost napping then comfortably holding it down with its head at your knees you stretch its neck out scratching and rubbing it as chickens really like and quickly and deeply cut its throat with a very sharp warm wet clean knife it doesn't even notice at first you continue petting it and soothing it for several seconds while it bleeds out all over your feet and when the pain of bleeding out hits and that last desperate attempt to live causes the chicken to struggle you do what is right and quite literally twist and rip its head off because this is way more humane than repeatedly and partially missing with an axe which is very common and besides it only happens when they're too old to lay eggs anymore and a broiler bird is needed so her letter continues was the end of the descriptive paragraph I'm glad you call out every idiot you find I'm glad you call out situations for what they are I'm glad because what you just quoted in this video scares the out of me right now I used to believe all the humane and this was long before any of it became a marketing gimmick I used to believe it was better than factory farming and maybe for a few years of the birds lives it is but as a kid I held chickens and cried saying I was so sorry but it had to be done had to be done because that's how it always was it is something you can never atone for or be okay with and never should be no matter how infrequent or humane it was the delusional sense of cohabitation / community sure as doesn't give the the right to people who are supposed to know better to compromise and then encourage others to do the same once you know better you are unethical and immoral for willingly compromising just so other people can feel more comfortable with their hope gets to me um once you know better you were unethical and immoral for willingly compromising just so other people can feel more comfortable with their cruel and convenient stripping decisions I feel it would be like me going home and being the one to teach kids in the family how to humanely kill chickens while wearing a vegan t-shirt you know what moves me emotionally in that message it's not the description of the chickens being killed you may have noticed I've seen chickens killed seen him when I was a kid seen it when I was adult seen it in third world conditions seen in the Western world and of course you can see it on YouTube what gets to me emotionally is the hope no matter how miscue pol but I'm not the only person who sees what's wrong with this you know who sees what's wrong with the industry and with the excuses made for the industry and with the whole you know civilization that surrounds me the whole you know cultural infrastructure of adult indoctrinating children with these excuses and having you know restaurants and religious ceremonies making a holiday out of eating this meat and killing these animals and making them into a symbol of prosperity and health and happiness and enjoyment you know every day I got a look at that every day I got a look at the reality of that industry and a whole human civilization and culture built around it sitting on top of those excuses and in a sense I'm a lot more used to the bleakness of that that hopelessness than I am even having that little bit of hope of seeing there's one other person out there sees what's wrong with it who sees that the situation has to change and that all our cultural assumptions and excuses for the last 500 years and the last 500 years have to stop