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I'm an animal person.

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I appreciate the beauty of 'em.

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I dunno, I was just an
animal lover when I was a kid.

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Dogs and cats and snakes and lizards

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and whatever I could find.

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It started when my dad
went deer hunting.

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And shot this deer.

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And he said, "You know, when I
shot the deer?"

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He says, "The deer wasn't quite dead.

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And, it looked up, with its
head, and looked at me."

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And he said it was almost like
saying, "Why did you shoot me?"

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He was intelligent
in a very natural way.

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And he said, "I just never
could do it after that."

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And then you realize we've been put

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on here for something,
and the best thing we can do

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is manage what we have and
the beautiful things we have.

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And animals fit right
into that category.

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Mustang horses are gonna become
extinct if we don't save 'em,

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and, uh, so I just sort of house them.

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And you can have a place
to live out their existence.

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I just like seeing things,
everything live.

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I like, uh, living things.

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They come in and bulldoze everything.

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The topsoil's gone,

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the ground water table changes...

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the orangutans are in dire
straights right now.

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United States, when you
look at the back of any product,

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about 50% of
the products contain palm oil.

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And it's anywhere,
you know, from shampoos,

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to lotions, to cookies.

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Do you think that that female
orangutan that, uh, approached

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you, do you think that she knew
that you were gonna be the one?

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Alright, so we've just arrived
at the orangutan

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- information center--
- Welcome to our office.

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Thanks for having us,
umm, and umm, Paul,

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of course,
organizing this whole adventure.

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So tell me, what are you guys...

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you're about to go out on
an orangutan rescue.

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Used to be an orangutan habitat,

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but then converted to
become palm oil plantations.

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And that's why some of
the orangutans still live there,

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and been isolated from
their own habitat.

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And that's why we need to rescue them.

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So, I was just here in 2012.

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I was invited to come and document

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the palm oil expansion
and the forest destruction.

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And also the wildlife
trade and what was going on.

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Yeah, I remember just photographing

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the orangutan rescue.

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He just made eye-contact
and that was it.

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I just, you know,
the world needed to know

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about this issue, and that was it.

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I've been coming back ever since.

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So, you're rescuing the orangutan

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and then now where are
you going to trans-locate them?

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If they are in a good condition,
we are going to release them at

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the same day, but if they're in,
like, a condition that

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need medical services,
so we work together with

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SOCP Quarantine Center,
and we are going to send

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them to be rehabilitated
before they going to

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be released one day
when they are ready.

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Wow! Alright. Well, I
know you guys have to get going.

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Thank you for your amazing work.
Thank you so much.

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- You're welcome.
- Thank you.

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Good luck.

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We'll hopefully see you
in the next day or so.

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We'll be catching up
with you soon. Thank you.

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Community and plantation workers
shoot the orangutans initially,

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and if that doesn't work, then, sadly,

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then they're calling OIC or SOCP
to extract these orangutans.

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So, you can imagine there's
a lot of wild orangutans

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out there with bullet wounds.

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It's incredibly sad that this
even has to take place.

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Rescuing an orangutan
from where it, you know,

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should be its home,
to trans-locate it to a place,

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like, a lesser eco-system where
it's going to be protected.

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How long does it usually take

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for the dart to take affect?

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She's pregnant?

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Is this gonna affect the baby?

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She was shot by people?
Oh no.

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Can you take the bullet out?
Are you removing it?

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Yeah. Yeah. Aww.

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Yeah, I see.

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I hope not.

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For me, it's just another image,

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a tool to influence issues and
influence people, and how,

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you know, we interact with
the planet at times like this.

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It, uh, strong imagery can really

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influence people's choices
and I think that's important

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right now to show 'em what's going on.

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The reason, talk about why
it's going on and hopefully,

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un, things can change in the future.

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They will go extinct.
So, it's not enough.

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So, we really need to
build these, corridors.

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Secure land and build
corridors between them

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so the orangutans can move.

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When they first arrive,

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every orangutan is given
a full medical check-up.

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So, they get chest
x-rays to check for TBC,

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they get blood samples taken
and tested for things like

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hepatitis, herpes virus, and stuff.

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They get a full check over.

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When an orangutan has
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and done all its medical
checks and pronounced fit

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and healthy,
then it'll be brought here.

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So, usually we don't just
open the door and throw 'em in.

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We put them in this shut
off case, so they can see

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each other for a couple of days.

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And then gradually
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On the left here, is Chriswan.

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He was in a cage that
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his shoulder width, you know.

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I think I have a picture somewhere.

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He came out of it a
couple of years ago.

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He could barely stand. He
barely had the use of his legs.

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We actually trained him
so that we could move him around

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to get his food.
So we got him climbing.

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Can these people be prosecuted
for keeping a wild orangutan?

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That particular case, in theory, yes.

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But, there's never been a case.

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By a long way, you find a lot more

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illegal pet orangutans being
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the palm oil concession is out
actively clearing forest.

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I see, Okay.

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So there is a strong connection there.

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In front of you now, Allosa.

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He was shot sixty-two
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He's totally blind.

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He's still got two pellets
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That's the one
I saw a picture of, yeah.

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We took the pellets out that

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we could palpate through the skin,

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but he's still got forty-eight
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But, he's doing very well.

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He's fit and strong,
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He'll never be a wild orangutan again.

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At a place called Orangutan Haven,

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we're building these nice
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where they'll be trees and
ropes and long grass and bamboo.

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And, he's one of the
candidates to go over there.

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You know, after many, many years,

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I still get a massive thrill,

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just seeing some of the
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in the forest behaving like
wild orangutans and looking down

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at me and they couldn't
care less if I'm there or not.

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That's the goal.

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When did the tourism, um,
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Well, it started happening

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after the turn of the century.

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I always say, "If you want to
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the first thing that you can do
is go to the habitat countries.

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Vote with your dollars,
vote with your feet."

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And, because if you go there,
you tell the people,

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the local people, the national
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that you consider
the great apes important.

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Come to see orangutans.
And that's my message.

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An orangutan used to be
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a hundred miles into the
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and then, you know,
ten years later come back.

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'Cause the males do roam.

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- Now, he can't get back.
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And the reason he can't
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go through a hundred
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Kind of explain to me
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and what you guys do here.

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So, pretty much the Oil Find Nursery

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is where we receive
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We usually get 'em from
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or locals as well.

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And, most of these orangutans
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killed their mothers
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either to be kept as pets,
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- As pets?
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We care for them,
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they'll be back in the wild.

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I think it's really
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to really work with the community

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and the plantation owners to
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on conservation and the
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It's a huge asset for
Indonesia and the planet.

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Let's hope they realize
that before it's all gone.

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The sad truth is much of
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my belief that all sentient
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to a part of this planet,

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and when you look at those animals,

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and you interact with them,

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you see how magnificent
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As a child, I grew up on
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where some of the most abundant
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came by my shores every year.

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My connection with sharks
started when I was six.

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I went to the sharks
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all the dead sharks out of the nets.

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And I remember walking
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piled with these magnificent
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and something inside of my
heart said this is very wrong.

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I don't believe
there's any animal on the planet

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that has ever been wiped
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numbers as sharks have.

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Less than ten percent
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If we don't save them
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I don't believe that they'll
be on this planet much longer.

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The smell of those dead animals,
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set me on a path that
I would return to later in life.

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And that became a
primary mission for me.

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I am a cinematographer, photographer,

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but more than anything,
I am I'm a conservationist.

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If we don't take a stand
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on these animals,
nothing in the ocean's sacred.

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But sharks is this
beautiful creature responsible

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for maintaining the balance
and health of our oceans.

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Although sharks are probably safer

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than every other animal on the planet,

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that doesn't get into the news at all.

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We need to swim in
that ocean and feel that water

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and see these animals grace our
presence and realize that these

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are beautiful,
magnificent and sentient beings

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that were put on this
earth long before us,

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and that they play just as
an important role in the system,

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but they have a right
to be here just like us.

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I believe the best thing
that I can do for conservation

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is to connect people,
in a very profound way,

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with sharks so that they
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as a majestic sentient creature

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that you can easily fall in love with

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and therefore, be compelled
to spend the rest of your life

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fighting for the conservation
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Eco-tourism is
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of the travel industry.

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And what once was a world
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and hunted animals for sport,

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we're not seeing a transition away

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for people to go out
and they hunt with cameras

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and their eyes and they leave
the animals to grow and thrive.

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In South Africa, unfortunately there's

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a big lack of regulations
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and quantification of
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of wild sharks have been removed,

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and we do believe that's
happening at an alarming rate.

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You know,
you've got a resource swimming

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along the coast line that a very
poor family can feed, you know,

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themselves for over a month,
let's say.

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And so, for example,
in a restaurant in Cape Town,

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it would be very likely
to see Shark Fin Soup on a menu.

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Ethically, it's just disgusting.

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Alison, take us through what
we're about to experience here.

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Well, you're probably in one
of the most remarkable locations

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in the world for marine life,
as you're aware.

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And, what's really special
about this part that

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we're walking down to now,
in terms of a harbor,

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is it's one of the most
accessible locations

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on the planet for seeing
Great White Sharks.

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The eco-tourism, you know,
it's keeping this animal alive,

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and that's why we, yeah,
we feel so strongly about it.

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For your safety,
please take your seats

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and remain seated
until we remove anchor.

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Remember to keep one hand on the
boat and one hand to yourself.

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If you need any assistance
at all, please draw attention...

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What we do on every trip
is have a qualified biologist

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on board to identify every
single shark that comes around.

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- Which is you.
- Which today is me.

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Which is you.

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What a, yeah,
what an amazing opportunity.

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So, umm yeah, each Great White we see,

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we log down characteristics on it.

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We take photographs
of the dorsal fin, and--

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in order to see if we
can identify the animal.

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We have an extensive
backlog back on land, umm,

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with thousands and thousands of
fin photos, so we can actually

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get a good gauge who's visiting
at what time of the year.

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I think a lot of people
don't realize how

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highly transient and
migratory Great Whites are.

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White sharks having their protective

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legislation around them,
you know, there are sightings

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appendix, two species
that are listed on CMS.

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So, throughout their
distribution they are,

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you know, they're pretty
much, um, protected,

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but they problem is, we get
a lot of lack of enforcement.

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Cage diving eco-tourism
was initiated in order to,

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you know, non-consumptively
utilize the animal.

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Umm, and it obviously
provided its, uh, it's cause.

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It's showed that it's a
very viable outlet for tourism,

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for education, and for monitoring.

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Eco-tourism is critically important

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because that is where people see, wow,

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this animal is actually
a beautiful animal,

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see how it moves.

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It's not trying to jump on the boat.

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It's not trying to do this.

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It's never going to try and eat me.

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A live animal is worth
a lot more than a dead animal.

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Why not, uh, just enjoy looking at it?

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And enjoy future
generations to look at it?

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And, umm, we can all enjoy
what's on the planet

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and leave something for somebody
else coming along the way.

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When you're taking
the life of an animal,

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you are directly affecting
the world around you

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in a negative way.

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And the perpetuation
of that negative affect

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is a ripple effect that you
might not know how large

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and vast that ripple affect really is.

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We need to understand
that our future, and the future

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of the natural world
are inextricably tied.

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And that everything we
are doing to hurt the oceans,

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hurting the nature, hurting
the forest is going to hurt us.

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So, that fundamentally
comes from a connection

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that all species play a critical role

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in a thriving marine and
terrestrial eco-system.

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These elephants are juveniles,

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and so that means that, you know,

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they've been through the trauma

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of seeing their whole families,
their mothers, poached.

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Oh my gosh.
Hi.

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Every single one
of these animals is here

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as a result of either human
wildlife culprits or poaching.

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- Greed. Money.
- Or trophy hunting.

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Whatever it may be that's left
these poor orphans on their own.

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And it's you know, it's wonderful

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and it's essential this is happening.

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But, what's just as important,
is that we prevent it

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from happening in the first place.

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I'm Dan Richardson.

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I'm an actor and I'm
an animal conservationist.

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And, for as long as I can remember,

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throughout my entire life,

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love for animals,
compassion towards animals,

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has been an inherent part of
who I am and what matters to me.

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- Hi.
- Dan.

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Pleased to meet you.

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What, what drives you?
What is your... why this?

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Wonderful.

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You're right.

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People who are here in Kenya,

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who dedicate their lives to
this, for very little reward...

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they're there to protect
an animal that will

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never know they're
there being protected.

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They'll never know that
that person was fighting

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the fight for them.

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If it was a war-veteran coming home,

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they'd be awarded a
medal for their bravery.

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These are front-line
heroes doing this.

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They can sense, it's energy,
so they can sense

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bad intention and good intention.

347
00:25:37,746 --> 00:25:39,181
Well, I want to shake your hand.

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God bless you for all of your work.

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It's so important.
We're with you

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and we, uh, we wanna save

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- these animals as much as you.
- Thank you.

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I think, you know,
elephants are an iconic species.

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They represent Africa in so many ways.

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The orphans,
especially, are such great

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ambassadors for the cause.

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I'm a pilot with
David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

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So, we've
sort of been able to identify,

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to create a safe habitat
for those elephants

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to be re-released into the wild.

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We started sending out teams,

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which were protecting
the area so that there was

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a safe habitat for the
elephants to go back to.

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Of course.

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There's a real importance to
protect what we do have left,

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and I think raising
awareness of that is paramount.

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So we are headed to

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the care for wilds,
uh, rhino orphanage.

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The largest rhino
orphanage in the world.

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And Petronel's the founder, the owner.

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She's got an incredible
team that helps her, uh,

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rescue, rehab and take
in these baby rhinos that,

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uh, that we're about to see.

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These baby rhinos are sadly,
very valuable.

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Somebody cut the fence
and they got into

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the Solia Reserve...
they were gonna kill

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some of the rhinos for their horns.

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00:30:50,475 --> 00:30:53,853
And, uh, the anti-poaching units
found the guy, and thank God

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they shot the poacher before he
could shoot one of these rhinos.

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As we know, there's not many left.

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Poaching rhino horn is the
third biggest revenue generator

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of any criminal enterprise
in the world.

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Goes all the way to the demand.

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This ridiculous myth in the far east,

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that a material the same
as hair and fingernails

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can have magical healing properties.

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00:31:19,045 --> 00:31:20,925
So, wildlife crime isn't
a group of specialists,

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it's the same people who
are trafficking in narcotics.

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They're using the same routes.

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00:31:29,389 --> 00:31:30,709
They're using the same middle-men

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00:31:31,015 --> 00:31:33,101
and the same corrupt
customs officials.

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00:31:33,393 --> 00:31:35,433
It's now a move recently,
in the case of rhino horn,

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from health to wealth.

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00:31:37,522 --> 00:31:39,941
So, where the medicinal
properties of rhino horn

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were shown to be nonsense,

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00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,404
it's moved from that
to a status symbol.

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00:31:44,695 --> 00:31:46,799
And, that's a really, really
difficult idea to eradicate.

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Rhinos. They're going
to be on the brink of extinction

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if we don't have more
facilities like this.

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More Petronals to,
uh, literally dedicate

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their lives to saving these animals.

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00:31:58,626 --> 00:32:00,086
There's Petronal, I think.

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00:32:00,378 --> 00:32:02,178
- I think so.
- I hope that's her.

403
00:32:03,297 --> 00:32:05,425
- Oh my God.
- Hi.

404
00:32:05,716 --> 00:32:07,343
Hi, how are you?

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00:32:12,765 --> 00:32:15,143
You are, obviously their voice,

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00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:18,229
but you are reversing all of
the damage that has been done

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00:32:18,521 --> 00:32:22,275
to these animals as a result
of greed and money and evil.

408
00:32:26,195 --> 00:32:30,450
That's it? There's
only four-thousand black rhinos?

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00:32:45,631 --> 00:32:48,426
So, this is baby Summer.
I've heard a lot about her.

410
00:32:48,718 --> 00:32:51,345
I've seen a lot of videos,
and, uh... tell me.

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00:32:51,637 --> 00:32:53,055
How did you find her?

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00:34:01,457 --> 00:34:04,794
Look at the babies!
Hello.

413
00:34:08,965 --> 00:34:12,552
These are the...
oh I'm holding this one? Okay.

414
00:34:13,469 --> 00:34:15,721
Oh my gosh.
These are the black rhinos.

415
00:34:37,493 --> 00:34:38,703
Yep. You have to.

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00:34:41,747 --> 00:34:44,834
These are ones
that are going to be released?

417
00:34:45,251 --> 00:34:47,086
Okay. How many?

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00:34:49,297 --> 00:34:51,090
Are these the white rhinos?

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00:34:58,931 --> 00:35:00,224
I see.

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00:35:18,451 --> 00:35:19,619
This is very serious.

421
00:35:21,329 --> 00:35:25,708
This isn't just, like you said,
running a farm with some rhinos.

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00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,462
This is saving the last of a species

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00:35:29,754 --> 00:35:31,297
that the rest of the world
may not see.

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00:37:17,903 --> 00:37:19,864
The jungle land teaches
observation and awareness.

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00:37:53,856 --> 00:37:56,484
Policing is as much a fundamental part

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00:37:56,776 --> 00:37:57,985
of the--

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00:37:58,277 --> 00:37:59,612
a holistic conservation approach

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00:37:59,904 --> 00:38:01,405
as education in an African school.

429
00:38:01,697 --> 00:38:03,137
And as long as we all fight together

430
00:38:03,449 --> 00:38:05,089
and we are shining
a light on these issues

431
00:38:05,201 --> 00:38:07,495
and changing them, we can win.

432
00:38:07,787 --> 00:38:10,790
And it's absolutely crucial we do so.

433
00:38:29,016 --> 00:38:30,476
It's incredibly tragic.

434
00:38:31,644 --> 00:38:32,978
I can't explain the feeling.

435
00:38:35,731 --> 00:38:37,131
How meaningful is this place to you

436
00:38:37,483 --> 00:38:39,693
and your colleagues,
the team that work here?

437
00:38:40,486 --> 00:38:41,695
On one hand,

438
00:38:41,987 --> 00:38:43,531
it's a testament
to all the work we do.

439
00:38:43,823 --> 00:38:45,663
Sure, these are animals
that have been poached.

440
00:38:45,783 --> 00:38:47,803
You know, populations are
growing and it's quite a--

441
00:38:47,827 --> 00:38:50,746
it's a great place for us
to come and just remember.

442
00:38:51,038 --> 00:38:52,706
You know, that this is what it's taken

443
00:38:52,998 --> 00:38:54,667
because sometimes you forget

444
00:38:54,959 --> 00:38:57,545
and it's particularly sad now
because of Sudan, you know.

445
00:38:57,837 --> 00:38:59,147
He's the last male
northern white rhino

446
00:38:59,171 --> 00:39:00,506
on the planet and there he is.

447
00:39:01,924 --> 00:39:03,164
What he did more powerfully

448
00:39:03,342 --> 00:39:04,662
than anything else I've ever seen

449
00:39:04,927 --> 00:39:07,054
was underlined the damage we've done.

450
00:39:07,471 --> 00:39:09,390
He emphasized the damage
we've done as a species

451
00:39:09,682 --> 00:39:11,392
to his species and others.

452
00:39:12,893 --> 00:39:14,353
It's the sixth extinction.

453
00:39:14,645 --> 00:39:15,872
The whole thing,
extinction means extinction

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00:39:15,896 --> 00:39:17,064
based on human impact.

455
00:39:17,481 --> 00:39:18,816
And it's happening now.

456
00:39:19,108 --> 00:39:20,708
Some people
don't believe it's happening,

457
00:39:20,860 --> 00:39:22,660
but we can clearly see
it happening with Sudan

458
00:39:22,695 --> 00:39:24,446
and all the negative human impact

459
00:39:24,738 --> 00:39:27,575
based on greed, money,

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00:39:27,867 --> 00:39:30,369
the illegal black-market
trade of this species

461
00:39:30,661 --> 00:39:32,872
for something that has
no real medicinal purpose.

462
00:39:33,914 --> 00:39:35,684
Animal conservation
is my purpose in life.

463
00:39:35,708 --> 00:39:37,148
And without it, animals like these--

464
00:39:38,127 --> 00:39:39,628
And incredibly, we're talking

465
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,640
about the last
two of a species in this case

466
00:39:41,881 --> 00:39:43,757
that I wanna stand up and fight for.

467
00:39:45,593 --> 00:39:47,593
So, it's almost impossible
to comprehend, isn't it?

468
00:39:47,845 --> 00:39:49,471
We're literally looking

469
00:39:49,763 --> 00:39:51,932
at the two last existing individuals

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00:39:52,224 --> 00:39:54,064
- of an entire species.
- It's shocking.

471
00:39:58,898 --> 00:40:00,458
Do you think
that in-vitro fertilization

472
00:40:00,566 --> 00:40:01,984
will work with possibly

473
00:40:02,276 --> 00:40:03,861
the southern female white rhino?

474
00:40:04,153 --> 00:40:05,446
Right here, the surrogate?

475
00:40:20,002 --> 00:40:21,170
In getting the eggs out,

476
00:40:21,587 --> 00:40:24,048
fertilizing the eggs, creating embryos

477
00:40:24,340 --> 00:40:27,509
is one part of the problem
that has to be solved.

478
00:40:27,801 --> 00:40:29,511
The next part
is gonna be re-implanting

479
00:40:29,803 --> 00:40:31,972
those northern white rhino embryos

480
00:40:32,264 --> 00:40:34,892
back into surrogate
southern white rhino females

481
00:40:35,184 --> 00:40:37,019
because the two living northern whites

482
00:40:37,311 --> 00:40:39,104
can't carry the calf,
can't get pregnant.

483
00:40:39,396 --> 00:40:41,941
I think for the most part,
people need to fight

484
00:40:42,232 --> 00:40:43,232
battles close to home.

485
00:40:43,567 --> 00:40:45,694
So, whether it's legislation

486
00:40:45,986 --> 00:40:47,863
or pressuring politicians

487
00:40:48,155 --> 00:40:50,032
in their local areas
to protect, you know,

488
00:40:50,324 --> 00:40:52,493
maintain the integrity
of protected areas.

489
00:41:06,632 --> 00:41:08,550
I actually consider this capital,

490
00:41:08,842 --> 00:41:10,761
the state capital of California,

491
00:41:11,053 --> 00:41:14,515
the epicenter of progress
in this country.

492
00:41:14,807 --> 00:41:17,685
And frankly, I think it's a fulcrum

493
00:41:17,977 --> 00:41:20,854
where we can put a lever
and actually start

494
00:41:21,146 --> 00:41:23,482
to change global economics around...

495
00:41:24,733 --> 00:41:27,820
this brutal trade

496
00:41:28,112 --> 00:41:29,655
that is on the verge of extincting

497
00:41:29,947 --> 00:41:32,241
some of our most iconic
species on the planet.

498
00:41:32,658 --> 00:41:34,159
Trophy hunting for these iconic

499
00:41:34,451 --> 00:41:36,704
endangered African species

500
00:41:36,996 --> 00:41:38,789
is not only brutal,

501
00:41:39,081 --> 00:41:40,833
but it is anachronistic,

502
00:41:41,125 --> 00:41:42,960
some false show of masculinity

503
00:41:43,252 --> 00:41:44,503
that people wanna go out there

504
00:41:44,795 --> 00:41:46,275
and act tough...

505
00:41:47,798 --> 00:41:49,174
...by slaughtering lions,

506
00:41:49,466 --> 00:41:51,885
rhinos, giraffes.

507
00:41:52,636 --> 00:41:54,072
This has to end.

508
00:41:54,096 --> 00:41:56,223
This bill, the SB 1487

509
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,280
could actually preserve
the last remaining

510
00:41:58,392 --> 00:42:01,061
iconic endangered
species on this planet.

511
00:42:01,353 --> 00:42:02,813
The fight for our own humanity

512
00:42:03,105 --> 00:42:05,274
is wrapped up
in the future of these species.

513
00:42:05,691 --> 00:42:07,127
Even though they say,
"Well, what does this

514
00:42:07,151 --> 00:42:08,151
have to do with people?

515
00:42:08,402 --> 00:42:09,862
You're
not helping people here."

516
00:42:10,154 --> 00:42:12,072
I say that "This is
the most powerful thing

517
00:42:12,364 --> 00:42:14,908
we can do to restore
the dignity and humanity

518
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,536
of the human race
and not just make ourselves

519
00:42:17,828 --> 00:42:20,748
exploiters and consumers,
but stewards."

520
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,667
We're putting our flag
down here in California today

521
00:42:23,959 --> 00:42:25,711
saying
"We know where we stand."

522
00:42:26,003 --> 00:42:28,255
We stand with the species
of this planet,

523
00:42:28,547 --> 00:42:30,257
and that the ultimate test

524
00:42:30,549 --> 00:42:32,843
of a civilization's morality

525
00:42:33,135 --> 00:42:36,805
is how they treat those
who can't protect themselves.

526
00:42:37,097 --> 00:42:39,975
Do you like to fight
and do you like to fight

527
00:42:40,267 --> 00:42:43,062
with ethics and the law on your side?

528
00:42:43,353 --> 00:42:45,064
And that's why I'm here,
I'm a nice guy,

529
00:42:45,355 --> 00:42:46,835
but I don't like to be pushed around.

530
00:42:46,982 --> 00:42:47,982
I don't like bullies.

531
00:42:48,150 --> 00:42:49,318
We have firsthand experience

532
00:42:49,735 --> 00:42:51,987
on witnessing the two last female

533
00:42:52,279 --> 00:42:54,114
northern white rhinos
left on the planet.

534
00:42:54,406 --> 00:42:57,951
Lions, cheetahs, elephants.

535
00:42:58,243 --> 00:42:59,923
All of these species
are facing extinction.

536
00:43:00,162 --> 00:43:01,705
And we support this bill 100%.

537
00:43:01,997 --> 00:43:03,248
And we ask for your support

538
00:43:03,540 --> 00:43:05,260
to save these animals
before they go extinct

539
00:43:05,542 --> 00:43:07,086
in our lifetime, thank you so much.

540
00:43:07,377 --> 00:43:10,214
They've been on this planet
for millions of years.

541
00:43:10,506 --> 00:43:13,675
And in the last 120 years,

542
00:43:13,967 --> 00:43:15,719
we've been wiping them out.

543
00:43:19,098 --> 00:43:22,726
A dead elephant is one hunting fee

544
00:43:23,018 --> 00:43:24,812
to usually a dictator.

545
00:43:25,104 --> 00:43:26,688
It never gets to the people.

546
00:43:26,980 --> 00:43:28,315
Trophy hunting is the worst.

547
00:43:28,607 --> 00:43:30,984
It's strictly done to see

548
00:43:31,276 --> 00:43:34,154
who's got the biggest elephant head

549
00:43:34,446 --> 00:43:36,824
or whatever they're looking for.

550
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,327
I feel humans should know better.

551
00:43:40,619 --> 00:43:42,121
If you ever get down to a point

552
00:43:42,412 --> 00:43:44,873
where you've lost
all of your wild populations,

553
00:43:45,165 --> 00:43:46,792
you only have animals left

554
00:43:47,084 --> 00:43:48,604
which have been kept in zoo conditions

555
00:43:48,752 --> 00:43:50,563
for long periods,
then your chances of recovering

556
00:43:50,587 --> 00:43:52,756
that species are going to be
extremely small.

557
00:43:54,133 --> 00:43:55,384
We have the power to reverse it

558
00:43:55,801 --> 00:43:57,678
and it used to be led by governments

559
00:43:57,970 --> 00:44:00,055
and I think we're
beginning to see that happen.

560
00:44:00,347 --> 00:44:02,099
If we can change rules,

561
00:44:02,391 --> 00:44:05,144
regulations, government laws,

562
00:44:05,435 --> 00:44:07,938
the way that the fishing quotas

563
00:44:08,230 --> 00:44:10,065
do this to that, then we should do it.

564
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:16,697
The SB 1487

565
00:44:16,989 --> 00:44:19,241
could actually be what turns the tide

566
00:44:19,533 --> 00:44:21,869
in the fight to preserve
the last remaining

567
00:44:22,161 --> 00:44:23,829
iconic endangered African species.

568
00:44:24,121 --> 00:44:26,123
The SB 1487 does that by prohibiting

569
00:44:26,415 --> 00:44:28,375
the possession of body parts

570
00:44:28,667 --> 00:44:31,211
of 11 iconic
African endangered species.

571
00:44:31,503 --> 00:44:33,297
Conservation strategy

572
00:44:33,589 --> 00:44:36,049
need not adopt a policy

573
00:44:36,341 --> 00:44:40,053
of poaching and of killing
to actually achieve its ends.

574
00:44:40,345 --> 00:44:43,015
How do we wanna be remembered
on this planet as people?

575
00:44:43,599 --> 00:44:46,351
Those who left nothing else behind

576
00:44:46,643 --> 00:44:49,271
and just were extracting this planet

577
00:44:49,563 --> 00:44:52,900
and vanquishing species
and torturing animals?

578
00:44:53,192 --> 00:44:56,153
The motion is to pass
to the Committee on Judiciary.

579
00:44:56,612 --> 00:44:57,852
- Eduardo Garcia?
- Aye.

580
00:44:58,030 --> 00:44:59,031
Garcia, aye.

581
00:44:59,323 --> 00:45:00,425
- Gallagher?
- No.

582
00:45:00,449 --> 00:45:01,449
- Curiel?
- Aye.

583
00:45:01,617 --> 00:45:02,993
Curiel, aye.

584
00:45:03,285 --> 00:45:04,995
The order that actually
heal this planet.

585
00:45:05,287 --> 00:45:07,456
And I think right now is that moment.

586
00:45:08,415 --> 00:45:10,042
The bill is out eight to four.

587
00:45:37,110 --> 00:45:39,172
I think, you know,
in the entertainment business,

588
00:45:39,196 --> 00:45:40,948
I'm always getting makeup on my face

589
00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:43,283
and I wanna make sure

590
00:45:43,575 --> 00:45:46,787
that the animals
didn't suffer unnecessarily.

591
00:45:47,079 --> 00:45:49,498
That, to me, is the most cruel.

592
00:45:49,915 --> 00:45:52,167
Science has evolved
past bunnies in a box.

593
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,295
So now that we have
these human-relevant models

594
00:45:55,587 --> 00:45:57,756
that are actually
closer to keeping humans safe,

595
00:45:58,048 --> 00:46:00,050
more efficient,
and cheaper, we can use them.

596
00:46:00,550 --> 00:46:03,929
I just wanna say how proud I am
to be a principal co-author

597
00:46:04,221 --> 00:46:07,349
of SB 1249 to protect animals
from cosmetic testing.

598
00:46:09,643 --> 00:46:11,895
And look, we know
that for more than 50 years,

599
00:46:12,187 --> 00:46:14,398
unfortunately, animals have been used

600
00:46:14,690 --> 00:46:15,983
in painful tests

601
00:46:16,275 --> 00:46:18,151
to assess the safety of chemicals

602
00:46:18,443 --> 00:46:19,486
used in cosmetic products.

603
00:46:19,903 --> 00:46:22,489
Not only is this practice inhumane,

604
00:46:22,781 --> 00:46:25,993
but unnecessary
where lab alternatives exist.

605
00:46:26,285 --> 00:46:28,495
Please join me in supporting SB 1249.

606
00:46:28,912 --> 00:46:31,206
Such an important
legislation for those

607
00:46:31,498 --> 00:46:33,959
that do not have a voice
to speak up for themselves.

608
00:46:34,543 --> 00:46:35,961
Thank you so much for being here.

609
00:46:36,253 --> 00:46:37,504
Today is critically important

610
00:46:37,921 --> 00:46:39,561
to save the lives
of hundreds of thousands

611
00:46:39,673 --> 00:46:41,008
of animals every year

612
00:46:41,300 --> 00:46:43,260
that get tortured
for vanity and fashion.

613
00:46:43,552 --> 00:46:46,013
And I always strive to ask everybody

614
00:46:46,305 --> 00:46:48,545
to go cruelty-free and always
look for the leaping bunny.

615
00:46:48,807 --> 00:46:50,851
And if it does not say cruelty-free,

616
00:46:51,143 --> 00:46:52,311
they usually test on animals.

617
00:46:52,602 --> 00:46:53,854
As an actress,

618
00:46:54,146 --> 00:46:55,814
every makeup chair that I sit in,

619
00:46:56,106 --> 00:46:58,567
I try to make sure that
the cosmetics being used on me

620
00:46:58,984 --> 00:47:00,902
were not tested on animals.

621
00:47:01,194 --> 00:47:02,571
But the burden is on us.

622
00:47:02,988 --> 00:47:04,364
It is on the consumer.

623
00:47:04,656 --> 00:47:05,866
And it shouldn't be that way.

624
00:47:06,158 --> 00:47:08,327
And it isn't that way in the EU

625
00:47:08,618 --> 00:47:10,495
and many other countries.

626
00:47:10,787 --> 00:47:13,206
After getting resounding
bipartisan support

627
00:47:13,498 --> 00:47:17,127
in the Senate with Democrats
and Republicans coming together

628
00:47:17,419 --> 00:47:18,587
to vote in favor of it,

629
00:47:19,004 --> 00:47:21,381
SB 1249 now faces

630
00:47:21,673 --> 00:47:24,384
an important vote
on the assembly floor.

631
00:47:24,676 --> 00:47:27,596
You know, what are we doing?
It's completely archaic.

632
00:47:28,013 --> 00:47:30,223
It's fiscally irresponsible.

633
00:47:30,515 --> 00:47:32,309
We have the numbers on that as well.

634
00:47:32,601 --> 00:47:34,895
So, it would be great if California,

635
00:47:35,187 --> 00:47:37,397
as progressive as it is,
would be the first to do this.

636
00:47:37,689 --> 00:47:39,729
In very privileged countries
like the United States,

637
00:47:40,025 --> 00:47:41,943
we tend to be very centered on self.

638
00:47:46,323 --> 00:47:49,868
All of the things that involve
cruelty and chemicals

639
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,971
and everything else they're
putting in your cosmetics

640
00:47:51,995 --> 00:47:53,080
is bad for you.

641
00:47:53,372 --> 00:47:54,873
So, if you're centered on self,

642
00:47:55,165 --> 00:47:56,809
you wanna make
better decisions for your body,

643
00:47:56,833 --> 00:47:58,393
your health,
the environment, the planet

644
00:47:58,460 --> 00:47:59,980
that you're leaving for your children.

645
00:48:00,045 --> 00:48:01,046
These are the decisions.

646
00:48:02,672 --> 00:48:04,966
They still allow
testing to occur in China.

647
00:48:05,258 --> 00:48:07,427
So, SB 1249 would
get rid of that exemption.

648
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:09,930
So even if you were
to test it in China,

649
00:48:10,222 --> 00:48:11,741
you wouldn't be able to
sell it in California.

650
00:48:11,765 --> 00:48:13,433
Which is a huge step forward.

651
00:48:13,725 --> 00:48:15,894
Once they introduce
the bill, then I have to,

652
00:48:16,186 --> 00:48:19,106
and my team, we have to
knock on every office,

653
00:48:19,398 --> 00:48:21,108
every legislator's office,

654
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:22,520
talk to them about the bill,

655
00:48:22,734 --> 00:48:24,194
tell them why it's important,

656
00:48:24,486 --> 00:48:25,612
and get them to vote for it.

657
00:48:27,406 --> 00:48:30,534
One of the reasons why we
asked John to come today

658
00:48:30,826 --> 00:48:32,494
is because he is an entrepreneur.

659
00:48:32,786 --> 00:48:35,122
And since his stardom

660
00:48:35,414 --> 00:48:36,915
as a basketball player,

661
00:48:37,207 --> 00:48:39,251
he's embraced a vegan lifestyle,

662
00:48:39,543 --> 00:48:41,461
compassion, entrepreneur.

663
00:48:41,753 --> 00:48:45,465
So, he's really a star to us

664
00:48:45,757 --> 00:48:47,300
in this realm.

665
00:48:47,592 --> 00:48:49,636
And we're so honored
to have him with us today.

666
00:48:53,473 --> 00:48:55,934
So let me ask you,
have you heard anything

667
00:48:56,226 --> 00:48:58,103
about SB 1249 yet?

668
00:48:58,395 --> 00:49:01,064
The California
Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act?

669
00:49:01,356 --> 00:49:04,151
Because the existing testing

670
00:49:04,443 --> 00:49:06,445
is still killing and torturing

671
00:49:06,736 --> 00:49:08,572
over 400,000 animals a year.

672
00:49:08,864 --> 00:49:10,384
We've done a lot of things in the past

673
00:49:10,615 --> 00:49:12,951
because we didn't know better,
but now we do.

674
00:49:13,702 --> 00:49:15,454
When they ask,
they say, "Don't you wanna

675
00:49:15,745 --> 00:49:18,331
go up on the hill, man,
and shake some fences

676
00:49:18,623 --> 00:49:20,103
and get some people
to pay attention?"

677
00:49:20,250 --> 00:49:22,002
I just think
it's a cool thing. It is.

678
00:49:22,294 --> 00:49:24,379
And if I could go

679
00:49:24,671 --> 00:49:26,381
and see things in sports,

680
00:49:26,673 --> 00:49:29,217
it's not gonna change
anybody's life, right?

681
00:49:29,509 --> 00:49:31,178
And guys will
sit around and they argue

682
00:49:31,470 --> 00:49:33,096
on ESPN all day about it.

683
00:49:33,388 --> 00:49:35,474
This changes not just our lives.

684
00:49:36,141 --> 00:49:37,642
That means we save, like, 54,000,000

685
00:49:37,934 --> 00:49:39,394
land animals a year, everybody.

686
00:49:41,563 --> 00:49:42,606
And another thing,

687
00:49:42,898 --> 00:49:45,984
you make sure you get that vote.

688
00:49:48,278 --> 00:49:49,589
We're rolling on that, right?

689
00:49:51,573 --> 00:49:53,426
With advocates like this,
I'm very pleased to sign on

690
00:49:53,450 --> 00:49:54,850
as a co-sponsor of this legislation

691
00:49:55,118 --> 00:49:56,554
and looking forward
to working with the group.

692
00:49:56,578 --> 00:49:57,898
Thank you.

693
00:49:58,121 --> 00:49:59,521
I understand you're a vegan, right?

694
00:49:59,748 --> 00:50:01,500
My brother does--

695
00:50:01,791 --> 00:50:03,151
He's, like-- he had-- for a while,

696
00:50:03,335 --> 00:50:04,604
he was doing, like, MMA fighting

697
00:50:04,628 --> 00:50:05,788
that he was big and all that.

698
00:50:05,879 --> 00:50:07,214
And he's a vegan too.

699
00:50:07,506 --> 00:50:08,786
He was the one who told me that.

700
00:50:09,132 --> 00:50:10,693
When I first
came in elite, my first year,

701
00:50:10,717 --> 00:50:12,594
I was eating a cheeseburger and fries

702
00:50:12,886 --> 00:50:15,722
and a shake before playing
against the Milwaukee Bucks,

703
00:50:16,139 --> 00:50:17,265
and I'm still knocked out

704
00:50:17,557 --> 00:50:19,518
and I was the slowest I ever was.

705
00:50:19,809 --> 00:50:21,849
And he said, "How's that
cheeseburger treating you?"

706
00:50:22,020 --> 00:50:24,105
And then
from that point on, from 1986,

707
00:50:24,397 --> 00:50:26,316
I started paying
attention to what food he does.

708
00:50:26,942 --> 00:50:30,612
Oprah put out a thing
with Deepak Chopra in 1993,

709
00:50:30,904 --> 00:50:33,281
you should not eat
with people you don't like,

710
00:50:33,573 --> 00:50:35,158
because your body, your psyche

711
00:50:35,450 --> 00:50:36,770
does certain things on that food.

712
00:50:36,868 --> 00:50:38,348
So, if you eat something that's dead,

713
00:50:38,537 --> 00:50:40,038
something that has been murdered,

714
00:50:40,330 --> 00:50:41,933
something that has been
afraid to be murdered,

715
00:50:41,957 --> 00:50:44,417
and you get that in your
spirit, you now have that.

716
00:50:44,709 --> 00:50:47,128
You ever see these biggest guys
are always jumpy?

717
00:50:47,420 --> 00:50:48,463
That's that cow.

718
00:50:49,297 --> 00:50:50,674
Are you an aye vote?

719
00:50:50,966 --> 00:50:52,526
I'm totally
against animal testing, too.

720
00:50:52,717 --> 00:50:54,320
So-- and I have been
throughout my career.

721
00:50:54,344 --> 00:50:55,804
- Here we go.
- Wait a second.

722
00:50:56,471 --> 00:50:59,266
And my friend started a thing
called Mixed Chicks for hair.

723
00:50:59,808 --> 00:51:01,744
She's half white, half black,
and her hair was mixed.

724
00:51:01,768 --> 00:51:03,436
So, she had it for hair

725
00:51:03,728 --> 00:51:07,107
and she literally made it cruelty-free

726
00:51:07,399 --> 00:51:08,650
before she put it out.

727
00:51:08,942 --> 00:51:10,742
And if she can do that
in the thought process,

728
00:51:10,819 --> 00:51:12,339
and they asked me to come be involved,

729
00:51:12,404 --> 00:51:13,484
I said, "Yeah, no problem."

730
00:51:13,697 --> 00:51:14,781
I'm an animal lover.

731
00:51:16,908 --> 00:51:19,077
So I am an-- I can commit to that

732
00:51:19,369 --> 00:51:20,495
and I'm an animal lover.

733
00:51:21,621 --> 00:51:25,125
So I'm all about...

734
00:51:25,417 --> 00:51:27,460
being humane and humanity

735
00:51:27,752 --> 00:51:29,337
and making sure
that we do things right.

736
00:51:29,629 --> 00:51:31,298
And so, I find that interesting

737
00:51:31,590 --> 00:51:33,466
and would be a great way
to be able to go back

738
00:51:33,758 --> 00:51:36,803
and find some data and some
pathway so that we can help

739
00:51:37,095 --> 00:51:38,906
guide the committee
in making the right decision.

740
00:51:38,930 --> 00:51:40,640
Can I have a picture?

741
00:51:40,932 --> 00:51:42,642
So just in case
you do it wrong I can say--

742
00:51:42,934 --> 00:51:44,477
I have a picture.

743
00:52:04,247 --> 00:52:05,527
I'd like to start by telling you

744
00:52:05,790 --> 00:52:07,375
what your yes vote means today.

745
00:52:07,667 --> 00:52:11,171
Over half a million animals
will no longer be tortured

746
00:52:11,463 --> 00:52:13,882
for tests that have been
scientifically proven

747
00:52:14,299 --> 00:52:16,551
to be unnecessary to show safety.

748
00:52:17,052 --> 00:52:19,596
You will save these animals
from being tortured

749
00:52:19,888 --> 00:52:22,849
while they are alive
and then thrown into the trash

750
00:52:23,266 --> 00:52:26,186
left to suffocate
while writhing in pain.

751
00:52:26,478 --> 00:52:29,356
Because corporations
decided that the cost and time

752
00:52:29,648 --> 00:52:30,857
to euthanize them

753
00:52:31,274 --> 00:52:33,276
would negatively affect
their bottom line.

754
00:52:33,568 --> 00:52:37,197
It's quite clear to me
that this will not only save

755
00:52:37,489 --> 00:52:39,783
the lives of tens
of thousands of animals,

756
00:52:40,075 --> 00:52:42,869
but it will also save

757
00:52:43,161 --> 00:52:45,372
torture of so many more.

758
00:52:45,664 --> 00:52:47,415
I think it's time
that we added ourselves

759
00:52:47,707 --> 00:52:49,876
to the list of nations
that have gone cruelty-free.

760
00:52:50,168 --> 00:52:51,503
So, I'm pleased

761
00:52:51,795 --> 00:52:53,272
to be supporting
this legislation today

762
00:52:53,296 --> 00:52:54,482
and would just respectfully ask

763
00:52:54,506 --> 00:52:55,546
to be added as a coauthor.

764
00:52:55,674 --> 00:52:56,883
Thank you very much.

765
00:52:57,634 --> 00:52:58,754
- Stone?
- Aye.

766
00:52:58,968 --> 00:53:00,261
Stone, aye. Cunningham?

767
00:53:00,553 --> 00:53:01,697
- Aye.
- Cunningham, aye.

768
00:53:01,721 --> 00:53:04,265
Chau? Chu? Holden?

769
00:53:04,557 --> 00:53:05,684
- Chara?
- Aye.

770
00:53:05,975 --> 00:53:07,535
- Chara aye. Reyes?
- Aye.

771
00:53:07,686 --> 00:53:09,038
- Reyes, aye. Gabriel.
- Aye.

772
00:53:09,062 --> 00:53:10,188
Thank you.

773
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:11,600
That bill is out. Thank you.

774
00:53:22,659 --> 00:53:24,699
Yeah, the good thing
about doing good things

775
00:53:24,786 --> 00:53:26,287
is that it becomes infectious.

776
00:53:27,330 --> 00:53:29,332
And I think our future
as a civilization

777
00:53:29,624 --> 00:53:31,793
and as a species
is directly intertwined

778
00:53:32,085 --> 00:53:33,920
with our willingness
to preserve biodiversity.

779
00:53:37,006 --> 00:53:39,259
I started the International
Anti-poaching Foundation

780
00:53:39,551 --> 00:53:41,845
in 2009 after traveling
around southern Africa,

781
00:53:42,137 --> 00:53:44,305
seeing what was happening
with indicator species

782
00:53:44,597 --> 00:53:46,677
like elephant and rhino
and what we're doing to them.

783
00:53:46,850 --> 00:53:49,978
And the thing
that makes me feel the best

784
00:53:50,395 --> 00:53:53,523
is being able to help
rangers to protect the animals,

785
00:53:53,815 --> 00:53:55,575
being able to speak out
on behalf of animals.

786
00:53:55,650 --> 00:53:57,652
Being able to be
a voice for the voiceless.

787
00:54:03,366 --> 00:54:05,094
One of the programs
that we run in Zimbabwe

788
00:54:05,118 --> 00:54:06,411
is called Akashinga,

789
00:54:06,703 --> 00:54:08,055
which translates
into "the brave ones."

790
00:54:08,079 --> 00:54:09,372
And it's an all-female

791
00:54:09,664 --> 00:54:11,875
anti-poaching or conservation model.

792
00:54:12,751 --> 00:54:14,351
It's the only
nature reserve in the world

793
00:54:14,627 --> 00:54:16,507
to be completely managed
and protected by women.

794
00:54:17,505 --> 00:54:18,905
I saw other industries progressing.

795
00:54:19,090 --> 00:54:20,810
I thought, "Well,
if conservation can't have

796
00:54:21,009 --> 00:54:22,969
that opportunity, maybe
we can't progress either."

797
00:54:24,637 --> 00:54:25,637
Clear.

798
00:54:56,711 --> 00:54:58,511
We're involved
with protecting the environment

799
00:54:58,713 --> 00:55:00,353
and protecting animals,
that's what we do.

800
00:55:00,632 --> 00:55:03,510
Okay, the meat industry
is the greatest negative impact

801
00:55:03,802 --> 00:55:04,962
against both of those things.

802
00:55:14,896 --> 00:55:17,690
One less step to being able to fight.

803
00:55:18,233 --> 00:55:19,818
There's two types of conservationists.

804
00:55:20,109 --> 00:55:21,569
There's vegans, and there's those

805
00:55:21,861 --> 00:55:23,421
that don't like
to take their work home.

806
00:55:23,613 --> 00:55:25,090
And I'm happy
to say that that's cost them

807
00:55:25,114 --> 00:55:26,754
a lot of funding,
the truth isn't for sale

808
00:55:26,825 --> 00:55:28,368
and it never will be.

809
00:55:48,972 --> 00:55:50,807
Living at a plant-based lifestyle,

810
00:55:51,099 --> 00:55:52,976
the first thing that I cut out
was dairy.

811
00:55:56,062 --> 00:55:57,939
The leading cause
of environmental pollution.

812
00:55:58,231 --> 00:56:00,775
And I also knew
that these cows were enslaved.

813
00:56:01,651 --> 00:56:03,945
Listen, the cow
has to give birth to give milk.

814
00:56:04,612 --> 00:56:07,532
So, there are some dairies
that are pumping out

815
00:56:07,824 --> 00:56:09,534
hundreds of calves per day.

816
00:56:10,785 --> 00:56:12,025
A lot of those calves are male.

817
00:56:12,245 --> 00:56:13,565
And where do those calves go now?

818
00:56:13,746 --> 00:56:14,747
Because there isn't

819
00:56:15,039 --> 00:56:16,416
a monster veal industry anymore.

820
00:56:16,708 --> 00:56:18,148
Those calves are going for dog food.

821
00:56:18,543 --> 00:56:19,919
My name is Cuoto.

822
00:56:20,211 --> 00:56:22,505
I'm the founder
and lead investigator of ARM,

823
00:56:22,797 --> 00:56:23,882
Animal Recovery Mission.

824
00:56:24,173 --> 00:56:25,613
We're based in Miami Beach, Florida.

825
00:56:27,093 --> 00:56:29,470
What we're doing in the field,

826
00:56:29,762 --> 00:56:30,930
rescuing animals,

827
00:56:31,222 --> 00:56:33,725
delivering undercover footage,

828
00:56:34,017 --> 00:56:36,603
exposing really
the truth of the worst cases

829
00:56:36,895 --> 00:56:37,895
of animal cruelty.

830
00:56:50,617 --> 00:56:53,453
It is an extremely sad,

831
00:56:53,745 --> 00:56:57,457
heartbreaking job to look at animals

832
00:56:57,749 --> 00:56:59,709
while you're in the field undercover

833
00:57:00,001 --> 00:57:01,961
and see them
boiled alive, butchered alive,

834
00:57:02,253 --> 00:57:04,756
disassembled alive, beaten to death.

835
00:57:05,757 --> 00:57:07,550
And remember,
as an undercover investigator,

836
00:57:07,842 --> 00:57:09,135
you're the bad guy.

837
00:57:09,552 --> 00:57:12,013
So, you have to laugh

838
00:57:12,305 --> 00:57:14,891
and be one of the crowd

839
00:57:15,183 --> 00:57:16,684
as this is taking place.

840
00:57:17,185 --> 00:57:18,937
This is a small
percentage of our gear.

841
00:57:19,228 --> 00:57:20,772
You know, the drone.

842
00:57:21,731 --> 00:57:23,983
Extremely important
to the investigator.

843
00:57:24,275 --> 00:57:25,526
Undercover camera.

844
00:57:25,818 --> 00:57:27,018
Without the undercover camera,

845
00:57:27,278 --> 00:57:29,489
we would get absolutely nothing done

846
00:57:29,781 --> 00:57:31,699
and absolutely no footage whatsoever.

847
00:57:33,743 --> 00:57:36,204
People who are working
in slaughterhouses

848
00:57:36,621 --> 00:57:37,747
and factory farm,

849
00:57:38,039 --> 00:57:39,958
they have violent, violent pasts.

850
00:57:40,750 --> 00:57:43,670
They have been convicted
of serious crimes in the past.

851
00:57:44,170 --> 00:57:46,047
But also, we're undercover right now

852
00:57:46,339 --> 00:57:48,216
in farms that

853
00:57:48,633 --> 00:57:51,052
hard narcotics
are being used and dealt.

854
00:57:51,886 --> 00:57:53,680
You know, it's important for people

855
00:57:53,972 --> 00:57:56,099
to understand the true reality

856
00:57:56,391 --> 00:57:57,850
of what takes place

857
00:57:58,142 --> 00:57:59,727
in factory farms

858
00:58:00,019 --> 00:58:01,246
where you think
you're getting your meat

859
00:58:01,270 --> 00:58:03,064
from a good, wholesome place.

860
00:58:03,356 --> 00:58:07,151
And it's actually coming
from a place that's dirty,

861
00:58:07,443 --> 00:58:10,905
inhumane, and just uncared for.

862
00:58:19,706 --> 00:58:22,625
We just arrived at this
hunting preserve in Florida.

863
00:58:22,917 --> 00:58:25,503
And, so, tell me
about this-- this place.

864
00:58:26,254 --> 00:58:29,549
There are several locations
here in central Florida

865
00:58:29,841 --> 00:58:33,052
that provide people the opportunity

866
00:58:33,344 --> 00:58:35,847
to come out here and pay
to hunt several different types

867
00:58:36,139 --> 00:58:39,600
of species of animals
and endangered species

868
00:58:39,892 --> 00:58:41,370
that are raised here
on these properties.

869
00:58:41,394 --> 00:58:43,062
And then people pay
large amounts of money

870
00:58:43,354 --> 00:58:45,857
up to 20, 30 thousand dollars
to come out here and hunt.

871
00:58:47,275 --> 00:58:50,153
People don't really even know
that this is even available.

872
00:58:50,445 --> 00:58:52,245
And to be honest,
I didn't even know that this

873
00:58:52,321 --> 00:58:54,282
- was available until recently.
- Wow!

874
00:58:55,033 --> 00:58:57,160
You can feel
there's, like, some kind of--

875
00:58:57,452 --> 00:58:58,452
There's a fear.

876
00:59:09,464 --> 00:59:11,841
Anybody who says that they
care for their animals

877
00:59:12,133 --> 00:59:14,886
and that their animals are happy,

878
00:59:15,178 --> 00:59:16,179
they're not happy.

879
00:59:16,471 --> 00:59:17,889
Animals that are free are happy.

880
00:59:18,181 --> 00:59:19,533
Animals that are
contained and enslaved,

881
00:59:19,557 --> 00:59:21,142
they're not happy.

882
00:59:21,434 --> 00:59:23,162
These people, I think
that they feel like they're

883
00:59:23,186 --> 00:59:24,906
not doing anything wrong
and they feel like,

884
00:59:24,937 --> 00:59:26,856
this is a way for them
to profit and make money

885
00:59:27,148 --> 00:59:28,733
off of killing animals.

886
00:59:29,233 --> 00:59:31,778
There is something wrong
with people that can feel okay

887
00:59:32,070 --> 00:59:34,197
with killing an animal
and then putting a trophy

888
00:59:34,489 --> 00:59:37,116
on their wall or a rug on the floor.

889
00:59:37,408 --> 00:59:38,826
Yeah, pretty much.

890
00:59:39,118 --> 00:59:41,162
I mean, it just
doesn't really make sense.

891
00:59:41,454 --> 00:59:43,790
So, the only saving of the animal

892
00:59:44,082 --> 00:59:46,250
that takes place is by us.

893
00:59:47,752 --> 00:59:50,004
The outside world is the one
who needs to come in

894
00:59:50,296 --> 00:59:51,798
and save those animals.

895
00:59:52,090 --> 00:59:54,217
And, you know, you say,
"Oh, I can't go in there

896
00:59:54,509 --> 00:59:56,052
and do those investigations,"

897
00:59:56,344 --> 00:59:58,280
which I've met plenty
of people who have said that

898
00:59:58,304 --> 01:00:00,407
that they can't go in there.
"I can't believe you do that"

899
01:00:00,431 --> 01:00:02,151
or, "I can't, I could
never do what you do."

900
01:00:02,350 --> 01:00:05,186
But the reality is
that those individuals,

901
01:00:05,478 --> 01:00:08,272
they can help and they can
help in a drastic way

902
01:00:08,564 --> 01:00:10,691
just by not consuming that product.

903
01:00:10,983 --> 01:00:12,777
Who's this?

904
01:00:14,237 --> 01:00:16,697
- This is the one.
- Mm-hmm, the one and only.

905
01:00:16,989 --> 01:00:18,199
So, this is Secretariat's--

906
01:00:18,491 --> 01:00:20,034
Great great-grandson, basically.

907
01:00:20,326 --> 01:00:21,828
- Oh, my gosh! Wow!
- Yeah.

908
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:23,388
- He's so beautiful.
- So here is

909
01:00:23,412 --> 01:00:24,812
a really interesting story, though.

910
01:00:24,956 --> 01:00:26,476
He's the whole reason why I'm started.

911
01:00:26,624 --> 01:00:28,126
Basically, as a three-year-old,

912
01:00:28,417 --> 01:00:29,836
he was in one of his few races.

913
01:00:30,128 --> 01:00:31,170
He hadn't started much.

914
01:00:31,462 --> 01:00:33,214
And as you can see on his leg,

915
01:00:33,506 --> 01:00:35,258
he's got five-pin marks.

916
01:00:35,550 --> 01:00:36,990
So, he got clipped by another horse,

917
01:00:37,176 --> 01:00:38,886
which pretty much
shattered his, like, leg.

918
01:00:39,178 --> 01:00:40,388
Like, almost broke it all.

919
01:00:40,805 --> 01:00:43,641
And then they decided he had no use.

920
01:00:43,933 --> 01:00:45,413
So, they took him to a slaughter farm

921
01:00:45,810 --> 01:00:47,250
and that's where he was gonna become

922
01:00:47,436 --> 01:00:49,156
a part of the black-market
horse meat trade.

923
01:00:49,313 --> 01:00:51,315
And that's when
Cuoto first found out about

924
01:00:51,607 --> 01:00:53,276
the black-market horse meat trade.

925
01:00:53,568 --> 01:00:55,862
And as a redemption to freedoms,

926
01:00:56,154 --> 01:00:57,738
was like, "I'm gonna expose it

927
01:00:58,030 --> 01:00:59,670
and bust it and then
get back to my life."

928
01:00:59,824 --> 01:01:01,367
Well, he soon found out

929
01:01:01,784 --> 01:01:03,870
that illegal animal slaughter farms

930
01:01:04,162 --> 01:01:06,247
is, like, the underground belly

931
01:01:06,539 --> 01:01:07,979
where everything, all of the illegal

932
01:01:08,124 --> 01:01:09,644
and horrible animal cruelty operations

933
01:01:09,792 --> 01:01:11,210
just, you know, network out of.

934
01:01:11,502 --> 01:01:13,671
So, everything from
animal fighting and--

935
01:01:13,963 --> 01:01:16,174
Started with rescuing a horse

936
01:01:16,465 --> 01:01:18,718
from an illegal slaughterhouse
in Miami, Florida.

937
01:01:19,010 --> 01:01:21,762
But that is really what
made me break out of my bubble.

938
01:01:22,054 --> 01:01:24,348
It's what made me give up

939
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,810
my profitable life

940
01:01:28,102 --> 01:01:32,690
monetarily to switch
and make the leap.

941
01:01:33,441 --> 01:01:35,109
And I can tell you from a person

942
01:01:35,401 --> 01:01:37,111
who was so profit-driven

943
01:01:37,403 --> 01:01:40,072
that I'm much more
happy and accomplished

944
01:01:40,364 --> 01:01:42,909
in my life now than I was then.

945
01:01:43,201 --> 01:01:44,410
And that's little Cuoto.

946
01:01:44,702 --> 01:01:46,302
That's one of the
first pigs at the back.

947
01:01:46,454 --> 01:01:48,206
He, Cuoto, actually rescued him off

948
01:01:48,497 --> 01:01:51,459
in the middle of the night
of a slaughter farm in Miami.

949
01:01:51,876 --> 01:01:53,711
And he actually had an axe hole

950
01:01:54,003 --> 01:01:55,046
in his-- top of his head.

951
01:01:55,546 --> 01:01:56,923
Still has it.
He has a scar.

952
01:01:57,215 --> 01:01:58,615
- No!
- So Cuoto took him in,

953
01:01:58,716 --> 01:02:00,426
he's very cool, very quiet and calm.

954
01:02:01,135 --> 01:02:03,429
When you meet farm animals
in the sanctuary setting,

955
01:02:03,721 --> 01:02:05,932
you start to see how
they are all very different.

956
01:02:06,224 --> 01:02:07,784
You know, like, each pig
is so different

957
01:02:08,059 --> 01:02:10,037
and their likes and dislikes
and the way they behave

958
01:02:10,061 --> 01:02:11,437
and interact with people.

959
01:02:11,854 --> 01:02:14,273
And so, I think, you know,
it's just a misconception

960
01:02:14,565 --> 01:02:16,275
that is put out there for a reason

961
01:02:16,567 --> 01:02:18,945
because we couldn't possibly
eat them if we knew them.

962
01:02:19,237 --> 01:02:21,030
Whoo!
Come on, cows!

963
01:02:21,489 --> 01:02:24,242
Calvin!
Come on! Come here!

964
01:02:25,076 --> 01:02:26,410
And Calvin with the white stripe,

965
01:02:26,702 --> 01:02:28,996
his mother died giving birth to him.

966
01:02:29,288 --> 01:02:30,373
So, he's been here with us.

967
01:02:30,998 --> 01:02:32,434
Brownie, the big one with the horns,

968
01:02:32,458 --> 01:02:33,793
he's one of the few

969
01:02:34,085 --> 01:02:35,485
owner relinquishments that we took.

970
01:02:35,753 --> 01:02:37,273
And then we'll see
who else comes over.

971
01:02:37,421 --> 01:02:39,066
We still like cats.

972
01:02:39,090 --> 01:02:40,567
Here in the States,
we don't need dogs,

973
01:02:40,591 --> 01:02:41,591
we don't need cats.

974
01:02:42,551 --> 01:02:45,388
And we've put up this
wall in between them

975
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:46,889
and all of the other animals.

976
01:02:47,181 --> 01:02:48,808
If you come out to a sanctuary

977
01:02:49,100 --> 01:02:51,203
and you meet these guys
and you look them in the eyes,

978
01:02:51,227 --> 01:02:53,267
you'll see that they're
not different than your dog.

979
01:02:53,437 --> 01:02:54,877
They're not different than your cat.

980
01:03:04,156 --> 01:03:05,866
Just like you wouldn't eat a dog,

981
01:03:06,158 --> 01:03:08,398
you're not gonna eat a pig
once you make that connection.

982
01:03:08,494 --> 01:03:10,830
They've come to say it.

983
01:03:11,122 --> 01:03:12,362
A lot of different farm animals

984
01:03:12,623 --> 01:03:15,376
have the awareness, the intelligence,

985
01:03:15,668 --> 01:03:18,504
the emotional intelligence
of a three-year-old child.

986
01:03:18,796 --> 01:03:22,174
It's a critical thing
to understand this dichotomy

987
01:03:22,466 --> 01:03:25,136
of ingesting the very thing

988
01:03:25,428 --> 01:03:27,805
that we would care for
in any other situation.

989
01:03:29,307 --> 01:03:30,349
My name is David Verburg.

990
01:03:30,641 --> 01:03:32,351
I'm a 2016 Olympic gold medalist,

991
01:03:32,643 --> 01:03:34,243
plant-based athlete,
and animal advocate.

992
01:03:36,105 --> 01:03:37,189
Basically, the whole reason

993
01:03:37,481 --> 01:03:40,443
why I became vegan was because I grew

994
01:03:40,735 --> 01:03:43,237
up on a farm with probably 25

995
01:03:43,529 --> 01:03:44,947
different types of animals,

996
01:03:45,239 --> 01:03:47,992
from chickens
to goats, sheep, peacocks.

997
01:03:48,409 --> 01:03:50,953
Somebody came up to me
and we were talking

998
01:03:51,245 --> 01:03:53,325
and I had the-- I had,
you know, bottle-fed the calf.

999
01:03:53,497 --> 01:03:55,166
And, like, was,
"So you must be vegan?"

1000
01:03:55,458 --> 01:03:56,876
And I was like "No, no."

1001
01:03:57,168 --> 01:03:58,836
"Well, like, why not?"

1002
01:03:59,128 --> 01:04:00,848
And I didn't have
a good answer at the time.

1003
01:04:01,005 --> 01:04:03,085
Like, I really couldn't
tell them why I wasn't vegan.

1004
01:04:04,759 --> 01:04:06,886
And that's when
I slowly started my transition

1005
01:04:07,178 --> 01:04:08,888
to a full plant-based lifestyle.

1006
01:04:09,180 --> 01:04:11,599
It went with steak first
and chicken and then fish.

1007
01:04:12,016 --> 01:04:13,736
And then kind of
just slowly, slowly, slowly

1008
01:04:13,768 --> 01:04:16,020
started cutting out
dairy from my diet,

1009
01:04:16,312 --> 01:04:17,438
and people looking at me

1010
01:04:17,730 --> 01:04:19,250
like "He's running
a little bit better.

1011
01:04:19,357 --> 01:04:20,608
He's smiling, he's happy.

1012
01:04:21,025 --> 01:04:22,485
His energy,
like, what is he doing?"

1013
01:04:22,777 --> 01:04:24,629
And then, that's when
I'm like "Oh, well, you know,

1014
01:04:24,653 --> 01:04:26,405
I switched
to a plant-based diet."

1015
01:04:26,697 --> 01:04:28,137
And that's when the questions start.

1016
01:04:28,324 --> 01:04:29,950
Like "Okay, well, how?
What did you do?"

1017
01:04:30,242 --> 01:04:32,122
And then I was like
"Oh, well, let me show you."

1018
01:04:32,328 --> 01:04:34,389
And that's how you kinda,
like, take them by the hand

1019
01:04:34,413 --> 01:04:36,082
and you kinda help in that direction.

1020
01:04:37,625 --> 01:04:39,305
When you want people to make changes,

1021
01:04:39,585 --> 01:04:41,420
significant changes in their diet,

1022
01:04:41,712 --> 01:04:43,712
that's a huge thing for them,
you know what I mean?

1023
01:04:43,881 --> 01:04:46,008
And it's terrifying.
We do monthly vegan potlucks.

1024
01:04:46,300 --> 01:04:47,551
- Yeah.
- You know?

1025
01:04:47,843 --> 01:04:49,637
Got all kinds of
things going on, so...

1026
01:04:53,391 --> 01:04:55,434
When you have great alternatives

1027
01:04:55,726 --> 01:04:57,103
like hamburger,

1028
01:04:57,395 --> 01:04:59,522
I think it helps,
like, lessen that fear.

1029
01:05:00,272 --> 01:05:02,483
I am a junk food vegan.

1030
01:05:02,775 --> 01:05:05,111
I eat vegan macaroni and cheese,

1031
01:05:05,403 --> 01:05:06,946
and vegan cheeseburgers,

1032
01:05:07,238 --> 01:05:09,365
and vegan burritos, and vegan pizza.

1033
01:05:09,657 --> 01:05:11,909
And all of those things
that other people eat.

1034
01:05:12,201 --> 01:05:14,036
I'm just eating vegan versions of it.

1035
01:05:14,328 --> 01:05:16,473
And so, I don't care if you're
doing it for your health

1036
01:05:16,497 --> 01:05:18,624
or the environment or the animals.

1037
01:05:19,041 --> 01:05:20,459
At the end of the day,

1038
01:05:20,751 --> 01:05:22,671
the animals benefit
from us making that decision.

1039
01:05:26,424 --> 01:05:28,509
I've got a 200-mile-an-hour billboard

1040
01:05:28,801 --> 01:05:30,386
promoting the vegan diet.

1041
01:05:33,180 --> 01:05:35,266
When you've got
7.6 billion people

1042
01:05:35,558 --> 01:05:38,060
on the planet
making day-to-day decisions,

1043
01:05:38,352 --> 01:05:40,563
you know, we need to be
making conscious ones

1044
01:05:40,855 --> 01:05:43,315
or we're gonna
not only destroy the planet

1045
01:05:43,607 --> 01:05:46,402
and our environment,
we're gonna take out humanity,

1046
01:05:46,694 --> 01:05:47,695
but we're gonna take out

1047
01:05:48,112 --> 01:05:49,989
so many amazing species with us.

1048
01:05:50,281 --> 01:05:53,284
And three times a day,
we all sit down for a meal

1049
01:05:53,576 --> 01:05:55,661
and it doesn't cost
extra money to leave meat

1050
01:05:55,953 --> 01:05:57,433
and dairy products off of your plate.

1051
01:05:57,705 --> 01:06:00,291
In fact, it will save you
money and health care

1052
01:06:00,583 --> 01:06:02,334
because you're gonna be healthier.

1053
01:06:05,463 --> 01:06:07,183
I can go to the store
right now and pick up,

1054
01:06:07,465 --> 01:06:10,009
a variety of different
kinds of vegan ice creams,

1055
01:06:10,301 --> 01:06:13,012
and vegan macaroni
and cheeses, and vegan pizzas.

1056
01:06:13,304 --> 01:06:16,056
So, this excuse
that it's a hard thing to do,

1057
01:06:16,348 --> 01:06:17,349
I just-- I don't buy it.

1058
01:06:22,855 --> 01:06:24,315
My motto is,

1059
01:06:24,607 --> 01:06:26,233
never underestimate
a vegan hippie chick

1060
01:06:26,525 --> 01:06:28,986
with a race car.

1061
01:06:30,488 --> 01:06:33,365
There's not
a lot of hippies in racing.

1062
01:06:33,657 --> 01:06:35,177
There's not a lot of vegans in racing.

1063
01:06:35,409 --> 01:06:37,203
There's not a lot of girls in racing.

1064
01:06:37,870 --> 01:06:40,039
So that, kind of,
summarized all of the things

1065
01:06:40,331 --> 01:06:42,416
that made me the oddball out

1066
01:06:42,708 --> 01:06:44,585
in the garage in one sentence.

1067
01:06:47,671 --> 01:06:49,507
Every time the track announcer talks

1068
01:06:49,798 --> 01:06:51,717
about the vegan food on TV during

1069
01:06:52,134 --> 01:06:55,137
the NASCAR broadcast, to me is a win,

1070
01:06:55,429 --> 01:06:57,473
because I know that's echoing on to,

1071
01:06:57,765 --> 01:07:00,017
you know, millions of ears.

1072
01:07:00,309 --> 01:07:03,395
And that is what my primary goal was.

1073
01:07:21,789 --> 01:07:23,749
Thank you very much
for joining us again.

1074
01:07:24,041 --> 01:07:26,544
I'm Nancy Skinner,
senator from the East Bay,

1075
01:07:26,835 --> 01:07:30,047
and I am carrying the bill SB 1138.

1076
01:07:30,339 --> 01:07:32,216
It requires hospitals, prisons...

1077
01:07:34,593 --> 01:07:37,471
...to provide
a plant-based meal option.

1078
01:07:37,763 --> 01:07:39,598
I think that we should expand this

1079
01:07:39,890 --> 01:07:41,725
to every other state,
not just California.

1080
01:07:42,017 --> 01:07:43,727
And I think this is just the beginning

1081
01:07:44,019 --> 01:07:47,356
of much to come with leading
in this plant-based movement.

1082
01:07:47,648 --> 01:07:49,233
So, thank you so much for being here.

1083
01:07:54,697 --> 01:07:56,337
This bill would empower individuals

1084
01:07:56,365 --> 01:07:57,491
to make healthier choices,

1085
01:07:57,783 --> 01:07:59,343
both in and out
of the hospital setting.

1086
01:07:59,618 --> 01:08:01,453
It would have a far-reaching effect

1087
01:08:01,745 --> 01:08:03,122
in terms of health care costs.

1088
01:08:03,414 --> 01:08:04,933
It will also
pave the way for other states

1089
01:08:04,957 --> 01:08:07,543
to adopt similar measures
and to potentially change

1090
01:08:07,835 --> 01:08:09,628
the face of health care
in the United States.

1091
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:11,130
Thank you.

1092
01:08:11,422 --> 01:08:12,742
Going plant-based is our passion,

1093
01:08:12,798 --> 01:08:16,135
our love
for the people or the animals,

1094
01:08:16,427 --> 01:08:18,429
the beings,
the lives we're fighting for.

1095
01:08:18,721 --> 01:08:19,841
When you consider the impact

1096
01:08:20,222 --> 01:08:21,658
of a plant-based diet on the oceans,

1097
01:08:21,682 --> 01:08:23,309
it's almost unimaginable.

1098
01:08:23,601 --> 01:08:25,769
You would eliminate all
of the destructive fisheries,

1099
01:08:26,061 --> 01:08:27,229
the gillnets, the long lines,

1100
01:08:27,521 --> 01:08:28,921
the, the bomb fishing,

1101
01:08:29,023 --> 01:08:30,482
all of those industries right now

1102
01:08:30,774 --> 01:08:33,527
that are literally
wholesale destroying

1103
01:08:33,819 --> 01:08:36,363
an entire ecosystem for our palates.

1104
01:08:36,655 --> 01:08:38,550
It would be probably
the single most important thing

1105
01:08:38,574 --> 01:08:40,117
we could do today to save the oceans.

1106
01:08:40,409 --> 01:08:44,163
We're wasting so much land and water

1107
01:08:44,455 --> 01:08:47,333
just in livestock production

1108
01:08:47,625 --> 01:08:48,834
that could be going to crops

1109
01:08:49,126 --> 01:08:51,128
that people could
actually eat themselves.

1110
01:08:53,631 --> 01:08:54,951
Just from a practical standpoint,

1111
01:08:55,132 --> 01:08:56,634
eating meat doesn't--

1112
01:08:56,925 --> 01:08:58,805
On a grand scale like this,
does not make sense.

1113
01:08:59,345 --> 01:09:00,638
Consume less and be conscious

1114
01:09:00,929 --> 01:09:03,515
of how that food
ended up on your plate

1115
01:09:03,807 --> 01:09:06,352
and think about that and really try

1116
01:09:06,644 --> 01:09:09,438
to work with the planet.

1117
01:09:10,814 --> 01:09:12,858
When I was very young,

1118
01:09:13,150 --> 01:09:14,735
physician friend of my dad's

1119
01:09:15,027 --> 01:09:16,862
came over and we were
eating a big pot roast,

1120
01:09:17,279 --> 01:09:20,199
you know, with all kinds of
carrots and things around it.

1121
01:09:20,491 --> 01:09:22,826
And this physician just said,

1122
01:09:23,118 --> 01:09:25,287
"We shouldn't be
eating all this."

1123
01:09:25,579 --> 01:09:26,899
My name is Janell Palacio Butler,

1124
01:09:27,289 --> 01:09:29,208
and these are my two children,
Zion and Genesis.

1125
01:09:29,500 --> 01:09:32,878
In July 2016, I was admitted
to Long Beach Memorial Hospital

1126
01:09:33,295 --> 01:09:34,880
to give birth to my fourth child.

1127
01:09:35,172 --> 01:09:36,757
Before labor, I informed the hospital

1128
01:09:37,049 --> 01:09:39,176
that I was vegan for ethical reasons.

1129
01:09:41,178 --> 01:09:42,763
My first meal after giving birth

1130
01:09:43,055 --> 01:09:44,575
is a white bread with iceberg lettuce,

1131
01:09:44,682 --> 01:09:46,892
a slice of tomato with cheese on it.

1132
01:09:47,184 --> 01:09:49,186
Not only did the sandwich have cheese,

1133
01:09:49,478 --> 01:09:50,562
but I can tell it had meat

1134
01:09:50,854 --> 01:09:52,334
and they had just taken the meat off.

1135
01:09:52,523 --> 01:09:54,525
I told them "I'm sorry."
And I was very polite.

1136
01:09:54,817 --> 01:09:55,817
Gave it back to them.

1137
01:09:57,069 --> 01:09:58,821
They sent me chicken broth next.

1138
01:09:59,113 --> 01:10:00,781
Told them chicken broth is not vegan.

1139
01:10:01,073 --> 01:10:03,033
They said, "Well, there's
no chicken in the soup."

1140
01:10:04,451 --> 01:10:06,370
And at the end of this ordeal,

1141
01:10:06,662 --> 01:10:08,262
I was told
by the hospital administrator,

1142
01:10:08,497 --> 01:10:10,499
and I quote,
"We don't give vegan meals.

1143
01:10:10,791 --> 01:10:12,711
People who aren't vegan
just cave in and they eat

1144
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:14,420
what we give them."

1145
01:10:14,712 --> 01:10:16,592
We're not a fringe thing.
We're not crazy.

1146
01:10:16,714 --> 01:10:18,674
It's-- this is just
a compassionate lifestyle.

1147
01:10:18,966 --> 01:10:20,509
Is all it is.

1148
01:10:20,968 --> 01:10:24,638
And I think when you
put it towards people that way,

1149
01:10:24,930 --> 01:10:28,434
you can't really argue
with doing less harm.

1150
01:10:28,726 --> 01:10:30,936
Item number nine SB 1138 do passes

1151
01:10:31,228 --> 01:10:33,039
Amended Appropriations Call
of members, please.

1152
01:10:33,063 --> 01:10:34,063
- Hernandez?
- Aye.

1153
01:10:34,231 --> 01:10:35,524
Hernandez, aye.?

1154
01:10:35,816 --> 01:10:37,043
- Mitchell?
- Aye.

1155
01:10:37,067 --> 01:10:38,336
- Morning?
- Aye.

1156
01:10:40,112 --> 01:10:41,840
Currently,
we have six, enough to get out

1157
01:10:41,864 --> 01:10:43,216
and we're gonna
place that bill on call,

1158
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:44,560
we do have some half-sum members.

1159
01:10:47,035 --> 01:10:48,715
Yeah, I suppose
the most enlightening thing

1160
01:10:48,746 --> 01:10:50,664
or apparent thing for me
is the realization

1161
01:10:50,956 --> 01:10:52,642
of the important things
in life are not things,

1162
01:10:52,666 --> 01:10:54,877
they're actions and deciding that

1163
01:10:55,169 --> 01:10:56,962
my life is not gonna be
about me anymore

1164
01:10:57,254 --> 01:11:00,841
and what I can make and take
but what about what I can do.

1165
01:11:02,551 --> 01:11:04,344
Being able to speak out
on behalf of animals,

1166
01:11:04,636 --> 01:11:06,597
being able to be a voice
for the voiceless.

1167
01:11:09,183 --> 01:11:12,644
And knowing that we maybe can't change

1168
01:11:12,936 --> 01:11:14,480
the entire world as an individual,

1169
01:11:14,772 --> 01:11:16,692
but we can change
the world for many individuals.

1170
01:11:19,610 --> 01:11:21,250
Mother nature, that feminine energy

1171
01:11:21,445 --> 01:11:22,613
needs to rise again.

1172
01:11:23,781 --> 01:11:25,949
Because it is only
that energy, I believe,

1173
01:11:26,241 --> 01:11:28,619
that will give us space
to let other beings

1174
01:11:28,911 --> 01:11:29,912
share this world with us.

1175
01:11:31,079 --> 01:11:33,457
And that's where we need
to turn the tide and support

1176
01:11:33,749 --> 01:11:36,293
an ecosystem that
not only strives for nature,

1177
01:11:36,585 --> 01:11:39,338
but helps protect
our livelihoods and our future.

1178
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:41,840
The more people
that just spend time in nature,

1179
01:11:42,132 --> 01:11:45,636
I think it's a win
for themselves, spiritually,

1180
01:11:45,928 --> 01:11:48,472
personally, and on a global level.

1181
01:11:48,764 --> 01:11:50,766
It's people really need to slow down

1182
01:11:51,058 --> 01:11:52,726
and think about what we're doing

1183
01:11:53,018 --> 01:11:55,354
and how we're co-existing
with this amazing planet.

1184
01:11:56,230 --> 01:11:58,440
We have to place more value on life.

1185
01:11:58,732 --> 01:12:00,252
And I think
that goes with all animals.

1186
01:12:00,484 --> 01:12:01,693
I think there's more people

1187
01:12:01,985 --> 01:12:04,363
that are getting interested

1188
01:12:04,655 --> 01:12:06,865
in the well-being of animals.

1189
01:12:07,157 --> 01:12:09,493
I think it's just
general intelligence.

1190
01:12:10,452 --> 01:12:12,037
Mankind is tough on the planet.

1191
01:12:14,915 --> 01:12:17,793
Changing your way
of looking at animals

1192
01:12:18,085 --> 01:12:19,545
as saving the planet.