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[00:01.21] Today, I want to talk with you of the most important moral issues we never talk about.

[00:07.05] And that's factory farming.

[00:09.18] But first, I want to share with you the story of how I came to be here.

[00:13.69] I grew up in New Zealand, and yes, we had a sheep farm.

[00:18.74] It was small, 100 acres of rolling hills, and the sheep would graze the hillsides by day and then retreat to the hilltops to circle up and fall asleep at night.

[00:28.30] That's me, ready to farm right after my picnic.

[00:32.29] The sheep ultimately went to slaughter, but I always felt like at least they'd lived good lives and had quick deaths.

[00:40.79] Frankly, if I'm ever reincarnated as a sheep, which, as a New Zealander, is not unlikely

[00:47.17] I'd like to live their life.

[00:49.29] When I was a teenager, we traveled to Vietnam.

[00:53.54] And in the backstreets of Hanoi, I stumbled into a live-animal market.

[00:58.06] I still remember seeing the sight: stacks upon stacks of cages crammed full of animals, of every species, trembling in fear, staring out at me in distress.

[01:10.01] I was shaken.

[01:11.34] But when I returned to New Zealand, I figured things were different.

[01:16.92] I mean, you can see the cows and the sheep in the fields.

[01:20.90] Still, I started to wonder how we treated the animals that you couldn't see.

[01:27.28] How in particular did we treat the pigs and the chickens?

[01:32.85] So I did what you did back then. I

[01:35.51] picked up a phone book and I looked up some pig and chicken farms.

[01:39.76] And one by one, I called and I naively asked if I could just come visit.

[01:44.54] And one by one, they told me no.

[01:47.73] They don't let anyone just visit.

[01:50.12] Finally, I got hold of a major slaughterhouse and connected with a farm boy, let's call him Liam.

[02:00.75] Now, this slaughterhouse didn't do visitors either, but Liam and I bonded over sheep, and he agreed to get me in.