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[00:00.68] Honestly, the slaughterhouse wasn't as bad as I'd expected.

[00:05.46] It was the state of the animals arriving there that shook me.

[00:09.71] I remember seeing pigs coming down off a transport truck.

[00:13.96] Some shaking, some squealing, some limping in pain.

[00:19.80] "Liam," I said, "why are those pigs limping?"

[00:23.52] "Not my problem," he replied.

[00:25.91] So I looked into it.

[00:28.30] Before I tell you what I learned, let me say I'm not here to tell you what to eat.

[00:34.68] In fact, I don't think this should be on you as an individual consumer at all.

[00:39.99] You never chose factory farming.

[00:43.18] When the factory farms came in and replaced the old family farms, they didn't tell you they were doing it.

[00:48.76] They didn't relabel the meat as "Now from miserable animals."

[00:52.74] They labeled it as "all natural" and "farm fresh."

[00:56.46] In fact, the industry has created an entire system to stop you from seeing how your meat is produced.

[01:03.90] They've even passed egg gag laws in US states to make it a crime to record conditions in factory farms.

[01:11.87] Which makes it all the more important that we see what they're trying to hide from us.

[01:20.37] So I'm going to show you images of three common factory farming practices.

[01:27.81] I deliberately didn't choose the most gruesome or out-there practices I could find.

[01:37.10] These are everyday realities involved in the production of most pork and eggs globally.

[01:38.70] Here we go. This is the gestation crate.

[01:41.88] This is why the pigs at the slaughterhouse were limping.

[01:45.60] They were female breeding pigs who had been confined to crates like these, unable to walk or even turn around for their entire pregnancies.

[01:56.49] Once they gave birth, they were moved to slightly larger birthing crates and then back into these crates to get pregnant again and again and again for years on end.

[02:06.85] A friend of mine who worked undercover at a pig factory farm told me the worst thing he has ever done was to force these pigs back into their crates after they gave birth. They fought so hard not to go back in.

[02:20.14] This is a photo I took of a battery cage on an egg factory farm.

[02:25.45] Most of the world's eight billion egg-laying hens, roughly one for every person alive on Earth today, are confined right now in cages like these, unable to so much as flap their wings.