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I will take your questions.
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Is it a virus or a bacteria?
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We don't know.
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Is this an international health hazard or a military concern?
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Both.
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Will this thing jump from animals to humans?
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This is a possibility, we don't know.
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How does it spread? Is it airborne?
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We don't know.
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Is that the truth?
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Is that the truth?
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As an investigative journalist, going undercover is what I've done my whole life.
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I could smell the disease in the air.
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I knew something was seriously wrong.
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When I started to ask questions, I was sacked.
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I just need a few pictures and I'll blow this story wide open.
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I just hope I can get back in there.
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This is BBC, Radio Kent.
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The family of an elderly woman who died of MRSA
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following treatment at Southampton General hospital,
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say their request for answers, has been ignored.
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It's nearly a year since 82 year old Julia Bird has passed away.
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Hello, you've reached the voicemail of Jack Tomlins,
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photojournalist for the Guard-Media. Please leave a message.
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Oh my god, Jack, where are you?
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There are police at the Guard-Media centre looking for you.
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What's happened?
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Why haven't you called back in?
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Please call us as soon as you get this.
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What you're about to see is not a work of fiction.
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Is it that unbelievable that pigs could turn on us?
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Rising up from their world of hidden misery, disease and suffering.
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In the UK, we are a nation of animal lovers.
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However, our compassion does not extend to all of them.
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Out of sight, and out of mind, these animals have no names, and we never hear their voices.
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In their short lives, most of these intelligent beings, will never see the light of day.
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This is the story of the self-interested forces driving the UK's most dangerous industry.
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Antibiotics are a modern miracle.
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Each day they save thousands of lives,
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and our one of humanity's greatest achievements.
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But we have taken these miracle drugs for granted.
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We have become reliant on medication to keep us healthy.
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While our desire for more animal products is making us sick.
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It is this desire to eat animals that puts the future effectiveness of antibiotics at risk.
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The mass industrialisation of meat production has led to countless public health crises.
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Foot and mouth disease.
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World's worst ever epidemic.
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Mad cow disease.
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it would be the first case of BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy) found in Ireland since 2013.
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They're diseases which can kill, and we're running out of drugs.
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Swine flu, avian flu, and salmonella.
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Now, there is a new threat.
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MRSA.
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MRSA, of course can cause fatal illnesses.
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The abuse and disease rife in factory farms puts us all at risk.
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In reality it's very unlikely that pigs would rise up against humans.
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But the threat of antibiotic resistance is real,
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and deadly.
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The drugs we use to treat ourselves
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and our children are becoming evermore ineffective.
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We are facing a post-antibiotic age,
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where even a simple cut, or regular operation could cost us our lives.
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All because of the way we exploit animals to produce our food.
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We have been sold an insidious lie by the meat industry,
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that puts us all at risk.
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And I want to show you why.
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Pigs are descendants of wild boar.
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We enslaved this animal and embarked on generations
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of selective breeding and medication.
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The housewife will buy pork when she can get what she wants.
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When she can find lean ham in the meat markets,
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she'll buy it.
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The factory farmed pig in 2016 grows unnaturally fast,
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and is forced to have more piglets.
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Despite man made modifications,
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these pigs remain highly intelligent, complex and playful beings.
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Just like us, they have emotions, they feel pain.
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They remember the good, and the bad.
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Meat is good for you, and there are many kinds:
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There's beef, there's pork and ham.
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They're important for good health, clear skin and bright eyes.
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Our society glamorizes meat consumption.
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Everyone loves a bit of pork.
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Advertising bombards us with images of pigs flesh, smoked and grilled.
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Machine gun bacon.
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Bacon has become the symbol of our meat obsession.
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Look at this bacon.
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Bacon you can't eat, is bacon you don't need.
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We have grown disconnected from these animals.
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Just what the industrialised, factory farming business wanted.
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Prospective porker passengers
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apparently as anxious to board their trains,
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as subway commuters.
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Conditions in the UK's pig farms are at an all time low.
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The meat industry won't stop factory farming.
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They create their own welfare standards, like Red Tractor
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to reassure the public about conditions of factory farms.
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These standards are virtually meaningless.
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It's inspected to ensure the pork you buy,
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has come from pigs that are well looked after,
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and raised to good standards by responsible farmers.
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They are a smokescreen to prop up
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ailing consumer confidence in factory farming.
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Viva's Face-Off investigations found squalid conditions
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and disease in Red Tractor farms.
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She's called 503.
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Her other baby's dying.
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Society's lust for cheap meat
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means a life of disease and misery for all factory farm pigs.
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The new pork, an exciting taste treat.
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Pigs account for the majority of farm antibiotic use in the UK;
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approximately 60%
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And shockingly,
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about half of all antibiotics prescribed in the UK,
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are used in farmed animals,
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not people.
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The intensive nature of this type of farming,
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makes it an ideal breeding ground for disease.
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Antibiotic use in pigs, is an everyday occurrence on factory farms.
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Despite the fact that drugs used to promote pig growth are banned,
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they continue to be used under the guise of disease prevention.
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A mixture of cramped conditions,
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and low genetic diversity in the pig population,
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means disease can spread rapidly in factory farms.
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Our careless approach to the welfare of these creatures,
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will come back to bite us.
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In 2015, the Guardian tested samples of pig meat in Europe.
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They found that 9/100 samples
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had a new strain of antibiotic resistant MRSA.
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This particular type of MRSA
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is clearly now well established in UK farms.
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The samples came from Denmark and Ireland.
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But, elsewhere, Cambridge university identified two
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samples of antibiotic resistant MRSA in UK pig meat.
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Shocking.
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And a clear sign that another health crisis is brewing
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due solely to the practice of factory farming.
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Antimicrobial resistance is a direct and immediate threat to human health.
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What we're seeing, is more and more bacteria
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are resistant to antibiotics.
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This MRSA bacteria has already transferred from pigs,
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directly onto the skin of farm workers.
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People carry the organism in their nostrils,
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in their throat,
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on their hands.
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And sadly, it doesn't stop there.
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In November 2015,
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a group of Chinese scientists published a paper
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in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal,
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reporting the discovery of a new antibiotic resistant gene
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called MCR1.
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These tests, found the MCR1 gene in 166 of 804 pigs
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tested at slaughter.
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This gene creates resistance in the body to a drug called
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colistin.
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A powerful antibiotic used in humans
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as a last resort, when other medicines fail.
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Resistant to antibiotics of last resort.
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Colistin is commonly used Europe to treat animals and bacteria.
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Samples containing the MCR1,
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have been found across Asia and Europe, including the UK.
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The antibiotic resistant gene, MCR1,
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is readily passed between common bacteria, such as E. coli.
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If this goes on, we will see the end of modern medicine.
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Don't think that this is a problem that would solve itself.
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Just by closing your eyes.
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Our consumption of pig meat, means, that as a society
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we are consuming meat from animals regularly given antibiotics.
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Possibly also harbouring disease.
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Why the antibiotics?
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Why the secrecy?
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Why are we not told the truth?
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The UK has a dangerous secret.
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Factory farming is cruel, dirty and rife with disease.
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The business of exploitation, is the business of profit.
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Factory farms and the organisations they supply,
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have long lost sight of the welfare of animals and consumers.
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Factory farms are out of sight,
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and out of mind.
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Surely, it is our duty to do better than this.
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Together, we can say no to cruelty, death, and disease.
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Things are changing.
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Veganism is a rapidly growing social justice movement
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that has seen a growth of 350% in the UK, in the past 10 years.
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It challenges the dominant culture of the oppression of animals.
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During their Face-Off campaign,
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Viva! found that the UK public doesn't believe
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the reality for factory farmed pigs is fair.
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We are a nation of animal lovers.
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Yet our society gives certain animals no rights, no freedom and no dignity.
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A different future is possible.
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And today, you can make a difference.
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Just don't buy pork products.
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It really is that simple.
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All around the world people are choosing Veganism and thriving.
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You can be part of this.
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Simply face off to the truth,
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and choose a different path for yourself,
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and for the animals.
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A path towards a world
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where compassion is placed front and centre
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of everything we do.
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English subtitles: VeganMegane (twitter)