Who wants a row?
HORN BEEPS And let those lorries through.
They're all being chained up again.
This is the worst thing I've ever been to.
Hi. You don't deserve this, I know.
I first went vegan about seven years ago now...
Vegan mac and cheese! So good!
..and shortly became an activist after because I wanted to do more
for the animals that were being exploited.
One of the things that has been a limiting factor
in my activism is definitely my age.
I get so many comments
stating that I've been indoctrinated or enforced into beliefs.
When I joined Twitter, I unearthed this community of young people
who are passionate about exactly the same things as me,
and it's been such a contributing factor to any of the successes
that I've had with my activism.
I organise events called The Earthlings Experience,
which are basically events where we show the public the reality
of what's happening to animals in slaughterhouses, in farms.
Our Earthlings Experience events that we organise are
a totally new form of activism and a new way to get the message
out there about what's happening to animals.
This year, one of my main projects is to travel around Thailand
and expose the terrible and cruel mistreatment that
the Asian elephants are forced to endure in tourist camps.
Today, I'm off to Thailand. Yay! And I'm so excited.
Bye, Oliver!
So, it's five in the morning,
and we've just woken up and ready to go to the vigil today.
We're both a bit anxious
cos we haven't been to this one before
and we're not really sure about what to expect.
There are only around 45,000 Asian elephants left,
and we have destroyed them.
Now it's time that we realise their plight and begin to save them.
Also, do you like my top?
On every street, there are several tourist shops which offer
elephant riding and elephant painting. They're everywhere.
They're so prolific.
We're just going to go and visit one now and see what they have on offer.
This one, 900 baht. Trekking, 900.
What do you do there? Is that, like...?
Elephant riding and trekking, about one hour.
I didn't think it would be so easy to just walk into any shop
and find the elephant rides on offer.
Ooh!
We're just waiting outside the slaughterhouse now.
I try to attend vigils as much as possible,
which is basically where we bear witness to the animals on the way
to the slaughterhouse in the trucks.
We say goodbye and we send our love.
Oh, baby! I'm sorry.
We try to gather as much footage as possible as well so we can
use that at The Earthlings Experience events.
HORN BEEPS
Whoa! You're going to scare the animals by doing that, aren't you?
Oi, you tossers! I say move it!
HORN BEEPS
We love you. We're trying to stop this.
That's not helping anything.
You're being such a child.
This is the worst thing I've ever been to.
Every time she screams in pain, people think that she's laughing
or saying hello, so they clap and laugh,
and she's encouraged to do it more, but she's actually screaming.
THEY TRUMPET
So, welcome to The Earthlings Experience headquarters,
which is basically just our house.
So here's where we do all the social media,
and we created this website so people can find a group near them.
Just about to leave the house now to go to the protest, and we've got
two laptops and a bag full of masks and a folder with all the posters.
You never really know what to expect or what exactly is going to happen.
There are eight elephants chained up in that area.
Chains less than a metre long. And over here...
..a very distressed mother and her very young,
depressed baby.
And the baby looks so hurt that she's chained up,
and she keeps being taken away from her mother,
but her mum tries to reach her, but she's on a chain and she can't.
And we're here!
We wear masks because we want the people to focus solely on
the footage that we're showing and not focus on us so much,
and they draw in attention, which is great.
And we just talk to people about what we're showing on the screens
and highlight the exploitation, and show them that there is
another way, and it doesn't have to always be like this.
Generally, the reactions are amazing.
Someone donated vegan cupcakes to us! Amazing!
But I don't think everyone is at the right place
to hear what we're saying.
I'll knock you out!
How's about that?
It's not worth it.
He wants a row. He wants a row.
The guy has gone now.
It just was a case of someone disrupting the event.
What we're doing here is more important, and we're coming
from a loving place, and so we have to send love to everyone.
Obviously, he's suffering too, so my heart goes out to him as well.
I think it's ready for upload.
The finished product is three minutes and 12 seconds,
but I hope this will get the message across.
And...
..we're off.
I just looked at the three videos that I posted on social media
and, so far, they've had 152,000 views.
I'm going to keep producing these videos.
I'm going to keep showing them to everyone I know and,
hopefully, everyone will see the truth.
If you step back and think about it,
your dog or your cat is no more important than a pig or a cow.
Who's a good boy?
If you actually got to know some of these animals,
if you actually met them and spent time with them,
you'd see that there really isn't that much difference.
We've just been conditioned to believe that one life is more important than the others,
and I just think we should all just be taking the time to
question these things, just keep questioning everything.