- [Announcer] This week, Joe Rogan
and Jon Stewart examine factory farming,
Lewis Hamilton supports Black Lives Matter
with a new Formula One car,
and Vinnie Jones has a new mustache made out of oats.
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Vinnie Jones is rocking an edge new look.
He sported an oat milk mustache
as part of a new vegan milk ad.
The footballer-turned-actor joined forces
with boxer Nicola Adams, singer Pixie Lott,
and a number of other celebrities
to recreate a famous 2010 milk ad.
The new campaign,
launched by European plant-based food brand Alpro,
promotes vegan oat milk.
Alpro's ad spins off
of the UK's milk marketing forum's famous campaign.
It was launched by the group of British milk cooperatives
and dairy companies in an attempt to boost milk consumption
among younger generations.
Sandy Wilkie, former Chair of the Milk Marketing Forum,
said in a statement about the campaign,
"milk has become less visible,
"particularly among a younger audience."
A recent study
by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
revealed people in the UK are drinking 50% less milk
than they were in 1974.
Lott's new spot features the message
"Lotts can change in 10 years",
while Jones's ad empowers "you know what's good for you".
Adams's message is "powered by oat".
Jones apparently likes his new look.
He said, "let's not beat around the bush.
"In 2020, we all know there's a new 'stache in town.
"I was a bit reluctant to have a good shave
"before the shoot and lose my rugged good looks,
"but I think the milk 'stache looks pretty damn good on me.
"I'm taking it back to Hollywood."
Coming up, Joe Rogan and Jon Stewart
examine factory farming.
Pope Francis and the Vatican are encouraging Catholics
to divest from fossil fuels, emphasizing a responsibility
to protect human rights and the environment.
The announcement was made in Laudato si',
a 225-page encyclical written by Pope Francis.
Officials presented the new manual
"Journeying for the Care of the Common Home"
at a press conference in the Vatican.
It highlights practical ways
in which Catholics can achieve the broad goals
first laid out in the 2015 encyclical.
"The Holy See Interdicastery Table on Integral Ecology"
drafted the manual.
It suggests people favor positive changes
by avoiding companies
that do not satisfy certain parameters.
Examples include child labor, environmental destruction,
and human rights violations.
It also suggests the shunning of companies
that harm social or human ecology.
Pope Francis wrote, "we know that technology
"based on the use of highly-polluting fossil fuels,
"especially coal but also oil and to a lesser degree gas,
"needs to be progressively replaced without delay."
On a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast,
Rogan and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart
discussed politics and factory farming.
- Do you have moral qualms about meat or do you not..?
You say we're hunters and that.
Is that ever an issue for you
or is it purely a health issue?
- There's both things.
There's a health issue.
There is a moral qualm with factory farming.
There's not a moral qualm with hunting.
'Cause I know the reality of the life of a deer.
You can either die quickly by the hand of a person.
You will respect that life and it'll nurture your body
and the bodies of your family.
Our problem is a disconnection more than anything.
- [Announcer] Stewart went vegan about five years ago.
He now cares for rescued animals
with his wife, Tracy Stewart, on their New Jersey farm.
- And we ended up on a farm with pigs and goats
and sheep and things like that
and it became untenable for me
to make that decision, that sort of that decision
of I think you'll be better off if I kill you.
And it became, it was something I could no longer manage
once I knew the process of it.
- [Announcer] Although he maintained his stance on hunting,
Rogan added that factory farmed animals
are the worst version of what human beings are capable of.
- Factory farmed animals is the worst version
of what human beings are capable of,
that we're capable of ignoring suffering
to the point where we lock 'em all in warehouses.
- [Announcer] KFC restaurants in Hong Kong
just got a vegan makeover.
The chain launched New Era vegan chicken
with Alpha Foods and Gardein at select locations.
KFC Hong Kong's new plant-based series is now available
in 19 selected locations.
The series includes New Era nuggets and the New Era burger,
made using plant-based beef from Alpha Foods and Gardein.
The Hong Kong launch of the New Era Range
was negotiated with David Yeung's Green Monday campaign.
A small chain of restaurants and food stores in Hong Kong
called Green Common support Hong Kong's version
of Meatless Monday.
Yeung is also the brain behind Omni Foods,
which brought the first pork to Asia.
- Consumers are ready for this change.
In fact, they have been asking for it.
- [Announcer] Yeung said,
"when the lengendary KFC Colonel dons green,
you know a new era is officially here."
The milestone launch will without a doubt further ignite
the plant-based movement in Asia and globally.
KFC's parent company, Yum Brands, partnered with Beyond Meat
to launch vegan meat across KFC,
Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut locations in China in May.
Green Common was the first to bring the Beyond Burger
to Asia in 2018.
Starbucks Singapore has also introduced
a plant-based option.
The chain launched the Impossible rendang pie,
made with Impossible Foods's vegan meat.
While the pie itself is not vegan,
it is vegetarian-friendly.
Starbucks' Impossible Rendang Pie is part
of a limited-time Shiok food menu
to celebrate the local and regional flavors of Singapore.
According to Patrick Kwok,
the General Manger of Starbucks Singapore,
the rendang pie is the first
of an upcoming plant-based range.
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said
that adding additional plant-based alternatives,
in particular dairy-free milk,
is a key part of the brand's sustainability goals.
Johnson added that on the chain's 50th anniversary in 2021,
it will formalize its 2030 goals,
based on what we have learned between now and then.
Coming up, the International Space Station's antenna
could help protect wild animals.
Lewis Hamilton is getting a new ride.
The six-time Formula One champion will race
in an all-black car in support
of the Black Lives Matter movement.
- Can't tell you how proud I am
to see Mercedes standing with me
and standing with the whole message
of equality and inclusivity.
- [Announcer] Hamilton, who drives for Mercedes,
helped the company design the new car.
The company said it gave up its signature silver arrows trim
to help improve the diversity of its team and fight racism.
- Doing the car black, that's huge!
Mercedes have been a silver arrows for years.
This is not something you would ever expect from Mercedes,
but they are about being with...they can't change the past,
they acknowledge the past,
but they want to be a part
of helping shift the future for a better time
and it's great that Formula One have also done that.
- [Announcer] The British racer will drive the new car
dubbed "the Black Arrow" throughout the duration
of the 2020 Formula One season.
His teammate, Valtteri Bottas,
will also race in an all-black car.
An antenna on the International Space Station
is transmitting data that could help protect wild animals.
The International Cooperation
for Animal Research Using Space,
a German/Russian observation system for animal migration,
involves hundreds of tiny transmitters
attached to animals, including elephants and bats.
- So it will help us bring movement
from the local to the global scale.
- Once we put together all the information
and we have a completely different new understanding
of life on the planet.
- [Announcer] The ISS antenna,
installed by astronauts back in 2018,
collates the data from the animals
and it is beamed back down to scientists in Moscow.
The system is currently in a test phase,
but the data could be available
for the use of researchers in the fall.
Martin Wikelski, the Max-Planck Institute for Ornithology's
Director of Migration Research,
told Inside Science "the sensors allow animals
"to be our eyes and ears and noses to the world
"and we are linking it all together."
The data will allow scientists
to track animals changing migration patterns
and work out new and improved conservation methods.
In a major win for fur-bearing animals,
Sephora has banned all fur eyelashes, including mink.
It says it will produce synthetic
and faux-fur alternatives instead.
The decision follows pressure
from international animal rights group PETA
and more than 280,000 emails from concerned customers.
Sephora joins Tarte, Too Faced,
and Urban Decay in ditching mink.
Typically mink fur comes from factory farms.
The fur trade is notoriously cruel for fur-bearing animals.
Workers shave off animals' fur
before or directly after the animals are killed.
These naturally-solitary animals are also kept
in cramped wire cages,
where they are unable to exhibit normal behavior
such as swimming and burrowing.
According to animals charity Viva!,
animals raised on fur farms experience extreme anxiety.
Many become so stressed they will self-mutilate.
Several companies make truly cruelty-free false lashes,
including Eylure, Pure, House of Lashes, and Swede Lashes.
Chrissy Teigan recently praised the latter
in a recent Instagram story.
Colorado has made strides for animal rights.
The state just became the sixth in the nation
to ban cage confinement for egg-laying hens.
HB 20-1343, called Egg-laying Hen Confinement Standards,
passed the state legislature last month
and was signed into law by Governor Jared Polis.
Republican Dylan Roberts
and Senator Kerry Donovan sponsored the bill.
The new law spares approximately six million chickens
from being held in cages so small that they are deprived
of the ability to stretch their wings.
Hens must be kept cage-free with at least one square foot
of usable floor space per animal.
They must also have access to unfettered vertical space.
Egg producers must also provide perches,
nest boxes, scratching areas, and dust baths,
which are crucial to hens' mental and physical health.
Farmers who violate the law may face a civil penalty
of up to $1,000 per violation.
Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts,
and California have all passed similar cage-free laws
in recent years.
That's it for today.
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