so the professional West Ham football
player Kurt Zuma has been exposed as an
animal abuser due to a piece of footage
that was released online showing him
kicking slapping and throwing things at
his cat predictably this has caused a
massive outcry online with people
calling for him to face criminal charges
including the mayor of London siddiq
Khan It's despicable I think a number of
things need to happen urgently I think
the rspca and the police need to work
together to prosecute this player I'm
disappointed in David Moyes and West Ham
actually but to be honest this just
feels very extreme I mean what gives
these people the right to force their
views down Kurt Zuma's throat after all
Kurt was clearly enjoying what he was
doing so he should be allowed to
continue doing it plus they're only a
cat so why are people being so militant
after all humans are still suffering you
know and not to mention that animals
have been dominated by humans for
thousands of years we are the most
Superior species of course and I'm sure
these people criticizing Kurt Zuma
probably own phones and drive cars
anyway so they're just a bunch of
hypocrite crits and look I have no
problem with people being against
kicking and slapping cats I just think
these people should stop trying to force
others to also be against kicking and
slapping cats as well after all it's a
personal choice at the end of the day so
let's just Live and Let Live right hmm
that doesn't sound so good does it in
truth I clearly side with the mayor of
London and everyone else calling for
Kurt Zuma to face criminal charges after
all aren't examples like these the exact
reason why we have animal cruelty laws
in the first place I mean we know that
animal cruelty laws don't actually do
anything to protect animals on farms so
if they also don't do anything to
protect animals such as dogs and cats
The Wider they even exist in the first
place the rspca have taken Kurt's cats
away from him so hopefully that's the
end of their suffering and it also
provides a nice opportunity for the
rspca to continue the facade of seeming
like they truly care about the best
interests of animals whilst continuing
to profit off of an industry that
literally causes more suffering to
animals than any other in the world but
the purpose this video is to try and
dissect what the case of Kazuma teaches
us about how we view animal cruelty I
want to start by reading out what is
possibly the most jaw-dropping quote you
could possibly think of for this story
and the quote is from the footballing
website Football365 and it's referencing
David Moyes who is the West Ham Football
manager who has continued to select Kurt
Zuma for football matches even though
he's fully aware that Kurt is an animal
abuser Moyes surely can't think this all
goes away without Zuma missing some
football we're talking about cruelty to
animals here the only thing British
people hate more than cruelty to animals
is vegans I mean doesn't this just sum
up everything perfectly it's so ironic
it's almost unbelievable in fact the
first time I read the quote I was
thinking surely this is some sort of
self-aware comment that the author has
put in there maybe they're a vegan
secretly and they're trying to show the
hypocrisy of how we view animal cruelty
and how we view vegans but unfortunately
after reading the article and the
comments underneath it I see nothing to
suggest that it is this self-aware
comment and instead it's just a draw
dropping quote that it seems that it is
and then there's the comments made by
the West Ham Football Manager David
Moyes himself who when questioned about
why he chose to continue playing Kurt
Zuma said I am an animal lover but for
for me yeah because I'm a big animal
lover and I uh you know and I think it's
something which will have affected a lot
of people so I'm really disappointed
with it
but as I said before my job tonight was
to try and win for West Ham and put the
best team out I could to give me that
chance because animal cruelty is bad but
Fielding a slightly weakened football
team for an inconsequential Sports match
is obviously much worse stories like
this are obviously very frustrating
firstly because they're about animal
suffering and the suffering that
individual animal has had to endure but
also because they painfully reveal to us
our incredibly paradoxical and
hypocritical attitudes when it comes to
different species of animals somebody
kicking a cat Ghana's International
attention and cause from people for them
to be criminally prosecuted but the
suffering and cruelty that's inflicted
on pigs cows chickens Ducks slams marine
animals and all the animals that we
conventionally exploit still continues
to be ignored now obviously I'm in full
support of the condemnation that Kurt
Zuma has been receiving and I hope that
he is punished for what he has done but
if kicking a cat Garners all of the
Global outrage and condemnation then why
isn't the same outrage or even more
outrage given to the pigs who are forced
into gas Chambers and gas to death or
the mother cows and baby lambs who have
their throats cut unnecessarily why
doesn't that Garner anywhere near the
same amount of outrage because the
suffering and violence is not only
magnified significantly more but the
sheer numbers of animals who are
suffering from all these practices that
are normal and legally condoned is far
higher so why are we only selectively
outraged by certain incidences of animal
cruelty and not by the systemic animal
cruelty that we as a society pay for
every single day if slapping a cat
causes the mayor of London to State on
live television that that person should
face criminal prosecution then why are
we so quick to jump to the defense of
animal farmers who lock animals in cages
so small these animals can't turn around
in them who mutilate Animals by cutting
off their tails and cutting out their
teeth who forcibly penetrate enforcibly
impregnate animals take their babies
away from them force them into
slaughterhouses and profit off of their
needless and unnecessary Slaughter why
is one so wrong and the other worthy of
us defending I mean just decide for
yourself would you rather be slapped or
have your body parts cut off would you
rather be slapped or forcibly penetrated
would you rather be slapped or
needlessly slaughtered now the reason I
asked those questions isn't to try and
diminish what kurtzuma did or to
diminish the suffering of the cat who
was having that cruelty inflicted upon
them I don't mean to diminish it at all
but more to ask the wider question which
is why is slapping a cat met with such
disgust but all the practices they just
described are not met were discussed and
they're even protected and defended by
the very same people who are professing
disgust what Kurt Zoomer has done and
not only that but we then claim that the
farmers who we are paying to do these
things to animals love their animals and
we say that all of these practices a
high welfare and then we say that
slaughtering these animals by forcing
them into gas Chambers or cutting their
throats is compassionate and Humane so
the question is why is slapping a cat
morally apparent but all of the other
things that I've just described that
happen to other animals who are sentient
conscious feeling beings who suffer just
in the same way as Kurt Zuma's cats why
is all the things that we do to them
allowed permissible and defend it where
is the logic I mean seriously how do we
manage to get this so blatantly wrong
what would we say if Kurt Zuma turned
around and said that he loved his cats
what would we think of him and yeah
animal farmers will do all the Terrible
Things to animals that have just
previously described and do it just to
make money from doing so and they turn
around and say to us that they love
their animals and we don't even question
that so let's go back to that quote that
I read out earlier because it makes no
sense but also it makes complete sense
because the first part succinctly
explained the second part the only thing
British people hate more than animal
cruelty is vegans we all love to claim
that we're Against Animal Cruelty and we
all jump on anything that shows someone
causing harm to a dog or a cat because
we try not to cause harm to dogs and
cats but when a group of people come
along who don't just simply pay lip
service to the issue of animal cruelty
and animal suffering but instead try to
live in a way that minimizes the impact
that they have that causes us to feel
annoyed and frustrated because the
cruelty and suffering they're trying to
minimize and remove from their life is
crueltying suffering that we continue to
partake in and pay for every single day
these people vegans show us that we are
hypocrites and they essentially leave us
with two choices the first choice is of
course recognizing the absurdity and
hypocrisy of saying that we're Against
Animal Cruelty while simultaneously
paying for industries that cause more
suffering and cruelty than any other on
the planet or the second thing that we
can do is get defensive and annoyed at
vegans and call them preachy and
militants and look I am very relieved
that people have reacted the way they
have to Kazuma if people weren't
outraged I'd feel very very concerned
but at the end of the day I just want
people to reflect on the cruelty and
suffering that they cause to animals so
let me know down below what you think of
this story what you think about Kurt
Zuma and what you think about people's
hypocritical attitudes towards animals
because I'm always interested to know
what you guys think about stories such
as these alright thank you all so much
for watching I really do appreciate it
and I'll see you all in the next video