Animal Log
A show for animal rights.
A special show.

===Part One===

[Haim Tzinovich]
I was always around animals growing up, was always the first to shout out their right, even when I was younger… Look, each one's got something that touches his heart, with me it's when it comes to animals.
[Tinkerbell]
Me, ever since I was young I was very touches to animals, and realized they have feelings. And that's something that maybe I was more in touch with my instincts.
[Yardena Arazi]
I have an almost total identification with animals. From the day I remember myself.. As a child, I used to sit for hours talking to cats. I know how to communicate with animals, I know, I feel them, I can talk to them.
[Limor Goldshtain]
I'm very connected with animals. I had animals all my childhood, until I left my parents' house when I was a grownup. I had dogs, which are my my big love.

[Animals are friends]

[Limor Goldshtain]
Animals are wonderful friends, my dogs along the years were almost my best friends, and it was always very traumatic when they past away. [Petting a cat] This here, "Gingi", he's a friend, a very good friend in our family, and he's big fun.
[Haim Tzinovich]
As an only child, when I was grown, it was very helpful to have a brother on four. He was giving me a feel of responsibility, he was a partner, you know, to share my grown life with. And up until this day "Gingi" is childhood, he's puberty.
[Yardena Arazi]
When I see animals, I see creatures, I see living creatures, I see they have emotions, I see it when my dog is happy, sad, hurt, I see! I mean, it's of course the same thing with cows, horses, sheep and lambs.
[Limor Goldshtain]
Because I'm so related to the subject, I'm also aware of how we keep them, how we raise them, how much we abuse them until they arrive at our plates, etc, etc. I mean, I know the subject very well.

[Do animals have rights?]
[Avri Gilad]
I truly believe that fundamentally I do not have an advantage over other animals, In my opinion, both large and small animals have the same rights, and there are no animals that their debt is to be abused and eaten.
[Shai Avivi]
There are horrible grievances in this field, and those who look at those animals and see their soul, first of all feels the terrible lost of so many lives.

[Why does it happen]
[Haim Tzinovich]
I think that in some point we just become dull to these things and just become egoists and look at our world, and the animals become something that was meant to serve us, to be eaten, wore, shoed, used. And I always say that when something seems obvious, than there's not much appreciation to it.
[Shai Avivi]
A person takes advantage of a living creature as if they were an object, simple.
[Haim Tzinovich]
And I don't know, I always tend to think that nurturing would resolve that.
[Moshe Ivgi]
Only nurturing! In my opinion it's nurturing. It needs to be in schools And it needs to be part of school lessons, even part of kindergarten. Kids would learn it at kindergarten, and will grow with it. They would grow knowing not to take advantage of other livings.
[Tinkerbell]
I think one of the problems Is that kids don't understand where their food comes from. They get milk, cottage cheese, they get fries and hamburgers at McDonald's, drink milk and all that, and they don't know where all that comes from, and they're right – Why should they? They're kids. I mean, when a child realizes that the nuggets they eat is a hen, they will not be so delighted always eating that, and that's part of why the parents wouldn't tell them, and I mean, why does the kid needs to think of killing and all that, so they pit them.
[Zvulun Moshashvili]
I was about ten or eleven, and one day my dad brought about four or five poults home. We were very happy as kids to have them. We played with them, and we started to get used to them – I came to see them every day, to play. It was fun seeing that. At some point they grew up to be one male and two females. And then one day they just disappeared, and then I realized that sometime during Friday, the two birds on our table were those birds. For me it was… it was a childhood trauma, I can tell you that. There's no doubt that that's when I wondered for the first time if I should go vegetarian. That was when I first glanced of that.

[Vegetarianism?]
[Limor Goldshtain]
Yes, I'm a vegetarian since the age of six. I do not eat meat, chicken, pork or fish. Nothing that had a face, nose or ears. It associates with a very wide viewpoint on how to live, which means living healthy, and as naturally as possible. We also eat organic at home, so that too comes from the outlook on living healthy, and also from the thought that I can't see myself chewing animals, it seems to me totally perverted.
[Yardena Arazi]
Sometimes I see descriptions, you know, in the menu, and you see calf tonsils, brains, and I tell myself, I mean, this is horrible! It's horrible, it's macabre, it's impalpable, I can't accept that at all...
[Moshe Ivgi]
I think about what it will be like if suddenly one human will eat another. It's more or less the same, if you think about. You know, only because we're the same species it's shocking for us to think about eating each other, but you need to think about it in that concept sometimes, and see it that way, in order to understand the pain and the sorrow and damage and catastrophe that we're causing animals. We're taking away from them their lives, their freedom, without asking, and raising them to kill them.
["Let's kill" Adi Madaness]
Here's a cow
She goes "Moo"
She doesn't know
She doesn't know how to speak
Let's kill her
Because she's different
She doesn't know how to speak
Let's kill
Let's kill
Let's kill
All that is different
Let's kill
Let's kill
Let's kill
Because we deserve more

Here's a rooster
He talks "Kookoorikoo"
He doesn't understand
What I'm saying
Let's kill him
He talks "Kookoorikoo"
Let's kill him
Because he's different
Let's kill
Let's kill
Let's kill
All that is different
Let's kill
Let's kill
Let's kill
Because we deserve more

Here's a fish
He doesn't talk
He maintains
His right to remain silent
Let's kill him
Why is he so quiet?
Let's kill him
Because he's deifferent
Let's kill
Let's kill
Let's kill
All that is different
Let's kill
Let's kill
Let's kill
Because we deserve more

Here I am
I'm not like you
I don't know
How to be like everyone
Go ahead and kill me
If you have the guts
Go ahead and kill me
If you've got blood
Let's kill
Let's kill
Let's kill
All that is different
Let's kill
Let's kill
Let's kill
Because we deserve more
We're stronger
We're a different species
We're a different kind
We're prettier
We're better
We're smarter
We're prettier
We eat more
So why should we waive?

===Part two===
[How do they make meat?]
[Zvulun Moshashvili]
The genetic engineering they cause hens – In two weeks they become those tanks, like a mature hen, and she's only two weeks old, she's supposed to be a small poult yet. The meat get bigger, but the bones stay thin, and the stress and weight laying on their bones is so big, that every step they take breaks their legs.
[Shai Avivi]
It's not like in the books where you see a hen with her poults in the meadow and then sometime, somehow, without anyone noticing, became this tasty nugget. It's kind of like a concentration camp, where day and night hens are being tortured for their eggs, and later on, for their parts.

[What's the problem with the eggs?]
[Zvulun Moshashvili]
So first of all, they take the male poults, and straight ahead put them in big plastic begs, and leave them to die like that, throw them away. For the females not to hurt each other, they cut the beaks, which is horrible suffer for them.
[Tinkerbell]
There are those big cages which are on top of one another, and in each cage, in the size of less than 50 X 25 cm, there are three hens. A hen is an animal who needs space, she needs her territory, she suffers from heat but doesn't have sweating glands, so what she does in nature is to dig a little un the ground to cool off in a dimple in the ground. Those hen-houses are so crowded, so most of the time there are epidemics and they die a lot of times. What's amazing is that sometimes there are hens who manage to release themselves or something like that, and than the caged hens just look at them walking around free.

[What about the fattening of geese?]
[Zvulun Moshashvili]
They take geese, fatten them, don't even feed them, don't even let them taste what they're fattened with. They take them, and take this large injector, put it straight into their stomach, and their liver is bursting already, they can't move, their raised just so that in the end their liver will be cut out.
[Haim Tzinovich]
There was a movie, "Seven", I remember it… A movie that shocked us all, because there were really terrible things there, they showed hysterics abuses there in some victims of this serial killer, and there was a part when the killer took a fat man and just shove his stomach enormous masses of food. It's the same thing. I mean… He's stomach burst, and there was a terrible footage, but that's actually what happens to the geese. They take them, with a very non sympathetic device, a very non sympathetic action, very penetrating, hurtful, they just jam them. Now, I don't know, think about it when you're full, and suddenly somebody comes and shoves you more food to your mouth. It seems like a nightmare to me. It seems terrible. I'm so happy that the "Fish Snake" band composed the "How much cruelty can you swallow"

[And Veal?]
[Haim Tzinovich]
Try to think what it's like to sit in the same place, without moving, without seeing sunlight, to be separated from your mother, and just stay still.
[Orna Banai]
Me, when I heard what these calfs are going through I became haunted for a long time. It just that, really, only a devilish mind could do such things to such miserable innocent creatures.
[Shai Avivi]
It's not natural, it has nothing to do with nature. The calf's nature to walk, run, jump, be with his brother and mother, there's just nothing nothing related to nature here, that's it. It's taking a calf and making him into a subject, a product.

[Is vegetarianism healthy?]
[Limor Goldshtain]
As a person who doesn't eat meat for many many years now I can say it's an amazing feeling. The voices my body makes without the weight of another living digested within – It's feels amazing. I don't understand how come not everyone's doing it.
[Arye Fain, "Sick energy" band]
For us it wasn't hard at all, in one day we just stopped, and quite contrary, the feeling of health improved unconsciously and it never lacked us.
[Moshe Ivgi]
Overall, it shoes that if you're a vegetarian there's a bigger chance that if you're a vegetarian there's a bigger chance for you to be a healthier person, and that a good nutrition is known to be affecting our state of health, our life expectancy, and our life value. If we are aware and know how to be vegetarians, and can eat right, there is no doubt our lives will be better. It's beyond stop hurting animals, even if we have egoist intentions, it's better for you to be a vegetarian.

[Animal testing]
[Arye Fain, "Sick energy" band]
The subject of animal testing is very frustrating to us, especially with monkeys. It's the most annoying part of animal rights, at least what the public knows. Now we've decided to write a song that will express our state about it.
[A song in English, the clip – in the testing lab]
[Tinkerbell]
A large part of it is politics, of people and large companies that have interests in testing on those animals because they import those animals, and manufacture all the tools for the tests.
[Arye Fain, "Sick energy" band]
We even know about some people who managed to get into those labs and just take some objective documental footage.
[Tinkerbell]
And other than that, I don't think that there's any awareness of what's going through those animals, because if there was… I have a picture stock in my head of two baby monkeys in a cage, they're at the corner of the cage and are holding each other tight to defend each other, and they have such fear in their eyes. I mean, it's like seeing two children that know that their heads are about to be cut open and they know it because they heard the screaming, and they… they don't have nothing to do, they're in a cage or prison and there's no one to rescue them. I connect a lot between kids and animals, because kids too are helpless, in most cases. And the animals are exactly… And it brings the same emotion out of me; it's exactly the same thing. And it's something for me, I don't understand how people can remain impassive to it…
[Moshe Ivgi]
I'm against the testing, no doubt I'm against animal testing, I think it's totally unnecessary. The advantages it apparently has are minor as opposed to the damage we're making, and the pain that we're causing to the animals, I think we don't need that.
[Tinkerbell]
But, really, the torture and what they're doing to them there (the labs) are totally insane. And to think that those who do that are scientists. What scientists?! A person who takes a monkey, without general anesthesia, open their head, searches their brain, while they're alive, and the monkey's pups hear it, in the other side of the lab they hear it all. Put them in the monkey's position. I mean why do they do it to monkeys, because they're like humans, so if they're like humans so all the implications – It's a pain of the nervous system, and psychologically it affects them too.

[What's the connection between a rabbit and a shampoo?]
[Shai Avivi]
Something that shocked me... – I was in the center, TLV center a few months ago, and there was a shop window of a cosmetic shop which displayed a huge poster that praises a carrot tanning oil, and their proof to that that it works, was that they tested it on two groups of female pregnant lab mice, and caused them burns. The group that were used with that oil – The burns on the mice healed much faster. So I said – Damn it, first of all I control myself not to break that window, right? But you want me to buy a tanning oil that its essence is evil? That you experimented it, after five thousand years of cosmetics, that you tested it after so much gathered knowledge on mice that you've burned?! There's something psycho about it.
[Riki Blih]
It's dismissible. I see, people, and find myself in those places as well: The craziness of buying products, beauty products, nurturing products, anti aging products, maintain freshness, it's so dismissible, really. It's dischargeable, and to go and shove it into a bunny's eyes, so that I could have three bottles of tha, and after two years when I'll move I'll throw them away, it's dismissible, really, it's sick. You can't answer it morally. No food chain no nothing. There's no "cosmetic chain", there's no "pretty skin chain", no creature in nature should serve my pimples.
[Moshe Ivgi]
I, for example, for years now use only the "Body Shop" cosmetics, which are clearly against animal testings. They're against using animals, and it's basically the "Body Shop"'s icon. So I use their products for more than fifteen years. Ase an actor, I need to use makeup, take off makeup…
[Riki Blih]
I want to say that there are enough cosmetic products on earth which are great, and do not test on animals, that's after a deep research in this field.
[Haim Tzinovich]
That's it, we usually recommend to buy products that were not tested on animals, there's always a small bunny sign, and you should look for it, and buy those products.

===Part three===
[It's sad seeing a caged animal]
[Limor Goldshtain]
I think that freedom is the most elementary right we have, other than if we're horrible crooks. And one of the really horrible parts for me is seeing an animal, that for her freedom and space are like air to breath, locked up in a cage of 2 X 3 m. It's heart breaking. I remember that as a kid, for example, I was never taken to a zoo, because it was an experience that made me cry instead of happy. To see an animal locked in a cage, it kills me for a long time to come.
[Zvulun Moshashvili]
We want to have fun, laugh and stuff, but there's someone suffering back there
[Tinkerbell]
The kids that come to watch and have fun from the animals at the circus are not really aware on that that the animals have been through hysteric suffer – weather it's electrical shock, violence or starvation – They're being famished to make them do all kinds of things, and besides, taking them from place to place is really a nightmare. There's nothing to say, the lion's place is in Africa, that where he should be, and if there are tigers here at south, than great, you can come with a telescope and watch those tigers.
[Moshe Ivgi]
Today I will not go to a circus where they take advantage of the animals. I will simply not attend there or send my kids there. And I think we have enough entertainment options that don't include using animals, and so it's a real shame that todat people are still doing it.
[Shai Avivi]
If people want to have fun – Than jump on trampolines, on wheelbarrow, throw cakes at one another, the clowns… But leave the animals out of it, leave them to themselves.

[On to the commercials]
[Shai Avivi]
There are all these commercials of sausages that want you to eat them, of hens that look so happy in the animations going to the grill!
[Riki Blih]
Basically it's about a lot of lies and hiding, it's like you live your life and "I don't want to know you don't tell me". Because I would know, and you'd have told me, than nobody was making money, and that's repulsive. You know, we kind of doing to are selves a little of what we're doing to the geese. We ask to be shoved with a tube and fed with a feeling of luxury and defeat. And we than again sit in luxury restaurants and order our steaks and feel very good, because that's the standard of how someone living good looks like. It's very hard to defeat that.
[Tinkerbell]
Most people live on the "Fast Food" system, when one doesn't think of what he consumes. That's dumb, I mean, it's not cool at all. And you're also under the control of the companies. It's not like you really want that hamburger, no, someone made you think you want it, but it's not you, and you totally lose yourself.
[Shai Avivi]
I would call all to wake up, because that blindness that you're in, where you tend to think that you're the only one who lives here, and all you see are really things to bite on, it's a coma.

[Self awareness and responsibility]
[Shai Avivi]
The conscience transformation that I've been through is not to see the person as god son who needs to gulp the earth for its rivers, forests, animals, birds, eat, destroy, and move to another planet. There are people who plan to just leave here piles of dirt, and those who didn't manage to get along, and just move to a different planet, to suck on to its resources. I do see in some way us humans as god son, but through the vision of responsibility. If you're the big brother, the smart and the strong one, then your strength is not using and torturing all around you, your strength is your responsibility of all your partners around. You're the big brother, the daddy, or the chosen representative of god upon this planet.

[Not consuming = Taking a stand]
[Shai Avivi]
Even not doing is doing. I mean not buying a shampoo that thousands of rats and other fluffy animals were killed for, not buying a product that someone else suffered for – There's a great action in not doing that.
[Zvulun Moshashvili]
When you're not buying products that caused animal torture you speak up and you cause that product being less popular, and it will stay on the shelves, and the factory would close down.
[Tinkerbell]
You pressure other companies into not doing that, it means that they know precisely that if they test on animals, or take advantage of them in any way, or take advantage of Mongolian children or something like that, and I, whether I know I for a fact or just suspect it won't buy their product, and there will be a lot of people like me too – and there are, in a very significant way, and all the cosmetic companies are under a lot of pressure, less and less are doing that.
[Riki Blih]
The fact that I, Riki Blih from Tel-Aviv don't buy "Colgate" – It works, because there are a lot like me too. And if you walk down New York city with a fur coat and know that you'd be splashed on with red paint – It works. I guess it damages the sells of these stuff.
[Tinkerbell]
And that's it, I live this life because I take responsibility on things I buy because that's the real power, I think, of us all.

[Take a responsibility on your life!]

translated by Shir Fridman