Animal-log 7 - Part 3 (7 minutes)

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

===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