Veganisn’t Enough

I’m going to be straight here; I despise PeTA with an absolute burning passion. They have done so many horrible things that it would make animal abusers blush, from having the audacity to claim that dairy products contribute to mental illness and serious diseases, to (ironically enough) actually harming and killing animals for their own benefit. Needless to say, they’re basically the very thing that they claim to hate.
Despite my rant on this horrible organization, at least they have some morality to be… not more fucked up than they already are, which leads me to the subject of this story.
Between 2015-2016, an anonymous employee, who was later fired and even blacklisted, had hijacked PeTA’s Twitter/X account and uploaded a short video containing his views on veganism, to put it very simply. It was up for a few hours before swiftly being removed by the actual runners of the account. Asking PeTA about the video will get no response, no matter if you fully support them or constantly piss them off and roast them.
How did I even know about this video? I was scrolling through the organization’s account for laughs, when I spotted it in a tweet that actually didn’t have any text or context, compared to pretty much most of their posts.
The video started off with a woman, sitting on a bench outside and eating a plant-based hot dog. She remarks on how it is a wonderful day outside and is glad to help the animals and environment by being vegan.
Before she can continue consuming her food, a dirty and exhausted man enters the scene as he struggles to even walk towards the woman. She notices him and is very concerned about his well-being, especially after he falls onto the dusty path.
“Oh my god! Are you okay?” she asked nervously.
The man took some deep breaths before he responded, “Yeah, I’m fine! Just my age getting to me, that’s all!”
He then gets off the ground and sits down on the bench, with the woman assisting him.
“Thanks, ma’am.” he smiled.
“No need to thank me.” the woman reassured him, “Really though, you don’t look so good.”
The man was about to answer the woman’s question, when he noticed the vegan hot dog she has in hand. “What have you got there?” he questioned.
“That’s a plant-based hot dog,” the woman answered. “Why? Do you want some?”
The man’s face suddenly grows cold before shaking his head in panic. “No no no no no. I’m fine! It’s just that… Do you think eating plant-based food will help animals being slaughtered?”
“Obviously.” the woman laughed, while also being confused by his question.
The man sighed, “Do you know who slaughtered these innocent animals in the first place?”
The woman goes silent, feeling uncomfortable by whatever the man was going on about.
The man just stares at the woman, “You know the answer…”
“The meat industry and its workers?” she quietly answered.
“True, they’re the ones who had been killing animals for food in the first place, and you think all of it’s going to be solved just by being vegan?!” the man explained.
“If I don’t consume meat products, they will stop!”
“Here’s the thing: these people don’t care about profit, how the public sees them, or whether their actions are immoral at all. They’ll just steal animals and exploit them, before sacrificing every single one just to be someone’s meal. As long as nothing happens to them, they’ll continue and not care.”
The woman becomes upset by this as she begins to ‘cry,’ which is obviously fake as if the actor didn’t even try to sound upset, “This is horrible, so horrible! How will we ever stop these selfish workers?”
“Well, there is only one solution for all of this to end.” the man proposed.
“What is that? I’ll do anything to save the animals!” the woman pleaded.
“... By giving them a taste of their own medicine.”
“What?”
“You know? Giving them the same pain as these animals have to go through, for the same reason they did all of this in the first place.”
“I… I don’t understand! I really don’t know what you’re talking about!”
The man chuckled, “I can see that you have no clue what I’m referring to… Let me tell you a little secret: I used to work in a slaughterhouse myself. Every single day, every single work hour, I had to watch these animals be literally skinned and mutilated alive before their organs were ripped out and sold to the market, and what made me upset the most was that I actually contributed to this under the mindset that I’ll get a ‘pretty penny’ from all of it. Everyone in that place thought I was like one of them; a soulless murderer… Little did they know that I was different inside… Very different indeed. Eventually, it came to a point where I had enough and....”
The man stopped there and stuttered, appearing to have second thoughts about what he was going to say.
“And what?!” the woman questioned, “You can tell me.”
It then cuts to CCTV footage of inside a slaughterhouse where its workers were doing their tasks and minding their own business by telling jokes and gossipping about other workers. Most of their conversations were unrelated to the video, though their last was… Off.
“... Speaking of which, I noticed that Robert didn’t come to work today.”
“You mean that coward?”
“Yep! I guess his paranoia about animals ‘having feelings’ finally caught up to him and he just quit right there and then!”
“Are you sure about this, Joe? My boss came up to me this morning and asked if I had seen Robert today. I just responded with a simple ‘nope.’ If he’d really quit, then why am I being asked questions about him in the first place?”
“Strange, huh?”
“Maybe he’s sick?”
“Sick of us, maybe?”
Right after, all of the workers laugh hard, before getting back to work like nothing happened. At least, what it should’ve been.
Before the workers could continue on with their day, somebody kicked down the door, which presumingly was the entrance of the slaughterhouse, and it revealed a man who had a really livid expression being forced onto his face, like he was getting tired of how he felt before but still wanted to surprise everyone by it.
The employees didn’t notice his expression and just laughed once more.
“Look who's late again! You owe me five, Mitch!”
“Oh fuck you, Joe!”
“What’s your reason for being late this time? Did your imaginary friend have a counseling session with you?”
The man says nothing as he stays still.
“Uhh… Robert? You feeling alright?”
“As much as we, well, don’t like you, we can see that something is wrong. I think you should go home and rest!”
“Is that all you have to say? It looks like he had seen some shit, man!”
“We’ve all seen shit, so why the absolute hell would he make a face like that?”
The man stays still, trying his absolute hardest not to be affected by his co-workers’ remarks. Despite his bizarre appearance, everyone just continued on.
“Aw, does baby Robert need his mama’s milk? Oh wait, don’t answer; you’ll just make a temper tantrum like always!”
“You should stop hiding from the fact that meat is actually good for you, and why not give it a try-”
Then, I shit you not, the man grabs a pistol from the right side of his pocket and directly shoots one of the workers in the head; killing him instantly as his body falls to the ground, like a fragile vase being pushed off a tall shelf.
The rest of them, upon seeing the horrible sight of their dead friend, started to scream bloody murder and tried to run away from the man, with some of them begging for help and to call 911. The man, on the other hand, finally broke his silence and began to laugh maniacally as he ran towards them and fired his pistol aggressively, seemingly not caring if he was accurate or not.
The video cuts out before returning to the same camera much later. The scene, previously busy and full of life, was now quiet. No machinery running in the background. No workers doing their job. Not even a small cough or laugh. It was like the building was suddenly left abandoned and already started to rot away.
After a few seconds of a still shot, the man can be seen again, dragging multiple large and heavy black bags, sometimes struggling to do so. He looked excited and panicked at the same time.
The video cuts off again, before returning with a gorey sight. There were bodies of several people, all of them having a gunshot or two on their forehead, with the skin that covers their chest removed, and even some of their organs prematurely amputated; every single one of them were all hanging upside down from the ceiling, swinging about very slowly with no life left in them. This was shown for another couple of seconds before cutting off from the footage for one last time.
The scene between the man and woman fades back in, with the former finishing his story.
“All I wish was for ethical treatment for animals, but now the only way to treat these horrible people is the same way they see them. If you really want to help the world, then consider my advice.”
The woman, rather than feeling extremely uncomfortable and running away in fear, is rather fascinated by his words and begins to smile at him. The man smiles back at her, before the video ends with the PeTA logo and a quote at the bottom: “Veganisn’t Enough.”
After I watched the video, even thinking about it just makes my blood run cold. Calling it ‘disgusting’ was a massive understatement. I downloaded the video right before it was taken down and I planned on reuploading it, but ended up not doing so because of its contents.
I don’t know what else to say other than this: I just hope everyone involved doesn’t even consider its message, for our sake.
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