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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"461\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12488\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.16.29-AM.png?resize=860%2C461&ssl=1?fit=891%2C478\" data-link=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/?attachment_id=12488\" class=\"wp-image-12488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.16.29-AM.png?w=891&ssl=1 891w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.16.29-AM.png?resize=300%2C161&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.16.29-AM.png?resize=768%2C412&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.16.29-AM.png?resize=560%2C300&ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.16.29-AM.png?resize=260%2C139&ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.16.29-AM.png?resize=160%2C86&ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Excelsior 4 Activists<br \/>Geoff Regier, Roy Sasano, Amy Soranno, Nick Schafer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Listen to this show here! (and also on Apple Podcasts and Google Play)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.animalvoices.org\/AnimalVoices_2022-09-02_radioedit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/?powerpress_pinw=12483-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.animalvoices.org\/AnimalVoices_2022-09-02_radioedit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AnimalVoices_2022-09-02_radioedit.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animal activists Amy Soranno, Nick Schafer, Roy Sasano and Geoff Regier \u2013 known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/excelsior4.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Excelsior 4<\/a> \u2013 faced 21 indictable offences (the highest criminal level in Canadian court), for revealing what happens to animals inside factory farms, namely Excelsior Hog Farm in Abbotsford, BC. Owned and operated by a board member of the BC Pork Producers Association, one would expect that it should be one of the best in the way of cleanliness and animal welfare standards. <\/p>\n<p>In the spring of 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1BA7KjDoXSQ&t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video footage<\/a> taken from inside Excelsior Hog Farm (and released by PETA) showed crowded pens full of thousands of pigs suffering from hernias, bloody lacerations, and golf-ball sized growths. Some couldn\u2019t even walk, so they languished and slowly died on the filthy concrete floor. Dead pigs were found rotting in pens with other live pigs who were eating their dead bodies, and others had been thrown into garbage bins.<\/p>\n<p>On April 28, 2019, the Excelsior 4 and nearly 200 other activists descended on Excelsior Hog Farm, conducting a <a href=\"https:\/\/meat-the-victims.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meat The Victims<\/a> demonstration. Approximately 130 activists staged a protest outside of the farm property, while 65 others occupied the farm and live-streamed what they saw. As a result, they generated mass National and International media attention. Amy, Nick and Roy were arrested at this event; however, Amy was the only activist taken into custody and charged.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, video footage from a hidden camera was released, showing the owners and operators of Excelsior Hog Farm conducting criminal animal cruelty, including electric prodding the pigs in the face, repeatedly hitting and kicking the animals, and cutting off the tails and testicles of screaming piglets with no pain relief. <\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, the other 3 activists \u2013 Nick Schafer, Roy Sasano and Geoff Regier \u2013 were also charged. The Excelsior 4 faced a combined 21 indictable offences of Break and Enter and Mischief, with each Break and Enter holding the potential of up to 10 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>In pre-trial hearings, Geoff Regier\u2019s lawyers brought attention to abuse of process by the BCSPCA in handing Geoff, a whistleblower, over to police despite the absence of a warrant and after personally guaranteeing him anonymity as per their informant protection policy. Geoff\u2019s case was stayed, with no reason given by the Crown.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 3 of The Excelsior 4 went on trial by jury in the BC Supreme Court, and used that opportunity to further expose the rampant violence and suffering in animal agriculture, and the complicity of our justice and enforcement systems. As a result, Roy was acquitted. Amy and Nick were convicted.<\/p>\n<p>During the sentencing hearing, Nick was allowed to give his closing statement and reasoning for what he did, but Amy was stopped by the judge for mentioning what she saw inside the barn, which he deemed \u201cirrelevant\u201d, and so her speech was cut off 3 minutes in.<\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s show, we hear both of Nick and Amy\u2019s powerful full closing statements. The judge may have censored this in the courtroom, but here on Animal Voices, you can listen to Amy\u2019s full 30 minute closure statement that will be silenced no more.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the Excelsior 4\u2019s case and how to help the animals <a href=\"https:\/\/excelsior4.org\/take-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-10 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.22.44-AM.png?resize=682%2C569&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12491\" data-link=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/?attachment_id=12491\" class=\"wp-image-12491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.22.44-AM.png?w=682&ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.22.44-AM.png?resize=300%2C250&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.22.44-AM.png?resize=560%2C467&ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.22.44-AM.png?resize=260%2C217&ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.22.44-AM.png?resize=160%2C133&ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"459\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12492\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.37-AM.png?resize=408%2C459&ssl=1?fit=408%2C459\" data-link=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/?attachment_id=12492\" class=\"wp-image-12492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.37-AM.png?w=408&ssl=1 408w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.37-AM.png?resize=267%2C300&ssl=1 267w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.37-AM.png?resize=260%2C293&ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.37-AM.png?resize=160%2C180&ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-11 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1046\" height=\"575\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12493\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.00-AM.png?fit=1046%2C575\" data-link=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/?attachment_id=12493\" class=\"wp-image-12493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.00-AM.png?w=1046&ssl=1 1046w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.00-AM.png?resize=300%2C165&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.00-AM.png?resize=1024%2C563&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.00-AM.png?resize=768%2C422&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.00-AM.png?resize=560%2C308&ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.00-AM.png?resize=260%2C143&ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.21.00-AM.png?resize=160%2C88&ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Piglets are born onto the filthy blood, urine & feces covered slatted floors of metal sow stalls which hold their mothers so tightly, they can barely move. The farmers claimed they thought the animal rights activists posed a biosecurity threat to their pigs by potentially bringing disease onto the farm. Activists wore biosecurity suits, hairnets and booties. Open woulds and body orifices exposed to urine, blood and feces is no doubt an environment likely to cause infections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-12 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"475\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12490\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.23.00-AM.png?fit=973%2C537\" data-link=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/?attachment_id=12490\" class=\"wp-image-12490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.23.00-AM.png?w=973&ssl=1 973w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.23.00-AM.png?resize=300%2C166&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.23.00-AM.png?resize=768%2C424&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.23.00-AM.png?resize=560%2C309&ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.23.00-AM.png?resize=260%2C143&ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-08-at-9.23.00-AM.png?resize=160%2C88&ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A dumpster full of dead piglets. Many of them may have been \u201cthumped\u201d, a legal practice in which farmers can kill piglets by slamming their heads onto concrete floors<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-square\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__row columns-2\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\">\n<figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photographer-269-Media-Nick-Schafer-2.jpg?resize=600,600&strip=info 600w,https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photographer-269-Media-Nick-Schafer-2.jpg?resize=900,900&strip=info 900w,https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photographer-269-Media-Nick-Schafer-2.jpg?resize=1200,1200&strip=info 1200w,https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photographer-269-Media-Nick-Schafer-2.jpg?resize=1280,1280&strip=info 1280w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1280\" data-id=\"12499\" data-link=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/photographer-269-media-nick-schafer-2\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photographer-269-Media-Nick-Schafer-2.jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photographer-269-Media-Nick-Schafer-2.jpg?w=860&ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\">\n<figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8566-scaled.jpg?resize=600,600&strip=info 600w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8566-scaled.jpg?resize=900,900&strip=info 900w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8566-scaled.jpg?resize=1200,1200&strip=info 1200w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8566-scaled.jpg?resize=1500,1500&strip=info 1500w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8566-scaled.jpg?resize=1707,1707&strip=info 1707w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1707\" data-id=\"12498\" data-link=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/img_8566\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8566-scaled.jpg\" data-width=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/animalvoices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8566-scaled.jpg?resize=1707%2C1707\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sows in prison-like stalls had no constant access to water which was automatically and only periodically delivered, piglets crammed into a tiny cage, pigs with tumours the size of volleyballs, many oozing puss, and a child using a scalpel to cut the testicles off a screaming piglet (standard legal practice, but no anaesthetic was used in this case). Piglets\u2019 tails are also cut off with no anaesthesia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"_ytid_52089\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" data-origwidth=\"860\" data-origheight=\"484\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yfs97ZaQdPc?enablejsapi=1&rel=0&modestbranding=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/yfs97ZaQdPc\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=860&ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewbox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"\/><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this for the animals!<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.connect.facebook.com\/js\/api_lib\/v0.4\/FeatureLoader.js.php\/en_US?ver=0.4\" id=\"fb-featureloader-js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excelsior 4 ActivistsGeoff Regier, Roy Sasano, Amy Soranno, Nick Schafer Listen to this show here! 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