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The Disclosure Podcast

Ep 7: The Livestock Haulier Who Let Joaquin Phoenix Go Undercover in His Pig Truck

The Disclosure Podcast

Ed Winters

Ethics, Politics, Whole Foods, Society & Culture, Education, Animals, Morality, Veganism, Philosophy, Vegan, Plant Based Diet

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Matt is currently a meat eater who spent several years of his life transporting pigs from farms to slaughterhouses, driving them to their deaths in huge trucks from Utah to Los Angeles. One day, he decided to start filming, ultimately sending his footage to animal rights organisations, as well as to the director of Earthlings, Shaun Monson. This resulted in him taking Joaquin Phoenix on one of the journeys. I speak to Matt in-depth about these experiences, as well as asking him if he still ha...

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0:00.0

And the Hello everyone and welcome back to the next episode of the Disclosure

0:20.9

podcast I am your host Ed and on this week's podcast this has

0:25.6

been a long time coming in many ways but I'm joined on the podcast by Matt who is

0:30.8

an ex- livestock hollier.

0:33.0

And we kind of, or Matt and I should say,

0:36.4

we kind of made contact probably about a year ago,

0:38.8

quite a while ago now, and Matt had reached out

0:41.2

saying that he wanted to have a discussion with me about kind of some things he's done but also about animal agriculture in general and even though he'd been involved in the industry and was no longer doing that side of things anymore, there was still some things that maybe we could

0:54.0

disagree on even though we probably have a lot in common and so I say it's taking a little

0:57.6

while to get to this point but I'm really happy to say that the match joining me on the

1:01.0

podcast today and I think we're going to have a really

1:03.0

interesting discussion about some things that you know I've never really spoken about before

1:07.1

in terms of you know the transportation of animals but also I think into a wider discussion

1:11.9

of of exploitation of animals and I know Matt has

1:14.6

spoken with a lot of really influential and interesting people you know within the

1:18.4

vegan movement and has obviously met and spoken to a lot of people outside of the

1:21.6

movement as well and so I think the

1:23.6

conversation today will have a really interesting tone to it and I think we will

1:26.8

learn a lot hopefully from each other I know I'm going to learn a lot from

1:29.4

Matt and hopefully you know I can reciprocate that learning as well.

1:33.0

So Matt, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

1:35.0

It's a pleasure to have you here.

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