Breaking laws, from Jesus Christ to Nelson Mandela, from Rosa Parks to Martin

Luther King, laws have always been broken to facilitate substantive change.

Please welcome, national lecturer, Gary Yourofsky.

Good afternoon, everybody, my name is Gary Yourofsky. Please take a moment

and write down my email address and my website , in case you want to contact me

later on. Today we are going to talk about the world's forgotten victims...Animals

and the world's oldest and strongest addiction: Meat.

I'm going to challenge your belief systems today, so certain parts of the speech will

be intense, but let me start with a quick disclaimer: I am not here to be your

enemy. The views expressed today, do not necessarily reflect the views of your

professor or this institution. I am not trying to take you away from your religion.

No religion mandates meat eating!

The Golden Rule states: 'Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself...'

and animals qualify as others.

Thou shalt not kill (are) the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in

all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying:

'unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.'

You can keep your friends, your politics and you patriotism, still watch your

favorite TV shows and listen to your favorite music, even if it's Ted Nugent.

I'll be making some sarcastic, yet truthful comments throughout the speech.

Please feel free to laugh while I'm being sarcastic, just don't laugh during the

serious parts. And I'm gonna speak for around 65, maybe 70 minutes, but then we'll

do a Q&A session after, for about half an hour, so hold your questions until then.

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In the meantime, I have some rhetorical questions for you:

Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race?

Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity?

Have not cows been enslaved?

What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep?

If they're not enslaved, then what are they? Free?

Can slavery have a victim that is neither a human, nor an animal?

Have not the oceans, the forests, the earth itself, become victims of ownership

too?

And what about a slaughterhouse?

HOUSE...OF...SLAUGHTER: SLAUGHTERHOUSE.

Do you really think there is such a thing as humane slaughter?

Exactly what is your definition of humane?

Besides psychological and physical abuse, torture, dismemberment and murder,

what else do you think happens to animals inside of a slaughterhouse? Do you

think they get belly rubs and tushy slaps? And if you think there is such a thing as

humane slaughter. I'm curious, do you also think there is such a thing as humane

rape?

Humane child molestation?

Humane slavery?

How about humane holocaust?

In fact, what is your definition of a holocaust?

Is it a massacre of human beings, or a massacre of innocent beings?

I thought it was innocent...

Which brings us to the biggest holocaust massacre of all. Every year in America,

without mercy, we murder 10 billion land animals, and 18 billion marine animals.

Not for health, survival, sustenance or self-defense. People eat meat, cheese, milk

and eggs for 4 reasons:

Habit

Tradition

Convenience

Taste

I want to define a word that might be new to some people right now, and its vegan,

it's up there, on the screen: V-E-G-A-N.

Vegans, like vegetarians, do not consume the meat of any land or marine animals.

Vegans, however, unlike vegetarians, also refrain from eating cheese, milk, eggs,

honey or any animal product, whatsoever. We also don't wear animal’s skins, no

fur, and wool, leather, silk or down.

Now, I want to let you all know, that I was not raised vegan. I ate meat, cheese,

milk and eggs for around 25 years. I used to wear leather shoes, belts and jackets

like everyone else. In fact, around 20 years ago, I even owned a fur coat. Needless

to say, I understand your lifestyle, it used to be mine.

And for people involved in politics... Let's get this out of the way right now. I am

not a democrat, an anarchist or some hippie with a closet full of tie-dyed shirts. I'm

not a republican, a socialist or a fascist. I'm an activist, root word is active.

I've been banned from 5 countries so far, and arrested 13 times, for random acts of

kindness and compassion, on behalf of my animal brothers and sisters, if you want

to read up about that, check out my website. And today, I would love to give you a

chance to actually do something, and truly get involved! Because I understand that

a lot of people want to get involved, honestly I do.

But putting a "Coexist" bumper sticker on your car, wearing a 'What would Jesus

do?' bracelet, or sporting a 'Peace and Love and Sunshine' t-shirt, that is not

'getting involved'!

I understand that we are all on a journey in life. We all have different likes and

dislikes, different nationalities and religions too, but there is one thing that we

need to have in common with each other, and that's peace!

Genuine compassion and genuine peace for our planetary companions!

Contrary to political and religious dogma, animals do not belong to us. They are

not commodities! They are not property! And they are not inanimate, stupid

objects, who can't think and feel!

That Descartes' Cartesian way of looking at animals, like they're machines... It is

outdated, and quite frankly, 100% insane. Because, if we all understand that

animals use their eyes to see, ears to hear, noses to smell, mouths to eat, legs to

walk, feathers to fly, fins to swim, genitalia to procreate, bowels to defecate.. I'm

always perplexed that most people don't believe that they can also use their brains

to think, feel, be rational, be aware and be self-aware!

Am I supposed to believe, that every body part of an animal functions just like it's

supposed to, except the brain? Those lies are thick. The propaganda from the

animal abusers is enormous! I mean, when was the last time you turned on TV and

saw a commercial for shiitake mushrooms? People singing and dancing down the

streets, having a good time eating mushrooms?

How about alfalfa sprouts?

Quinoa? (It's a seed)

Radishes?

Raspberries?

Tofu?

You don’t see that stuff advertised on TV. What you see instead?

HAVE SOME MORE MEAT! HAVE SOME MORE CHEESE!

Have some more cheese on your meat! Meat, cheese, double cheese, extra cheese,

and how about a little more cheese with your meat? Have some more cow’s milk,

have some more eggs! And then what do you see interspersed between those

advertisements?

Not feeling so well?

Need to see a cancer specialist?

How about a heart doctor?

Needs some Lipitor? Zocor? Crestor? Plavix?

Needs some diet pills?

How about some energy drinks?

Some Kaopectate?

Tums!

Pepto Bismol

You’ve been duped.

They’re killing you, they’re killing the animals, and they’re killing this planet. And

those blinders are on nice and tightly, but if you give me an open mind today, that's

all I ask for, an open mind, I'm gonna take your blinders right off!

My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some

emotions and some feelings and some logic that is been buried and suppressed,

intentionally, by our society.

And the reason why I say re-connect it's because each and every person in this

room used to be a real animal rights person at one time, a true animal lover, and a

real friend to the animal kingdom. And it's when we were kids!

When we were young...When we were kids...Man...We used to be in awe of

animals. They used to make us laugh, and giggle and smile. They made us pretty

happy! And there was a time in our lives, when we would do just about anything in

the world to make THEM happy as well. To protect them from cruelty! Or to, at

least, ACKNOWLEDGE the cruelty they were receiving.

I mean, if somebody was mean to an animal in front of us when we were little, we

would have screamed and cried. And that's because we all used to understand

right from wrong, when it came to the treatment of animals. Until somebody told

us, and taught us differently.

You better believe that somebody told us to ignore their suffering! To MOCK and

excuse, their pain, and their misery. To make fun of their very existence. And this

is something I want you to focus on - today, tomorrow and beyond...

What in the hell happened along the way?! Who taught us to be so mean, and nasty

and vicious and hateful, or indifferent towards animals when they used to be our

friends? These are innocent beings, who have done nothing wrong to us.

Because I'm pretty sure, we can all agree on at least one thing right now... That

hatred, in its purest form, is a learned behavior. Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism,

Anti-Semitism, Misogyny. These are all learned behaviors! When kids are 2, 3, 4

years old, playing on a playground they couldn't care less about the color of their

friends' skin or their religious background. I don't think there is any doubt, that

hatred, in its purest form, is learned.

So species-ism is no different. That's going to be a new word to a lot of people, it's

up here on the screen, below the word 'vegan' is the word 'species', with an -ism

attached to it, and I want to define this word as the unethical, unprincipled point

of view, that the human species has every right to exploit, enslave and murder

another species. And all because we believe that our species is so more special, so

more superior than the other ones, that we're the only ones that count, and we're

the only ones that matter.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but that line of thinking, that thought process, that

is the basis of all forms of discrimination. One group saying and thinking that

they're more special than everyone else, and they proceed to exploit them,

oppress them, denying them their right to be free.

They treat them like property, they enslave them in many cases, and in many other

cases they murder them with premeditation, and without penalty. And understand

something essential about discrimination!

It is NEVER OK to be picking and choosing which forms of discrimination to be

opposed to... And which ones to say are evil: Racism... And which ones to say are

okay: Speciesism.

Discrimination is evil on its foundation...Or it is not? We cannot have this one both

ways, it doesn't work like that. I want to ask you, to use some empathy right now.

And when I say 'empathy', what I'm saying is: place yourself in the position of the

animals, and start to view this issue from the animals' point of view. From the

victims' point of view. When you examine any form of injustice, whether humans

are victims or animals are victims, please remember the victim's point of view.

If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because

when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse

cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim,

things look a lot differently from that angle.

And now, I want to show a graphic, 4 minute video right now, about what goes

on inside of a slaughterhouse.

I want to ask you, not to turn away, not to close your eyes during this video. It's

because, if you choose to eat meat, cheese, milk and eggs, I think, at the very least,

you are obligated to see the pain and suffering you are causing.

But if you do feel the need to turn away or close your eyes during this video, you

might want to ask yourself a question: If it's not good enough for my eyes, then

why is it good enough for my stomach?

Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! If you've gotta hurt 'em, hurt 'em. Slamming baby pigs to

ground when they don't grow fast enough. Killing dolphins in Futo, Japan. Kosher

slaughterhouse in Iowa. Guillotine machine. Debeaking. Castration. No

anesthetic. Force-feeding goose for liver pate. Male chicks ground up alive. Killing

turkeys with crowbar when they don't grow fast enough. SASHA Farm Animal

Sanctuary. Big Red. Lorenzo. Happy cows, They don't come from California!

De-horning. SASHA Farm Animal Sanctuary. Give love one more chance.

Did you ever wonder why McDonald's and Burger King and Wendy's never show

you those images in their TV ads? Instead they show you smiling cartoon

caricatures of animals singing and dancing and playing, LYING to you.

Brainwashing you. Programming you not to care about things you would normally

care about Things that you used to care about.

RIGHT NOW, at this very moment, on American highways, there are no less than

5,000 concentration camp trucks. Trucks that we have constructed. Inside these

trucks, there are living, terrified innocent beings. Cows and pigs and chickens...

These trucks are being driven to concentration camp's slaughterhouses that we

carefully constructed all across America. When the trucks arrive, the animals are

so frightened that they won't even get off the truck. They're not stupid! they know

what's next.

So people go on the trucks with electric prods and force them to walk down the

chutes to their own deaths. Or if the animals are small enough to man handle, like

chickens, we'll just grab them off the trucks and toss them inside. Inside, these

INNOCENT, living beings are hanged upside down, fully conscious.

In other words, they go in alive, against their will, and come out CHOPPED UP, into

hundreds of pieces. But do you know what's more insane than that? Meat eaters.

Walking around like their lifestyle isn't causing any harm, like it's normal and

natural to be consuming violence and death.

How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already

planned the day of your execution? That's what it's like to be a cow, a pig, a chicken

or a turkey on this planet. I think this type of behavior is inexcusable, an

unbecoming of a species that claims to understand right from wrong!

The animals have not done one single thing to us, to deserve the wrath and cruelty

that we hurl on them. And I hope you all understand what I'm offering you today...

When you hit the door, after my speech...

Are you aware, that for the first time ever, you can now directly participate in

ending a massacre? Instead of sitting around and paying lip service to all the

massacres, and all the problems that are always going on, on this planet.

What is so frustrating to me, when I travel this country doing around 250 lectures

every year, to some 7500 students, is that everybody talks a good game. I've

noticed that people are quite the smooth talkers when it comes to peace and

compassion.

I mean, people always want to tell me, never show me! Just how "peaceful" they

are, because of what they believe in. Or what makes them sad. "Hey, Gary, I

believe in God! And I believe in angels, and I pray all the time"... "And those

earthquakes...The one in Chile, and Haiti...Aww, that was SO sad! ”No shit, it was

sad."

Since when, does 'feeling sad' about an obvious tragedy, or 'believing in'

something, make the world a better place, or make somebody a good person?

And listen, folks, I am not trying to dog you out when I talk like this, I'm not! I'm

just not a politician. I'm not a bullshit artist. I don't know how to schmooze people,

as you can see. It's kind of beyond me. I hope you appreciate my honesty and my

genuineness today.

And I'm not a sales person. I've got no books to sell you after my lecture. No DVDs

and no documentaries. No collection plate going around, I don't want your money.

I don't want your e mail addresses, and I don't want your mailing addresses. Keep

all that stuff.

I am here to talk about the worst form of cruelty and violence taking place on this

planet. Even though most people don't seem to care about it.

But when you sit back in the comfort of your living room, and you start

condemning atrocities elsewhere...That is pure, unadulterated, lip service! That's

the definition of "lip service."

But veganism, this is now a chance to actually walk the compassionate talk that

everybody is always talking about. This is your chance to show others how truly

peaceful you are. This is the chance for a personal revolution. To leave your mark

on this planet by causing the least amount of harm possible!

Always being vegan. Now come on, what's the argument for not causing the least

amount of harm? Inconvenience? Indifference? Apathy? Selfishness?

I want you to know, I don't live in fantasy land. I am well aware that animals are

suffering and dying, just because we're here on the planet with them. We build

homes through their habitat. We pollute their environment. Destroy their habitat.

Is there a reason we have to maximize the suffering? And maximize the cruelty and

the death that they already endure, by eating them, on top of it all? You want to

talk about pouring salt into somebody else's wound, 98%!

And I repeat this stat, 98% of animals who are abused and killed on this planet, are

abused and killed by the meat, dairy and egg industries.

This is where all the harm is taking place! And in America, from birth until death,

each meat eater consumes around 3000 land animals, and thousands of other

marine animals. Those are USDA stats. And they seem to think a lot of people eat

animals, because we've all been told that humans are carnivores, we're omnivores,

we're meat eaters and we're supposed to be doing this.

Are you aware that physiologically the human body is actually 100% herbivorous?

Plant eaters! The length of our intestines are somewhere between 7 to 13 times

the length of our torso, our trunk. That's the same length of all herbivore animal

intestines on this planet. They're very long.

But the length of the intestines on real meat eaters, hyenas, coyotes, bears, tigers

and lions, only 3 to 6 times the length of their torso. They have a short intestinal

tract, so they can push through quickly, decaying and rotting animal flesh.

Animal protein, cholesterol, saturated fat, trans-fatty acids, which is why it is

impossible. I'll repeat, impossible, for any genuine meat eater to ever, clog their

arteries. Never happens to a real meat eater.

What's the number one killer of humans who choose to eat meat, cheese, milk and

egg? Heart disease from clogged arteries, atherosclerosis.

Humans and other herbivores, we sweat through our pores to cool ourselves. We

don't pant, like dogs and cats and lions to cool ourselves down.

No claws on the human hand, claws are a trademark of the carnivore and the

omnivore. We have carbohydrate digestive enzymes in our saliva, only herbivores

possess that, meaning we're supposed to be eating tons of carbohydrates like

fruits and vegetables.

Our teeth, broad, short, blunt, flat, just like the teeth of other herbivores and

before somebody blurts out hey Gary what about these canines dog. Most of the

herbivores have canines, incisors and molars it would not be possible for them, for

us, to be eating hard fruit like apples without those teeth.

Our lower jaw goes from side to side in a grinding chewing motion, like this...We

grind and chew when we eat. If you grind and chew when you eat, like you all do,

you are an herbivore.

The jaws of carnivores and omnivores can only go up and down, vertically, rip and

swallow, there's no chewing, grinding, side to side action.

And I'm a fair guy. I mean if somebody out there truly believes that humans are

meat eaters. I'll give you 2 challenges to prove me wrong after class and please do

so if you want. I want you to go outside and locate a squirrel on campus, and when

you spot that squirrel, put that carnivores feet into effect that everybody has and

chase that squirrel down, pounce on him and catch him in your mouth.

No tools, no weapons, no cages, no one’s allowed to be a cheater and a fake

carnivore in this challenge, and when you are done killing this squirrel in your

mouth, be my guest, EAT the squirrel.

Eyes, nose, face, toes, tail, anus, inner organs, blood, fur and don't forget about

the brains. You don't get to pick and choose which body parts you want to eat, and

you don't get to cook it either.

If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the

bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.

And challenge number two, find a 2 year old child, place the child in a crib, in the

crib put 2 things, a live bunny rabbit and an apple. If the child eats the bunny rabbit

and plays with the apple, send me an email, would you let me know, because I'm

gonna come back and buy everyone in this room a brand new car if that happens.

Benzes and beamers, leather interior too, in fact, next time I'm at Georgia Tech, if

that happens, I will eat a steak sandwich in front of everybody, chase it down with

a chilli dog with extra cheese, a bucket of ice cream and a bag of beef jerky, too.

And I'll take the jerky and I'll dip it in the ice cream and eat it like that. Now I would

not hold my breath on these promises, not that I won't fulfil them, I'm a man of my

word, but those things cannot and will not be happening, because humans also

possess...

ZERO carnivorous instincts. ZERO omnivorous instincts, when we're born, young

and growing up, we're all born vegan. We just acquire a taste for meat, cheese,

milk and eggs after their forced down our throats during childhood. Now, all I'm

asking you to do is something normal and natural anyways. Eat what comes from

the earth. Every vitamin, mineral and nutrient that exists. Protein, calcium, iron,

potassium, all the B-vitamins, you have an original source, and it ain't the animals.

You are aware that people eat animals AFTER the animals have already eaten from

the earth. People eat cows AFTER the cows eat up the grass, some of the soil. Then

we ship 'em to a feedlot and feed 'em most of our corn, wheat, oats and soy.

Then we take more of the corn, wheat, oats and soy, shove it down the throats of

pigs and chickens and turkeys. Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody

else's body. It's illogical and irrational.

Go to those sources directly, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, legumes. These

things cannot harm you, cannot cause a disease and more importantly they harm

no one else in the process!

But when we consume what walks, what flies and what swims, that is abnormal.

What does everybody think diseases come from? Broccoli? Asparagus? Kale,

Collard greens, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, peaches, nectarines,

grapes, bananas, avocados, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach? And in case

anyone is wondering about those pesky little E. coli, Salmonella contaminations a

couple times a year with the vegetables...

Let’s keep in mind the ONE AND ONLY source of E. coli and Salmonella. Shit!

Human shit or animal shit! Spinach doesn't shit! Broccoli doesn't shit! Peanuts

don't shit! Let's stop blaming the plant products when there's an E. coli, Salmonella

contamination. That's the fault of a meat eating society!

Why? Well, meat eaters want billions of land animals to eat, so we have to mass

produce billions of land animals.

Keep in mind, this has nothing to do with God. Nothing to do with evolution

anymore. This is a business! This is Smithfield, ConAgra, Perdue, Tyson,

McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, KFC. That's why we have animal agriculture

classes in college.

So when we mass produce billions of land animals, they have trillions of tons of

manure. That stuff gets in the waterways, and there's run off onto the crops, or

they're putting feces contaminated water directly onto the crops.

But all of our main diseases, heart diseases, heart attacks and strokes, most of the

cancers, prostate cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian

cancer, kidney disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, obesity,

asthma, 4 main factors that cause them.

Now I know about other factors, I'm not saying that you can't get sick elsewhere,

of course you can. Smoking, drinking, stress, chemicals of the environment, high

fructose corn syrup, Twinkie's...

I know about the other things that can lead to an ailment, But the 4 main factors

are found inside of meat, cheese, milk and eggs. Cholesterol. Saturated fat. Trans

fatty acids. Animal protein. And I'll repeat that last one that nobody wants to hear

about - animal protein. But when you go vegan, did you know that you eliminate

cholesterol entirely from your diet.

You can only get cholesterol from meat, cheese, milk and eggs. And your body

makes cholesterol on its own, that's the only such thing as good cholesterol. If you

bring it in from an outside source, it's automatically bad cholesterol.

You can take out around 95% of saturated fat, when you go vegan. And you can

take out all the naturally occurring trans fatty acids too. Keep this in mind:

between 2 to 9% of all meat, and all dairy is naturally comprised of trans fatty

acids. And you can obviously take out all of animal protein.

Now animal protein is way too acidic for the human body. We don't process it

properly. It is the main reason why 1 in 3 meat eaters continually get cancer. And

it's one of the main causes of osteoporosis.

Are you aware that when animal protein enters the human body, it makes our

blood acidic, instantaneously? But our blood can't stay acidic for long or else we

die. So our body has to figure out instantly how to neutralize the acidity. I have

some good news and some bad news.

Let's start with the good. Our bodies have figured out how to neutralize the acidity.

The bad news: there's only one way to make it happen at this point...With

phosphate. There's only one source of phosphate in the human body, bones! Just

so you know, our bones are comprised of two things, calcium, phosphate and

they're bonded together.

So our body leeches calcium, phosphate out of the bones, takes the phosphate to

neutralize the acidity, and then we pee out the calcium. This is why every single

epidemiological study, those little ones done on the human populations.

Every single one! Shows that societies that consume the most amount of animal

protein have the worst rates of osteoporosis, bone fractures and cancers.

While societies that consume little to no animal protein, the vegan and vegetarian

ones, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Rastafarians, Seven Day Adventists have little to

no rates of osteoporosis, bone fractures and cancers.

And so we don't get into a debate during Q&A about different medical studies that

are out there. A lot a times when people know I'm coming to class in advance...

Well, they'll spend a few hours online, looking up studies, print it out, wait for Q&A,

go "hey Yourofsky, I got a study here that contradicted everything you told us

today. What's up with that?" Well, here's what's up with that...

You don't need a medical study to show me what people are dying of, but for the

record... Every study you can produce showing that humans need meat, cheese,

milk and eggs, I'll produce two.

2 to 1 ratio, showing that meat, cheese, milk and eggs are responsible for every

major disease. But, we all know medical studies can be manipulated either way.

So even though I got a heavy 2 to 1 edge on this, I say toss them all out. Because

you don't need them. All you have to do, is pay attention to this meat, cheese, milk,

egg eating society that we all live in.

So how many of your family members and your friends' family members have a

disease already, or have died already from a disease? Because I can't be the only

one affected by this. My grandfather died of from a heart attack, my grandma died

from a stroke. My Uncle Jack died from a heart attack. And last October on the

15th, I got a call around midnight that my father had just died from a heart attack.

My mom, she's got asthma. My step-dad's got heart disease so badly he takes 7

pills for breakfast.

My best friend Daren, four of his aunts and uncles have died from diabetes. His ex-

girlfriend Rita has breast cancer at 40 and she's dying. Just found out a few months

ago that his current girlfriend Dione has ovarian cancer. And yesterday my

girlfriend, just found out that her father has prostate cancer.

What's the one thing we all have in common with each other besides the air we

breathe and the water we drink? Meat, cheese, milk and eggs. Animal products all

day long. And I know you can blame some of the cancers on environmental

pollution, there's no doubt about that.

But how you gonna blame heart attacks and strokes on environmental pollution?

And diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity?

Here, I'm going to break this down for you in a couple different ways today, I'll

show you what's killing people, And I'm going to show you who's lying to you, too.

Flat out, bald faced lies.

Let's come to an agreement on the dairy industry...And let me know if I'm being

unfair with this, I want to know. According to the dairy industry itself, the main

reason they exist, is so you can get calcium. Fair, is that not their entire claim?

Eat some cheese.' 'Drink some cow’s milk.' 'Strong bones, strong body.' 'Milk does

a body good. ‘“Got milk?" "Check it out with the USDA!"

In America, we consume the most amount of dairy on the planet. Right here. You

can't even get a sandwich anymore, without cheese. We put cheese in every nook

and every cranny of every single food item, we put it inside the pizza crust now!

We put cheese on top of salads, too. You can't even get a salad anymore without

cheese.

And if you’re lucky to find salad minus the cheese, what's the first thing people say

to the waiter? Hey uh, can I get some ranch, or some thousand island? Can you

pour some dairy on these vegetables for me? So in this society, where everybody

is hooked on cheese. I mean HOOKED! Like it's been laced with weed, crack,

ecstasy, morphine, and the antidote.

Most people can't even fathom one meal, let alone one day, or a lifetime without

cheese. In fact, if you wanna know why vegetarians never go vegan... Cheese!

Cheese on a baked potato, cheese on the broccoli, cheese on everything in sight.

Even lactose intolerant people eat cheese. And I don't care what anybody says

about this, they might avoid straight up cow’s milk. But slap a double cheese

pepperoni pizza down in front of a lactose intolerant person, no hesitation, right

down the hatch.

So, we got all these animal products going into our diet. Did you ever wonder why

there are no less than three TV commercials being run for calcium supplements?

Actonel, Boniva, Citracal. You got to be kidding me!

Calcium supplements in America?! How come there's osteoporosis at all? How

come at the vitamin stores, I say plural, stores, cause when I travel the country, boy

meat eaters pull me aside all the time and say: “Hey Gary, we eat meat cause you

get everything you need from meat. All the vitamins, all the minerals all the

nutrients."

Well how come in this meat, cheese, milk, egg eating society that we all live in,

every city has not only 1, but 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 vitamin stores?

How come Rite-Aid, CVS and Walgreens now have complete vitamin sections too?

With a whole shelf devoted to calcium supplements. I thought everybody was

getting calcium from the animal products. That's what the meat and dairy people

say. “Newsflash!" You don't. Animal protein won't allow it. Animal protein makes

your blood acidic, so your body takes calcium phosphate out of the bones.

Phosphate to neutralize, calcium gets excreted through the urine.

There are 4 commercials for fiber, Metamucil, Fibercon, Fibersure, and Benefiber.

If people ate a frickin' apple or a pear once in a while, nobody would need help

taking a shit. Now pay attention, and look around and see what's going on. Now

with all this being said, we've established the four reasons why people eat meat,

cheese, milk and eggs. No debating, no discussing it.

Habit

Tradition

Convenience

Tasty

Yeah, I know why people do it, I did it for 25 years myself. We don't do this to be

ethical and stay healthy. That's obvious. And we don't do this to help the

environment out either.

Two quick things on the environment, and by the way go to my website, click on

'all about veganism', click on the environment section, world hunger and

environmental pollution.

Root cause of world hunger - meat eating societies. 65% of the world’s grains are

set aside every year to feed 53 billion land animals that are killed every year on this

planet. And tens of billions of marine animals. We got fish farms nowadays.

Instead of using those crops for six and a half billion people.

Do the math on this, you don't have to be Einstein to figure this equation out. And

again, environmental pollution, air pollution, water pollution, deforestation,

greenhouse gas emissions...

The number one cause is animal agriculture. Now, I want to get back to 'tastes

good', though, because I think meat tastes great. And it might shock you to hear

me say that, but if you're doing some kind of extra credit essay on my speech, and

you want to quote me, quote me right now:

I LOVE THE WAY MEAT TASTES. LOVE IT!

Cheese...LOVE IT!

Cow’s milk and eggs...LOVE IT!

Guilty as charged.

I did not stop eating this stuff because of a 'taste' issue. I stopped for ethics.

Morality. Decency. Compassion to the animals that I share this planet with. But

here's the coolest thing about being vegan in this day in age: It's never been easier!

You can have the same smell, taste and texture of meat, cheese and milk, without

it! Nobody has to suffer and die for your dinner anymore, including you! They make

all the products you like to eat, in a vegan version. They make it from soy and

wheat and rice and hemp, I want to show you some of the products that are out

there, and I am not receiving compensation from these companies.

These are my selections, the best tasting mock meats. I'm going to put them up

on the screen, so we can all see it clearly.

Do you guys like bacon? Lightlife Smart Bacon, bacon made from soy. This

company, Lightlife, also makes smoky tempeh bacon.

Now, tempeh is a fermented version of soy, so it tastes a little different than the

other stuff, but keep in mind, I would not recommend products to you if they didn't

taste fantastic.

I am trying to win you over, so you go veg. I'm not showing you every product we

have, some of our products suck! I'm showing you the best of the best. And when

I say some of our products suck, don't act like there aren't shitty Chinese

restaurants, nasty pizza places, and disgusting hamburger joints, okay?

It works both ways. If it's made great, no matter what it is, it tastes great, if not,

it's going to stink. Lightlife also has soy chicken strips and steak strips, as well.

They also have a full line of deli meats: turkey, baloney and ham. You cannot tell

the difference by sight, taste or texture.

A small company called Melissa's has Soyrizo, vegan chorizo. Energy bars! Like

Cliff Bars, Luna bars, and a new bar, that just came out called Pro Bar, you might

not have seen that one, yet.

They're all vegan! And many other companies have a vegan energy bar, as well.

Now, remember, when you go veg, you don't give up anything.

You've got the vegan version of stuff, or eat things that are truly natural, like fruits

and vegetables or beans and lentils.

You like turkey? We've got you covered... My favorite product? Tofurky! Tofu

turkey!nStuffing on the inside! Looks, smells and tastes like turkey, you've got to

slice it with a knife, but guess what?nNo turkey had to suffer and die for this!

Tofurky also has Tofurky slices, six different flavors of Tofurky slices. Tofurky also

has Tempe strips.

Remember I talked about the faking bacon, the Lightlife Tempeh? They have some

tempeh products, too. Tofurky also has Italian sausage, beer brats, and... There

seems to be an addiction in our society for beef jerky?

I don't know what the hell is going on with everybody's taste buds, everybody has

lost their minds...

But, we've got you covered...Tofurky jerky! Anything you're looking for, we've got

that stuff veganized. And many other companies have a vegan jerky, as well.

The absolute best company on the market right now, is its All Good Gardein

Protein. That is one of their chicken dishes. That is two of their chicken dishes!

Three chicken dishes! They have more chicken dishes, they have steak dishes, and

they just came out a few months ago with Buffalo wings, as well.

Trader Joe's, that grocery chain, they want to compete now in the soy meat

industry. They made their own brand of soy chicken and soy steak strips.

There's a company called Vegetarian Plus, and they have vegan, citrus spareribs.

And Gardenburger has had Riblets, mock ribs, for over ten years...

I can't tell you how many of my meat eating friends and family members I've flat

out fooled with this stuff! And this company also has shrimp, kung pao chicken,

orange chicken and tuna rolls, as well.

Now I mentioned wheat meat earlier, I don't think people really understand what

it is, there's actually a name for it, it's called seitan.

Not satan, SAY'tan. And you want to give this stuff a try, too. And they now have

flavored seitan on the market too, by Upton's:

Ground beef style, chorizo style, they also have an Italian sausage flavor, as well.

Another favorite company... Nate's Meatless Meatballs! Now, I know you guys

have seen veggie burgers before, probably Boca. But, if you don't like Boca... Good

news: there's Amy's, Morningstar Farms, Dr. Praeger's, Sunshine burgers and

Gardenburger, all the different tastes and textures.

And if you're looking for no soy, a different kind of mock meat in your diet,

A new company called Bahama... Rice burgers, burgers from rice. We also have

sausage and meat balls made out of rice, as well.

Another company with a no soy, a different kind of mock meat taste, a small

company from Cincinnati, called Five Star Foodies has artichoke burgers, my new

favorite kind of veggie burger by far, burgers from artichokes!

They also have a harvest roast! It says 'vegetarian' but it is vegan. It's a fake turkey

with fake skin around it, too.

Now, Amy's is on the market, and I know you've seen her stuff. She's got a ton of

stuff, but keep in mind, most of her stuff is only vegetarian. It still has eggs and

cheese, and other animal by-products in there.

But, one of her vegan stuff, tofu scramblers... A fake egg! A hot pocket, that

actually tastes good and is good for you too! And Amy's also has rice macaroni with

Daiya cheese! A brand new vegan cheese on the market, Daiya cheese, which you

can find at Whole Foods, right now. It comes in two different flavors.

A lot of people are going crazy for the Daiya cheese... I still like Follow Your Heart,

which has four different flavors of vegan cheese, comes in a big block and it melts.

Now, sometimes you've got to be creative with this stuff...

Lightlife also has vegan pepperoni which is ready to eat directly out of the bag. If

you get some of this vegan pepperoni, buy yourself a Tofutti Pan Pizza with Tofutti

soy cheese on it.

Tofutti also has cream cheese, sour cream and ice cream as well - before it goes in

the oven or after it comes out of the oven, slaps some pepperoni on there and you

got yourself a pizza.

Remember there is soy milk and rice milk, almond milk, hemp milk, coconut milk,

oat milk, hazelnuts milk. Seven vegan milks on the market.

There is soy ice cream, rice ice cream, almond ice cream and coconut milk ice

cream, an ice cream bars by So Delicious.

And let me just say this, you have never in your life had ice cream till you had the

coconut milk ice cream by So Delicious.

If you go to my website and click on 'Veg Shopping Guide', I have taste-tested

everything for you in advance. Check out the brand names I recommend. I can

assure you I eat nothing nasty.

And what about Ethnic food, Indian food, Middle-eastern food, Mexican food?

Plenty of veggie options there... Italian food... pasta and spaghetti...And a real

pasta, a real spaghetti, just like bread, never requires animal products.

Now unfortunately, we defiled these products - so you always have to ask or check

out the ingredient list. But every Italian joint has at least one, if not two or three of

the genuine noodles, “which are always vegan."

And when it comes to best bread around - Whole Foods or Panera Bread,

Breugger's Bagels, Einstein Bagels -"90% of those breads and bagels are always

vegan.

Our Asian food, Japanese food, Chinese food, Thai food, Korean food, Vietnamese

food, all you have to do is substitute tofu for the meat in any of their dishes, tell

them to make it without fish sauce and you have a vegan meal.

And soul food can be veganized as well. In fact, you guys are pretty lucky to be in

Atlanta. You have two soul food restaurants owned by the same company - Soul

Vegetarian - 10 minutes from campus. Vegan Mac 'n Cheese, collard greens, yams.

They have something called a "Kale Bone" sandwich, which is a fake roast beef

sandwich with cheese dripping off of it, too.

You got to check out Soul Vegetarian. And don't think I don't watch your faces

when I'm up here.

How come, when I talk about mock meat, you always catch a handful of people in

every crowd, and we have a big crowd today so I stopped counting at about 8 or 9.

How come there is always a handful of people that wrinkle up their noses, make

big wide eyes, and start glancing at the people next to them or across the aisle like

Soy chicken, is this guy crazy? Soy bacon? He must be out of his mind!” How come

this stuff, that is made of soy, wheat, vegetables, grains and spices - no chemicals!

contrary to the lies being spread about these products by the meat and dairy

industries.

How come this stuff is considered gross to most people... but meat? Meat’s got

five components, let me break it down for you: blood, flesh, veins, muscles and

tendons - the cut up corpse of a dismembered body.

How does meat not qualify as gross and disgusting to everybody?

How in the world is a beverage, a liquid that oozes out of the utters of cows, a

secretion that drips from the mammary glands of another being, that’s loaded

with pus by the way.

Oh yeah, let me tell you, pop a puss in your cow milk - it’d be my pleasure. When

you hook machines up to the udders of cows three times a day to suck them dry,

those machines cause massive amounts of infections on the inside and outside of

the udder.

Now let’s add all the bovine growth hormone they put in cows to make sure they

provide huge quantities of milk, which always leads to another infection. The

machine doesn’t know what not to suck out! Pus, mucus and infections right in

with your milk, and yeah milk is pasteurized...

But when did pasteurization become a removal process? It’s a sanitation process!

You're only sanitizing pus, and you want to look this up online.

Well you don't think the dairy industry would ever use the word 'pus' when they

write about this problem in their own trade journals, yeah their gonna deceive you

again with this...

Look up the scientific term for pus: "Somatic Cell Count".

And by the way, our government, the USDA, they allow the dairy industry to have

a maximum amount" of one eye dropper full of pus in every glass of milk. Drink

up…Oh! And by the way, when you’re looking up that lie from the dairy industry

and all the other ones...

You might wanna look up 'Casomorphins', I got it up on both sides of the board.

Remember that part of the speech earlier when I talked about people being

hooked on cheese like it was laced with weed, Crack and Morphine?

Mother cows, before birth, produce a substance in their milk to make sure that the

calf stays close. And actually human women do this too - it's not Morphine but in

cows it is, a version of Morphine - Casomorphins. That's why people are so hooked

on cheese, gotta have their daily fix of Morphine. Does anybody know what an egg

actually is from a hen?

And don’t say embryo or aborted fetus - not even close, it’s unfertilized so it can’t

be either. Hen is a female, though, unfertilized egg through a female system? It’s

part of her menstruation cycle, it’s a hen’s period! People scramble up hen periods

in the morning and all of a sudden I’m weird because I don’t make omelettes

anymore?

And what about vomit? Oh, we’re going to take those blinders off today. C’mon

you guys love vomit, you adore it all over your food. Better give this one a pretty

name, though. Nobody’s going to buy and eat vomit. Unless we call it honey

instead. Honey comes directly from a bee stomach, it is regurgitated right through

a bee's mouth - look it up with any wildlife biologist.

But nobody wants to eat Bee-Vomit Nut Cheerios, we want Honey Nut Cheerios -

so we lie to ourselves to play euphemism games. The standard diet of a meat eater

is blood, flesh, veins, muscles, tendons, cow secretions, hen periods and bee

vomit?!?!

Now we’re not done yet...I am not going to let you off that easy, not while I’ve got

you here today. You know where we top this all off in my opinion?

Because every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people

take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in

their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the

little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread.

Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread?!?! Ass bread?!

And people think vegans are weird?!?! Cause we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and

lentils? I tell people one of my favorite meals nowadays: yams.

Boy, dish me up a plate of yams for dinner and I’m a happy guy. I know how most

people are, though, I tell them that and they’re like. Wait, you just eat yams for

dinner?! I don’t know man, that’s kinda weird...

Okay, but somebody else’s ribcage sitting on your plate isn’t weird? Doesn't make

you think twice? Severed legs, sliced up thighs, and mutilated breasts sitting on

your plate doesn't make you think twice... And you wanna know why? Those

blinders are on nice and tightly aren’t they?

And I bet most of you were perturbed at me when the speech began and I accused

everybody of having blinders on. I'm not here to be your enemy. I'm here to call

you out, though. You might have had a pretty good excuse before I got here of

being uninformed and misinformed.

Okay, that's fair. Honestly - I was the same for a long time." I'm kinda curious,

though, what's the excuse now?

You got a choice today, when you leave this room, you can choose to be radically

kind - never to intentionally harm another animal for breakfast, lunch or dinner

ever again.

These creatures have never harmed you, violated you or taken advantage of you

in any shape of form, the least you can do is return the favor.

Or you can stay radically cruel - keep the status quo as is, make sure animals have

no freedom, make sure they never experience one drop of human kindness, make

sure their babies are stolen from them, make sure their beaks are sliced off, their

horns cut off and their testicles are ripped off.

Make sure there is a knife in their throat every second of every day for eternity. I

really hope you make the right choice.

I wanna rap this speech up, so we can do our Q&A session. Give me about 6 more

minutes to say something on the dairy industry, as it pertains directly to cows. We

talked about the pus in cow milk, which is gross.

We talked about the unhealthiness of consuming dairy products, but we have yet

to focus on what the cows are going through. Keep in mind, veganism isn't about

your health - that will be selfish. I'm trying to get people to be unselfish, for a

change.

To be altruistic, do something kind for somebody else and when you do that, don't

expect something in return. But when it comes to cruelty, I think there is more

cruelty in a glass of milk than a steak. I wanna make my case visually and verbally.

You will only be the 11th class to see what I'm about to show, cause this just went

down a few months ago in plain city, Ohio, at a ma n' pa dairy farm. Warning:

Disturbing Content. Viewer Discretion is Advised.

Ohio Dairy Farm Brutality

Gary Conklin, Farm Owner

Holy shit, did you just break a tail?

Oh yeah.

Stand the fuck still, fucker.

I get going. It's just like "oh this feels good. I wanna keep fucking hitting 'em. We

beat the fuck out of this cow. We stabbed her, broke her tail in three places, kept

stabbin' her ass, beat her.

Next day Gary says "We're gonna send her to beef" cuz she had Mastitis and all.

Couldn't get her in the parlor. We beat the fuck out...

I mean I drugged that cow, I beat that fucker till her face was like this big around.

Alright, you made me mad calf. I gave you a chance.

Turn your head. Turn your head, fucker! Turn your ass, turn your ass, C'mon!

Fuckin' tired of this calf. Oh, I gotta bad. Ah, my blood pressure's up.

If I don't think they're feeling any pain, I just keep going until the cows like

[moaning noise] and I'm like "yeah that's done.

Ditch cruelty. Ditch dairy.

This is not an isolated incident! Don't for one minute think that this is an isolated

incident! This is how slaves are treated! You don't really think that slaves get

treated nicely, do you?

You really think white people were nice when they shipped black people over here

on ships?

You don't think Nazis were nice when they walked Jews and Gypsies into the gas

chambers, do you? And this happens because you wanna buy those products.

Yeah, that guy is a scumbag for doing that, but he's doing that because YOU

wanna eat what comes out of her body. And enough already!

You're not a caveman and you're not a cavewoman anymore. Stop acting like

Neanderthals!

This is 2010! Give it up! It's not cute and it's not funny! Cause animals are being

abused. It is not your right! It is not your freedom to do this to them! You don't get

to have freedom when somebody else doesn't. That's a violation.

And if you wonder why vegans get so upset sometimes, like I am right now, you

just saw some of it. Every time we show up at a farm, somebody is punching,

kicking and stabbing somebody.

And something else that I'm curious about, how come when I show videos like this,

of people punching and kicking animals, people are more upset with that than

when they shove a knife in their throat?

So, even if you find a farm where they not punching and kicking, when they shove

a knife in their throat and put a bullet between their eyes, how is that not cruelty?

Did you know that 90% of hamburger meat in America comes from the dairy

industry? When cows no longer give huge amounts of milk after 3 to 7 years -

slaughterhouse, no exceptions.

If ever given a change, cows can live to be 18 to 25. And cows are like all female

mammals... I'm not trying to talk down to you, when I speak about animal issues.

It's just that people don't think that animals go through the same things, the same

emotions that you go through, that we all go through.

In order for a female mammal to give milk, she has to be pregnant. Every year,

every cow on every dairy farm is raped! A long steel device, shoved into their

vaginas to inject them with bull semen, or sometimes they use a bare hand. This

forces the milk flow. And after she gives birth, babies are stolen.

And let me tell you something, the worse scream I have ever heard, and I've heard

them all first hand.

When I started finding out about this stuff, a little over 15 years ago, I was like

everybody else. I didn't believe it was that bad, I thought that everybody was

exaggerating. But unlike everybody else who just blows it aside, brushes it off, I

actually went to see what was going on.

I spent 6 weeks at Thorn Apple Valley pig’s slaughterhouse in Detroit in 1993. I

broke into animal research laboratories. I broke into fur farms. I went behind the

scenes of every circus and every rodeo that ever came through Michigan. Worst

scream I have ever heard! A mother cow on a dairy farm, as she screams and bawls

her lungs out day after day for her stolen baby, to be given back to her.

And I can only imagine, the same scream every woman in this room would make,

if somebody held you down after birth and stole your newborn baby from you.

And why do they take babies away from their mom? Well, the dairy industry can't

have little babies sucking up all that milk that was meant for them, when they

rather sell it to you instead.

Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not. And mother cows make

milk for one reason anyways. During Q&A we are about to have, you can ask me

whatever you want.

I'm no politician, bring up anything. If you went online before I got here and saw

my radical assays, that got me kicked out of countries, bring 'em up!

There is one question I will not entertain, though: You CANNOT ask me why cows

make milk! Thus, if it's good for us...Shouldn't we be feeding it to our kids, Gary?

Shouldn't we be having it?

Nature took care of this one at the beginning of time: Cows make milk for their

babies and for their babies alone. Case is closed! Forever! Permanently! No debate.

No discussion.

They don't make milk for baby elephants...baby orangutans, baby hedgehogs,

baby rabbits, baby rats, baby humans, adolescence humans or adult humans. This

body of ours has absolutely no need for cow milk, like it has absolutely no need for

giraffe milk.

And zebra milk and rhinoceros milk, hippopotamus milk, camel milk, deer milk,

antelope milk, horse milk, pig milk, dog milk and cat milk.

The only milk that we ever need is our own mother breast milk when we're born.

And that's it! And when we're done weaning, we never need one drop of milk ever

again. No species on this planet needs milk after they're done weaning.

But if you want to include some kind of milk in your diet like I do, let me reiterate

the good news: soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, hemp milk, coconut milk, oat

milk, hazelnuts milk. I promise you'll like one of those seven vegan milks.

Remember, when you go veg, you don't give up anything!

You got the vegan version of stuff, or eat things that are truly natural like fruits and

vegetables, beans and lentils, and seeds.

I want thank everybody for listening with an open mind, I do appreciate that.