Gary Yourofsky - The Excuses Speech, 2014
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So the new number one excuse to eat animals
is no longer "God said it's okay",
that's number two now,
it's now the circle of life.
So we're going to look at the circle of life
from the victim's point of view,
which nobody ever does.
But you're about to see,
this zebra does not want to be a victim to a lion,
any more than a cow or a chicken
wants to be your victim.
Zebras have the chance to fight back though, and escape.
We don't even give cows and pigs and chickens and turkeys that chance.
You're about to see an alligator
trying to take down a baby impala,
and there's an angry vegan looking on,
I empathize.
He's going to get involved and stop him.
He's about to give mouth to mouth
and he never took the Saturday morning CPR class in community college
to figure out how to do that.
They're much brighter than we give them credit for.
But for the record, not all animals are brilliant.
Some are stupid, just like human beings.
Some are bright, some are stupid,
just like us.
If a bunch of violent thugs kidnapped your baby,
threatened to kill him,
and you were outmuscled and outmanned,
you might go get some backup too.
By the way, the only bright lion in this whole pride...
(laugh)
Ain't no fun when the rabbit has got a gun.
And they saved their baby, how about that, he was still alive.
Looks like the buffaloes, the zebra and the hippo
didn't get that memo about the way meat eaters want the world to be.
Good afternoon everybody.
My name is Gary Yourofsky.
I am a vegan animal liberation activist.
Been vegan more than 18 years,
which means I do not eat or wear anything that once had a face,
a mother, or a bowel movement.
No meat, cheese, milk, eggs and honey.
No fur, leather, wool, silk or down,
and no animal byproducts whatsoever.
Instead, I have decided to eat normal food,
real food that wasn't tortured and killed
and covered in blood, in guts and pus.
Like fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, grains and lentils.
I wear clothing made of hemp, bamboo, cotton,
and a host of other materials
that were not whipped off somebody else's body.
Now, I chose this lifestyle back in 1996,
when I finally understood that speciesism,
believing that the human species
can do whatever it wants to any animal species,
was the essence of bigotry and hatred.
More victims are left in this path
than all other forms of discrimination combined.
Worldwide, we are torturing and killing
150 billion animals every year
to satisfy our meat, dairy and egg addictions,
and billions more for clothing and entertainment.
So when you're not vegan,
you end paying someone to kill thousands of animals,
just for you, throughout your lifetime.
That's not only violent commodification and selfishness,
it's pure hypocrisy.
Because what if you were the victim?
Remember you have to examine all issues
of injustice from the victim's point of view.
And what if somebody commodified your body,
labeled you stupid and dirty, mocked your entire existence,
and said that your life didn't matter at all?
I suppose you would want the world to change
its evil ways immediately
and hope that somebody like me would stand up,
speak out and defend your right to be free.
Don't you think the animals we torture and kill
feel the same exact way?
And speaking of stupid and dirty,
have you been to an airport lately,
seen a public restroom, the Hudson River,
following the rise of STDs?
Ever noticed that the majority of people
have never once started out on the right side of justice?
And we have the audacity to say
that animals are stupid and dirty?
So how come small groups of people
always have to convince the masses
why it's wrong to enslave, discriminate or kill
innocent beings?
The answer is quite simple.
Technologically, we are brilliant.
Ethically, we're on a par with parasites.
We are a sick, twisted mistake of a species.
So the way we treat the animals and each other
doesn't even shock me anymore.
What's shocking is that the masses are always shocked
when they're accused of acting inappropriately.
It took 400 years to convince white people in America
not to own black people,
and another hundred years on top of that
to end segregation.
And if somebody wants to hang out after class
and explain to me why those abolitions
didn't take 2 seconds,
I'd love to hear about it.
Any injustice on that scale
can only happen if the general population
supports it or turns a blind eye to it.
So the key players in the exploitation,
Government, religion, media, corporations,
they become experts at lying
and using propaganda and deceit
to trick people into accepting the abuse.
The dairy industry for example,
loves to tell you about happy cows.
But what they don't tell you
is that all these happy cows get raped every year,
artificially impregnated with a bare hand
or a long steel device to inject them with bull sperm.
Female mammals have to be pregnant to produce and give milk.
Mother cows then have their babies stolen from them after birth.
Because once we eliminate the babies from the equation
we get to drink all that milk instead.
And when mother cows can't produce huge amounts of milk
after 3 to 7 years, they get a happy day at the slaughterhouse,
where if they're really lucky,
they'll get turned into a happy meal.
Other companies love to lie about happy animals too.
What about that
"wish I was an Oscar Mayer Wiener" jingle?
That's pretty cute.
Except for the fact that when they're born,
male babies have their testicles ripped out without anesthetic.
Standard practice.
The meat industry always controls procreation.
All the female pigs get raped every year
to impregnate them just like the cows,
baby pigs then have most of their teeth cut off
right down to the gum line
and their tails cut off too,
all without anesthetic
to try and reduce flesh damage
from fighting and biting each other
in their overcrowded conditions.
And when pigs reach 300 pounds in 6 months
thanks to genetic modification,
they get a happy day at the slaughterhouse too,
where they get chopped up into a thousand pieces.
The egg industry though,
man, they might possess the greatest marketing propaganda
of all time because they have actually convinced you
to eat something that came out
of a hen's all inclusive, all-in-one
ass vagina.
The back side of a bird is called a cloaca,
it is one hole where the poop, the pee, the vaginal fluid
and scrambled eggs and omelets come from.
Hate to be the bearer of more bad news
but mommy and daddy lied to us too.
We're not that special
and we're not perfect just the way we are.
But at least when you become vegan
you are trying, trying to reduce and eliminate
gratuitous amounts of cruelty and violence
which is all I'm asking of you today.
So how come when one human dies
it's a tragedy.
But when billions of animals are killed
with premeditation
it's a celebration?
And what's really odd about this tragedy-celebration dichotomy
is that besides some kind of a self-defense situation
everyone knows that killing is evil and wrong,
because every time a bear kills a hiker,
what do we do?
Start singing Hakuna matata?
Praise the hiker for being part of the circle of life?
Tell his family "well, he just wasn't fit enough to survive"?
Bullshit.
We scream bloody murder,
label that bear a homicidal maniac
and get a bunch of people with guns
and go kill that bear for killing the hiker.
Funny how the circle of life never comes into play
when we are getting killed.
And that's because the circle of life
ain't nothing but an aggrandized, arbitrary
bullshit excuse to torment and kill
somebody else with impunity.
And it's a cute story, it really is.
Written, directed and produced by us,
the killers,
the dictators,
the victimizers.
The victims in this psychotic scenario
are not willing participants
as you clearly saw on that opening video.
But here's something even more interesting than that.
Sometimes, even the killers question their own behavior.
Kindness is a choice, so is violence.
Spare me the "animals can't think or rationalize
because they operate on instinct only" nonsense
because if you go to my website adaptt.org
check out the animal intelligence essay
and click the link that says "a leopard saves a baby baboon"
and watch a big carnivorous cat
have second thoughts about the circle of life.
She kills a baboon but doesn't realize the baboon is a mother
with a newborn baby.
So she intentionally lets a skulking hyena
have the dead mother's corpse to chomp on
while she gently picks up the baby,
puts the baby in a tree and stays in the tree
to protect the baby from the hyena.
If the circle of life was genuine
and animals couldn't think,
that leopard would have instinctively, instantly
killed that baby.
Instead, she chose to comfort him, to protect him.
Just like moms to you would do
because once again
anyone can choose to be peaceful or violent
either way, it is a choice.
And I have many other videos in that section
also showing carnivores refusing to kill
their supposed prey.
And for the people out there right now
who might be thinking,
yeah Gary but, if animals want to be treated equally to us
and treated fairly,
then the animals who eat other animals
need to be arrested and charged with murder,
you are missing my point completely.
But, I support that.
Honestly I do.
As long as all the humans who eat animals
turn themselves in to face the same consequences.
Be careful about throwing stones in your glass house.
Because if we really want to arrest animals
and charge them with crimes,
they actually need equal rights.
They currently have no standing in court
meaning we can't even bring them to trial.
But as soon as animals receive the same rights
of life and liberty as us
meaning they can no longer be the victims
of slavery and murder,
I'll call the cops on the next cat I see for killing a squirrel.
Until then, I am placing the moral mirror
in front of your faces.
It's time for you to walk the compassionate talk
that you're always talking about.
You can't just pray for peace,
sing songs about love and happiness and togetherness
turn on the 5 o'clock news, hear about a tragedy
and go "oh, that's so sad"
and then go out and do violent things,
like those damn hippies did at Woodstock.
A bunch of hippie-crits.
Did you know that they consumed over 1 million hot dogs
during that 4-day festival?
From that I bet you thought that hippies were on my side.
Peace and love and flower power, my ass.
Peace begins at the dinner table
with a vegan meal.
But instead we always wanna get together
and see how many dead animals
and nasty animal products we can eat at once.
Bacon and eggs and cheese and steak
and chicken and cheese and lobster,
six cheese pizzas with every pig product imaginable,
triple cheese bacon burgers with a side of asparagus
wrapped in bacon.
We actually praise people in our society for killing animals.
You've seen all the TV shows glorifying fish killers,
duck killers, chefs who cook nothing but meat,
guys who'll eat anything from testicles to brains,
schmucks who win hot dog eating contests.
Food eating contests.
Were you aware that every 2 to 3 seconds
some human on this planet dies from starvation
while we are getting together with ESPN coverage
to see who can eat 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes?
50% of the world's crops
50% is set aside every single year
to feed the billions of animals
in the meat, dairy and egg industries.
95% of soy in America
80% of all the corn in America,
70% of the oats in America,
that's animal food.
Cows and pigs and chickens and turkeys
they never miss a meal,
they always get fed.
There's only 7.5 billion people on the planet.
Do the math.
You could become vegan
and help end world hunger by eradicating
the meat, dairy and egg industries,
and support the humans you claim to care about so much
or continue with the gluttony.
And speaking of the gluttony,
it's now time to watch a five and a half minute video
about where breakfast, lunch and dinner come from.
And before I press play,
I need to be clear about something.
There is no such thing as humane slaughter
or humane slavery.
Meaning that humane meat, cheese, milk,
eggs and honey do not exist.
If I told you that there was a nice outfit in Thailand
where they humanely rape kids
for the child porn industry,
you know they use condoms and lubricants.
They let them play in a big backyard every day
for 6 glorious hours
in between the rapes,
would you support it?
I didn't think so.
Is that because rape is always evil
no matter how it's being done?
So stop focusing on how
animals are being harmed and violated
and start opposing all the different ways
of enslaving, abusing and killing innocent beings.
This means that buying local, organic,
cage-free, free range, grass fed,
kosher, halal, antibiotic-free, hormone-free
is just as evil, ain't no different than buying conventional
from afar or from a factory farm.
And if you 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,
why is it good enough for my stomach?
If there was nothing wrong with killing animals
and eating eat was okay
how come McDonald's and Burger King and Wendy's
never show those images in their TV ads?
Always showing you a happy singing smiling
cartoon caricature instead.
People are up in arms right now
about all the beheadings taking place
in the Middle-East.
Meanwhile 30 million innocent animals
every day in America are beheaded.
And no one says a damn thing about it.
So I'm a little confused,
is beheading evil or does is matter
who's getting their heads cut off?
I will forever be embarrassed to be a human being,
to stand upright
like there's something to be proud of.
You've got to be kidding me.
A retired marine in North Carolina
once heard me lecture at East Carolina University
and he said "Gary, I believe everything you said,
got no arguments for you at all.
But we're a bunch of violent monkeys,
what makes you thinks we care?"
To this day, that statement still breaks my heart.
But I refuse to believe that no one cares
because the only problem is
you've been programmed not to care,
brainwashed to be a good little life-long
consumer of animal body parts.
Same thing happened to me
for the first part of my life for 25 years
but if you just put you defenses down
I can unbrainwash and deprogram you for free.
No gimmicks, no books to buy,
no email list to join.
I just want to put you back in touch
with your conscience again,
the conscience that you had
when you were young, innocent,
and uncorrupted by society's lies.
It can't be that difficult to understand
that each animal values his or her life
as much as you value yours.
You might not care about cows and pigs
and chickens and fish
but when your thoughts are prejudicial,
who the hell cares what you think?
Believe whatever you want to believe
but you have no right to act out
your violent desires
and listen, if you want to sit around all day
smoking weed, eating Oreo cookies
sipping on a 2 liter of mountain dew,
be my guest,
because there's nothing wrong
with smoking some kush
and Oreos and soda happen to be vegan.
They're sugar and chemicals, pure garbage,
but if you want to harm yourself
you have every right to do so,
I am not the health police.
But you have no right to harm somebody else
in the process of harming yourself
so I am the ethics police.
And vegans will defend animals from you
until this massacre stops.
You don't really think the entire animal kingdom
worships us, thinks we're special,
believes that we are the image of God?
We're like a Colombian drug cartel,
we're a bunch of bullies, criminals and killers.
A symbiotic relationship
between humans and animals
is not happening
when all we do is take and take
and take a little more.
We steal their milk, their eggs, their honey
their skin, their flesh, their lives.
Symbiotic relationships are supposed
to benefit each party.
When there's only one beneficiary,
it's called slavery.
It's time to become the rational beings
that we always claim to be.
And speaking of becoming rational,
got to say something to my religious friends
out there today.
Because the oldest excuse in the Book,
"God says it's okay"
is the dumbest shit I've ever heard
in my life to harm somebody else.
Because if you believe that God
gave us the architectural plans
to construct that house of slaughter
so we can cut the heads off of his terrified
animals, that he doesn't mind
when we steal newborn babies
from their mothers
or cut their horns and beaks
and tails and teeth off
while they're fully conscious
then what does the devil do?
What could a cow, a pig,
a chicken or a turkey ever do
to deserve the wrath of God himself
for eternal damnation?
And for the atheists and the agnostics
in the crowd, you ain't off the hook either.
Where's that logic lifestyle
you're always preaching about?
Because if you discriminate against animals
and eat meat, cheese, milk, eggs and honey
then you are no different
from all the religious people
that you condemn.
And for the record, I do not condemn God.
I condemn violent rituals and bloodthirsty habits
and traditions in God's name.
Because I've noticed something
quite disturbing about all religious people
all over this planet,
they never, ever worship anything
that God actually created.
They only worship things that we created
in God's name.
Bibles, crosses, churches,
synagogues, Korans, stars of David,
the Wailing Wall.
I can assure you that God is completely
unimpressed with our creations
and with us as long as we act like barbarians.
Living in peace though,
I think he would be pretty impressed with that.
You can't possibly believe
there are slaughterhouses in heaven
or that violence against animals
was allowed in the Garden of Eden?
And those are God's two most perfect places.
Now I want to destroy
some other lies you've heard
way to much about.
First, people often ask me
why we can't eat eggs from some hens
living on our backyard
or from a free range farm.
Their bodies do not belong to us.
Commodification is the crime
as much as cruelty is.
And I've noticed that nobody ever wants
to adopt old hens to live in their backyard,
the ones who have stopped laying eggs.
They only want the young ones
who are still freshly modified genetically
to lay 300 eggs every year
instead of their normal 17 eggs every year.
Hens, just like sheep in the wool industry,
always get killed
when they stop producing things
that we want them to produce.
I want to show you the owner
of a huge free range egg farm in California
actually telling the truth on a history channel.
It was a 43-minute episode,
42 and a half minutes of lies,
30 seconds of the truth
and these 30 seconds are priceless.
After a productive life of one to two years,
Nigel's chickens also endure
what he calls their "unhappy day".
When these chickens have finished
two years of laying here,
the third year
they really don't lay enough eggs
to pay for their fee
so they have to go, you know?
We all have to pay our way.
What happens to them,
we have a good demand
for spent chickens
and they go to a slaughterhouse
in Sacramento where they're processed
for stewing chickens.
Let's talk about some health issues real quickly
because many people wonder
whether vegans get enough
vitamins and nutrients,
even though all vitamins and all nutrients
come from plants,
not from animals.
Those who eat meat, cheese, milk and eggs
and honey don't get proper nutrition.
When you filter food through an animal's body
they process everything first.
You're getting a secondary depleted dose
of vitamins and nutrients
when you eat animal products.
Plus you get things you don't need at all,
like cholesterol, huge amounts of fat,
naturally occurring trans fatty acids
and animal-based protein,
which happens to be the main cause
of all cancers on this planet.
Where's the logic in that?
You don't really think the worldwide
trillion dollar vitamins/pharmaceutical
industry got rich off of a few vegans
and not billions of meat, dairy and egg eaters?
And there is no shortage of vitamin B12
in the vegan lifestyle either
because B12 actually comes
from bacteria that naturally exist
in our mouth and intestines.
I've been vegan since 96, never took one pill
I refuse.
Check out my B12 results
and other blood work
in the vitamin section of my website.
And before that perfunctory protein comment comes up
unless you plan on starving yourself to death,
it's impossible not to get protein.
You couldn't even do it if you tried.
Because all the plants have protein,
even fruit is around 5% protein.
Nuts and seeds and beans and lentils,
vegetables and grains, plenty of protein.
Beans and lentils by the way
are 25% protein.
And there's a myth out there
that we can't do anything about our health
because it's already programmed
into our genes.
"Hey Gary, that was a great speech man,
but heart disease runs in my family.
Breast cancer keeps running in my family."
The only things running in your family
are meat, cheese, milk, eggs and honey.
It doesn't count as being hereditary
when our parents and our grandparents
and our great grandparents
ate the same disgusting unhealthy things
that we still eat today.
When we get the same exact diseases
that they got,
it's called the same lifestyle syndrome.
Baldness is hereditary,
thank you mom and dad for that.
Eye color is in the genes,
cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome,
Prader-Willi disease, that's in the genes.
Heart disease and cancers are not.
And how come when vegans
try to tell people how to prevent
or treat a disease
everybody hates us?
But if you have a disease,
survive a disease or die from a disease
you're a freaking hero.
Well, to be fair about that,
it kind of depends on which disease it is
doesn't it?
Heart disease, breast cancer, autism,
hero!
Leprosy, schizophrenia, gonorrhea,
AIDS, tourette's, depression, not so much.
Where's the race for a cure for gonorrhea?
The stand up to schizophrenia council?
And can we please stop
exalting sick people
to Jesus life status?
Getting a disease doesn't make you heroic
nor courageous in any way.
It makes you unlucky
if you want to get technical about it.
And I'm really confused when people say
that vegan food is more expensive.
Exactly when did bananas and apples
and carrots and cucumbers
and potatoes and broccoli
and tofu and barley
become more expensive than
meat, cheese, milk, eggs and honey?
And listen, there are some pricey
vegan things out there, hell yeah.
Blueberries are 5 bucks a package,
but you get 5 bananas for a dollar.
Clif bars which are vegan
cost around a buck.
That's the real dollar menu.
You've got to cut the expensive shit.
Fish, ribs, filet mignon, outback steakhouse
Carraba's, Applebee's,
that ain't cheap.
And if vegan food is really more expensive
how come that Ruby Tuesday's,
that restaurant chain,
they give you a free
all-you-can-eat salad bar
when you purchase most of their main entrées
which are all comprised of meat and cheese?
So I tell you what,
next time you go to Ruby Tuesday's
order the salad bar
to see if they'll give you
free all-you-can-eat plates
of meat on the side.
And the more I think about it
the more I realize
no one even likes the taste of meat.
You absolutely despise it.
You only like the way it's prepared.
If I killed a chicken,
put it on your desk right now
and say go ahead eat it,
you'd say you must be crazy!
You better cook it, fry it, bake it
bread it, grill it, barbecue it
put some oil on it, sauce it up
spice it up, salt, pepper, sugar
do something to it
2 slices of bread, mustard, ketchup
pickles, onions, tomatoes.
You absolutely hate the way meat
actually tastes.
You like everything else that goes with it
so I have some great news.
When you decide to become vegan,
you don't have to give up the taste
that you love
because we use the same spices
same sauces, same cooking techniques.
Beyond the fruits and the veggies
and the nuts and the seeds,
the grains and the lentils,
we got vegan burgers,
vegan ribs, vegan fish, vegan chicken
vegan turkey, vegan bacon, vegan ham
vegan sausage, vegan ice-cream, vegan cheese
vegan milk, vegan whatever you want
and it's all made without chemicals.
It's a combination of vegetables and grains
and nuts and seeds and other things
that weren't covered in blood and pus.
Check out the making the transition
to veganism and what to eat essays
on my website plus the shopping guide,
restaurant and recipe sections too.
And keep this in mind,
not every vegan burger tastes great
but you don't like every hamburger
you eat it either.
Don't even try to pull a fast one on me
I ate that shit for 25 years.
There are nasty pizza places
disgusting Chinese restaurants
and bad chicken joints too
but that has never stopped you
from eating a hamburger, pizza,
Chinese food and chicken,
because you find the place
to make it all properly
just the way you like it.
Don't you think we do the same thing?
So stop taking it out on veganism
when you find something that doesn't taste right,
just find something that does.
And spend around 20 minutes on my website
reading the humans are herbivores essay.
Because contrary to popular opinion
and I stress the word "opinion",
all actual scientific evidence shows
that physiologically
humans are 100% herbivore
not carnivore, not omnivore.
From the side to side grinding and chewing
motion of our lower jaw like this
to the fact that we sweat through our pores
to cool ourselves down
to our long intestinal tracts,
we are plant eaters,
just like our closest primate relative
the bonobo, not the chimpanzee
which is more propaganda
from biased meat, dairy and egg-eating
scientists who desperately and deceitfully
want to trick you into accepting this abuse.
It's important to know something
about propaganda,
it doesn't only work because
it's forced down your throat
day after day.
Sometimes you want to believe those lies
to justify your behavior
so you don't have to change.
And before somebody blurts out
"yeah man, but about these canines?"
Most herbivores have canines
our teeth are nearly identical to cow teeth
broad, short and flat
but sometimes, herbivores actually have
bigger canines than meat eaters
to strike fear into their hearts
for thinking about attacking
cause guess who has the biggest canines
on the planet?
Hippos, and they're a 100% vegan.
I want to show you a photograph
of human teeth and lion teeth
to further prove my point on this.
What the hell was everybody talking about
when they screamed at me
"hey we've got canines
what about these canines, man?"
You've got to be kidding me.
And if you really think
that these flat teeth,
not these pointy ones over here,
that these flat teeth
were made for animal flesh
and not plants
it's time for the dog bone challenge.
I would give the crowd the chance
to prove me wrong every semester
if that's what they want to do
I hope you guys don't want to do that.
There's usually a couple people in every crowd
who go "nah, Yourofsky's full of shit
he knows damn well we're meat eaters."
You want to prove me wrong
on your way home from school today?
Stop at a pet store
buy a bone
get that old school rawhide bone,
not that new age nylon crap,
take that bone home and chew on it
just like a dog would.
Go to town on.
Now let me absolve myself right now
from any future lawsuits
in front of the crowd of witnesses:
if you choose to do that
your weak scrawny little herbivore teeth
will break in half and shatter
so don't come running to me
to pay the $10 000 bill
the dentist's going to charge you
to fix your mouth.
And finally, let's talk about the plants
and whether they suffer.
Because the latest idiocy and lunacy
being tossed my way the last couple years
has been "hey man, carrots suffer
just like cows do so what's the difference?"
Okay, in case you were unaware
of this difference
you have to have a functioning
central nervous system connected to a brain
in order to suffer and this is not up
for debate.
Which is why people in the hospital
who are brain dead but still alive
but can't feel anything are called
vegetables.
How about that?
A little truth insights for a change.
We don't call these people fish!
We don't call them chickens and turkeys
and cows and pigs
we call them vegetables
but even if someone somehow
proved that insentient lifeforms
like plants were capable of suffering
we're causing more harm to the planet
by harvesting all the plants
and feeding all those plants to the animals
and killing all the animals
to get the nutrients they got from the plants
which were all the nutrients
that we needed to begin with.
With all the crop laying in America alone
America could be feeding 10 billion people.
Again there's only 7 billion and a half
on the planet which means less land would be used
less plants would be harvested
less violence committed
if we ate plants directly.
And if plants really can suffer
how come firefighters never rescue them?
And don't say it's discriminatory
because animals are those most
discriminated species on this planet
but there's still a plan and place
to save them during a fire.
Humans get safe first
but if it's safe to do so, even if it's unsafe to do so,
they'll go back inside and save the animals.
But even if it were safe to do so again
no firefighter in the history of the world
has even gone back in the third time
to save the chrysanthemums.
"Hey Bob! Quick, you save the basil plant
from the kitchen, I'll get the rhododendron
from the second floor!"
Do you think that if I gave lectures
about cruelty to vegetables,
especially root vegetables like yams
called my speech "The Silence of the Yams"
cause everybody knows
that yams scream for about
30 to 45 seconds after you gang them
out of the ground before they die,
then I would have been invited
into 180 schools to give 2600 lectures
to 60 000 students in 30 different states.
And I was just thinking about this the other day
but what do we say about fruits
and vegetables when they get old?
They're ripe, ready to eat or rot.
And what do we say about animals
when they get old?
They're old.
Because animals are alive
in the exact same way that we are.
And plants are food.
So can we please stop making up
idiotic excuses to torture and kill
the animals and make up an excuse
to care about them instead?
To become vegan?
Actually live by the golden rule
instead of just paying lip service to it?
Do unto others as you would have others
do unto you.
Think about it, how would you feel
if the moment you were born
somebody else had already planned
the day of your execution?