Good evening and thank you for coming. My name is James, and I am the humane educator for the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida.
Now, I am typically giving this presentation to a high school classroom, so my audience is a little different. And I… Same level. We will find out. We will find out. So I pretty much know my audience. And I can pretty much can guarantee that 99% of the kids in the class re eating meat, dairy and eggs. And there might be one or two kids who are vegetarian. But it’s a very rare occasion where you’ll get a kid who is vegan.
When I speak to adults it’s a little different, you know, I don’t quite know my audience as well. So I want to get to know you. So here is what I want everybody to do. I want everybody to please stand up. All right, now, if you are vegan, meaning you choose not to eat any meat of the animal, no flesh of the animals, no cows, no chickens, no pigs, no turkey, and no fish, right surprise, surprise: fish is not a vegetable. No dairy, no cow’s milk, no cow cheese, no cow butter, no cow ice cream and no eggs, please have a seat.
So if you are a vegan, please have a seat. Okay. Now for the rest of you, you’ll have to remain standing for the rest of the presentation. All right, everybody have a seat.
There is another benefit of talking to high school kids. And that’s they are not afraid to participate in the presentation. They will say whatever is on their mind. Whether I like it or not. But with adults it’s a little bit harder, it’s like pulling teeth.
When you think about the presentation, it’s like a Rorschach test. I’ll show you a picture…and you… tell me what you see. All right. So the maturity level is the same as high school students’. It is a mushroom, people. All right.
How many of you have ever seen the movie “The Matrix”? All right, so more than half. For those who have not seen the movie “The Matrix”, there’s a scene in the very beginning of the film, where the main character is presented with two pills: One blue and one red. And he has to make a choice.
If he chooses the blue pill, he’ll fall asleep and when he wakes up, everything will be exactly the way it has always been. If he chooses the red pill, he will finally learn the truth. And I’m here today to give you that red pill. But let me make this very clear to you: I’m not here to tell you what to do, I’m not here to tell you how to think, how to feel and I’m certainly not here to tell you what to eat. I am simply here to provide you with information. What you do with that information is solely up to you.
So what does the Matrix look like? Let me show you. Now, despite what you might be thinking these two circles are not equal. I repeat, these two circles are not equal. One is in fact larger than the other. What I need you to do, is to determine which one that is. So please raise your hand if you believe the blue circle is larger than the red. All right. Please raise your hand if you believe the red circle is larger than the blue. All right, very good.
Now, before I said anything about these two circles, what was your first instinct? Equal, right? Because they look equal. The reason they look equal is because they are in fact equal. These two circles are identical. You know, I just got almost everyone of you to raise your hand and say that they are not. So what do we learn? That you can be manipulated like that to believe in something that goes against your natural instincts.
Just imagine, just imagine as a child you are taught that the blue circle is larger than the red. If you say it enough times, you convince yourself that’s the truth. If you’re told the lie enough times, it becomes part of your reality. And if enough people were taught that lie, that the blue circle is larger than the red, then now it becomes part of the culture. And if that culture then passes that misinformation along to the next generation, now it becomes tradition.
And what we have to remember is that just because we have a tradition, it does not mean it is morally acceptable. Tradition and morality are not always the same. I mean can you think of any traditions that we once had in the United States of America that we no longer have? That today we think back and that was immoral? Slavery, right? Less than two hundred years ago. And that was a tradition. So the traditions we have today does not necessarily mean that they are morally acceptable. And as we evolve as a culture, so do our traditions.
Now, The Matrix is a story. It’s a story when told enough times to enough people it becomes a part of that culture. It becomes the tradition. And this story is being told over and over. Everyday. In fact, if you believe the image on the cartoon is where you are getting your milk from, you are deceiving yourself. This is a fantasy. It only exists in your head. It’s a blue pill fed to you by the industry to get you to buy their product. This is the Matrix, the lie we tell ourselves about where our food is coming from.
The reality is far more disturbing. 90% to 95% of the milk, the meat, and eggs that we consume in the United States are coming from these conditions. This is called factory farming. This is where you take thousands of hens, pigs, and cows and confine them into warehouses. In fact, every year in the U.S. 10 billion…Yes, 10 billion cows, pigs and chickens are being slaughtered for food. So what that works out to be is that every second in the U.S. 300 animals are killed. Just like that. So 300, 600, 900, 1200…By the time I am done talking today there’ll be over a million animals that have been slaughtered. And most of us do not even blink an eye and I mean how is it possible that in the United States of America, we can kill, we can slaughter 300 animals, every second, and not question that.
Because of the story we have been told. The story justifies the action. If you say it enough times, you actually convince yourself that’s the truth. And how many of you were told as a child you need to eat meat to get protein? I know I was.
How many of you were taught you need to drink cow’s milk to get strong bones? Not dog milk, not chimpanzee milk, not elephant milk, not rhino milk, not hippo milk, not tiger milk, not lion milk, not giraffe milk, not elephant milk, did I say that already, I think you get the point. Not even our own mother’s milk, we need to drink cow’s milk to get strong bones.
The absurdity of drinking the milk from any other species, and any other being beside our own mother, when it said enough times, loses its absurdness. So all we’re going to do today is to find out if the Matrix is telling the truth.
Our diet is natural?
Now, the first we have been taught is that our diet is natural. We eat meat, dairy and eggs, so therefore it must be natural. So let’s find out. You have two images on the wall. All right, again. Remember the Rorschach test. You have two images on the wall. I want you to tell me all the thoughts that come to mind, when you see the image on the left. Do not be afraid to scream out. Nobody is going to get sent to the Principal. What do you see?
Fresh, yum, sweet, all right? If I came into the room with a basket of strawberries that looked just like that, organic. And I put it on a chair right here, now, what would be your thoughts? Okay, same thoughts.
What would you think if one of us got up and started chewing on the strawberries? Maybe you want to join in. If I come into the room with a basket of strawberries how many of your mouths would start to salivate? You mouth starts to water? If I take a strawberry and put it under your nose, what do you smell? If I take a knife and slice that strawberry in half and put that under your nose, now what do you smell? Strawberries –
Note that all the sensations remain the same. You see a strawberry and it looks like strawberry. You smell strawberry, and it smells like a strawberry. And you take a bite out of a strawberry and surprise, surprise, it tastes like a strawberry. Exactly, it’s a strawberry.
But, what thoughts come to mind when you see the image on the right? Cute, it’s kind of a rigged audience… you are in a vegan restaurant. But you know, when I go to a classroom, half the response, you get half of the kids, “Oh, cute, animal, pig, Wilbur, Babe.”
So half the class will see an animal and the other half of the class will see bacon, sausage, ham, pigs, rib, pork and hot dog. Those see a food. It’s one or the other. Either you’re seeing an animal, or you’re seeing food.
Now, what would happen if I took one of the pigs living, brought it into the room right here and put him right in front of you? Does that change it? Now what do we see? I mean, what would we think if one of us got up and start chewing on the pig? Not very normal.
If I come into the room with a pig under my arm, how many of your mouth starts to salivate? All right! If I take a pig and put it under your nose, what do you smell? Smell pig. Just like if I take a dog and put it under your nose, you smell dog. A cat, you smell a cat.
If I took a knife, and I sliced that pig in half. And put that under your nose, Now what do you smell? Blood. You smell rotting corpse, bacteria, decomposing flesh. You see there is a process involved, and I am here today, to show you that process of how you convert this animal, into this product.
Why should it be kept a secret? Why should we not know what we are participating in? And what we are putting in our body? Now let’s make the situation slightly more realistic.
If I were to put a pig on this side of the room living, and a butchers knife on the side of that room, how many people would be willing to pick up the knife and take the life of that animal? It’s very rare right? And if somebody did that, that’s all right, but how many people would try to stop that person from doing it? Right. Would we try that? of course, that’s compassion. That is the greatest quality of the human race. There is no other species on this planet that has that level of compassion to extend to all living beings.
But, if you would stop somebody from killing a pig in front of you and then go home and have this for breakfast that’s called hypocrisy. Just because it comes in a nice neat package all dressed up in the supermarket, just because you didn’t take the knife and shove it through their jugular just because you didn’t get blood on your clothes and just because you didn’t hear their screams, it does not mean that you did not participate in the killing. Every time we buy this product, we are supporting somebody else doing what we ourselves would not want to do, what we ourselves would not want to see, and what we ourselves would not want to hear.
Now, if you still see bacon, sausage and ham when I bring a pig into the room, what happens when I change it to… What’s that it supposed to – Here we go. All right. That’s the common response.
Now I never heard anybody say “yumm” nobody ever sees dog, food, hot dog. So, why not? Why don’t we see a food? What? We have been accustomed to view this animal as our pet. I mean, how many of you have a dog, or a cat, right? How many of you have a pig? Not so much. Alright. So…
But there are other cultures, there are other cultures and again, the cultural story for us is, “this is your pet”. In another culture, in certain parts of the world, they eat cats and dogs. That’s their culture, that’s their story they have been told. How do you feel about that? A lot of people think it is disgusting, right? I imagine every one of you probably thinks it is disgusting to eat a dog. Why would it be disgusting to eat this animal, and not disgusting to eat this animal? Why would it be wrong to eat this animal, and right to eat this animal?
And most importantly, why would it be wrong to kill this animal, and right to kill this animal? Culture. It’s culture, it’s the story, it’s the Matrix that we have been told. One culture sees this as a pet, this as a food. Another culture might see this as a pet, and this as a food. Another culture might see both as food.
In certain parts of India, the cow is sacred. They would never think about eating a cow in certain parts of India. Is that wrong? Is that unnatural? That’s just the story they have been told. But culture is just a story . That’s all it is. It’s just make-believe.
What I’m concerned with is what is natural to the human species. Because every culture has a different story. But if you take someone from Asia, Africa, South America, North America, Europe, and we are all the same species. We are all human beings. So, let’s take a three-year-old from any country in the world and you put that 3 year old in the room and you line up 5 animals in front of that 3 years old, a pig, a dog, a cow, a cat and a chicken. Do you think the 3 year old will going to know which one to eat and which one to pet? What’s the 3 years old most likely going to do? Or try to do? Play with them all. He is going to try to play with them all. The 3 years old has to be taught, “no, no, no, no, don’t play with him, eat him, play with him, pet him.” That’s what we were taught. We didn’t choose our diet. Our diet is a learned behavior.
We were raised to perceive this animal as your pet and this animal as your food. But that’s not the natural perception. The natural perception is that they are all of our companions. So our parents chose our diet, based upon the cultural story. And if you have children you base their diet on the cultural story being told. Which is the same story.
Now, let me give you another example. If you take a baby and you put the baby in a crib and you put on the right side a baby chick and on the left side an apple, which one do you think the baby is going to try to play with, and which one do you think the baby is going to try to eat? Most likely it will put the inanimate object, in this case the apple in his or her mouth. And if the baby most likely will be peaked by the interest of the thing moving, in this case the thing being actually a living being, a chick. Now, if the baby tries to eat the chick, what’s the chick going to do? Run away, or peck at him.
Now if you walk into a room with a baby in a crib playing with an apple and chewing on the head of a live chick, what would you think of that baby? It’s like demon baby? Would you allow that demon baby to play with your baby instead of a playmate? Probably not. So if it’s not all right for a baby to cause harm to an animal, even when they don’t know any better, why does it become more acceptable as we become older?
When we do know the difference between an apple and a baby chick. The question is do we find it acceptable to cause harm to an animal? Let’s find out.
If you would walk outside right now and you saw somebody taking a baseball bat to a dog’s head, what would you do? You would take action. At the very least you’d call the police, because you recognize it as a violation of this animal’s right to be free from harm. We are all given that right at birth. Every animal on this planet, whether it’s a mammal, whether it’s an amphibian, whether it’s a bird, a reptile, a fish, an insect, we are all earthlings. Human beings as well, we are all earthlings. And what do all earthlings have in common? Two things. We all want to live. We all desire to live. That is what creates the equality in all of us. We all want to live.
And the second thing is, we all avoid pain. Those two things make us equal. From the largest land animal on Earth, the elephant, to the smallest, the insect, the ant, and everything in between from the dog, the pig to the human being, we all desire to live. And we all avoid pain.
Now, if you were to walk out right now and saw somebody taking that baseball bat to a pig’s head, would your emotional response not be the exact same thing? Of course! Because the question for you is, what is the difference, what is the difference between the two? Right? Is there a difference? You might think one is cuter than the other, but that says more about you, than anything about these two animals. And a lot of kids would say, “Well, the nose looks different”. I said, “But they both got a nose to smell”. Some kids will say, “these he has hooves, and he has got paws.” I said, “they both got feet, to walk and run.” Some kids say, “Now, his ears are going up and his ears are flappy.” They both got two ears to hear. They both got two eyes to see. They both got a heart to beat, and a mind to think.
And the reason why we would take action for both of them, is because we recognize the equality between them and not the difference. Any difference is insignificant. The similarities, though, are striking. We know they are equal. Yet every time we sit down for a meal, we create that separation, we create that inequality. It’s just like we knew the two circles were equal, red and blue. But all it takes is somebody to tell you a story.
Now, what we most importantly recognize is that all animals have feelings. How do we know? How do we really know? How do we even know that humans have feelings? Now, out of these feelings, what is most important to you? Happiness, right?
How do you know if somebody is happy? If I said to you right now “It’s the happiest moment of my life” would you believe me? Hopefully not, no offense. So, how you’re going to tell somebody if somebody is happy? They are smiling, they are laughing, I can take somebody in this room who does not speak your language, but you can tell how they are feeling by their expressions, the sounds, it does not have to do with the language, though.
What about other animals? They wag their tails, they bark, they jump up and down, they play with each other. They lick. So all these are signs of how they feel. What about pain though? If I said to you right now my right hand is killing me, would you believe me? I haven’t given you any signs. It might, though, it might be killing me. There is only one person in this room, who knows that it’s actually killing me. That’s me, of course.
If I trip over my feet here though, and nail my head against the side of this table, start bleeding profusely out of my head and screaming on the ground, would you believe I am in pain? Of course, I am showing the signs. Here is the test. You take your hand, you put it over the flame, what happens? Burns, right, what is your reaction? Pull back and scream.
You take a dog’s paw, put it over a flame, what is his reaction? Same thing, pull back and scream. You take a pig’s leg, put it over the flame. Same reaction. You take a dog, a pig, a cow, a chicken , a goat, a duck, a horse, a rat, a mouse, any animal that is living, put a body part over the flame, they all have the same reaction. You take a fish out of water, what is their reaction? Flopping around. Why? Can’t breathe.
Do you want to know what it feels like, being a fish out of water? Have your loved one put your head under water and not let go. It really would not be your loved one though if they are doing that. That’s how it feels like.
Of course fish have feelings. They are, they are not vegetables. If you take a vegetable, you take a plant, you take a strawberry, you put it over the flame, what happens? Melts. Does not have feet to run away, does not have a mouth to scream, a nose to smell, eyes to see, ears to hear. A heart to beat and a mind to think. A lot of kids would like to give this one before you, say, “plants have feelings”. They do not have a nervous system. Do not have a nervous system. Without a nervous system, they cannot feel pain and happiness the way that animals and humans can.
So the question is, when did we learn this? When did we learn that animals have feelings? Hopefully this is not the first day that you learn this, right? When you were younger, right? How did you learn it? Maybe you had a dog or cat. Or you have to do is go outside and you just experience any of the animals outside. If they run away from you, it means they are scared, if they come up to you, probably you have food or something, and they want it. So we understand this through the experiences we have.
In fact, think about the books that were read to you as a child, songs you listened to, and how about the movies. Think about the movies we show to our kids. What do all these movies have in common? What are they about? Animals. What kind of animals? Farmed animals. Even fish are being farmed. You have pigs, chickens, cows and fish. These are all the animals we eat. What is the common theme in these movies? They are running, they are being saved. No animal wants to die. No animal wants to be dinner on your plate. We root for these animals. You take even the biggest pork eater in the world, he is running for Wilbur. Nobody wants to see Wilbur made into bacon at the end of that film. Chicken Run Now we root for the chickens.
Now I guarantee there are thousands of people watching “Chicken Run” thought “Go, chickens, go!” While eating a KFC bucket of chicken wings. Because they are not making that connection. How many kids watched the movie “Babe” fall in love with Babe and then they go home and are fed Babe unknowingly by their parents. So we are teaching kids to love these animals, but to eat them, too. And this is the closest thing you’ll come to see their reality in the Matrix. And the story we have told ourselves. And most of the time, unfortunately the closest thing we will come to, is in cartoon form. Whether it is by Pixar and Disney, nonetheless.
But today we step outside the Matrix. And generally speaking, when I go into a high school classroom, I show “Meet your meat”. If you have not seen this video, and if you are still eating meat, dairy, eggs, fish, take a look at meat.org, MEAT.org and you can see the conditions that these animals live in.
Now I am not going to show you that, every time I show it to adults, they just leave, and don’t come back. So I’m going to show you, a 3-minute video again by the same people that put on the first video, “Farm Sanctuary”. It’s 3 minutes. If you do not want to watch it, you do not have to, but this is where 90% to 95% of the meat, dairy and eggs we are consuming in the US are coming from.
And if you really have a problem watching it, but you have no problem eating it, you know, why the disconnect there? But this isn’t just about animal rights. This is also a health issue and that’s the second part of the presentation that we will talk about after the video.
The question is: do these animals look healthy? Do the conditions they are living in look healthy? Because if the animals do not look healthy to you, why would you want to put a sick animal into your body? One last thing before I show the video a lot of people said, “What about, you know, milk? Does not seem to be any harm in raising cows for milk.” Notice the first scene in this video of the dairy cows, and you can actually see a cow giving birth, and notice what happens to her calf, and notice her response. It does not have to be this way.
If I could talk to animals that are being confined and abused now in factory farms I would say, “I’m sorry for what we are doing to you, I wish it wasn’t this way and I’m doing everything I know to stop it and hopefully we will be able to stop it.” There is not really a whole lot of good you can say. I mean, you just got to hope that it can stop, and the hope that people will recognize the harm we are causing, and will choose a different way. Meat, milk and eggs come from real animals. They don’t just come from the grocery store. And these animals desire to live, and they want to be free of pain and suffering and fear. And on today’s farms these animals only know fear and pain at human hands, they never know human kindness, they never know mercy. And when people buy these products, they are unwittingly supporting that type of cruelty and that type of callousness.
The workers, they have to lose part of their heart, you know, they have to lose, they have to shut their eyes to certain aspects of what they are doing. Can you imagine what it would be like to cut the throats of animals for 8 hours a day? It’s a bloody, violent job, and nobody should have to do it. I do not know what that means that you know, we can participate in such cruelty, without paying attention to it, without caring about it, without wanting to do different.
Citizens want to assume that animals will be treated humanely that there are laws on the books to prevent cruelty. And people are usually surprised to learn that there aren’t. If people looked at what was happening, they would be appalled. Most people would not support the type of abuse that has become common on factory farms.
All right, you know, the common response is “Why is this happening?” And there is a very simple explanation for why it does happen. If you were to walk outside right now, if you walk down US1, walk further down, let’s say you come to a restaurant that just opened up, right? They are serving cats and dogs. That was the main item on the menu. How many of you would be out there right now, protesting? I guarantee, before the day would be over, you would have that place shut down, right?
Walk down the street a few blocks down, you come to a steakhouse, I do not see anybody protesting. I do not see that place being shut down. Why? Because we have been taught to perceive this animal to be different than this animal. And veganism is simply changing your perception. That’s it. That’s all it is. You just change your perception. We don’t have to participate in this. This is not necessary.
A lot of people will say to me, “What about, you know, if we just create better conditions.” What I am saying to you it is not necessary killing an animal. We do not have to kill animals. We don’t have to drink their milk, we do not have to eat their eggs. It’s just not necessary. I mean, people talk about humane slaughter. How do you slaughter something humanely? It’s that like when you rub their belly, you give them some milk and cookies, and chop their head off? If I did that to one of you, would everybody be like “Well at least he died humanely.” You can’t do anything violent, humanely. I mean, if I were to kind of humanely rob you? Humanely rape you? What does humane theft look like? Is that when I come up to you and say, “I need you to do me a favor? I need you to come up here and take your wallet, and put it on the table right here. Take all the credit cards, cash, everything put it on the table right there. Pretty pleased with a cherry on top.”Would that be humane theft?
I mean, would everybody be like that, “Hey, if I am going to be robbed, I want him to do it. He is pretty nice about it.” Of course not. Nobody wants to be robbed. Nobody wants to be killed. Nobody wants to be raped. It is not necessary. Think about it this way.
How many of you do not, do not own a fur coat? Raise your hand, if you do not own a fur coat. Yes, that’s what I thought. Why? Why don’t you own a fur coat. Because it’s cruel and unnecessary. What about if I said to you, “You know what, we are going to take some minks, raise them for furcoat, we are going to raise them, but you know, give them a lot of room, they are going to be cage free, free range, organic food, they are going to live like kings and queens. Until we kill them, of course.
You know, after a few weeks, a few months. They will not live to their natural age. But we are going to create humane fur. Would that be acceptable? Would you go out and buy a fur coat? No. Because it is not necessary. A fur coat is not necessary. Especially here in Florida. But it is not necessary anywhere. You do not need a fur coat to survive. You do not need to eat animals to survive. It is not necessary. It is just sugarcoating something. “Humane slaughter”
So, let’s take a look at what we are participating in. This is a battery cage. All right? It’s literally the size of a milk crate. Just like this. You take 4-6 hens, you put them in a crate this size. And you burn their beaks off. Why? Because in these conditions they become aggressive. Yeah it’d be like, if I take everybody in the first and second row, put you in that corner and sealed it off kept you there for you know, 48 hours straight, I guarantee you’re not going to remain friends for that long. You want more space. So they are denied the ability to do what’s natural to them, spread their wings, forage. So how does the industry solve this problem?
Cage free, free range, I mean that sounds pretty good. Who in this room does not want to live free, right? This is a cage free farm in Virginia. It’s just a label. It makes us feel better about what we are participating in but it means absolutely nothing to the animal. Cage free simply means you can take 500 hens and put them in this room. According to the industry that is cage free.
Question is, what is your definition of freedom? Does this apply? Now even on the old McDonalds farm that we all have stuck in our head, even if you find that magical farm, and good luck finding it, doesn’t matter. Because all male chicks born in the egg industry are thrown out. Literally. Why? It seems kind of wasteful. Why throw out the male chicks? They do not fit into the equation. They do not serve any purpose to the industry. So we cage them, we debeak them, we still cage them, call it freedom though, we can still debeak them under these conditions, and we throw out all the male chicks, whether it’s cage free, free range, or organic, all so we can have this.
Well, might as well get to know what it is. What is an egg? A lot of people think it’s a baby chick. It’s not a baby chick. Other people think it’s a fetus. It’s not a fetus. Not an embryo. Which is good, I don’t know anyone who would want to eat a fetus or an embryo in the first place. So what is it? Well, it’s an unfertilized egg. It does not sound that bad at all. All right.
Once a month, every woman in this room — well, maybe not every woman in this room sheds, or at some point sheds an unfertilized egg. What’s it called? Period. You are eating a hen period. It’s the menstruation cycle discharge of a hen. I am not going to eat a women’s period, why should I eat a hen’s period. There’s no need to eat any period from any living being. It’s disgusting, and you know, we should call it what it is.
I mean, when we were young, when we were kids, and our parents say, “Hey, do you want a scrambled hen’s period for breakfast?” Uhm, uhm, I’ll pass. It’s like honey. What is honey? Yeah, it’s vomit. It’s regurgitated throw-up. They throw up for themselves. They take the nectar, they digest it, and they throw up. And it’s for their own selves. They are not producing it for us. We call it honey, because who in their right mind would want to buy a product called “bee vomit”?
You know, you can vomit next to any product in the supermarket, I guarantee, it is not going to sell. It does not take a business expert to realize that. All right, what about milk? Even your “happy cows” in California are hooked up to machines. This is the way it is. All right?
Now, when does a cow start producing milk? During pregnancy, she starts lactating during pregnancy, right? I’ve been to a lot of schools, and I’ll get even high school teachers will say “Uhu! I did not know that.” I just thought it was this magical cow that produced milk. All mammals produce milk when they are pregnant. And how did she become pregnant? You know. We’d like to think they get to have sex, right? At the very least they get the pleasure of sex. But there is no sex in the farm. The farmer is not going to wait for the cow and bull to get it on. He’s not going to set the mood, light some candles, put on Barry White. It’s a business. He is running a business. And the business is not in the welfare of the animals, it’s on producing a profit.
So how do you get a cow pregnant? Without a bull? Artificially inseminate them. You know, artificially inseminate a woman without her consent, what would it be called? Rape. I’m not saying a woman is a cow but I am saying rape is rape. Just look up the definition of rape. Exerting your power over another sexually.
So what’s your definition of another? Does that only apply to women? How about men? How about other beings? Well, now she is pregnant. She gives birth. What happens to her baby? Taken away from her. All male calves born in the dairy industry, like if you were here in the beginning, the “Saving Billy”, all male calves born in the dairy industry are immediately taken away from their mother, chained by the neck to a crate, deprived of their mother’s milk, fed an inefficient diet, so that the body become anemic, so lack of iron. They will never be able to turn around, they will never see the light of day, every glass of milk supports this industry.
Some people say, well, veal is the cruelest industry or foie gras, where they shove a pipe down a duck’s throat. Cruelest industry? How do you put pain in some kind of like, “Okay, well it’s pretty bad right here, but it’s not so bad here.” Pain is pain. Suffering is suffering. Don’t categorize it. This is all suffering for these animals.
Why do they do that to the male calves? Just like the male chicks. They do not fit into the equation. They don’t produce the milk. If you are drinking cow’s milk, the only reason is because a calf chained to a box isn’t. Now, what about the female calves? They too will be taken away from their mother. Why? Why would the female calf, that would grow up to be like her mother which is in a constant cycle of impregnation, birth and milking, why would she be taken away from her mother? Right. We want the milk.
How do you think it makes the cow feel to have her baby towed away from her? Anybody is a parent, how would you feel if you had your baby towed away from you? All milk, whether it is organic, meaning they do not put in hormones and pesticides, it does not matter. All milk is stress milk. It is not something you pasteurize out of the milk. It’s part of it. Like it’s part of the meat. Part of the cheese. It’s part of what you’re drinking. It’s stress.
Now, biologically speaking, who is the cow producing milk for? Biologically speaking. Her baby – For her baby. Not for us. Just like, when your mom was pregnant with you, who was she producing the milk for? For you. It was not your daddy, it wasn’t the neighbor, it wasn’t your dog, or your cat. It was for you. All mammals produce milk for their young. Where do all these animals get their milk from? Their mother. And when do they stop consuming milk? We are the only species on this planet to take the milk from another animal, and we are the only species on this planet to continue drinking milk after infancy. If you really do not think it is that weird…Like people used to say to me “What, you do not eat cheese?” Cheese is just spoiled milk. “You do not eat cheese! You do not drink cow’s milk! That’s extreme! That’s crazy!”
Is it really that extreme to not take the milk from another animal? I mean, and if you don’t think it’s that extreme, if I brought a pregnant woman into the room right now, how many of you would want to drink her milk? You’re not. You’re not. You’re not a baby. It is extreme.
Now, if cow’s milk is meant for a calf, if cow’s milk is biologically meant for a calf, why would it be necessary for humans to drink it? It is not. Cow’s milk is no more necessary than drinking dog milk, chimp milk, pig milk, or elephant milk. The only milk you need was from your mother when you were a baby. You’re not a baby anymore. You’re not a cow. You are not a calf. What if I said to you, you walk into Publix, Whole Foods, Wing Dixie, maybe Wing Dixie more likely, and you come across not cow milk, but chimpanzee milk. That’s why I said Wing Dixie. No offense. I just, I can’t picture them out. I don’t know, maybe Whole Foods.
But, all right. So chimpanzee milk, right? How many of you would buy it? Probably not, right, it’s disgusting. Why would it be disgusting to take the milk from one animal, but not disgusting to take the milk from another animal? In fact, if you’re drinking cow’s milk and you find chimpanzee milk, I say, make the switch. It makes more sense. Why wouldn’t it make more sense to take the milk of a chimpanzee?
Look, if you’re going to take the milk from any animal wouldn’t you want to take the milk from an animal that shares 98% of our DNA, 99%? I mean, doesn’t that seem to be the logical conclusion? I choose you. That would seem the logical conclusion. What about your dog, if your dog was pregnant right now, and I said, “I pasteurize your dog’s milk” would you want to drink it? “It’s disgusting and absurd.” No more disgusting and absurd, than drinking cow’s milk, though.
In fact, if you have a dog, it actually makes more sense to drink dog milk than cow milk. Why is that? Well, how many of you have a large dog? Okay, how much does your dog weigh? 110 pounds. Wow, what kind of dog? American Bulldog.
There we go. 110 pounds. That’s pretty close to the human weight, right? 110 pounds. That seems to make sense. This animal weighs 2000 pounds. Why put a product meant for a 2000 pound animal into this? And the baby even does not know why. All right. A baby on average weighs 7 pounds at birth. I don’t know where I am supposed to be pointing this… It’s like a magical wand. Here we go.
A calf weighs 90 pounds at birth. At birth, 90 pounds. Baby, 7 pounds. Calf 90 pounds. The calf will grow to 500 pounds in under a year, in nine months. 410 pounds in under a year. What makes them grow so large, so fast? The milk. But of course, if it is not getting the milk, and if it not organic, what are they getting? Hormones. They are getting steroids. Again it’s not something you pasteurize out of the milk. And how do you keep animals healthy in these conditions? Pump them up with antibiotics. 70% of antibiotics produced in the U.S. are fed to farm animals. That is not good.
You know, do you wonder why so many people are dying in the hospitals? They get some infection and they take these antibiotics and they do not work anymore. So how do we justify, how do we actually justify putting a product meant for a 2000 pounds animal, they grow to 2000 pounds in two years, into this?
Well, the story. Once again the story justifies the action. Say it enough times, you convince yourself it’s the truth. Every story has an author. Who is the author of this story? Dairy industry. Right. And what is the ultimate goal of the dairy industry? Why would the dairy industry be some holier than thou company? I mean, if I said to you “Cigarettes, it does the body good!” You’d probably say I work for the cigarette company, right? None of us would believe that. Why believe this?
And if you believe that milk does the body good, why would 75% of the human population be lactose intolerant? Do you know that means, that 3 out of every 4 people on this planet, when they drink milk, they suffer from one of these symptoms: diarrhea, stomach ache, gassiness, bloating, ear infection, excess mucus. And that’s normal. If you suffer from any of these symptoms, stop drinking cow’s milk. Your body is trying to talk to you, your body is saying: “Look! I can’t do it anymore. Stop!”
Listen to your body. Your body knows best. Of course, the dairy industry will come up with a new product called what, lactate? They just put the enzyme. You see, the reason most people are lactose intolerant is because all mammals, and human beings are mammals, have an enzyme known as lactase. Put an ‘a’ right there. That enzyme breaks down the sugar known as lactose. As we mature, we lose that enzyme, so it’s normal to be lactose intolerant.
But of course, the dairy industry starts injecting the enzyme into it. 4That is not normal. That is not natural. And again, you are going against what your body is telling you. The dairy industry says, “Listen to us, we know better than your body.” They don’t. Your body knows best. You are your best doctor.
But, it must be good for kids, though, right? Because to every school I’ve been into, elementary, middle and high school, there is all one product being served. What product is that? Milk. What is the #1 cause of food allergies among infants and children? Anybody wants to take a wild guess? Cow’s milk. No, shit. All right.
So if most people on this planet can’t consume milk and most people, most children and infants, if they have an allergy, it’s from milk, cow’s milk, not peanuts, but cow’s milk. Why again are we drinking this? What have we been told? “Drink milk, get strong bones.” Does the body good — what does the body good? Calcium does the body good. The question is “Is this the best source of calcium?” Let’s find out.
Countries that consume the most milk. What countries drink the most milk? USA. I go into classrooms, and you get kids saying like “Florida”. Norway would be on this list as well.
What is osteoporosis? It’s a loss of bone density, it’s literally weak bones. Remember what have we been taught? “Drink cow’s milk, get strong bones” Which countries have the highest rate of osteoporosis? USA, UK, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Either it’s random coincidence, or there is more to it.
he more to it is this: Any product that comes from an animal has animal protein. That makes sense, animal products – animal protein. Well, that animal protein — the protein is the amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Those amino acids, which are good, unfortunately though, they are high in sulfur. So you want amino acids, but the problem with animal protein is that those amino acids are high in sulfur. When you put that in your body, your body becomes acidic. You’re making your body acidic, and your body is not meant to be acidic. It is meant to be alkaline, right?
The pH balance is going lower than what it should be. So how does your body compensate? Well, they have to neutralize the acidity. So what do they do? They start releasing calcium from the bones. So the more cow’s milk you drink, according to these statistics, the weaker your bones can actually become. The more animal protein you eat, the weaker your bones can actually become. In fact, if you look at countries in Africa and Asia, they don’t suffer from very high rates of osteoporosis. They also do not drink very much cow’s milk, if not at all. And they also do not eat as much animal protein.
Now, kids would say, “Yeah, but wait a second, what do I put on my cereal?” Problem solved. They die before you have a chance to diagnose them, that’s the problem. Right, it’s because this information is not out. I mean, it’s out there, but people aren’t being taught it. And this is basically the alternative perspective. And you can do your own research, and find out if what I am saying is valid or not.
But I mean, you can go with these alternative milks. A lot of people say, “Fake meats, and fake milks!” They are not fake, they are real. These are real products, and they come from plants. You have the soy milk, almond milk, rice milk, coconut milk, oat milk. You can do hemp milk, high in protein. So these are all alternatives that you can do. I know you have all heard about a taste test. Let’s do a health test.
So here we have the milk that comes from an animal. And here we have the milk that comes from a plant, the soybean. There is a 150 milligrams of calcium per half a glass in the cow’s milk. How much do you think there is in your soy milk? Same. 150. It’s the exact same in a half glass.
So, what’s the difference? Well, this comes from an animal, and once again, animal protein can leach calcium out of the bones, and all animal products, meat, dairy, eggs, fish, is high in cholesterol. It has cholesterol. And your body naturally makes cholesterol. You do not need to put more cholesterol into your body. So this has cholesterol, this doesn’t. All plant products don’t have any cholesterol. And all plant products, everything you see up here, everything you see over there on the table, fruits, vegetables, rice, beans, has fiber. So plants have fiber, no cholesterol. Animal products, no fiber, and high in cholesterol.
Then again, let’s do a health test. High in cholesterol, no fiber. High in fiber, no cholesterol. Which one do you think is the safer choice? I rest my case. But you do not have to do this. Human beings don’t really need to drink anything besides water. That’s really all we would need to be drinking. And you can have your orange juice or apple juice. But we just need water, and again, this is for the cereal. But you can get all your calcium from plants.
Just think about, what is the largest and strongest land animal on Earth? An elephant. It weighs 10000 pounds. Do you know what its diet consists of? That’s it! I do not know if he eats spinach, but it is plants. Are you going to tell an elephant that, that his bones look a little weak? He needs to be drinking the milk of a cow? You get all your calcium from this.
Now a lot of people say to me, “Ah, man, but you know what, I get it, man, I love my cheese, I cannot give up cheese.” I tell people this: if you’re going to give up any product, give up dairy. Dairy is the worst. The greatest trick ever pulled was convincing people they need to drink milk. Dairy is the worst.
In terms of the cruelty inflicted upon the animals, they suffer for a longer period of time, and it’s just completely unnatural and unhealthy. It’s unhealthy. And there is a reason why people love their cheese and their milk: it is meant to be addictive.
Just think about it, it might be hard, I can’t remember, but when we were younger, most likely we were nursing from our mother, right? From her milk. It has to be addictive. The child has to want to have more. Why? Because this is the greatest growth spurt in their life. This is the greatest growth spurt that you ever had when you were a baby drinking your mother’s milk. Same for all the animals.
And as we get older, our parents, including the animal parents, wean their children off of it. So you are supposed to desire it. You’re supposed to want it, and then you get weaned off of it. They are selling a product, it is addictive. It has a chemical called casomorphin. When you digest it, that chemical is released. Casomorphin is morphine. It makes you giddy. It makes you want more. It makes your brain think “Eat more, eat more”, and your body is saying, “I can’t, I can’t digest it properly.” So you’re addicted. And the first step to recovery is to acknowledge it.
68% of all diseases in the U.S. are diet related. This is a government statistics. What that means is that especially when I talk to a high school class where my audience is, 99% eating meat, dairy and eggs, if you don’t change your food choices you might become part of the statistics. It is what? 3 out of every 5 people. This is a government statistics.
In fact, one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. What are the top three? Cancer, heart disease, stroke. Diabetes is #6. Every 40 seconds somebody suffers a stroke in the U.S. And that’s the American Stroke Association.
The American Heart Association says that every 24 seconds somebody suffers a heart attack in the U.S. And the Institute for Cancer Research says that every day 3,400 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer. It’s 3400 people every day. New people. How many people in this room knows somebody or knew somebody who has or had cancer? Raise your hand! Look around you! Don’t you find this little disturbing? We might be living longer, but we are living longer with diseases that haven’t been around. That they are more rampant than they ever have been.
In fact, I’ve been reading that they say that the children today, the young generation today, will die at a younger age than their parents. Meaning that if your parents live until 75, they might die at 70. And we’re just going down. How is that possible? In fact, is the 68% coming from the image coming from the right or the left? Right.
Have you ever heard of somebody suffering a heart attack because they ate too much fruit and vegetables? It’s unheard of. A key to a healthy diet is a variety of foods and a variety of colors. How much variety do you really see? In fact, why, why is this causing most of the death and disease? Because despite what we have been told, despite what we have been taught, we look nothing like omnivores, biologically speaking. We do not look anything like carnivores. We look identical, biologically speaking, to our brother from another mother. We look like gorillas. We look like the great apes.
We look like the horses, the cows, the giraffes, the elephants, the zebras. How so? Our teeth. Not my teeth, though. Canines. I love when people say, “What about our canines?” Really? You really think they are very sharp? If we had sharp canines, like our cats and dogs, and if you really think you have canine teeth that are sharp, take a look at your cat or dog. Would we be using knives and forks if we had these, right? We have more teeth. Why? We chew our food!
Tonight, when you’re feeding your cat or dog, notice what they do. Limited chewing, mostly swallowing. Our jaw goes like this. We grind our food. Their jaw opens up wide. In fact, if you want to know what humane slaughter looks like, here it is.
Look at the animal kingdom. The fastest land animal is the cheetah. Goes 70 miles per hour. Now a tiger can go about, I think it’s about 35-40 miles per hour, pretty quick. Then you have the deer, the antelope, the gazelle, not as fast. So you have carnivores, tiger, cheetah, jaguar, and then you have the deer, the antelope, and the gazelle. So herbivores, carnivores.
Now, the carnivores are quicker. But what’s the difference here? We got on the right side, I guess it is on your left side. The carnivores are all the track and field stars. Quick sprint, out of breath. They don’t have very much endurance. On the left side, or again, the right side for you, this would be the herbivores, which don’t have as much speed, but they have more endurance. They are the cross country runners.
So, what we like to assume, or maybe not what we like to assume, but logic would say, that the faster animal will always get his prey. But that’s not the case. Because you have track and field versus cross country. So that means that a tiger is only successful in a hunt 20% of the time. That means 8 out of 10 deer will escape the slaughter. So what kind of deer will the tiger be able to capture? The sick, the weak, the injured, the lost, the old, the young. This animal weeds out the weak. We’re not doing anything like that.
In fact, if we were meant to be on the top of the food chain, don’t you think we would have some claws to rip through flesh? If I brought a pig into the room, and ask you to kill the pig with your claws, the pig would probably enjoy it more than anything else.
And this is perhaps most important. Your intestines, and Simba would be my representative. Small intestines, large intestines, also known as the colon. Small, large. Now your intestines combined, large and small, make up 10 times your body size. Your body being from your mouth to the anus, which is about 3 feet. And multiply that by 10, and you have 30 feet of intestines in your stomach. It’s from that wall through that the door. 30 feet of intestines in your stomach.
Carnivores, omnivores, about 3 to 6 times their body length. So let’s say that Simba’s it would be about anywhere from 15 to 20 feet. 30 feet, 15 feet. Whose food gets traveled out quicker? Simba’s which is good. Because you can call it bacon as much as you want, but once it is in your body, it is no longer bacon. It’s decomposing flesh. It’s bacteria, and it builds up. And they have, by the way, 10 times the amount of hydrochloric acid to break it down. So we don’t even have the pH balance and the enzymes to break it down properly.
So what happens? It leads to clogged arteries. Which leads to heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity. Have you ever heard of a tiger suffering from high blood pressure? High cholesterol? Strokes? Obesity? You know why these animals don’t suffer from these diseases? Because they eat what is natural to their anatomy.
When it comes to diet, we are the dumbest species on this planet. What are these two things have in common? Mercury. In fact, there is a warning label on fish. I do not know if you’ve ever seen it. Do you know what it says? Certain people should not consume it. Men or women? Pregnant women, right. Hopefully it’s not a pregnant man. “Pregnant, nursing women, or women who may become pregnant, young children should not be eating the following fish including tuna, because nearly all fish in the sea contain a certain amount of mercury, chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, and reproductive harm.”
What else does the government tell women not to consume when they are pregnant? Alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. So basically the government says, “Hey, look, if you think about becoming pregnant lay off the drugs for a little bit, and stop eating fish.” If it can do that much harm to a woman, why would anybody want to consume it? And do I really need to say at this point, do any one of us want to touch any food that comes from the sea? All you got to do is turn on the news. Open up a newspaper, what do you see? Oil spill.
Why, why would you want to put this…? And here is how it works. You take the small fish in the Gulf right now. Very little, small fish. That small fish is, inevitably will swallow some oil. It’s going to swim further out. They are miles away from the spill. And the will get eaten by a larger fish. And that larger fish is now contaminated, and will swim out even further. And that larger fish will get eaten by an even larger fish. Now that even larger fish is contaminated with oil. And then we catch that even larger fish and we eat it. Cooking the animal is not going to get rid of the oil, it becomes part of the meat.
So why do we consume it, though? Why do we consume this flesh of an animal? We have we been told, “you need to eat meat to get… protein.” Protein, right? How many grams of protein are we supposed to get? Does anybody know? In terms of grams per day? It would be about, World Health Organization says, 40 to 50. About that. 40 would be for the average female adult, 50 would be for the average male adult.
But it’s funny, we don’t tell that to kids. I only learned this recently myself, too. Going through my whole life, and never really bothering to find out. And nobody ever bothered to tell me. It’s like saying, “Here, have the keys to my car, go pick up some stuff for me, go get my groceries.” But I didn’t teach you how to drive the car. Teaching kids, “You got to eat it”, but not teaching them how, or how much.
Now, again, let me show you how easy it is to get protein. Especially here in the United States. Your standard American diet for breakfast, you got your bacon, you got your cow’s milk, and you got your hen periods. How many slices of bacon would you want? I know you might not eat bacon now, but how many slices do you remember as a kid, maybe? Maybe 2? Each slice is 5 grams. Two times five.
How many eggs would you want? 2? Each egg has 6 grams. So what are we at? 10 + 12 is 22. How many glass of milk? One glass. Each glass has 8 grams. So you are at what? 30. We are not even done with breakfast, this is not including the toast with cow’s butter you might put on it. So, you are not even done with breakfast, and you are almost at the limit. The average American does not need to worry about getting enough protein, they need to worry about getting too much protein. That’s why the U.S. has the highest rates of obesity in the entire world.
And people always tell me, “Jesus. What? You do not eat meat? Where do you get your protein from?” Like all of a sudden, “Holy shit, it’s all of a sudden dawned on me, I have been without protein in the last 8 years. Let ‘s go to McDonalds and get a Big Mac!” Like, I am about to fall down or something. Or pass out.
Have you ever heard of somebody in the U.S. suffering from a lack of protein and going to the hospital? It’s unheard of. It’s funny, even dealing with kids, I have a kid say, “I tried to go vegan for a day, and I got really sick.” What? It’s like people they know somebody who is vegan who is sick. Really? I know tons of meat eaters who are sick. Yes, you can be an unhealthy vegan.
What I am telling you is it does not matter if you are eating meat, milk, dairy and fish or you are eating a plant based diet, you should know what you’re putting into your body. You should know how many grams of protein you are getting the amount of iron, calcium that you are getting. By the way, people say omega-3 from fish. You can get that from the seeds, the nuts. You can get that from other things. Flax seed is a very good example.
Think about this: these are the largest and strongest land animals on Earth. What does their diet consist of? Plants! You’re in good company, if you’re only eating plants. And what is so ironic about this is that the largest and strongest land animals not only do they just eat a plant based diet, they also live the longest. This animal can live up to 70 years. They can live to about 50 to 60 years, the gorilla about 50 years in the wild. And their diet consists of nothing but plants.
Are you going to tell any of them they are missing out on protein? This animal has 10 times the upper body strength of the average male adult. And where is he getting all his protein from? From this. His diet consists of roots, shoots, bamboo and banana. He is getting all his calcium, all his iron, all his vitamins, all his minerals, the amino acids from this. You get everything.
Here is the new food pyramid. There are two things. Your body is like a machine. Think of your body as a machine. You have to put the proper fuels in it to get it to work properly. If you don’t put the proper fuels, it aint going to work. And if you put fuels that aren’t as good quality as others, that will lead to heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol. It’s like, if you take a Porsche, and you fill it up with diesel, what happens? You just screwed your car up, right?
And I guarantee what are people going to say to you, when you say, I put diesel in my car today. Do you know what they’re going to say to you? I guarantee they are going to say what the fuck is wrong with you? No offense.
When somebody puts a hamburger in their mouth, nobody says what the fuck is wrong, stop! Stop! You get everything. I know I said to think your body as a machine, now think of your body as a house. I love analogies. Think of your body as a house. To build a house you have to start with the foundation, you can’t start with the roof.
Here is the foundation. This is the foundation. This is where all of it starts. The fruits and vegetables. Key to a healthy diet is a variety of foods, a variety of colors. You get everything from this. And then you build your walls with the legumes, the beans. And you got the whole grains, the wheat, the pasta, the spaghetti, the rice, the breads, and on top, your roof, you get your nuts and seeds. You can get everything from this, everything.
All your vitamins, A, B, C. Vitamin D from the sun. You get all your calcium , all your iron, your omega-3, all your protein and amino acids. Everything from this, everything.
Now I know I am a skinny white dude with glasses telling you to get enough protein, but these guys aren’t skinny. Only one of them is white. So as you can see these guys, their diet consists of no meat, no dairy, no eggs, no fish. There might be some variations. Tony Gonzalez, he might be eating fish. Don’t hold me to it. But I know Prince Fielder, who is the 2009 home run derby king, no meat, no dairy, no eggs, no fish. Mac Danzig, who fights in the ultimate fighter, he is a season 1 champion, UFC fighter, no meat, no dairy, no eggs, no fish. So you can still excel at your sports.
You can still gain muscle mass on a plant based diet. Again, just remember the gorilla. So what do they eat? Instead of dairy everything a meat eater, a dairy eater, an egg eater eats, I eat as well, that just comes in plant form. No cruelty involved, no cholesterol, high in fiber. And these are all the processed food. This is the transition food. This is where you go when you go from eating meat and you make that switch.
Instead of poultry. Instead of beef. Garden burger, veggie burger. Right here what you see up here, this is one of the best items on the market. Again, not the healthiest food in the world, but certainly better than your meat. This is called the Riblets. I want you to try it.
If you haven’t tried this, go to Publix, Whole Foods, and get all this food at Publix and Whole Foods. It is really amazing. If you try it out on your family, you tell them it’s meat, I’d love to see the response they give. It really is good stuff.
And remember, all meat, dairy and egg products go through a process. It doesn’t just magically form. In this case, the process involves killing, cooking, pasteurization, refrigeration, freezing, and we cannot forget the all important seasoning.
I remember going to McDonald’s as a child, and I didn’t just get a slab of meat. A slab of meat had herbs and spices put into it, was put on the grill, cooked, and then it came to me with a bun, lettuce, tomatoes, ketchup, mustard and onions. And a pickle. What all those things are made of? Plants. We put condiments, spice and herbs on the meat to make it taste better, in fact, what would meat be without plants? It would just be a dead animal. Would be a carcass on your plate. It would be no different from road kill.
So the word of the day is “Vegan”. A vegan is somebody who chooses not to eat any meat, dairy, eggs or fish. And again, how is this extreme? How is it extreme not to be drinking the milk of any other species? How is it extreme not to be eating hen periods? How is it extreme not to be participating in a system that unnecessarily kills animals? A lot of kids say, even after all this, they are still like “What do I eat as vegan”?
Now, all these products are vegan. There is no meat, no dairy, no eggs. But this is all crap. This is unhealthy. This is the junk food vegan. Now the kids get all excited and say “All right, I am going vegan!” And just God knows what they are telling the parents. If your diet consists of nothing but Oreos, Skittles, Airheads, Fritos, Sour Patch Kids, and Big League Chew you are going to die. This is not healthy. I do not know if kids hear that. “I am going to live.”
On a healthier note you have your scrambled eggs, I have my scrambled tofu. Pancakes. You don’t have to use cow’s milk, use soy milk, oat milk , rice milk, almond milk, coconut milk, hemp milk. Fruits and vegetables. Spaghetti. Pasta. Refried beans. Even have vegan sour cream, Guacamole, comes from the avocado. Soy cheese. Rice cheese.
They even have this magical cheese I’ll get to in a sec. Veggie burger. Veggie dog. Cupcakes, they have egg replacer. I think I got them here. So you can replace the eggs with bananas, applesauce even. You can use soy milk, oat milk, more flour, water. Coconut milk ice cream. One of the best ice creams in the world. Again, it’s not healthy, but healthier than cow milk ice cream.
I’ve always said to people, “Wait a minute, if you can put a man or a woman on the moon, how hard is it to make a cheese that doesn’t come from a cow, or a goat? How is it hard to make a vegan cheese?” Well, they heard me. This is called a Daiya cheese actually, and it’s great thing. No soy, no rice. It’s made actually out of tapioca and arrowroot flour. I know that’s not making your mouth water, but man, it is good.
Here is another example of where you can get your protein from. This is a vegan sausage. It’s about that big, the size of this remote. There is 4 in a package. Each one of these has 29 grams of protein. Again, the healthiest food you can eat is whole foods. I don’t mean the supermarket. I mean the fruits, the vegetables, the rice, the beans, stuff that’s fresh. That is not processed.
And the last thing I want to show you is another video. It is a happier video. And this is the whole idea of change in perception. I know I am keeping you here, longer than you probably wanted. But this is a really beautiful story. And I hope you enjoy it.
On the night of September 18, 2007 a cow was spotted on the streets of Queens. She was tagged for slaughter, but she escaped that fate and literally ran for her life. Police and firefighters captured her and brought her to Animal Care & Control in Manhattan. From there, Farm Sanctuary’s rescue team stepped in. Maxine’s dash for freedom. There she is, beautiful girl.
She was tagged for slaughter, and it would have been her fate. But she wanted to live and so she really ran for her life and now she’ll live out her life in the Sanctuary. It is interesting how the public responds when one individual animal makes a run for her life. They end up making headlines on national news. People’s hearts goes out to this one individual animal. The cruelty that happens to farm animals is largely hidden behind factory farm walls. And people aren’t aware of that.
When you look in her eyes, everyone wants the best for her. Once they get to know her, and when people are able to identify with an individual and look her in the eye and see that she is living, feeling being who has a will to live, then people care. I have been working here with Animal Care and Control for almost nine years. This morning was really astonishing to me. All of a sudden it dawned on me, this sweet, innocent cow running away from being slaughtered. And I’ve never been thought about it before, that something is actually being slaughtered, and it is my ground beef, and it is my steak, and stuff like that. And we have been eating this for years, I never pictured that face on that. And it hurt. I can’t do that anymore.
So, now, we are all working on not eating meat. Me and my entire family. Because I am realizing that this is a life we saved today. And with my family we will be saving a couple more. Thank you.
She is about a year old absolutely beautiful Hereford. And those unfortunately are cows that are used for meat. She was most likely at a live market and because they have a very strong will to live, like any living creature, she got loose. She had a will to live, and she did it. Hello!
When she is going now, she is going to have cows of her own breed even. She is going to be so happy. When the trailer arrives, the cows in the herd will moo. Yeah. They will moo in a big line. Everybody lines up. They will start mooing to her to comfort her and to tell her that they are there. And she will moo back.
Any animal, any creature has a strong will to live. She is an ambassador for all animals, who are still suffering in slaughterhouses and on farms, and who don’t have such a lucky outcome. People love a happy ending and it’s happy. After medical care and observation, Maxine explores her new freedom at Farm Sanctuary. I’ve seen that like a hundred times and I still get goosebumps. It’s simple, you know. It is unnecessary. It doesn’t have to be this way. You change your perception. You change the story. That’s all it is, the changing of the story. And we cannot wait for other people to do it, we have to do it ourselves.
Every animal wants to live, every animal wants to live, and no animal wants to experience pain. If you guys want more information, you can always email me at james@arff.org
You can visit our website for all of this information www.arff.org
We are giving these presentations throughout the year, this is on obviously every last Sunday of the month. I give these presentations here at Sublime 536-30. But also, we go to juvenile detention centers, we go to high schools. We do other many different presentations on different subjects as well, right now I am spending most of my time in camps. It has been very nice not to have to say, “If you can hear my voice, clap once”. or “Do not put that in your mouth or your ear.” So yes, if you want more information about what we do, all these presentations are free. They’re all for free. We give them free. So if you are interested in having a presentation at your school, if you’re a teacher, at some community event that you might be running, we do everything. It doesn’t matter what it is. Birthday parties, Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, circumcision. Maybe not the circumcision. Also I do want to say, there is a lot of information out there, we have starter kits, we have “”why vegan?”. It’s a talk about the ethical aspect of veganism.
There is also again more information on the Animal Rights Foundation. This is a card. This has a list of all the veg friendly restaurants in South Florida, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, definitely take one of these. It’s all out there on the table. This is my card as well. If you have any questions, you can come and see me.
If you did not, print out the email on the sublime list, and you want 10 dollars off tonight, it’s only for the table. I apologize for that. But it’s for the table. So not everybody at the table get this. Or no, you know what, I am wrong, I am totally wrong. It’s for two. So if you have a group of four people, you will get two of these. And thank you guys for listening. I hope you enjoyed it.
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