[Music]
can you remember the first time you went
away without your parents in 97 a few
months before lady died in a car crash I
went to London with my classmates and
the weather was beautiful and at the end
of the trip on the last day we got some
postcards to write to our families back
in France and at the end of the day I
noticed one of the teachers who was
usually joking around with us started
looking very worried and when he pulled
me aside my heart stopped I knew before
he told me my father died that they
struck down at 57 brain cancer back then
a lot of people said he was too young to
die and then a lot of people also
started sharing their own story and how
they too lost someone they loved too
early so raise your hand if you too have
lost someone you love too soon right
let’s way too many of us and I always
thought it was part of life until I got
pregnant with my daughter so when the
doctors asked very casually if there was
any kind of disease history in my family
at first my reaction was very confident
and I said actually we’re good we have
pretty good genes but then I added well
my dad died of brain cancer and that was
the beginning I started to question how
someone who wasn’t a smoker didn’t drink
alcohol and who had no disease history
in his family could get cancer and I was
becoming a mother I wanted to learn if
there was something I could do to live
as long and as well as possible so I
started looking into it
at first I just wanted to learn a few
health tips and I had no intention to
change any of my habits I was just like
you but then I kept learning and at some
point I felt a shift and then a
responsibility as well so this is why
I’m here today to tell that story so
that you or your loved ones don’t have
to tell it one day because all these
years that I’ve studied and worked no
one ever came to me with information I’m
about to share so cancer is on the rise
everywhere in the world but according to
the National Cancer Institute only five
to ten percent of cancers are genetic so
what about the 90 to 95 percent of them
right so before the 60s no one believed
that smoking cigarettes cause cancer
actually cigarettes were advertised and
they were endorsed by doctors and
celebrities and it took a while before
the World Health Organization classified
it as causing cancer it took decades and
it took thousands of studies and then
the education campaigns and the the
smoking bans started now today we are
consuming products that are advertised
just like cigarette and just like
cigarette
they are also causing cancer so two
years ago the World Health Organization
classified processed meats which is any
meat organic or not that goes through a
modification process to become bacon ham
sausage cold cuts as causing cancer and
according to them red meat probably
causes cancer too so it’s not just a
meat actually we now know that all
animal protein including protein from
fish dairy and eggs actually have
adverse health effects according to an
American Association of cancer research
all animal protein boost the levels of
growth hormone igf-1 which basically
means that animal protein both feeds and
promotes cancer in the human body
and it’s not just cancer actually these
animal products are also linked to all
chronic disease including heart disease
and strokes diabetes some autoimmune and
some degenerative disease like
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson so together
chronic disease killed over 30 million
people every year imagine the entire
population of Shanghai and Singapore
dying every year and only a very small
fraction is genetic so we spend billions
if not trillions to fight terrorism and
here we have a problem that kills a
thousand times more and we do very
little to educate people and to prevent
90 to 95% of these deaths
so what if we had the tools and the
knowledge to actually save our loved
ones from dying too soon the thing is we
do so the data is clear it’s the food so
now actually last year how about
researchers concluded that replacing
animal protein with bland protein was
associated with lower mortality
basically if a Whole Foods plant-based
diet was appealed it could prevent and
even cure almost all heart disease and
strokes most cancers and type-2 by
diabetes but you don’t have to take a
pill and you don’t have to wait to be
sick to take your health seriously so
I’m not gonna lie I used to think that
healthy eating was boring and difficult
and now I really wish I knew sooner that
it actually can be really delicious and
that it’s easy so what I did is I looked
up you know some some blogs some videos
some books and I started to find recipes
that I would really enjoy all sunbaes
all health promoting and all enjoyable
for the foodie that I am and actually
really quickly I started feeling much
better so what happens to you when you
start eating this way is you start
feeling a lot more energy better
digestion better sleep
clear skin clear mind I actually get a
lot less sick than before food is
medicine it’s very very powerful I know
some people that cure the lifelong
condition of asthma of eczema or even of
arthritis just by ditching dairy so how
do you get started a lot of people tell
me oh you know how do I start and what
happens you know when I go out it’s so
inconvenient well actually when we eat
artists it’s just like any other day you
know most people I know
rarely although exactly what is on the
menu so it goes like this
if there’s no option on the menu for me
I just ask can I have this pasta without
cheese please done
easy so my advice to start a healthy
lifestyle in the whole food by my side
is actually to start with breakfast find
your perfect breakfast something that
you really enjoy whether it is a bowl of
fruits a bowl of oatmeal with a
plant-based milk or an avocado toast or
noodles whatever you fancy having in the
morning and then when when you have
nailed down your breakfast and you can
focus on your lunch and then on your
dinner all the nutrients we need are
there but I’m not here to talk about a
diet because the foods that are making
us sick are also destroying the planet
so let’s talk about climate change we
hear a lot about the burning of fossil
fuels and that terrible effects but
chances are you’re probably not hearing
a lot about the number one cause of
climate change actually animal
agriculture is responsible for win house
gas emission deforestation is the
leading cause of water pollution
wildlife extinction and water droughts
we are facing massive food security
issues and empty oceans 30 years from
now there’s a consensus among the
world’s top environmental experts that
unless we shift 50% of animal-based food
to plant alternatives over the next few
years then we are facing catastrophic
climate change so eating animals today
is not just dangerous it’s also clearly
unsustainable it takes an enormous
amount of food
of grain of lenss and of water to
produce just a little bit of food for a
few people so when you think about it it
doesn’t make sense so one thing I
learned along my journey is that we
actually produce enough to feed 10
billion people but every single day
50,000 men women and children die of
hunger and most of them actually starve
in countries where food is produced
countries like the Philippines Brazil
Cambodia but it’s fed to animals instead
so in my eyes this is the biggest food
scandal ever somehow we managed to find
food to feed 50 billion animals but we
cannot feed 800 million humans and we
leave them to starve this is a choice
and we can choose to eat the foods that
feed more people not less we can choose
to feed humans first in a short time I
change the way I eat just under two
years I contributed to saving 2 million
liters of water 12,000 kilos of grains
and thousands of square meters of forest
and the thing is I’m not even special
anyone can do that
so imagine living in a world with less
pollution less waste more green clean
water that is the future I want for my
daughter and I want her to wake up to
the news one day we did it world hunger
is over it’s done this can happen the
same foods that can heal us and save us
can save the planet but how do we get
there
you probably heard before if you want to
change the world you need to change
yourself and I know change is a scary
word but it’s not scary if you focus on
the future and on what you will gain
change actually is a natural part of El
evolution and change sometime is just
becoming who you are so along my journey
I realized something I always loved
animals
I lived in China for a while and when I
was there I rescued dogs and cats from
the streets because you probably heard
but some people eat dogs and cats there
and for years I thought I was doing my
best until one day I realized that I was
saving some animals from being eaten but
I was eating other animals myself and
that was my shift how could I so as
children we actually taught that some
lives are worth more than others we are
conditioned to think that some lives
don’t matter it sounds familiar doesn’t
it
we thought that violence is part of the
circle of life
that it is necessary but that knows
that’s not true it’s just not true it is
not the circle of life to exploit and
enslave to cut and mutilate to suffocate
to drown to gas and to slaughter it is
not the circle of life to force cows to
be pregnant over and over and take their
babies away from them as soon as they
are born so that we can take their milk
to make cheese look it up I invite you
to question your choices the truth is
all animals whether they had a happy or
a miserable life they all fight for
their lives when they arrive in the
slaughterhouse
all of them in the short time that I am
speaking today to millions of them will
fight for their lives and be killed and
it’s billions of them every single year
but wait a minute
for foods we don’t need for foods that
make
sic and for foods that are destroying
the planet so what are we doing
we need to snap out of it right so some
of you may be animal lovers yet just
like I used to
you’re eating them too some of you may
start to realize that actually dogs cats
dolphins swans cows pigs fish and
chickens they’re not so different and in
the end they all suffer just the same
now some of you may think that animals
are worthless that they don’t deserve
our time and attention you know because
we are superior let me tell you one
thing a bully is superior but a
protector is strong I don’t see just
animals I see a vulnerable being someone
defenseless and whether it is a person a
child or an animal I will take a stand
for them that’s just who I am and I’m
not the only one it is in all of us we
are all born with empathy we are all
born vegan and we are starting to
remember your true nature there is an
awakening today and movement with
millions of us millions of people just
like you and I are starting to try and
live their lives more consciously even
when our society tells us otherwise even
when it’s not convenient
not everyone is there yet but a lot of
people will be and for those of you who
are fighting this idea today I invite
you to question your choices and keep
learning you know anyone can start with
breakfast tomorrow with dinner tonight
or you can even start with a soy latte
so along my journey I realized something
but I had the right information to save
my father only 20 years too late
and it sounds strange but it actually
empowers me because it’s not too late
for everyone it’s not too late for the
planet and it’s not too late for the
animals the circle of life is about
eating foods that are good for our body
good for our health
that make us thrive that are good for
the planet and sustainable that are more
equal and more just and ultimately these
are the foods that resonate with our
heart because you know that’s what we
are we are all human and we all share
deep down this heart and we are good
people so every time we eat we have a
choice we can choose health over disease
joy over pain peace over violence
equality over injustice and we can
choose life over death and the sum of
our choices will decide which world we
get to live in the old world is sick
blind and backwards it relies on
violence discrimination and it
disconnected us from one another and
there is another world deeply rooted in
all of us this new world is kind
compassionate it’s healthy and it is
forward-thinking this new world is
courageous and it is desperately calling
for heroes it is calling for you so
please everyone I want to ask you to put
your hand on your heart now don’t be shy
please do it
alright this new world is calling for
you can you hear it
deep inside thank you
[Applause]
can you remember the first time you went
away without your parents in 97 a few
months before lady died in a car crash I
went to London with my classmates and
the weather was beautiful and at the end
of the trip on the last day we got some
postcards to write to our families back
in France and at the end of the day I
noticed one of the teachers who was
usually joking around with us started
looking very worried and when he pulled
me aside my heart stopped I knew before
he told me my father died that they
struck down at 57 brain cancer back then
a lot of people said he was too young to
die and then a lot of people also
started sharing their own story and how
they too lost someone they loved too
early so raise your hand if you too have
lost someone you love too soon right
let’s way too many of us and I always
thought it was part of life until I got
pregnant with my daughter so when the
doctors asked very casually if there was
any kind of disease history in my family
at first my reaction was very confident
and I said actually we’re good we have
pretty good genes but then I added well
my dad died of brain cancer and that was
the beginning I started to question how
someone who wasn’t a smoker didn’t drink
alcohol and who had no disease history
in his family could get cancer and I was
becoming a mother I wanted to learn if
there was something I could do to live
as long and as well as possible so I
started looking into it
at first I just wanted to learn a few
health tips and I had no intention to
change any of my habits I was just like
you but then I kept learning and at some
point I felt a shift and then a
responsibility as well so this is why
I’m here today to tell that story so
that you or your loved ones don’t have
to tell it one day because all these
years that I’ve studied and worked no
one ever came to me with information I’m
about to share so cancer is on the rise
everywhere in the world but according to
the National Cancer Institute only five
to ten percent of cancers are genetic so
what about the 90 to 95 percent of them
right so before the 60s no one believed
that smoking cigarettes cause cancer
actually cigarettes were advertised and
they were endorsed by doctors and
celebrities and it took a while before
the World Health Organization classified
it as causing cancer it took decades and
it took thousands of studies and then
the education campaigns and the the
smoking bans started now today we are
consuming products that are advertised
just like cigarette and just like
cigarette
they are also causing cancer so two
years ago the World Health Organization
classified processed meats which is any
meat organic or not that goes through a
modification process to become bacon ham
sausage cold cuts as causing cancer and
according to them red meat probably
causes cancer too so it’s not just a
meat actually we now know that all
animal protein including protein from
fish dairy and eggs actually have
adverse health effects according to an
American Association of cancer research
all animal protein boost the levels of
growth hormone igf-1 which basically
means that animal protein both feeds and
promotes cancer in the human body
and it’s not just cancer actually these
animal products are also linked to all
chronic disease including heart disease
and strokes diabetes some autoimmune and
some degenerative disease like
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson so together
chronic disease killed over 30 million
people every year imagine the entire
population of Shanghai and Singapore
dying every year and only a very small
fraction is genetic so we spend billions
if not trillions to fight terrorism and
here we have a problem that kills a
thousand times more and we do very
little to educate people and to prevent
90 to 95% of these deaths
so what if we had the tools and the
knowledge to actually save our loved
ones from dying too soon the thing is we
do so the data is clear it’s the food so
now actually last year how about
researchers concluded that replacing
animal protein with bland protein was
associated with lower mortality
basically if a Whole Foods plant-based
diet was appealed it could prevent and
even cure almost all heart disease and
strokes most cancers and type-2 by
diabetes but you don’t have to take a
pill and you don’t have to wait to be
sick to take your health seriously so
I’m not gonna lie I used to think that
healthy eating was boring and difficult
and now I really wish I knew sooner that
it actually can be really delicious and
that it’s easy so what I did is I looked
up you know some some blogs some videos
some books and I started to find recipes
that I would really enjoy all sunbaes
all health promoting and all enjoyable
for the foodie that I am and actually
really quickly I started feeling much
better so what happens to you when you
start eating this way is you start
feeling a lot more energy better
digestion better sleep
clear skin clear mind I actually get a
lot less sick than before food is
medicine it’s very very powerful I know
some people that cure the lifelong
condition of asthma of eczema or even of
arthritis just by ditching dairy so how
do you get started a lot of people tell
me oh you know how do I start and what
happens you know when I go out it’s so
inconvenient well actually when we eat
artists it’s just like any other day you
know most people I know
rarely although exactly what is on the
menu so it goes like this
if there’s no option on the menu for me
I just ask can I have this pasta without
cheese please done
easy so my advice to start a healthy
lifestyle in the whole food by my side
is actually to start with breakfast find
your perfect breakfast something that
you really enjoy whether it is a bowl of
fruits a bowl of oatmeal with a
plant-based milk or an avocado toast or
noodles whatever you fancy having in the
morning and then when when you have
nailed down your breakfast and you can
focus on your lunch and then on your
dinner all the nutrients we need are
there but I’m not here to talk about a
diet because the foods that are making
us sick are also destroying the planet
so let’s talk about climate change we
hear a lot about the burning of fossil
fuels and that terrible effects but
chances are you’re probably not hearing
a lot about the number one cause of
climate change actually animal
agriculture is responsible for win house
gas emission deforestation is the
leading cause of water pollution
wildlife extinction and water droughts
we are facing massive food security
issues and empty oceans 30 years from
now there’s a consensus among the
world’s top environmental experts that
unless we shift 50% of animal-based food
to plant alternatives over the next few
years then we are facing catastrophic
climate change so eating animals today
is not just dangerous it’s also clearly
unsustainable it takes an enormous
amount of food
of grain of lenss and of water to
produce just a little bit of food for a
few people so when you think about it it
doesn’t make sense so one thing I
learned along my journey is that we
actually produce enough to feed 10
billion people but every single day
50,000 men women and children die of
hunger and most of them actually starve
in countries where food is produced
countries like the Philippines Brazil
Cambodia but it’s fed to animals instead
so in my eyes this is the biggest food
scandal ever somehow we managed to find
food to feed 50 billion animals but we
cannot feed 800 million humans and we
leave them to starve this is a choice
and we can choose to eat the foods that
feed more people not less we can choose
to feed humans first in a short time I
change the way I eat just under two
years I contributed to saving 2 million
liters of water 12,000 kilos of grains
and thousands of square meters of forest
and the thing is I’m not even special
anyone can do that
so imagine living in a world with less
pollution less waste more green clean
water that is the future I want for my
daughter and I want her to wake up to
the news one day we did it world hunger
is over it’s done this can happen the
same foods that can heal us and save us
can save the planet but how do we get
there
you probably heard before if you want to
change the world you need to change
yourself and I know change is a scary
word but it’s not scary if you focus on
the future and on what you will gain
change actually is a natural part of El
evolution and change sometime is just
becoming who you are so along my journey
I realized something I always loved
animals
I lived in China for a while and when I
was there I rescued dogs and cats from
the streets because you probably heard
but some people eat dogs and cats there
and for years I thought I was doing my
best until one day I realized that I was
saving some animals from being eaten but
I was eating other animals myself and
that was my shift how could I so as
children we actually taught that some
lives are worth more than others we are
conditioned to think that some lives
don’t matter it sounds familiar doesn’t
it
we thought that violence is part of the
circle of life
that it is necessary but that knows
that’s not true it’s just not true it is
not the circle of life to exploit and
enslave to cut and mutilate to suffocate
to drown to gas and to slaughter it is
not the circle of life to force cows to
be pregnant over and over and take their
babies away from them as soon as they
are born so that we can take their milk
to make cheese look it up I invite you
to question your choices the truth is
all animals whether they had a happy or
a miserable life they all fight for
their lives when they arrive in the
slaughterhouse
all of them in the short time that I am
speaking today to millions of them will
fight for their lives and be killed and
it’s billions of them every single year
but wait a minute
for foods we don’t need for foods that
make
sic and for foods that are destroying
the planet so what are we doing
we need to snap out of it right so some
of you may be animal lovers yet just
like I used to
you’re eating them too some of you may
start to realize that actually dogs cats
dolphins swans cows pigs fish and
chickens they’re not so different and in
the end they all suffer just the same
now some of you may think that animals
are worthless that they don’t deserve
our time and attention you know because
we are superior let me tell you one
thing a bully is superior but a
protector is strong I don’t see just
animals I see a vulnerable being someone
defenseless and whether it is a person a
child or an animal I will take a stand
for them that’s just who I am and I’m
not the only one it is in all of us we
are all born with empathy we are all
born vegan and we are starting to
remember your true nature there is an
awakening today and movement with
millions of us millions of people just
like you and I are starting to try and
live their lives more consciously even
when our society tells us otherwise even
when it’s not convenient
not everyone is there yet but a lot of
people will be and for those of you who
are fighting this idea today I invite
you to question your choices and keep
learning you know anyone can start with
breakfast tomorrow with dinner tonight
or you can even start with a soy latte
so along my journey I realized something
but I had the right information to save
my father only 20 years too late
and it sounds strange but it actually
empowers me because it’s not too late
for everyone it’s not too late for the
planet and it’s not too late for the
animals the circle of life is about
eating foods that are good for our body
good for our health
that make us thrive that are good for
the planet and sustainable that are more
equal and more just and ultimately these
are the foods that resonate with our
heart because you know that’s what we
are we are all human and we all share
deep down this heart and we are good
people so every time we eat we have a
choice we can choose health over disease
joy over pain peace over violence
equality over injustice and we can
choose life over death and the sum of
our choices will decide which world we
get to live in the old world is sick
blind and backwards it relies on
violence discrimination and it
disconnected us from one another and
there is another world deeply rooted in
all of us this new world is kind
compassionate it’s healthy and it is
forward-thinking this new world is
courageous and it is desperately calling
for heroes it is calling for you so
please everyone I want to ask you to put
your hand on your heart now don’t be shy
please do it
alright this new world is calling for
you can you hear it
deep inside thank you
[Applause]
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