[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
well what would you say if I told you
that there was a bridge that could take
you to the next phase of human evolution
pretty cool right
well good news there is one and if you
want to access it all you have to do is
open your heart and open your mind so
let’s visualize the bridge there it is
from end to end so here we are at the
starting point what do we have here
violence crime hate intolerance conflict
and war hmm well what do we have here at
the other end of the bridge oh we have
compassion kindness love tolerance
non-violence and peace
pretty simple choice right some would
say simplistic that the history of the
world is a history of war war after war
after war that’s how we progress others
would say nonsense
it’s a journey to get past all that
violence I think Martin Luther King jr.
said it best when he said the moral arc
of the universe is long but it bends
towards justice and what is justice
ultimately the ability to live in peace
so how do we get from point A to point B
well here where we are we have some very
heavy baggage that we got to throw away
before they’ll let us on that bridge
primitive concepts like it’s dog-eat-dog
out there
life is a zero-sum game kill or be
killed for me to live and thrive
somebody else must suffer and die now I
know you’re all thinking well that
doesn’t apply to me I don’t believe that
I’m not violent I’m not a killer but
what if I told you yes you are yes you
are most people eat animals that means
most people kill animals a lot of them
some would say a couple of hundred a
year others would say thousands when you
eat that one fast-food hamburger filled
with processed meat that comes from a
whole variety of different sources you
can be eating the body parts of hundreds
of cows that means you’re complicit in
killing hundreds
cows now you’re thinking hey lady I
ordered the hamburger I didn’t kill
hundreds of cows but let’s be real let’s
be honest you ordered the hit and
there’s a time-honored legal concept
when you order the hit you’re just as
guilty as the person who slit the
victims throat now you might say hey
lady it’s justifiable homicide I have to
eat me to survive but of course you
don’t there are millions of us myself
included that don’t eat meat and dairy
and guess what we’re standing here just
fine in fact meats not good for you the
World Health Organization recently
announced that processed meat which is
everything from bacon hot dogs is
cancer-causing red meat is a likely
carcinogen heart disease America’s
leading killer kills one out of every
four of us is arteries to the heart
getting clogged with cholesterol
there’s no cholesterol and vegetables
cholesterol only exists in meat and
dairy products because animals produce
cholesterol so it’s not good for us now
you might say well look I need my
protein but guess what there are plenty
of plant sources of protein not just soy
and lentils and legumes but broccoli
kale spinach I could be here all day
anyway when’s the last time you came
home from the doctor with a protein
deficiency we more protein than any
culture the history humankind and we’re
not healthier for it
it’s a marketing ploy you might say hey
this is my tradition this is how I was
raised and cite your religion or your
ethnicity again no excuse tradition is
no excuse for killing and just because
something was doesn’t mean it always has
to be if that were the case none of the
women in this room would have the right
to vote so you might say hey don’t look
at me everybody’s doing it why are you
pointing the finger at me it’s society
it’s just the way that it is again no
excuse history is replete with cases of
mass sadism from slavery to the
Holocaust and at the end of the day when
people woke up those who participated
did not get a pass and then there’s that
final firewall defense personal choice
Hey
you’ll live your life I’ll live mine
don’t tell me what to do don’t tell me
what to eat or as I would say who to eat
but it’s not just a personal choice when
there’s a victim and there’s lots of
victims every year on this planet we
raised torture and kill between 60 and
70 billion so-called farm animals
I’m not even including fish which would
put it in the trillions and it’s another
abomination I’m talking about sentient
beings with central nervous systems who
feel terror and loneliness and pain who
have emotional lives who are just like
this dog over here they happen to be
called cows pigs chickens turkeys goats
and lambs little baby lambs and what we
do to these individuals behind those
closed factory farm doors is a moral
outrage and it’s pretty much
indescribable but I’ll try we cut off
their tails without anesthesia we
castrate them without anesthesia we
brand them with numbers we sear off
their beaks we stick them in crates the
size of their bodies never able to turn
around and they become psychotic and
after we torture them for a considerable
period of time we take them out we put
them on a truck without food or water we
drive them to the slaughterhouse we hang
them upside down and we slit their
throats and bleed them out a lot of
bloodshed a lot of killing this is the
reality and it’s not just killing there
are other crimes how about rape and
abduction note to all the feminists in
the room these animals are not making
love in these factory farms they are all
violated they’re raped the industry term
is rape track you can look it up and
then when these abuse mothers give birth
to their baby calves we abduct the
babies why think about it if we’re gonna
steal the breast milk of another species
that’s not designed for ourselves
and drink it even though it’s bad for us
how can we let that baby calf for whom
nature intended that milk anywhere near
the mother’s breasts murder rape
abduction and stealing and it’s not just
the animals than
elves that were pillaging and plundering
it is the earth itself animal
agriculture is a leading cause of
climate change responsible for more
greenhouse gases than all transportation
combined a really inconvenient truth you
won’t hear from Al Gore but it’s
courtesy of the United Nations again
look it up animal agriculture a leading
cause of habitat destruction which makes
it a leading cause of wildlife
extinction why it’s very simple you’ve
got to destroy a lot of forests to grow
enough crops to feed 60 to 70 billion
farm animals who eat a lot of food and
that food isn’t going to starving
children who are dying of malnutrition
as we speak it’s very simple meat is the
most wasteful inefficient food source
ever invented why because animals eat a
lot more than they produces meat we are
all animals every single person in this
room is an animal if I were to take any
of you stick you in a crate the size of
your body immobilize you so you couldn’t
burn off calories fatten you up for a
considerable period of time maybe a year
a year and a half or two and then took
you out slit your throat deep boned you
deveined you popped out your eyeballs
popped out your teeth and then took the
fleshy parts and sliced it up into
little patties and put you on styrofoam
trays and wrapped all those patties in
plastic and sold the US parts you would
have eaten a lot more food than you
produced as meat it’s just inefficient
now let’s think about the alternative
what if we all stopped eating animals
well people would get healthier your
healthcare costs would drop by the way I
know we debate that a lot right now okay
wildlife would start to regenerate
forests would regenerate we could slow
or maybe even reverse climate change and
all those starving children would start
to get the food they need and by the way
we’d stop torturing and killing billions
of animals who are just like our dogs
and cats who are individuals who have a
right to their own lives and did not
sign up to be slaughtered for your
dinner
well we think of peace we love to look
in the distant horizon and say you
stranger in a strange land over there
why can’t you be peaceful but the truth
is a peace begins inside of us with
every decision that we make throughout
the course of the day I have a buddy
named patty Schenker and she says peace
begins on your plate baby and it’s true
peace begins on your plate I urge you I
beg you all to have a peaceful meal
filled with delicious and nutritious
fruits vegetables nuts and grains there
are thousands of them now and they’ve
even designed them to look like meat and
cheese to make you feel better and then
get on that bridge to the next phase of
human evolution it’s better on the other
side thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
you
[Applause]
[Music]
well what would you say if I told you
that there was a bridge that could take
you to the next phase of human evolution
pretty cool right
well good news there is one and if you
want to access it all you have to do is
open your heart and open your mind so
let’s visualize the bridge there it is
from end to end so here we are at the
starting point what do we have here
violence crime hate intolerance conflict
and war hmm well what do we have here at
the other end of the bridge oh we have
compassion kindness love tolerance
non-violence and peace
pretty simple choice right some would
say simplistic that the history of the
world is a history of war war after war
after war that’s how we progress others
would say nonsense
it’s a journey to get past all that
violence I think Martin Luther King jr.
said it best when he said the moral arc
of the universe is long but it bends
towards justice and what is justice
ultimately the ability to live in peace
so how do we get from point A to point B
well here where we are we have some very
heavy baggage that we got to throw away
before they’ll let us on that bridge
primitive concepts like it’s dog-eat-dog
out there
life is a zero-sum game kill or be
killed for me to live and thrive
somebody else must suffer and die now I
know you’re all thinking well that
doesn’t apply to me I don’t believe that
I’m not violent I’m not a killer but
what if I told you yes you are yes you
are most people eat animals that means
most people kill animals a lot of them
some would say a couple of hundred a
year others would say thousands when you
eat that one fast-food hamburger filled
with processed meat that comes from a
whole variety of different sources you
can be eating the body parts of hundreds
of cows that means you’re complicit in
killing hundreds
cows now you’re thinking hey lady I
ordered the hamburger I didn’t kill
hundreds of cows but let’s be real let’s
be honest you ordered the hit and
there’s a time-honored legal concept
when you order the hit you’re just as
guilty as the person who slit the
victims throat now you might say hey
lady it’s justifiable homicide I have to
eat me to survive but of course you
don’t there are millions of us myself
included that don’t eat meat and dairy
and guess what we’re standing here just
fine in fact meats not good for you the
World Health Organization recently
announced that processed meat which is
everything from bacon hot dogs is
cancer-causing red meat is a likely
carcinogen heart disease America’s
leading killer kills one out of every
four of us is arteries to the heart
getting clogged with cholesterol
there’s no cholesterol and vegetables
cholesterol only exists in meat and
dairy products because animals produce
cholesterol so it’s not good for us now
you might say well look I need my
protein but guess what there are plenty
of plant sources of protein not just soy
and lentils and legumes but broccoli
kale spinach I could be here all day
anyway when’s the last time you came
home from the doctor with a protein
deficiency we more protein than any
culture the history humankind and we’re
not healthier for it
it’s a marketing ploy you might say hey
this is my tradition this is how I was
raised and cite your religion or your
ethnicity again no excuse tradition is
no excuse for killing and just because
something was doesn’t mean it always has
to be if that were the case none of the
women in this room would have the right
to vote so you might say hey don’t look
at me everybody’s doing it why are you
pointing the finger at me it’s society
it’s just the way that it is again no
excuse history is replete with cases of
mass sadism from slavery to the
Holocaust and at the end of the day when
people woke up those who participated
did not get a pass and then there’s that
final firewall defense personal choice
Hey
you’ll live your life I’ll live mine
don’t tell me what to do don’t tell me
what to eat or as I would say who to eat
but it’s not just a personal choice when
there’s a victim and there’s lots of
victims every year on this planet we
raised torture and kill between 60 and
70 billion so-called farm animals
I’m not even including fish which would
put it in the trillions and it’s another
abomination I’m talking about sentient
beings with central nervous systems who
feel terror and loneliness and pain who
have emotional lives who are just like
this dog over here they happen to be
called cows pigs chickens turkeys goats
and lambs little baby lambs and what we
do to these individuals behind those
closed factory farm doors is a moral
outrage and it’s pretty much
indescribable but I’ll try we cut off
their tails without anesthesia we
castrate them without anesthesia we
brand them with numbers we sear off
their beaks we stick them in crates the
size of their bodies never able to turn
around and they become psychotic and
after we torture them for a considerable
period of time we take them out we put
them on a truck without food or water we
drive them to the slaughterhouse we hang
them upside down and we slit their
throats and bleed them out a lot of
bloodshed a lot of killing this is the
reality and it’s not just killing there
are other crimes how about rape and
abduction note to all the feminists in
the room these animals are not making
love in these factory farms they are all
violated they’re raped the industry term
is rape track you can look it up and
then when these abuse mothers give birth
to their baby calves we abduct the
babies why think about it if we’re gonna
steal the breast milk of another species
that’s not designed for ourselves
and drink it even though it’s bad for us
how can we let that baby calf for whom
nature intended that milk anywhere near
the mother’s breasts murder rape
abduction and stealing and it’s not just
the animals than
elves that were pillaging and plundering
it is the earth itself animal
agriculture is a leading cause of
climate change responsible for more
greenhouse gases than all transportation
combined a really inconvenient truth you
won’t hear from Al Gore but it’s
courtesy of the United Nations again
look it up animal agriculture a leading
cause of habitat destruction which makes
it a leading cause of wildlife
extinction why it’s very simple you’ve
got to destroy a lot of forests to grow
enough crops to feed 60 to 70 billion
farm animals who eat a lot of food and
that food isn’t going to starving
children who are dying of malnutrition
as we speak it’s very simple meat is the
most wasteful inefficient food source
ever invented why because animals eat a
lot more than they produces meat we are
all animals every single person in this
room is an animal if I were to take any
of you stick you in a crate the size of
your body immobilize you so you couldn’t
burn off calories fatten you up for a
considerable period of time maybe a year
a year and a half or two and then took
you out slit your throat deep boned you
deveined you popped out your eyeballs
popped out your teeth and then took the
fleshy parts and sliced it up into
little patties and put you on styrofoam
trays and wrapped all those patties in
plastic and sold the US parts you would
have eaten a lot more food than you
produced as meat it’s just inefficient
now let’s think about the alternative
what if we all stopped eating animals
well people would get healthier your
healthcare costs would drop by the way I
know we debate that a lot right now okay
wildlife would start to regenerate
forests would regenerate we could slow
or maybe even reverse climate change and
all those starving children would start
to get the food they need and by the way
we’d stop torturing and killing billions
of animals who are just like our dogs
and cats who are individuals who have a
right to their own lives and did not
sign up to be slaughtered for your
dinner
well we think of peace we love to look
in the distant horizon and say you
stranger in a strange land over there
why can’t you be peaceful but the truth
is a peace begins inside of us with
every decision that we make throughout
the course of the day I have a buddy
named patty Schenker and she says peace
begins on your plate baby and it’s true
peace begins on your plate I urge you I
beg you all to have a peaceful meal
filled with delicious and nutritious
fruits vegetables nuts and grains there
are thousands of them now and they’ve
even designed them to look like meat and
cheese to make you feel better and then
get on that bridge to the next phase of
human evolution it’s better on the other
side thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
you
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