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Especismo, veganismo e futuro | George Guimarães | TEDxPassoFundo


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when I was four years old
I made a decision I made a choice that
would define a series of choices
my future teak time defines who
I am what I became I was able to
to realize that what was me
feeding was an animal a way
very simple is to eat child’s head
I understood that I was being offered
here and there on that plate was the same
animal in the cartoon what
sightseeing tours to sites tell me that
I had to love him at least to respect
and there in a very stubborn way
I decided I did not want to
until then I only spent all my time here
childhood and adolescence without understanding
right states vegetarian nation something
that the vegetarian himself in this case was
I ‘m only going to make sense to me anymore.
near the time of choosing college
I started to be more interested in
meditation and decided to college
nutrition because not find much
information especially in Portuguese
professionals or even information
writing about vegetarianism
internet time later
today besides attending patients
medical vegan vegetarian only
public
I’ve also been for 11 years.
animal rights that have been
currently the most important animal defense
active in the country
in this episode with four years of
Age is not something actually so special
The surprising is I see in today
contact with the vegetarian and on the internet
For those who want to see, it’s full of videos.
of children that precisely in this range
age group of 45 chose to demonstrate
At least in this refusal I do not go with my
animal
This is because we human animals and also
many nonhuman animals are beings
endowed with the capacity for empathy
we can is relate to or
identify the suffering of others and
want and if possible act that
not only the animal is happening
but non-human animals as well
are able to express this
empathy that occurs here because of
our civilizing process we went
we also become apathetic beings years
is not of this nature but for the
prevalence of patriarchy is due to its
search and attachment to property
conciliation will not always want to
while at the same time caring for
not being conquered, we were
transforming a society more given
apathy
but even so we are no longer
nice the same atrocities
caused by human hands can be
observed to find empathy for the
most other humans do not need
be leprosy victim to recognize the
suffering and wanting to act wanting to do
something is against that then we are not
well this reality, let’s even say
a schizophrenia where we can
be both but when it comes to
our relationship with other animals does not
with humans maybe not
be the best word is because when you
deals with our interaction with animals
non-human 99 percent or more in the
animals we interact with
she is holding the same
relationship that an owner would
slavery or that a producer has with his
the duct then we are friendly but
At the same time we have a
habit of life based on something that does not
expresses much empathy if I ask
a survey here is individually for
each of you who cares
with the animals they have here is moved
when he saw the suffering animal even
something to relieve and suffer and I have
sure that the vast majority if not all
You would say that it matters more
same time we brought another
look
we will see that most of you are
of our society participates in a
operating system participate in
directly or indirectly but still
not so distant a system of
exploitation that victimizes them
animals
So how is this possible?
duality is not research overwhelming the
explanation for this is the speciesism
discrimination based on
simply in the fact of that individual
or group of individuals belong to a
other species
are attributed to fewer rights or less
value to a group simply because
they are not the kind of girls and
that
the human species develops
justify criteria but who defines
these justifications these criteria are
the entity’s own human beings
defining fair it is human
not even define the cast brings
justifications that define the holding
even beings to their own species
here are two examples only in
human slavery the holocaust
This photo below is a girl who
not yet less than a century is the
answer 13 of congo exposed in belgium
in the zoo
we’re talking about 60 years ago 70
but
we can bring justifications
to justify the holocaust at the time
to justify human slavery in
justification based on the lack of
of that group belong to
religious belief or other ethnicity or
even the one based on their skin color and
bring it here in this conversation
about expressive because I want to score
is that all of them are based on and have
many still have until today and it’s the people
are still discriminated against because of their
sexual orientation or gender
Fortunately this has been changing but we
has much more to conquer than it says
respect to discrimination in various areas
so what I want to bring is that these
forms another city they have some
form of discrimination as a point in
and it is also important that at the time
this was accepted by the existing morality in
when the pregnant woman was not
happening to people through
justification or simply for the
normality accepted that this was
morale and we have already walked
We still have a lot to walk around but
when it comes to discrimination
and to avoid such errors in the future is
interesting that we look at the
past and we question each other
constantly in the present
does that today I look up and
Strange did not want animals
were thus treated
but as everyone does so it seems like
It’s me who am strange to find it
wrong
is it not just these things
which at present inconvenience us but still
So normal are these things that
in the future as we move forward
our ethical perception we will power weapons
But we will be condemning this
type of practice
Speciesism most of us humans
we realize that this form
of discrimination is there maybe you
is hearing the term for the first time
to the concept dependent on the term by
first time
is far from overcoming this
next ethical border that our
our relationship with animals and not
to take on society is
important to get dying
individual is not individually question
our relationship with animals at the
individual making a choice can
remove received from the speciesism look
that without normality or that as it is
a form of discrimination based on
solely on the fact of being born in
other species
nobody gave us the right to explore the
we have theories but if you
see that we were given the right are
justification only and it is not a
simple is not the speciesism he is
rooted in our activities
in our festivities
religious even in the form of
entertainment that we harvest is
part of our daily diet
our food she has as
premise as something a license to
animal husbandry is also part of the
of our science because I need to
accept that another animal can be
subjected to a life of pain and suffering
in science or clothing and then
although our economy is based on the
list of our targets and based on this
science shows the opposite way
we know today not today some
decades and is becoming more and more
people here who are not
feed products of animal origin
they live longer and better
a vegetarian diet 100% vegetable
prevents chronic degenerative diseases
obesity and some forms of
cancer heart disease heart attack
leakage
it brings benefit to ourselves
including only the animal
from the environmental point of view
80% deforestation in the Amazon is
attributed to livestock production, 80% has already been
deforestation of the Amazon as the animals
wild animals killed in the
are all the loss then of
biodiversity
the conflicts of land that exist
cause of this, they victimize communities
80% of this is because of our
choice feeding the UN puts here
livestock production is the main
greenhouse gases more
than the transport sector people
pollute more by eating an animal of the
that drive our cars and trucks
we still cling to 1
it is necessary for legal power of precision
most shameful pages of our
along with these other
atrocities
we have to start at the individual and
not only what I wanted to demonstrate when
I talked about the environment about health
it’s not just because of an imperative
moral ethics and also for the sake of
survival or even for a
issue of defense of our competence
intelligence because the human animal is
the only animal that destroys the habitat
small planetary level in the fringe of
tofu if I may be allowed to take the egg
should this vocabulary
we are a self-destructive species and
after all arguments have been exhausted
is is based on science philosophy and the
arguments the justifications are not
what remains is an argument that is
selfishly selfish that I like
the taste buds are good I messed up
environment that is bad for my health
obviously the animals are not
interested in being slaves but I
like
Is it that our taste is worth so much
point of being destroyed in a
irreversible planet will be that our
palate is worth so much
point it is undergoing 70 billion
individuals per year to a life of pain
physical torture and deprivation
to justify some
seconds our tastebuds want to call
Attention itself have a 70 index
millions of individuals is because when
speaks of such a monstrous number is easy
lose the attention we’re talking about
individuals who are able to look at us
in the eyes are sentient beings capable of
Feel pain Cold fear cherish for your life
and for his freedom 70 million a year
only for food only animals
terrestrial aquatic animals are not
included in this number
not always have a way of
some speed comes on the scene at a
better saying rights violation
the movement for justice comes on the scene
society that understands the movement
animal rights in the culinary movement
nor world peace is a movement for
social justice
some people take part in this
contributes to and simply leaves the
part of the problem becomes Afghan leave
consuming meat, milk and eggs
consuming products with leather products have
tissues tested in animals and others will
besides searching also take this message
to other people
I’m coming to 23 years I guarantee that
I’m alive
I’m a nutritionist, I’ve already
hundreds of patients for 19 years already
specialty nutritionist
and guides hundreds of
patients to an organism as an activist
I live daily with people who
dedicated not only to Ghana but dedicates
your time and your energy to help
other people to remove that veil that
blinds us about the country you need
open the eyes of other people
if there is something
here in the audience today is watching
internet can do once it finds
the sensible does not participate in this
this form of discrimination is
browsing off your menu
today in the next meal meat milk
eggs honey and with time removing your
keep your bathroom clothes
products which also have the
animal as the basis of its production
I had the privilege of having this
wake up very early even though
not elaborated right or not so rational but
follow what the child’s heart
do so with many other children
already have done but as an adult
today I see that need this
transformation, no more than indeed
children are much easier to
release these moorings from identifying
form of discrimination or can
lose what is being respected
but today as an adult and I do not see
this choice as a matter of
wake up and I think that for adults there
It is
can also be awakened more if
there is no such awakening is more a question
of responsibility knowing that people
You know today is not to wake up alone.
responsibility and is no longer a
question of choice but rather a
ethical
Thank you, I hear you.
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