So the reason that I'm reacting to Gary Rofsky's speech is because Gary Rofsky's a major influence in my animal rights activism and Amazing amazing major influence in the animal rights movement across the world and in mainstream vegan movement Gary broke into the mainstream quite heavily and he is in my opinion and in objective reality one of the most amazing Animal rights advocates who has ever ever existed the most I would say And that's that's my opinion and I believe it's an objective fact as well Gary is No one has really Got out there Like Gary got out there. I guess, you know, but not in the way that he did I suppose not in the way Gary did it I mean you could argue that a lot of us have got a lot of media since Gary But Gary was definitely The vegan animal rights Educator, you know from the day, you know what I mean? No one not even to this day You know, no one doesn't like Gary, you know, I'm saying guys an absolute beast and a legend and Just watching him. It's just like Man watch and learn guys an absolute legend. So That's my Gary Rofsky speech and I am incredibly sad that he's no longer Hit that he's retired and we should all You know try to reach out to Gary and say come back Gary come back Gary and get him to come back So anyways, we're gonna chuck on his speech now and we're gonna, you know, watch it all together So let's just share the Here we go. It's isn't that way. That's that way Here it is. I can reach out and grab it Gary's the goat the OV AG legend so we're gonna try to I'm gonna try to get to your You know if you have any donations questions things like that we'll get to those after in it will do a little intervals I think and that's what we're gonna do. So let's just try look at this look at this Can we zoom in on that? Can we zoom in? No, we can't we can't zoom in this we can 4.7 million views 10 years ago Gary's speech and he's also got a million on his own channel, but Gary's got millions of views all across Facebook still not just cranking Got guys a living legend So let's chuck it on Tell me if you can hear it. Okay as well How come I can't hear it that's not gonna do well What kind I hear it Can you guys hear it Some reason I can't hear it Okay, so I don't need those you guys can hear it. Okay good This is Gary Look at it back in the days doing direct action getting arrested breaking laws from people from Jesus Christ and Elton Mandela From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King laws have always been broken to facilitate substantive change Today's speaker holds a BA in journalism from Oakland University and a radio broadcasting degree from Spex Howard School of Broadcast Arts Gary Yorowski has already experienced more than many people will ever want to in a lifetime He's been arrested more than 10 times and spent 77 days at a maximum security detention center Well in the name of animal rights Gary has lectured in hundreds of schools nationwide Gary actually got arrested. He got six month prison term For liberating over a thousand mink So 77 days in maximum security prison, which is pretty crazy five including the University of Connecticut Michigan State and Bowling Green Author Charlotte Montgomery even included a chapter about Gary in her book blood relations Please welcome national lecturer Gary Yorowski Today we're going to talk about the world's forgotten victims animals And the world's oldest and strongest addiction Meet I'm going to challenge your belief systems today. So certain parts of the speech will be intense But let me start with a quick disclaimer. I am not here to be your enemy The views expressed today do not necessarily reflect the views of your professor or this institution I am not trying to take you away from your religion No religion mandates meet eating It's interesting how I went straight into the religion hook, uh, but like He's done that I think this was towards the end of his public speaking career So he had already preemptively thought Of I'm not here to be an enemy like because people feel attacked. So he's trying to like knock so many like objections Uh from the start just out of the park just boom get rid of that objection get rid of that objection because he knows The objections he's going to face because he's such an experienced speaker So I thought that was pretty interesting very calculated gary The golden rule states do unto others as you would have done unto yourself Animals qualify as others and thou shalt not kill The four most important yet most ignored words and all religious teachings There's not an asterisk next to that commandment saying unless you walk on all fours have fur Others forms beats for gills You can keep your friends your politics and your patriotism Still watch your favorite tv shows and listen to your favorite music So he's basically saying that it doesn't matter your religious Persuasion, you know political where you sit on the political spectrum This is a separate issue talking about animal ethics to be vegan. You can be yourself basically So he's not trying to he's not actually involving anything else other than just you know He's talking about the vegan topic. So he's making sure people don't think that he's you know trying to Take them away from any other sort of you know Sort of ideology sort of people have like it or religion like hindu and muslim and christian or conservative or liberal or He's just basically talking about animal ethics. So let's go I'll be making some sarcastic yet truthful comments throughout the speech Please feel free to laugh on these sarcastic Just don't laugh during the serious parts I'm gonna speak for around 65 maybe 70 minutes But then we'll do a q&a session after for about a half an hour. So hold your questions until then In the meantime, I have some rhetorical questions for you Is This is Socratic method now When I first started doing my street outreach Street interviews I would just ask people questions because I found it like I did a I didn't know about Socratic method back then There was no vegan street interviews doing animal ethics online but I just found it it was such a non-intrusive sort of indirect way of getting people to Sort of contradict themselves and undo You know their social their cultural conditioning and things like this, but gary actually does it in his speech. Let's go So let's go back He asks the audience questions I have some rhetorical questions for you is slave group owner victim profit domination exclusive to the human race Have Blacks Jews women and children been the only victims of this atrocity Have not cows been enslaved What about pigs chickens turkeys fish sheep? If they're not enslaved Then what are they free? That was best I love that quote who loves that quote who's heard that quote if they're not enslaved What are they? free logic logic logic non-human animals are slaves and I'm sorry if that Truth harms your little reality there, but animals non-human animals can be enslaved just like human animals can Can slavery have a victim that is neither human nor animal This is where we're gonna disagree I don't think slavery can have a victim that is neither human or animal animal But I think it's a very poetic what he says next Have not the oceans the forests the earth itself become victims of ownership too? And what about a slaughterhouse? house of slaughter slaughterhouse Do you really think there's such a thing as humane slaughter? Exactly what is your definition of humane? Besides psychological and physical abuse torture dismemberment and murder What else do you think happens to animals inside of a slaughterhouse? You think they get belly rubs and tissue slabs? And if you think there's such a thing as humane slaughter I'm curious. Do you also think there's such a thing as humane rape? humane child molestation humane slavery How about a humane holocaust? In fact, what is your definition of a holocaust? I love how it nails that humane slaughter insanity to the wall Like if you think humane slaughter of animals exist then you have to also believe that What these atrocities that happen to human beings could also be classed as humane like humane, you know mass genocides Try not to make them suffer too much but just wiping them out really quickly you know like as soon as you put these insane arguments in the human context you soon see how Just ignorant and hypocritical human beings are when they deploy these arguments against another species Because you'd like if you think it's so humane Why don't you trade places with the animals? Why don't you have your family members trade places with the animals if it's so humane? You wouldn't would you?  Or a man about a humane holocaust In fact, what is your definition of a holocaust? Is it a massacre of human beings? Or a massacre of innocent beings? Animals non-human animals can be victims of a holocaust as well Okay It wasn't just One race of people who have experienced a holocaust many different races Uh of people have experienced a holocaust Okay Now non-human animals can also experience a holocaust And they're experiencing it right now I thought it was innocent Which brings us to the biggest holocaust massacre of all Every year in America without mercy We murder 10 billion land animals and 18 billion marine animals Just worldwide statistics. It's about uh Between 75 to 77 billion land animals between 1 and 3 trillion trillion marine animals Including uh bycatch whales dolphins sharks porpoises turtles insane Amounts of suffering a massive holocaust of non-human animals not for health survival sustenance or self-defense People eat meat cheese milk and eggs for four reasons habit tradition convenience taste When you think about that that's really pathetic, isn't it and it makes it even more horrible like if this were happening because there were some You know really difficult survival justification for it and we were like we will die off of as a species if we don't do this horrible thing And we are deeply deeply Sorry about it.  Okay I understand your lifestyle It used to be mine And for people involved in politics So what are you saying what he just did there gary? He said I used to live this lifestyle So he's basically building rapport with the audience. He's basically showing like hey like I was like you I used to do this as well and I woke up So like what it does is it sort of brings you back down like he's not just he's not saying he's um Morally superior person his entire life But he's saying now he's realized and you should realize too like I've been where you've been I think that's an excellent way to build rapport with someone It bring every time I've done something similar to gary.  I used to abuse animals as well. Okay, but I've changed I even go one step further because I used to be in gangs and I say I see you harm people too You know, but I turn my life around and now I'm a vegan and I don't harm animals either So like I think doing that really sort of Brings the guard down a bit and gets in the go. Oh, wow. Okay.  They're rarely politicians and usually it's activists who get into politics as activists You know Root work is active I've been banned from five countries so far and arrested 13 times for random acts of kindness and compassion on behalf of my animal brothers and sisters Arrested for random acts of kindness Oh my god, this is the insane world we're living now In though isn't it like where we activists are called extreme vegans are called extreme for boycotting The worst atrocity that has ever existed in the history of the world um and He gary's getting arrested for random acts of kindness to animals arrested put in prison with murderers and armed robbers and meth dealers Because he freed mink from torture and slaughter Do you want to live in that world? Do you want to live in that world? We'll help us change it If you want to read up about that check out my website and today I would love to give you a chance to actually do something and truly get involved Because I understand a lot of people want to get involved. Honestly, I do But putting a co-exist bumper sticker on your car Wearing a what would jesus do bracelet or sporting a peace and love and sunshine t-shirts That is not getting involved I understand that we're all on a journey in life so basically He's saying that You know something I usually say is the animals don't care what you say That's just lip service, you know people in wars overseas don't It doesn't matter to them that you're against it morally Like just in your mind or you wear a t-shirt What matters is if you is if you aren't causing it and you actively trying to stop it Okay, and with the animal holocaust you by being vegan you you you stop yourself from Contributing to it. You know that's actually taking you know You were taking a horrible action against the animals every day with your lifestyle when you when you go vegan You sort of take this neutral position and that's all he's asking me to do. He's not even asking him to be activist You know what I mean?  It's just interesting like You know, he's has to be having to persuade people From doing something horrific You know So anyways, this is uh, uh youtubers this first time I donate online. I don't have much But I believe in the powerful message you bring to this world vegan five years this month. Thanks, joey Thank you youtuber appreciate it mate. Thanks for the donations all the ad sense from the channel goes into our operations and what we do here um Everyone can hear this okay before we continue Joey joey is likely the most motivated person on earth I'm not sure about that we'll go through peaks and valleys, don't we but let's keep going We all have I think dedicated is a better word to describe dragging yourself through activism sunshine t-shirt That is not getting involved I understand that we're all on a journey in life We all have different likes and dislikes different nationalities and religions too But there's one thing that we need to have in common with each other and that's peace genuine compassion and genuine peace for our planetary companion How extreme That gary orofsky Is asking for peace What an extreme militant terrorist You know, you know, he's you know gary is actually considered a terrorist. That's not even a joke He is considered a terrorist. He can't travel to certain countries like canada and i think uk and things like this because he freed those mink He's considered an international terrorist for freeing mink You know and look at it listen to his speech You know one thing we should all have in common is peace Wow What how extreme gary what you're asking for peace throw him in prison You know, it's just insane. We're living in the twilight zone. Aren't we let's keep going so gay for interrupting Contrary to political and religious dogma Animals do not belong to us.   How did how did we get here? Why were these activists persuading people? Away from doing this horrific thing like from just using simple logic like what happened to the to the population You know what I mean like It's crazy that day car cartesian way of looking at animals like their machines It is outdated and quite frankly 100% insane because If we all understand that animals can use their eyes to see ears to hear Notice the smell mouths to eat Legs to walk feathers to fly fins to swim genitalia to procreate Bowls to defecate I'm always perplexed that most people don't believe that they can also use their brains to think Feel be rational be aware and be self aware Am I supposed to believe that every body part on an animal functions just like it's supposed to? Except the brain Oh gary this is too much logic. This is god creating gary Like this is god creating a normal person. We'll just had just just we'll give him a little bit of logic This is god creating gary. This is god creating gary. Oh whoops. Oh, oh dear. Oh god.  What should I do with this one gary? Um, it seems we've overfilled the logic Should we just put him out on the earth anyway and jesus is like, yeah, you know Just just put him out there anyway. There we go. What's the matter in the world? That was god creating gary too much logic gary like you know people that think animals can't reason Or you know, they they have no awareness of themselves or their suffering like people do hold this position and um Like how do you know that they're feeling that? How do you know that's not just an instinctual reaction? I've heard like them screaming to death in a gas chamber. How do you know that's just not an instinctive?   And saw a commercial for shiitake mushroom People singing and dancing down the streets having a good time eating mushrooms Well, actually in australia, there is a commercial about bananas And it's like banana banana banana, and it's called make those bodies sing you can see that So there was something about bananas. So the banana industry must add a bit of bucks there, but basically what he's saying is meat, dairy and eggs Definitely have the monopoly on the food industry like cheese Cheese god cheese is and everything Like you think like getting people on plant-based milks is the battle the battle is cheese You know the number one people read vegans the number the number one reason vegans Uh, let me just say that again the number one reason The number one reason that vegetarians don't go vegan is cheese Okay, and it's everywhere in everything Dairy, but yeah, he's right. They have billions of dollars like just think The the meat industry like just think of this the meat cheese milk industry, right? Just those industries Their market is everyone Like tobacco industry there are you know adults or whatever some kids might get the holders on tobacco You know, you know certain industries can only target You know certain demographics of people But meat cheese milk and eggs targets everyone children happy meals and you know, you know Baby formula even babies the dairy industry is even targeting babies You know to get them drinking like milk from another species. They have They literally have the whole population Eating their stuff You know, so imagine how many different sort of sections of the dairy industry have vested interested in this and and what and don't want to see it fail You know what I'm saying like crazy dude Like that's what makes me think like we're going up against monoliths like monsters huge It's david verse goliath And here's gary gary verse goliath back in the days about alfalfa sprouts quinoa it's a seed radishes raspberries alfalfa You don't see that stuff advertised on tv. What do you see instead? Have some more meat have some more cheese have some more cheese on your meat meat cheese double cheese extra cheese And how about a little more cheese with your meat have some more cow's milk have some more eggs And then what do you see interspersed between those advertisements? Not feeling so well need to see a cancer specialist about a heart doctor need some lipitor Zocor crystal plavix needs some diet pills about some energy drinks some k-o pectin Tums Pepto business You've been duped They're killing you they're killing the animals and they're killing this planet and those blinders are on nice and tight So the blinders You know, they know awareness people don't have the awareness Which is why we need activism so much, you know to create the awareness.  All I want to do is reconnect people with animals Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic that has been buried and suppressed intentionally By our society And the reason why I say reconnect it's because each and every person in this room Used to be a real animal rights person at one time a true animal lover and a real friend of the animal kingdom And it's when we were kids When we were young when we were kids how true is that though?  I was like, oh no, I don't want to kill him. It's Christmas time. We better not kill these ants So like this is how kids think they they see things that adults don't think because They see things adults don't see because adults are too busy Like even now me and I'm just too busy thinking of everything else And like it's really hard to break out of that and just have awareness for The conscious beings around you and you know and what what what your actions are actually causing So like a child is like a pure pure human.  You know, you never get to make that connection Now this is a fish finger.   Do you want to be the victim? So that's actually navigator if you ever stuck on an animal rights question Put yourself in the animal's position get the person asking you the question Get the person asking you the question to put themselves in the animal's position and you know go from there Me and nasty and vicious and hateful Or indifferent towards animals when they used to be our friends These are innocent beings who have done nothing wrong to us Because i'm pretty sure we can all agree and at least one thing right now that hatred In its purest form is a learned behavior racism sexism hetero sexism anti-semitism misogyny These are all learned behaviors when kids are two three four years old playing on a playground They could care less about the color of their friend's skin Or the religious background. I don't think there's any doubt that hatred in its purest form is learned So species How true is that though?   They'll play with anyone. You know what I mean? Don't see it like that. Like I went to a full multicultural school. There was most it was aboriginals and Cambodians and vietnamese and I was like one of the only pale skinned Well, I'm Italian anyway, but I was only the only one of the only Caucasian sort of kids in my class but I didn't See it like like that. You don't sit like when you're young. You just don't see it like that like so I didn't have this This racist sort of Ideology instilled into me. I was around kids of different nationalities all the time But if you're born if you're brought up around like white supremacists in the deep south or something like this You could very easily see how these Children could grow up with these discriminatory ideas and beliefs Now he's going to go on to talk about the most deep-seeded you know sort of underestimated and almost ignored um form of discrimination And that's speciesism Ism is no different. This could be a new word to a lot of people.  And all because we believe that our species is so more special So more superior than the other ones. We're the only ones that count and we're the only ones that not Now correct me if I'm wrong but that line of thinking That thought process That is the basis of all forms of discrimination absolutely This is where you find a principle fundamental truths that you know wake you up to things like discrimination and the Species speciesism All right that form of discrimination yields more victims than any other form of discrimination that exists There speciesism is the most dangerous in terms of causing suffering A form of discrimination that has ever existed there The number of victims in the wake of speciesism is incomparable to any other atrocity. It literally Every other atrocity is a blip on the radar of the moral universe compared to the wake of victims That speciesism has left behind just in four weeks alone four weeks a mere four weeks speciesism Is responsible for killing more non-human animals than the number of human beings that have ever Existed in history. Okay, so we're talking about well just over a hundred billion humans have ever existed human beings kill more non-human animals than that in a mere four weeks and the reason behind it Is speciesism? So it's a incredibly dangerous form of discrimination One group saying in banking they're more special than everyone else and they proceed to exploit them Oh press down denying them their right to be free. They treat them like property They enslave them in many cases and in many other cases they murder them with pre meditation and without penalty And understand something essential about discrimination It is never okay to be picking and choosing which forms of discrimination to be opposed to Which ones to say are evil? racism And which ones to say are okay? speciesism Discrimination is evil on its foundation Or it's not Cannot have this one both ways.  Like would you like to include animals in your intersectionality, please? Otherwise you just look like the biggest hypocrite on earth I want to ask you to use some empathy right now And when I say empathy what I'm saying is Is place yourself in the position of the animals and start to view this issue from the animal's point of view From the victim's point of view When you examine any form of injustice whether humans are victims or animals are victims Please remember the victim's point of view Uh, yeah, like we shouldn't be looking at it from the oppressor's point of view Like oh, I tried to eat lentils, but I had a sore tummy I'm gonna have to put a pig in a gas chamber now and cut their head off like Oh, like, you know the thing is like The way I'm saying that sarcastically it actually Is very it's it's the saddest thing, right? That Even a lot of the vegan community like I'm not calling out vegans and this live stream isn't about calling out vegans So don't worry, but I'm just saying like Not just meat eaters, but a lot of the vegan community not not all of them, but a lot of them do will Will let human feelings trump What happens to animals? human feelings literally like oh vegan was offend a vegan offended me.  Meanwhile eternal holocaust happening behind the scenes like I could drive 40 minutes that way There's a holocaust Concentration camp filled with animals suffering Slaughterhouse probably an hour that way, you know slaughterhouse 20 minutes over there actually chicken slaughterhouse But human feelings opposed to supposed to trump this like this is why you're saying like this is an important Principal fundamental truth you need to know Always look at issues of injustice, especially ones that Of this magnitude Like Nothing comes close to this the magnitude of this suffering For always look at these issues from the victim's point of view You know, you can look at it from all points of view But don't forget the victims which is What tends to happen with the animal holocaust people tend to forget the holocaust victims, you know, the non-human animals who are Copying at left right and center. Let's continue Our first I'll say thanks Reese Pleased to be sharing my morning with two two out two of the most important activists of our time. Thank you very much Oh, that's a incredible compliment Um, I appreciate that a lot and Gary has inspired me a lot too. So let's keep going If you are not the victim Don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when you're not the victim It becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty Injustice inequality slavery And you can murder But when you're the victim Things look a lot differently from that Oh It's one of my favorite lines just when you're the victim Things look a lot different from that angle now The reason that hits home so much for me is that I have been victimized myself I was also a violent gang member not going to hold my hands up. I wasn't A good person So probably deserved a lot of things that come my way But you know, I wasn't conscious enough to understand calmer and to understand really the Impact of what I was doing back then, you know, I was young and I was on drugs no excuses But just the reasons I was doing things Um, but I know exactly what it feels like to be targeted ganged up on held hostage Have guns pointed at me, you know being serious scenarios where I thought I was going to be killed And it is the worst feeling of helplessness Like you don't know what to do.   Well, they'll They'll experience one of the most terrifying deaths imaginable imaginable, so It's crazy. Let's keep going Gary I want to show a graphic four minute video right now about what feels on inside me slaughterhouse I want to ask you not to turn away not to close your eyes during this video It's because if you choose to eat meat cheese milk and eggs I think it's a very least you are obligated to see this pain in suffering you are causing I love him I love him If you eat meat chills move if you eat meat cheese milk and eggs I think you are obligated to see the pain and suffering you are causing That not true Is that not true? Tell me that's not true Come on If you eat meat cheese milk and eggs you are obligated To see the suffering and pain and violence you are causing Which is why I show people The violence they are causing without the permission. I don't need their permission They're the ones causing it. I mean You know, they shouldn't be angry at me for showing them. They should be angry at themselves for causing it Well, you want to you want to cause This mass atrocity to these innocent beings But you don't have the spine to to face your victims Sounds like cowardice to me If you don't have the spine to face your victims then Be vegan simple And once you're vegan once you are a vegan You've earned the right not to face the suffering of the victims. Okay. I'll I'll give you that But I still do think that vegans need to remind themselves because too often I've seen vegans become complacent and become apologists apologetic And start to attack other activists saying you're trying to make us look bad and Become inactive stop speaking about this So, yes, um, I don't think we're going to I don't think we're going to watch through these slaughter footage for this live stream This video you might want to ask yourself a question If it's not good enough for my eyes Then why is it good enough for my stomach? classic gary line If it's not good enough for your eyes Why is it good enough for your stomach? God that is a classic gary line What we're going to do is we're going to skip past the insane horrible animal holocaust because Uh, just for the interest of reacting to this speech If you would like to see What goes on to animals you can watch dominion On youtube you can watch from farm to fridge or you could skip to the 16 minute mark of gary's speech here and watch what he shows But yeah, I highly recommend watching dominion if you You know are eating animal products and you're watching this live stream or using animal products You should watch dominion and you should face your victims and you should decide whether or not you want to keep causing that to them so Give love one more chance Uh And look at this the this is someone who is sorry. I'm going to point this way. Is it that way?  They're the terrorists Not gary Are you saying give love one more chance?  I wonder why mcdonalds and burger king and wendy's never show you those images in their tv ads Instead they show you smiling cartoon caricatures of animals singing and dancing and playing lying to you brainwashing you Programming you not to care about things you would normally care about Just the way that he comes in off of this slaughter footage. He knows that it's heavy So he knows even though he's seen that slaughter footage probably a bunch of times He knows how heavy it is to to see that To see that stuff and anyone here Knows it's heavy especially when you first see it and it's still heavy net for me now at times But the way that he just comes in And they're lying to you and they've brainwashed you Not to care about things you would usually care about so he wants he wants the audience to be On his side together so they can both fight this atrocity together He's trying to build rapport and get them on the side. He's trying to see the good in people Do you know what I mean?   That's what it is They're prodding them. They're forcing them to their death these animals They shouldn't exist slaughterhouses should not exist But they exist in huge numbers and they're building more They're building more every single week You know all over the world like countries are building more slaughterhouses No one even cares you know human beings get killed In other countries and you know people get shot in the face and kids getting killed and that You know, there might be a dozen getting killed, which is horrible. It's a horrible injustice, right? I don't support human beings being oppressed and killed But trillions of animals are being executed right now like it's like a million sentient beings a minute Or something crazy Five million. I think it's five five million fish a minute alone You know like Or marine animals. It's just crazy dude It is insane that that this can happen And that no one cares, but I just thought that that that part there was just Incredibly poetic and no one really speaks for the animals like there's such Such poetic Power and depth it's beautiful Crazy ferret lady says I said I loved animals, but lied born in in 55 didn't wake up from my carnivorous coma before 2013 after watching earthlings the truth hit me hard still cry for the animals who died to feed me. Oh, dear I know it's horrible thinking back When we used to eat animals, sorry, I just flashed something up on the screen I went vegan in 2013 as well. Long time no see. This is a good video. It turned me vegan six seven years ago. Wow amazing Johnson's thank thank you for the donations guys. We put them towards the adsense from the channel goes towards our operations here. So Thank you very much. Let's keep rolling gary Old mate gary. We've got 300 people in here watching. That's great. Good to see you all. Thanks for joining Do you know what's more insane than that? Meat eaters Walking around like their lifestyle isn't causing any harm Like it's normal and natural to be consuming violence and death How would you feel if the day that you were born Somebody else had already planned the day of your execution That's what it's like to be a cow A pig a chicken or a turkey on this plant I think I think this type of behavior is inexcusable And unbecoming those species that claims to understand Right from wrong Notice how gary puts the crowd Under pressure there. He puts them You know in the hot seat so to speak How would you feel? If the day you were born someone else had already planned your execution, how would that make you feel? How would you feel walking into a slaughterhouse being forced into a slaughterhouse to be executed? How would you feel? The animals have not done one single thing to us To deserve the rap and the cruelty that we hurl on them And I hope you all understand what I'm offering you today When you hit the door after my speech, are you aware that for the first time ever You can now directly participate in ending a massacre Instead of sitting around and paying lip service to all the massacres And all the problems that are always going on on this planet What is so frustrating to me when I travel this country doing around 250 lectures every year to some 7500 students Is that everybody talks a good game I've noticed that people are quite the smooth talkers When it comes to peace and compassion if people always want to tell me never show me Just tell me how peaceful they are because of what they believe in This is what I talk about that lip service thing I mean The animals Don't care what you say you believe like oh, no. Yeah, I don't care about animals I care about their cruelty, but uh, but they care about what you do Like I care about my wife But I beat her every night with a large pole In the head and split her head open last night and probably Split her head open again the next night, but I care about my wife, you know, but um I viciously attack her every single night.  Yeah, I'm a vegan Or what makes them sad?  It was sad Since when this feeling sad about an obvious tragedy Or believing in something make the world a better place to make somebody a good person And listen folks, I am not trying to dog you out when I talk like this. I'm not I'm just not a politician. I'm not a bullshithers He's not a politician. He's an activist. He's telling people the truth, isn't he? Telling people the truth Don't people appreciate the truth What would you rather like want me to lie to you? Do you want me to, you know Sort of uh sugarcoat it for you so it doesn't hurt anymore Or would you like me just to tell you The facts You know, I don't need to be your friend To tell you the truth Although we can be friends, but I don't need you to tell you the truth about something And sometimes it's your friend that will give you the Hard to swallow truth in it.   That's like Man, she just hit me with some truth there. I didn't like to hear it, but she's right, you know And that's what truth truth speakers are just Showing you respect Because you deserve to hear the truth. They don't you don't need to hear some adulterated buttered up sugarcoated you know Rainbows and butterflies version of the truth because you know, most people that we're talking to are adults Okay, children don't need that type of persuasion.  Usually they don't want to harm animals, right? It's usually adults we're speaking to so don't so Like if I was going to show you respect like from one human to another wouldn't I just tell you the truth? You know, I mean that's that that is That is the biggest sign of showing someone respect is being truthful to them about this serious issue I don't know how to schmooze people as you can see It's kind of beyond me. I hope you appreciate my honesty and my genuineness today And I'm not a salesperson. I got no books to sell you after my lecture No dvds and no documentaries. No collection plate going around.    Imagine decades hundreds of years how many animals have been killed I could probably fill up a few beaches of grains of sand just to try to count those numbers It's insane to try to conceptualize the amount of suffering it causes And like Gary just said No one seems to care But when you sit back in the comfort of your living room and you start condemning atrocities elsewhere That is pure unadulterated lip service That's the definition of a lip service But veganism this is now a chance to actually walk the compassionate talk that everybody's always talking about This is your chance to show others how truly peaceful you are This is a chance for a personal revolution to leave your mark on this planet By causing the least amount of harm possible always being vegan Now come on. What's the argument for not causing the least amount of harm? Inconvenience Indifference apathy selfishness I want you to know I don't live in fantasy land. I'm well aware that animals are suffering and dying Just because we're here on the planet with us We build homes through their habitat He's making sure that he addresses the argument That we are going to cause harm no matter what we do when living in civilization You can't avoid that But you can practically avoid the animal holocaust, can't you? You know what I mean? So we don't need to cause this massive holocaust of animals on top of the harm that we're going to cause because of civilization and I would actually call that you know justified harm because We have to live in civilization It exists and there are certain things about civilization that Like feeding the population plant foods that are going to incur some type of harm But when you talk about raising animals for food the amount of plant food and land and you know deforestation and gratuitous amounts of suffering torture and murder that happen to animals are on top of that being vegan is by far the most practical ethical position that I can Think of that is practical for the entire population You might find some type of weird You know niche thing that might cause less harm than veganism, but that can't be practically a plot plot across the world it's just Yeah, to be vegan and to And to have a vegan movement will be one of the best things to happen to the earth and it's not where it Ends being vegan. It's where it begins We pollute their environment destroy their habitat Is there a reason we have to maximize the suffering And maximize the cruelty and the death that they already endure exactly eating them on top of it all You want to talk about foreign salt into somebody else's wound? 98 percent and I repeat this stat 98 percent of animals who are abused and killed on this planet are abused and killed by the meat dairy and egg industries uh The vast amount of animal cruelty And killing happens in the meat dairy and egg industries Doesn't take it really doesn't take you know Albert Einstein or gary rofsky to Come to that conclusion You don't actually need You know many stats either You know, you just have to like think of the numbers Look at reality and go well, that's where most animal cruelty and killing is happening It has to be that where else would would human beings be causing this amount of suffering to animals It just there is no mechanism. There is no relationship with animals that we have that causes More suffering then let's just say The fishing industry alone You know, I mean like the fishing industry how much suffering And killing does the fishing industry cause every year to send each of those sentient animals? Crazy let's go gary This is where all the horror mistaking plays And in america from birth until death each meat eater consumes around three thousand land animals And thousands of other marine animals Those are usda stats And I seem to think a lot of people eat animals Because we've all been told that humans are carnivores. We're omnivores. We're meat eaters and we're supposed to be doing this He's got the best response for this. I love these kind of or omnivore response. Let's go Are you aware that physiologically the human body is actually 100 percent herbivorous? plant eaters The length of our intestines are somewhere between seven to 13 times the length of our torso our trunk That's the same length of all herbivore animal intestines on this planet. They're very long But the length of the intestines on real meat eaters hyenas coyotes bears tigers and lions Only three to six times the length of their torso They have a short intestinal tract so they can push through quickly decaying and rotting animal flesh animal protein cholesterol saturated fat trans fatty acids Which is why it is impossible now repeats impossible For any genuine meat eater to ever claw their arteries Never happens to a real meat eater What's the number one killer of humans who choose to eat meat cheese milk and egg? Uh gary, I know this one gary heart disease heart disease from clog arteries atherosclerosis Humans and other herbivores. We sweat through our pores to cool ourselves We don't pant like dogs and cats and lions to cool ourselves Some humans do but yeah, we won't talk about them. Um No claws on the human hand claws are a trademark of the carnivore and the omnivore We have carbohydrate digestive enzymes in our saliva Only herbivores possess that meaning we're supposed to eating tons of carbohydrates like fruits and vegetables our teeth broad short blunt Sorry gary What about that? I think gary needs a Little biology lesson here. Look at my canine Look at the size of that gary All right, let's keep them Just like the teeth of other herbivores and before somebody blurs out. Hey gary. What about these canines dog? Most of the herbivores have canines In sizers and molars it would not be possible for them For us to be eating hard fruit like apples without those teeth Our lower jaw goes from side to side in a grinding chewing motion like this We grind and chew when we eat if everyone do it Everyone doing following along Is that weird? Okay. Let's keep going. You grind and chew. Oh, actually, what is it? We got dkk roxa roxa loops. We love you joey. Thank you for fighting for the animals We went vegan four years ago after this seeing this speech. Wow amazing roxa loops. Thanks for the donation Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.  There's no chewing grinding side to side action And i'm a fair guy. I mean if somebody out there truly believes that humans are meaty I'll give you two challenges to prove me wrong after class and please do so if you want I want you to go outside Locate a squirrel on campus And when you spot that squirrel put that carnivore speed into effect that everybody has and chase that squirrel down Pounce on them and catch them in your mouth. No tools. No weapons.  They have no chance in catching a little squirrel and The squirrel would outsmart a human. They're so fast quick like a little a lot of little acrobats They will swing their little fluffy tail and they climb on everything. They're the best ever But I swear if someone says ferrige. Yeah, I heard that guy the raw meat guy I don't think you could chase down a squirrel though. Like um You know chase him down without his bare hands. We don't want to encourage that guy. I don't think he's okay mentally so but anyways Other than that, I don't think anyone really would have tried it if people want to be real meat eaters I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone Down to the bone and nothing left but the bones day after day after day and challenge number two Find a two-year-old child Place the child in a crib in the crib for two things a live bunny rabbit and an apple If the child eats the bunny rabbit and plays with the apple Send me an email. Would you let me know because I'm going to come back and buy everyone in this room a brand new car if that happens Benzes and beamers leather interior too. In fact next time I met georgia tech Well, basically what he's highlighting there with that analogy is that um When you have a like a toddler, you know, they have their instincts built into them Don't they and if you had like, you know, let's just say, you know a young lion cub I'm pretty sure if you put a bunny rabbit in with a young lion cub that your long young lion cub will Just claw the the rabbit and probably start chewing on its head or something like this But a baby herbivore We'll just start playing with the rabbit and wouldn't have those carnivorous instincts that we apparently evolved with you know, we apparently evolved as you know meat eaters But we didn't evolve like any other meat eater like with these predatory instincts And we don't have these claws and teeth that if we evolved Because of meat right because it was something special about you know meat eating And it wasn't just the fact that meat was giving us calories and we could scavenge and things like this Even though like it's one of the most unreliable food sources like hunting Especially when you have crappy stone age weird weapons made out of rocks and stuff You're gonna come home hungry a lot Yeah, like we have no biological adaptations to chasing down hunting animals clawing them, you know, so For so many years If we were doing that for so many like hundreds of thousands of years, wouldn't we have like a few adaptations? To eating meat like something.  You need to like that Now I would not hold my breath on these promises not that I won't fulfill them I'm a man of my word But those things cannot and will not be happening Because humans also possess Zero carnivorous instincts So true So true The only people I've seen are like those wacky wacky raw food eaters raw meat eaters but they are like They make the Most of the population want to vomit when they're sitting there eating that crap. So like I would say that they're just Outliers who are just I don't know forcing themselves to do something that's disgusting But most people do not have carnivorous instincts. They want to cook season sort a sauce up Flavor their meat with plants grind them up into a burger eat with plants. You know, this is most people Zero I'm numerous instincts when we're born young and growing up.  So like if you are like wanting that meaty Burger II Texture higher protein sort of texture. You can always just get a vegan burger. So let's roll Eat what comes from the earth every vitamin mineral and nutrient that exists protein calcium iron potassium All the B vitamins you have an original source and it ain't the animals You are aware that people eat animals after the animals have already eaten from the earth people eat cows After the cows eat up the grass some of the soil Then we shift to a feed life feed and most of our corn wheat oats and soy then we take more of the corn Wheat oats and soy shut down the throats of pigs and chickens and turkeys Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body Actually to post about this yesterday if you go on my instagram and actually it's in my community tab for youtube We're like someone's like biting into a pig saying I need to Eat meat for iron and they're essentially getting the iron out of a slaughtered victim Blood so they're like a terrified animal that was murdered in a slaughterhouse Probably suffered their entire life in a factory farm most of the time pigs and chickens most of the time They are getting their nutrients from the blood of a murdered animal It sounds like It's kind of like vampiric, doesn't it? Very weird and sadistic Thing to do like oh, do you have any b12? I'm pretty sure I've got you know Floating b12 in my body as well in my blood As well so like I don't think I would hope you wouldn't want to murder me to get the b12 out of my blood And just maybe just take a supplement, you know just a little tablet Once a week or whatever A little spray underneath your tongue instead of stabbing someone in the neck and eating their dismembered body for like nutrients that you can find Elsewhere It's a logical and irrational.  Why well meat eaters want billions of land animals So we have to mass produce billions of land animals keep in mind this has nothing to do with god Nothing to do with evolution anymore. This is the business. This is smithfield conagra Purdue tyson mcdonalds burger king wendy's kfc That's why we have animal agriculture classes in college So when we mass produce billions of land animals, they have trillions of tons of manure That stuff gets in the waterways then there's runoff on to the crops or they're putting feces Contaminated water directly onto the crops But all of our main disease is heart disease is heart attacks and strokes Most of the cancer is prostate cancer colon cancer breast cancer Pancreatic cancer ovarian cancer kidney disease diabetes osteoporosis high blood pressure obesity asthma Four main factors that cause them and I know about other factors I'm not saying that you can't get sick elsewhere. Of course you can't smoking drinking stress chemicals from the environment high fructose corn syrup Twinkies I know about the other things that can lead to an ailment But the four main factors are found inside a meat cheese milk and eggs cholesterol saturated fat And fatty acids animal protein And I repeat that last one that nobody wants to hear about animal protein But when you go vegan, did you know that you eliminate cholesterol entirely from your diet? You can only get cholesterol from meat cheese milk and eggs and your body makes cholesterol on its own That's the only such thing as good cholesterol if you bring it in from an outside source It's automatically bad cholesterol You can take out around 95 That's weird though. Hey, like Isn't that bizarre like we evolved to eat meat, but when we ingest dietary cholesterol it clogs our arteries like Forgive me if I'm wrong Shouldn't we have evolved a mechanism to avoid heart to avoid heart disease by now? Shouldn't we have developed a mechanism to avoid heart disease from ingesting dietary cholesterol by now You know like what? How the hell is cholesterol that is only found in animals and animal products? Dangerous to humans You know what I mean? Like it's crazy Doesn't that like doesn't that blow your mind? You know what I mean? anyways Steering towards we are looking like You know like I it just it just makes me wonder like where we herbivores all along and just You know ate meat here and there like to survive and that and then it just turned into this big like calorie hit that we just become addicted to and You know like I think where we just meant to be herbivores and then like survival situations made us eat meat and Things like this. I just don't know let's keep rolling percent of saturated fat when you go vegan and you can take out all the naturally occurring trans fatty acids too Keep this in mind between two to nine percent of all meat and all dairy Naturally comprised of trans fatty acids And you can obviously take out all of animal protein now animal protein is way too acidic for the human body We don't process it properly It is the main reason why one in three meters continually get cancer And it's one of the main causes of osteoporosis Are you aware that when animal protein enters the human body and makes our blood acidic instantaneously? But our blood can't stay acidic for long else we die So our body has to figure out instantly how to neutralize the acidity Has some good news and some bad news. Let's start with the good Our bodies have figured out how to Some good news got some bad news Let's start with the good news neutralize the acidity bad news There's only one way to make it happen at this point with phosphate There's only one source of phosphate in the human body Bones just so you know our bones are comprised of two things calcium phosphate and they're binded together So our body leeches calcium phosphate out of the bones takes the phosphate and neutralize the acidity And then we pee out the calcium This is why every single Epidemiological study those are the ones done in human populations every single one Shows that societies that consume the most amount of animal protein Have the worst rates of osteoporosis bone fractures and cancers While societies that consume little to no animal protein the vegan and vegetarian ones indus buddhas james rastafarians seven-day adventists Have little to no rates of osteoporosis bone fractures and cancers And so we don't get into a debate during q&a about different medical studies that are out there A lot of times when people know i'm coming to class in advance Or they'll spend a few hours online looking up studies printing out wait for q&a and go hey iraski I got a study here that can't predict everything you told us today What's up with that? Well, here's what's up with that You don't need a medical study to show you what people are dying of but for the record Every study you can produce showing that humans need meat cheese. No gnaves. I'll produce two Two to one ratio showing that meat cheese milk and eggs are responsible for every major disease But we all know medical studies can be manipulated either way So even though I got a heavy two to one edge on this I say toss them all out Because you don't need them all you have to do is pay attention to this meat cheese milk egg eating society that we all live in So how many of your family members and your friends family members have a disease already or died already from a disease Because I can't be yeah. Well, uh, everyone has someone who's dying from some type of disease which is incredibly sad I know the truth. Um, I think what we're gonna do Is we're going to Go to Gary's page here What do we hit? What do we hit? Let's hit something here Oh, the excuses speech. That's pretty good. Hey Hmm The animal abuser reporter one Let's go to his most popular Okay Okay, let's go here blacks and cat slaughterhouses they Sermon this man said That we have tree. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Let's go saying. What are you doing to me now? Where are you taking me now? Why are you stealing devil? Just leave me alone And here I am going wait. No, I I'm gonna help. I'm just showing people what's going on and they didn't recognize me And this is where my anger emanates from when people Don't want to listen to the message This is why vegans get so militant because I don't want to be a two-legged devil To the animals or to anybody. I don't want to be vicious and mean and callous and vile but As a species, we are so callous towards the animals. That's how they view us and brings to mind The animals are extremely like when you Walk into say a factory farm filled with pigs They're incredibly Just broken and just must look at us like we are the evil slave owners, you know, like what are we gonna do to the next? horrible Quote that made me go vegan way back in the day from a bishop from England now william ralph inge i n g e in an 18th century sermon this man said That we have treated our cousins in fur and feathers so horribly That beyond a doubt if they ever formed an organized religion The devil would be depicted in human form Wow Powerful that's a powerful quote, isn't it? You guys like that quote If the animals ever formed an organized religion, the devil would be depicted in human form the devil the most evil like Biblical evil the devil embodies everything that is evil torture violence war Like You know those who are into religion will always blame the devil and I think devil was true in christianity catholism and uh Is catholism even a word catholics christians muslims The hinders have a devil We are the devil to the animals. How how's How guilty Like we are the same Well, like this is what gary just feels like awful being human being You know what I mean after what our Species our race are doing to the non-human animals Like I could I can understand why gary feels so ashamed to be a human being You know Because look what we do As a species we're a terrible species And um, I understand why he hates the human race Catholicism, thank you very much rob rob Yeah, like I do get it like Why he hates the human race because he sees all these horrible things now You have to you do have to be careful not to just look at the bad like with human race There's a lot of good that people do but there's just this dichotomy.  Anyways, I get it. I get it. Let's go That broke my heart the day I read it and it still breaks my heart today because again, they must look at us Like we are devils.  We rip the testicles out of baby pigs when they're born We torment them put them on concentration camp trucks. We send them the slaughterhouses. They know what's going on They're aware. They're conscious. They smell death and fear and blood in the air We cut them up into pieces This this this stuff has to stop over and over again once and again you go to Ways of of describing That we are used to you to to to hear concerning the Holocaust It's a pretty sensitive around here, but you you stand for it Isn't it over the top to To use the Holocaust The animal Holocaust was happening long before the Jewish Holocaust during the Jewish Holocaust and it's still happening today I find it over the top that The Jewish Holocaust is compared to the animal Holocaust because when you compare numbers We're talking about six million Jews and if you add up the other six million gypsies and blacks and Catholics and mentally retarded people We're talking 12 million people were killed by the Nazis in one year alone on this planet 60 billion Land animals 90 billion marine animals are tortured tormented and killed in the world's most massive Holocaust That's just in one year alone in America today 30 million land animals will be tortured and killed in one day one day alone. Okay, that is a massive Holocaust and Jews don't own the term Holocaust.  Nothing comes even nothing even holds a candle to it Like the candles like down here the animal Holocaust is just this is year after year after year after year In every four weeks. We're killing more humans than ever ever existed. It's crazy numbers 1 to 3 trillion marine animals are his gary's very Uh conservative with his estimate on animals being killed there and it's over 60 billion land animals now We're talking 75 77 now like we're getting Into crazy crazy numbers and it's happened perpetually every year and the population is increasing every year as well Is it's quite uh difficult because one of my colleagues here asked you Were you to uh to decide?  Would you choose? I think it's a horrible question to be asking somebody and then I asked her back Would she save a black baby or a white baby? Would you save a palestinian suicide bomber? Or would you save a flea? Because we act like human life is valuable and it's not especially when you talk about mass murderers and rapists and hitler and himler and stalling and idiom mean and slobodan melosevich and nomar kodafi I mean is anybody going to save nomar kodafi's life?  Nobody cares about kodafi osama bin lan This is so false. We are all speciesist We think that animal life is invaluable and we falsely believe that human life is valuable if I can further explain how Unvaluable human life You know gary actually likes to bring humans back down to earth because He is trying to attack speciesism. He's trying to attack human supremacy So humans beings we inherently believe we're so special right and this is You know what is driving? This Horrible atrocity happening to animals because human beings just believe we are so special that if we want to sandwich We can basically gas chamber a pig for it, you know So he tries to break us back down bring us back down to earth and kill that massive human ego and say hey Well, we're not actually that special and that's the idea behind this. I believe I'm speaking for gary on gary's behalf but that's what I Try to analyze here when he's bringing humans back down to earth by just Saying we're not more valuable than ants to the ecosystem basically truly is Do you know that if you took humans off this planet? The extinction of humans would benefit everything that exists the animals the forest the air the water the mountains We are completely not special to this planet If you removed ants, this is how special ants are the whole ecosystem would collapse without ants And I know you've been following the news with bees If the bees disappear Everything falls apart. This is how special and valuable bees are to the world Where do we get off saying that we are valuable when all we do is destroy and torment and think that we're superior And we dominate others and this is why you wished you said you wish That people you gotta do a journalist thing here Where he's gonna bring up something gary said a decade ago and This is what journalists do when you go on to the tv That will bring up things that you've said Sentences that you've said The most extreme things that you've said ever and this is what's about to happen that work in slaughterhouses And get slaughtered themselves or something very bad happens to them.  They are really doesn't matter what I think to you to me Yes, but most importantly to the victims so he's made a lot so the the slaughterhouse workers In the slaughterhouses are like nazis and was what well to the animals they are Well, let's just analyze that for this for a second here.  Would you feel like you were part of a holocaust? I think you would The victims don't see the people that killed Jews any different than the people who kill cows and people that were Furs should be raped. I wish Listen, I certainly don't wish that they hit the lottery I don't wish that bags of money fall from the sky and boxes of lollipops land in their laps You know the weird thing about this is like, yeah Gary said some pretty, you know, some things I probably wouldn't say these days and you know, but like Every activist you're going to pick something about them, you know, like but Isn't it interesting though how if Gary wishes bad on someone who wears the tortured skin of you know animals You know the animals that he was saving like mink he rescued the mink and liberated the mink and then he was like, you know If you buy it for your evil for supporting the fur industry, it's a it's a murderous industry They annually electrocute the animals.  So sometimes they get skimmed alive So he's basically said something about about people who wear fur Okay, which you know people say things in anger. You've got every right to say something bad Like when a child gets raped and killed What do the public say about what should happen to the person who did it? What would the parents want to happen to that guy would you be like, oh god, no Like you can't ask for that, you know child murderer to be raped and killed in prison, you know You can't ask for that. That's really bad.  Maybe he was more poetic about it And maybe he written an art in an essay or whatever, but people do this all the time when when someone abuses a dog You know, like this is a point that I always make is like when I see dog abuse videos you know where Someone is harming a cat or dog and you just look in the comment section Look in the comment section at all the extremists Who are going oh, they they deserve what happened to that dog to happen to them They deserve what they did to that cat to happen to them Or if I got my hands in a mud torture them for four days and then kill them, you know Like everyone says stuff when there is something that upsets them to do with cruelty and you know But when it's the species of animal no one cares about All of a sudden the person who is wishing this karma on someone is the extremist. Well, you know, whatever I wish evil things happen to evil people, but I want to be clear about this.    You know, I mean people do this all the time It's a norm. It's actually quite like normal for You know people to have an emotional response and wish karma on people who do horrible things Okay, two things. Do you know when I made that statement? 1997 I think that was like this was like 10 years later. See what I mean? They whip up stuff from ages ago Okay, it's been 16 years and not one person has raped a woman in a fur coat because I wished it All right So let's not get into people taking my words that literally it was my wish It was my fantasy and by the way, I also wrote three other lines about how rapist should be used in experiments How rapist should be tortured and killed How come people don't talk about those things that I say Nobody disagrees. You know the hilarious thing is is they'll be like, oh my god I can't believe he said rapists should be using experiments. That's that's horrible.     So why don't we just you know try that? Of course, but why do we try to justify human behavior based on lion behavior or shark behavior? It's also unfair because nobody else wants to do anything else that lions do You notice that convenient argument.  I've just gone to the toilet. I have no toilet paper.  You know, this is just natural You know what else is natural?  That's not how the world works Like if let's just automatically Put the word humane in front of anything atrocious that happens like Oh, well, you know, there's a humane You know, I don't even want to say it because it's just I can't even say it like there are some horrible Disgusting acts of violence and cruelty and violations that happen Okay And I just can't bring myself to say it right now For some reason. I don't know why But if you just put the word of humane in front of it Okay And it is the equivalent of that humane slaughter humane animal Holocaust, okay That this is brainwashing This is humane washing This is propaganda That's what it is Let's take for example Some some farmer far away. Maybe far away in time in the past grows an animal and the animal has Wonderful life raising It's just hilarious hearing him say this You know, the neighbors children had a wonderful life so I'm going to shoot them humanely in the skull And chuck them in the oven like Hansel and Gretel And enjoying itself and is that the Sorry, am I Am I still going here? But uh, anyways, like is Hansel and Gretel the uh thing where they get eaten by the uh The witch or whatever. I don't know. Is that the right? Is that the right nursery rhyme or whatever it is? Anyway, let's keep going When the tankime comes He kills the animal in in in a you know, in a nice way In a nice way This guy is digging his own hole. Look at Gary's face. Can we get a zoom in on Gary's face here? We're it's possible. Oh, no, no, no, this isn't it we need um, we need Gary to just He's holding his hands and he's looking at him. How come I How come I can't He kills it How come I can't zoom in but anyways, can you guys see my mouse here? Look how he's holding his hands Actually, you know what I'll do. I'll do this So look at me Look how he's holding his hands.  He's just like, yeah nice. Yeah. Yes murdering animals is nice, is it? Are you okay? Do you need clinical help? Shall we take you to the doctor to You know get yourself checked dude. What do you mean? Nice killing?  Okay, you might disagree That's fine. You might be a pacifist. That's fine. Not everyone is but you might be This guy thinks killing can be nice Right, but Gary's the one under the pump here Gary's the extremist This guy thinks killing is nice Why is one the like the one who's trying to promote Peace for animals and bad things happening to bad people the extremist and the person who's saying Someone who's having a happy life basically an animal who's having a happy life You walk up And kill them nicely Without justification. You know, he didn't mention a survival situation He's not in one obviously. He's a tv star But like they're already living nicely having amazing well-being and happiness and he comes along and Robbs their life from them violently and he's saying that that is nice But Gary's the extremist Like I just can't I'm sorry. I can't this is not holocaust. This is the way of life Okay, so I go this is not a holocaust. This is a way of life this guy Like he's giving us too much. I don't know how Gary's like Just sat there with a straight face now like when I'm in that type of situation. I can do it too, but This isn't a holocaust. It's a way of life imagine that Hey, like what's happening to the animals isn't a holocaust.  This isn't a holocaust. This is just a way of life It's same Oh and me day woman at a bar I buy her some drinks.  Is that humane? Why not she didn't feel a thing look at his face. Hey look at his face Can we just get a close up? Oh Did you did you just come crashing down dude? Mr.  I actually think like i'm not going to be too hard on him because he was actually He was pretty good This guy and apparently I heard that he went vegan. So forgive me if you're watching this my friend I'm only reacting to the way you were Back then You could have a different opinion now And you could have a different position now different ethical position now since you had this conversation with Gary So don't um, I hope you're not overly sensitive here and um, you know So because you are actually a real person You know just exist in Gary's video But uh, so yeah Just wanted to say that he probably might not hold these positions now and I heard he possibly went vegan so anyways, um His face when Gary says can rape be humane if I slip him a date rape drug and they don't feel it interesting Can we get a play see because the act of chris hines the act of murder? chris hines, how's it going brother? He's in there debating Say hello to chris hines. Just want to say chris hines Lovely guy helped me out so much throughout my activism chris. Love you, mate The date rape drug and raper is that humane? Why not she didn't feel a thing See because the act of rape is evil. Okay. The act of murder is evil You can't do it in a nice way. Okay.  Not to kill That's a nice way You know Like like I said when Gary was being made too much logic. Oh too much logic Oh my god, like what are we going to do with this guy?  Even when killing is completely morally justified like in self-defense. It can't be nice How is it nice to rob someone's entire existence from them for eternity?  Do you think do you think that the world is progressing? In the direction you wanted to to progress in a in a in a faith. He's he just seems like a changed man already Are you getting this feeling like are you getting this feeling? Should we do a close-up of this part? That's efficient Not quickly enough for the victims but sadly as you know Change is slow It took 400 years to convince white people in america not to own blacks Oh, I had enough to see why this has taken so long. We can't even treat each other kindly You can see why we have a difficult time treating chickens and you know 400 years in america white people were enslaving people of color 400 Years in a civilized country What? That's insane You know and Like that's four generations It's four or five generations of slavery Like slaves were being born into slavery human beings born into servitude You know And Gary's like and these are human beings. These are the same as us these are human beings with a different shade of Skin color to other human being like so like this human being's got a A covering over them. That's this color and this human being has a covering over them. That's this color And you were like well, I'm going to enslave that colored human being like crazy insane just like insane Like immoral justifications for enslaving people because there's a different tone of skin on their body You know and this is why Gary hasn't you know has always had little hope For people not to enslave at non-human animals because if we couldn't even get that right For so and and human beings are still being enslaved by the way Um children being into you know, it's horrible things going on all around the world all around the world so But you can see why there's so little hope for the non-human animals because if it took four or five generations for humans to stop enslaving other human beings In a so-called civilized country like you know, america What hope do the pigs have?  I know they're bigots out there, but I'm operating off the assumption that most people I hope are just You know anti all of those other forms of discrimination and they've got a little bit to go with speciesism But you know that I believe that is looking at the world through rose colored glasses because there's a big world out there and there are a lot of unfortunately bigoted people out there, but Gary's uh Philosophy is that all these Forms of discrimination if we are taught not to discriminate against Other species as a child This is the first form of discrimination.    Hey, but that turkey that kill them. It's Thanksgiving.  How is that child going to grow up and look at a different? Person who's a different size shape and color. How is that kid going to look at that person in hatred with violence? Speciesism by eradicating that we can bring peace to this planet. We have to take a break here short one the other shoe and we all know in Gary's retirement speech that he actually uh Took that back which is very sad. Um, should we just should we just try to get up Gary's? retirement speech uh Because uh, Gary actually did take that back in his retirement speech um His retirement speech actually I don't know if I want to read this retirement speech because there's a bit in there I did uh read it but um Uh So let me just get here Uh Man, he's pretty full on in this actually I will just read one part to you And this part here of this Um Well, basically this part here of his retirement letter I mean meant the most to me and it actually um It inspired me a lot, you know back in I believe he retired um when was it? 2017 okay, so yeah, I was like I was pretty well into my activism by then but I was inspired by Gary a lot and he says uh I actually cried when I read this part at the end here. Um, I did I was tearing up and I uh Yeah, I felt it in my soul when I read this part It says and a huge massive shout out to those who fight for animal liberation only and have always used My activism as a tool to further the cause because it is now your job to find people who are thirsting for knowledge Who aren't comfortably numb with all the cruelty and edify them If everyone did their part and converted 10 100 1000 or more a vegan world would be in reach Just speak for the animals like you would want to be spoken for if you are in their position And always follow your heart when it comes to activism Stop thinking of ideas when you can put those ideas into action instead And please stop having meetings and conferences because you will only end up discuss discussing those meetings at the next conference Before scheduling another conference to debate and discuss the previous meetings before having another discussion So basically saying stop talking about what you're going to do and just do it Conferences and conferences and conferences about conferences and conferences instead of action action action In my prime I was a man of action who lived by the adage That if you wanted something done right then you had actually had to do it and do it yourself You should live by that adage too. Am I pronouncing adage, right? I don't know Put all those tears all that anger and all that knowledge into action. You'd be amazed with the results Unfortunately, you will discover that enlightenment is bittersweet seeing the truth knowing the truth And living the truth is wonderful But realizing how evil our family friends and species are is maddening Just keep opening the eyes of as many people as you can for as long as you can So one day you too can say tag You're it to a bunch of people you've influenced This essay is called tag you are it And essentially he's passing the baton on because he retired Incredibly sad hard to see him go and spoke to my heart this part here And I had took it very personally and I haven't I wasn't I didn't think I was going to stop but I definitely The animals keep me motive not motivated committed and dedicated motivation comes and goes some days You're not going to be motivated. You have to keep speaking for the animals anyway Um, if you rely on motivation, it is a finite resource. It will not get you through um the battles you do it because You have if you're like me, I've got an unquenchable Thirst I've got a fire that It's constantly burning It constantly motivates me through that it's like it won't go away and it can never be It can never be quenched It's like I have to keep Going no matter what and uh, that's what commitment is and dedication and um, I think Gary just kept got you know, I'm early days. I'm early days. I've been vegan nearly eight years I've been a You know active for since around I would say the start of 2016 end of 2015 So I've got a long ways to go but um don't plan on stopping soon and uh, just wanted to point to this last part of his essay here He's giving activists advice and Gary You know would rarely give activist advice. He would rarely he would usually only talk to Media eaters, but you know, he didn't really like doing activist workshops and things like that he just wants people to take action and um Yeah, a lot of people have taken action since Gary is a massive movement and um, I just wish he would come back so that he knew that there would be support for him now. He's not the only Major activist in the world who has a massive platform and you know It would just be like he back in those days There wasn't really any one on the in the world saying what Gary said with with the platform he had Not in the way he's saying it that's for sure not with the platforms He had and the people that he reached on social media. He went viral. He was like the first uh animal rights activist to go that viral Gary it was Gary, you know, so um Yeah, he had an incredible weight on his shoulders and he'd already been fighting for many years About 18 to be exact I think And then he got on social media for the last couple of years and then he retired so 20 years in And uh because he went hard as hard as he could So, yeah Anyways guys, I hope you enjoyed tuning into the Gary Roski reaction live stream with joey Cubs wrong and um, that's me So you got any questions for me before we leave, um, we can have a look here Um, what do we got? What do we got here? Any questions? No We can do a couple we can run through a couple. It's been two hours and 20 minutes We can do the next 10 minutes of questions if you like um No Okay Maybe I'll give it should I give it a little second So someone's saying thank you. Thank you Thank you. Yoko. Nick Yoko. I can't pronounce your name. I'm super sorry about that Chama best Thanks for joining us guys. I appreciate it. Um, a little bit of a Gary Yorovsky, uh reminder Gary stopped that Gary burned out He's very open about what happened, but I think it Must have been pretty serious for him to stop because he very he felt what the animal was going through deeply And he made a rash. He's a rational person. He made a rational decision So I don't think it would have just been on a whim. I think it would have been getting to that point where he um You know wasn't left with much of a choice And uh, if you know anything about the way he is It would have been very serious for him to to stop. You know what I mean? It wouldn't just have given up Without it being the end of his tether And uh, I think that Gary two decades fighting that hard being imprisoned and also the amount of work that he Did You know it makes sense. So Thanks guys for sending your donations through the the the we'll put that the donations um into the Operations here at joey carp strong so we can get you know Do various um things. So if you guys wanted to support our work here like we are Picking up the steam and we've got multiple projects on the go at the moment. Um So any help is I'm extremely grateful for and you know, we can do more with more money and that's just the way it is we Without funding we We can't you know, we can I could I mean I've done this with just my computer and myself But it's uh, we can get a lot more done with funding. That's for sure. So guys if you want to help, please do uh, greatly appreciated and uh, we can Start smashing it and we're gonna make a big impact and um, it's just you know, I know this is so cliche And everyone says it that is cliche and a bit cringy But uh, I'm gonna say it now because I'm not cliche and cringy because I actually mean it Is that uh, it's just the beginning and uh, got a lot to come And I've been saying that for ages I think I say that once every few weeks. So yeah For the last few years. So Thanks guys. All right I ended on the cliche Gary's a legend his courage personified Definitely all right, my friends. Thank you for tuning into the Gary Yorovsky live stream with joey Peace out or speeches all soon


Please subscribe to this YouTube channel mentor talk can do press bell button for notifications. Actor Rhea Chakrabarty and nine others have been booked under various sections and provisions of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotrophic Substances Act, the NDPS Act. They have been booked by the Narcotics Control Bureau NCB. These 10 accused have been booked under section 8c, red with sections 20b, 2, section 22, 27a, 28, 29 and section 30 of the NDPS Act. These sections relate to the alleged use and possession of cannabis and psychotrophic substances, you know, financing illicit traffic and harboring offenders as well as the abatement and, you know, criminal conspiracy attempt and preparation of, you know, committing an offence. As per these provisions, if the accused, including Rhea Chakrabarty and her brother, are found guilty, they could face imprisonment of 10 years or more along with monetary fine. The NCB's remand application before the court predominantly stated that, you know, it had relied on these statements made by the accused in the case, you know, including alleged drug peddlers and Sushant Singh Rajput's house staff who had allegedly, you know, admitted about selling and receiving drugs respectively for Sushant on his directions and on some occasions, you know, on the instructions of Rhea Chakrabarty as alleged. The NCB apparently claims that Rhea Chakrabarty is actively connected with the drugs indicate for the drug supplies. However, interestingly and ironically, the NCB's remand request did not make any mention of consumption or possession of drugs by Rhea. The NCB claims that she would manage finance for drug procurement along with Sushant Singh Rajput and procure drugs for Sushant Singh Rajput for consumption purposes. Based on this, the the charge under section 27A, section 27A related to the financing of illicit traffic has been invoked in the case, which is a non-bailable offense. Now, talking about Rhea Chakrabarty's stand, she claims that she is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the case. She even goes to the extent of saying that she was coerced into making self-incriminating confessions and she has formally retracted all such incriminatory confessions. Another procedural aspect she has questioned is, you know, relating to the process followed during her interrogation. She says that there was not a single lady, you know, officer who sort of interrogated her as mandated by the law, you know, laid down by the Indian Supreme Court in the case of Sheila Barsay versus a state of Maharashtra. She is also trying to demolish NCB's case on the ground that the allegations that the allegations made against her would at the most make out a case of purchasing a small quantity of drug, which is, you know, in essence, a bailable offense. There is no, not a shred of evidence, you know, she says to connect her with financing any illicit traffic or harboring any offender.  As for now, the NCB is on a mute as to the amount of financing, quantum of drugs and the specific type of drugs allegedly procured and financed by her. The NCB's case to a great extent revolves around the fact that Rhea would coordinate the purchase and delivery of the drugs for her then boyfriend, Sushant Singh Rajput.  You know, dealing with, you know, smaller quantity would mean a, you know, what, a maximum imprisonment of up to a year or with fine or both as against 10 years or more imprisonment stipulated for the offense booked by NCB against her. Now, getting bail under the category of offense in Section 27A is tough. As I mentioned earlier, you know, Rhea is booked under this section apart from other sections.  The window of getting bail is restricted by Section 37 of the NDPS Act. Now, if you see the relevant text of Section 37 in front of your screens, it says offenses to be cognisable under, offenses to be cognisable and non-bailable, not withstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, 2 of 1974, a, every offense punishable under this act shall be cognisable, which means that the police can arrest without making, without any warrant, b, no person accused of an offense punishable for offenses under Section 19 or Section 24 or Section 27A and also for offenses involving commercial quantity shall be released on bail or on his own bond unless, so no release is possible at all in 27A, unless the public prosecutor has been given an opportunity to oppose the application for such release and where the public prosecutor opposes the application, the court is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that he is not guilty of such offense and that he is not likely to commit any offense while on bail. So, the statute is very clear, you know, the public prosecutor gets a big handle, you know, as you see, in this matter, the limitations on granting of bail specified in Clause B of Subsection 1 are in addition to the limitations under the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 or any other law for the time being enforced, you know, on granting bail. This section makes, you know, it absolutely clear that getting bail for Rhea will not be very easy. It's not going to be an easy path and she could, according to me, get bail only from High Court or the Supreme Court, you know, speaking practically rather than theoretically because the statute is very tight, you know, Section 37 is very clear, you know, it gives massive handle to the public prosecutor and if the public prosecutor opposes, the court has to satisfy many tests. In fact, the Supreme Court has quite recently observed that there cannot be liberal approach in the matter of bail in the NDPS Act. Yes, this was in what, 2020, this year, in the case of State of Kerala versus Rajesh, etc. However, there are several judgments of the Supreme Court of India which, you know, do go in the favor of accused, but most of these judgments are in appeals, you know, against the final order as to conviction, not at the interim stage. So, it's a long battle. Well, nonetheless, you know, let me share a few judgments on the principle of law regarding NDPS Act. But first, you know, let me discuss a judgment about the confession part, you know, because Rhea Chakraborty has questioned that her confession has not been voluntary, voluntarily sought. The Supreme Court, you know, in 2019, that is last year, delivered a judgment in the case of Mohammed Faasreen versus a state, you know, represented by intelligence officer, where, you know, it ruled that we, for the decision of this case, therefore, proceed on the premises that the confession is admissible, even if it is admissible, the court has to be satisfied, that it is a voluntary statement, you know, free from any pressure, you know, that the accused was apprised, and they accused, you know, accused was apprised of his rights before recording the confession. No such material has been brought on the record of the case.  As such, without going into the legality of the admissibility of the confession, the Supreme Court held that even if these confessions are admissible, then also, then also the evidence is not sufficient to convict the accused, that's what they held. Then another important judgment I could lay my hands on was a Supreme Court judgment in the case of Hanif Khan, Anu Khan versus Center, you know, Bureau of Narcotics, you know, this judgment is also pretty much recent, last year judgment of 2019, you know, the Supreme Court held that, you know, the prosecution, it's in front of you the text, the prosecution under the NDPS Act carries a reverse burden of proof with a culpable mental state of the accused. He's presumed to be guilty, consequent to recovery of contraband from him, and it is for the accused to establish his innocence, unlike the normal rule of criminal jurisprudence that an accused is presumed to be innocent, you know, unless proved guilty. But that does not absolve the prosecution, you know, that does not absolve the prosecution from establishing, you know, that the case only where after, you know, the burden shifts to the accused. Again, you know, the text was in front of you, I may not have read it in verbatim, the court held that because, you know, there is a reverse burden of proof, the prosecution shall be put to a stricter test for compliance with statutory provisions. If at any stage the accused is able to create a reasonable doubt, you know, if the accused creates a reasonable doubt as a part of his defense to rebut the presumption of his guilt, the benefit will naturally go to him. Then, you know, there is another recent judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Gangadhar, you know, alias Gangaram versus the state of Madhya Pradesh. This judgment is of this year itself, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that the presumption against the accused of culpability under, you know, the act to explain the position satisfactorily are rebuttable. It does not dispense with the obligation of the prosecution to prove the charge beyond all reasonable doubt. The presumptive provision with reverse burden of proof does not sanction, you know, conviction on basis of preponderance of probability. The court further said, you know, I mean, I would like to show that text to you, I will quote from the judgment side from the judgment, the stringent provision of the NDPS Act, such as Section 37, the minimum sentence of 10 years, absence of any provision for remission do not dispense with the requirements of prosecution to establish a Prem FAC case beyond reasonable doubt after investigation, only where after which the burden of proof shall shift to the accused. The gravity of the sentence and the stringency of the provision will therefore call for a heightened scrutiny of the evidence for establishment of foundational fact by the prosecution. Well, I hope I was able to give you, you know, an overview and perhaps some insight into the NDPS Act. I will see you again as the producers will line up my next lecture with the viewers. Thank you so much.


What I think about Community Television Network, I think about the aspect of people being able to just go on the air to really exercise their free speech. An opportunity for any person in a community to have access to expressing an idea is critical. The fact that it exists whatsoever provides such an amazing opportunity. I mean I've gone to a little bit of film school and I know a lot of other students here have but there's something about the hands-on experience you can get from just walking in the studio and just saying can I start working on something and them saying yes, you can work on this project, this, you can start your own project, we'll give you the tools, it's really amazing. I find that it's really satisfying to help people get involved in community media because it's a resource not too many people know about but it's important because it's a way to get voices heard that aren't normally heard. It's pretty clear that community media is the only media outlet that outside of the internet proper and even that's becoming increasingly less so that is open format. Community media is very valuable especially these days with big corporate production companies and broadcast media. It allows for a voice for people who don't have access to a lot of money. I'm also a media study student so I know that a lot of the stuff that you see on a network for example is mostly sponsored and someone in an office is deciding what the viewer sees so you may see something that's all right wing, you might see something that's all left wing but local access gives you a chance to say what's really happening on the ground. People have the right to free speech but rarely use it. For instance if they have an issue on their street or in their neighborhood they could come to CTN, learn how to use the video equipment, find other people that use that do this and go and work on this issue, bring more visibility. I think the topics that happen in this room are amazing and I think about the gender dignity show in particular like somebody has an interest and a motivation and they have a place to come to really take the topic to a broader range of people. It's really important, this medium, TV, it's about information, it's about being a citizen. It's about a popularity contest to get on to public access television so anyone with an opinion can explore it and share it and maybe have an influence or cause a ripple effect somewhere in the community conversation. Community television gives people a chance to let their voices be heard, it gives them a chance to come up with their ideas and like share them. Community television is important because not only is it showing what is going on in our community and making sure that people are aware but it also helps people from the community be able to learn about media and TV. The importance of community television has been, it's just been like a great outlet for my creativity and a great space to learn, a great environment to learn. I really wanted to be here to explore more options in film because I'd only really taken classes at school but this was really like eye-opening and I got to see how productions come together, how they work, how to schedule them and then edit them all together and put them on the actual TV and it's really, it was a great experience and I'm glad I did it. I will advise everyone to come and give it a try, you will find nice people, people are very smart, intelligent, they know sound system, editing. This gives a voice not only to issues and the things that are happening in the community but artists that can come in, dancing, music. I think community media is important because it's vital in maintaining the functioning in reflecting the voices of the community members back within itself. The community television is important because it gives everyone who's not able to get information directly because they can watch the television and see what's going on in the community. Community media in terms of our community television network, it's a relatively free resource. Once you've learned the materials, the equipment, you're free to come and volunteer as much as you want to produce a show of your own so I say use it. What I like here is a team effort and a team spirit and that's more important than most of the other things that could be trapping you here and there, the sense of community within the television station itself. We're humans, we like to get out there and connect and I think just being able to use the media outlet and being able to go try and communicate, contact with your community is very important. It's very essential actually.