Gary Yourofsky's
entire speech on animal rights and veganism held at Georgia
Tech in summer of 2010. Gary challenges meat eaters to look
at the industry of farming animals for food. No longer do
animals roam free and live stress free lives, but now we mass
produce them like commodities and treat them as if they are
machines. Most people ignore where their food comes from and
what the animals endured to get there. Every meat eater should
watch this video to understand what it means to be a consumer
of abused, starved, and tortured animals. He offers answers
to difficult questions and shared how he went from being an
advocate for meat to refusing to partake in an abusive industry.
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Gary has
been arrested 13 times to make a statement, he has been kicked
out of 5 countries, and still he refuses to stop spreading
his message. Once while arrested and sent before a judge,
Gary's bail was set to 10,000 dollars, while another arrestee
was given only 1,000 dollars bail for sexual assult. What
did Gary do that could have been worse than that? Gary saw
some animals being skinned and could not watch any longer
and decided to free them. What brought a tough skinned man
to a place where he became an advocate for animals?
Gary points out in his speeches that the
greats of history have broken laws to make a point and he
is and will continue to do the same. Like Ghandi, Martin Luther,
King, and yes even Mother Teresa broke her own church laws
to make a point about what they felt were important issues.
He desires to cause a revolution in the animal meat industry.
He believes we should be kind to animals. Most people today
are unaware of what goes on in the large meat industry and
in the remote locations of some farms. Animals are abused
and Gary likens the treatment to what the Jews endured during
Hitler's reign, African's endured in Slavery, and any other
time in history where one race of being was treated as objects.
Gary will challenge you to look at yourself, but this really
is fair. Afterall, if we are consuming meat shouldn't we know
where it came from and how it got there?
Gary isn't someone to just tell someone what
to do, he challenges you to be part of the solution too. He
speaks with the charisma of a seasoned speaker and keeps the
attention of even the largest of skeptics. He offers solutions
to this issue of meat consumption which includes that fact
that when humans consume the grains, corn, and other foods
given to feed livestock that we could wipe out starvation
around the world. This means that mass producing these animals
would stop and the food industries should start producing
food on the land where the cattle currently roam. This means
that humanity would need to consume food that comes from a
humane production industry.
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