Making the Connection (Make the connection) presents the benefits of a vegan diet in a relaxed and informal way. The eleven vegans show various aspects and benefits of veganism, as part of health and animal suffering free food, among others. The music is courtesy of the artists of hip-hop vegans Promoe and Jah Sun.

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HEART DISEASE

1. Carnivores can degrade almost unlimited amounts of cholesterol and other fats without adverse effects (hypercholesterolemia), however, the herbivores metabolised (chemical reactions within the cells) very limited quantities, which increases blood fats, leading with time atherosclerosis (increased hardness arteries) and arteriosclerosis (accumulation of fat in arteries).

2. The meat-based diet is closely related to the development of diseases such as atherosclerosis and heart disease.

3. In 1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association said: "Between 90% and 97% of heart disease can be prevented with a Vegetarian diet. "Since then, several studies have well organized scientifically proven that after the snuff and alcohol consumption. Meat is a major cause of mortality in Western Europe, the United States, Australia and other influential world regions.

4. Plant proteins may help maintain cholesterol levels low.

5. Persons with hypercholesterolemia (increased blood cholesterol) and suffering from coronary diseases where proteins can benefit come from plants.

6. In obesity is no increase in the number and size of cells fat, it is determined that the heart has to pump more times minute, generating a long-term inability of the heart to continue working normally. (Heart failure).

OVERWEIGHT

1. The meat fats are saturated with cholesterol and triglycerides (other fats), which are deposited in the subcutaneous adipose tissue (under the skin) and visceral (organs in a body cavity), it provides a type of so harmful that obesity is directly associated with development potential diabetes, heart attacks, etc..

2. The DEE (dietiletilestrol), when growth hormones, promote generation of fat and prevents weight loss. (A similar effect occurs with contraceptives).

3. These hormones decrease peristaltic movement of the intestine, so the meat stays longer within therefore absorbed more nutrients, including fat is. (Similar effect happens with normal pregnant women).

4. When bound to sedentary overweight, genetic factors, family history, there are great chances of getting diabetes, that, not being diagnosed or treated, causes serious damage to eyes kidney, peripheral nervous system, etc..

5. The skeleton is genetically determined to support some weight, if resistance is exceeded, the joints of the lower limbs and column will begin to suffer and premature osteoarthritis, lumbago, sciatica, herniated discs, etc..

6. Synthetic growth hormones ls very similar to hormones contraceptives are used to weigh down the animal at the time selling as water and fat build. Have also been associated with risk of cancer or premalignant liver disease cardiovascular and thromboembolism, which increases with age and smoking. It adds more episodes of migraine dyslipidemia, etc..

7. Complications from obesity related metabolic point with visceral obesity (abdominal, central, centripetal, android, type block), since in this case are released many substances that make their distance effects. Between the that are released are: AC. fatty no (NEFA), tumor necrosis factor - α (TNF-α), angiotensinogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), enzyme inhibitor proteín lipase (LPL) and transport proteins activating cholesterol esters (CETP). (Wajcchemberg. Endocrine Reviews, 2000). Some of these factors produce tissue resistance to the action of insulin, which is followed by compensatory hyperinsulinemia. This stimulates hyperinsulinemia lipogenesis thereby maintains visceral fat. Hyperinsulinemia also produces sodium reabsorption in the kidneys, which attracts water 12 within the blood vessels, thereby increasing blood pressure, helped turn to the release of angiotensin pressure also increases arterial vasoconstriction. Compensatory hyperinsulinemia given by tissue resistance to insulin decreases with time leading to a hyperglycemia and the reported diabetes mellitus. The NEFA allow increased very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) triglyceride rich (TG) from the liver, due to low activity of the TG LPL you exchange of cholesterol esters. This determines hypertriglyceridemia, defradacion HDL (High Density lipoprot.) and increased low density lipoprotein (LDL).

CANCER

1. There is a direct relationship between eating meat and colon cancer, either by the amount of fat or low fiber. This slows the intestinal transit, allowing toxic substances from putrefaction meat are longer in contact with the colonic mucosa.

2. The meat digested in the intestine are produced steroid substances which are carcinogenic.

3. People living in areas where there is a high incidence of carcinoma of the colon, breast, uterus and rectum, tend to base their nutrition in protein and animal fat (The Lancet).

4. Of 25 countries that are major consumers of meat, 19 had a high level of cancer, and 35 countries with low or no consumption of any meat had a high level of cancer.

5. Nitrosamines are compounds found in beer, tea, snuff, etc.. which contact the chemical preservatives meat become one of the most potent carcinogens known.

6. Diets high in fat you stimulate estrogen production in estradiol particular, high levels of which are associated with breast cancer.

7. A recent study showed an association between the consumption of dairy and increased risk of ovarian cancer digesting process lactose (milk sugar) to turn it into galactose evidently damage to the ovary (Cramer DW, Harlow BL, Willett WC. Galactose consumption and metabolism in relation to the risk of ovarian cancer. Lancet 1989; 2:66 -71).

8. Research over the past twenty years aptly suggest a link between eating meat and colon cancer, rectum, breast and uterus. These cancers are rare among those who eat little or no meat, as Adventists day, the Japanese, Indians, etc.., but prevalent among populations "meat eaters". Another article in "The Lancet" reported: "People who live in areas where there is a high frequency of colon carcinoma tend to live on diets containing large amounts of fat and animal protein, while those who live in areas where is a low rate of the disease, diets fed vegetarian and low-fat animal products. "

9. Rollo Russell, in his "Notes on the causes of cancer," says: "I found that twenty-five countries that consume a lot of meat, nineteen had a high cancer rate and only one, a low rate, and 13 thirty-five nations eating little or no meat, all had a low rate ".

10. Además have chemical addition to meat. As soon as you slaughter an animal, its flesh begins to rot, after a few days, turns a sickly gray-green. The industry disguises this adding fading nitrites, nitrates and other preservatives to give the meat a bright red color. But now research has shown that many of these preservatives are carcinogenic, and which compounding the problem is the amount of chemicals used in the livestock feed.

11. Gary and Steven Null, in his book "Poisons in your body", show us something does anyone think twice before buying another steak or Ham: "The animals are kept alive and fat by continuously administration of tranquilizers, hormones, antibiotics and other types 2.700 drug. This fattening process starts even before birth and continues after death. Although these drugs are present in the the meat when you eat, the law requires that they appear in the control quality for the consumer. "Because of findings like this, The National Academy of Sciences reported in 1983 that "people would able to prevent many common cancers by eating less meat and more vegetables and grains. "

12. The American Dietetic Association says that "Most of the humanity for most of history have lived with diets vegetarian or near-vegetarian ", and much of the world still lives in this way. In most industrialized countries, the passion for meat not more than one hundred years. It started with the refrigerator truck and society twentieth century consumer. But even in the twentieth century, the body of Man has not adapted to eating meat. The prominent Swedish scientist Karl von Linne states, "Man's structure, external and internal, compared to the other animals shows that fruits and vegetables succulent constitute his natural food."

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Forks Over Knives - The Cookbook 

What if one simple change could save you from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? For decades, that question has fascinated a small circle of impassioned doctors and researchers—and now, their life-changing research is making headlines in the hit documentary Forks Over Knives. Their answer? Eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet—it could save your life.

It may overturn most of the diet advice you’ve heard—but the experts behind Forks Over Knives aren't afraid to make waves. In his book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn explained that eating meat, dairy, and oils injures the lining of our blood vessels, causing heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. In The China Study, Dr. Colin Campbell revealed how cancer and other diseases skyrocket when eating meat and dairy is the norm—and plummet when a traditional plant-based diet persists. And more and more experts are adding their voices to the cause: There is nothing else you can do for your health that can match the benefits of a plant-based diet.

Now, as Forks Over Knives is introducing more people than ever before to the plant-based way to health, this accessible guide provides the information you need to adopt and maintain a plant-based diet. Features include:

Insights from the luminaries behind the film—Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. John McDougall, The Engine 2 Diet author Rip Esselstyn, and many others.

Success stories from converts to plant-based eating—like San’Dera Prude, who no longer needs to medicate her diabetes, has lost weight, and feels great! The many benefits of a whole-foods, plant-based diet—for you, for animals and the environment, and for our future A helpful primer on crafting a healthy diet rich in unprocessed fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, including tips on transitioning and essential kitchen tools.

125 recipes from 25 champions of plant-based dining—from Blueberry Oat Breakfast Muffins and Sunny Orange Yam Bisque to Garlic Rosemary Polenta and Raspberry-Pear Crisp—delicious, healthy, and for every meal, every day.

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Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known only by his last name, Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the band The Smiths.

Morrissey is an advocate for animal rights and a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In recognition of his support, PETA honored him with the Linda McCartney Memorial Award at their 25th Anniversary Gala on 10 September 2005. In 2012, he appeared in a PETA ad campaign, encouraging people to have their dogs and cats neutered in order to help reduce the number of homeless pets.

In January 2006, Morrissey attracted criticism when he stated that he accepts the motives behind the militant tactics of the Animal Rights Militia, saying "I understand why fur-farmers and so-called laboratory scientists are repaid with violence—it is because they deal in violence themselves and it's the only language they understand."

Morrissey has criticized people in the UK who are involved in the promotion of eating meat, specifically Jamie Oliver and Clarissa Dickson Wright– the latter already targeted by some animal rights activists for her stance on fox hunting. In response, Dickson-Wright stated "Morrissey is encouraging people to commit acts of violence and I am constantly aware that something might very well happen to me."

The Conservative MP David Davis criticized these comments, saying that "any incitement to violence is obviously wrong in a civilized society and should be investigated by the police." On 27 March 2006, Morrissey released a statement that he would not include any concert dates in Canada on his world tour that year—and that he supported a boycott of all Canadian goods—in protest against the country's annual seal hunt, which he described as a "barbaric and cruel slaughter."

In 2009 he abandoned a stage at the Coachella Festival in California because of the smell of cooking meat, stating "I can smell burning flesh and I hope to God its human."

At a concert in Warsaw, Poland on Sunday, 24 July 2011, Morrissey caused more controversy when stating "We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 dead. Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Shit every day," In reference to the recent attacks of Anders Breivik in Norway on 22 July, which resulted in the killing of 69 people who were attending a Youth Labour Party camp on Utøya Island, and eight people working in and around a government building which was bombed. His statement has been seen by many as crude and insensitive. However, Morrissey later elaborated on his statement, saying "If you quite rightly feel horrified at the Norway killings, then it surely naturally follows that you feel horror at the murder of ANY innocent being. You cannot ignore animal suffering simply because animals 'are not us.'"

In February 2013, after much speculation, it was reported that the Staples Center had agreed for the first time ever to make every vendor in the area 100% vegetarian for Morrissey's 1 March performance, contractually having all McDonald's vendors close down. In a press release, Morrissey stated, "I don't look upon it as a victory for me, but a victory for the animals." The request was previously denied to Sir Paul McCartney. Despite these reports, the Staples Center retained some meat vendors while closing down McDonalds. Later in February, Morrissey cancelled an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! after learning that the guests for that night also included the cast of Duck Dynasty, a show about a family who create duck calls for use in hunting. Morrissey referred to the cast as "animal serial killers."

He has stated that "If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favor of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible."

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Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known by his stage name Moby, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known for his electronic music, vegan lifestyle, and support of animal rights. Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. All music considers him "one of the most important dance music figures of the early '90s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America".

Moby lives a vegan lifestyle and supports animal rights, says the plant-based diet has kept him healthy and fit since his early twenties, when he first converted to veganism.

“I’ve been a vegan for 24 years, with two lapses,” Moby, 47, told the NY Times. “I had yogurt in 1992, and I have to say, it was really good. And then I was at a friend’s restaurant in Portland, Oregon, a few years ago, and they made me some vegan sushi, but they accidentally brought me crab sushi."

While Moby's veganism is rooted in his love for animals (he's a vocal animal-rights activist), he says a vegan diet is phenomenal for its healthful, age-defying qualities. The trim 5-foot-7 Moby doesn't count himself as an example of a particularly youthful-looking vegan, but says all his vegan friends look at least a decade younger than they are.

“I was out to dinner last night at a Japanese vegan restaurant downtown, and most of my friends were in their 30s and 40s, and I was looking around and to some extent I felt they had all discovered this fountain of youth,” says Moby,

“I’m not even going to include myself in this, because I think I look kind of old and homeless. But the people I was eating with, they all looked at least 10 years younger than they actually were. And all of them had been vegetarian or vegan for at least 20 years.”

Moby concedes that the strict diet, which excludes meat, eggs and dairy, can be off-putting to some and is well aware of the militant image that some vegans have, but says this has changed a lot.

“If we go back 25 years, there was a lot more intolerance in the vegan world,” he says. “There was a lot more militant us-and-them approach. And that, to a large extent, seems to have fallen by the wayside, both from a vegan perspective and from the non-vegan perspective.

"Vegans are perfectly happy now, for the most part, to hang out with people who don’t agree with them 100%. And maybe one or two nights a week, carnivores seem pretty happy to go to a vegetarian restaurant."

Moby says the attitudinal shift is also be due to maturity. "When you’re 18, that means throwing fake blood on people wearing fur," he says. "And when you’re 40, it means opening a really nice vegan restaurant with great food, and being tolerant and welcoming, and not judging people even if they disagree with you.”

Moby (vegan Grammy nominee) interviewed by HappyCow's Ken Spector at the THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES 2013 GENESIS AWARDS BENEFIT GALA - INSPIRING CHANGE FOR ANIMALS

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"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity." George Bernard Shaw

Many people will attempt to justify their meat, dairy and egg-eating ways by saying something like this: "It's a tradition in my culture to eat meat, dairy and eggs," or "It's customary among my family (or tribe) to eat meat, dairy and eggs"—or, quite simply, "It's my habit to eat meat, dairy and eggs, and as habits go, it's a hard one to break."

However, to uphold some tradition, custom, or habit for no other reason than that it's a tradition, or a custom, or a habit, is obviously an invalid rationalization for preserving slavery, cruelty and murder. Just like habits, some traditions and customs are good ones, some are harmless, and some are extremely evil. Whether they prove to be good, evil, or innocuous, they didn't get that way just because they were practiced routinely. They were ALWAYS good, evil or innocuous! I understand traditions, customs and habits are hard to break, but EVIL traditions, HARMFUL customs, and BAD habits need to be broken.

The abolition of slavery in America, and of suttee in India (the burning-alive of widowed women along with their dead husbands on the funeral pyre) proves that evil can be eradicated, and that rational minds can overcome the atrocity of many traditions and customs that turn innocent beings into victims without reason or mercy.

Try to place yourself in the animals' position: confined to an artificial world, denied your freedom and the chance to live a long, healthy life, even denied sunlight most of the time. Then imagine yourself on a concentration camp truck, terrified and confused, on your way to the slaughterhouse so someone could slice your throat and cut you up into pieces. If you honestly try to assume the animals' point of view, you will understand why the psychotic addictions of meat, cheese, milk and eggs must be abolished.

If you eat animals and the things that come out of animals, you are causing pain and suffering and polluting yourself with the blood of innocent beings. Today, we knowingly contribute to an endless loop of enslaving and killing animals to preserve the abstract notion of tradition, the vacuous rituals of custom, and the murderous, selfish habit of meat, cheese, milk and egg-consumption. Peace begins at the dinner table, with what you put into your body on a daily basis.

Good people—the ones who maintain good habits, and observe worthwhile traditions and customs— don't just talk about kindness. They practice it. They don't pray about love. They actually give it. It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and kill them. That's not what rights are about. That's injustice. There is no counter-argument to veganism. Accept it. Apologize for the way you've been living. Make amends and move forward.

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Breaking laws, from Jesus Christ to Nelson Mandela, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, laws have always been broken to facilitate substantive change.

Please welcome, national lecturer, Gary Yourofsky.

Good afternoon, everybody, my name is Gary Yourofsky. Please take a moment and write down my email address and my website , in case you want to contact me later on. Today we are going to talk about the world's forgotten victims...Animals and the world's oldest and strongest addiction: Meat.

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 meat eating!

The Golden Rule states: 'Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself...' and animals qualify as others.

Thou shalt not kill (are) the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying: 'unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.'

You can keep your friends, your politics and you patriotism, still watch your favorite TV shows and listen to your favorite music, even if it's Ted Nugent.

I'll be making some sarcastic, yet truthful comments throughout the speech. Please feel free to laugh while I'm being sarcastic, just don't laugh during the serious parts. And I'm gonna speak for around 65, maybe 70 minutes, but then we'll do a Q&A session after, for about half an hour, so hold your questions until then.

In the meantime, I have some rhetorical questions for you:

Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and 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?

Can slavery have a victim that is neither a human, nor an animal?

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 is 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? Do you think they get belly rubs and tushy slaps? And if you think there is such a thing as humane slaughter. I'm curious, do you also think there is such a thing as humane rape?

Humane child molestation? Humane slavery? How about humane holocaust? In fact, what is your definition of a holocaust? Is it a massacre of human beings, or a massacre of innocent beings? 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. Not for health, survival, sustenance or self-defense. People eat meat, cheese, milk and eggs for 4 reasons: Habit, Tradition, Convenience, Taste.

I want to define a word that might be new to some people right now, and its vegan, it's up there, on the screen: V-E-G-A-N.

Vegans, like vegetarians, do not consume the meat of any land or marine animals. Vegans, however, unlike vegetarians, also refrain from eating cheese, milk, eggs, honey or any animal product, whatsoever. We also don't wear animal’s skins, no fur, and wool, leather, silk or down.

Now, I want to let you all know, that I was not raised vegan. I ate meat, cheese, milk and eggs for around 25 years. I used to wear leather shoes, belts and jackets like everyone else. In fact, around 20 years ago, I even owned a fur coat. Needless to say, I understand your lifestyle, it used to be mine.

And for people involved in politics... Let's get this out of the way right now. I am not a democrat, an anarchist or some hippie with a closet full of tie-dyed shirts. I'm not a republican, a socialist or a fascist. I'm an activist, root word is active.

I've been banned from 5 countries so far, and arrested 13 times, for random acts of kindness and compassion, on behalf of my animal brothers and sisters, 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 that a lot of people want to get involved, honestly I do.

But putting a "Coexist" bumper sticker on your car, wearing a 'What would Jesus do?' bracelet, or sporting a 'Peace and Love and Sunshine' t-shirt, that is not 'getting involved'!

I understand that we are all on a journey in life. We all have different likes and dislikes, different nationalities and religions too, but there is one thing that we need to have in common with each other, and that's peace!

Genuine compassion and genuine peace for our planetary companions!

Contrary to political and religious dogma, animals do not belong to us. They are not commodities! They are not property! And they are not inanimate, stupid objects, who can't think and feel!

That Descartes' Cartesian way of looking at animals, like they're machines... It is outdated, and quite frankly, 100% insane. Because, if we all understand that animals use their eyes to see, ears to hear, noses to smell, mouths to eat, legs to walk, feathers to fly, fins to swim, genitalia to procreate, bowels 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 of an animal functions just like it's supposed to, except the brain? Those lies are thick. The propaganda from the animal abusers is enormous! I mean, when was the last time you turned on TV and saw a commercial for shiitake mushrooms? People singing and dancing down the streets, having a good time eating mushrooms?

How about alfalfa sprouts?

Quinoa? (It's a seed)

Radishes?

Raspberries?

Tofu?

You don’t see that stuff advertised on TV. What 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? How about a heart doctor? Needs some Lipitor? Zocor? Crestor? Plavix? Needs some diet pills? How about some energy drinks? Some Kaopectate? Tums! Pepto Bismol 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 tightly, but if you give me an open mind today, that's all I ask for, an open mind, I'm gonna take your blinders right off!

My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic that is been buried and suppressed, intentionally, by our society.

And the reason why I say re-connect 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 to the animal kingdom. And it's when we were kids!

When we were young...When we were kids...Man...We used to be in awe of animals. They used to make us laugh, and giggle and smile. They made us pretty happy! And there was a time in our lives, when we would do just about anything in the world to make THEM happy as well. To protect them from cruelty! Or to, at least, ACKNOWLEDGE the cruelty they were receiving.

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What does Republican Matthew Scully, the former senior speechwriter for George W. Bush, have in common with Ohio's ultra Democrat and former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich? The same thing Russell Simmons, Erykah Badu and Joaquin Phoenix have in common with Cesar Chavez, Pythagoras and Leonardo da Vinci. Besides capturing the hearts and minds of generations, all are vegan. By not wearing fur, leather, wool, silk and down, nor consuming milk, cheese, eggs, honey and the meat of any land or marine animal, they made a compassionate decision to directly save the lives of thousands of animals.

Animals had an inherent right to be free and live completely unfettered by human domination, I wondered why it takes so much time to attain this nonviolent awakening.

I began to ask, "Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?"

If every meat, dairy and egg-eater logically and compassionately re-evaluated their beliefs, they would understand why veganism is the only ethical and acceptable way to live on this planet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the compassionate Jewish humanitarian who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland, once condemned every animal-exploiter by stating, "What do they know—all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."

Singer's indictment is probably the most damning statement ever about humankind. It establishes the fact that violence is violence and murder is murder even if the victims have beaks, horns, gills, feathers or fur.

It's important to note that animals were the first victims of slavery, oppression and murder. Humans perfected these psychotic techniques on animals before using them on each other. In the last 12 months alone, tens of billions of animals worldwide were enslaved, murdered, dismembered or tortured by the food and clothing industries, in vivisection experiments, by hunters, in rodeos, circuses, and zoos, making the Animal Holocaust the largest and longest-running Holocaust of all time.

When Nazis rounded up Jews, babies were ripped out of their mothers' arms. In the dairy industry, calves are stolen from their mothers after birth. Other animal mothers, such as sows, rabbits and ewes, have their babies taken within days, weeks or months after birth. Separating families is a psychologically devastating tactic used to weaken one's pride and inhibit their desire to retaliate and fight back. Nazis swiped this technique from the meat, dairy and egg industries. Jews were tattooed to mark them. All animals in the meat and dairy industries are branded with hot irons, or ear-notched with a numerical tag. Jews were sent to the concentration camps in the same extermination trucks that still send animals to slaughterhouses. The Nazis constructed human slaughterhouses to massacre millions, while these torture-buildings have been strategically built all over the planet to massacre billions of animals. Jews have been, while animals still are, treated like nothing, as if their lives don't matter.

You can also compare the two Holocausts this way. Go to the nearest cow or pig slaughterhouse and remove the animals and replace them with humans. You have now re-created Birkenau. If you travel back in time and remove the Jews from Birkenau and replace them with cows or pigs, a Holocaust is still taking place. During my 2012 lectures in Israel, after showing a new slaughterhouse video, I asked thousands of people the following: "How come if the animals in that video were dogs or cats, you'd be outraged? If they were kids, you'd be screaming bloody murder! Instead the victims are cows and chickens and fish and all of a sudden no one cares, it's okay? So I'm a little confused here. Is the slaughterhouse a problem? Or is the problem who's getting killed in the slaughterhouse? It's a HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER. Why does it even exist? Especially in a country that loves to say, 'NEVER AGAIN. IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.' I got some news for ya. The Animal Holocaust was happening long before the Jewish Holocaust, during the Jewish Holocaust and it's still happening today. It's time for Israel to become the first nation on this planet to abolish concentration camps once and for all."

The global atrocity of eating animals kills more innocent beings in one year than all human atrocities over the past 5,000 years combined! This makes veganism the most important aspect of animal rights because almost every animal who is abused and killed on this planet is abused and killed by the meat, dairy and egg industries, despite the fact that no one in this day and age needs meat, cheese, milk and eggs to survive. The only exception would be people residing in icy environments or desert settings. But eating animals for pure survival is rare with only around 1 percent of the earth's population being able to use this excuse. Keep in mind, this is just a valid excuse and NOT a justification. I understand why they do it. I wouldn't do it under any circumstances, but I understand their motives. Everyone else on this planet eats animals and the things that come out of animals for four reasons: Habit, convenience, taste and tradition. With the addition of the profit motive, those are invalid, unnecessary and barbaric reasons to intentionally harm animals.

Meat, dairy and egg-eating societies are also the main cause of world hunger as they continually feed around 50 percent of the world's corn, wheat, oats and soy to 60 billion land animals and tens of billions of marine animals (fish-farming) instead of hundreds of millions of starving people! Every two to three seconds, someone on this planet dies from malnutrition while pigs and cows get fat. Consequently, meat, dairy and egg-eaters are anti-human because feeding billions of animals instead of millions of hungry children is an indirect form of genocide.

Worldwide, around 60 billion land animals [10 billion in the USA] and 90 billion marine animals [18 billion in the USA] are killed and eaten every year in a monumental Holocaust borne of ignorance, arrogance and racism. The human race v. animal race brand of racism permits humans to enslave and kill any other species with impunity. Singer calls speciesism the "purest form of racism" because it kills more innocent beings that any form of human-to-human racism.

This is why vegans are the utmost humanitarians. We indiscriminately seek justice for all by doing unto others as we would have done unto ourselves [THE GOLDEN RULE].

As an ethical vegan, it's logical for me to proclaim that the only nice slaughterhouse is an empty slaughterhouse. This statement, however, is often challenged by uninformed, egocentric individuals who believe mercy and kindness are exclusive to humans. But to deny every animal's inherent right to fly, swim and run freely is cruel and dishonest. If given an option, no animal would choose pain or death.

To understand the compassionate movement of animal rights, empathy must be used to examine the issue from the animals' point of view. This isn't a radical concept either. Abolitionists looked at slavery through the eyes of subjugated blacks, just as the Allied Forces looked at Nazism through the eyes of Jews and other non-Aryans whom Hitler labeled unworthy and expendable. Empathy allows people to understand the injustice without over-analyzing the issue, especially when those in power deem the victims unworthy and expendable, something Hitler, slave-owners, and meat, dairy and egg-eaters have all done to their respective victims.

In an attempt to defile the animal rights movement, meat, dairy and egg-eaters often proclaim that Hitler practiced vegetarianism. However, biographers Albert Speer and Robert Payne attested to Hitler's love for liver dumplings, stuffed squab [pigeon], ham and sausage. German Chef Dione Lucas wrote about Hitler's carnivorism in her Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook, published in 1964. Rynn Berry's Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover describes how Goebbels, The Third Reich's propaganda minister, tried to sell Hitler as a vegetarian to make him seem as peaceful as Gandhi. The next section in this series, HITLER WAS NOT VEGETARIAN, provides ample evidence that, contrary to a good deal of popular misconception, Hitler and his henchmen were not vegetarians at all.

Were you also aware that animals in the meat, dairy and egg industries receive no legal protection whatsoever? After all, slavery and slaughterhouses cannot co-exist with freedom and protection. Here's an excerpt from section two of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the federal law that oversees animal-use in America: "When used in this act, the term "animal" ... excludes farm animals, such as, but not limited to, livestock and poultry used or intended for use as food ..." That's pretty cute, isn't it? The animals who are enslaved or eaten aren't even recognized as animals under the law. Does this remind you of another piece of legislation that ignored the victims and existed to shield victimizers from prosecution? When the Constitution was first enacted, only land-owning, slave-owning, white men of European descent were protected. Blacks, Natives, women and many others were conveniently excluded.

The AWA, kosher and halal-style killings, and the free-range/freedom/organic/cage-free/antibiotic-free/hormone-free/grass-fed/buying local marketing terms are used to manipulate people into thinking that meat, dairy and egg production can be done happily and humanely. But there is no such thing as happy and humane slaughter just as there is no such thing as happy and human rape, happy and humane slavery, or happy and humane child molestation. From the animals' point of view, anyone who commodifies their bodies is equally vicious. And if for some reason my aforesaid words aren't proof enough of the terrorism claims I'm lodging against the meat, dairy and egg establishments—and the people who consume these products—maybe the billions of dead, dismembered animal bodies consumed annually could count as proof.

Fortunately, de-programming the perfunctory ways of meat, dairy and egg-eaters is possible. The University of North Texas opened a vegan dining hall in 2011, a New York elementary school turned its cafeteria vegetarian in 2013, and the Victor Valley Medium Community Correctional Facility in Adelanto, California, successfully ran a vegan rehabilitation program, just to name a few. My lectures convert thousands to veganism annually while thousands more significantly reduce their meat, cheese, milk and egg intake. Reduction and abolition are the only options to end this massacre. Welfare regulations are a stamp of approval to let the carnage continue unabated because compassionate ways of enslaving and killing billions of animals do not exist.

This is why we shouldn't be a fan of legislation. Fighting for bigger cages or "better" treatment of animals is contradictory and ridiculous. It will never lead to empty cages. When examining human liberation movements, you'll notice that Malcolm X and Dr. King didn't fight for "better" treatment of blacks via improved segregation policies. They wanted to abolish segregation. They fought for equality and freedom. Cesar Chavez fought for it, too. Same thing when Gandhi liberated India from British rule. If abolition instead of welfare were somehow legislated, I'd be down for that. But I don't believe you can legislate until you educate. Passing welfare laws—which won't be enforced anyway—without explaining why it's evil to commodify animals is backwards.

In America, each meat, dairy and egg-eater is responsible for the deaths of 3,000 land animals and thousands of other marine animals throughout their lifetime. Meat, dairy and egg-eating, however, is not an instinctive behavior. It is learned tradition. Scientific claims of the human body being omnivorous or carnivorous are erroneous and illogical. If someone placed a two-year old child in a crib with a bunny rabbit and an apple, the child would play with the rabbit and eat the apple, an unambiguously herbivorous reaction. People become inured to the taste of blood, flesh, veins, muscles, tendons, cow secretions [milk], hen-ass droppings [eggs] and bee vomit [honey], as I will discuss in the "Humans Are Herbivores" section.

Since veganism is for anybody who wants to be kind to animals, good to the environment and healthy, millions of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun and anti-gun people live a vegan lifestyle. Millions of Democrats, Independents and Republicans are vegan as well. Tales of tree-hugging liberals being the only supporters of veganism couldn't be further from the truth. Scully's Dominion is a right-wing, faith-based, Christian conservative view supporting veganism because ethnicity, religious affiliation or political party have no bearing on eating a veggie burger tonight instead of a hamburger.

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