Name: This Speech Is Your WAKE UP CALL!
Uploaded: 2018-01-08T06:34:42.000Z
Duration: 41 min 36 s
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Thank you everyone for being here today, to listen to me talk and all the other speakers

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and also just for being here in solidarity for the vegan movement.

It's so important that we stick together,

that we help each other,  so that we can better help the animals.

And today that's I wanna talk about,  I wanna talk about how to help animals.

Through my own experience I have learned a few things in interacting with people,

in spreading this vegan message in ways that we can best convey what is happening

I'd like to just tell you a little bit about my background

and how I became to be a passionate vegan animal rights activist.

So for me, it all started about ten years ago when I was diagnosed with cancer.

They gave me about six weeks to live if I didn't start treatment straight away.

And this was the first time that I've ever experienced what it was like to suffer.

I've never known suffering before,  I was living the cushy life,

always enough food in our stomach,  always a nice place to sleep,

And it was this experience of suffering and not only that,

but coming out of my suffering, that started inspiring me to help others.

I put on 25 kilos while I had cancer and got all kinds of different sicknesses and that during that,

so I was very blessed when a man, who's a personal trainer,

helped me lose that 25 kilos and help me get my health back.

This is one of the greatest gift we can give someone and this is what he'd done for me.

I was so inspired by this that I wanted to help others  as well,

so I became a personal trainer too – very passionate about helping others out of their suffering,

very passionate about helping people achieve more energy,

better health and all the things that come with it.

And I was on this journey eight years as a personal trainer,

and I met a man who was very wise, a very wise Indian fella, old man.

Basically he told me that eating animals is bad karma.

And that's the first time I ever cared about it,

“What? This could be bad for me? Yeah, I know it's bad for animals,

but this could be bad for me? Ah, OK, I'm gonna start thinking about this".

I always believed there was no such thing as a healthy vegetarian.

One of my personal training mentors told me that,  he says:

"No such thing as a healthy vegetarian",  I said:

“Good, I don't want to be one, I don't want to have to look into it, fantastic”.

When this man told me that eating animals is bad karma, I said:

“Yeah, there's no such thing as a healthy vegetarian, though”

and he said:  “Well, I've been vegetarian for twenty years”

and I said:  “Shit. Alright, well in that case, um, maybe it is possible,

maybe you're a freak, but I'll look into it, I'll look into, I'll see what it's about”.

how much healthier it is to cut animal products from your diet, reducing the chances of heart disease,

cancers, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes... so many diseases.

We have right now an epidemic of illness and disease.

We could have an epidemic of wellness and health.  So much potential here.

And I decided:  “OK, I'm gonna try this for a week,

I'll go vegetarian for one week, purely a selfish experiment to see how I feel,

instead of feeling like I couldn't get out of bed in the morning, because I hadn't had any protein,

I felt so much energy, I felt so strong, I felt like I needed to sleep less,

I felt happier, I felt good!  Three days in.

Before that, I was one of the biggest meat-eaters you know.

I was working on a cruise ship, it's buffets.

I was taking advantage of that,  I was piling my plate up with flesh of dead animals.

And no wonder I felt better after three days!

But it was a shock at the time,  because I never believed you could be healthy.

So feeling good inspired me to look into it more -

what's this, why do I feel so great,  there must be something to this.

I looked into it.  I learned the health benefits,

but I also see that so many people have another reason for becoming vegetarian.

And that reason is:  “because I don't want to contribute to harm to animals”.

Obviously, as we know in the vegan crowd, that that's not quite the answer,

but a lot of people don't understand that yet.

They think vegetarian is the good answer here,  that's what we do,

that's how we live in alignment and we stop hurting animals.

I've never cared about animals before, I really didn't.

I feel bad saying that now, but the reason why,

and I realize now,  is because I never understood who they were.

I didn't understand that they were capable of caring about their own life.

I didn't think they could, so I thought:  “Why would I care about their life,

if they can't even care about their own life".  It made no sense.

I've seen footage of animals being slaughtered

and my reaction was:  “I'm not going to feel guilty about that,

that's what we need to do to be healthy”.

Seeing everyone else's reasons for being vegetarian,

I thought: "OK, I'm gonna check this out again,  what's happening in the slaughterhouse,

what's happening before these animals become this neatly wrapped

package on the supermarket shelf, what happens.

because I knew now that we can live and thrive without consuming animal products.

So seeing this torture, this mutilation, this murder of these innocent beings,

If we aren't eating animals for health - we don't need to kill and eat them to survive and be healthy -

I thought there must be a good answer,  because everyone hates animal cruelty,

everyone loves animals, so surely there's a fantastic answer why we do this.

And I looked and I looked and I looked and I learned the best answers we've got,

the best justifications we've got, are taste, habit, tradition and convenience.

None of these reasons are good enough justification to cause this unnecessary harm to animals.

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