The idea that cows and farm animals can feel pain and fear is obvious. It upsets me to think we are so insensitive and ignorant toward these voiceless creatures. Thank you Noah Yuval Harari for speaking out about this topic.
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
It does seem possible that there could be humanely produced dairy. It is the factory farm that produces animal products to be affordable, though. Barring some different more humane technology, only the wealthy elite can afford products produced without animal suffering. Even then, it is often a fraud that provides a false peace of mind.
@@satyasubhash8869 You missed the point. There is no correlation between wealth and veganism. If anything, the reverse is the case. Beyond that, you are stupid and ignorant. You are the joke here, my friend.
Amazing explanation and points. As an animal activist, I’m overwhelmed with how ignorant people can be in relation to the science of sentience and animals. Sometimes I wonder if it’s true ignorance or just willing ignorance, knowing that the reality is much more horrible that they wanna think. Thank you for using your voice for this very important and ignored moral problem, probably the biggest moral atrocity of our time.
People are entitled to have their own views/opinions but they are not entitled to have their own facts.... What an statement....eye opening...simply awesome...
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals. Over 90% of the world can't afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
Would world suffering go down if we reduced animal agriculture? Would we be able to feed people better if we stopped giving most of the grain we grow to farm animals? Would greenhouse gas emissions go down if we stopped making fertilizer for the crops we feed to animals? Would loss of biodiversity decrease if we stopped cutting down the rainforest to create grazing land for cattle? Would global health improve if we ate more plants? Now I agree with you that veganism is not the most efficient way to produce food. Grazing animals have the unique ability to convert grass and other inedible plants into meat and milk. We could also feed animals milling residues, protein-rich oil cakes left after extraction of oil, by-products from creating alcohol, leaves and peels from canning fruits and vegetables, and fruit pulp left from creating fruit juice. But let's be real here, eating less meat (and other animal products) is one of the best things you can do for the planet right now.
@@rayjohansson1470 u r a fucking joke, animals of other species have rights ass us, we have a duty to protect them from people without values, without humanity like you, speciesist
@@rayjohansson1470 An important point to make is that most humans are totally in favor of solving severe global human issues and can do little to stop them besides volunteering, advocating, donating, or working in the right job. As that's happening, most humans are also for minimizing animal cruelty and yet they can stop it at least 3 times a day. And don't.
Who would in his/her right mind would 'dislike' this video. Yuval Noah Harari is an international treasure. This man is definition of grace and wisdom. His books should be compulsory reading for all. Much love and respect from Canada and Pakistan.
Someone who has their priorities straight. This Israeli is okay with what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and focusing his attention on animal suffering so he doesn't have to feel guilty about his role in the suffering of real people.
Why would anyone focused on having an objective view of the reality we live in and putting serious thought to it feel like that? To put your mind at rest, I present you an excerpt of an article he wrote for Haaretz in 2014. “Israel’s neighbors should recognize its existence, the Israeli occupation should end, and the Palestinian refugees should be allowed to strike roots, even if that falls short of giving them justice. In practice, as we all know, none of this is happening. The truly great anomaly of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that the global order has been willing to allow these anomalies to fester for decades, as if they were perfectly normal.” www.haaretz.com/only-in-israel-or-only-in-palestine-1.5253847
@@rayjohansson1470 Again, Harari doesn't contribute to the suffering of Palestinians, while, if he ate animal products, he would contribute DIRECTLY to the suffering of conscious non-human animals. And also, again, you don't need to prioritize animal rights over Palestinian rights. You can be vegan effortlessly, and still spend your time stopping Palestinian abuse.
Thank you for talking about this. I am now in my seventies and due to health I eat far less animal products than I used to earlier in my life. I grew up in and around a farming family in the humid pampas of Argentina. I learned to process most animals into food. We were taught to be grateful for the food we were about to consume. Later on when killing an animal prior to butchering I would thank the animal for feeding us. Now I know I would be incapable of ever killing another animal for food. I know i would kill it if its suffering was unnecessary. I m divulging this to all my friends and family who have enjoyed processing and eating all meats.
He is brainwashing you rich retards. Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
@@rayjohansson1470 Please stop copying and pasting the same stupid argument time and time again. If you thought critically and researched like he has, you might realize one of the best ways to solve human poverty issues is veganism. Also what utter rubbish about veganism being elitist. Do you know where most vegans live. In rural and very poor areas of Central Africa, Indian Subcontinent and SE Asia. Why? Because it is so many times cheaper to buy rice, legumes, grains, veggies... than meat, mik or eggs. Veganism isn't elitist, it's the diet of millions of the worst off people on the planet.
@@rayjohansson1470 If you can't change what's on your plate, especially considering the accessibility to data further reinforcing the efficacy and sustainability of a plant-based diet, then you are in absolutely no place to change the conditions under which humans live also. What you can do, however, is spout conspiratorial nonsense -- which you have done quite adequately.
And i am carnivore since i don't think 🤔 the issue is can they suffer, for me the issue is can they mate with us? Can we spread our genes with animals? The answer is no and that's why i am not vegan.
We need not any government except ourselves. So let us be awakened to a myriad of truths about ourselves and our Earth. Then we may one day have at long last a sane and pragmatic world.For this world is not pragmatic, it is barbaric. It is immoral. It is mired in many lies. May this world end.
Are you writting as a troll or do you truly believe this? We don't need a collective idea that benefits all (well except for people who wish for anarchy) is crazy talk. You invoke "it is immoral" and barbaric with governments. Is it immoral because of government or because people don't accept their responsibility within the system? I suspect that with your last statement, "may this world end" you haven't accepted your responsibility within the system. Does this make you part of the problem?
Yes, it's time for science to have an authoritative role in society. That's the only realistic way to save the world and its creatures from misery and destruction. The modern world is way too complex and explosive for politicians and ordinary folks to wisely manage it; they simply aren't capable.
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals. Over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
@@rayjohansson1470 wait, you say veganism is a joke, but proceed with redirecting to suffering animals? Veganism is a way of living to reduce the animal suffering so I don't know what you are on about. Just because veganism doesn't help everyone doesn't mean it helps a lot. It's the easiest way to reduce your negative impact on the planet
Love to see a voice for the animals and especially from a historians point of view with facts, amazing arguments! We need a vegan world for the animal suffering to end.
This is why I admire people fighing for animal rights - not only Yuval Noah Harari, but also Sylwia Spurek, a politician representing Poland in the European Parliament, or Peter Singer, a philosopher from Australia, animals are treated like slaves by our human population
Thank you for sharing with us, "the sapiens", your opinions and knowledge of an open minded person who have taken his time to understand who we are and how this world in which we live functions. I love your books and totally share your common sense opinions.💝👍👍👍💝
I love this talk. I think he really makes very relevant points in this lecture. I will share and recommend. Thank you Yuval for speaking up. A real scientist to me, would not pledge allegiance to a "country" but to the Earth and all the people living on it.
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals. Over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
Cannot afford potatoes, beans, lentils, fruits, seasoning and basic vegetables, but can afford meat? Are you kidding me? Do you live in Siberia or something? I live in Finland which is a fairly expensive northern country and I'm living cheaper now when vegan. I eat around 2200kcal every day. I mean you didn't provide any real arguments and you've apparently copy pasted your comment to multiple threads here so I doubt you even watched the whole video. You probably have made your mind without anything real to back it up and now you're spreading your misinformation about veganis. If something, anti-veganism is the thing of elite.
@@rayjohansson1470 You do know veganism would increase the amount of food humans have by 75%, and therefore be cheaper and actually be the quickest and most efficient way to stop world hunger. Maybe if you'd do some research you'd realize how effective veganism is at solving many of our biggest issues.
Hello Yuval! totally agree with your views on humanity and the welfare of all sentient and conscience life. In fact, I've written a few stories notably; Martha the Cow, depicting the feelings from birth onward with a sliding scale of anthropomorphic language to put into context the feeling of a mammal like a dairy cow. Please give it a review when you have some time. Jack Baret I also use my pen name Angelo Zuccaro to write Martha the Cow and other short stories.
Thank you so much ,Yuval to bring this problem to here! It's also a very delicate issue for me and (gladly ) also for many people, I am not a scientist but by seeing my pets ( cats and birds) i can see clearly they like me, with feelings and emotions, just dont have my hability to talk bcs dont have frontal cortex develop. I think a lot abt the suffering of animals. Just a really high develop society will treat animals with respect, and we are so far, and i believe it's a issue of all the world, like poluution, plastic on oceans, drugs, human traffic, it's a issue to be solve in global. The problem is like you say on your book, we arent meant to cooperate in the name of our specie, like a chimpanze or a lion, but can we go for that way? hugs from Lisbon
New vegan here. Excellent video about a topic close to my heart. Harari always brilliantly constructs rock-solid arguments and explains them carefully so a dummy like me can understand.
Hello mister Harari. A friend who has already made subtitles in Greek for 2 videos of Dr Greger would like to make the ones for this very important talk of yours. Would you have the kindness to enable the subtitles button so him (and I am sure more others in other languages) can work on it? Thank you in advance
Humanity is sick. And this man is as well. Why is animal suffering high on his priority list when he lives in a country that is gradually causing the genocide of Palestinians? Because he doesn't need that guilt in his mind, he decides to tackle other issues. Fuck vegans. First world doesn't need to suffer anymore, and vegans think not suffering is an animal right? Humans are suffering, and over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
@@rayjohansson1470 1. Veganism is cheaper than a meat based diet. 2. Many of that "90% that can't afford to subscribe to veganism" have a vegan diet because it's SO much more affordable and accessible. 3. Veganism can help solve many of humanities problems. With a vegan world, we'd lower air pollution, deforestation, dislocation of native tribes, death from heart disease, acidification, drought, extreme weather, and END world hunger. 4. Being vegan does not impede any other actions to help humans. A vegan can go on protests, sign petitions, put pressure for government action, volunteer with aid agencies... in the same way a non-vegan can. 5. What are you doing to contribute to, say, the abuse of Palestinians? Unless you're a Israeli government member, probably nothing. What are you doing to contribute to animal abuse? Everything: buying and financially supporting this abusive and murderous industry. By being vegan you can stop this abuse at no cost to any other human rights issue. So in conclusion, if you TRULY care about humans, you'd be vegan, as it's better for humans and doesn't impede you fighting against other human rights abuses.
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals. Over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
@@rayjohansson1470 Oh for God's sake will you stop copying and pasting. I'll say it again: THE DIET OF MOST OF THE POOREST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET (in rural India, Central Africa, SE Asia...) IS, BY DEFAULT, VEGAN, AS THIS IS THE CHEAPEST OPTION!!! It's meat that's expensive, and meat that's elitist.
@@rayjohansson1470 Oh for God's sake will you stop copying and pasting. I'll say it again: THE DIET OF MOST OF THE POOREST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET (in rural India, Central Africa, SE Asia...) IS, BY DEFAULT, VEGAN, AS THIS IS THE CHEAPEST OPTION!!! It's meat that's expensive, and meat that's elitist.
Big fan of yours Yuval! Keep watching your videos. Love your way of simplifying things . Only have a question here- since trees and plants have a life too, why they don’t have emotions? And even if they don’t have emotions, isn’t it a fact that they have a life and no one can survive on something which doesn’t have life? Keeping that aside I am working hard to be a vegan at least for as many days as possible!
I would say plants don't have emotions because plants don't make decisions. Emotions are necessary to quickly make the right decision for survival or procreation. Plants can't move on their own, so they have no need to make any, especially quick, decision ever. So, there's no evolutionary impulse for a plant species to develop emotions. A plant that is afraid of a cow eating it won't live any longer than a plant that is completely fearless at the sight of the cow since neither plant can act on their emotion (or lack thereof).
Please support animal rights. Animal welfare permits inherent cruelties including weakening animals with domestication, inseminating them for breeding, and slaughtering them. Rights recognizes and abolishes these inherent cruelties, let's not perpetuate a "humane" way to cause a sentient being pain when it's unnecessary and immoral.
Human race can achive spiritual and mental evolution and you (and many others) are the living proof Yuval, absolute thanks to speak for animals with real facts and empathy... Our admiration and metta from México...
By speaking out his mind on many sensitive topics, Yuval is risking his wide popularity among many audiences. He is a living example to the bravery needed by scholars today in order to counter the destructive routhins humanity acquired. Whether you agree with an opinion or not, you must know the facts and be ready to test any opinion with scientific tools. Otherwise, we're just wasting our time, and we'll learn nothing that could be of to help to us in the future.
What a beautiful soul you are Mr. Harari. The work of science is to find solutions for us to live better lives in this planet. All of us, animals.. why scientists stand quiet while knowing of all this pain? .. Certainly there is a solution! We humans have stand together to find it.
Aye I gathered whales have a higher spindle sell count than humans after taking into account size. I'm also not sure e.g. guilt is a uniquely human emotion. Dog owners intuit that guilt is a strong emotion for these animal companions. Considering we also know oxytocin (the 'love' drug) is highly secreted in dogs, and how much we might consider love and guilt as highly connected emotions (something I have observed and theorised, without scientific evidence, although perhaps something is out there on this?), I think a lot or all animals could experience guilt in some way. Motherly love and fear are, for me, the two basic emotions. I wonder if both consciousness and these two most basic primal emotions could go all the way back to amoebic life forms, on some essential level.
I would like to volunteer to translate this video into Portuguese(BR), is it possible to you enable the CC for collaboration or can I make a copy and translate it? **Update** just saw it is translated automatically, but with the title in english, only english speakers will reach it, what we can do is share in social networks, if I could download and put another subtitle would be much better, let me know if I can do it.
A very inspiring speech, while I find the idea that every bite of beef or every box of milk is produced in an inhumane way is really hard to accept, considering how much I love beef steak and latte. Admitted I am trying to avoid thinking about those poor animals and continue finishing my breakfast.
This is a disconnect that the meat industries achieved by hiding the truth and advertising meat is good for you and the main source of protein. Just like the tobacco industries used to. It's brainwashing and indoctrination that cause people to be unable to disconnect meat with suffering of abuse and torure caused to the animals.
Thank you very much for this excellent video. Is there a good website you would recommend that summarizes scientific evidence addressing the most common arguments used in the debate on why we should eat animals or not?
Thanks for great insight. You are a pioneer of 21th century. I want to be a vet for improving animal welfare and you have given me a reason for why I should consider animal welfare. I have a question. According to your opinion, should we be vegan? How to solve current animal welfare problems? What position should I stand for?
Let’s go beyond “welfare” and discuss “animal rights”. We agree that laws protecting domestic animals are just. Why do we ignore the ethical bankruptcy in animal agriculture?
Thanks Mr Harari to create such an important message for humanity. The issue is not about compassion with animals. In fact we are just only one more. As Mr. Harari mentioned in other speech, in comparison with other animals humans are serial killers. The issue is about understanding we have the same rights to live here than any other species. I also add, this is not only about the food industry. Having pets is other way of depriving that animal of having its own emotions , its own life, living in its own environment.
I agree with most of what you said, except that people can have different ethical views. People can have different moral views, but ethics is objective. A person that for example thinks rape is ethical is objectively wrong.
I understood that people have different ethical views on animal treatament. There is 5 ethical approach on use of animal as food etc. If you are comparing how to treat animals with rape you are objetively wrong,.
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
@@rayjohansson1470 , veganism is a joke? So you also feel that the complex emotions and feelings of mammals is also a joke? Would you like someone to consider your feelings to be a joke?
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
@@rayjohansson1470 Do you have anything better to do than copy and paste the same illogical drudgery under every pro-vegan comment. VEGANISM IS CHEAPER THAN A MEAT DIET, AND MANY OF THE POOREST PEOPLE EAT VEGAN. ALSO VEGANISM HELPS SLOW BIG *HUMAN* PROBLEMS LIKE POLLUTION, DROUGHT AND GLOBAL HUNGER. Got it yet?
Hear this: Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals. Over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
I am very proud of you, Yuval. Hope your message can bring more scientists to animal cause.
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yeah maneating bugs is the way
Vegan is the way
@@febo2367 so true!
The idea that cows and farm animals can feel pain and fear is obvious. It upsets me to think we are so insensitive and ignorant toward these voiceless creatures. Thank you Noah Yuval Harari for speaking out about this topic.
"If you don't know the scientific facts, your opinion shouldn't count for much." Thank you!
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
It does seem possible that there could be humanely produced dairy. It is the factory farm that produces animal products to be affordable, though. Barring some different more humane technology, only the wealthy elite can afford products produced without animal suffering. Even then, it is often a fraud that provides a false peace of mind.
@@rayjohansson1470 - I know, right? Those billion rich assholes in India need to shut up and get to work.
@@Qstandsforred dude we are mostly vegetarian and/or meat eaters... India is the largest producer of milk and yeah Veganism is a joke...
@@satyasubhash8869 You missed the point. There is no correlation between wealth and veganism. If anything, the reverse is the case.
Beyond that, you are stupid and ignorant. You are the joke here, my friend.
Thank you for this talk more scientists need to speak out.
Thank you Yuval for being the way you are!
The greatest speech of all time.Thankyou so much Yuval Noah Harari
Tears to my eyes, but music to my ears, what intelligent, factual and compassionate information, thank you Yuval Noah Harari.
Amazing explanation and points. As an animal activist, I’m overwhelmed with how ignorant people can be in relation to the science of sentience and animals. Sometimes I wonder if it’s true ignorance or just willing ignorance, knowing that the reality is much more horrible that they wanna think.
Thank you for using your voice for this very important and ignored moral problem, probably the biggest moral atrocity of our time.
People are entitled to have their own views/opinions but they are not entitled to have their own facts....
What an statement....eye opening...simply awesome...
Yes, people are entitled to their own views/opinions..everyone has the right to be ignorant..
What an insight! Science tells us what is true but ethics decide what is good. Thank you for creating content and writing books, I love them!
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals. Over 90% of the world can't afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
Would world suffering go down if we reduced animal agriculture? Would we be able to feed people better if we stopped giving most of the grain we grow to farm animals? Would greenhouse gas emissions go down if we stopped making fertilizer for the crops we feed to animals? Would loss of biodiversity decrease if we stopped cutting down the rainforest to create grazing land for cattle? Would global health improve if we ate more plants?
Now I agree with you that veganism is not the most efficient way to produce food. Grazing animals have the unique ability to convert grass and other inedible plants into meat and milk. We could also feed animals milling residues, protein-rich oil cakes left after extraction of oil, by-products from creating alcohol, leaves and peels from canning fruits and vegetables, and fruit pulp left from creating fruit juice. But let's be real here, eating less meat (and other animal products) is one of the best things you can do for the planet right now.
@@rayjohansson1470 Veganism is an ethical approach full of rational arguments. Your commentary is empty of rational arguments
@@rayjohansson1470 u r a fucking joke, animals of other species have rights ass us, we have a duty to protect them from people without values, without humanity like you, speciesist
@@rayjohansson1470 An important point to make is that most humans are totally in favor of solving severe global human issues and can do little to stop them besides volunteering, advocating, donating, or working in the right job. As that's happening, most humans are also for minimizing animal cruelty and yet they can stop it at least 3 times a day. And don't.
Who would in his/her right mind would 'dislike' this video. Yuval Noah Harari is an international treasure. This man is definition of grace and wisdom. His books should be compulsory reading for all. Much love and respect from Canada and Pakistan.
Someone who has their priorities straight. This Israeli is okay with what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and focusing his attention on animal suffering so he doesn't have to feel guilty about his role in the suffering of real people.
Why would anyone focused on having an objective view of the reality we live in and putting serious thought to it feel like that?
To put your mind at rest, I present you an excerpt of an article he wrote for Haaretz in 2014.
“Israel’s neighbors should recognize its existence, the Israeli occupation should end, and the Palestinian refugees should be allowed to strike roots, even if that falls short of giving them justice. In practice, as we all know, none of this is happening.
The truly great anomaly of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that the global order has been willing to allow these anomalies to fester for decades, as if they were perfectly normal.”
www.haaretz.com/only-in-israel-or-only-in-palestine-1.5253847
@@rayjohansson1470 Again, Harari doesn't contribute to the suffering of Palestinians, while, if he ate animal products, he would contribute DIRECTLY to the suffering of conscious non-human animals.
And also, again, you don't need to prioritize animal rights over Palestinian rights. You can be vegan effortlessly, and still spend your time stopping Palestinian abuse.
Best wishes for prof. Harari. I hope your words will change the attitude of people to our "youngest brothers". Best regards from Poland
Thank you for talking about this. I am now in my seventies and due to health I eat far less animal products than I used to earlier in my life. I grew up in and around a farming family in the humid pampas of Argentina. I learned to process most animals into food. We were taught to be grateful for the food we were about to consume. Later on when killing an animal prior to butchering I would thank the animal for feeding us. Now I know I would be incapable of ever killing another animal for food. I know i would kill it if its suffering was unnecessary. I m divulging this to all my friends and family who have enjoyed processing and eating all meats.
Thank you so much for standing to this precious cause!
Thank you, professor! Your words always encourage me! WIsh you good health!
(Here from China)
祝您一切都好！
I just can’t get enough of watching Yuval videos!!! Thank you 🙏 🙏 😍
Sad this only has 16,204 views. Yuval speaking the truth.
He is brainwashing you rich retards. Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
@@rayjohansson1470 Please stop copying and pasting the same stupid argument time and time again. If you thought critically and researched like he has, you might realize one of the best ways to solve human poverty issues is veganism.
Also what utter rubbish about veganism being elitist. Do you know where most vegans live. In rural and very poor areas of Central Africa, Indian Subcontinent and SE Asia. Why? Because it is so many times cheaper to buy rice, legumes, grains, veggies... than meat, mik or eggs. Veganism isn't elitist, it's the diet of millions of the worst off people on the planet.
@@joephillips3520 Well said ! A critical & rational answer to the utter rubbish argument.
@@rayjohansson1470 If you can't change what's on your plate, especially considering the accessibility to data further reinforcing the efficacy and sustainability of a plant-based diet, then you are in absolutely no place to change the conditions under which humans live also.
What you can do, however, is spout conspiratorial nonsense -- which you have done quite adequately.
The video needs to be shared widely. I'm watching this video 5 years after it's created and I will share it.
Brilliant, compassionate and truly enlightened!!!
Albert Einstein was not only a scientist. He also expressed his ethical view.. so others can do it as well..
Thank you, for your words 💚🌱
And that’s why I’m vegan. Thank you!
Thank you, as am I.
And i am carnivore since i don't think 🤔 the issue is can they suffer, for me the issue is can they mate with us? Can we spread our genes with animals? The answer is no and that's why i am not vegan.
@@bunymn1so because you can’t mate with them, it makes it okay to kill and eat them?
Are you serious?!
Just a dumb yahoo...
You must be one of those MAGA Trumpists who deny reality!
Thank you mr.Harari .... Let's hope for future government with a scientific rule in it's decision making.
We need not any government except ourselves. So let us be awakened to a myriad of truths about ourselves and our Earth. Then we may one day have at long last a sane and pragmatic world.For this world is not pragmatic, it is barbaric. It is immoral. It is mired in many lies. May this world end.
Are you writting as a troll or do you truly believe this? We don't need a collective idea that benefits all (well except for people who wish for anarchy) is crazy talk.
You invoke "it is immoral" and barbaric with governments.
Is it immoral because of government or because people don't accept their responsibility within the system?
I suspect that with your last statement, "may this world end" you haven't accepted your responsibility within the system. Does this make you part of the problem?
Yes, it's time for science to have an authoritative role in society. That's the only realistic way to save the world and its creatures from misery and destruction. The modern world is way too complex and explosive for politicians and ordinary folks to wisely manage it; they simply aren't capable.
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
Over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
@@rayjohansson1470 wait, you say veganism is a joke, but proceed with redirecting to suffering animals? Veganism is a way of living to reduce the animal suffering so I don't know what you are on about. Just because veganism doesn't help everyone doesn't mean it helps a lot. It's the easiest way to reduce your negative impact on the planet
Please make this go viral
Love to see a voice for the animals and especially from a historians point of view with facts, amazing arguments! We need a vegan world for the animal suffering to end.
Thank you for speaking up for the voiceless. We've been abusing animals (farms ESPECIALLY) since I was young (the 1960s). Thank you.
Great . You have struck my emotional chord . I completely agree with you Mr Harari
Thank you and congratulations from Brazil!
Márcia Greche meu sonho é ele vir pro Brasil. Amo muito!
This is why I admire people fighing for animal rights - not only Yuval Noah Harari, but also Sylwia Spurek, a politician representing Poland in the European Parliament, or Peter Singer, a philosopher from Australia, animals are treated like slaves by our human population
Thank you for sharing with us, "the sapiens", your opinions and knowledge of an open minded person who have taken his time to understand who we are and how this world in which we live functions. I love your books and totally share your common sense opinions.💝👍👍👍💝
I love this talk. I think he really makes very relevant points in this lecture. I will share and recommend. Thank you Yuval for speaking up. A real scientist to me, would not pledge allegiance to a "country" but to the Earth and all the people living on it.
Thank you for explaining this all so eloquently and simply!
Thank you sooooo much for this video Yuval!
Somebody had to say it ! thank you Yuval !
This should be translated into all world languages
i agree!!
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
Over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
Cannot afford potatoes, beans, lentils, fruits, seasoning and basic vegetables, but can afford meat? Are you kidding me? Do you live in Siberia or something?
I live in Finland which is a fairly expensive northern country and I'm living cheaper now when vegan. I eat around 2200kcal every day.
I mean you didn't provide any real arguments and you've apparently copy pasted your comment to multiple threads here so I doubt you even watched the whole video. You probably have made your mind without anything real to back it up and now you're spreading your misinformation about veganis. If something, anti-veganism is the thing of elite.
I will translate to portuguese asap.
@@rayjohansson1470 You do know veganism would increase the amount of food humans have by 75%, and therefore be cheaper and actually be the quickest and most efficient way to stop world hunger.
Maybe if you'd do some research you'd realize how effective veganism is at solving many of our biggest issues.
One of the greatest minds of today.
You're amazing Yuval!
no person like yuval great human spreading wisdom and light thank you...
Hello Yuval! totally agree with your views on humanity and the welfare of all sentient and conscience life. In fact, I've written a few stories notably; Martha the Cow, depicting the feelings from birth onward with a sliding scale of anthropomorphic language to put into context the feeling of a mammal like a dairy cow. Please give it a review when you have some time. Jack Baret
I also use my pen name Angelo Zuccaro to write Martha the Cow and other short stories.
Glad to hear Yuval on this.
What a classic peace of oratory...! Absolutely remarkable.
Thanks for your wisdom Yuval!
Sir Noah, thanks so much..learn so much from your speech.
Thank you so much ,Yuval to bring this problem to here! It's also a very delicate issue for me and (gladly ) also for many people, I am not a scientist but by seeing my pets ( cats and birds) i can see clearly they like me, with feelings and emotions, just dont have my hability to talk bcs dont have frontal cortex develop. I think a lot abt the suffering of animals. Just a really high develop society will treat animals with respect, and we are so far, and i believe it's a issue of all the world, like poluution, plastic on oceans, drugs, human traffic, it's a issue to be solve in global. The problem is like you say on your book, we arent meant to cooperate in the name of our specie, like a chimpanze or a lion, but can we go for that way? hugs from Lisbon
Beautifully explained
All those watching this video should watch Phillip Wollen, the modern day champion of animal rights.
We love you Yuval
what is a human being with out etics?! thank you so much for raising yr voice to defend the inocents
New vegan here. Excellent video about a topic close to my heart.
Harari always brilliantly constructs rock-solid arguments and explains them carefully so a dummy like me can understand.
How good it would be if all the Brazilian politicians were willing to see this video.
Só dá brasileiro aqui!!! Quero que ele venha logo pra cá...rs
I have seen cows and dogs and birds shedding tears for their offspring. Thanks a lot 🙏
You have not, since no other species uses tears as signal of sadness (some do cry, but for other reasons).
Thanks yuval noah harari love your work
Hello mister Harari. A friend who has already made subtitles in Greek for 2 videos of Dr Greger would like to make the ones for this very important talk of yours. Would you have the kindness to enable the subtitles button so him (and I am sure more others in other languages) can work on it? Thank you in advance
All my admiration and respect to you. Your words are so necessary, humanity is sick.
Humanity is sick. And this man is as well. Why is animal suffering high on his priority list when he lives in a country that is gradually causing the genocide of Palestinians? Because he doesn't need that guilt in his mind, he decides to tackle other issues. Fuck vegans. First world doesn't need to suffer anymore, and vegans think not suffering is an animal right? Humans are suffering, and over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
@@rayjohansson1470
1. Veganism is cheaper than a meat based diet.
2. Many of that "90% that can't afford to subscribe to veganism" have a vegan diet because it's SO much more affordable and accessible.
3. Veganism can help solve many of humanities problems. With a vegan world, we'd lower air pollution, deforestation, dislocation of native tribes, death from heart disease, acidification, drought, extreme weather, and END world hunger.
4. Being vegan does not impede any other actions to help humans. A vegan can go on protests, sign petitions, put pressure for government action, volunteer with aid agencies... in the same way a non-vegan can.
5. What are you doing to contribute to, say, the abuse of Palestinians? Unless you're a Israeli government member, probably nothing. What are you doing to contribute to animal abuse? Everything: buying and financially supporting this abusive and murderous industry. By being vegan you can stop this abuse at no cost to any other human rights issue.
So in conclusion, if you TRULY care about humans, you'd be vegan, as it's better for humans and doesn't impede you fighting against other human rights abuses.
Thanks a lot! 🌸🙏🏻🌸 I’ve found a perfect explanation. Finally☺️
When I try to imagine what the Buddha was like, you are the closest embodiment I can think of. Thank you for speaking for the animals.
He's a Vipassana teacher.
Thank you so much for this!!!! come to the Netherlands some day.
Very much inspiring! Thank you so much!
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
Over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.
@@rayjohansson1470 Oh for God's sake will you stop copying and pasting. I'll say it again: THE DIET OF MOST OF THE POOREST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET (in rural India, Central Africa, SE Asia...) IS, BY DEFAULT, VEGAN, AS THIS IS THE CHEAPEST OPTION!!! It's meat that's expensive, and meat that's elitist.
@@rayjohansson1470 Oh for God's sake will you stop copying and pasting. I'll say it again: THE DIET OF MOST OF THE POOREST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET (in rural India, Central Africa, SE Asia...) IS, BY DEFAULT, VEGAN, AS THIS IS THE CHEAPEST OPTION!!! It's meat that's expensive, and meat that's elitist.
Big fan of yours Yuval! Keep watching your videos. Love your way of simplifying things . Only have a question here- since trees and plants have a life too, why they don’t have emotions? And even if they don’t have emotions, isn’t it a fact that they have a life and no one can survive on something which doesn’t have life? Keeping that aside I am working hard to be a vegan at least for as many days as possible!
I would say plants don't have emotions because plants don't make decisions. Emotions are necessary to quickly make the right decision for survival or procreation. Plants can't move on their own, so they have no need to make any, especially quick, decision ever. So, there's no evolutionary impulse for a plant species to develop emotions. A plant that is afraid of a cow eating it won't live any longer than a plant that is completely fearless at the sight of the cow since neither plant can act on their emotion (or lack thereof).
That is assuming that the plant can even sense the presence of the cow. Which it also can not since, again, it couldn't act on that sensation anyway.
Animals can experience boredom and be traumatized by violence and shows in their abnormal behavior, just like humans. Can plants feel bored?
People tend to ignore these facts for their own selfish desires like profit and taste. Thanks for these powerful words💚
*Yuval, I've submitted a translation to brazilian portuguese! Please, accept my translation, I want to share your video with more brazilians!*
já está disponível
I am soooo happy he's a vegan! I had no idea that this intellectual human is there with us.
thank you for this so important video!
Thank you for that. By the way, love your book!
Beautiful message! I was very glad to hear he was vegan 🌱
Thank you Harari, you are a very beautiful person.
Well said!
I love very much! You inspire me. ❤️❤️❤️
Please support animal rights. Animal welfare permits inherent cruelties including weakening animals with domestication, inseminating them for breeding, and slaughtering them. Rights recognizes and abolishes these inherent cruelties, let's not perpetuate a "humane" way to cause a sentient being pain when it's unnecessary and immoral.
Human race can achive spiritual and mental evolution and you (and many others) are the living proof Yuval, absolute thanks to speak for animals with real facts and empathy... Our admiration and metta from México...
By speaking out his mind on many sensitive topics, Yuval is risking his wide popularity among many audiences. He is a living example to the bravery needed by scholars today in order to counter the destructive routhins humanity acquired. Whether you agree with an opinion or not, you must know the facts and be ready to test any opinion with scientific tools. Otherwise, we're just wasting our time, and we'll learn nothing that could be of to help to us in the future.
What a beautiful soul you are Mr. Harari.
The work of science is to find solutions for us to live better lives in this planet. All of us, animals.. why scientists stand quiet while knowing of all this pain? ..
Certainly there is a solution! We humans have stand together to find it.
Whoa. Emotions unique to whales. How arrogant am I to have never considered that possibility. Thank you.
Aye I gathered whales have a higher spindle sell count than humans after taking into account size. I'm also not sure e.g. guilt is a uniquely human emotion. Dog owners intuit that guilt is a strong emotion for these animal companions. Considering we also know oxytocin (the 'love' drug) is highly secreted in dogs, and how much we might consider love and guilt as highly connected emotions (something I have observed and theorised, without scientific evidence, although perhaps something is out there on this?), I think a lot or all animals could experience guilt in some way. Motherly love and fear are, for me, the two basic emotions. I wonder if both consciousness and these two most basic primal emotions could go all the way back to amoebic life forms, on some essential level.
I would like to volunteer to translate this video into Portuguese(BR), is it possible to you enable the CC for collaboration or can I make a copy and translate it? **Update** just saw it is translated automatically, but with the title in english, only english speakers will reach it, what we can do is share in social networks, if I could download and put another subtitle would be much better, let me know if I can do it.
Just do it!! I even hope to learn to share in my dialect.
Cows cry tears for days when their calves are ripped from them to be murdered. Sensitive and feeling animals deserve better
Thank you for this video! We need it translated into Russian language too! Everybody should go vegan 🌱
Thank you!
Thank You! If we give up: personality, state borders, armies then we will live peacefully and well?
Such a meaningful video. I wish all of my people to stop ignore this facts and start to listen to other earthlings voice
A very inspiring speech, while I find the idea that every bite of beef or every box of milk is produced in an inhumane way is really hard to accept, considering how much I love beef steak and latte. Admitted I am trying to avoid thinking about those poor animals and continue finishing my breakfast.
This is a disconnect that the meat industries achieved by hiding the truth and advertising meat is good for you and the main source of protein. Just like the tobacco industries used to. It's brainwashing and indoctrination that cause people to be unable to disconnect meat with suffering of abuse and torure caused to the animals.
Thank you very much for this excellent video. Is there a good website you would recommend that summarizes scientific evidence addressing the most common arguments used in the debate on why we should eat animals or not?
Yeah earthling Ed's TED speech "every argument against veganism"
Everyone should GO VEGAN🌱
한국어로도 자막이 생겼네요 감사합니다💜
bravo yuval
keep up the good work
Thanks for great insight. You are a pioneer of 21th century. I want to be a vet for improving animal welfare and you have given me a reason for why I should consider animal welfare. I have a question. According to your opinion, should we be vegan? How to solve current animal welfare problems? What position should I stand for?
He's vegan himself, so I would assume his opinion on the subject is that we should indeed be vegan.
Let’s go beyond “welfare” and discuss “animal rights”.
We agree that laws protecting domestic animals are just. Why do we ignore the ethical bankruptcy in animal agriculture?
Thank you this should be translated to Arabic
Finally! Thank you!
Can someone please tell me the name of the plant we see on the left of the screen ? Does anyone know ?
Looks like a Jade plant
What a very powerful speech. Very sad that few things have changed since this speech... Hope the future will be vegan, but when ???
soon. in a few decades, but changes will be felt throughout the next years
Thanks Mr Harari to create such an important message for humanity. The issue is not about compassion with animals. In fact we are just only one more. As Mr. Harari mentioned in other speech, in comparison with other animals humans are serial killers. The issue is about understanding we have the same rights to live here than any other species. I also add, this is not only about the food industry. Having pets is other way of depriving that animal of having its own emotions , its own life, living in its own environment.
I would like to suggest this video th-cam.com/video/w8B547L5VkQ/w-d-xo.html
silence is compliance.
Couldn’t agree more.
Thank you to BEE on this planet
My hero.❤
El respeto... tanto sufrimiento necesariamente afecta a todos, hay que cambiar, y apartar la cobardía. Totalmente, gracias.
I agree with most of what you said, except that people can have different ethical views. People can have different moral views, but ethics is objective. A person that for example thinks rape is ethical is objectively wrong.
I understood that people have different ethical views on animal treatament. There is 5 ethical approach on use of animal as food etc. If you are comparing how to treat animals with rape you are objetively wrong,.
@@giuseppe5397 Tell us why, please? I'm curious if you know how the dairy industry works.
Can I subtitle it in portuguese and share?
Eduardo Farah creio que o Yuval aprovaria isso.
acabei de ver que da pra gerar legendas automaticas em todos os idiomas :D
Go vegan! 💚
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
well, you're obviously full of hatred. Also, what are you doing to change the world, nothing, so be keep quiet,
@@rayjohansson1470 , veganism is a joke? So you also feel that the complex emotions and feelings of mammals is also a joke? Would you like someone to consider your feelings to be a joke?
Loss your teeth
@@rayjohansson1470 cant even wrap the stupidity of your comment. congrats on reaching a new low
Thank you for caring. You’re looking well. Must be your healthy diet!
Go Vegan and Go Vegan now!
Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
@Janosch Pelzer probably because people can suck and animals are cute
@@rayjohansson1470 Do you have anything better to do than copy and paste the same illogical drudgery under every pro-vegan comment. VEGANISM IS CHEAPER THAN A MEAT DIET, AND MANY OF THE POOREST PEOPLE EAT VEGAN. ALSO VEGANISM HELPS SLOW BIG *HUMAN* PROBLEMS LIKE POLLUTION, DROUGHT AND GLOBAL HUNGER. Got it yet?
I hear you.
Hear this: Veganism is a fucking joke. Just a distraction for the wealthy elite to forget that real people are suffering. Let's just redirect attention to the suffering animals.
Over 90% of the world cannot afford to subscribe to your uppity ass morals.