Philip Wollen : Animals Should Be Off The Menu debate | Subtitles in 18 languages
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Who is Philip Wollen? (Find out more via en.wikipedia.or...
"Philip was vice president of Citibank, specialising in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions.
At age 34, he was rated by Australian Business Magazine in their Top 40 Australian head-hunted executives. At age 40, he witnessed cruelty on such a colossal scale that it affected him profoundly. He decided to give away everything he owned with warm hands, and die broke. 'And so far, we are right on budget,' he jokes.
Today he devotes his life to children, animals, the environment, the terminally ill, the homeless and the arts. He supports over 500 humanitarian projects in over 40 countries with schools, orphanages, shelters, sanctuaries, clinics, and scholarships.
In 2005 he received the Order of Australia. In 2007 he was Australian of the Year, Victoria. The Australia Day Council said of him, 'Essentially a private man, Philip Wollen seeks no personal publicity but is not afraid to step into the limelight for a just cause.' "
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After watching this speech two years ago when I was 17 I decided to go vegan. I sent Philip Wolen a letter and he so graciously replied to me. He was a former CEO of City Bank credit card company then he retired and donated his entire fortune towards saving animals. Truly my hero.
Wow.. I have been a vegetarian and now I am going to be a vegan and will spread the words. Thanks to Sir Phillip Wollen...your speech will touch billions of heart..
+Waki Abdullah good for you
Good for you! how is it going?
+Waki Abdullah That's awesome!
My friend, look up Gary Yourofsky on TH-cam and watch a video titled The Most Important Speech You Will Ever Hear and also another video by Dr Melanie Joy titled The Secret Reason We Eat Meat
yet another brilliant eye opening speech!!!
"The earth can produce enough food for everyones need, but not enough for everyones greed" Nailed it Sir.
Beautiful. That's the only justification there is for eating meat: "It tastes good." The only reason is greed.
It rhymes so it must be true.
"Rhyme for reason" fallacy :) Fun fact: People were polled on if they agreed with the following statements, and were shown one of two sentences:
1. Caution and careful measures, will bring great treasures.
2. Caution and careful measures, will bring great riches.
Not surprisingly, many more people agreed with the first statement :)
thats actually a very popular quote said by Mahatma Gandhi
@@Food5Thought except his quote is fundamentally and indisputably true
The empathy and power of this mans voice brings a tear to me eye.
+Don Vegan Yes, a kindred spirit perhaps? You can sense the love in his voice.
Amazing speech. Almost brought tears to my eyes too.
I'm 34, I'm a meat-eater and I'd like to become a vegetarian, mostly for ethical reason, but... I'm afraid of my body weight loss.
I'm very slim and I don't want to lose any weight. Gaining each 1 kilogram of weight is really tough task for me. It takes me about one year :-)
I eat bacon, steaks, cakes, lot of sweets, bananas, milk, eggs, and I am still very slim. I don't smoke and don't drink alcohol. However, I eat relatively small amounts of food every time. If I switch to vegetarian (or even vegan) diet, I would have to eat much bigger servings, which may be a problem for me. Moreover, I work physically (in warehouse) and I need a food with high concentration of energy (nothing beats meat here) and also a food that keeps my stomach filled for at least 3 hours as I can't go for break every 1-2 hours. I'm going to buy a new blender this week and start to make fruit and vegetable smoothies. Any advices how to become a vegetarian and not lose weight? Or even better, how to gain weight on vege diet. Thanks!
I get plenty of calories on a vegan diet because I eat lots of beans and rice and potatoes and pasta...I add vegan butter, olive oil..I make garlic toast every day to go with my meals..I could go on but I am not the one to listen to..search online..there are tons of ideas and ways to keep weight..lose weight..gain weight on a vegan diet..and ethics is my first reason always for being vegan.I am no raw vegan, but I do eat a lot of fruit...an avocado can really make you feel full..and some hommus..ect,ect,ect
+Hairy Potter you're wrong my friend. No better food than vegan food. Even and especially for sportsmen. Look at Frank Medrano or boxer David Haye. And so many others, look at the list. To start vegan diet, Look at vegankit.com/eat/ for example... Welcome in a better world...:)
Our bodies are dependent upon glucose for energy, the preferred source of fuel, which is from carbohydrates. Our brains can ONLY be fueled by glucose. Make sure you have enough healthy fats and you'll be fine. Since you've been used to eating animal products every day, it's best to transition and give your body time to adapt, to be healthy. Healthy fats are in nuts, seeds, and avocados. For the most recent and comprehensive information about nutrition, visit www.NutritionFacts.org
THIS IS THE BEST 10 minutes ever spoken in our movement to end animal agriculture, end animals as food, end animal USE by humans. Thank you, Philip!
Good man! He said it all. ✌️🌱
Caroline ASMR Actually not "name one desease that is caused by a vegan diet". That one made me laugh the hardest. Sugar is a 100% vegan product, wich causes diabetes. And also, pointing a finger at all people who eat grassfedbeef for slapping the tear-stained face off a hungry child just doesn't make sense at all. This clip is probably effective propaganda and a nice tearjerker for vegans, but needless to say factually incorrect. And that's a shame, because you can never trust a guy like this to try to tell the truth objectively, wich can be pointed out by listening to him for only ten minutes.
"Sugar is a 100% vegan product" This is incorrect, refined sugar is processed with bone char. Thankfully, more and more doctors are supporting WFPB diets.
Only in regards to factory farming. That's all he talked about. And yes it should be banned. But that ain't gonna solve everything lol.
Not raw vegan diets, albeit we cannot escape the big corporate monster Monsanto’s pesticides, nothing is safe. Processed fake vegan/vegetarian foods marketed are loaded with sugars n Conservative preservatives on the other had will kill you causing disease. Nothing is sacred air, food or water
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This incredible man turned me vegan two years ago after watching this speech when I was 17. I wrote him a letter and he replied
That's incredible! :)
Make sure to take vitamin B12 . Take care & bye .
He inspired me as well, to go complete vegetarian 🙏🏽
@@alokrajput13
The term "VEGAN" refers to the philosophy of avoiding undue harm to any animal life, as far as practical, whilst "vegetarian" is merely someone who consumes a plant-based diet.
Therefore, veganism is NOT a diet but a moral or ethical position against animal exploitation of any kind. 🌱
@@alokrajput13go vegan then
Proudly vegan since 1978 and happy for this words. Orgulllosamente vegana desde 1978 y feliz por estas palabras.
+cloty lanus wow
+cloty lanus That's amazing. You are an inspiration!
That is AMAZING!!!! goals!!!
Can't imagine what it would be like being a vegan since 1978... Not just the aspect of food, but culturally, how people viewed it
Probably the most magnificent speech I have ever heard (you can sense the love in his voice).
Yeah, incredible speaker!
Amen! I had been considering vegetarianism for quite some time,but after watching this almost 6 years ago,it wasn’t hard to convert.
@@marianneodell7637 ............ Brilliant!!! Well done.!!
I want to shake this man hand. Respect and admiration to him. Take my hat off, stand up for his guts, intelligence, honesty and bluntness. Love it.
I am going to eat some foie gras in his honor.
jj a eat whatever you like. just don't get angry if someone gut you or stuff your throat with pile of dirt out of entertainment. it's called mutual.
Someone is more than welcome to try. Ive never actually had it nor will I likely ever try it. I was just being as rediculous as this video and most of the people responding to it. I am honestly getting ready to eat some flounder. YUM!
Are you done crying?
Byron DelSignore There isnt a veggie that has ever existed that tastes better than yummy meat.
If I wasn’t already vegan I would turn instantly. This speech is incredible.
You're biased already.
@@khaledzarad3841based already*
He turned me into vegan after i saw this speech, now 4 years and counting,i wish i have done it sooner 💚
this man changed my life, when i saw this speech, i turned from omnivore to vegetarian and not long after i was vegan, thank you for opening my eyes and i hope many more will follow, thank you for being the voice for those who have no voice
Wow Catchafire. What a great message. I think he had over 60 million views spread over dozens of sites.
@@kaemcolm5455 i hope many more will follow, i even follow him on facebook now :-)
If there would be more debates like this on television there would definitely be a great shift towards veganism
Nina Adel There will be more debates and there will be more vegans in the future. Vegan is the next step to a modern human being and we do our best to push this movement forward as fast as we can! :)
Yeah you're so right, they need this debate and other vegan ones repeated on TV every day, and i agree more people would change. More rubbish on tv than the righteous things that should be on.
This speech really covers it all. Unbelievable!
Indeed! I never stop fighting for animals!
vegan 1.5 years. feeling awesome :)
same 2 year . best move of my life
I am so glad for this message. My family is vegan and I can't wait for everyone to open their hearts and see the light. Thank you so much. Animals deserve justice, a stress and pain free life.
I think Phillip Wollen Is not only an amazing speaker, he is also an amazing human being.
I listen to this once a month, and have since I stumbled across it. Vegan since 03 and wish I’d been raised his way. The feeling of screaming for help, comprehension, and empathy - from the bottom of a well subsides a little when I hear this speech. Thank you for all that you have done. You are a true hero Mr. Wollen.
You are compassionate and intelligent Benne. Your views are shared by millions. Perfect.
This man speaks so well that if I weren't vegan, I would surely have gone vegan after his speech-amazing and brilliantly spoken, so inspiring! Bless his soul!
Best speech I've ever heard. Phillip Wollen is right up there with Martin Luther King. It's speeches like this that change the course of history.
Siân Ishmael "name one desease that is caused by a vegan diet". That one made me laugh the hardest. Sugar is a 100% vegan product, wich causes diabetes. And also, pointing a finger at all people who eat grassfedbeef for slapping the tear-stained face off a hungry child just doesn't make sense at all. This clip is probably effective propaganda and a nice tearjerker for vegans, but needless to say factually incorrect. And that's a shame, because you can never trust a guy like this to try to tell the truth objectively, wich can be pointed out by listening to him for only ten minutes.
Beautifully said :)
@@Richard-bf6xm sugar does not cause diabetis, saturated fat does. It is only once you have diabetis that sugar becomes a problem.
Richard Touw take a look at “what the Health “ on Netflix. Doctors explain how diabetes happens. I’ve known vegans who have reversed diabetes on a vegan diet. 💚
@@Richard-bf6xm You are a clown! Have you read a single book on the subject? You are great loss to vaudeville!
Very well said! Everyone should be made to listen to this. Bravo!
This is an important speech for the future of our earth, and our species. Please consider becoming a flexitarian, vegetarian or a vegan to help resolve water shortages, food shortages, pollution, deforestation, ozone layer depletion, animal cruelty and many other problems.
It baffles me how people continue to feel "entitled" to animal flesh on their plates multiple times a day. Aside from the environmental, health, and animal welfare concerns, I cannot understand how anyone who claims to be spiritual or of a higher consciousness continues to participate in slavery and murder of these thinking and feeling beings.. multiple times a day. Animal flesh is not ours for the taking.
Agree a 100% with you
true
This honestly makes me hate our world so much. Just please get educated and watch Earthlings, people
Juuso Peltoniemi Obviously you do not care about any life but your own.
Pat Volk Empathy is not a trait shared by all. Especially when considering another species. Hell just look at the history and even present state of humanity. Just being part of another tribe, religion, or nation is reason enough to erase empathy from consideration for other humans.
I hope I never ever cross paths with you.
I watched Earthlings in 2007 and went vegan straight away.
God bless
this made me tear, humanity needs to wake up
100% this
They need to wake up from greed, from mass meat production that comes from factory farms! Not free from meat unless you make the animals go extinct. Ok don't eat meat. But people have for centuries. What started to make it all wrong was higher demand and greed. Then entered sadistic behavior along with brutality. Think about it. Kosher type farming, good farming was never about animal abuse. Ban factory farming and quit bashing people for eating good ethically produced, in other words, kosher meat. They're gonna start growing meat in labs by the way lol. Without even having the full animal. If that isn't freaky, I dunno what is. But that one isn't kosher and I'll never eat it unless I was starving...maybe we should start eating crickets instead? 🤢
@@cristinacri1283 There is no such thing as ethical meat. You can not kill someone who does not want to die, in a "humane" way.
@@cristinacri1283 there's no way to ethically and humanely kill someone who doesn't want to die.
Incredible! Gives me chills! Please share far and wide.
yes, i will and i have.
Just like slavery, racism, sexism, I can feel that this is the next movement! I'm stoked, go vegan or go home
If I stayed home who would give you something to feel indignant about?
The activists of the '60s didn't foresee the result of their demand that we give up paper for plastics. The same could be said here. You cannot predict all the results of the demands you make.
how the fuck does slavery, racism, and sexism have anything to do with the vegan cult?
Orbity because they are all historical lapses in empathy, which used to be normal and morally acceptable but were beaten out by compassion as time passed. The commodification of animals will go the same way and we will look back in horror in the future. Just like slavery, racism and sexism.
@@orbity842 end of exploitation, liberation of the weaker ones, the future is vegan, that's the choice we face - either we all go vegan or we'll die
Next movement? It's already been going on for years
PAWS UP !!!!!!! DO NOT BE COMPLICET IN THE GENOCIDE !!!!!!! GO VEGAN .
"We suffer as equals. " This made me cry.
Can you make more subtitles please? My boyfriend speaks Kurdish, Arabic and German. He is still a meathead and I know this speech will make him think, because he knows injustice from Iraq and will be able to relate.
Lisa, It has been translated independently into 20+ languages.....I think there is a German translation out there!
I've prepared subtitles in German but every time I send the file to the email address it gets bounced back with an error message. :/
Maybe you can write to info@kindnesstrust.com
A yr later I ask did he hear it?and?
What abou plants? Don't they suffer? is it because we don't hear them? Just like with insects? It's the only thing I can't agree with veggans and vegetarians. honestly. It's life-descremination basically. I still try to reduce my meat conspumtionfor environment and diet reasons
'if slaughter houses had glass walls we wouldnt be having this debate tonight'- amazing, so true
I gave up meat and dairy on 9/15/15. Best move I ever made! Want to be happy? Give up meat and dairy!!!!!!
+lori cecere 9/17/15 here. You got me by two days!
And eggs! ;)
@@Thawah exactly. Male chicks are mashed to death just because of egg production.
I went vegan and I look and feel AMAZING!
Im so moved by this speech ...amazing ..Everyone share this with the World !!!
Yes, I totally agree and I am proud to be a vegan. There are hundreds of reason to become a vegan.
I'm so happy for being vegan for the last 1 year and looking forward to helping the earth and animals for the rest of my life.
That smug lady in the background, I can't stand looking at her!
I know, right? She's smiling the whole time. Wtf is wrong with her?
Self-righteous bitch needs to be slapped.
Why..... its an awesome speech. and we don't see her that much
sqfdqfq You're right, it is an awesome speech. Personally I just find annoying that everytime I see her in the background she's smiling, even though Philip is talking about the suffering of billions of sentient beings, and the destruction of thousands of entire species and the environment. I guess I should just ignore her though
Same here!
Love love loved it!!
IF SLAUGHTER HOUSES HAD GLASS WINDOWS, WE WOULDN'T BE HAVING THIS DEBATE!!!!! - SOO TRUE.
PS. Will you be so nice as to write my next speech for me 😂😁👍
The single most moving speech I have ever heard. I have been vegan for two years and yet I just keep coming back to this speech, not because I need convincing, but because it just gets me every time.
Ikr this man is a prophet
Sarah Cawley I have that last name, it's a neat one
Paul Blart mine?
Sarah Cawley Yea
Paul Blart ok
Amazing speech! He spoke with such clarity, emotion and sincerity.
GOD BLESS YOU...May people wake up in time...
I´m vegan from Estonia and this was great! Peace and love and ofc go vegan hehe. :)
one of the most BRILLIANT talks I have ever heard!! BRAVO and Thank you Phillip.
I been vegetarian since I'm 6, I guess truth come out of the children's mouth, now I'm 26, I'm healty, and more then this, I'm happy and peaceful knowing that a speech like that can be heard by everybody.
Steve M Go vegan
Definitely best speech EVER I've heard, period.
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we wouldn’t be having this debate tonight"
This is the most inspirational speech to ever live. He is amazing!
A powerful speech that could leave any hardcore non-vegetarian transformed into a vegetarian
Not going to happen.
Vegan not vegetarian
BL Isham it did tho
I am still a proud beef eater
@@safranofficial_gov What are you proud of, meathead?🤔😅
Such an epic speech
Simply amazing. The animals need us all to stop being selfish bastards. Do it for them. Do it for you. Do it for the planet.
I just donated blood today, my iron count is 16.1 and i'm vegan.
We are in the information age which means all the info you need is just a click away.
+JC Thomet Its funny because my mother and my best friends are vegan as well and their iron count was highest than other people too.
+JC Thomet Exactly . . . . everyone should read the material supplied (free of charge) by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) and read T Colin Campbell's book "The China Study".
this is the best most passionate and well informed speech ive ever heard
Glad to be vegan and regret every moment I wasn't. For those who listen to this man and continue to eat meat - you have a bleak and selfish heart.
Flinty Maguire - well done. You are 100% correct. There are millions of people who follow your values.
This is the speech that turned me away from animal products 4 + years ago. Love this man!!
God Bless you Philip. I became a vegan 7 years ago because I love ALL of God's precious animals. I saw the horrific video's of the slaughterhouses,fur and leather farms and the testing labs. I have rescued rats from testing labs that I keep as pets. You brought joyful tears to my eyes listening to you. Thank you so much for helping ALL animals.
The word "bliss" is the best choice. The word bless comes from blood and animal sacrifices.
i would love to live into a nation only with vegans and vegetarians :) God bless Phill Wollen.
Parasite would have been a better word to use than virus...But everything else this man says is absolutely undeniable. A true hero of our time.
Mark Walton, actually most of what this man says is factually incorrect. "name one desease that is caused by a vegan diet". That one made me laugh the hardest. Sugar is a 100% vegan product, wich causes diabetes. And also, pointing a finger at all people who eat grassfedbeef for slapping the tear-stained face off a hungry child just doesn't make sense at all. This clip is probably effective propaganda and a nice tearjerker for vegans, but needless to say factually incorrect. And that's a shame, because you can never trust a guy like this to try to tell the truth objectively, wich can be pointed out by listening to him for only ten minutes.
Richard Touw sugar isn’t the cause of diabetes. Fat builds up in arteries e.g. cholesterol from animal products. Sugar isn’t great don’t get me wrong, it has excess calories that we don’t need but fat in our bodies is what causes heart disease. My dad reversed his type 2 diabetes by following a plant based diet. Our doctor said that his diet worked too well and now he’s off of all of his medicine!
@@Richard-bf6xm Sugar is part of a meat eaters diet as well, I think you misunderstood him entirely. A “vegan diet” is the absence of animal products and the increase of mushrooms, beans, soy, lentils etc to replace it. Everything else can and is eaten by all.
So, what diseases are caused by eating those vegetables? Silly :p
Arguably one of the best speeches ever.
Dr. Faraz Harsini. Was it 30 or 60 million people who have seen this 9 minute speech? You are correct. It was powerful.
Being Vegan is my biggest pride !
ALFieVeggie mine too!!!!
NOBODY FUCKING CARES
1234usmarinecorpsify some of us actually do!!👍🙂
i feel bad for you then
Pride goes before a fall.
Wow, it's really nice to see that all the comments are supportive of veganism. This speech was very enthralling and rational.
Usually it's around 20% fallacies and 30% misinformation and 50% truth.
Thank you for this. This is the video that took me from an average meat-eater who had never even considered not eating meat, to a vegetarian, and a few months later to a strict vegan. It’s the best decision I ever made, and all thanks to this. Share it with everyone you know
Brandon Jones. Brilliant, sir. You are wonderful.
8 years later this speech continues to be as relevant as ever! It's time to stop animal cruelty and suffering. There's another way to feed the world, more compassionate, smarter, healthier and sustainable
Fabiana Rizzi. You are correct. It has over 30 million views in over 20 languages.
This was brilliant, he's charismatic, to say the least :)
This talk was the turning point for me. My son is already vegan, and my father became a vegetarian later in life. As a retired man I have been thinking a lot more about my spiritual place in the world, and I can't see how animal terror and gratuitous ecological destruction can continue to have a place in it. From now on I will no longer buy industrially-produced meat, and when our freezer is empty I will no longer cook it, and as far as possible I will no longer eat it. This will not be a burden for me, it will be a liberation. We should tread as lightly as possible on the Earth, and learn that loving kindness to all living beings is the true panacea to our general malaise of fear and anxiety, and our consequent compulsive compensatory addictive behaviours of grasping at the material world and of seeking solace in distorted personal relationships. Thank you.
Wow. This is powerful Beachcomber Boz. You really should post your comment on Philip Wollen's Facebooks. This short 10 minute debate has been viewed over 12 million times and independently translated into over 20 languages.
Kae, you should be careful of treating mere words as "powerful", because power exists only in the form of internalized transcendent experience. It is a very long way indeed to go from the words to the experience. Realising a unity of consciousness between ourselves and our fellow creatures of other orders simply does not require one to be ideologically vegetarian, let alone vegan. The unification of consciousness, even between ourselves and plants, operates at a level far deeper than ideology, far deeper than rationally mediated intention, very much deeper than words.
Regards /Bob
I wish everyone had this kind of life-changing epiphany.. Thank you for looking beyond yourself and realizing what's really at stake.
You will not regret your decision.
No good can ever come out of eating the flesh or secretions of a tortured soul who lived and died in fear and terror.
Veganism transformed my life physically, emotionally and spiritually. The naysayers will scoff and refute, but it is true for me and for millions of others around the world. My only regret is not changing sooner.
Good luck with your journey.
It's never too late to change. Give up all land animal meats (including milk, eggs) first. Increase your consumption of fruits and vegetables (fresh) and cooked. Then you will not support animals that have NO lives at all. Gradually phase out fish. Increase your consumption of fresh fruits and veggies. Garden whenever you can. Plant fruit trees. You are on your way.
In this incredibly powerful speech I am bewildered as to why Philip Wollen who is a vegan promotes vegetarianism when there is as much suffering in glass of milk as there is in a steak? To promote anything less than veganism is promoting animal exploitation. We must all of us be vegan and the message must always be crystal clear: veganism is the moral baseline.
Kate - Philip Wollen was only given 10 minutes to speak. He did not have time to talk about milk, hunting, leather, circuses, vivisection etc . . . although he could have discussed these issues in great depth. For your information, in respect of your question on milk, this is what he was frequently asked on his lecture series around Australia:
"What made you decide to do what you do?"
This was his response:
“There was no single seminal event, just a gradual realization that I had experienced a paradigm shift in my thinking.
There was a time when I used to joke that the only thing that will change a man is if he:
a) finds religion or
b) Has a full frontal lobotomy.
Nowadays I say it is when he discovers his character.
If there ever was a Damascene event in my case, then it would be the time I visited a large industrial conglomerate in the course of my professional work as a merchant banker. I inspected one of their subsidiaries - which turned out to be a slaughterhouse.
It was the most terrifying experience of my life and it affected me profoundly. I made the most important decision of my life that morning.
To become a vegetarian; to leave my career; and become an advocate for social justice.
But I was not yet a vegan. I simply didn’t know enough to know better.
I thought that dairy was the bucolic, peaceful image of green pastures and crystal streams, rolling hills and the poetry of Wordsworth and Shelley. Little did I know that behind the dairy walls was a cruel industrial juggernaut, a vile gulag of despair?
I discovered that milk was meat in liquid form.
During a business trip to India I saw a milkman dragging and whipping a cow. She had been badly injured in an accident with a lorry. To get her to move, he was threw chili powder in her eyes, and shoved sharp objects into her anus. He had a chain around her neck and forced her to walk with a broken leg and severe injuries to her spine. Beside her walked her scrawny, starving and terrified calf, ribs protruding and her skinny legs trembling.
At the slaughterhouse gate, he unchained her.
But before he did so, the bastard milked her.
If that sight does not change the heart of a man, nothing will.”
Kate FitzGibbon It's not the baseline. Plants are living creatures too and you farm them and hybridise them into unnatural forms to suit your purposes. On a spiritual level, eating a plant is still a form of murder. You just decided to be God and judge that one form of life is of greater value than another because you are more closely related to animals and can relate to their forms of distress. I bet you don't bat a blinkered eye when you tear a carrot out of the ground and chomp on it alive.... despite the fact that if left alone the carrot would continue to live and sprout.. potatoes and other vegetables too... I bet you likewise don't offer much sympathy to insects who don't show signs of distress that you can relate to. You Vegans are all bloody self-righteous fucking hypocrites, the lot of you. Get down off your high horse.
GrowlyCubNZ Plants do not have a nervous system so they do not feel pain as do sentient beings. Also if you really believe that eating plants is a form of murder then this is yet another reason to be vegan as animals eat loads of plants before you eat them so the amount of plant killing is way higher. I do care about insects and avoid killing as far as is possible. Are you really telling me that you are as distressed about a carrot death as a person death because if so I don't believe you and if this is true why are you advocating all these extra plant deaths by eating the animal which has to eat the plants first? I think you are the self righteous one: your self thinks it is right to cause unnecessary pain to other sentient beings. Vegans don't.
Kate FitzGibbon No one will convince a psycho vegan like you. You are religious extremists plain and simple. You cannot be reasoned with, you are dogmatic and irrational and self righteous. Moral crusaders, hell bent on making the planet a better place in your vision.. except cropping which you rely on heavily for your food is neither natural nor good for the planet, and if everyone becomes totally reliant on plant foods for nutrition as you would like, then we become easily controlled, as companies like Monsanto move more and more towards copyrighting and patenting their seeds and forcing consumers to eat them without their knowing. Diversity is what keeps all species going.. not inbreeding. You would have us turn from omnivores into herbivores which is not a clever survival strategy, and that is before we even get into the whole debate about what humans are really designed to eat. If you want to 'save the planet' and drive us to extinction, go for it, but do it on your own or in a little village somewhere. The majority of the humans on this planet are happy eating meat and that's the way it's going to stay I'm afraid Kate.
Kate FitzGibbon The animals will still eat the plants regardless of whether we go on to eat the animals or not. So eating the plants would see us competing for food with some animals... if we all suddenly stopped eating meat and drinking milk cows would likely be reduced to a handful of curiosities trapped in zoo's because farmers would have zero incentive anymore to breed them. Have you actually thought any of the consequences of your fantasy ideology through?
No chicken or eggs on the menu? Ok, so we'll not farm any chickens and instead I'll grow vegetables where the hen houses used to be. The world populations of these animals would dwindle rapidly. Without serving a use for us, they would become a nuisance. And farm land which cows use is still home to grass, earthworms, a whole bunch of other insect and plant life.. without cows to add to their lifecycles some would perish.. and with machines and harvesters churning up the earth and croppers loading the soil with fertilisers and pesticides, the land is actually worse off than if cattle were upon it. And what about irrigation? Where will the extra water come from? We need a greater length of piping to irrigate crops than to get water to animals... so more plastic tubes filling the earth... and so on....
There are consequences for every action. And in your idealism you just haven't really thought any of them through. You listened to other idealists who have told you it would make the world better to stop eating meat.. you believed it.. and never stopped to think about the boring nuts and bolts questions of changing from animal farms to cropping. That makes you self-righteous... having blind faith in what you've been told and never questioning or challenging it or thinking for yourself.
And on a spiritual level yes, all creatures have a life force and sentience and if you cause stress to animals, plants feel it. It's scientifically proven. The reverse is also likely true. When a plant is suffering I do notice it myself, though you likely don't because you kill so many of them to feed yourself, your flora lust takes over and blinds you to a plants suffering. It doesn't need a central nervous system to feel pain and respond to that. But aside from that.. you need to think more about the effect increasing cropping would do to our ecosystems and the Earth cos what they are already doing is rather devastating and unsustainable.
His comments are amazing and so insightful. A brilliant speaker
this is our spiritual crusade!Greetings from Poland
What an epic speech! I just watched the debate the other teams arguments were an absolute joke. This man is an inspiration & I wish more humans would follow in this mans steps.... Sad how the media never covers any of this just petty pathetic stories that have no meaning on this planet
The future has to be Vegan.
but that is fox news, they tell lies, like when Bush won the elections, but actually Gore won
so what? B12 additives are found in all alternative milks. like almond, coconut, soy milk, no need to get it from a cow. thanks for the links.
than choose the ones without high level of sugar, but don't forget that cow milk has a lot of lactose, which is disaccharide sugar derived from galactose and glucose.
But carageenan is also added to processed meats and dairy desserts.
***** that claim about raw vegan and menstrual problems is unfounded. I can leave grains out of my diet, most veggies I can just pick without tools also fruit is no problem. Also I prefer raw veggies above cooked ones.
I think that woman has that stupid grin on her face because she's constipated from eating too much meat!! BRAVO Phillip Wollen!!!!
she's secretely in love with him!
***** u go vegan power
This made me lol
vegan all the way
"A dog is a pig is a bear is a boy." Chills every time. We're all sentient, we all feel love, joy, pain, fear, and a desire to live, there's nothing separating us except different bodies. We should all be able to live without harm. I love this talk.
"Dog, pig, bear..." A direct quote from Ingrid Newkirk, a very sick woman in her own right.
Beautiful.
@Belex I agree. A very accurate description of the vegan/animal rights movement. 😁
Live without harm? Have you seen the biological world?
@@remotefaith It's preety self explanatory. If you still didn't get it i can explain
Iv watched this video so many times and it still brings me to tears so powerful!!
alex burnside "name one desease that is caused by a vegan diet". That one made me laugh the hardest. Sugar is a 100% vegan product, wich causes diabetes. And also, pointing a finger at all people who eat grassfedbeef for slapping the tear-stained face off a hungry child just doesn't make sense at all. This clip is probably effective propaganda and a nice tearjerker for vegans, but needless to say factually incorrect. And that's a shame, because you can never trust a guy like this to try to tell the truth objectively, wich can be pointed out by listening to him for only ten minutes.
Richard Touw your comment is pretty hilarious aswell actually sugar does not cause diabetes. The cause of diabetes is cells being blocked up by saturated fat so the insulin can’t get in to the cell to do its job when you eat sugar your blood sugar levels rise and body produces more insulin because it can’t get in to cell so try’s to force its way in but the cell is clogged by the fat so you are wrong so much so that a plant based diet can actually REVERSE diabetes. Iv attached a video that shows a few different doctors explaining this. there is plenty of information out there about how this has been scientifically proven so your comment is pretty stupid. Do some research before commenting on things like this consuming animal products is linked to 14 of 15 of our top killers the only one it’s not linked to is accidents. And as for the world hunger grains fed to animals in the west 80% of those grains come from third world country’s so like I said do some research your obviously not educated on the subject that’s why it makes no sense to you. th-cam.com/video/uSc7OfJUHr0/w-d-xo.html
alex burnside Haha, vegans also get diabetes, sorry. This video is a joke. Like I said. Effective propaganda. Take the having to shoot someone to start a cemmetery comment for example, what a joke. If you listen closely, the whole talk is filled with examples like that. And yes I am actually wel educated on this topic. Please be aware that the video is an emotional talk, because people respond better to emotion than to facts. Like I said, it is factualy incorrect.
Yes!!!! No animals on the menu!!! Thank you, thank you- no more crying, suffering animals❤️‼️
we the human are ourselves enemy of humanity
Vinod Agarwal The most cruel animal in this world is Human being. I feel ashamed to be human being.
Brilliant!
"A dog is a pig is a bear is a boy.." Spread the word my friends, talk about it and actions speaks louder than words.. There are some amazing Vegan meat types YVES, Amy's etc.. We require little protein and broccoli has more protein than your burger. I've watched this a million times and will share a million more..Leave ANIMALS ALONE! Would you eat your dog or cat?? What's the difference?
broccoli really? wouaaaahh
@@mrkonradkk not per gram but per calorie,
Best speech I heard in my life ! I'm stunt. Such a great man. Wow.
This is such a strong speech and every word of it is true. Thanks Philip Wollen! I dare everyone to watch Earthlings too!
duygugunesten
. I agree with you completely. This is worth watching too. It is more detailed. th-cam.com/video/dpNtXEdM_QM/w-d-xo.html
Amazing speech, and I hope this turns more people into vegans. I am transitioning from vegetarian to vegan myself, and while it appears hard right now, I know that it is well worth it, and not half as hard as having to hear those screams in my head all night.
Vegan hats off to you!
Good for you! :) How's it coming along, friend?
@@Food5Thought I've been fully vegan for the last 3+ years, friend. So it turned out okay. Becoming vegan for the ethics is the only reason that sticks, in my experience. Cheers! :)
Thanks Philip Wollen! This is so powerful x
How on earth could anyone argue with these facts. Man deserves a medal for those words
I feel like what would make him happiest would be if this had an effect on people and people came to these realizations themselves. I think that would be even more rewarding
Holy shit that was good.
"Send copies of earthlings to your customers"go on i dare ya."Brilliant just brilliant.Bet they don't.😂
Oh so important!! #govegan# this is so poweful!!♥️
So glad to be Vegan. Please take Wollen's words to heart and get animals off your menu if you haven't already!
Adam Quirke See, you are talking crap here as well. You are actually making me laugh, you can't seriously think that.
Adam Quirke Only 3% of the earths water is drinkable, do you know what percentage goes to animal livestock? We will go extinct if people do not wake up to this madness.
Do you know what percent of people die every year from avoidable diseases caused by eating animal protein?
Time to do some research.
Adam Quirke OMG Adam, do you think that if people would stop eating meat (which wouldn't happen overnight, surprise, surprise), they would still keep breeding 90 million chicken? Did you have economics at school?
And has water got to do with it? Countries are on the verge of going to war over drinking water with each other. We are running out of drinking water, and fast. And we keep giving it to the animals, just because the majority of people are too weak and selfish to give up meat. Still don't see the connection?
both adam and why don't you look it up yourself. i think you may learn some things of interest.
livestock are destroying our earth and peoples health that eat them.
It is time to stop closing your eyes and making excuses... wake up and learn the truth.
the meat and dairy industry is based on supply and demand like all corporations, if people were no longer buying they would stop over breeding.
Rats? Please at least look up the number one cause of death in western world, heart disease. look it up and also how many die. It now has become an epidemic in Asian countries where it was once unheard of before they started eating meat, look at Japan and China ( before meat and dairy then after). this illogical madness is spreading and ruining everything for the sake of a few peoples greed and an ignorant population. In this day and age with access to so much information ignorance is a choice. Ignorance is not bliss, it is causing people and this earth (which we rely on for survival) much unnecessary suffering, damage and death.
so touching - and so immensely and important and true - brought me to tears -
Barbara Brinkmann-Klinger Me too....
This guy should rule the world!
My god what a wordsmith and wise man. Blew the lid off the entire cowspiracy. Just the man to get the RIGHT message across.
Yeah, so beautifully said...
Powerful message! I'm going to spread it till my fingers are bleeding
Amazing speech! People like this needs to be in charge!
Yep, I'm crying. This was amazing, I hope this changes other people's lives.
Why love one animal and pay for another to be killed? Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
How can I hold back the tears after such an emotional and articulate speech?
Really really great video! I didn't know we were so many
You aren't. He seriously exaggerates the numbers.
It takes courage and conviction to speak the truth. You make a difference in this world. You are an inspiration and an example to follow. You are not alone. Thank you for speaking on behalf of billions of innocents and hopeless animals. ♥
I can only add one little line, “Thank you for saying everything that i’ve been trying to say to the people around me”.
“I believe an other world is possible!
And on a quiet night I can hear her breathing...”
Thanks Phillip Wollen! What a powerful speech!
Steven Wilson brought me here.
+Itai Arad Really? He is vegan?
It's a shame the English subtitles are not a 100% correct. Is there anyway I could help? I could also make Dutch subtitles, how could these be added?..
This speech changed my life