I heard the screams of my dying father as his body was ravaged by the cancer that killed him. And I realised I had heard these screams before.
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In the slaughterhouse, eyes stabbed out and tendons slashed, on the cattle ships to the Middle East and the dying mother whale as a harpoon explodes in her brain as she calls out to her calf.
90% of small fish are ground into pellets to feed livestock.
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Vegetarian cows are now the world?s largest ocean predator.
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The oceans are dying in our time. By 2048 all our fisheries will be dead. The lungs and the arteries of the earth.
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Billions of bouncy little chicks are ground up alive simply because they are male.
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Only 100 billion people have ever lived. 7 billion alive today. And we torture and kill 2 billion animals every week.
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10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one species.
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We are now facing the 6th mass extinction in cosmological history.
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If any other organism did this a biologist would call it a virus.
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It is a crime against humanity of unimaginable proportions.
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The world has changed.
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10 years ago Twitter was a bird sound, www was a stuck keyboard, Cloud was in the sky, 4 g was a parking place, Google was a baby burp, Skype was a typo and Al Kider was my plumber.
Victor Hugo said ?there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come?.
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Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.
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There are over 600 million vegetarians in the world.
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That is bigger than the US, England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia combined! If we were one nation we would be bigger than the 27 countries in the European Union!!
Despite this massive footprint, we are still drowned out by the raucous huntin?, shootin?, killin? cartels who believe that violence is the answer ? when it shouldn?t even be a question.
If everyone ate a Western diet, we would need 2 Planet Earths to feed them. We only have one. And she is dying.
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Greenhouse gas from livestock is 50% more than transport . . . . . planes, trains, trucks, cars, and ships.
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Poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime?
Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent?
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The earth can produce enough for everyone?s need. But not enough for everyone?s greed. We are facing the perfect storm.
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If any nation had developed weapons that could wreak such havoc on the planet, we would launch a pre-emptive military strike and bomb it into the Bronze Age.
The good news is we don?t have to bomb it. We can just stop buying it.
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George Bush was wrong. The Axis of Evil doesn?t run through Iraq, or Iran or North Korea. It runs through our dining tables. Weapons of Mass Destruction are our knives and forks.
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This is the Swiss Army Knife of the future ? it solves our environmental, water, health problems and ends cruelty forever.
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The Stone Age didn?t end because we ran out of stones. This cruel industry will end because we run out of excuses.
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Meat is like 1 and 2 cent coins. It costs more to make than it is worth.
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And farmers are the ones with the most to gain. Farming won?t end. It would boom. Only the product line would change. Farmers would make so much money they wouldn?t even bother counting it.
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Governments will love us. New industries would emerge and flourish. Health insurance premiums would plummet. Hospital waiting lists would disappear.
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Hell ?We?d be so healthy; we?d have to shoot someone just to start a cemetery!?
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So tonight I have 2 Challenges for the opposition: 1. Meat causes a wide range of cancers and heart disease. Will they name one disease caused by a vegetarian diet? 2. I am funding the Earthlings trilogy. If the opposition is so sure of their ground, I challenge them to send the Earthlings DVD to all their colleagues and customers. Go on I DARE YOU.
Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril.
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The peace map is drawn on a menu. Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of Justice.
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Justice must be blind to race, colour, religion or species. If she is not blind, she will be a weapon of terror. And there is unimaginable terror in those ghastly Guantanamos.
