One of my favorite excerpts from any speech ever given. Sorry for all the text, but it’s worth it:
“How come, when I talk about mock meat, you always catch a handful of people in every crowd…that wrinkle up their noses, make big wide eyes, and start glancing at the people next to them or across the aisle like “Soy chicken, is this guy crazy? Soy bacon, he must be out of his mind.” How come this stuff that is made of soy, wheat, vegetables, grains and spices, no chemicals…how come this stuff is considered gross to most people, but meat, meat’s got five components, let me break it down for you. Blood, flesh, veins, muscles and tendons. The cut up corpse of a dismembered body, how does meat not qualify as gross and disgusting to everybody?
How in the world is a beverage, a liquid that oozes out of the utters of cows, a secretion that drips from the mammary glands of another being, that’s loaded with pus by the way. Oh yeah let me tell you about the pus in your cow milk, it’d be my pleasure. When you hook machines up to the udders of cows three times a day to suck them dry, those machines cause massive amounts of infections on the inside and outside of the udder. Now let’s add all the bovine growth hormone they put in cows to make sure they provide huge quantities of milk, which always leads to another infection, the machine doesn’t know what not to suck out! Pus, mucus and infections right in with your milk, and yeah milk is pasteurized. But when did pasteurization become a removal process? It’s a sanitation process. You’re only sanitizing pus….and by the way, our government, the USDA, they allow the dairy industry to have a maximum amount of one eye dropper full of pus in every glass of milk. Drink up…
Does anybody know what an egg actually is from a hen? And don’t say embryo or aborted fetus, not even close, it’s unfertilized so it can’t be either. Hen is a female though, unfertilized egg through a female system? It’s part of her menstruation cycle, it’s a hen’s period. People scramble up hen periods in the morning and all the sudden I’m weird because I don’t make omelets anymore?
And what about vomit? Oh we’re going to take those blinders off today. C’mon you guys love vomit, you adore it all over your food. Better give this one a pretty name though. Nobody’s going to buy and eat vomit. Unless we call it honey instead. Honey comes directly from a bee’s stomach, it’s regurgitated right through the bee’s mouth. Look it up with any wildlife biologist. But nobody wants to eat Bee Vomit Nut Cheerios, we want Honey Nut Cheerios, to lie to ourselves and play euphemism games.
The standard diet of a meat eater is blood, flesh, veins, muscles, tendons, cow secretions, hen periods and bee vomit.
Now we’re not done yet. I am not going to let you off that easy, not while I’ve got you here today. You know where we top this all off in my opinion? Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils? I tell people one of my favorite meals nowadays: yams. Boy dish me up a plate of yams for dinner and I’m a happy guy. Most people, I tell them that and they’re like “Wait you just eat yams for dinner? I don’t know man, that’s kinda weird.” Okay, but somebody else’s ribcage sitting on your plate isn’t weird? Doesn’t make you think twice? Severed legs, sliced up thighs, and mutilated breasts on your plate doesn’t make you think twice. And you know why? Those blinders are on nice and tightly aren’t they?”
- Gary Yourofsky
Watch the rest of the speech here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4
