so after the angry farmer video that I
uploaded onto my YouTube onto my
facebook I received a huge amount of
hate comments so I thought what better
way to address these hate comments and
in 1/16 video well go through them and
be construed them and analyze just
exactly why they make no sense at all
now this is a style of comment I have
received a lot recently and it's really
been musing to me because I just don't
understand how it can be something that
people genuinely think and I've
addressed a couple of times on a channel
before I think really needs addressing
again so this is from Thomas and he says
what right do you have to kill a
breathing living plant before you answer
give me your scientific proof on how
they do not feel pain when he rip their
poor fragile live fruits from the ground
sucking the life out of them and then
butchering them with a knife in the
kitchen shame on his vegan hashtag you
don't have to stay woke people you'll be
so surprised by how many people tell me
almost on a daily basis that plants are
capable of feeling pain and that killing
a plant is the same as killing an animal
what I really like about this particular
comment is that Thomas says before you
answer give me your scientific proof
well plants have no brain they have no
pain receptors they have no central
nervous system from an evolutionary
point of view there's no point in them
feeling pain from a religious
creationist point of view there's also
no point in them feeling pain think
about it in the most simplest way
possible the reason that humans and
non-human animals feel pain is so that
we can escape danger but plants are
incapable of fleeing danger they can't
escape so from a plant's point of view
if they were to feel pain it would just
be eternal suffering and eternal agony
because they can't escape from it but
let's just say for the sake of argument
Thomas that plants are indeed capable of
feeling pain they're conscious they are
sentient just like you and I are just
like animals are it takes up to 16
kilograms of plants to make one kilogram
of animal protein which means that
vastly more plants are used and
therefore killed and murdered in the
production of animal products than they
are in vegan products so even if you
genuinely believe that plants can feel
pain and have just as much right to live
as animals do you should still be vegan
because by being vegan you inflict less
suffering onto the plant kingdom as well
as the animal kingdom Thomas then goes
on to say about ripping their poor
fragile lying fruits from the ground
stuck in a lie far
and then buttering them with a knife in
the kitchen how come Thomas nobody likes
to watch slaughterhouse footage no one
likes to watch footage of animals being
butchered and killed in slaughterhouses
and yet no one seems to mind every day
when there are cookery programmes on the
television that show pieces of broccoli
and carrots asparagus being butchered
how come we're so against seen animals
being killed but then saying carrots
being pulled from the ground doesn't
offend us at all surely if it was
exactly the same then people be equally
offended by footage of carrots and
asparagus been harvested as they would
cows and pigs and chickens and fish and
sheep have enough throats cut so the
next comment comes from Calum who says
would you have a killer spider eating a
fly how about a shark eat a squirrel
mate its nature hashtag love means so
first of all I want to have a go as
spider in a fly because a spider has to
be a fly to sustain life obligate
carnivores like lions and tigers they
are allowed to kill most because they
have to to live they also like moral
agency which is something that as humans
we have which means that we can make
actions based on a notion of a right and
wrong animals in the wild like lions and
tigers and indeed spiders do not have
moral agency which means they can't make
those actions based on notion of right
and wrong and most importantly they
can't be held accountable for the
actions that they make when they make
them out of necessity so no I would not
have a go as spider eating a fly and
just because a spider eats a fly doesn't
provide any moral justification for you
to pay other people to butchering kill
animals just so that you can go to the
supermarket and buy the flesh which is
wrapped in plastic yeah and then the
next bit of comment where her column
goes on to say how about a shark eating
a squirrel it's nature when in nature if
you ever seen a shark in a squirrel I
can't even believe that that's a genuine
comment surely is should he come
strolling me because how can anyone
honestly think that a shark eats a
squirrel a squirrel
that's dust absolutely ridiculous unless
even safe sharks did he's squirrels in
this weird world where sharks are
walking on London eating squirrels
how would that provide moral
justification for you to eat other
animals it doesn't make any sense so the
next comment comes from someone called
Marshall and the comment says it's all
in caps so it's really quite aggressive
you will not live a long healthy life
about meat nothing in this world can do
for your body what metres that's quite
true actually
eventually it will catch up to you you
aren't almighty you are blind leading
blind good luck thanks very much
Marshall okay you will not live a long
healthy life that means well that's
absolutely ridiculous because science
and you know the most respected
scientific bodies and medical bodies in
the world are showing that eating meat
is causing cancers and heart disease and
type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's and
strokes and hypertension so actually
it's quite the opposite eating meat
prevents people from living a long
healthy life I mean how many people in
hospital right now go to any Hospital
tell me how many 50-year old people are
in there with heart disease
atherosclerosis having strokes with type
2 diabetes these are the illnesses that
our hospitals are currently filled with
and these are people in their old age
always these are people who still have
30 years of life left in them if they
lived healthfully so Marshall that's
completely ridiculous
tell you what Marshall going to any
hospital and tell me how many vegans are
in there protein deficiency compare that
how many elem liters are in knowif heart
disease and strokes in hypertension do
that that's a little experiment for you
to go and see just to show exactly why
me is just terrible for our bodies
nothing as well can do for your body
what meters that's absolutely correct
nothing in this world can make your body
as ill and disease-riddled as me cut it
causes a whole host of horrible
illnesses is full of cholesterol and
trans fats saturated fats antibiotics
hormones there is literally nothing in
this world that can do for your body
what meat does it is toxic actually I
think I might be wrong there is more
things that can do for your body what
meat does dairy and eggs and all animal
products for that matter all animal
products do something very unique to
your body they they literally kill it
eventually it will catch up to you you
aren't almighty that's fine I've never
claimed to be Almighty you are blind
leading blind
it's really quite ironic because you're
the person who's literally doing what
you've been told to do you're following
blindly while the advertising and the
propaganda and the marketing of these
big corporations tells you what to do
you're not thinking for yourself because
you're merely adopting what everyone
else in society and culture is telling
you what to do it's a very dangerous
thing to do that's all these horrible
'trust is across the world have happened
because people don't question anything
they simply follow and do what they're
told and that's exactly what you are
doing you are the one who is blind and
you are following the blind masses
because you are doing what you've been
told to do by the corporations that have
money to brainwash you and in doctor
this next one was actually a message I
received my personal inbox and it's from
a guy called Merv and as you can see
felt that it would be a necessary thing
to send me pictures of dead animal flesh
almost as if that's something that
vegans don't have to see every day of
their life and the message says don't
run your views down people's throats of
[ __ ] soap dodging hippy right so
again this is a something that we get
told a lot as vegans and it's kind of
its kind of ridiculous when you think
about it we always get told that we're
ramming I've used up people's France
merely for kind of having a conversation
where you express a difference of
opinion or express a different way of
viewing life the reality is if you eat
animals or even animal secretions you
are literally forcing knives across the
throats of animals in making animals die
and be exploited on your own behalf is
the epitome of forcing of use the views
that you think an animal is here to
serve you as a vehicle we're not forcing
anything down anyone's froze in fact
we're just saying why can't you live and
let others live it's a really simple
concept but when you pay for an animal
to be exploited to have their milk or
that eggs taken away from them or to
have that flesh take it from that bunch
of bodies you're literally forcing your
views on to another being so much they
have to suffer and die for you and not
only that but you're forcing your views
onto slaughterhouse work is not some of
the highest rates of PTSD depression
anxiety suicide drug and alcohol abuse
these are people that suffer terribly
because people like Merv and other
people the animals demand that they
slaughter living beings almost every day
of the week over and over again you see
these things amp'd things that most
people want to do none of us want to
kill the animals ourselves but that
means that this sort of society has to
suffer by killing the animals every
single day so when you're saying that
vegans are force and they've used for
merely voicing an opinion that says if
you can live about harming others why
wouldn't you you're forgetting the fact
that every single day where you buy
animal products your force and living
beings to suffer and you're forcing
humans to suffer as well and in regards
to the bit very says [ __ ] soap
dodging hippie it's kind of funny really
because I looked exactly the same one
used two animals my hair was the same I
looked the same I dress the same and
yeah no one ever called me a hippie then
I said I dodge soap and it's just kind
of so ridiculous because people
literally have no arguments against
veganism so instead they regurge to this
old kind of cliches thinking that it's a
fun
but I think it's important to add that
for every angry message I received I
received least five messages from people
who say thank you for the video it got
me thinking about something I'm not
considered before or even it got me
thinking about something I knew but I've
never accepted it myself before and the
number of people who want to go vegan
have asked me honest questions about how
to go vegan has been so overwhelming and
just really inspiring to me and it
reinforces why these comments you know
they're fine to get people thinking but
the end of these videos really do make a
difference and I've just been so pleased
to go through my message inbox and
through the comments and see how many
people have been changed by this video
and want to help them want to change
their beliefs based on the fact that
they've realized that eating animals
isn't morally justifiable so I want to
add that at the end because it's so
important for people to realize that
change is happening people do care and
when you share these videos on Facebook
when you make these videos yourselves
they really do have an impact and we
need to keep going keep pushing that
vegan message because the times are
changing and for all these hate comments
that we receive most hate messages there
are dozens and dozens more positive ones
from people who want to change and make
the world a better place I just want to
go massive shout out at the end to heart
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so please do check them out so thank you
so much for watching I hope you've
enjoyed this video on I say a massive
thank you to all the new people who've
just join my channel enjoy my page thank
you to youth coming to watch this video
and I look forward to seeing you next
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