What's happening everybody, want to tell you about one of the coolest moments
I've ever been involved, in fact this probably is the most awesome
activist moment I have ever witnessed
It was my 2013 trip to Israel I had around 20 lectures set up at Colleges
Small theaters and a couple of high schools as most of you know the ministry of education
Banned me from speaking in high schools by the way the same thing happens in America
I rarely get into high schools or middle school's any more way too much red tape
well
The first lecture on this tour was supposed to happen on a high school
After the ban came down, believe it or not the parents were furious that
The school would not let me in to speak to the students about animal liberation and veganism
So one couple that lived around two blocks from the high school
Decided to invite me to speak in their backyard. They rented a projector
They had around 200 chairs that they rented as well
And they invited all the students at the school to come to their backyard on Friday
after school
Well, I heard about this and [I] thought the sentiment was obviously sweet
But there was no way kids were going to come to hearing lecture after
school on Friday about
animal liberation
I showed up about a half an hour before the lecture was supposed to begin
Introduce myself to the parents
I thank them for their concern and around five minutes before the scheduled start there was still nobody there. I wasn't angry again
I didn't expect students to come to this, but all of a sudden ten
walked in
So I turned to my wife Erika. I said well,
I've spoken to ten students before so I guess I'll just talk to these ten but then a couple minutes later
Ten more showed up, and those ten said don't start. There's a bunch of people coming
I was like "get out of here". There's no way there's a bunch of people coming.
And all of a sudden. They started pouring in droves
It ended up being around
250 students
I was near tears before the lecture started in fact during the lecture
I broke down and cried because
I saw some young people around six or seven years old who came on their own to listen to this and they were in tears
Listening to my words watching the slaughterhouse footage. It was quite an emotional experience.
In fact I'm almost positive 99% of the students that day
Embraced Veganism and we're going to change for the better
They kept me after this lecture for about two hours each and every one of them telling me that they would never eat animal products again.
So I want to share this clip during the Q&A portion of the speech in the backyard.
it was about eggs.
So everybody needs to hear this, in fact this is where the egg toilet challenge was born,
You got to check it out, much loved everybody, and I'll be back soon PEACE
Q: if I eat eggs that come from chickens that I grow..
You have to hen in your own backyard?
Or like... like if there´s no cruelty?
Let me explaining this in a couple ways
First of all, do you ever eat eggs from Turtles?
How come?
Well you can try okay, but you didn't try because the egg industry
Picked on the hen a couple thousand years ago
And made that hen the victim not the turtle, many other creatures lay eggs
And we don't go out and have turtle egg omelette, even way you could, so the hen is being commodified
That maybe be a new word for some people, commodification means you turning an animal into an object
The animal wasn't meant to be that object. So you just want something from that animal. That's all you want
Now I understand that a hen living in your backyard has a better life than a hen that lives in the egg industry I understand that
but you only want the hen for the egg.
I Volunteer at an Animal Sanctuary [Sasha Farm] back in Michigan for 17 years. We have hundreds of hens there
Every week a couple dozen people stop by said: hey, we like to have a hen in our backyard
because we really want to have a hens and pet, Now they're lying about this, they just want the eggs
So we know their lies, so what we say is: okay?
Actually we have some old hens and we'd like to make some more space for the young hens
That's coming in that we rescue, so yeah we have some old hens
They're not laying eggs anymore, but yeah, we'd love to give a nice home and guess what they do every time? they go ummm
She doesn't lay eggs??
No, She's old, She's like seven years old
And then we always got, you don't really want her dude?
So you don't really want a hen as a pet?
Like you said you did, you just want the eggs, so you see the problem
You still only want the hem for that one things, and it's not okay.
And let me throw this out too, and I know we have young kids here
But you guys need to learn the truth. I mentioned this during the speech. I'm going to mention it again
Why do you want to eat something that came out of somebody else's asshole?
IT IS NOT FOOD
It is not food, listen if you want something on somebody else's ass, but one of the dogs takes a shit
I'll save it for you
I put it in a nice pretty bottle in a package you can take it all today and grab a bagel and spirit on a bagel
and have a sandwich, okay things that come out of somebody else's ass is not food
It's not good for you. It's disgusting let me explain it this way
I'm gonna get you out of eggs right now, right now if you're still on eggs.
When you go home today,
I want you to go to the bathroom whenever you go into the bathroom, do both things in the bathroom, ok?
pee and poo
Don't flush the toilet
Walk to the kitchen grab an egg from your refrigerator
Walk back to the toilet put it inside the toilet
If you even have the courage to stick your hand in there and pull the egg back out
And you can wash it when you're done. You can bleach it do whatever you want
Would you still want to eat it?
Okay, this is your own shit
this is your own shit and you still want to eat it
This is no hen shit, you don't even know the hen
the egg is inside in shit
Can we move on and get real food? I got a better idea instead of eating eggs for breakfast
Trying some blueberries and some strawberries and some raspberries and some peaches or nectarines grapes and bananas eat some real food!
What's wrong teaching the truth the school is supposed to be a place of learning of
education didn't not deceit and propaganda, which is what they do
They teach kids that it's okay to rape
animals and steal their babies and
Kill them and sell their flesh and skin, they tell kids that it's okay to eat things that come out of a hen's ass
They have tell kids it's okay to eat things that drip from animal utters
They tell kids it's okay to eat flesh and blood and people are upset with me? We'll try to translate.