welcome to the silence featuring me
Doyle the dog pan the yam and Erica the
wife she's filming and speaking
sometimes take one let's go see Doyle
Doyle is a baby boy and my baby boy
how are you relax it oh pretty boy oh
thank you now let's go see pam pam pam
pam pam pam Eric I think something's
wrong with Pam
well maybe she's just a little lethargic
sweetie her fibromyalgia might be acting
up imagine that what's happening
everybody as most of you know one of the
most idiotic excuses people can use to
not become vegan is to claim that
carrots suffer just like cows do that
there's an asparagus Holocaust taking
place those comments get trite to me too
just so you know I'm not immune to all
the frustrations that everybody else
goes through I'm just fortunate because
I've always had a crowd of students to
talk to so I come up with different ways
to destroy arguments and show people how
stupid they're being well let me share
something with you about the plants
suffering argument now I address this in
my last speech the excuses speech and
we're going to watch the plants
suffering clip at the end of this video
I also have an essay on my website at
DAP dot org entitled the insipid killing
plants argument got a lot of cool ways
to destroy this argument there too but
let me tell you something that's not in
the speech and not in that essay I've
done this a few times in classrooms over
the years and I've done with
few friends who believe that carrots are
suffering and dying and these have been
vegan friends as well so I was passing
through the New England area about ten
years ago got into a heated argument
with a very good friend of mine about
whether plants are suffering it went on
and on for about 40 minutes and she
wouldn't budge and of course I'm not
budging
so I hugged her because it got really
heated I said okay let's just calm down
let's go outside get some fresh air
little did she know I had an ulterior
motive I knew there was a tree right out
front of her house so when we got
outside I walked up to the tree and I
kicked the tree Oh far as I could she
didn't do anything huh maybe she didn't
see so I kicked the tree again as hard
as I could back it boom she didn't do
anything so I said why didn't you stop
me from kicking that tree you saw me
kick the tree twice you didn't do
anything you didn't scream it and yell
you didn't call the police you didn't
push me to try to stop me fun kicked a
dog a cat a squirrel by the throwing a
rock in a squirrel or a bird but I
stepped on an ant or a spider you
would've screamed and yelled you called
9-1-1 you to Gary what the hell are you
doing so you can always do this kicking
the tree example for any of your friends
and non friends now it really only works
when you're doing it face to face in
front of people can't do this online can
do this through social media but keep
this handy the next time you're in a
face-to-face debate about whether plants
suffer I do wish we could chat longer
but I'm having an old friend for dinner
bye
and finally let's talk about the planes
and whether they suffer because the
latest idiocy and lunacy being tossed my
way the last couple of years has been a
man carrots up and die just like cows do
so what's the difference okay in case
you were unaware of this difference you
have to have a functioning central
nervous system connected to a brain in
order to suffer and this is not up for
debate
which is why people in the hospital who
are brain-dead but still alive but can't
feel anything are called how about that
little truth in science for a change
yeah we don't call these people fish we
don't call them chickens and turkeys and
cows and pigs we call them
vegetables but even if someone somehow
proved that in sentient life-forms like
planes we're capable too so we're
causing more harm to the planet by
harvesting all the plants feeding all
those plants to the animals and killing
all the animals to get the nutrients
they got from the plants which are all
the nutrients that we needed to begin
with with all the crop land in America
alone America could be feeding 10
billion people again there's only seven
and a half billion on the planet which
means less land would be used less
plants would be harvested less violence
committed if we ate plants directly and
the plants really can suffer
how come firefighters never rescue them
and don't say it's discriminatory
because animals are the most
discriminated species on this planet
which is still a plan in place to save
them during five humans gets a first but
if it's safe to do so even if it's
unsafe to do so don't come back inside
and say the animal but even if it were
safe to do so again
no firefighter in the history of the
world has ever gone back in a third time
to save the chrysanthemum hey Bob quick
you saved the basil plant from the
kitchen I'll get the rhododendron the
second floor do you think that if I gave
lectures about cruelty of vegetables
especially root vegetables like Yang's
call my speech the Silence of the Ames
because everybody knows they yam scream
for about 30 to 45 seconds at me yank
them out of the ground before they done
that I would have been invited into 180
schools to give 2,600 lectures to 60,000
students in 30 different states and I
was just thinking about this the other
day though what do we say about fruits
and vegetables when they get old they're
ripe ready to eat or rot and what do we
say about animals when they get open
they're all
because animals are alive the exact same
place
you