Is the same if you chosen to be vegan, taking away their own foods

HaveGotToGitGud yes it does, when bacteria survive the antibiotic they become resistant and pass that resistance to offspring. The more we use them, the greater the chance of bacteria becoming resistant

Usa, EU, China and others have already limited the use of antibiotics for the factory farms, so you're not right. The resistance may be spread more by metals through co-selection, but they are used in agricolture as well, for their antimicrobic activity. So no actual benefit in changing diet to avoid superbacteria emergency

doesn't just "increase the risk" of environmental disaster. right now the sixth mass extinction is occurring, primarily driven by mass animal agriculture.

I saw a clip of this on TikTok and someone tried to argue against it by saying that these animals are fed antibiotics. So I had to inform them about the increased risk of antibiotic resistance due to these animals being fed antibiotics in factory farms.

Keep trying man. One day it'll sink in.

Please continue.

I wrote to Matt Hancock a couple of years ago suggesting meat free day on H of C restaurants. Didn't get a reply. I became vegan nearly three years ago when I saw the environmental impact. This reason never occured to me.

right. Industrial farming, has a remarkable efficiency. One semi truck has LESS energy impact than 30 small trucks delivery to local market. So the real elephant in the room is US. capitalism in a world of 10 billion people may have to adapt and so will we. blame the farmers. or become one.

It makes too much profit to stop it. 👎

😥

An animal killed in a stressful & frightened state produces high levels of POISONOUS cortisal!!!☝️☝️☝️🔥 Eating That meat is super bad for you.☝️😎

It's really good they shed tears for others it is Godly qualities,saintly qualities seen in few humans.Plz tell them this is the age of KALIYUG ( timeframe- 550000 earth yrs, and it has just started 5125 yrs ago.....humanity and animals have a long way to go ....best way is go veg ,think about God...and this phase on earth shall also pass to the golden age called SATYUGA.

@@rexluminus9867 At 9 I saw my pet bull hit in the head with a hammer when I walked in the barn one day. I was in shock and had a headache for 3 days. I used to talk to him very often by the fence on the farm and he like it I could tell. I was lonely and had no friends so I was so happy to have him as a friend. I told my mother I would not eat his meat !!!... They were given some. I will never forget that bull, I forgot to name him. He wasn't that big I thought why would they kill him. What a shock for a 9 years old.

@@rexluminus9867 btw it tastes worse and the texture gets hard aswell becase of stress. if you eat the meat of a farm you will notice the meat is better

Well done!

Yes!!! I can definitely relate to what you are saying. Thank you for being so transparent.

I think every vegan says that their only regret is that it took them so long. I know I do.

@@juliewake4585 but you don´t have free will!

@@simonlennartz1556 ok then.

Exactly!!

Absolutely, future generations will be horrified by what we've been doing to animals x

We already do despair haha

Assuming society doesn't crash, which is more likely than continuous progress. Whether by natural means or self inflicted we will become extinct.

Yep they'll despair and insult us badly.

He's one of my absolute favorites and as soon as I get my health in order I'll be trying to go vegan because of him

@@higgy8030 you got this luv!

It’s part of The Great Reset agenda. Lab grown meat will soon be your only choice “YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY.” THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM This is propaganda by one of their shills

@@mark-yj5sg am I crazy to eat lab grown meat?

@@ajax1472 I have many grave concerns on science playing god and am genuinely sceptical of the Frankenstein food that vegans seem to be championing. Genetically modified veg, lab grown meat! Patented life, Globalist corporations that take nature and play god to make a profit. DO YOU THINK THE MEDDLING STOPS WITH FOOD? Trans humanism is what they have waiting for you. They are openly saying this in Davos. This is the Great Reset in motion. “YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY” THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Amen to that! I love being vegan 💕

This is too true✨

So moral high ground became idea of whipping out major portion of vertebrate species. Interesting...

@@jacks2222 Youre lying to yourself

@Kenura Medagedara Many would become extinct and population of other species would become significantly less.

Han Hume dharam ke raste me chla n Chahiye.jaise ki hmare dharam me satvik khana khane ko kha gya hai.and satvik khana khane se kabhi virus Ka host change nhi hoga jnha tak hai.

We often like to point to the things out of our control to complain about. So that we dont have to do anything about it.

That's the only way Alex knows

❤️ ❤️

That's our Alex 😁💯💯

Since 2009, I went through a slow process of finally becoming vegan in 2016. If you need any advice about nutrition, just ask. I've gone through various deficiencies since, and I seem to have finally conquered all of them. Magnesium is a very important one, but calcium just as well, so your teeth don't deteriorate.

@@silvergreylion I just eat pears for magnesium

@@patricksarama4963 Prickly pears?

@@patricksarama4963 do you happen to know how much magnesium is in an average size pear, say Bartlett, for common reference.

@@silvergreylion Do you haveany idea what to do if you seem to have a lower than standard tolerance to Magnesium? I take a standard daily recommended dose from a reputable supplement company Non-GMO/ Vegan capsules @ 500 mg's 1x daily & the side effects are... uncomfortable. I was told by an M.D. to up it but it got worse. Plus excess can lead to heart palpitations. Need the muscle support but rather get it from food. Any advice welcome. Thanks!

He is! Thank you for using your platform to promote veganism and animal rights as well, Stefania!

Absolutely, his way with words and ability to explain complicated subjects in such a simple way is nothing but impressive. Every activist should strive to communicate like him... Well, I'm trying my best to do it!

Who are you?

You got that right!

A legend calling another legend out for being a legend I hope Alex´s story is taught on history books as we learn of other philosophers

That's really sad, glad to hear that she's probably doing fine though. I can't imagine selling my pet, it's like parting with a family member.

@@ikindoflikemangoes4951 It really is like that, ill add that if she passed away she most likely did from old age, as she was pretty old.

You do know in the real world that animal would have been ripped limb from limb and eaten alive instead of instantly killing it? I dont understand how this is a moral issue at all its either let them roam free and die a horrible cruel death or let them live comfy lives for a couple years with people that tend to thier needs and food then for thier sake kill them as fast and painless as possible so they dont even know they are going to die

@@wptd2689 it's not just about their deaths, they are forced to leave their children which is hard on both mother and child, and from what i know life there isn't ''comfy'' as you describe it. I do respect your opinion and i agree somewhat, but i'd much rather have them die of natural causes and not gutted or battered in the head, and cows also would protect each other if they are in herd, so being eaten alive is highly unlikely.

@@wptd2689 first of all really a tiny not representable percentage amount of animals can live the lives you picture on farms and even there it's far off a painless live, most of them are sent to a slaughterhouse with all the other animals, I've been at many vigils where you can see the trucks rolling in, with animals full of fear and sadness in their eyes. Second there are alternatives to farms that make money out of animals, they are called sanctuaries, so it's also not as binary as you picture it. True there won't have endless capacity, but if we stopp exploiting animals the breeding numbers will go down and so the total number of exploited animals. Third Humans don't have to eat animal products to stay healthy, there are so many other options, that are also way more environmentally friendly. In case you don't live in places where animal products are obligatory to stay alive and healthy I see no good reason to take everything away from a living being just so I can eat a bacon sandwicht.

tedx isn't very high a level tbh

@@prelogue6348 Higher level than you or I will ever achieve, so…

almost anybody can do TedX. Alex is a very good debater and he presents his ideas well.

@@prelogue6348 He is high level with some stuff, and not so high level with others, like many other people are. I loved this video, but I find it shocking that he still talks about religion, as that is the most boring topic I could think of in 2021.

@@julius43461 It's not boring until we get rid of it :/

Just isn’t true is it

More vegan restaurants! Loving hut is a pick your own menu international franchise

@Kacper Tomasik It really isn't true though. It might be possible to convince some people to go vegan, but not everyone. Only 2.7% of the global population is vegan and I would seriously doubt even a slim majority would give up eating or otherwise utilizing any and all animal products. Humans have evolved as omnivores and we've been eating meat for millions of years. It's genetically hardwired. Meat substitutes aren't bad, but they can never seem to get it spot on in terms of imitating the taste and texture of the real deal. Plus there are nutrition concerns when it comes to a purely vegan diet. Any vegan should probably be taking supplemental vitamin B12, for example. I see all the ethical and human health issues surrounding the farming industry, but I personally can't give up eating meat. I'm too addicted to the taste of steak and chicken. However, as cultured meat starts to get closer to price parity with traditional meat, I'd gladly make the switch. In my humble opinion this, in concert with meat alternatives is the most promising route to reducing the suffering of livestock and poultry in the 21st century.

​@@ElAteoMexicano "Plus there are nutrition concerns when it comes to a purely vegan diet." No there aren't. This is a myth. There is absolutely no nutrient that you cannot get from plants or microbes. B12 and Omega-3 you can get from algae. D3 you can get from the sun. etc, etc... Can also just take a vitamin if you're concerned. I mean think about it, where would those animals have gotten those nutrients in the first place? Worst-case scenario we can make these compounds synthetically, but fortunately they are also able to be sourced via plants or microbes. "but I personally can't give up eating meat". You CAN you just don't WANT to because you value PLEASURE over MORALITY. Source: I used to eat cheese every day before I was vegan. It was my favourite food. Once I realized what was happening and internalized it (a difficult thing to do on your own) I stopped immediately. That moment I completely stopped. I have never once eaten cheese since. You CAN. It's a question of whether you will choose to. You always have a choice to do the right thing. "Humans have evolved as omnivores and we've been eating meat for millions of years." Actually most prehistoric humans were vegetarian. Look it up. I think that most of the "hard-wiring" comes from growing up eating meat under the guidance of one's parents. Vegan parents usually have vegan kids. Source: my mom is vegetarian, both me and my brother grew up vegetarian. I independently became vegan when I was 25 (I am embarrassed that it didn't happen sooner).

Absolutely true. Sadly, most people are too self-centred and self-deluded to do so. Their pleasure is more important to them than morality. They would rather torture others than eat something else. Lab-grown meat will help this a lot, and better meat alternatives like the beyond burger have been helping too. But eventually we will need to make laws around animal rights, just as we already do around the rights of dogs.

Look up Earthling Ed if you want some more of those convincing arguments.

As Heiner Tortmann said, Earthling Ed is amazing. He is like a modern-day Socrates. Would definitely recommend his channel!

What separates him from others for you?

@@tantefrusciante And Seb Alex.

@Kevin Qwen- for anyone who continues to live in denial Earthlings, which is available on KZfaq

Hah, I was thinking the same thing :)

Who is that?

@@Ebu26 the guy said he will watch it.

@@dozo51 I don’t understand who you’re talking about

@@Ebu26 Alex made a video in which he went on Omegle and spoke to people about veganism. One of the people he spoke to said that he likes Ted talks and Alex said he'd be presenting a Ted talk soon (the video we are commenting under), the guy said he'd watch it. Now that it's been released I (and others) are wondering whether the guy from the Omegle video has, in fact, watched Alex's Ted talk

You could be the one to put subtitles on the video, I'm sure you would get alex's support 🙌

Or use fiverr to hire a good affordable translator

I agree with Alex here, and I've been watching him a lot lately the past few months, and I think veganism is a brilliant solution put to us for consideration before global predicaments exacerbate rendering more atrocities. But, let's assume that globally worldwide, 8 billion people individually each and every one of them was entirely vegan with veganistic moral attitudes and virtues, how would we tackle the issue of heightened overpopulation of animals?

@@jeannedarc7533 as more and more people go vegan, the demand for animal products will decrease, and fewer factory farms will be profitable, and the industry will evaporate - along with any problem of "overpopulation" of animals.

@@veganjess94062 So the rapid and drastic increase of animals particularly stray animals will occultly be rendered obsolete by a sorcerer? Still, that isn't a pragmatic solution if you ask me. Additionally, human beings are animals, and are on the top of the food chain, that means we unironically have the right to feed upon other animal kingdoms in the phylum, how about you ponder the fact that there are "predatory mammals" by nature, and that we are also mammals?

​@@veganjess94062 Albeit the pain you feel prior to your death will be utterly intolerable, you'll become entirely unconscious after death, you'll not have to bear the repercussions of the anguish, pain, misery, and suffering in the grave, I believe this is an actual and sensible solution in retrospect.

As much as I agree with Alex O'Connor's views on religion and morality, I second everything he says about veganism too, but he just abolishes and subsides the fact that animals have the ability to increase immeasurably in numbers, I don't have enmity or despise Alex, I just need a genuine solution to the upcoming increase in animals if more societies were to cultivate veganism and adopt humane values for animals.

Tedx isn't exactly a ted talk

@@nriab23 yes very important to note. Any nut can get a tedx talk

@Nyle Haywood Same reason as you.

@Nyle Haywood I’m not trying to say Alex is a nut. I thought this was very good. It should be noted though that he is biased on the subject and that Ted doesn’t actually endorse tedx videos. As to “any nut”, these are put on by all kinds of different organizations. Check out Graham Hancock’s Tedx and see if there is a problem with the Ted name being associated with him. It lends him credibility that he shouldn’t have.

@@spencerbrooks5203 How is he biased on the subject? He used to eat meat.

That's not a beard. Yet... maybe in a few years :)) I'm a fan, I'm saying it as friendly banter

@@costinilie8178 Define beard

Can you tell me why? 😅 I am not watching this video yet.

@@naisa9705 because he looks so serious and professional! :D at least that's what I thought

@@LeneChibi thanks :))

it would take hundreds of years to change the human demands and consumption. This is a ridiculous talk.

@@grammyyelog it really wouldn’t, all it takes is a little education and people will change their diets in a heartbeat.

@@grammyyelog Social paradigm shifts don't happen overnight. Maybe it will take a couple of hundred years to reach a vegan world - and?

@@grammyyelog Take responsibility for yourself. Dont worry about anyone else, or blame the fact that it isn’t worth it on not doing anything.

​@Raphael G social injustice is not the same as inter-species concerns. all these animals we eat have been molded to what they appear now. they wont be back to their natural state. And if you are concerned about animals, then you should be concerned about the plants too, so you only wait for the fruits to drop off before harvesting them. maybe you should fight for the flora too. For me, im going to build a meat-processing industry.

I've eaten a lot of salad and chips when travelling through Europe.

MORE & MORE places are offereing Vegan meals, I have now travelled to 45 countries and all have plant based foods , at least in the cities and big towns

@@christopherphillips8063 you also need to travel less

@@janvanderwesthuizen8661 IT also depends on HOW you travel. Where ever possible I travel by foot, cycle, bus, boat & train.

Yes definitely

yes and no

Indeed! Anyone daring to talk about what no one cares, definitely deserves to be followed.

honest but not fully informed.. definitely good to have different view points to ponder. Hopefully everyone keeps an open mind..

@@007travelbug not well informed? Did you even watch the sources at the end of the video???

Always.

Not there yet, but he's the only guy to make the wheels turn in my head about it.

Mine as well. His video when he was still a meat eater is the reason why I stopped considering veganism a crazy act to consider it a moral one.

@@ISignedUpJustToBitch You can do it! I’d say the first month as you adjust is the hardest but then you get used to it and feel SO much mentally and physically better

Him, and Earthling Ed 🌱

I cringed so hard during his pre-vegan discussions on veganism. So glad he came to his senses. Now I hope he’ll finally also gives up his position on determinism and the logical nonsense that follows from it.

only hidden to those with their eyes closed...we need to support REGENERATIVE farming now!

Very little for me? You mean giving up some of the most delicious food on the planet??

@@TheBlaze4000 compared to the suffering that's spared when chosing not to consume animal products, a few tasty things don't mean as much, wouldn't you agree? Because i think that's a fair assessment.

Are you saying it's a moral wrong?

@@TheBlaze4000 your right and eatting meat is completely natural for us as humans and primates. Alex might get a guilt trip from it and that his choice not to eat it. but he has no right to try and mandate what other do.

Going vegan actually means very much for a lot of people. The diet is unhealthy for many people because we don’t get all the nutrients we need from a vegan diet and it isn’t practical for most of the human population. I’m all for ethical farming, but going vegan isn’t going to end animal suffering despite how Alex makes it seem.

People also forget the scramble to slaughter livestock w/ Mad Cow disease. The fear wasn't just that valuable food animals would be ruined, there was serious concern that Mad Cow would make the jump to humans. That's also why mink were slaughtered in the millions last year. As Alex suggests, pandemics are like wildfires and climate change, habitat destruction and concentrated masses of animal monocultures are tender boxes more likely to bring deadly viral "fires" to our doorsteps.

It’s part of The Great Reset agenda. Lab grown meat will soon be your only choice “YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY.” THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM This is propaganda by one of their shills

@@mark-yj5sg "they" can already control meat production, since most of it is part of large economic machine. If we really want to be out of reach from this greedy men, we should produce our own meat, grow our own food and encourage non-electronic money transactions. From biotechnological view point, lab grown meat is about efficiency of meat production. I sincerely hope we can manage to organise our lives in such a way, that those greedy degenerates from Davos can't touch us. We can only overwhelm "them" with our positive actions, there is no other way to fight "them".

I wasn't vegan before hearing his arguments. I was vegan shortly after!

I'm vegetarian, and am going to start cutting out dairy products now, too!

I was vegan beforehand too, then I went double vegan

I was vegan watching Alex become vegan like yesss.. YESSS... mwahaha

@@electroman224 good for you pal :) it did wonders for my health, make sure to find another good source of calcium tho. Also imo Ben and Jerry's makes the best dairy free ice cream although generic target brand has some banger flavors too

Every- body think that "vege- tarian" is not "vegan", but it is. B'cause a vegeta- ble, isn't a fish, or an egg, or an dairy pro- duct. A ve- geta- ble is a plant. Cor- rect me if I am wrong.

. Ps. Strive to be your best you, that's good enough. B'cause nobody can be perfect. .

Creatures have a voice, but the people that hurt them, they don't care. They aren't really listening to emotionals of o- ther living beings.

So many of us feel the same about him

In our little societies, we care more about the comfort of our own than the torture and punishment of others.

Maybe because I don’t really care

@@Lumalee you don’t care if the world is affected by a pandemic and so many people die? Good for you.

Angela Vasiliu not what I said.

@@Lumalee People like you. Huh.

There are also plenty who care about animal suffering but are pretending to themselves that their food comes from happy animals who just want to give up their lives to satisfy the hedonistic desires of humans.

Brilliant talk but one point was missed. Industrial farming and fishing is destroying the planet. Deforestation and obliteration of ocean ecologies contribute to climate change and the already unfolding mass extinction may well kick the Permian 'great dying' off of its top ranking spot for global apocalypses.

@@philwilson609 We need this TED Talk, too. Will you do it?

Hi! May I ask you if you take vitamin B12 supplements? Thank you!

Let me describe some of the horrible suffering of babies...

@@jannrhoads6930 ???

I live out in the forest at 7000ft. We watch the birds and chipmunks play all the time. The squirrels and raccoons, rabbits, snakes and coyotes. The populations of certain species drop precipitously as the summer goes by. Nature is cruel.

@@IWantMyCountryBack2 and soon nature will have its way with us and we will be decomposed back into the earth. So why is killing humans wrong? Because they don’t want to die. And neither do cows, chickens, pigs, and every other animal on this planet.

My friend, that’s an entire philosophical discussion that is not worth even mentioning on an online format, but I will say this: If you can’t differentiate between killing an animal and killing a human, then there is something that you may need to rethink.

Inconveniet compared to what? That is the important question. Covid is pretty inconvenient, as was SARS, swine/bird-flu, AIDS etc. Once people actually give it a try, Veganism isnt so far-fetched, and for every person that transitions the inconvenience decreases. There's no easy way of arguing that point either, basic supply and demand.

@@ottosvardstrom1602 inconvenience due to change in lifestyle. Nobody likes change. Particularly when that change means not doing something that provides dopamine. The benefits of veganism are obvious.. but try making a smoker go cold turkey

@@kkall8477 Cold turkey is not the only option first off all. And there are plenty alternatives that are relatively close to the products that come from this industry. So dopamine is a weak argument, as dopaminergic responses can come from basically anything. Including vegan mock meats. I did it, I went from a regular diet to veganism 3 years ago, it took some time to get over the cravings etc. but its a small sacrifice compared to the benefit for health, environment and the ethics. Once you really give it some time you’ll probably find yourself wondering how you could every put that on you plate, thats what happened to me anyways. Everything is a process, this included. And it doesn’t have to be self-torture.. Without getting to deep into it, Id like to think people are just lazy and comfortable. Its a shame that everyone has to suffer for it, unlike smoking that at worst has the people in your direct surroundings affected. Cheers

@@ottosvardstrom1602 I completely agree. Lazy and comfortable. Easy to cook

@@kkall8477 I quit smoking an year ago. And now I'm frightened to the core of people smoking again in front of me and me getting a relapse.

Wow. Thank you for sharing that. Maybe you will make important contributions to the dialog for animal welfare. I wish you well.

I'm sorry; proud of you for trying 💕

Of course they react that way. What did you expect? That is their entire livelihood!

I can well imagine that this would have been seriously confronting for them.

@@robsengahay5614 no we walk KZfaq on our tv together and I played the video

You just don't think far enough to contemplate why we ought to not hurt animals for our benefetial. In my opinion, the ethics of eating meat isn't more trivial that the very fundamentals of a moral system.

@@tiago9617 what?

Why we ought not to eat animals? Is what I'm asking to you. Is it because is morally incorrect and if is why? How to define morally incorrect?

@@tiago9617 Well that depends on how you ground your morality in general. But if you agree that it's immoral to torture a dog for no reason you have to explain why killing and/or torturing animals for the pleasure of taste is any different. I'm sure you would be horrified to watch your neighbor kill cats and his justification would be 'I just love the sound of it'... Why is the sense of 'taste' and different'?

Simple decency and ethics really? I suppose that EVERY vegan would be anti-abortion in this case, because my impression is most of the vegans are pro-choice. Oh what is it? Oh that's different? Here we go into the subjectivity of the whole discussion. Stop crying about ethics and morality when your own hypocrisy can be easily exposed vegans.

Thank you :)

I became vegan, because I empathized so much with insects and tried the most to not hurt them!

That’s why I use snap traps. Quick and humane

@@TheBlacksheepbabe What does humane mean?

Or you could have gotten a cat

It's really not difficult.

he has a channel called cosmicskeptic

@@christianakrouche2216 and a podcast called the Cosmic Skeptic podcast! ;)

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