Full Video: Killing to eat flesh, you call yourself human? || Acharya Prashant, on Veganism (2019)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFog0gKKqe4&t=0s
Video Information: Interview Session, 04.11.2019, Bengaluru, India
Context:
Why should one turn vegan?
What is the relationship between veganism and spirituality?
How veganism is related to compassion?
Why veganism is necessary for today's generation?
What is the relation between veganism and climate change?
How could veganism change the world?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFog0gKKqe4&t=0s
Video Information: Interview Session, 04.11.2019, Bengaluru, India
Context:
Why should one turn vegan?
What is the relationship between veganism and spirituality?
How veganism is related to compassion?
Why veganism is necessary for today's generation?
What is the relation between veganism and climate change?
How could veganism change the world?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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00:00 I do understand there is mountains of evidence which proves the claim.
00:07 But there have been lobbyist groups or say there have been contradictory scientific research
00:13 which now and then make headlines.
00:15 Say for example, we have been carnivore, so it was recently on the Times of India, we
00:22 have evolved as a carnivore and other adding being meat is not as unhealthy as we see.
00:32 So I mean I do understand say from past 40-50 years there have been mountains of evidences
00:39 but say now and then there are some evidences which contradict the claim.
00:44 So which make people believe that there is a kind of confusion within the scientific
00:50 community so what do you have to say on that?
00:54 40s, 50s, right into the 60s in the last century it was still being upheld that cigarette smoking
01:09 keeps you vital and active and it was a popular belief that cigarette smoking specifically
01:23 among men is a driver of masculinity as well.
01:35 When it started becoming evident that cigarette smoking has a whole range of very very harmful
01:49 effects when cancer cases started piling up.
01:58 Then the tobacco industry started sponsoring lot of so called scientific reports that would
02:12 say that there is nothing wrong with tobacco and that cigarettes are not at all harmful
02:17 for human beings and they kept up the propaganda for another 10-20 years almost till the end
02:28 of 70s.
02:33 They kept trying it till it became ridiculously impossible for them to keep pressing on with
02:45 their claims.
02:48 So why will they not do it?
02:52 Their money is at stake, greed can make man do anything, greed can make man present any
02:59 kind of pseudo scientific evidence which is nothing but blatant cheating and lying.
03:05 Most of the reports that still try to defend meat consumption are sponsored by groups having
03:15 vested interests.
03:16 Take the case of climate change as well.
03:21 That climate change is happening and there is a clear scientific basis for it was evident
03:29 not today but even 4 decades back.
03:35 But then the fossil fuel industry kept sponsoring report after report that said firstly that
03:42 there is no climate change.
03:48 Then they said, oh there probably is climate change but it does not have to do with human
03:53 activity.
03:56 Global warming they said is not anthropogenic.
04:00 Even today they come up with something or the other that would confuse the population.
04:12 That's their objective.
04:13 To not let it become certain, absolutely certain, conclusively and finally certain that climate
04:22 change is happening and man is responsible for it.
04:28 If you can instill some doubt in the mind of the compulsive cigarette smoker regarding
04:49 whether or not cigarettes are harmful, you have given him a lease of fresh hope.
04:57 He will say, you know, it is not yet quite proven that cigarettes are harmful.
05:04 So I feel licensed and entitled to continue with my cigarettes till a final proof is established.
05:15 That's the little ray of hope that the addicted and the greedy mind needs.
05:24 The issue has to be closed, sealed and stamped.
05:33 It is final that neat eating is stupid from all kinds of reasons and they will not let
05:50 that final conclusion arrive soon.
05:53 It will arrive just as it arrived in the case of cigarette smoking, just as it finally had
06:02 to be accepted by the tobacco industry that cigarette smoking is highly injurious.
06:09 Today you see on cigarette packs, not only is there a warning, but there is a gruesome
06:16 warning.
06:19 There is that terrible face, cancer struck.
06:31 It was unimaginable that the tobacco industry would agree to it four decades back.
06:37 Today they have had to agree because now there is popular scientific consensus, but they
06:43 agreed only after claiming millions of lives by spreading misinformation.
06:57 Same with climate change.
06:59 Now everybody is coming around to agree that yes, there is climate change and climate change
07:07 is due to human activity, but they are trying to delay the inevitable.
07:17 They are trying to delay that there would be ultimately a consensus.
07:21 That is also what the meat industry is trying now.
07:25 50 years back it was the tobacco industry, two decades back and still it is the fossil
07:37 fuel industry and we have the meat industry which will continue definitely with its propaganda
07:51 and lies right till the end of the next decade maybe.
08:04 They will evidently have to agree and submit, but then by that time they would have caused
08:12 just too much and probably irreversible damage.
08:19 The thing is to speeden the process.
08:24 The thing is to bring it more swiftly and more deeply into the popular consciousness
08:36 that what meat eating really is.
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