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Hi it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome[br]to another vegan nugget. Today’s video is

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another installment of my interview with vegan[br]activist Gary Yourofsky. Now, if you’re vegan

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or even considering being vegan, chances are[br]you’ve come up against some anti-vegan

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arguments. Perhaps you’ve even[br]posed some of them yourself in the time leading

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up to being vegan. While legitimate questions[br]and concerns from non-vegans can serve as

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teaching moments and are valuable opportunities[br]for education, some anti-vegan arguments are

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purely baseless and made only to provoke.[br]In his vast experience working with non-vegans,

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Gary Yourofsky has probably heard every line[br]of reasoning in the book. So, I decided to

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ask him what is the best anti-vegan argument.[br]Let’s check out his answer and then I’ll

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jump back in with what I think is the strongest[br]argument against veganism.

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Emily: So you would know more than anyone[br]else that there are a lot of stupid arguments

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against veganism. What would you say is the[br]best argument against veganism, if there is

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one?[br]Gary: There’s not, honestly. I swear I racked

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my brain over this, there is none. In fact[br]I had a professor down here, from university

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of central Florida, who once told me the only[br]reason he became veg is because all the arguments

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he heard against it were stupid. That was[br]his reason. He was a philosopher, he said:

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“I cannot continue to do this because[br]everyone’s reason for eating meat, cheese,

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milk, eggs and honey is absolutely fucking[br]stupid” I really don’t know of one good,

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logical argument. It doesn’t exist. But[br]do¬n’t think that I’m exaggerating or being

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hyperbolic when I say this, because there[br]is not one good argument for raping a child.

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There is not one good argument for murdering[br]a homosexual in Uganda. There is none justifiable

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argument for denying women the right to be[br]quality in Afghanistan, to right to go to

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school, the right to vote in Middle Eastern[br]countries. So there is not one logical reason

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to enslave, murder and oppress the animals[br]and consume their body parts.

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Emily: I hope you enjoyed hearing Gary’s[br]take on this matter. I have to say that my thinking

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is rather in line with what Gary shared. In[br]my recent interview with the popular blog

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Vegan Street, when asked what I thought was[br]the biggest strength of the vegan movement,

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I said it was that we have the truth on our[br]side. There’s no way to logically justify

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what we do to animals for our food, fashion,[br]medicine, and entertainment. All the facts

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and all the legitimate arguments are on our[br]side. This is reflected in the absurdity that

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often arises when people try to justify their[br]behaviors.

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You can read my answers to the other 9 questions[br]in the interview on the Vegan Street blog,

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which I’ve linked to in the video description[br]below.

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Now all of that said, I do have to admit there[br]is one argument someone can lay down for eating

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animal products that I have absolutely no[br]defense against. And that is the statement

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“I don’t care.” If someone simply does[br]not care what happens to the animals, the environment,

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or even their own health by the continued[br]breeding, torturing, exploitation and slaughter

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of billions of animals, I certainly can’t[br]say anything that's going to change that. Complete

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and utter apathy cannot be argued away.

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Now of course it’s not an actual defeat[br]of vegan principles. As Gary and I have said,

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veganism has logic on our side. All the arguments[br]against it are shell games, admittedly by some

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honestly curious, well-intentioned individuals[br]genuinely wanting to know if this way of life

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is possible. And for those people, I will[br]always have time and patience

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Now I’d love to hear from you on this. Have[br]you ever come up against a formidable argument

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against veganism? Perhaps you have one yourself?[br]I’d love to hear it. …Unless it’s “bacon.”

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That’s a word, not an argument. But[br]someone’s going to post it anyways.

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Oh YouTube's comments section, you are [br]the bathroom wall of the internet.

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Anyways, let’s go close it out with Gary!

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Gary I just want to thank you so much for[br]giving us your time and I've been asked on

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behalf of so many of my viewers to just thank[br]you for everything that you do. So, thank

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you so much.[br]Gary: Thank you. Keep on. Everybody, pass

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her stuff around. It's tight stuff, honestly.[br]BiteSizeVegan.com- share it!

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Stay tuned to the Bite Size Vegan channel[br]for more installments of my interview with

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Gary. I’ll also be posting bonus footage[br]and questions that didn’t make it to the

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I thought you were gonna ask me what the dumbest[br]was.

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10 Questions: Vegan Rockstar Edition with[br]Emily Moran Barwick of Bite Size Vegan