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π Itβs my personal choice to eat animal products.
π Animals taste good.
π Farmed animals can live a good life.
π Animals are killed humanely.
π Lions eat meat.
π Weβve eaten meat for thousands of years.
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π We need to eat animal products for nutrients.
π Animals are bred to be killed.
π Plants are alive too.
π Itβs cultural and traditional to eat animals.
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π Weβre top of the food chain.
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π Veganism isnβt perfect.
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TODAY'S VIDEO:
Today we go through the most frequently used arguments against vegans, including:
π Itβs my personal choice to eat animal products.
π Animals taste good.
π Farmed animals can live a good life.
π Animals are killed humanely.
π Lions eat meat.
π Weβve eaten meat for thousands of years.
π Eating animal products is legal.
π We need to eat animal products for nutrients.
π Animals are bred to be killed.
π Plants are alive too.
π Itβs cultural and traditional to eat animals.
π Weβre more intelligent than animals.
π Weβre top of the food chain.
π What about human rights?
π Veganism isnβt perfect.
π For more excuses and responses, head to earthlinged.org/ebook to download my entirely free e-book β30 Non-Vegan Excuses and How to Respond to Themβ or follow the link in my bio.
Find out more about our work at Surge Media: surgeactivism.org
CONNECT:
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The Disclosure Podcast:
ποΈ iTunes: apple.co/3853BF2
ποΈ Spotify: spoti.fi/37ZtGVS
ποΈ RSS feed: feeds.buzzsprout.com/254157.rss
My Animal Rights Organisation/Sanctuary:
π₯ Surge: surgeactivism.org
π³ Surge Animal Sanctuary: surgesanctuary.org
β‘ Unity Diner: (Non-profit Restaurant): unitydiner.co.uk
π¬ Land of Hope and Glory (UK βEarthlingsβ Documentary): landofhopeandglory.org
Huge thank you to @ryuji_chua and Karla for their amazing work at Surge Media! instagram.com/kfxanimation





![Slaughterhouse workers confess on camera | Nowhere to Run - Short Documentary
In this short Surge documentary, released on #WorldVeganDay, we meet Doug, Susana and Carl, ex-slaughterhouse workers from the UK, Mexico and New Zealand. Each share their experiences working in the business of killing animals and shine a light on an industry that exists in the shadows of society.
In 1906, the author Upton Sinclair released his novel The Jungle. The book, which became an international bestseller, is a fictionalised account of Sinclairβs experiences interviewing slaughterhouse workers and researching the conditions that they were working in.
In the novel, Sinclair describes the workers becoming so desensitised to violence that the number of brawls, rapes and murder began to rise: βThere is but scant account kept of cracked heads in back of the [stock] yards, for men who have to crack the heads of animals all day seem to get into the habit, and to practice on their friends, and even on their families, between times.β
The reality is, we expect people who spend every working day repetitively stabbing chickens, pigs, cows and lambs to hang up their bloody aprons at the end of the day and then just integrate back into normal society. Slaughtering animals is an inherently violent thing to do and the emotional burden of doing so day after day is not something that can shrugged off lightly.
A huge thank you to Doug, Susana and Carl for sharing their stories and to everyone who worked on this Surge Media production.
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Ed Winters is a best-selling author, vegan educator, public speaker and host of The Disclosure Podcast. Ed has spoken at over 1/3 of UK universities and at every Ivy league college, including as a guest lecturer and Media & Design Fellow at Harvard University. Slaughterhouse workers confess on camera | Nowhere to Run - Short Documentary](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sWyK389BJoI/mqdefault.jpg)




