The Face on your Plate, or The Case for Veganism

After 2000 years of writing about vegetarianism, is there anything new to say. Jeff Masson thinks so. Too many people say they are willing to eat meat from an animal who has led a happy life (and, they add, a gentle death). Masson looks in some depth at what it means for an animal to be happy.

This is a 10-minute excerpt from Dr. Masson's 80-minute presentation at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2007. To get a full copy of this talk on DVD, along with 11 other fascinating talks, see http://www.vegsource.com/ and click on "STORE."

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[yogiclife]

Untill we degraded the topsoil in the world (starting with, but not limited to the "green revolution" in the early 1950s) B12 actually existed in large enough quantities to be transmitted to our veggies. Now, the animals you eat get supplements too, bc, we've robbed the soil. But, no worries, you get more than B12 from meat and dairy. You will also get much deserved obbesity, cancers and heart disese, ect. PS- unless you have the facts, don't act like you know what you're talking about.

[iamlumin]

There's a huge difference between eating animals and eating plants. Anyone who uses that excuse is simply in denial. Animals eat each other but unlike us they're hard wired to do so. Surely they don't have the thought processes that humans do. If animals had thoughts processes like humans we'd scarcely be able to leave our homes given all the crap we've done to animals and their habitats. When we eat an animal or their babies it's a conscious choice. That's a big difference!

[SellTheBenefits]

*eats steak*

Yummy

[KelferMookie]

@komaster23 Prove it.

[armcurl]

This video doesn't appear to have ANYTHING to do with The Face On Your Plate - it's all about his previous book.

[guitarobsessed85]

@yogiclife We can use bacteria now to produce absorbable b12. All other B vitamins can be consumed in nutritional yeasts.

[Morethanenough1]

I kill a lot of what I eat...and look at it when I eat it...Sheeps Head Stew...yumm:)

[srgstgst]

@shikamaruXnara92 No, God doesn't "want us to eat animals". I'm very familiar with Christian arguments for and against eating animals. The very most you can claim is that God is "indifferent to" or "allows" the eating of meat. Nowhere does it say or imply that he wants us to. Otherwise I imagine eating meat would have been part of life in the Garden of Eden...

[srgstgst]

@komaster23 Making absolute claims about the existence (or lack thereof) of God is illogical, "dumbass".

[shikamaruXnara92]

@komaster23 Oh, really? Can you prove his non existence? Do you know what happens when you die and where you end up and can you prove it to me? I'm no Christian but I'm not an Atheist either!