 Hello everyone welcome to another video. Today's video is on a well-known youtuber slash IFBB pro bodybuilder, Coach Greg Doucette. Now Coach Greg has a very popular channel that gets a large amount of views. His channel has grown a significant amount in a very short time. He's a very direct no BS kind of guy and spends his time to bunking some myths about diet and weightlifting online. Now I personally like Greg's content and his personality. I think he's entertaining and I appreciate his bold honesty and directness. He would actually make a great animal rights activist because of these traits. The reason I'm making this video is because Greg has mentioned veganism a few times in his videos but he seems to mention it more as a diet. But I hope to encourage Greg to see the true ethical principle of veganism. Greg has a video which he made with his partner Alia Wildback which I found interesting so we're going to go through some of it together. And we're going to do an update and we're going to go over her new found diet which is called, I'll let you say it, laxo ovo vegetarian. There you go. She's vegan but not really but kind of but she doesn't eat meat and stuff and we'll explain what that means and all that. I'm not vegan. I'm still eating meat because I like it. I like chicken and stuff. She's just not going to eat it. She's vegan but not really. I think Greg knows that a vegan diet contains zero animal products. Zero. But he still references veganism as a diet. Veganism is an ethical position that rejects all forms of animal exploitation as far as is possible and practicable. So the vegan moral principle includes diet which let's face it is where most of the animal cruelty on earth takes place but includes animal use in clothing, entertainment and testing for cosmetics. I've all my life been a huge animal lover as I'm sure you all know based on our last video which was our 14 animal zoo so that's all me. Greg had none before I moved everybody in. I had zero animals. So I'm a huge animal lover and I tried to go vegan years ago when I was younger like in my teens. So it looks like his girlfriend has always considered herself an animal lover and has really started to analyze how consistent her actions are with that. Yeah this is one of my Australia purchases to help the funds from 100% of the funds from this shirt went to help Australia Wildfires. All $2. I love it. Actually the Australia Wildfires sort of started this for me. I was reading a lot about the animals who were perishing in the fires and looking at pictures and it was a nightmare and then when you actually think about the amount of animals that are killed on a daily basis for the meat market I just felt really really hypocritical. Wow so Allie has made the connection that many vegans make and she felt like a hypocrite helping certain animals with one hand while paying for the suffering and death of other animals with her other hand. Donating all this money and spending time you know stewing about these poor animals. Meanwhile I'm eating animals and we have a pig which also changed things because she's so smart and so sweet and I love her so much and I just here we go they have a little pet pig and Allie's been spending time with this animal and seeing all the traits these animals have that make them deserving of moral treatment and respect. I don't know I just I was at the point where I was like I really have to not be so hypocritical and I'm gonna make a small change and especially at the resort when you actually see the pig's face and then I'm picking the meat and the pig's face is looking at me like why are you eating me? Yeah it's just yeah it's hard because I'm hungry. So here we even see Greg has been feeling a little bit of his conscience kicking in whilst eating pigs and looking into the eyes of his companion animal. Now Greg has made many videos with their adorable pig having eating challenges and feeding the pig from his own table. Dirt don't look at dad get your paw for him. Don't get distracted by love. So Gertie are we gonna go work this off in the treadmill now? Yeah this is 140 calories. Yeah I know you'll eat it. He's even made this Instagram post where he educated his fans on the intelligence of pigs claiming they're actually smarter than many of us. I'm also fairly sure that Greg has stopped eating pork products because of Gertie the pig but I could be wrong. I hope by this video we can help Greg make the connection to the other species of animals that are abused and killed for his other lifestyle choices. I mean if you wouldn't eat a pig why on earth would you eat a cow, fish or chicken? So I just felt like I wasn't comfortable with that so I was gonna make this decision to change. Now I am starting with lacto ovo which means you can still consume dairy and eggs so I'll still eat my french toast. Okay so Ali has decided to take a step at eliminating some animal products but is including eggs and dairy so I thought I'd take a moment to talk about these industries. After semen is taken from a bull dairy cows are then forcibly impregnated in order for them to begin milk production. A fist is inserted into the anus of the cow to hold the cervix and a perpetual of semen is injected into the cow. Cows like humans have a nine month pregnancy and these calves are stolen from them immediately after birth. This is a very distressing process for these maternal animals. The males in Canada will generally be raised and killed for vile which is baby cow flesh. The female cows will go on to be milking slaves and they too will be forcibly impregnated, have their babies stolen, be exploited for milk and will then be slaughtered for beef. The egg industry is another horror story for animals whether it be free range, organic or backyard all fertilized eggs generally are sourced from the same place. A cruel parent breeding shed. The eggs will go on to a hatchery where they'll be sorted by sex. The males will be destroyed via maceration, gassing or suffocation. The females will go on to be egg laying slaves and will be slaughtered at around 18 months old when the egg production declines. These birds have been bred to produce around 300 eggs a year which is 30 times more than natural. This puts an enormous strain on their little bodies. They suffer so much just so humans can eat what drops out of their behind. And you're eating fish. Yeah I'm seeing you eating tuna already. I think I'm gonna yeah I think I'm gonna eat um a little bit of fish that will probably cut that out at some point sooner than the eggs. Why do you care about fish? It's not a pig. What if fish is a swim? It's all breathing, living, they have moms it's just uh. Okay so let's all remember this video was filmed a while ago February 4th this year so I don't know how many changes Ali has made since but here coach Greg says why would you care about a fish? Why do you care about fish? And Ali has a decent response but let's just for Greg add some detail as to why eating fish is cruel and should be avoided. As quoted from this fish intelligence sentience and ethics study from 2015 fish have very good memories living complex social communities and can learn from one another. A process that leads to the development of stable cultural traditions. They can recognize themselves and others. Fish are capable of tool use and use the same methods for keeping track of quantities as we do. When comparing their behavior to primates one finds very few differences. Fish have been proven in many studies to experience pain in a similar way to mammals so to tear them out the ocean by their face and suffocate them to death can only be described as cruel and abusive. So anyways um I thought it would be easier for me to start with lacto ovo with some fish um as opposed to just going full out vegan because the fact is which is a huge factor is that I have Crohn's disease and I don't like vegetables um nor do they nor do they work for my system. Should I eat fruit though? Bananas and blueberries a lot. Yeah most fruits I'm okay with citrus fruits I can be a little bit difficult for me to digest but um so I thought I'd start off with what would be more manageable for me to try to make some recipes that I would enjoy that included vegetables which I hate and my system hates. So I'm going to start slow see how it goes and then I'll assess later. Okay so Allie is taking smaller steps because she has Crohn's disease and I'm not about to give Allie medical advice on a health condition I'm not qualified to talk about but I do recommend getting in touch with the team at McDougal as they have had success with elimination diets and designing plant-based plans for Crohn's patients. I'm going to stick to like your like the things that you use to cook with I'm just going to adapt them to be meatless so veggie fried rice uh lentil veggie soup can we put egg whites in the veggie fried rice yeah yeah yeah egg whites are going in there for sure protein yeah I already said that anabolic eggs are going in that's gonna be that's gonna be the protein in there uh lentil veggie soup so Allie is trying her best to adapt to their normal eating pattern while avoiding certain animal foods. We've used the veggie pasta sauce and I can put it over my hamburger and yeah and we can get the tvp because that or like a like a sauerkraut texturized vegetable protein I used to eat it as chips when I was a kid and then or like put like a very high fiber high protein now Craig seems to know his stuff when it comes to nutrition so he's familiar with which foods contain protein fiber and certain nutrients and he stated in many videos that he's not against veganism and that you don't need meat or animal products to be healthy you don't need to eat meat if you don't want to you don't need to Bertie literally lives on salad I literally also live on salad so Greg the question becomes if you can live without causing the needless suffering and harm of animals why wouldn't you and then I'm gonna do tofu quesadillas so I'm gonna like slice up tofu and like fry it like you would like if you're making like if it's like beef strips or something I can eat all that yeah yeah I'm not against veganism I'm not against eating vegan foods I just like meat too much to just do it myself that's all okay Greg you say you like meat and you like the taste but I guess you need to ask yourself whether your taste preference for a 15 minute meal outweighs the lives of these animals I mean I'm guessing you wouldn't approve of the way pigs are predominantly raised in factory farms and killed in gas chambers so why would you accept cruel treatment of other animals you know they can suffer you know they're intelligent and want to live so why would you knowingly cause them suffering and harm when you can live vegan I know one of Greg's favorite meals is french toast and he uses egg whites for this but now knowing how cruel the egg industry is I would recommend you try follow your heart vegan egg for this recipe it's one of my favorite egg alternatives in Canada have many plant-based alternatives to try I saw this taste test video of Beyond Meat and his review was disappointing to say the least just from a visual it looks like something that a vegetarian would eat I feel bad for you vegans out there I mean why would you choose this life this is not real life this is not fun well Greg we choose this life because it's more ethical and because we feel bad for the animals out there anyway let's see what it tastes like so does it taste like meat a little bit can I tell the difference yeah it doesn't taste as good for sure will I ever buy it again zero percent chance will I put it on clients diet plans zero percent chance do I even want to finish it no of course it's going to taste different to what you used to I love Beyond Meat but when you've been eating blood and flesh burgers for years it's going to take some time to adjust I guess the willingness to adjust depends on how motivated you are by what's happening to the animals I'm going to eat instead for my last meal real chicken for real dieters some real other kinds of chicken or some real other kinds of chicken so instead of plant-based meat you'd rather choose to be cruel and cause the suffering and murder of birds who are treated like nothing and savagely killed in a murder factory no thanks I'd rather find alternatives that I like and that respect the lives of animals see so couples can eat on different diets and it works you can be vegetarian I coach a lot of people and they're like my husband or wife is vegan and I'm not and they find a way often they just share meals and they need their protein and secret they don't tell the wife that they're not actually following the way they do it in secret I keep the secrets I won't tell them well I mean your choice is your choice it shouldn't affect like if when he's dieting for shows I still eat my regular food I still do whatever it's his choice it shouldn't mean that I have to suffer well Ali there is someone who's suffering on the other end of these choices and it's the sentient animals who are exploited and murdered for an unjustifiable reason and yeah Greg you could keep these cruel choices secret from others but once you become aware of what happens to animals it's on you to act in alignment with your morals at that point so coach Greg and Ali seem like a nice couple and Ali seems to be on her way to living a lifestyle that does not fund the horrific and cruel treatment of animals but Greg still needs to work harder than last time harder harder than last time with making the connection to other animals but he has many animals living at home with him and he seems to be a good parent to them and I'm almost certain that Greg would hate to see any harm come to them so maybe Greg you could stop being hypocritical when it comes to animal rights and extend that basic level of consideration to the animals that are abused for you it's time for Greg to start to see things from the victim's perspective the animals that are forcibly bred and murdered in a slaughter house against their will for your lifestyle choices have never done anything wrong to deserve it in the words of my mentor Gary Rofsky these creatures have never harmed you or violated you in any way shape or form the least we can do is return the favor I hope this video reaches Greg and Ali in good faith if you guys want to reach out to me and discuss any of the points I made in this video my email is in the description below I'd be happy to help you in any way I can the vegan cyclist was curling bananas and shoulder-pressing bananas and deadlifting bananas in prep for this so I know he's ready okay so thanks for tuning in everyone and I'll see you in the next video peace so so Gertie's getting all floor gang before we start the popcorn eating challenge