Comments from Students and Supporters, 2011
As of 2008 we have presented comments and accolades from many of the students to whom Gary has lectured from September 2002 to the present. As of 2011 we have added comments submitted by people who have watched Gary's presentations online. To protect the privacy of all commentators, these comments have been posted anonymously. To read comments submitted during a particular month, just click on the month name from the list below. The "Back to List" link at the bottom of the page will return you to this list. You can also follow through each of the sections in order by clicking the "Next Section" link at the bottom of the page.
Comments from Students and Supporters, December 2011
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Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:06 PM
I would like to thank you for walking the walk for the animals. I am still learning much about the cruelty that animals go through. I received a link of your speech from a friend. I had no idea what was going on. I must tell you you have inspired me to work toward being a vegan some day. It is going to take time to learn a new way of life. Thank you for inspiring me to change my lifestyle.
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Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:38 AM
I'm 26 from Argentina and just saw your video. I think you are amazing man. Guys like you make the world a better place to live. You just turned one other clueless guy to veganism and I couldn't thank you more. I love animals and hate people who hurt them in any way. Thank you for showing me the truth.
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Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:14 AM
It's December 30, 2011, here on the Big Island, Hawaii. On November 4 I watched your Georgia Tech lecture. Damn, it feels good to be free of animal products. Thank you for this inspiring video, and thank you for giving me back my humanity. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 4:17 PM
I came back from a visit with my doctor today, and I was caught off guard by a new program my insurance has started. The usual physical routine was discarded and instead I found my doctor recommending exercise and a vegan diet to fight my family history of heart disease. It is my insurance through the ERC Health Select program. We do it with Anthem. It's a consolidate of small companies to get cheaper health care through what I see as info collecting, but ultimately altering diet and exercise patterns to alleviate the strain of medical bills on worker, employer, and provider. Gives a small guy a chance to give good benefits to his workers. This brought me home to research a transitional diet where I could play with recipes at home slowly eliminating meats, etc. I discovered your lecture and watched the Q&A afterwords. Shopping day will never be the same. I found the images of the horns being cut off so unnecessarily violent and cruel it made me tear up. Not just those of course but I guess we all have our breaking points. Just thought I would let you know that I am going to spread this around a little, and it makes a huge difference. Thank you. Keep up the fight. I think your energy level in the video speaks volumes for the lifestyle itself.
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 2:25 PM
Thank you for everything you do. You have a way with words. Since i become a vegan, I convinced my mom, my cousin and my boyfriend to be vegan thanks to your videos!
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 11:40 AM
I just heard your speech on cruelty to animals by the milk, cheese, meat industries. I'll be a vegan. God bless you.
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:33 PM
I came across your youtube video today and wanted to thank you for all you do regarding animal rights and putting the truth out there even though people don't want to know the truth. I was vegan for about a year and gradually became pescatarian. After watching your video, I decided to be vegan again. Thank you for reminding me about the reality of the horrific animal abuse! Keep up the good work, you rock.
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:30 PM
It's been almost a year since we initially contacted you. Just a short note to let you know that we are still vegan. January 26 will be one year for us. My son and his girlfriend will be joining us too in the new year. You are truly an inspiration! I still recommend your video to everyone all the time.
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:07 AM
I just wanted to thank you for changing my life. I used to be a daily meat consumer, and was such a big carnivore my friends coined me the "meat wad". I used to tell people: "I don't care if my doctor told me if I didn't give up meat I'd die. I would die a happy woman with a burger hanging out of my mouth." Then I watched your video on youtube and it changed me immediately. I became a vegan in an instant and began to share with others what I have learned. I have always been a HUGE animal lover, especially of dogs, but I still thought it was ok to eat meat. But now I see all animals as though they come from one family and believe they should all be treated equally. I feel great now that I have made this decision. Thanks once again. You are truly inspirational and I look forward to living a life with more compassion and integrity than ever before.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 3:55 AM
I'm from Mallorca (SPAIN). I saw your video on youtube. I assure you that changed my life. You are an example.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 1:17 AM
I just wanted to let you know that I watched your speech at Georgia Tech and it has inspired me to try to become a vegan. I have been a meat eater my entire life but for the past couple years I have put much more thought into eliminating it completely from my diet. This weekend I ended up watching your speech and it has made me completely certain of what I need to do: go veg. Thanks for being such an inspiration and keep up the great work!
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Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 6:28 PM
Your lecture on youtube was by far the largest contributing factor to my decision of going vegan.
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Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 4:14 AM
I live in Switzerland and am the owner of www.swisspets.com, a new (and young) social network for pets and their owner. On my site, a user has post your video. I like the way you speak, but above all I would like to thank you for "removing the blinders". I want to spread your video and make all swiss pets employees swisspets watch it. We want everyone to become vegans.
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Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 4:11 AM
I am writing this email from ISRAEL. After I saw your lecture on youtube I decided to become vegan. You opened my eyes.
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Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:05 AM
I just wanted to say thank you for the work you are doing. After I saw your video, I became a Vegan. I have showed the video to everyone. I posted it on my Facebook wall. I shared it with my Reiki group, with my family, friends, etc. So far about 10 of my friends/family have become vegan and others are thinking about doing it. And I know the chain will continue like a domino effect. You made a change in your life and your are making a change in the world. I hope my words serve as a support and encouragement for your work.
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Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:37 PM
your lecture shocked me! my vegan life started last night. i am part of the Jewish community living in Singapore for the last 15 years. i will ask to use the mailing list of the community to mail each and every member the link to your talk.
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Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 4:04 PM
I live in Israel and when I saw your presentation it made me cry. I'll be a vegan from now on. And I'll talk to all my friends at school about it.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 6:31 PM
I'm 15.5 years old girl from Israel. You are the smartest guy I have ever seen. Today was the first day I saw your lecture and I AM AMAZED. After watching you, I said, "I have to stop eating this." You opened my eyes. I will publish your video everywhere I can, and try to help make change. I wish there were a few more Garys in the world.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:42 PM
Your speech at Georgia Tech was amazing. Keep on speaking & you will change the world. I'm gonna spread your gospel to all I know. God bless you for opening our eyes & souls.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:50 AM
I live in Montreal, Quebec. I saw your speech on December 5th and I would just like to say that you changed my views, my emotions and my life. Since the day I saw your video, I became a vegan. Never before did someone persuade me and educate me so wonderfully at the same time. Since that day, I completely removed meat, milk, cheese and eggs from my diet. I have become like the Jehovah's witness of veganism. I show your video, discuss and persuade my family, friends, coworkers and almost anybody I come into contact with to adopt this cruelty-free living. I try my best to give a voice to the voiceless. You are such a wonderful individual and even though I don't know you, I feel like I do because you made a tremendous impact on my life. I have profound respect, admiration and love for you. Thank you for everything you are doing.
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Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:51 PM
I saw some of your lectures on Youtube and my heart was broken, my appetite was changed and I will venture out in becoming a vegan in this new year. I think your work is very valuable and I admire you and your efforts. You certainly have made a difference in my life and I will extend this gift onto my circle of influence through the gift of awareness I have received from you.
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Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 8:29 PM
After dabbling in veganism on and off for about ten years, I finally feel like I'm ready to do this for real after watching your lecture. I just wanted to write to thank you for knocking my blinders off.
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Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 5:19 PM
i live in Israel. i admire you and your actions and your goal in your life. i wish i could speak like you and explain this issue to people. i'm trying to help animals as much as i can. after i saw your lecture, i became vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:18 PM
Just finished watching your lecture about veganism. I recently became vegetarian and a friend of mine sent me a link to your lecture. Gotta say, you convinced me. I heard what I need in order to become a vegan. Thank you so much for being who you are and doing what you do.
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Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 3:49 PM
Lately I've seen a lot of stuff about going vegan, and I heard it would give you more energy and would help you feel "cleaner". I decided to look into it. What I went into as looking to change my diet, has actually changed my entire life. I watched many speeches about becoming a vegan, but I felt that yours really hit home. It is so much easier to be a vegan than people think. We just need to change our ways of thinking. There is nothing wrong or bad about eating soy yogurt instead of regular yogurt. It's just different. You helped me to see that. I had trained myself to distance myself from what was really happening to these animals. I pride myself on being an animal lover, yet I was eating meat. Now I realize how wrong that is, and I am living out my beliefs. Thank you so much for inspiring me to make a change. For that, I am forever grateful!
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Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:34 AM
It's been almost year and a half since I started being a vegetarian, and preaching for it. Until tonight I had not heard about you. I saw a video of one your speeches and I realized I was not really sticking it to the Man since dairy product companies still had me by the balls. Thanks to you tonight I made the transition from vegetarian to vegan and even though its going to be difficult I still think this should not come to people as an option, but as a moral and obvious obligation. I live in Costa Rica. You rock and I admire the good vibe that surrounds you. That same vibe is what made you immortal.
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Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 2:55 AM
I am 21, French and want to express my warmest gratitude to you. One day, I saw the movie "Earthlings" and then found your video on youtube. I love your compassion! Now, I'm vegetarian and I'm glad every day to not eat animals. I have no words to tell you how thankful I am. I spread your name and your video to my friends and my family all the time.
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 6:56 PM
I am a meat lover! I love to cook and fucking love steaks. I saw your speech yesterday and now I am FUCKED! I am 33, from Israel, and I am at a crossroads in my life because of you. I love animals too much! I am a hypocrite and I know it. You are a hero.
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 6:55 PM
Watching your lecture has made me think of what I'm giving a hand to when I choose to eat meat. Actually, I've always felt wrong with eating meat since I was a child but I grew up thinking that I needed meat in order to be healthy. I am now truly considering putting an end to it. I'll keep following you because what you're doing is noble. Animals are helpless and can't protect themselves. It warms my heart when people care and actually do something about it!
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 11:04 AM
I just watched your video on YouTube and your speech has changed my life! I've shared your video with all my friends and they have all been speechless afterwards. Keep up the great work you're doing! Never stop.
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 6:43 AM
I'm an independent filmmaker. I saw one of your lectures, and have been vegan since September. Thanks for sharing your philosophy.
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Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 12:56 PM
I saw your lecture a few days ago and can't sleep. I will become a successful vegan, and more importantly, raise my kids that way. Thank you for helping us change our world.
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Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 8:58 AM
I just would like to personally thank you for being such an inspiration. Your speech is amazing, so simple, so obvious, and yet we are oblivious. I am 25 and was raised on a typical diet of meat and veg. My father had a serious heart attack 10 years ago, my grandad died of a heart attack when he was only 50 and so did his father. I have been vegan now for 3 months and feel amazing! I not only have more energy, but I feel spiritually lighter also. I am trying to spread the word. I have set up my first ever Demo, it will be held on New Years Eve in the town I live (central QLD, a country farmers town) wish me luck. I am already copping so much crap, regardless of all the evidence that being cruelty free is not only better for the animals, but the environment and our health. Now that I am vegan, I could never eat meat again even if it were proven that all vegans were going to die sudden horrific deaths. I love my dogs with all my heart and wouldn't have them killed for myself, so I figure it isn't fair on other animals either. My husband and I have been having amazing tasty healthy fresh meals, and I don't think we have eaten the same one twice. There is such a diverse range, I find myself being so much more creative than I ever was with meat. Ignorance seems to be the major cause for everything that is happening to the animals over this beautiful, abused world. Sure, there are the idiots out there that not only 'not-care' but want to inflict this harm. There is no help for them. Education is the ONLY answer for justice!
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:26 PM
I sat through the lecture you gave to my intro to ethics class on December 1, 2011 at WSU and I would like to tell you it was great. It really opened my eyes to the way I have been living and it exposed me to the fact I have been walking around with blinders on for 20 years. Ethically it is not right or justifiable to slaughter animals solely for our pleasure but being raised in an environment where eating meat, cheese and eggs are morally acceptable, I never decided to think any other way. You enlightened me to a new ethical thought process that I appreciate much more than I ever expected.
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:19 PM
I listened to your seminar last month @ Wayne State with an "OPEN MIND" like you asked us to do and you really delivered quite an amazing point of view. There were at times I was hesitant to listen but as you went in depth about how there are different ways to transition to veganism I really began to value what you were saying. "Our body needs absolutely NO cow MILK, just like we don't need giraffe or elephant milk." I would have never thought about it that way! I'm European so it's been a struggle converting. I haven't eaten any dairy products and have been eating vegan hamburgers!! Your outlook, passion and drive to really make a change is extraordinary! Since your visit I have spoken about you and your website to so many people in hopes that it will change they way they look at things just like me!
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:44 PM
I was in the Philosophy class when you presented your speech about being a vegan. I really enjoyed your speech and I'm trying to become Vegan. I am the student that asked you If there were vegan corn dogs. I'm starting off by fasting from meat for a few days to see how it really works. I have not ate any form of meat in 2 days and I am so proud of myself. Thank you for telling my class about why it's best to become a Vegan. I remember when you told the class what was in milk (mucus, pus). I went home and told my mom about everything that you presented in your speech.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:32 PM
I just had to express to you my feelings and views after watching several of your videos. I must commend you and give you A LOT of respect for your dedication into achieving animal rights and bringing awareness about how these animals are being treated. I may not have all the words to THANK YOU for being and Outstanding Individual and a Remarkable person but I truly wish you the best in bringing knowledge and awareness to people and protecting these Animals! I was not a vegetarian by any standards but after viewing you're videos and seeing all these atrocities being done I will try my best to live Vegan and spread the awareness to all the people that I may encounter in my life! Im 23 years old and live in Texas and I know it will be tough but I will push forward everyday with the knowledge that I'm not hurting any Innocent animals or other life forms on this planet. I do believe that "we" as human beings, being the "most intelligent or self aware" species on this planet must look over all forms of life and not destroy them. After hearing you say that if animals would create their own religion us humans would be the depiction of the devil I totally agree! I may not know you personally but I feel you're a compassionate person and a source of great inspiration to people like myself! Once again I TRULY WISH YOU THE BEST IN LIFE GARY! MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL YOUR EFFORTS! Stay strong and keep moving forward with a positive outlook hoping things will change because 1 person like you can make a Big Difference.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 7:25 PM
I saw you speak in my medical ethics class and I wanted to say that I was highly opened up to your speech. I did try Almond Milk (original & vanilla flavors) and have visited 3 different veg restaurants since to try the food alternatives and have to say I have been satisfied. Thank you for bringing something to light and making new neurons fire in my mind to further develop my opinions on the subject.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:34 PM
I just wanted to take the time to email you after viewing your speech at a college campus. I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for opening my eyes on this subject. I am truly appreciative.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:19 AM
I was lucky enough to see you speak in my Medical Ethics class at Wayne, and for extra credit on our final, Prof. Young asked us to email you the answer to one of our questions. Here is my ethical analysis of your argument: 'Peter Singer defines speciesism as the assumption that one species holds more value and thus is assigned more rights than another. Human beings are extremely 'specieist' against non-humans (using animals for research, eating them, wearing them, etc.) and this blatant prejudice is morally unjustifiable. According to Tom Regan, animals have inherent rights just as humans do for the mere fact that they are, indeed, alive. It is not up to us to assign them a lesser value than ourselves because of an assumed lack of sentience (which according to Yourofsky's lecture is completely wrong, as animals avoid painful stimuli just as humans do). One could also argue that infants, the mentally retarded, the demented, and other members of society who are cognitively inept and incompetent still enjoy moral status and reserve the right to exist without interference from other humans. Why then, do we impose less rights on animals who clearly have brains and are intelligent beings capable of learning and feeling pain? The idea that one would skin and wear a human baby, or use a mentally retarded person as nourishment is completely preposterous. The idea that one would do the same thing to a cow, a pig, or a chicken should be held in the same regard.'
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:21 AM
I would just like to congratulate you on your eye-opening and moving speech I saw on youtube today. There is so much truth in your speech, and the world should hear it.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:51 PM
I have been meaning to e-mail you since your lecture in the Medical Ethics class I take with Professor Young. First, I wanted to share with you what my response was to a question on our final. The question was: "Yourofsky gave several arguments for why someone should be vegan. Please write at least 3 sentences (or more if you like) providing an ethical analysis of any aspect of his lecture." My response to that question is: I feel that the majority of Mr. Yourofsky's argument was focused on the ethical analysis of speciesism. However, I also learned a number of health aspects. Three points that he made: 1) Animals are just as important as humans. They may not speak the way we do, but they still feel pain which can be heard by their cries; 2) Humans pride themselves by having an outrage when 'normal' pets like cats and dogs are abused, but fail to acknowledge the abuse that the other animals like chicken and cows suffer; 3) Humans are naturally herbivores. This fact was the most surprising for me. Thus, the animal products we consume are actually not as "fit" for our bodies. Real meat-eaters like bears/lions don't have clogged arteries. They are able to eat the entire animal including brains, guts, intestines, etc. Following the lecture, I made the switch to soy milk and gave up meat and fish which was not hard. Thank you once again for speaking. Your lecture gave me the motivation I needed to make the switch.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:28 PM
I just watched a lecture you gave that was up on youtube that was about an hour and a half long and then watched the q&a and I have to admit it that I was completely blown away. Your speech was truly incredible. I don't know if you are a busy person and this email is just wasting your time but I just felt like I had to let you know that your speech changed my life. I have only started becoming interested in this kind of stuff really recently, I became vegetarian barely four weeks ago, and I still had a pretty strong bias (the usual negative connotation) towards veganism. As I watched your speech I kept trying to poke holes in your arguments so that I would be able to continue eating my beloved Parmesan cheese (I'm Italian, and talk about tradition with that one), but by about halfway there was absolutely nothing more I could do. The logic with which you completely tear down any counter argument is absolutely amazing. I decided to become vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:32 PM
This is my summary of your lecture and some of my thoughts from the Medical Ethics class you spoke to at Wayne State. I'm sending this because it's extra credit for my class, but I really appreciated your presentation and glad I was able to get the chance to observe it. It really opened my eyes to a lot of information I was unaware of. Thanks a lot for the work you're doing! Some reasons that Yourofsky touched on regarding why one should be vegan were that every living animal should have rights, that the artificial insemination should be looked at as rape and abuse, how the farming of animals is no different then slavery was to other human races and also his explanation on how the human body is not built for the ingestion of meat. When applying ethical theories like Utilitarianism and Kantian views to this kind of case it opens the eyes on how we can make so many rules and have views to preserve life of our own species, but can overlook so many similar actions on other living animals and consider them all right. After viewing the way that the animals are being treated, I think that like humans, animals should also be treated as "Ends-in-themselves" like Kantian ethics believes we all should be treated. From his lecture I think that he gives a great argument and really opens the eyes of anyone with an open mind who truly looks for the most ethical answers.
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:59 PM
I want to thank you for your time and dedication to the cause of animal abuse, and the protection of the victims of society. At first, I was really upset at you for playing that video because I cried like a little baby, but really quickly I realized that it wasn't you that I was mad at, it was myself. I am happy to report that I have not eaten any animal products since your lecture. I am in the process of starting a non profit organization in Detroit called Phoenix, which will be opening a greenhouse. Also, I will be applying all of my knowledge from my nutrition class to create a simple diet to show people that they can provide their bodies with all of the vitamins, minerals and anything else their body needs with out consuming a drop of animal products, and actually benefit from doing so. Thanks for the tough love.
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 6:06 PM
Thank you so much for lecturing in our ethics class. It was incredibly enlightening to hear what you had to say. I am so amazed that i was so ignorant to a lot of the cruelty and the real health risks that can come into play with the consumption of meat. Here is a short analysis that i did on you lecture: "Yourofsky's argument for the vegan way of life is very strongly supported by utilitarian ideals. It is very obvious that the pleasure that we get from eating meat and other animal products does not at all outweigh the pain and suffering that each animal must go thru for us to eat a hamburger. We take a very unfair point of view when we categorize nonhuman animals as second class citizens. If we would view our world morally from the utilitarian point of view we would see that all animals have the ability to feel harm and we should give them the courtesy of preventing that harm whenever possible. That is why the vegan diet is the only truly moral diet."
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 3:33 PM
thanks for coming to our class and sharing you info. i wanted to let you know how crazy good the soy chorizo was. i'm having my father over for breakfast this coming weekend and i'm going to serve the chorizo. can't wait to see if he can tell it's not meat. my children and i also tried the Trader Joes; chickenless nuggets. fabulous!
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 12:11 PM
You came to my class and lectured about your thought on Veganism. I thought it was very interesting and eye opening. My family has now partly changed some of the bad habits in our diets. The number one thing we changed immediately was milk after your comment about the pus. We switched right over to almond and coconut milk. I was never a big meat eater anyways but your videos and passion behind becoming vegan were really inspiring. I've checked out your website and am going to try cooking some of the vegan meals. Thanks for your insight on something I probably would have never even thought to think about.
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:02 AM
I am a vegetarian who is now becoming vegan. I found everything you said in your lecture to be so inspiring! I agreed with every single word you said, but have never managed to express these views in such a convincing way to others. For example, I never thought of regarding animal abuse as a form of racism (in relation to your holocaust comparison). I could not tear myself away from your video. It touched on the head exactly how I feel about everything you spoke about, and was said so eloquently and truthfully. So I just want to thank you for all your hard work. You have inspired me afresh and made me proud (yet again) to live my life the way i do.
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Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:11 PM
We just had our final exam for Medical Ethics where we could get extra credit by sending you a comment about your speech. I don't need the points, but it did remind me that I wanted to thank you for your time and information. The speech you gave was both entertaining and engaging and I must say it did have an effect on me. Have begun a vegan diet, not because you lobbied so hard for it, but because it only makes sense. I already feel improved morally and physically. I have lost 8 pounds and have more energy (and I believe my two dogs respect me more). It is becoming increasingly clear that as a young adult I hold the ultimate responsibility to make the proper, informed decisions that affect myself and those around me.
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Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 4:38 PM
I am from Germany. I saw your speech. Thanks a lot for your work!!! I was vegetarian but will now live vegan for sure! It is fantastic how you inform people and how much time you spend making a better world.
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Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:19 PM
I watched your video today regarding the abuse of cows on a "Ma & Pa farm" somewhere in the US. The abuse these people were displaying towards these poor cows was disgusting. My only conclusion as to why these people would be so cruel and heartless towards these creatures, is that they live each day of their life slaughtering these creatures to feed our addiction to meat. I hate to say it, but if any of us killed day in and day out for a living, I believe it is conceivable that even we could become twisted and cruel, just like them. To be human is to "Not" kill anything. Also, you have made many great points supporting becoming a Vegan. Prior to watching your video, I had no idea what a Vegan really meant. Throughout our history in Canada and the US, the last 200 years, eating meat, eggs, dairy and cheese products were ingrained in all of us, passed on by our parents and their parents. Within the last five years, there has been an explosion in alternate food choices to support a "Healthy" eating alternative. The time is here to make change in how we eat. After viewing your "Eye Opening" video, I am prepared to make change in my life and stay clear of meat, dairy, eggs and cheese products. I am fifty seven years old, and "Love" eating BBQ meat, every day I enjoy bacon & eggs. I am prepared to make change, and not eat any animal or animal products. I have never been big on dairy products and cheese, so that should not be a big deal. I will drink my coffee black from now on. I will eat my cereal with alternative milk products. Thank you for providing me information I was never exposed to. Now that I see what is really going on, in terms of what these animals go through in order to provide us meat and dairy products, I can't possibly continue eating these products.
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:57 PM
The lecture that you gave on speciesism and an appropriate reaction to it, was very informative, aggressive, and graphic. It was very well put together and gave reasonable ways to become a vegan should you so choose. The presentation, unlike many heard dispelled common myths about the cost of vegan food, and the taste, and tied in with the class very well considering it made the issue of speciesism take on a more real meaning. What I liked the most about your presentation is that unlike many people who present through bumper sticker messages, saying show your support, without acting on it, you gave a course of action, and justification for abandoning a way of living so ingrained into society.
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 6:57 PM
i was referred to your site by a vegan friend. continue your good work. you are a good model for others as you prove that being vegan doesn't mean you'll be thin. your muscular frame is a testament to that because of extra nutrients you get from vegan foods.
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:30 AM
I am a Vegan from Cape Town, South Africa. I admire what you are doing in the states and would love to be able to reach as many people as you have. I am currently working on a workshop about the impact we humans have on animals and the environment. I came across your videos. I want to do one for the younger kids and students. I want to ask your permission to show your lecture video to my students at Inscape Design College where I lecture. You say everything I'd love for them to hear. Keep up the good work.
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:28 AM
I just saw your vegan lecture a week ago and was deeply moved by it. So I became a vegan last Friday. I never considered the animal holocaust issue before.
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 12:47 AM
I just watched your lecture on youtube, and it blew my fucking mind. I'm not new to this. I was a vegetarian for eight years and a vegan for several of those. I fell off the wagon almost a decade ago though and my health has suffered. You've re-inspired me to be conscious again with what I eat. Thank you.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 10:51 PM
My husband decided to go vegan after watching your video. I thank you for your speech. It was exactly what he needed to hear.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 10:13 PM
i'm a huge fan of yours. last year my 19 year old sister turned vegan for health reasons. i always knew about animal cruelty but not the health stuff. after watching your video, i am now vegetarian and i eat mostly vegan things. i'm only 13 years old and this is huge for me because I used to live off of meat. And now I love salad and tofu. my mom has just turned vegetarian because of you. you are my hero, and you're going to be the next martin luther king jr.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:38 PM
i have seen a video of yours on youtube and honestly i was amazed by your speech. i live in Greece and was raised eating meat, drinking milk, etc. and since i've gotten a dog, i realized what animals mean to me. i believe it's going to be easy for me to stop eating meat. i look up to you.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 6:33 PM
I spoke with you for a while after your speech Monday afternoon. I've been vegan since (love, love, love the chocolate coconut milk!).
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 5:04 PM
I've been vegetarian for 20 years, since the age of 13. But I didn't go vegan, because of some of the reasons you stated such as habit, convenience and taste. I also had big blinders on and figured nobody got hurt making the eggs and dairy I ate. Your speech made such an impact on me. It really struck a chord, esp. the part that was filmed in the dairy farm which I had to fast forward. You proceeded to say "if it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?" You also said at the end of the speech that we can vow to do the least damage possible to our fellow earthlings. I took that vow and have been vegan now for 7 months!
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:02 AM
I live in Invercargill, New Zealand, and have been a vegetarian since I was 6 years old. I am now 18 and am still a proud and keen vegetarian. I did not take the next step to veganism because I did not really know that milk and cheese were obtained by performing such acts of cruelty. I watched your youtube speech and was intrigued by your content and delivery, which caused a different, more positive thought process for me. So many of your facts were awesome. I had previously done a speech in my year 11 schooling on Vegetarianism and why it is the superior option. I really wish I had watched your video before then as I would have absolutely shut my class up and would have forced a different perspective upon them.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 12:56 AM
I have always been a vegetarian, but have never fully or permanently stopped eating dairy products, even though I knew it was just as horrible as eating meat. I've been wanting to become completely and permanently vegan for a long time, and one of my friends, who saw you speak at UF recently recommended that I watch your lecture online, so I did, and I think it's wonderful!! I've only been eating dairy because it's convenient and that's inexcusably ridiculous, so I'm going to actually stop now. Thank you so much for persuading me! I wish people could be required to watch your lecture in order to eat/consume animal products. Thank you so much for caring about animals and teaching so many people!
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:49 PM
A huge thank you for making it so easy for people like myself to make the transition to veganism! Your website is awesome and so super helpful. I was super happy to see the links about pet veganism also as I was having a hard time reconciling that one. I wanted to share with you that I watched your video again with my 8 year old daughter and she has also converted to veganism! Just today in school they had what they call "fun food day" where the kids eat meat & cheese pizza with chocolate cow milk, etc. My daughter instead took a delicious vegan sandwich with chocolate almond milk and a vegan brownie for dessert. How proud am I! Thankfully, there is one other kid in her class who is vegan, so they had each other. I am hoping to knock fun food day on its ass and educate the educators! I am already being met with fear, judgement, and apathy from people. I have been told to calm down and just be quiet so that everyone can have a "nice" christmas. I have been told to be "less radical" and "more modest" and have responded with a resounding NO - cannot and will not be less radical on this topic. Thank you for your tireless work, for being a way-shower and a conduit of change. Thank you for shining your light so brightly, for walking the talk, and truly being the peace, the change.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:23 PM
My sister attended your lecture tonight and was very moved, literally called me crying hysterically. I was a long time vegetarian and then an on and off again vegan, and for the last year I have been eating local meats and eggs and dairy. I am planning on supporting my sister and going back veg.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:27 AM
i am from greece. i am a marathoner. i saw your lecture on youtube and found it very interesting. this is a very important change in my life.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 1:48 AM
My daughter convinced me to become a vegetarian last February but after what I have seen tonight (your video) I promise I will become a vegan. Not WILL become, as of this moment I am one. Thank you very much for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 12:59 AM
I just watched a video of one of your speeches on animal cruelty. I thought it was a VERY effective speech and I admire you for all your activism. I am trying to go vegan! I've been trying to convince one of my best friends why it's better to not eat meat, but she refuses to care, to watch any video or read any article because she thinks that eating meat is normal. It's so frustrating.
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Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 7:55 PM
I sat in the back of the classroom today. After listening to your speech, I realized that I needed to quit consuming animal products, so in the middle of your lecture I swore never to consume animal products. My fiance was not excited but supported me, and my parents already used organic items in everyday cooking so I thought that they would be happy of MY choice. I did not expect them to change but when I got home and decided to tell my father, he got PISSED. When my mom came home from work, the first words out of my father's mouth was "can you believe our daughter". However, my mother was a lot more accepting of my choice and even went out and got me Morning star vegan chicken strips and tofu as well as vegan beef scrambles, so I was pretty excited.
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Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 6:25 PM
I watched your speech and looked up your website and just wanted to let you know that you are my idol. I have been vegetarian for almost a year now, and have just made the switch to complete veganism because of you. I live in redneck country where animal slaughter is accepted and, a lot of times, encouraged. I would love to have you make a speech in my high school, Tamaqua Area High School, located in Tamaqua, PA. I think it would do this town some good if they were shown the evils of meat consumption. I posted your speech on my Facebook wall and it caused much controversy. It's very difficult for me to argue with ignorant people. I get so frustrated, especially when people's arguments don't even make sense. They're too stubborn and selfish to take what I say into account. Please contact me back and let me know if there's any way you could come speak to my peers, or even if you have some tips to help me start being an "activist."
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Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 8:49 AM
Just wanted to let you know how much I admire you and your work! I went vegan just over a month ago after watching your lecture on youtube. I was so impressed by your delivery of the speech and your passion for animals! I've been veggie for 20 years but was oblivious to the cruelty involved in the dairy industry and realised I could not longer condone that kind of behaviour towards these gentle animals. And it's so much easier than I realised it would be! My boyfriend, who was still an omnivore until last year, went veggie, and then vegan! As have the rest of my family who have also been veggie for 20 years but have now been enlightened and gone vegan too! So you have made 7 more vegans over here and we thank you for it! Keep up the great work! One day you'll be hailed as a saint!!
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Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 7:46 PM
A friend shared the video of your speech. Simply put, it was incredible and eye-opening. You have provided facts and evidence that contradict what we all grow up to believe. I personally am disgusted in humanity's primary flaw: greed. This has allowed me to make complete sense of what you had to say and not simply push it aside. I fully respect what you're doing and what you're working to achieve. It's a sad and dark world we live in. In light of all this, I want to personally thank you for your efforts! Keep up the extraordinary work!
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Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 7:30 AM
I'm 15 years old from israel and it's the first time that i ever really listened to a lecture. I love what i'm hearing. Maybe you can come to israel and lecture at my school?
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Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 3:44 AM
I'm from Brazil. I've been a vegetarian for 2 years now, and you just helped me see why I have to become a vegan.
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Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 12:32 PM
I am 33 years of age. After doing all the research and watching an hour long speech you gave at a university, I have decided to become a Vegan. I will admit that I was driven to tears watching the sample videos you played on animal cruelty. This was not an easy decision for me to make, considering I have been a meat, egg, milk, and cheese eater for over three decades. I felt guilt and disgust as the blinds were slowly opening before me. Why could I not see it before!? Simple, indoctrination since birth, tradition, convenience, and taste. Just as you stated before. I just want to express my thanks to you for helping me see the light at the end of this dark tunnel I have been walking through. This will not be an easy journey for me, it shall be long and arduous; but, I am sticking to it! Considering I am a diabetic and asthmatic, I see only benefits for me health wise. I no longer willingly support the cruelty, rape, slaughter, murder, and other countless vicious acts towards animals that, sadly, only we are capable of.
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Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 10:10 AM
I never send emails like this, but I just felt like I had to. I am 25 years old and have always struggled with "wanting" to be vegan. I love animals and always knew in the back of my mind that I was the biggest hypocrite, but I never truly had the knowledge or the education to push me to actually take that leap. The most I had ever done was give up eating red meat for 6 months after reading Skinny Bitch. I avoided watching videos or really truly reading the nitty gritty facts because it was "too upsetting" and, like most people, I couldn't handle the truth and used my ignorance as an excuse. I just got home from a trip to Africa and after seeing the way those people live, and learning about the bushmen and their incredible views on the planet and the living things we share it with, I came home with a new enthusiasm and motivation to learn. I started looking up everything I could online, and wanted to completely bombard myself with facts until I could no longer hide from it. I came across your video, and I just want to say thank you. You are truly an inspiration and I can't even put into words the amount of respect I have for you. Because of you, because of your speech, I have never been more sure of anything. My new lifestyle starts today and, thanks to you, I have no doubts, and am truly excited. Not only do you leave no room to make excuses not to make this change, but you truly convince people that it isn't a challenge. My fiance, an enthusiastic meat eater, who, while encouraging about MY becoming a vegan, claimed to not be ready to do it himself. He happened to walk into the room while I was watching your speech and, as soon as it finished, turned to me and said "Let's do this. I don't want to wait, I want to do this NOW." I also have my parents on board, and we all can't wait to wake up every morning without a guilty conscience. I'm angry that I've been brainwashed for so long, and I am going to post your video wherever possible. I wish there was more I could do but the world needs to change, and I do believe one person can make a difference. Thank you for the work you do. I wish everyone could hear you speak and hear your message. I will be so proud the first time I tell someone I am vegan.
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Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 9:13 AM
Just watched one of your videos. You have warmed my world. It is so reassuring that there is someone like you out there articulating what the vegan world feels in such a compelling way.
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Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:56 PM
I watched your speech, and I would like to know how I can get videos from you. I have many people in my family, and friends, that don't have computers and I would love for them to see what is going on behind closed doors. I really think you are a Great Man and I can tell you I have never been more upset until we watched that video. No more meat for Myself or Husband. Thanks for really opening up my other eye. My Husband and I are done with our part of allowing the cruelty of animals to fill our guts with the meats. Thank You so much for your Love and Compassion of Life. You are a Wonderful Man.
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Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:37 PM
I'm 19 from Israel, and been vegan for two months now since watching your lecture. You're great and you are pushing tons of Israelis to veganism. You changed my life and opened my eyes. I found your lecture by mistake but was transfixed to the screen and enjoyed every minute of it. I knew during the lecture that I was going to be vegan. The day I'll never forget is the day I went vegan. I tell everyone around me about veganism and the suffering the animals go through. You're absolutely right about what the animals go through. Each day is Treblinka. Never give up. You are starting a revolution here in Israel.
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Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:06 AM
Yesterday I saw one of your videos. It was amazing. I am 23 years old and have been vegetarian for 9 years. I became vegetarian so I wouldn't hurt animals. But I am sad that I didn't see the cruelty in milk, eggs and cheese. After I saw your video, it opened my eyes. From this day on, I am VEGAN.
Comments from Students and Supporters, November 2011
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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:05 PM
I saw your speech at Georgia Tech on Youtube and I want to thank you! I had 'cut down' on meat consumption about 5 years ago but your speech was loud and clear. I'm 3 weeks vegan today and loving it. I've got one friend wanting to do more and make changes. She said to me "You have me really thinking about things. So what if my family doesn't want to, that doesn't mean I can't." Then she asked for the video link and wants to make changes. Another friend was openly hostile to my choice. Today I shared a vegan wrap with soy nuggets with her. She finished and said, "THAT was really, really good!" Then wanted to know the brand name. I've shared information with a number of people now and am surprised of the interest out there but the lack of knowledge.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:13 PM
Today there was an article in one of the popular papers you were interviewed by, the biggest local newspaper in Tel Aviv. (Here are screenshots of the article on Facebook, and a link to the entire magazine.) The article mentions how your lecture is the main reason for all the [new Israeli] vegans. This is without any doubt the biggest article/project on this subject ever made in Israel.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:59 PM
I just finished watching a video of you speaking to some university kids and I just want to tell you that you are one of the most compelling speakers I've ever heard. I have been a vegetarian for some time now, and like you said in your speech, haven't gone full vegan mostly because of cheese. After seeing your video and the footage therein, I now vow to go completely vegan and end the madness. Thank fucking God for you Gary and thank you for all you do for our animal brothers and sisters.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:36 AM
i'm from Israel. recently my good friend watched your video and decided to go vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:39 AM
I would like to personally thank you for finally pushing me to go vegan. I have been very interested in the vegan/vegetarian lifestyle for about a year, but being raised in a conservative household that has embraced being carnivores and hunting and eating animal products, I was wary that my family would disown me in a way. I grew up and still live in Dundee, Michigan. Unfortunately, my father is big into hunting and fishing and the only reason we even moved to Dundee years ago was so he could be near Cabelas. To give you an idea of how unaccepting my dad is, after I refused to eat turkey or any other meat on thanksgiving last week, he yelled at me in front of my entire family and told me that what I was doing was stupid and I will NEVER make a difference. A few vegan friends here at the University of Toledo and I are actually starting a vegetarian/vegan organization which aims to raise awareness. I just really wanted to let you know the full impact you are having on not just me but the surrounding area I live in. You truly are a living inspiration and provide useful insight on the war against the animal holocaust.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:23 PM
I just finished watching one of your videos. I've been vegetarian for 3 years and decided to eliminate any dairy products within the next 3 years. I wanted you to know that today I'm leaving those products and not waiting anymore. Thank you very very much for giving me that push I needed. You really inspire me here in Ecuador.
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Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 7:33 PM
I am writing of behalf of an animal rights group from Brno, Czech Republic. In February we are going to organize a vegan fest. We are excited by your activities and your presentations at universities. We would like to show your speech at this event.
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Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 8:38 PM
I saw your speech about two weeks ago and I have been vegan ever since. I am very grateful for your eye-opening speech!
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Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 4:51 AM
I watched your lecture on youtube about two months ago and I just wanted to thank you for opening my eyes. I was a childhood vegetarian after doing a paper on animal research in sixth grade, despite a lack of familial support. In my mid teenage years I left home and fell back into the patterns of brainwashed eating. I'm currently pulling myself back up after a very destructive lifestyle and becoming a vegan has been a crucial step in becoming spiritually whole again. Because of you, I am a vegan and because of you I will not take part in the suffering of animals. Thank you for making a difference!
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 9:02 PM
I am 100% vegan after watching your talk thank you very much. More importantly, I do love sharing your talk Gary, well done.
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:28 PM
You're such an inspiration and I'm so thankful that you're on this planet. It's impressive how you can talk and talk and everything makes so much sense. I'm 17 and a vegetarian since 6 when I discovered that meat is a dead animal, and now a vegan for a year. I watched your video and I still learned some stuff and with every sentence I was like, "oh my this is so true!" I live in Dubai and it's so hard to convince people here as it's all about god and they get really offended if they hear that eating halal meat isn't okay. I hope you'll come to the United Arab Emirates one day and lecture all these ignorant people in this country. They get taught in school that animals don't have feelings. I'm doing petitions against the animal markets and taking pictures of slaughtered animals in Eid so they open their eyes but the only people shocked are Westerners. Some people complain that they're allowed to slaughter on the streets. Well they should see and look at what they're killing.
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 4:28 AM
I've watched your video in great detail last night and was thoroughly impressed.
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 1:01 AM
Your georgia tech talk turned 4 vegetarian friends into vegans, two of us in Alaska and two in Oregon. Thank you for bringing awareness to so many people!
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Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:51 PM
You just recently held a lecture at the University of Florida that I attended and I want to thank you for taking time to spread your ideals. Your form of spreading the truth is much more potent than any other organization (PETA), group, or person I've heard. I've seen “Go Vegan” from numerous places but their attempts were lackluster and didn't explain or even fully engulf the real issue at hand. To make a long email short, I just wanted to say that you did provoke a change of thought and behavior to numerous students in that class. And again, thank you sincerely for your time and effort. It really was awakening.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 12:28 PM
I want you to know that your efforts to open people's eyes to veganism are appreciated. It's been a month since your lecture in Joe Krylow's class [in MD], and I haven't touched an animal food product since. I feel amazing, physically, emotionally, and morally. On the car ride home that night, I had myself a good cry and purged myself of the emotional conflict I had within me regarding my eating habits, one which, amazingly, I didn't even know existed. I was shocked that the psyche is able to block out something so potent. You have brought me a peace and a sense of well-being that I didn't even know I needed, but now that I have it I'll never let it go. I'm changed for life, brother. So thank you for taking the time to not only save the animals, but to save us from ourselves.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:14 PM
I recently wrote up a list for the readers of my blog entitled: The Top 10 Super Vegans You've Never Heard Of And Why You Might Want To Keep An Eye On Them.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:05 PM
I have been a Vegetarian for about 12 years but like you mentioned in your amazing video on youtube, the one thing keeping us Vegetarians from becoming Vegan is the cheese in addition to the advertising by the dairy industry that we need dairy products to be healthy. However, I can not describe how powerful your video has been on me. I have already watched it 4 times in the space of 2 weeks and it's over an hour long! You touch on so many intellectual points including the design of the human body, disease, animal cruelty, our definitions around holocausts and slaughter. Before your video I genuinely considered that there was such a thing as humane slaughter, but thankfully you took that blindfold away. Also I had never thought about how cruel the process of milk production actually is. I didn't even know that cows had to be pregnant to give milk because I thought they gave it naturally all the time. It shows just how ignorant average people in society can be about the origin of their food. Thankfully I am a convert Vegan now together with my Brother in Law who randomly happened to pass by my house and in general conversation had told me about your video. I loaded up your video and we watched it together with eyes wide open and 1 hour later we both became Vegan! There are very few people who question the way things are in our world, but the few that do question things and take Action, help to make our world a better place and help to take humanity to a higher level of consciousness. You are one of those beautiful people and I am very thankful to the Universe for people like you.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:42 PM
I was impressed and riveted by your lecture. I have been Vegan for two years now and your video lecture has been a wonderful tool in trying to spread credible information and evidence to others in hopes that the Vegan Revolution will continue to advance at a greater rate than ever before.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6:26 AM
I'm in the process of learning everything. I have now made a plan that in 6 months I want to give lectures, as you do, in Germany. With your permission, I will use your speech with slight changes so it fits me. I can't imagine writing one that's more effective than yours.
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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 9:52 PM
Thank you for your powerful speech and your great effort in making this world a better place for all beings. You are doing an outstanding job letting people know how to be a noble human being. I hope more and more people will have the opportunity to listen to you—especially the younger generation. As they grow and have a family, their children will learn from them about how to be fair to all. Keep up the great work. Talk to the whole world!
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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 8:55 PM
I just saw one of your lectures on YouTube and became your biggest fan! I have been noticing about 3 years ago that many animal products were making me sick. Severe constipation, severe diarrhea, stomach bloating, lactose intolerance etc. I saw many doctors and I thought it was me who had the problems but after I saw your video I realized so many things. The problem is ME trying to stuff my self with CRAP and my body begging me not to. Those poor animals do not deserve to die. I work for the hotel industry and currently work in Mexico. I really want to do this for my stomach and my health and to help stop the horrible way they kill our beautiful animals. Thank you for taking the time to read my email and God bless you for saving so many animals.
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Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 3:55 PM
I have watched your videos, and you changed my life. My kitchen has had a 100% makeover, and I feel better and healthier than I ever have in 48 years of living.
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Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 12:02 PM
I watched your lecture and decided to become a Vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 5:52 PM
I saw your video today. I just wanted you to know, I am proud! Proud to be a person who got the chance to listen to your words. I know that I've changed because I refused to eat cheesecake, and my friend wanted to make a hot chocolate and I told him to buy soy milk! It will be an honor to sit down and listen to your words every time I show this to a friend/ family member/ colleague.
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Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 5:39 AM
Keep up the good fight. I'm 19 and made the change to vegetarianism about a year ago. I just made the vegan switch a month ago and I feel so much better for it. I feel terrible that I have been dissociated from the reality behind what I have eaten and the products I have used in my life for so long, but I am SO GLAD that I have finally opened my eyes. Watching your lectures online and reading the information on your website had solidified my resolve to the cause. I love what you do.
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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 6:04 PM
I just saw your video on youtube giving a speech in a University and I was pretty shocked. I think you're completely right when talking about ethics, and I really think I should give Veganism a try. Thanks for opening my eyes!
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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:38 AM
i'm very inspired by your speech. it turned me in to a vegetarian. in the future i want to be totally vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:55 PM
I wanna thank you for the great speech. It was a real eye opener for me. When you showed us the video, I couldn't believe what I was seeing because it was demented. Now I will try vegetarian to make the world a better place. Thank you for taking off the blinders and coming to talk to us about that.
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:45 PM
I want to thank you for the speech you gave us on the 15th of November. The video made me cry. You are right, this is serious and when I see the videos I have so much hate towards those people. You opened my mind.
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:45 PM
I'm the football player [UTEP defensive end] that talked to you after your speech on Tuesday. After hearing your speech, I am inspired. I feel that I can change my eating habits. I never realized how good I could still eat by eating those vegan foods you showed us. I am thankful that there is guy like you who is trying to prevent animal cruelty, because you were right! To me, my dog is like part of the family. I LOVE her to death. So why should I treat a pig, cow, or chicken any differently? Your speech really has me thinking a lot. I just wanted to say thank you!
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:42 PM
I really felt the emotion and passion in your voice. Thanks for coming, man. I really appreciated the information about all the wrong stuff we eat and other resources we can use to eat heathily and differently.
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:39 PM
Thank you for coming all the way over here. I really liked your presentation and it did really leave me thinking about becoming vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:38 PM
I believe your speech that you gave to the class was very educational. It really opens your mind because as everyday people we don't know the cruelty that animals go through. I want to thank you for coming to the class and giving us your presentation.
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:59 AM
Thank you for your activism. One of your speeches made me a vegan overnight after 18 years of vegetarianism. So, you made your point, target reached. Please keep up the good work. Kind regards from Bucharest, Romania.
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:03 AM
I thoroughly enjoyed your youtube lecture, and wanted to thank you for sharing this vital information to the public and helping me be vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 2:06 AM
I'm sure you hear this every day, but your lecture truly changed my life. I have you to thank for my plunge into veganism. Living cruelty free has been the best decision I've ever made, and I can't imagine ever going back. I am a completely new and enlightened being.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 5:42 PM
We are going to start educational programs for college students about vegetarianism and veganism at a few colleges in Slovenia. Since education and practical experience is the best way of learning and consequently adopting new habits/lifestyles, we're planning to form our programs in such a way that students get the right information as well as, for most of them, the first interaction with finest of vegan dishes. So for the first informative part I was thinking it is absolutely necessary to show how animals are treated. Therefore I would like to ask if you are willing to lend us the video you showed in the lecture you've given. I must also thank you very much for all the work you do. After 5 years of being vegetarian (drinking milk), I went vegan because of one of your lectures. I guess I just needed that extra something to realize that my diet still wasn't cruelty free after all.
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Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 11:33 PM
I am one of the students from the health class at Ventura College. Will you please give me the link to the video that you played during class. I would like to show the exact video that I watched to my loved ones because it really moved me.
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Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 8:53 PM
Thank you for all your hard work to expose and try and wake people up to the awful system of injustice that we humans partake in everyday by consuming animal products. I just watched one of your lectures on Youtube. I've been a vegetarian for 15 years and have been slowing giving up dairy and eggs. As I bawled my eyes out watching the last video of the beatings and pleasure being taking in hurting these animals, I vowed to not purchase another animal product again.
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Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 8:27 PM
I live in Chile. I'm an activist of an abolitionist organisation that promotes veganism. Just wanted to let you know that we rescued two pigs (an open rescue) from a factory farm, and we decided to name one of the pigs 'Gary', after you. Here's a link to some photos of Gary and Oliver (Gary's the small one). And some photos of the open rescue.
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Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 7:36 PM
Thank you for speaking, filming, and posting your youtube video. Last week a friend shared it on facebook, and watching it was the final straw that has made me decide to strive to do no harm in my buying and eating habits. I have long loved animals and cared deeply about their suffering, but my eating habits have been a lingering and underlying paradox against my beliefs. In only a little more than a week in, a side benefit is that I am already starting to feel physically better.
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Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 3:56 PM
I just watched a video of your lecture at Georgia Tech. It was hands-down the most inspirational and logical thing I've ever seen or heard. The cruelty made me cry in the beginning, and the legitimacy made me cry in the end, once the truth of it really sunk in. I have been vegetarian for two years, but hearing what you had to say has officially turned me vegan for life. Thank you so much for being an activist and making a REAL difference. There are so many naive and misinformed people in the world, it's truly humbling to see someone fighting for those who can't fight for themselves. Please - for the animals' sake AND humankind - keep it up. You're an amazing speaker and I hold a lot of respect for you.
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Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:19 PM
I informed you that a couple of my friends converted to Vegan after watching your speech a few months ago. I just want to let you know that 2 other people have converted after watching your video! It seems to be the formula to change people so I am going start copying some discs and handing them out.
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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:50 PM
I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you so much for everything you do for animals and their rights. I used to be one of those people who said 'Oh, I could never give up meat! And I love cheese too much!', but then I started reading about the benefits of a plant based diet and I've been a happy vegan since March. At first, I thought I'd give it a shot, see what it was like, but watching your video has completely convinced me that being vegan is the right choice. Now there is no way I would ever eat a steak because I know the reality of things. You have really changed my life for the better. Not only am I healthier than I've ever been (seriously, my allergies are gone!), I feel like a better person. And it gets better! A couple of weeks ago, I sent your video to a close friend of mine living in Argentina. His mind was blown. The very next day he told me that I had just ruined meat and cheese for him and he could no longer eat any animal products. He hasn't eaten any kind of animal product since. That is the power of education and information, and that is why I want to say, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU! You are truly an inspiration. Keep up the amazing work.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 3:51 PM
You came to my school a few months ago and talked to us about veganism. I just wanted to say that you inspired me to want to change and stop animal cruelty. I also watched your speech on Youtube to see how they treated cows at the dairy farm. I was devastated and appalled at how they treated them. I agree with you that there is more cruelty in a glass of milk than a steak. That's why I do not drink milk anymore. I have been drinking almond and rice milk. Almond milk is my fav. I am overweight and I think that animal products are bad for my health and causing me to gain weight. More importantly though, I want to do this for the animals because they do not deserve the pain and suffering they receive every single day. I don't want to be one of those people who causes it anymore. They are innocent beings who have done nothing to us.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 3:10 PM
I was a vegetarian for years after reading Mad Cowboy but slowly went back to my disgusting ways. After seeing your speech and the slaughterhouse videos, I was blown away. I have never been more moved by a speech in my life. Everything that I feel about animals is exactly what you said. I boxed up all my "canned chili" and stuff that I pretend is "not really meat" and gave it away. Thank you for opening my eyes again after having them closed for a number of years.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:16 PM
I became vegan a little under a month ago and was researching blogs and speakers about veganism because i have a family that has been struggling to support me for so many reasons. Watching that video on youtube when you were speaking at Georgia Tech in 2010 really inspired me and made me more sure that what i am doing is the right choice. I am only 17 so everyone tells me its just a phase im going through. As a christian i understand that when God created the earth, we were made vegetarians. i just wanted to say that your speech touched me and has inspired me to try to make it aware to people around me about the truth of the meat and dairy farms. i'm all alone. i know no one that is vegan or even vegetarian. keep on inspiring people around the world!
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:09 PM
I am writing you to thank you for what you do to help animals. I'm 32 years old and Spanish. I started being vegetarian when I was 16 years old, and after a period of a few years began carnivorism again. But I became vegan a few months ago. I just can't participate in this, no way! Your speech, and your way of explaining things, has affected me so I just wanted to say thank you very much. For me it's very important knowing that there are persons like you in the world. It reconciles me with the humanity.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:00 PM
I first became vegan about 6 months ago after seeing your video. The best decision I've ever made.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 7:12 PM
Just wanted to drop you a line to say how much I enjoyed your lecture. Just watched it on YouTube and am now in the process of making as many people as I can watch it too! As an abolitionist vegan for over 20 years now, I was blown away by your no bullshit, non-politically correct, straight talking approach. I feel exactly the same way you do and now have more ammunition to use when 'omnivores' come up with their sanctimonious bullshit.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 5:23 PM
I live in Mexico City. I'm 38 and rescue and protect dogs from the streets, bad treatment, etc. I saw your video on youtube and I need to THANK YOU for opening my eyes! I cried and got really angry. I didn't know or I didn't want to know, now. But thanks 2 you I KNOW!
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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 9:11 PM
I'm a fan of yours. I credit you for helping me convert in March of this year. Best and thanks for everything you do.
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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 9:23 AM
I'm a musician and from Argentina. Yesterday I watched the "Earthlings" documentary and after that, I saw the link of your speech (that 1 h 10 min. speech). I showed that to my parents and we all agreed on becoming vegans. Why is that? Because you answered all of our doubts and questions with your speech (calcium, proteins, etc). Just like you said, we all love the taste of meat, eggs, milk and cheese, but we are no longer willing to make anybody suffer (especially any innocent animal) for it. Just because we want to taste some flavor in on our tongue? How selfish are we? So, without taking anymore of your time, I just want to say: THANK YOU FOR OPENING MY/OUR EYES!
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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 6:35 AM
I'm from China. I got completely shocked by watching the Earthlings, and your speech. After that I immediately went vegan with no doubt.
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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 12:21 AM
You presented to my Spiritual Health class on Wednesday and I want to say thank you so much. I usually see myself as a sensitive and compassionate guy for other living beings but once you told us that we were basically programmed through our lives to be senseless toward the animals that we mass produce unnaturally and slaughter to eat every day, I realized I had been missing this realization for most of my life. I felt so much truth in that. So since that presentation I have completely gone vegan. I am also looking forward to all of the benefits of being vegan since I am an athletic person and though it has only been 3-4 days I am already feeling lighter and healthier. Thank you again for your presentation and know your time and actions spent are changing many lives, and with me just being one of those examples.
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:33 PM
The reason I felt the need to write was not the fact that the work you do is priceless and that I admire the passionate and articulate way that you present the truth to your audience, and of course the selfless acts of freeing animals - the thing that made me want to write was the fact that you were banned from the UK because it struck a chord with me. If I could I would offer to personally CARRY you to England so you could educate the kids at my son's school!
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Sent: Nov 6, 2011 5:19 PM
I'm from Moscow, Russia. I had been vegetarian for a while but now I'm vegan. I'm a student of a Russian State University of Cinematography named after S.A. Gerasimov (VGIK). My specialty is a documentary movie director. My recent project is about animal cruelty. I'm planning to show the poultry industry from inside out. I watched a video of your speech at Georgia Tech. I've seen in this video a great opportunity to show this problem to a Russian audience. Is it possible to get permission from you to use your movies and lectures.
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 2:06 PM
I stumbled upon your speech on youtube. I was looking for something completely different. I was so touched by it. I even cried at the part about the mother cow screaming for her calf! I never experienced something like this in my life, that a lecture made me want to change my life. I was an enormous meat freak. But I'm a vegan now. I'm not a rich man, so I can't give a donation. I'm just a humble animator from the Netherlands, but if I ever make my breakthrough, I promise to support your work!
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 11:49 AM
I am now converting to veganism. All this is due to watching your video. Very powerful. Thank you for being such a strong voice and advocate for animals, particularly the ones we slaughter and eat.
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 11:23 AM
since i saw the movie earthlings and your greatest speech, i have become veg. a month and a half ago i started a website called rfaam.com (Respect for all animals ministry). i would like you to look at it because i use some of your stuff. i also gave Brooke Chavez a copy of your dvd because at her sanctuary - Sunnyday farms in La Coste, TX, - she has a giant tv/dvd for training. she is going to start using your dvd to educate visitors when they come for tours. when i met Brooke she was supposed to speak to a group of people and wasn't sure how she wanted to do her talk. i told her about your speech so she went to youtube and watched it 4 times and she used a lot of what you said to the group she was talking to.
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 9:27 AM
I live in Serbia. I am deeply touched by your lectures and I need some guidance regarding actions I can actually undertake to add to the efforts in bettering things, in particular when one is living in predominantly meat eating culture. Thank you for your time and guidance.
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 4:30 AM
I'm from México. I want you to know that I was vegetarian until I saw your speech. I've decided to be vegan and renounce ALL animal products. NO MORE CHEESE, NO MORE EGGS, NO MORE HONEY, NEVER AGAIN. I want to share this information here in México. I want to take this to a couple of schools and talk to some students. I've chosen yours because it's complete.
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Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 2:22 PM
you came to my classroom yesterday at ventura college. the first thing I did when I got home was throw out all milk and dairy products and any frozen meat I had in my freezer. I now have almond milk and soy milk in my refrigerator. just wanted you to know that you got through to at least 1 person. thanks for being a voice not only for the animals, but for the ignorance everybody lives in everyday.
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:13 PM
I have been a vegetarian for many years (close to 20). I became vegetarian for both environmental and animal welfare reasons. I have not touched milk in years but do eat yogurt, cheese on occasion and ice cream. However, after seeing the video of your speech on Youtube and the film from the dairy farm which will stay with me, I think the time is right to completely give up dairy. I wanted you to know that it is because of you that I am going to remove a little more cruelty and death from this planet. Thank you for fighting on behalf of our fellow Earthlings.
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 6:03 PM
I saw a link to your 1 hour plus speech. Life changing to say the least. I am blown away and I know I won't be able to consume anything from an animal. There is no humane way to kill an animal for food. I am blown away by the knowledge I am getting and it's hitting me like a ton of bricks. I will keep reading your website to get more info.
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 5:57 PM
I'm from Venezuela and I found your speech inspiring. I have gone from vegetarian to vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:27 PM
I'm emailing you today because I watched your speech. It was so powerful and emotional and conveyed the truth so well. I know of you because of my Mom, I'm sure you remember her. I actually remember you coming to pick her up from my house in Michigan when I was a small girl. I've been a vegetarian for about 5 years now. And I have so much compassion for all beings on this planet. After watching your video I feel so guilty for consuming these other animal products, I was unaware of what really goes on with dairy farms. From this day forward I am now a vegan and refuse to contribute to the evil that goes on. After watching other videos of dairy farms, slaughterhouses, and other revealing videos, I have seen evil in humans in the purest form. There is nothing but ignorance and a lack of compassion that drives people to keep this terrible cycle going. But I would love to be more than just a vegan who doesn't contribute to this evil, I want to help prevent it and create awareness. I love the activism you do and how you dedicate your very existence to making it better for others. You will leave this planet with a mark that will make this world a little less colder. But I also want to get involved. I'm just not sure where to start. I'm only 16 and a junior in high school. Could you recommend and tell me ideas on how I could get involved in helping? You are truly a beautiful soul.
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 9:27 AM
I'm from Portugal. Recently I saw one of your videos and you convinced me to go vegan. I have 3 small kids and a 2 month old now, I really want to change their habits, too. I never thought about the ATROCITIES that we do to animals. It is revolting! I shared your video with some of my friends and some of them are willing to try veganism, too. Thanks for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:51 AM
I wanted to send you a quick email to say well done in all you are doing. My husband who is a meat eater (but who is eating much less since meeting me) found your video lecture on You Tube and sat down with me to watch it. He is giving up dairy and slowly giving up meat. You are incredible.
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Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:29 PM
I've been a vegetarian since the age of 13 when I saw footage from a slaughterhouse on the news. My parents were of course concerned for my health as they had been taught (as their parents had been taught) that meat is necessary for our well being. I'm now 26 and was still a vegetarian up until one hour ago. Your speech opened my eyes to the truth of the dairy industry and I will never drink milk again. In my country, Sweden, consumption of dairy is PREACHED, and I mean preached, since kindergarten until third grade. It is nearly obligatory to drink milk growing up. In school we had days dedicated to milk, songs about milk and books about milk. Just recently I've taken on a more active approach trying to convince people around me to exclude meat from their diet, therefore I would love to be able to show everyone I know your inspirational speech. You are an amazing creature and I love your passion. It feels so good to know I'm not alone.
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Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 2:33 PM
I am a big fan of your work! I did become vegan after I watched your video. you are very inspiring with strong words! This is a good gift! I was wondering if you have ever been to Norway?
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 3:31 PM
i was in the Ventura College class you spoke to earlier today. i am very into fitness and nutrition and am always looking to better my diet for optimal health and performance. i have considered vegetarianism and veganism before but never really been able to stick to it, here is my dilemma. i will be leaving for Navy Bootcamp here shortly and on completion of that will be going to BUD/S which stands for Basic Underwater Demolition School, in short it is training for Navy SEALs. it is super intense training which really breaks down the body and sometimes people need to consume 6000 calories a day! now i know the military wont make special diet accommodations like the tofu and all that other stuff you were talking about but i hear at BUD/S they have a lot of good nutritional food like lots of fruits and veggies. i was just wondering maybe if you could give me a sample diet to follow as of right now to endure the training i am going through to prepare. they say my diet should be a lot of carbs 50-60% so that is something to consider as of right now i try to get over 3000 calories a day so that's what i try and shoot for. Thanks for the great speech and info and thanks for whatever help you can provide.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:57 AM
My husband and I discovered the conference you gave last year at Georgia Tech in July 2010. Thank you for all the information. We found it very interesting and deeply disturbing too. We decided to never drink a drop of cow milk ever again and to rethink completely our regime. Thank you for everything you and your team do for animals!
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 7:45 AM
I think what you're doing is AMAZING and I couldn't thank you enough, but more importantly, the animals and our earth couldn't thank you enough.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:48 PM
I recently listened to one of your lectures on youtube and I wanted to let you know the profound impact that it has had on me. Less than a week ago I made the decision to go vegan. Since taking an ethics course in college, I have struggled with the moral/ethical dilemma of eating animals and animal byproducts. I have found that going vegan is not nearly as difficult as I had imagined, but your lecture assured me that I will be able to continue with this lifestyle change. Your experiences and knowledge have helped to assure me that what I am doing is making a difference to lessen the suffering in this world. Thank you for the encouragement and for all that you have done.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 7:08 PM
You are a true inspiration. I must be your #1 fan. I constantly think about your courage and how much you are impacting society, and I wish I could have a quarter of your courage to do a fraction of the things you do to fight for animal rights. We need more people like you on this planet.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 5:30 PM
I am 49 years old, and I have to say at this moment, i'm in complete shock, i just saw your speech on animal rights and veganism held at Georgia Tech in summer of 2010. I was blind. my god, i can't believe this is happening. Thank you very much for opening my eyes!
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 3:56 PM
Someone sent me a link to your lecture and I stopped consuming dairy immediately. I kept procrastinating. I want to make contributions your wonderful work.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 2:24 PM
I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you! You're an inspiration! I admire your courage and honesty. And the fact that you believe in God also inspires me. I, too, am a believer. Your website is also a great help as well! You are a wonderful person, Gary. Please keep up the good work you do for the animals.
Comments from Students and Supporters, October 2011
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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:55 AM
I live in Gedera, which is a small town, 20 miles south to Tel Aviv, Israel. A month ago, my brother and his wife came to my house and told me they decided to become vegetarian after they saw your lecture. That night we saw it and decided to become vegan. For the last month, I am amazed at the reactions of people to the issue. The aggression, the denial and the "please don't remove the cover from my eyes" was expected, but I also learned that beneath all that, people scream for help. It looks like veganism is inside everybody's genes and they need someone to unplug them from the Matrix. Yesterday I read a report (http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/299/173.html?hp=1&cat=459) in one of the biggest newspapers in Israel. The headline was: "Tens of thousands of Israelis had already entered on YouTube and listened to Gary Yourofsky. For many, he changed their world view and menu". Then it went on to say: "Animal-rights organizations in Israel see Yourofsky as a Savior. [the animal rights group] Anonymous reported on an unprecedented wave of calls from Israelis who watched the lecture and decided to become vegetarians or vegans. Board members have even invented a nickname - 'Garyvegan' (vegans Following Gary)." I truly believe your lecture has the potential to generate a world revolution and I also believe the best place to start is the Holy Land.
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 11:00 PM
I'm from Brazil. I listened to your lecture. I've been a vegetarian for a year and thanks to you I'll become a vegan. Thank you for opening my eyes, I ask God to give you health and strength to win this fight.
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 7:22 PM
I am from Israel. I have just watched your lecture and I simply wanted to say thanks for opening my eyes. The world needs more people like you.
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 5:08 PM
I watched your lecture while doing research for a speech I have to do for my speech class. The videos are so disturbing, that I had to scream with pain while watching them. I am a huge animal lover. My 2 dogs and a cat are mostly the receivers of my love. I am going vegan (the moment I was done watching your speech), but I want to do more. I want to impact people and I want to help stop this cruelty. I have so much respect for you and you have truly opened my eyes.
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 3:23 PM
I saw your video yesterday. I cried a lot. I am very sensitive to the animal condition. You convinced me to not eat meat any more. Thank you for your actions.
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:11 PM
I am from Uruguay. I saw one of your conferences last night and I loved it. Most of all because I am a vegetarian and you gave me lots of ideas of how to answer people that constantly label me a freak. So, here I am, starting to be and think as a vegan from now on. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME SEE!
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Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 3:38 PM
I've been vegetarian since I was in high school back in '91. So I'm going on 20 years of vegetarianism. In that time, I've toyed with the idea of going vegan but never really had a motivation for it other than some vague concepts of what I think is ethical. Then about a month ago, I saw the YouTube video of your Georgia Tech lecture. Honestly - and I'm not overstating things here - I was instantly convinced. I made the switch that day. No more dairy or egg or honey. And the strangest thing happened. I've never been one to push my beliefs on others. Most of my friends eat meat. My wife has never tried vegetarianism at all. So here's the weird part: My wife saw this change in me. This sudden rush of passion and energy. This sudden realization that I needed to make an ethical choice in my life. And she completely bought into it. She's been vegan for a couple weeks now too. And we've decided to raise our 2 year old daughter vegan as well. We're 100% committed. Again, I want you to know I'm not overstating things when I tell you: you have made a tremendous positive impact in our lives. Thank you for doing what you do.
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Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:01 PM
My brother and I have just discovered you and watched your 2010 lecture. We were both vegan before we watched your lecture but your incredible, water-tight, irrefutable speech has really moved us and changed our lives. Equipped with the insight and reasoning you provided, we are spreading this knowledge to our friends and family. You are beyond an inspiration. You are slowly changing the world.
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Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 6:13 AM
I live in Serbia. I saw your video and immediately stopped eating meat and became vegetarian. It's been a few weeks now, and, man, I feel great! I'm planning on becoming vegan. I just want to thank you for changing my life. You are a great man. I wish there are more people like you. The world would be a better place.
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 2:52 PM
I heard you speak in Professor Krylow's ethics class last semester. The message you delivered made a huge impact on my life. I was not able to eat meat since that day. I did not believe that I was going to stick to being a vegetarian. I kept waiting for that moment to come where I would miss meat and lose my will but I honestly can say that I haven't had any desire for it since that class. I know that you had advertised vegan as "the least harm" but vegetarian is a step in the right direction and I like to think that while I am still not committing the least harm, I am not doing the greatest harm either. I have been trying to spread this message to others and encourage them to make some good decisions as well. As of now, my little sister has been a vegetarian for six months. Recently, I was sharing this with a friend of mine in Florida and she has decided to go vegetarian as well. Not even fifteen minutes ago I received an email from her informing me that she has dropped twenty pounds due to the new diet and she was absolutely thrilled. The health benefits are a wonderful bonus. Currently, I am in a public speaking class. The last presentation we have to deliver is a thirty minute long persuasive speech. Usually in this class, I am the comic. However, for this last speech, I really want to step back from that and speak to them about something more serious that means a lot to me. So far, I am planning to serve them my favorite vegetarian dishes and have them enjoying it before I even begin to speak. Then I would like to show them the video you had softened us with.
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 12:54 PM
I'm from Brazil (Sao Paulo). Just wanted to thank you. You opened my eyes.
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:30 AM
I'm fifteen yeas old. I've become vegan and I'm very proud of that decision. I saw a video of a speech that you did in Georgia in 2010, and I admire you a lot. I want to be like you, an authentic activist.
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 12:20 AM
I'm from Venezuela. Three months ago I saw your video and it was the little push I needed to become vegan (thanks for that). I was hoping you can give me some advice on how can I make veganism or at least vegetarianism more popular here.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:43 AM
I would like to extend my sincere appreciation of the work you are doing. People like you, shining a bright light onto this planet is what is needed to transform ignorance into understanding, resulting in change.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 1:52 AM
Thank you for doing what you do. You are a very inspiring person, and a rare giver in this world where people are only focused on themselves. I am currently a broke college student who still finds the time to volunteer at local animal shelters, but I often wonder what else I could do to serve as a voice to animals. I am studying international business (even though my dream is to work with animal documentation and animal rescuing), and as I continue my studies, I would love to explore how the obviously powerful world of business could contribute to promoting the importance of animal rights. I was raised in France, where my father always taught me the importance of consuming animal products from "organic" farms, not industries where animals are mistreated. I am currently a chicken, milk, cheese, egg and occasional beef eater, never really thought about becoming vegan or even vegetarian, thinking that as long as I was careful to purchase food from farms where animals were properly treated and nourished, I was simply playing my part in the food chain. But you managed to convince me, actually, I take that back, you didn't convince me, you simply educated me on the reality of consuming these products, and I not only want to thank you for that, but I want to spread this information that is clearly unknown and seems to have been kept purposely from people. Parts of your speech sound like a basic high-school biology class, so why are we not taught about this? I want to thank you one last time for defending animals. Animal abusers are no less dangerous than pedophiles, rapists, child abusers, domestic abusers and all other types of people who prey on the weaker (not that animals are necessarily weaker). Not to mention the extremely high percentage of murderers, rapists and all kinds of psychopaths who started off as animal abusers in the first place. I know you probably get millions of e-mails like this one, but hopefully you got the opportunity to read it and know that one more person is going to change her ways thanks to what you do. Thanks so much Gary, you're a wonderful being.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:41 PM
I was in your NJCU class listening to your speech and I just wanted to let you know that I really admire what you do. I honestly feel like such a hypocrite because I'm a huge animal lover but I still eat meat, fish, milk, eggs, and cheese all these years (I even take fish oil capsules everyday). I had always thought about converting but I've always been discouraged by family members Your speech gave me the push I needed and I have already spread your message to a lot of my friends and will continue to do so. I'm really excited about this change and I can't wait to feel the results although I already feel better about taking this step. I thank you so much for being such a huge influence. Your words are very powerful. I hope I can convince others as well one day.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:43 PM
I'm a brazilian and some days ago I received a link to watch your lecture. It was named "The best lecture you could ever watch in your life" and I absolutely agree. I live between my hypocrisy and my convenience, like you said. Everything you said was shocking, terribly sad and real in the deepest meaning of the word and hurts in a way I can't explain. Watching you, I began to shake, I went blind, my blood pressure dropped, I almost fainted and felt bad for days. I'm still feeling bad. Some friends of mine watched the video and felt the same way I do. I told everybody about it and will keep telling. I love animals more than anything in my life so there's no reason to eat them. You're completely right and all your strong arguments changed my life in one hour. Thanks for existing, and thanks for your love. With human beings like you, I´m sure there's hope for the world.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:42 PM
I am 16 years old and I live in CT. I have been a vegetarian for five years now, and after watching your speech yesterday I have decided to take steps to become vegan. You are my hero. The things you have done for animals are insanely amazing and the way you speak about what you believe in is heroic. One of my favorite quotes you said in your video, “They go in alive, against their will, and come out chopped into hundreds of pieces. Do you know what is more insane than that? Meat eaters. Walking around like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.” You have inspired me to take action and start helping now, instead of waiting until I am older. My plan is to create a video that will show parts of your speech in it, and explain to everyone why this is such a “massacre,” as you put it. I am then going to try and get it to be shown in my school one morning so everyone can see it. I am also going to try and talk to the school about having a day where we give free vegetarian meat out at lunch, since the majority of the people said they would try it.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:31 PM
I really enjoyed hearing your speeches, and kind of relate them to a comfort one might find going to church.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:25 PM
Thank you for your lecture. I mail it to everyone I know and my family turned from vegetarian to vegan. You are such a strong person.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 9:27 AM
I'm a vegan student in China. I felt so powerful after watching your video. I wanna be just like you so I can help animals so courageously. Your lectures are so awesome and I adore you! We eagerly hope you could come to China for lectures!
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:32 AM
I admire you and thank you for showing me what I did not want to see! Kisses from Poland!
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:45 PM
I just watched your lecture on youtube. Thank you for your bold/unapologetic, fact filled, passionate speech. I am stunned, heartbroken & now awake! I am struggling to convey what I am feeling. Keep up the good work, you are affecting so many people & as a result many, many more animals! I am going to ask my husband to watch it too. This is most likely the best/most convincing argument, I think he will be moved too!
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:49 PM
I live in Australia. After seeing your lecture, it changed my life.
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:47 AM
I'm a fifteen-year-old vegan in Denmark. I love your lecture. I've been watching it many times, I've gotten my parents to see it and have even convinced my teacher in social science to show it in class.
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:16 AM
i'm 18 years old from Colombia in Medellin, Antioquia, and i just watched your speech. you changed my life completely. i didn't realize the pain that i was causing. please keep doing your work and don't give up.
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:12 AM
I am from Argentina. You are an INSPIRATION!! Your speech with spanish subtitles is the main reason i am vegan.
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 12:06 AM
After watching a lecture of yours on you tube, I was taken away. I was a struggling vegan, secretly going back to vegetarian sometimes, but your lecture gave me the brutal reminder I needed. I'm currently completing a degree in conservation and wildlife biology as I've always wanted to save endangered species. But since listening to your lecture I no longer feel the desire to only save endangered species. There is something greater out there to conquer and that's awarding all animals their liberation, their integrity, and their natural rights.
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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 5:55 PM
thank you for all the decent good you do for animals. you are a great leader and person. we and the animals need your inspiration, leadership. without your leadership in this herculean struggle, all is lost. i have been vegetarian since 1999 and now i'm going vegan the rest of the way.
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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 3:43 PM
I want to thank you for what you are doing, from the bottom of my heart. I'm 21 years old and from Germany. Recently I saw your lecture and like thousands of others I just felt ashamed. I became vegetarian about 4 months ago. Fortunately, I saw your video and now know that veganism is the only way. I also share your video and knowledge with as many people as I can and my mother and my little 3 year old sister will luckily turn vegan too. You are the example that education is the most effective way to reach others.
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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 2:24 PM
A friend of mine shared your video, and I decided to watch it. I was planning on watching the first 10 minutes or so. Next thing you know, I was so interested on your speech, I ended up watching the whole video and then the Q&A video. You have really inspired me. After watching the slaughterhouse videos I felt really bad, and decided to become vegan or vegetarian.
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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 11:28 AM
I would like to thank you for your work as it has given me an easy way (by linking people to your site or lecture videos) to answer people's questions about veganism without having to launch into hours of dialogue with each individual myself. I am 100% certain that you have helped reduce suffering in the world dramatically, and for that I thank you.
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Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 11:54 PM
I saw your speech and it is the best lecture that I have EVER heard on animal rights and veganism. Your personality, charisma, background, and knowledge is just amazing. I realize that I need to focus my life's work on animal activism first and foremost. That footage hit me so hard. You are such an inspiration to so many people including myself.
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 9:16 PM
I am from Costa Rica, I just saw your video and thought GOD this is horrible! I am going vegan.
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 7:51 PM
I have just watched your lecture. This was the first time I heard from a vegan person. It was very inspiring. Congratulations for your strength and eloquence. Really good to hear.
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 2:01 PM
I am from Russia. I watched your presentation. I really believed in what you said. Looking at animal products is now disgusting. While watching your presentation, I was eating milk chocolate and thought I could not be without it. After watching your video, I threw it away. I have two cats and I could not imagine what I would do if anyone would try to harm them. I never thought about it before. I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 11:44 AM
I admire your work. I am a vegan from Mexico. I'm a professional speaker of Toastmasters International and I use those skills to give conferences about veganism. I'm able to access to many important social groups that allow me to speak to them. Recently, I saw a 70 minutes video of you giving a speech to a college and I liked your words and inspiration. I want to mention your name at my conferences and promote your video and your website. Thank you for your existence.
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 8:24 AM
I am a diehard fan of your actions against animal abuse. I admire you. Today I gave a speech in front of some 70+ kids age 16 and I had a good response. I really should thank you for that because I trained myself to speak with the help of your youtube video.
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:54 PM
Thank you so very much for doing what you do! I just saw the Georgia Tech lecture and it blew me away. I would love to help translate it into Swedish.
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:13 AM
I've seen your speech online and was moved by your passionate argument.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:01 PM
I feel privileged to have heard your speech.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 8:14 PM
I was in the ethics class last Friday. It has taken me a little while to think of what to say to you. I guess I can sum it up by saying, "Thank you." I really appreciate your words of wisdom. I walked out of that room on the 14th and was heartbroken. I felt disgusted with myself. I guess what I'm trying to say is I am ready to change. I really needed that slap in the face to look at life differently.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:14 PM
You are a "hero" and you let us know that we can be too! And just by doing simple things like using our brains and hearts.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:50 PM
I can not express how shocked and convinced I am after watching your speech. The video of the speech is being spread among Chinese through Chinese SNS websites now. Thanks for bringing such a strong reasoning that removes the need for any further dispute about the issue. I will minimize consumption of animal foods immediately, together with my wife. I will educate our children not to eat animal foods.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:45 PM
Oh god, no way to stay eyes-closed after watching your presentation. Keep giving people a hand in opening their eyes. It's a must.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:55 PM
I watched a video of one of your lectures and I absolutely loved it! For once somebody (YOU) addressed all the issues that hard core meat-eaters bring up.
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Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:43 PM
I watched your lecture at Georgia Tech. A friend sent it to me. I have been a vegan since the moment I viewed the video of the animals. Literally, I dropped the taco I was holding and asked my husband to take it away. I watched it 2 weeks ago Saturday and have not had anything that was not vegan. People have said why not just become a vegetarian it's so much easier, but, am I wrong in thinking what's the point, I'm not doing this for health reasons, I'm doing this because I honestly did not know what the hell was going on or how these precious animals were being treated. I had friends and co-workers tell me I couldn't do it and say "talk to you in a few days, you will be eating regularly by then because being a vegan is too hard". I love food and to be honest thought this was going to be as hard as they made it sound but it isn't. For almost everything I have had a desire for I have found a vegan alternative. I can't understand one thing though, why would anyone try to sway someone from having the courage of their convictions, especially with this subject? I have come up against such scrutiny, people don't like us, I think because they feel guilty, they know it's wrong and we are a constant reminder, those blinders are hard to keep on when they talk to us or see what we are eating and how easy it really is, that's the only justification I can come up with for someone telling me I'm crazy for not wanting to contribute to a baby being stolen from its mother because I want a glass of milk, or a slice of cheese, etc. I will never eat anything again that's not on my vegan menu. I want to thank you for educating me in this subject.
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:00 PM
I live in B.C. I'm sure you get this all the time but I'm just so happy to know that you are fully dedicated to what you stand for! I've watched all your videos and I've never thought of becoming vegan until now. I've showed lots of my friends and family your speeches and website! Even my mom who LOVES to eat meat and dairy has made an effort to buy much healthier and environmental products. I've definitely made an effort to stay away from purchasing meat/dairy products and in the near future I will be vegan! I never gave any thought to it until recently and I wanted to thank you for opening my eyes to a much healthier lifestyle. You're an amazing person!
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 10:40 AM
I saw your speech at U. of Akron last week and it was very inspiring. So I had to check out your website and it helped convince me even more. I especially think that the lists of vegan professional athletes is a great thing to list, that really made me able to see myself making the switch.
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 9:04 AM
Sincere and passionate thanks for your effort. I have watched your video on youtube and am 2 weeks vegan. I have struggled throughout my life to reconcile the hypocrisy of our culture and our own families in how we choose, as you point out, an arbitrary valuation of right and wrong in regard to cruelty, self-elected ignorance turning a blind eye to that which we participate, and sacrifice the strength, wisdom, truth, and justice, for common and cultural habits or desires. I am feeling more clean, healthy, and empowered than ever right now. I am excited about continuing to exercise my choice to align my actions with my values. I appreciate your poignant expression. My sister, and two of my female cousins have decided to "try" being vegan for this month (I was surprised when they came to me to say so) and it has been such a pleasure sharing so much information with them, becoming much more proactive and engaged in our pursuit of healthy living from many vantages. This has been a unique and special bonding experience together and we are all excited about taking better control of our lives, health, and more. A vegan diet has had a wonderful influence on my personally. I feel a lightness, freedom, clarity, and alignment in my life that I have previously not had, along with a greater passion to pursue creative expression, truth and justice, and share love while decisively addressing wrongdoing rather than maintaining passivity. Thank you again for sharing your feelings in words and action with the world.
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 1:13 AM
I recently saw your speech and was so moved by it, I FINALLY stopped being a vegetarian who ate cheese and eggs, and am now fully vegan. I'm so excited to know what I know now and to join the fight for animal rights in every way I can. Thank you so much for doing what you do. I'm trying to spread the word now too.
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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 12:27 PM
I was in the ethics class that you spoke at this morning. I wanted to thank you for being such an influential speaker and giving me the motivation to rethink my lifestyle. Me and my significant other have been debating on whether to become vegetarian. I have been very wary of whether or not to make the transition only because of the life habits I already have. However, hearing your speech today has put meat eating into a whole new perspective. And I want to thank you for that. I plan to listen to more of your lectures to inform me more about this topic. I look up toward people such as yourself, and thank you for the motivation you have given me.
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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 12:06 PM
I had the great honor of listening to your speech today at the University of Akron. I just wanted to let you know you have an amazing and inspiring way of speaking and after listening to you, a lot went through my head. I've always felt bad for animals, but like you said because of our blinders, we don't do anything about it. Your speech changed my whole way of thinking.
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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:46 PM
I saw your lecture on you tube and became vegan. Thank you! I have a 4 month old baby, soon she will stop breastfeeding. Can you please link me to good website to learn how and what to give her? To know that she will be pure from the start is amazing so thank you again.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:24 PM
I saw your lecture on youtube and have shared it with others. I really think you can convince everyone and explain it in the best way why people should be vegan. You really changed my life and my friends' lives and opened our eyes.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:44 AM
I was in your Ga Tech class this Monday and found your argument to be quite persuasive.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:56 PM
I randomly read about your speech on an animal rights facebook group last week, and checked it out last night. As a vegetarian for six years and a vegan for three months I thought I had done my research and agreed with all of the arguments towards veganism. Your speech was like a bolt out of the blue. I have never listened to someone as impassioned as that, with so much conviction in his voice. I was beyond inspired. Only yesterday I was questioning my actions since turning vegan. Did I have a right to preach to those who weren't trying to preach to me? Should I risk alienating my friends who warned me not to "harp" on about veganism, as I was apparently starting to sound like some zealot religious 'I've seen the light' speech maker. Since becoming vegan and engaging more and more with local animal rights groups, all I have posted on my facebook page are stories, pictures and quotes about animal rights and veganism, trying to get other people to think outside the box. And I've not received one comment or reply. Standing up for what you believe in can be lonely. But listening to Gary's speech empowered me that standing up for the right thing might not make you popular but at least I can sleep at night knowing I am helping a tiny bit to get something out there. If my friends don't like what I've got to say, then I need new friends. Your actions are an inspiration to me, and I'm sure to hundreds of thousands of others and I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for leading the way, taking risks and leading by example. One day I hope all vegans can become as educated, empowered and active in animal rights. I sure as hell will never stop trying.
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 10:54 PM
I am a current student at MDC-Wolfson campus. We just watched a lecture from you about animal rights and veganism. It really caught my attention. I started doing tremendous changes in my diet, and trying to influence my family and friends as well, to support the cause and think a little bit more about my own actions.
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 7:28 PM
I just wanted to let you know how impressed I was with your lecture today. I had heard and seen some of the same or similar stuff that you presented in class today in my AP Environmental Science class in high school. However, what you said reverberated more and was more sincere and from the heart. In my next class I went straight to your website and looked at all the different things you had up. I was texting my boyfriend about what you had said, and when I saw him after classes today I showed him your video that you have online where you were lecturing at Tech last summer. We have both decided to make the transition to becoming vegetarian and, in time, vegan. Thank you very much for everything that you do and for speaking at Georgia Tech today. It was a wonderful experience. We're going to Soul Vegetarian on Friday for dinner!
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:24 PM
A friend of mine messaged me telling me to watch "The Best Speech" on Youtube, which of course is a video of you lecturing at Georgia Tech. I watched it and was emotionally and physically affected by what you were informing the class of. I never questioned meat or dairy because it was just what I grew up with and what humans did. But after learning more about it I feel like I have been fooled the past 24 years - frightening. Now that I have more knowledge on the meat and dairy industries, and have witnessed the appalling nature of their corporations, I am making a change to eat compassionately. Thanks for passing on your knowledge, and I will continue to share the video with people in my life.
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:40 AM
Extremely impressed by your speech. I had many questions in my mind that got answered. I have been a vegetarian since birth who always used cow's milk and other animal products. I swear from now on that I will be a vegan for rest of my life. U have opened my eyes.
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:18 AM
I'm 18 years old and I live in Brazil. I've wanted to stop eating animals since I was 13, but at that age (as i had no support from my family) it was pretty hard for me to cook my own food. This year, I saw a cow being killed in a slaughterhouse on TV. I started crying and feeling so disgusted for being responsible for that murder that I decided to stop eating meat. When I told my friends and family about my decision to be a vegetarian, I got a lot of negative answers. I might be young, but I know that becoming a vegetarian was one of the wisest choices I've made so far. And now, after listening to all those things you said about milk, cheese and eggs, I've made another wise choice by becoming a vegan (or vegana, as we call here in Brazil). I'd like to congratulate you for your wonderful speech and thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 5:03 PM
I'm from Sweden, 17 years old. I've been a vegan now for a couple of months and have just started participating in some demonstrations against fur. I just wanted to tell you, that today I watched your video on youtube. This speech was so amazing. Thank you for doing such a good job. After I watched it, it left me with this feeling that "okay, I am definitely on the right track" because I have doubted myself sometimes. But this made me feel so good about myself and the choices I've made this last year.
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 3:15 PM
I'm from Moscow, Russia. I'm now building my own way to peaceful and harmless life in harmony with other beings on our planet.
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 12:01 PM
I just finished watching your speech. I must say a lot comes to mind, and in the same time I can think anymore. It is beyond my understanding how people can do those things. But I am convinced I will change my lifestyle after this. Thank you for your courage and determination in the fight for them!
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 6:34 AM
just want to say that i love your work. your manner of speaking is very impressive to me. i produce some instrumental music in my basement and i took a snippet of your lecture and sampled it in one of my songs. maybe you like it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=--g0J5sNxZ8
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Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 9:17 AM
I'm glad to say that you opened my eyes about some things and it has been agreed in the family that we won't buy regular milk made from cows or any other animal. I am distributing your video to all my friends and family.
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Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 1:43 AM
I just finished watching your speech and it completely changed my perspective, and has really opened my eyes. I've been considering becoming a vegan because of the health benefits but after watching your video I plan on changing my lifestyle not only because it's healthy but because of the animal cruelty.
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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 9:12 PM
I'm from Mexico City. I just want to tell you that when I saw your video I learned and began to be conscious about all the cruelty against the animals. Now I am vegan. You convinced me! Not only me but my whole family too. We don't eat meat anymore. We became vegans like you. We are with you, and we support your ideas and, we are so proud of you. I am trying to convince other people to be a vegan as well. I am forwarding your video to all my friends and they are doing the same to theirs. Thanks for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 12:42 PM
A few weeks ago i asked about sharing your video at our veg picnic! The event was really successful! We showed your speech which was really shocking for some of the people but at least 2 of them have become vegan. Thank you for sharing your speech with the world!
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:51 PM
Watching your video changed my life, and my boyfriend's life too. We really love animals, and we never thought about being vegan. We used to think it was useless because 2 people cannot change the world, or we thought it would be unhealthy. We were really ignorant. But when we saw your video, Wow. All the arguments and information - felt so bad because i study medicine and i never investigated the health aspect. Your video really made us open our eyes, and our hearts too. Now i know that one person can changes the world. You're amazing!
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 2:10 PM
I was a vegetarian for a year. But now I'm vegan. I always said that I'd be vegan when I turned 18. Thank you for letting me know that waiting and wanting to be vegan wasn't good enough. It's because of you that this is the most amazing decision I ever made.
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 1:47 PM
I'm a vegan environmental attorney. In my personal time, I keep a vegan/animal rights blog on tumblr. Recently, I watched a video of one of your lectures that has been making its way around tumblr, and after watching it, I felt moved to reach out to you. Throughout my career, I have often felt that while I'm doing some good work in my day job, I am not the animal rights advocate that I once was, nor am I the advocate that I still yearn to be. All of this, really, is just a clumsy way of saying that I greatly admire you for what you've done and continue to do for animals. Your commitment to the cause is admirable.
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 11:39 AM
I'm from Columbia and i want to say you: thank you. you really made a change in me.
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 4:55 AM
I'm a 16 year old from NZ. I am a weightlifter and apparently have the potential to make the National Team. I was wondering if you could help me with a vegetarian or vegan diet that would meet my needs? You're really inspirational!
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:22 PM
I have recently listened to your lecture on Youtube. Firstly, I just want to tell you that you make 100% sense to anyone with even half a brain. Your arguments are flawless and I will pass this on to as many people as possible. My awakening moment came following the publicly aired documentary of the abuse of animals in the Australian live export trade earlier this year (thanks to the organization Animals Australia). From there it has been one sickening revelation after another of the exploitation of animals for the minor interests of humans. Your speech helped me to consolidate these issues in my own head and gave me further inspiration to continue with my actions to increase others' awareness. Thank you again for your courage and actions and for educating people. I feel that the greatest impact will be made by educating future generations.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 5:23 PM
I found your youtube video VERY interesting and amazing.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 2:30 PM
I was in the class this morning at 9:30 that you spoke to. I really enjoyed listening to you talk and I learned a lot. I'll be working on being vegan. I really hope many of the other students took something from this. I find it amazing at how many people think the chicken they buy in the stores just randomly appears there overnight by a little fairy! I loved your talk and think it is amazing that you do what you do! I'll be checking out all the different pages of your website tonight.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:14 AM
my wife and i saw your lecture on you tube and decided to become vegetarians. i always thought that human were meant to eat meat, so thank you for correcting that.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 9:01 PM
I just saw your lecture online.I must say i was so grateful for your speech and your passion for all animals. You are the real deal as you walk your talk and I am so grateful there are human beings like you still today out there doing the right thing. I have put your lecture on my facebook page along with earthlings asking people to please watch. I stopped eating meat 6 weeks ago and your lecture is putting me to veganism.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 2:26 PM
i just saw your conference. i cried a lot. i was a vegetarian but now i am becoming vegan thanks to what you have said and showed.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 2:10 PM
I just watched the youtube of your lecture at Georgia Tech. I loved it! From the beginning to the end. You are very intelligent and have a lot of indisputable arguments.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:02 AM
i just saw a clip of you speaking at a university. i was quite shocked by it. .the clips of animals being beaten and killed was really horrific. but more alarming is that people are blind to what really goes on in the meat and animal product industry. i include myself in this. after seeing your seminar i'm really gonna make a massive effort to change what i eat and to think about the exploitation of animals. i'm a nichiren buddhist and care a lot about animals but i could do more. i'm grateful you opened my eyes to the bullshit of these big companies and how they manipulate us every single day. and those fuckers who beat those innocent animals, i have no doubt that karma will catch up with them in this life or another one. you touched my life and i thank you for this.
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Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 4:27 PM
BRAVO!! The most significant video I've seen. Quite possibly the most significant video, period. I am now a vegan for life. The ethical aspect is new to me, but I see no problem eliminating animal based non-food products. Your ethical message is delivered in the most powerful manner. I was crying and sobbing out loud. For more than one half of a century I've been oblivious to what's going on. Wow, I sure wish I would have learned 50 years ago. I sent the link to your lecture video to my best friend yesterday. I have not heard back from him yet. My wife will watch it today in Spanish. Then I'll contact my other friends and family members. I've been reading your website and I admire your uncompromising approach to animal rights. It can't be otherwise.
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Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 3:21 PM
I live in São Paulo (Brazil). I've just watched your video and I totally agree with you. I've tried to live a Vegan lifestyle but failed when I had to move back to my mother's house. Now my mother and I are determined to change to a healthy life because of you.
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Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 3:50 PM
I'm from Israel. You opened my eyes. Your presentation is so true!! I come from a religion where we have chicken on Saturday, or some type of meat. I've never been fond of "dead" stuff and always thought it was strange to eat it but the taste was good to me so I ate it. Now when I look at the meat I am sick.
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Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 2:18 PM
I am from China. Today, I have watched Video of your lecture with tears. It is very, very great! I admire your penetrating wisdom and courage very much. Thank you very much for all you have done for animals! The Video of your lecture is in my Blog. Is it possible that you will come to China to lecture?
Comments from Students and Supporters, September 2011
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 8:49 PM
i am 15 years old from israel. i heard your lecture and i really want to become vegetarian. thanks for you letting me know all the things you said in your lecture.
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 7:20 PM
I just watched your video and you took my blinders right off. I feel guiltier than ever. You really opened my eyes to a world that - for me - just keeps getting worse and worse.
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:15 PM
I am Australian. My husband and I decided to become vegetarian after having our son almost 2 years ago. The thought of eating someone else's baby really affected me and so with great determination we started researching nutritional benefits. We did our best with the belief we were doing the right thing and I must admit I was feeling as though I had accomplished something I always thought impossible. I was rather impressed by my "incredible willpower". This was right up until about 8 months ago. As usual, my husband and I would share information we would come across on studies and he came across your lecture on YouTube. Wow! What a wake-up call. There are not words strong even to describe the profound affect you have had on myself and my husband and I want to let you know that we have been completely vegan now for 8 months and are raising out little boy with the same morals and ethics I unfortunately was not brought up with. I'm writing to you because I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing whatever you can to help save not only these beautiful innocent animals but for saving me and my family. I set out on a journey to stop myself and my family from eating animals and I honestly thought I was doing enough. At least now I know there is more I can do and will strive to educate others on the amazing lesson you taught me. You have inspired me to be a better human and a better wife and mother!
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 7:01 AM
I'm a 28 year old journalist and I live in Tel-Aviv, Israel. I just watched one of your speeches from 2010 and I have to say I was very impressed. You bring out some very interesting and important issues, that are mostly ignored by the mainstream media. Keep up the good work!
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:26 PM
My boyfriend was surfing the net one day and came across, "The best speech you will ever hear" on Youtube. He wanted to listen to it but didn't get into it that particular day for whatever reason. On September 17 he and I decided to watch your video together at my place in Kingston, Ontario. My mother had just passed away on August 29 after an 8-year battle with four major diseases. I wish I had seen your video long before August of 2011. While we may never know what might have been, I'm certain had we had this information before she got sick, it never would have gotten to that stage. Kevin (38), my son Adam (15 years old and 6'2"), me (47), my friend Laura (49), her grown son (28 - who had no intention of believing anything your video had to say but was crying part way through) are all very different individuals indeed. Yet every single one of us completely changed our dietary lives forever, and our mind-sets, on the various days we watched your video. You come across tough with no bullshit allowed. That bothers some people. I know, because I'm the same way. When I told people I was going vegan and why, you would have thought I joined a cult where we peel the skin off babies (and yet, that's what the food industry and its counterparts do to furry 'babies'). I want to thank you for having the guts to stand up for animals in the way you have. We are all so thankful for having this knowledge. We all have different reasons for doing it. But they all have the same outcome. For me, animal suffering was all I needed to change, whether or not it bettered the environment or made me healthier wasn't even a concern. The fact that those things are happening is a wonderful bonus. I have to say I've never felt better physically or morally. The more I repeat your videos, the more I remember and can explain to others. Thank you so much for being the guy to deliver the message in such an intelligent and thought-provoking way. There's no way out once anyone watches that video. I am sick about the fact that all these animals are living in horror. I only hope we can all keep spreading the word and changing lives. Every day someone else writes to me on Facebook to tell me that they watched the video. The animals of the world thank you Gary! And the humans that have smartened up thank you too. I only wish my mom knew about all this before she passed. She would have embraced it too. It's because of how open she was as a human toward new ideas and her love of animals that made me pay attention.
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:49 PM
I'm a vegan since I saw your video 5 months ago. My blinders are off.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:24 PM
I just watched your inspirational speech and think you are a truly admirable person. Thanks for reassuring me that I am not the only person out there with those intentions. I wish people would just understand.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 4:58 PM
I really enjoyed your lecture today (Broward North). You're a great speaker. Very persuasive. In fact, I can't even think of consuming any animal-derived products right now, or ever.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 4:42 PM
i've been a vegetarian for a little over five years. a few months ago my friend and i decided to slowly transition into veganism. we planned to be full vegan by january first. but then on sunday night, she posted the video of your lecture on my facebook wall, and i watched the whole thing. it was honestly the most eye opening thing i had ever heard. i learned more in listening to your speech than i have in twelve years of school. any and all desire i had to continue consuming dairy and eggs vanished. i am so grateful to you for doing what you do, and giving a voice to the victims who cannot speak for themselves. i also felt compelled to pass the video along. i showed my boyfriend, who up until he watched it was a meat eater. my sister who hasn't eaten red meat in a while also decided to become vegan after listening to your speech. and we're continuing to try to spread the awareness of the issue at hand. thank you for being so inspiring, and for caring about animals. they really are so special. i hope in time people will see the blood on their hands and make a change.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:17 PM
Thank you for everything you stand for. You helped me make the decision to become vegan and although I have only been vegan for a month, I feel like I couldn't have been able to make the change without you. I have shared the video with my friends and they have also decided to become vegans. I really can't even express my gratitude for all that you have done and continue to do. You are fantastic.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:10 AM
I'm Brasilian. I'd never cried so much in my life even when my mother died from cancer. I have ten cats that I rescued from the streets and two dogs that I got in the same situation, and I thought I was doing my part. My heart was always hurting because pets were suffering around the world but now, after seeing your video, I realize I am a demon, worse than a demon. We humans do evil things to innocents. I am in pieces. I hate myself. Seeing your lecture was the hardest and strongest experience in my life. Nothing touched me so deeply. I realize I am weak and I am a beast that needs to take the transition step by step. Thanks for your existence. You really make the difference.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:15 AM
I would like to tell you how inspirational you are. I have been a vegan for a while now, and seeing your video from Ga Tech only reassured me that it was the best decision I have ever made. You are the only person who I have seen who is so well informed, educated, and genuine. You know everything! I always bring you up when I'm telling people about being a vegan. I look up to you. I hate when my friends ask certain questions and I have no answer for them. Thanks to you I am now more educated on the topic. I have shared your video with two of my friends who are now considering going vegetarian because of it. The world needs more people like you. Thank you so much for putting your videos on the internet, and know that you have another supporter and admirer in me.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:19 PM
I am the owner of Raphsodic Bakery, a 100% Vegan bakery in downtown Orlando. I was told about you by one of my employees, and he mentioned your video (Georgia Tech Lecture). I watched it and was blown away by your thoroughness, and frankly was so impressed with everything that you offered, spoke of, and referenced, I just wanted to say THANK YOU for being on the planet, for doing what you are doing, for being a bright light in a very dark tunnel! If you are ever in Orlando, check us out, I would love to be able to spend a moment with you and yours. Plus, my employees would love to meet you as well! Keep up the amazing energy and love you bring into the world. I am grateful for you. Thanks for being alive!
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Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:29 PM
I am blown away after watching your lecture. It is absolutely the best I have ever seen! Would it be possible for you to come to Poland?
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:33 PM
I live in Mexico. And I no longer eat meat because of your speech.
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 8:21 AM
I saw your lecture in Georgia Tech yesterday, it was very very interesting and fascinating. You convinced me and I wish I had seen your lecture earlier.
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 2:52 AM
I am a college student at southwestern Illinois college and I was wondering if you could do your speech here. I saw your speech on YouTube and it honestly turned me vegan and I think some of the people at my school would like to hear it.
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 1:48 AM
I'm living in Israel and I really want to become a vegan. You changed my life and I have turned vegan. I wish I could explain how much I appreciate you and the way you opened my mind.
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:22 AM
I watched your lecture. I am a vegetarian. After listening to you I have cried lot, and stopped using milk and milk products. Thanks for everything. I WISH EVERYONE ON THIS EARTH WAS LIKE U.
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Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 3:48 PM
I just watched your speech at Georgia Tech. I must thank you for making me go back to veganism. I had switched to being a vegetarian for the last two months. You are awesome. Please keep doing what you do and keep inspiring other people to do the right thing. Oh, and thanks for all the good arguments you gave me to defend myself against people who try to de-motivate me from being a vegan. I knew I was doing the right thing, but I had trouble putting words on it.
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Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 11:26 AM
I want to thank you for what you've been doing. I've been a vegetarian for 2 and a half years and I refused to go vegan because of, as you correctly put it, selfishness and convenience and taste and all. It's been a month that I've gone totally vegan and I'm so happy and proud of it. Thank you so much for your influential lectures and activities.
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Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 9:46 AM
a friend is planning to go vegan after watching your speech.
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Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 4:16 PM
I just saw your lecture from Georgia Tech today. I moved to Spain with my fiance and my daughter. Until I saw your lecture, I've never given this lifestyle serious thought. I would like some help about how I could start this process because I want to live long and stay healthy for my family and be ethically responsible to animals. Thank you for your time and your work it made an impact on my life.
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 4:27 PM
About a week ago I met a good friend of mine, and he was all like, "Dude! You gotta see this guy's lecture on youtube! He's freakin' awesome! Did you know the egg of the chicken is actually her PERIOD? And did you know that, and this, and that." So obviously I went to see what's all the fuss is about. I gotta say man, after 10-15 minutes I was TOTALLY HOOKED. 100% I'm a very logical, rational person. The stuff you said just makes sense! I just lay on my bed, watching your lecture, and I "get" it. And the way you convey it is ELECTRIFYING. No other word. You really opened my eyes and made me THINK. Until today I've only thought about the HUMAN aspect of the equation. But ANIMALS ... to be honest, never really thought about these poor guys. Thank you so much for opening my eyes. Keep doing what you're doing.
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 1:52 PM
You're totally amazing! Your speech really amazed me and helped me a lot!
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 11:13 AM
Thanks for opening my eyes. It's been 3 months as a vegan and I thank you everyday for this youtube conference and every truth you showed me in it. Keep fighting.
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 7:18 AM
Just saw one of your speeches. I am on my vegan path and you showed me many alternatives. Thank you for your work.
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 1:07 AM
I just want to thank you for helping me be vegan. you really touched my heart.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:12 PM
I'm sure you get a lot of these emails. But I just wanted to drop you a line and tell you that I really enjoyed your speech on Youtube. It was really terrific and eye-opening.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:45 PM
watching your speech right now. i think i'm going vegan bro!
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:19 PM
I've just seen your lecture at Georgia Tech 2010. I've never watched anything that made me question my own integrity. I've always considered myself a straight-up guy, with honor and integrity at the top of my list, helping those in need. But what I think hit me the hardest, what made me the most upset, was the fact that deep down, I suspected that those nasty things might be happening, and yet I've lived my life as if nothing ever happened, justifying its presence by ignoring its existence. A true hypocrite of the word. I come from Denmark, the world capital of bacon. We probably slaughter more pigs and cows per citizen than any other place on the planet and no one seems to care or know about the abuse. Meat has been woven into the very fabric of our society and it shows. Every holiday we celebrate life by filling our dinner tables with an abundance of various meat, cheese and egg dishes, having a great time ... never ever questioning the origins of the things we consume. For us, eating meat is as normal as drinking a glass of water, it's just the way we were raised. And you are right. We have come to view animals as objects, instead of living, thinking beings who deserve freedom and happiness. We have been duped, and for that I am sorry. I understand now what has to be done. I want to feel good about myself and my actions, and knowing that I'm not the cause of someone else's misery. I'm looking forward to being vegan, but I also think it will be very difficult at the beginning. I know a lot of people will question my decision and that I'll have to argue with a lot of those people, even people who have no intention of ever understanding why I made this choice. I wish I had your persuasive powers, it would definitely make it easier. That being the case, I still cleaned out my fridge today. It was a good feeling. Earlier I bought a watermelon, coconut, cucumber, mushrooms, peas, pasta, tomato sauce and onions. I'm going to enjoy the pasta dish like none I've ever had, even tho I'm a terrible cook. My journey starts today, thanks to you. I've made thousands of choices in my life so far, but this one I feel has great significance and I'm happy I made it. I wish you and the people around you the very best.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:52 PM
Your lecture absolutely changed my life.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:42 PM
I just wanted to thank you again for speaking to our class today. I have to say, I can't go back now. Now that I know, I can't un-know and I am officially converting my family to a vegan lifestyle. I am already spreading your word, so I just wanted to let you know that you have changed at least one family's way of life and given us an understanding of what really happens behind the closed doors of these slaughterhouses. Thank you for showing us.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:25 AM
Thank you for your inspiring and eye opening Georgia Tech lecture. I became a vegan after watching. I just enjoyed a delicious breakfast of tofu and collard greens and feel wonderful. I wanted to thank you for making a positive difference in my life, raising awareness for everyone and for helping the animals. Your position reminds me of Lawrence Kohlberg's 6 stages of moral development (ethics 101) and that act in the 6 stage: the right to life outweighs all of these other things, and breaking unjust laws is a must and it isn't what you do but why you do it that makes you in the highest stage of moral development. I support you.
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Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:49 PM
i'm a student in Broward College and i saw your video about 5 months ago. at that time i was Vegetarian but you inspired me that day to go Vegan. i would like to thank you for all you have done for the animals because you are entirely right. they deserve better treatment than humans give them.
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Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:45 PM
I'm from Diaz's ethics class. Just wanted 2 reiterate how powerful your lecture was. Truly an eye opening experience 4 me! I keep going over & over certain statements u said that really hit home 4 me. Even after I left campus I found myself telling others of the statements u said trying 2 convince others! You were so powerful and are extremely gifted! It's beautiful and incredibly inspiring to see someone so motivated and driven because of their passion for such a cause. It was an ABSOLUTE pleasure to have met you and have had the opportunity to continue the conversation after class. THANK U again 4 such an incredible experience!
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Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:29 PM
I just wanted to comment on how much value I have obtained from recently watching the video of the lecture from Georgia Tech. You had my immediate attention from your "disclaimer" that you were not the enemy. Aside of heightening my awareness to another level, you have given me more reasons to continue my lifestyle of going from a vegetarian of 4 years to now a vegan. As going vegan has had a few challenges for me and my wife who has switched as well, watching your lecture has driven many points home. You are by far one of the most inspiring speakers I have heard on this topic and because of these driving points, you have made my transition easier and permanent. Your site has been so informative as well, that I can turn others on to it for ideas or just for them to watch the lecture on the reasons to go vegan.
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Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 12:32 PM
I'm from Chile. I just wanted to say to you that I admire you. I think you're just a role model, the way you protect the animals is just amazing!
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Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 7:00 AM
I was wondering if I could show a version of your speech in my home university (Universidad de Valencia, Spain) next year following your main steps. Would you mind if I did that?
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Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 10:59 PM
I'm a student at North Dakota State University. I have a public speaking class this semester that requires me to give an informative speech. I saw your video on YouTube titled, "Best Speech You'll Ever Hear". I really liked it and I thought maybe I could give my informative speech on this topic as well. The speech has to be about five minutes long. So, I wanted to ask you, if I had to condense your 60-minute speech to a 5-minute speech, what major points should I cover? Thanks for your help.
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Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 10:53 AM
I was in Stephen Ethridge's class, at UCF, when you came in to give your speech. I just wanted to say your speech was great and I admire what you do. I'm eating vegan now and I will for a long time. I've already stopped eating high fructose corn syrup and all fast food restaurants for the past five years but after your speech you gave me what it takes to change eating meat, cheese, milk and eggs. Personally I've always been interested in veganism but I never had something give me that change. You are making a difference and I applaud you for that.
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Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 5:15 AM
Just have watched your lecture at Georgia Tech. Really impressed by your speech! Thanks for what you're doing!
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Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:17 PM
Thank you for what you are doing by creating media I can show others that really gets them to become aware of things they haven't and to question whether they should change. By showing your youtube video to others, there is a huge rate that have gone vegan after seeing it. I wonder if I could help you spread the word over here in anyway? I have been a freelance filmmaker animator and I was thinking while watching your film over the shoulder of a friend with a short attention span that it could be given the RSA style for this kind of audience. if you don't know RSA it's where a sort of illustrated, animated visuals compliments the audio of a good lecture. here is an example if you are not familiar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U. If this sounds like something you would be interested in developing, I would be more than happy to do it and develop it.
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Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:14 PM
I'm from Madrid, Spain, a great country with some horrible traditions. I watched that speech that's going around on Youtube and let me tell you that you've inspired me. I've been thinking of going vegetarian for a long time but hearing you and watching those horrible images you showed about animals suffering and dying finally made me realize I gotta change. I've been defending animals, mostly dogs and cats, as I volunteer at a shelter and collaborate as much as I can with anyone who needs help. So I started to realize if I can't stand cruelty against those animals and I'd never eat my dog, why would I let other animals suffer? My dog deserves my love and so do cows, pigs, ducks, etc. Thanks for reading this and keep up the good job defending animal rights. You're inspiring a lot of people!
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Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:08 PM
I am from Russia. I want to thank you so much for your actions. You changed my mind and thoughts. I saw a recording of your speech, and cried with fear, pain and shame. Before I heard your words, I thought that being vegan was weird, and not necessary. I will not eat meat for ethical reasons and will try to become vegan. I admire you! What you do is a feat in today's world. You're a real, humane man. I wish you good health and understanding. In Russia, you have friends. God bless you, and your actions.
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Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 1:00 PM
You and I corresponded a few months ago, I thought you'd appreciate knowing the following. A couple of months ago, I met a new friend via a blog on vegetarianism/veganism. She and I began emailing back and forth. It turns out that she, like me, is from Texas. At the time we began communicating, she was a vegetarian. And her husband, who is a fireman, was a big meat-eater who hunts and fishes with his station buddies. She had lots of questions for me about veganism, and I answered as best I could. Then I was inspired to send her your video. Here's her response: "I watched Gary's lecture Wed. evening. Couldn't sleep Wed. night. Thursday I showed it to my husband. I said 'Here, watch this' not really expecting that he would sit there and watch the whole thing, but he did. He occasionally rolled his eyes and made funny facial expressions until that second video Gary shows. After that, he was MAD. And he agreed with me that we needed to start moving in that direction! Yay! I am just blown away with this!" Later, my friend said her husband watched your video two more times, one of those times with some of the fellows on his shift at work. One firefighter was impressed and said he now understands why his wife became a vegetarian. As for my friend herself, she was so influenced by your video that she decided to go from vegetarianism to veganism and she also decided she'd had enough of serving her husband and two sons (both in college, living at home) animal parts. She now cooks ONLY vegan for her family. So, bless you and thank you and keep up the good work, Gary! And my friend thanks you a million times!!!!
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Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 9:51 AM
I was born in Santa Monica. I've been an ordained pastor in the Hindu Vaishnava tradition since 1995. I went to UCSB and am currently doing a Ph.D in theology at Oxford University. I just watched your 2010 speech at Georgia Tech. It brought a tear to my eye. I really want to congratulate you. I love the passion that you bring into your talk; you mean what you say. Coming from a spiritual perspective in which all conscious living beings are eternal souls that have as many rights as other souls encased in human bodies, I fully support your efforts. As soon as I finish my Ph.D, I plan to follow in your footsteps and educate the college community about speciesism. I look forward to maybe meeting you in person one day.
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:23 PM
My girlfriend saw your speech. Now she is going to go vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:28 PM
I'm 26, and lived in South America my whole life, in Paraguay. I'm a chef and I teach cooking classes to little children. I love animals, and can't even hurt an ant! But I've always eaten animal products. I've always been aware of the sacrifices and torture that our race does towards innocent beings, but no one EVER put it the way you did! I saw one of your speeches and it's like I finally understood everything I've always thought. You know when you hear something and realize that you already knew that your whole life? I never liked meat that much and I prefer vegetables and fruits. But like you said, my parents taught me that EVERYBODY NEEDS MEAT otherwise you are going to be a sick and weak person. On top of that, in this country, Paraguay, nobody knows how to live without meat! They eat meat 3 times a day, every day! I found soy milk here and I like it! I've been using it with my coffee and smoothies. I'm eating tofu instead of cheese. And I never liked eggs that much so I'm happy. I'm writing you today because you are a big inspiration for me. I've always wanted to be a better person. I think that we have the responsibility to change ourselves when we realize that we're doing something wrong. And the good news is that WE CAN! We just need to want it. And I WANT IT! I want to change! I'm trying to pass this "message of life" to my siblings. I totally agree with you that we are born good and then we learn evil. I'm getting married January 6 and he's now trying to take meat out of his life. Because of your speech, I will raise my children without animal products. When I have them one day, I will know how to feed them with earth products. This email is my way of saying THANK YOU. Your message of love and life can cross continents and oceans, and I'm the proof of it.
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:52 PM
WOW, I listened to your speech on youtube and I must say, I am so happy you are able to talk to students about animal cruelty and veganism. You are a blessing, thank you.
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:12 AM
I have just watched your lecture and have to say how much it has educated me. I had been vegetarian before, for ten years, then I relapsed. Your video has inspired me to become vegetarian again and this time I will keep to this belief. Thank you for the kick up the backside I needed after years of laziness.
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:08 AM
I would like to say thank you for opening my eyes. I saw your speech on Youtube and thought I didn't have 60 minutes to watch it ... but I just couldn't stop watching and I watched it till the end. I've been a vegetarian for 22 years and it's taken your speech for me to finally go vegan! Thank you for opening my eyes. Your speech was truly amazing! Also, thank you for having the speech captioned. I'm profoundly deaf and would have never been able to follow your speech if it hadn't been captioned. It's great that it's also been translated into other languages. My family is French-Portuguese, so I'll be showing them your speech with French and Portuguese captions, so that they understand why I've been vegetarian for so long and why I've now turned vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:19 AM
I am from the Czech Republic. I would like to show your lecture in our library as a part of Veggie month.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:06 PM
I am from Mongolia. I really want to get involved. I want to translate your speech from English to Mongolian.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:52 AM
I watched your lecture on the Georgia Tech. I was really impressed by not only the lecture itself but also by your actions. Not everybody is willing to chain himself to a car to protect animals. I believe your message is worth spreading so I decided to upload the lecture on my channel also so it can reach more people.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:20 AM
Subject: My video response to your speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM5cue8C9YE
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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:14 PM
I have listened to your speech over and over. It took me a long time to become a vegan because of all the cheese and ice cream. I had no idea about what was happening at the dairy farms. Thank you so much for your information. God Bless you for all that you do!
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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:45 PM
i live in israel. about a week ago i saw your speech about veganism and animal cruelty and you really opened my eyes. you're right, a cow shouldn't live less time than god gave it to live just because it is born a cow! same for any other animal. i want to let you know you touched one person's life and there's a sentence in hebrew says that if you change one life, it's like you changed a whole world you're my hero for doing what you do, fighting for my friends, who can not fight for themselves, its so brave of you too. you changed me and i thank you for that.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:25 PM
i'm from israel. i wanted to thank you. your lecture changed my life. i'm vegetarian for three months, and that's the best decision i have ever made. you are changing the world.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:07 AM
I want to thank you for informing me on this subject. You can now add another vegan to your list.
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 10:19 PM
I'm Brazilian and I saw your video today! And I have to say that your video made me think like no other. I study biology and since I started the course, I started to think about the problems of eating meat. I've tried many times to stop it, but this time I am going to do it. Your work is very beautiful! From now on I will do my part, too!
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 5:04 PM
I'm from Asuncion, Paraguay, and just watched the video on youtube. I am really touched and never saw it that way. On top of it all, I've always been in love with animals. I'll be vegan.
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 7:11 AM
YOU ARE MY IDOL! When I grow up i want to be just like you. I'm a 15 year old girl and i've been vegetarian for 5 years. But after i watched your lecture on youtube, i decided to be vegan. I knew what was happening with animals, but i had no clue how cows suffer on dairy farms. I would love to see your lecture live, but i'm from Slovenia (it's very small country in Europe). So I really hope, you're going to do Europe tour in 2012.
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 3:43 AM
I have been a hard-core meat eater all my life. When I say hard-core, I mean that I've gone for days at a time eating nothing but meat and cheese. You won't be surprised to learn that I've struggled with weight and cholesterol issues. Two months ago, I stumbled across your video. I watched it from beginning to end twice. Since that day, I have not consumed any meat, eggs, dairy or honey. So many of the points you made really resonated with me, and I have referred back to them often. I wanted to thank you because, now - two months into my vegan independence - I feel so calm and physically comfortable. After a lifetime of insatiable hunger (and binge eating that led me to Weight Watchers, Overeaters Anonymous, Jenny Craig, etc.) I was absolutely shocked that all food cravings have disappeared. This is hard to explain, but I'll try. I knew I was getting high off of food. I think most binge eaters know that. Many years ago, I went off of cigarettes cold turkey.Quitting dairy was physically harder for me than quitting nicotine. For five days, it felt impossibly hard. (thank you for the "eyedropper of pus" visual; that really helped) but after the fifth day, something clicked. I was calmer, easier. I didn't crave milk, or cheese, or meat. I didn't feel the urge to binge on anything! For the first time in my entire life, I sometimes forgo to eat a meal. I have been relaxed in a way that I've never ever been. It's amazing. To say "I feel great" just doesn't cover it. I feel free. I am thankful, too, for all the lives you have saved through me and others. I know that I am responsible for more deaths than I want to admit. I'm responsible for the suffering. I've known that for a while. I'm so grateful that you gave me the inspiration and tools to end my participation in the slaughter (and I'm spreading the word). I refuse to pay people to kill and torture for me anymore. I just wanted to throw my gratitude in with the others so you would realize how much good you're doing in the world.
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Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 10:01 AM
I live in Israel and just watched your lecture today. I must say that it was one of the most interesting and exciting lectures I've ever heard. I used to work in a dairy farm for several years, and took part of all the very unpleasant pictures you've shown. Thank you for saying the things the way you did! Thank you for putting the things together for me! Thank you for the inspiration.
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Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:37 AM
I'm 14 years old and I live in Denmark. I've just watched your speech on veganism on Youtube, and I am now determined to become a vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 5:45 AM
I am so inspired by you! I'm only a 15 year old girl but I want to do what you do! I want to inform people about the SLAVES who need to be set free! I even put up a paper on the fridge that says "blood, flesh, veins, muscles, tendons, cow secretions, chicken periods and bee vomit" so they know what they are eating.
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Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:40 PM
For a number of years I have been toying with vegetarianism, as in my heart I just felt like something was wrong with what we were doing. So much of what you said about the nutrition of meat made perfect sense, and meshed perfectly with much of what I already knew (true carnivores being immune to cholesterol, the structure of our teeth, etc). I kept coming back to meat and animal products based on two hooks--both of which you mentioned in your lecture: habit and taste (bacon does taste so good). I also believed I needed the protein, and that the best source of protein was meat. Your lecture was ... it was disturbing, revolutionary and enlightening. You said all the things I had thought, and ripped my blinders from my head. I was so angry during both videos that I cried with outrage, and when you said it happened because I consumed animal products, I literally felt the guilt as though I personally had punched that calf, or stabbed those cows with knives and pitchforks. I am currently writing a book of philosophy, and will be including a chapter on the sanctity of life--it will include animal life as well. You have changed my life. Not one more animal will suffer or die because of me. I am overweight too--too much meat and cheese, I'm sure; you have probably also saved my life.
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Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:45 AM
I saw one of your conference in youtube and I really like every single word that you say. I dream to help animals and you are an example for me. I am going to start with a vegan diet.
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Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:15 AM
I have just watched your video and i feel for the animals. I have been a vegetarian for three years and thought i could not go without diary products. Now I KNOW I can. You are so right with your "selfishness" comments ... that is the main reason why didn't go vegan. I will share your truthfulness with as many as possible. Who ever remains cold listening/watching deserves to be killed by cancer, etc.
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Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:05 AM
I've been vegetarian for 17 years. I saw your lecture 5 months ago and ever since I am Vegan (got off cheese). Thank you for opening my eyes and bringing up what I always believed in but swept my thoughts under the carpet. You gave me the strength to become Vegan. I guess i needed to hear a good argument for becoming one. I also quit medications i took for crohn's disease!
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Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 4:42 PM
I am a Pitt Community College student. Your speech was incredible. You have opened my eyes to a whole new way of thinking. I will be honest with you. Before you came and talked to us, I believed that some animals were meant for pets and some were meant for eating. I realize now that I'm a hypocrite. I believe in everything you said. I believe that eating animal products causes illnesses and causes people to have less energy. That's why I feel tired all the time. I want to change my eating habits, but I don't know where to start. I wanted to ask you if you could please share some advice and tips on how to wing myself off of animal products and head towards the right path.
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Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 8:17 AM
Me and a group of friends are organizing a vegan picnic in Slovenia! We would like to ask your permission to be able to project your video/speech, during our picnic!
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Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 6:32 AM
I have seen one of your latest videos on youtube and i was shocked at what i saw. I am considering becoming a vegan to fight these abuses of the industry.
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 8:12 PM
i'm 16 years old and i'm from Paraguay. i watched one of your speeches on youtube and i loved it so much. i'm going to spread your video to everyone i know so everybody can know what really happens with animals, and how hamburgers, and bacon, and leather things are made.
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:59 AM
I want to thank you personally. I've been a vegetarian since birth. After watching your talk something inside me has changed and I am determined to be dairy free for the remainder of my days. I've been aware of the nature of the dairy industry for a long time but something about how you speak and the additional horrific footage did something to me today. I'll be 50 later this September and it feels like a milestone.
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:56 AM
I'm 16 years old and I live in Jerusalem, Israel. A few days ago I watched one of your lectures. I thought I would only watch it for about 10 minutes because never in my life have I cared much for cows or chickens, but once I started watching, I couldn't stop. Since then I've spent HOURS looking up info online about animal right and veganism. You enlightened me. I think you've changed my life, actually. You are becoming rather famous in Israel. Your Hebrew lecture has over 50,000 views which is a lot considering Israel is a small country. I think you are a hero. You've inspired me in so many ways and I thank you so much for it.
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:47 AM
I watched your speech the day I went to the Omaha zoo with some of my friends ... I ended up getting sad and angry. We were walking through the gorilla exhibit and there was a silverback just sitting next to the glass with a look of no hope on his face. I even connected eyes with him and it was a feeling of great despair. How can such a powerful being seem so weak. It is just so pointless to do that to another being. Nonetheless there are many reasons I am going Vegan though; 1) Never been a fan of hurting beings; 2) Loss weight and become healthy; 3) When I have a house of my own I want a huge garden so I can quit paying someone to feed me. Anyway I just want to thank you for being human and not a primitive blind human.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:08 PM
I just wanted to tell you THANK YOU for changing my life. I was poking around on the internet one day, and completely by chance, came by your speech. It was so moving, and reached me on such an emotional level. It was that night that I went vegan-cold turkey-and never looked back. No matter what snide comments I get, or how un-supportive anyone wants to be, I still feel strongly about my decision and will NEVER go back to eating animals. I've always played around with being vegetarian, but it was never on a serious level. it was mostly for health reasons. Then in your speech, when you said 'yeah meat tastes great but its not about that' ... well that just got to me. After watching your speech, there were no more excuses to be had. The best part? I get to show my kids (2 and 3 and the BIGGEST animal lovers ever!) what it means to be compassionate. Our world has opened up into something so much bigger and we are more aware of what were putting into our bodies. So, I know you hear it all the time, but THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. You truly have changed my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:49 AM
I am based in Saudi Arabia as a Flight Attendant. I recently watched a video of yours on YouTube and you really made me think about every issue which you raised. I could really relate to you because I am 26 years old and you mentioned in your video that for 25 yrs of your life you were just like most of us, eating meat, a non vegetarian. But, you changed after that and now you are a vegan and you have really inspired me to be one. The videos which you used during your presentation was an eye opener for me. I knew we as humans are cruel to other species but never knew the degree or the level of it. The cruel and selfish nature of humans was so clear in that video. I couldn't believe few of the scenes. Thank You so much in creating an awareness in me and showing me a real picture of evil human beings and the cruelties we do to animal world. You have certainly made a difference in my life. I am a VEGAN!
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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 12:28 AM
I have a lot of Arabic friends who have a difficult time understanding veganism. Will your "Best Video Ever" video be translated into Arabic any time soon? Love what you do. Your speech will be my go-to video for introducing people to veganism. So powerful.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:49 PM
thank you for all the information and for having the guts to face the worst truth, and for having the power shout it out in such a clever, warm, positive and educational way. i am learning so much from you. i am willing to give my whole life to help our friends. i will find ways to help and love and share your speech.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:26 AM
I just watched your speech at Georgia Tech. Man I got to tell you that you really moved me. I'm from Sao Paulo, Brazil. We are meat-eaters. I want to change that. I want to get involved. You're doing a great work. No matter your religious convictions, I believe you carry a great soul.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 5:21 AM
I just finished watching the video of your lecture at Georgia Tech. It was insightful to say the least and I would like to stop contributing to the hurting of my animal friends.
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Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 5:29 PM
I just watched your video and I am inspired to become a vegan. I haven't eaten meat or poultry in a long time by default; I lost my teeth in an accident. But I was ok with eating milk, yogurt, cheese and eggs, until I just learned how calves are taken away from their mother so we could get the milk. I thought since I was buying organic dairy products I was doing the right thing. I never thought HOW cows are impregnated and what happened after that. I just took it for granted that dairy cows always had produced milk naturally. DUH! I have seen the abuse at farms but now I see the whole picture.
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Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 1:05 PM
I tried to go vegan a number of years ago, however, due to my addiction to cheese, eggs, honey and ice cream I was not able to keep it up. I am ashamed to say that but it is the truth. I can't get past my love of cheese and eggs. I love all the strong cheeses, like the Swiss, sharp cheddars and all the gourmet cheeses, oh and honey also. I think your video might be the instrument in breaking my cheese egg habit. I became vegetarian years ago because as a young person I watched as my own family killed sheep because they truly believe that God commanded us to eat certain animals. I could never reconcile this in my heart but I figured it was the way it was. I actually feel blessed that you have been put in my path of knowledge, I am sorry it took so many years. All these years I thought and felt I was a true, 100% animal lover and I cared so much more than all the meat eaters. I was blind to the fact that I was participating by consuming what I was. I felt that since it was not "actually" meat but what the animal produced it was somehow "okay". I truly needed your tough love approach. It worked. I just never really got the concept that I was not only being selfish, but profoundly hypocritical in my being vegetarian all these years. It never hit home that you can't be "kinda not prejudiced, or kinda compassionate to people or animals". I can now say that it won't be difficult to break my habit from this point on. Even though I don't know you, I am proud of you for being a true advocate and teacher in change. I pray that you go far in your quest for educating the masses. I also feel that your message is not only important to be heard in the United States of America, but I feel that it is important to spread to all the world. More people like you are needed in all the world.
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Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 9:39 AM
I credit you and your lecture for the conversion of my husband from steadfast omnivore to herbivore. Not to embarrass you, but you are an inspiration and a model I intend to follow. Thank you for your life's work.
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Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 2:51 AM
I just watched your video. I would love to pass these out for the Holidays. There are many Vegan activists here in Arizona that work hard to educate the public, and this video will help me out greatly. My son attends a private Immersion school in Scottsdale (ISA),and I am going to arrange a viewing of your lecture, but want to send home copies to parents or staff who did not attend. I appreciate your time. May I have permission to make copies.
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Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 9:24 PM
I'm a Danish 27 year old girl, and I saw your famous speech on youtube. It really made me think about what I eat, and for that I would like to thank you. Also, you probably already know this, but this is one of THE most disgusting things I know about eating meat, and just in case you didn't, I though you should know: A Danish state coroner, Preben Geertinger, wrote in his memoirs, that when he retired from his life long career doing autopsies, they could generally leave the bodies waiting for at least a week longer than when he started working as a coroner, before they would start to decompose. This was, in his opinion, due to the all additives used to preserve meat eaten in society; to stop it from decomposing while it's lying in the supermarket for sale. It seems though, that what stops a dead cows from rotting when it's dead, preserves the humans that ate the cow when they're dead too. The name of the book is "En retsmediciners bekendelser" ("Confessions of a Coroner") and you can see it here if you're interested. Thank you for what you're doing!
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Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 3:04 PM
I'm from israel. I saw your speech and decided to make a change in my life.
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Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 11:03 AM
After finding your speech about animal cruelty and veganism on the internet I have to say I am a changed person. I've always fought for animal rights, sheltering many at my house and even starting my own animal sanctuary. Because I am 19 people have discouraged me saying I am too young to fill my mind with such concerns and that I should only focus on my studying. But I have always been stubborn and I kept having recurring thoughts of what else I could do to help animals, because sheltering some is just a tiny drop of water in a vast ocean and that is not actually fighting for their rights, it's just being kind. I avoid eating meat but I had no idea of what was happening in the dairy industry and your speech just made me instantly want to change my behaviour. I didn't know animals suffered that much. I've always closed my eyes to this but now I am informed and I know what is happening so from this moment on no more meat, no more dairy, no more eggs, only vegan products. I've always had this idea in my mind that when I was old enough I would be stealing bunnies and rabbits and other animals from labs so I could free them from the suffering of animal experimentation. But, what is old enough? There is no age to be doing such thing and no, that is not a dream of mine. My dream is that the world would be cruelty free but for that I have got to fight, I have got to act. I can't just sit in front of my computer wishing that someday I will be brave enough to take action. That day is today! I am going to do research, I am going to investigate what is going on in the country where I live (it's Portugal, btw) and I am going to let my voice be heard for those whose voices have been silent for so long by the meat and dairy industry. I am going to do everything in my power to free animals from suffering. I am writing this email to thank you because you have no idea of how your speech changed my mind. I feel like I finally found someone who I can actually look up to. When I read of your arrests I was actually proud to find someone who does something, who is an active member of this community, who ACTUALLY defends animal rights and changes the way people think! So, again, thank you so much for being such a wonderful role-model and I too will be active and take action from this day on.
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Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 7:09 AM
I'm Brazilian. I watched your lecture and loved it. It's the best! I want to show everybody that becoming vegan is better. Your lecture is going to help me. I'm showing it to everybody I know.
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Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 8:56 PM
My whole life I've always been very sensitive and compassionate about animals. I remember as a kid my parents took me to the local animal shelter looking to adopt a dog. I was probably around 10 years old at the time, and I remember walking through the shelter looking at all the dogs in their cages and thinking how sad they looked and started crying. Despite my compassion, I still grew up as a meat eater because I was taught that it was ok. That changed as I grew older. I've been vegetarian for three years and naively thought that I was doing good for all animals. That changed recently when I came across a video of your speech. After watching the video, I realized I have been totally ignorant about the dairy industry and am quite embarrassed about not realizing the obvious facts of what cows have to endure for the purpose of providing milk. Your video has inspired me to go vegan, and I'm writing to you today to thank you for two reasons. First, to thank you for making me realize that being a vegetarian isn't enough. Second, to thank you for all you've done to protect and save the animals that are being so horribly abused. You are an inspiration, and a hero!
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Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:14 AM
i've been vegetarian for a few weeks now. i recently watched the speech you gave at Georgia Tech which really opened my eyes. i'm going to switch from vegetarian to vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:10 AM
I live in Australia and just shared your video with a number of people, vegan, vegetarian, meat eaters etc. and they all have such wide eyes and their minds blown away! It's the most fantastic tool I have right now for getting the message across when I am not at protests and rallies.
Comments from Students and Supporters, August 2011
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:21 PM
Can i just start by saying the work you are doing is nothing short of awesome. I saw your Lecture online yesterday with my brother. So many emotions surfaced throughout the lecture. We adopted a vegan diet in 1996 and then became lacto veg some 8 years later, drinking mainly goats milk and getting raw organic cows milk from a farm locally! Still inhumane!! As from now we are knocking the milk on the head. To tell you the truth i cant understand why we went back to drinking it and i feel angry at myself for doing it.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:53 AM
I have been a vegetarian for 2 years. A friend of mine sent me a link to your lecture at Georgia Tech. I want to thank you very sincerely for doing what you are doing, and for helping me to learn more about dairy and how the cows are treated. I am now planning to stop milk and milk products soon. I will share your lecture with as many people as I can. I am very interested also to read your essays.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:06 PM
you inspired me and my girlfriend, and changed our lives.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:44 PM
I wanted to thank you a lot for your lecture and in generally, for what you do for the animals. I've veganized so many people using your lecture, and I recommend it to any animal-eater I talk to. You've really had a great impact on people in Israel, and your lecture has gained huge popularity and is now being screened every day in an area for social justice. I also owe you a special thanks personally. The reason that I've become an activist is because of your lecture. I intend to dedicate my life for the cause thanks to you. That was really the best speech I've ever heard.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:54 AM
I am French and 15 years old. I became vegan last year. I love animals! I am impressed by what you do for them. If everybody was like you, the world would be better! I support you in the daily struggle.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:34 AM
I watched your speech. Thank you very much for what you are doing. I will try veganism.
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 10:52 PM
I have been fortunate enough to watch your video where you talk about the compassion we should all have for animals. Being a vegetarian, I agree with you completely, and as you well said, many vegetarians refrain from making the leap to veganism because of cheese! This was my case, but after listening to you and the facts, I am most definitely going to make the leap as of NOW. I was the Principal of a Kindergarten and Elementary school for 20 years and have just retired from my post. However, I do keep going to school in order to be with the children, write my blog, plan events, etc. I would like to ask you if you have any suggestions as to how to approach this subject matter with small children since I don't think they should watch the very graphic, tragic, sad, horrid video you showed. I do want to convince my students of being vegan, and if I can do this with my staff, even better! Our school is located in the city of Tijuana, Mexico. I admire your work profoundly and would like to help in any way possible.
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 4:40 PM
I would like to thank you for your great work/activity. you're the reason I'm gonna become vegan. It's been a week since I saw your lecture at Georgia Tech. keep up your energetic and vital work.
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:17 AM
I live in Israel in a small village. Ever since I can remember, I've loved animals. Or at least I thought I did. I have lived my life in the wrong way, regretfully. Thank you for your speech. You have changed my life, my whole point of view. I wish your way will lead us to a different future.
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 6:48 AM
I think you're truly an admirable man. I watched your speech at Georgia Tech in 2010 yesterday, and it was the most impressive speech I've ever ever seen in my life. Thank you so much for all you're doing for animals. You're a hero.
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 12:27 AM
Your speech has to be the most amazing, informative, and eye opening speech I have ever listened to and watched.
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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 11:12 PM
I watched your video yesterday and I was completely dumbfounded. I have been a vegetarian since I have been about 5 years old which was my own decision when I found out what meat was actually made out of. Since I've been little it has been drilled into me that I must consume dairy to be healthy. Doctors have told me I must consume eggs too. I am so upset that I have been lied to my whole life. After watching your video and seeing the truth and cruelty behind this, it's a no-brainer. I will learn how to become a Vegan. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to this cruelty. I have so much respect for you and I can truly say that you are a big inspiration to me. The whole purpose of my life I had decided since I was 5 years old was to make a difference for animals. Since I have been 16 I have worked hard in getting my accounting qualification so that I can become wealthy and be in a good place to help animals. Since watching your video I would like to take a Nutrition course and get qualified so I can inform people about their dietary choices. I believe education is the way we can get this message through to people. I have written to a few big t.v. news programs in Australia to show Australia the truth about dairy products. I have also forwarded your video to them. I hope you don't mind.
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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:53 PM
Thank you for all you do. My husband and I have been living healthier in the last 9 months and living mostly vegetarian. After watching your video, wow, we will be living much differently for the rest of our lives. I am starting a wellness program for young adults down to grade school kids. I will be changing many of my programs. Again thank you for all you do. I will be following you from now on.
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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:57 PM
I watched your lecture a couple weeks ago and I have been trying to go vegan ever since.
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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:13 PM
I am Brazilian I saw your speech at Georgia Tech, and I want to share this with my class. Can I have your permission to do so?
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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:01 AM
I'm from Israel. Me and my wife saw your lecture and we decided to go vegan. Thank you very much for opening our eyes.
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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:00 AM
I posted your video on my Facebook page yesterday and this was my friend's response. How awesome is that! Makes it all worthwhile. "Hey, I just wanted to say I just watched a post you put up on Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky, and I have to say that I don't think I will ever look at things the same again. I've always wanted to change the way I eat and now I know exactly why. Thanks for sharing. Hope your doing good."
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Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:53 PM
i am a 23 year old french student in law. I like meat, eggs, milk, cheese and honey. I like the taste, the flavour of it. But i saw you on internet. I think that my eyes are pretty open and i'm proud to be vegan now. Thank you and just keep doing what you do.
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Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:39 AM
I just watched your 'lecture' on youtube and it completely took my breath away. That was one of the most powerful, disturbing, informative, shocking and educational youtube posts I have ever watched. I was moved to the point of just utter disbelief. Born and raised in Kenya and now living in the Cayman Islands I sat here for an hour after the video digesting everything you said. I shared it immediately on facebook.
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Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 9:42 PM
I saw your video about killing animals. it is cruel. i was a meat-eater but after this ... i don't know. i'm a teacher in Cancún and i want to show your video to my students at elementary schools, and let them think freely about this, and save animals by changing to fruits and vegetables.
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Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 4:18 PM
i've been vegetarian for 4 years, thanks to your words and this incredible video now i'm a vegan!
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Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 3:39 PM
You're great! I present you to all my friends and I motivate them to present you to their friends.
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Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 12:35 AM
I've been flirting with veganism for 3 years. 3 years ago I stopped eating meat, but I still consumed milk and eggs. I've just seen one of your lectures on YouTube and let me just tell you: thank you. I guess I was forever trying to come up with an excuse for eating cheese. And now I have none. And more than a lack of excuse, I'm totally repulsed by that cow's treatment in the end of the lecture. Unfortunately I live in Brazil and we don't have almost any kind of faux meat or milk or cheese. I'm not a big fan of tofu as cheese, so I may stop eating cheese for a while, but I don't really care right now. I'm still in shock by what I've seen. No taste in the world is worth that animal suffering. Today is my birthday and I've been asking for my friends to watch your lecture as a gift. They don't have to tell me they watched it. They don't have to comment or discuss it with me. They don't even have to let me know they read my request. If they watch it, that will be enough. And it may take a while, but they'll change. I have no idea who you are or what your history is. But I'm deeply thankful for what you have done to me. Thank you.
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Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 4:51 AM
I have recently watched your video and I have to say it has really turned me around. I was vegetarian for five years before I gave it up when I moved to France because I thought it was too hard to be here and not eat meat or, especially, cheese. Now I am seriously re-considering this "logic".
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:23 PM
I'm from Israel. I became a vegan a few months back after watching your lecture at Georgia Tech. I would like you to know that your lecture has been playing on a big screen at one of the busiest avenues in Tel Aviv and surely changed peoples lives or at least rose their level of awareness. I personally know four other people who watched it and turned vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:11 PM
I just watched your Vegan lecture. I have been a vegetarian since I was 16 (am now 63). As of this moment, I will be Vegan. Thank you and God Bless You, Gary, for the horrific but ultimately fantastically good work you do. I am now going to give my 2 dogs big hugs.
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:35 PM
You are truly fantastic! I watched your video online and went from Vegetarian to Vegan along with my family and some friends. I'm a 21 year old college student from the University of Economics of Lisbon. It's a very well-known international university and the best in our country. It would be wonderful if you could come and lecture.
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:51 AM
I recently watched a youtube video of one of your speeches. I have been Vegetarian for about 8 months now and I have been taking dairy and egg products out of my diet as well but I haven't fully transitioned to being vegan. Your speech really inspired me to try harder to kick the habit for good.
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 7:59 AM
your speech made me and my wife think twice about becoming vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:44 AM
i've seen many documentaries about eating animals, but i've never seen anything like your speech at georgia tech. I don't believe in God but i believe in people like you. I will spread the word with my parents, uncles and family, and will show them this video for sure.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 5:44 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed watching your speech. I am so impressed with your ability to present the information in a logical understandable way. I love that you are reaching so many young people and giving them the information that we all need to make important changes in both our lives and the world.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 4:14 PM
I am a Norwegian Nutrition & Health Therapy-student. You've FINALLY pushed me over the edge to Veganism with your speech.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:30 AM
I saw the video of your lecture at Georgia Tech and have been pimping it to my friends for the last 4 or 5 months and you are often a topic of conversation among my people. You are one of the great orators of our time, and a hero in the most classic sense. We love you Gary and think you are the bomb. Straight up. Thank you for your contributions to mother earth and reminding the population of their intrinsic humanity. Your grace, clarity and truth continue to affect our spirits long after you've left the room (or our computer screens).
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 3:00 AM
I'm a college student and I just watched one of your lectures on youtube and I've been completely wowed. I mean, I know our system is corrupt, murderous, and that we're ignorant to a lot of things, but your lecture really got through to me. I never thought of it as torture, slavery, rape, etc. but after your lecture, I agree, that's exactly what it is and it's flat out wrong. I know several people that are Vegan, but I never really understood it until now. And honestly, I think I've taken away so much more from watching a couple of your lectures on youtube in ONE sitting, than from 10 weeks of lecture in my economics and psychology courses.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:34 PM
I just wanted to thank you for giving me the ONLY RIGHT point of view about what's going on with animals. I was shocked after watching your speech and became vegan the day after and do not miss a thing! I don't want to take part in that!
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:20 PM
Your speech has completely changed my habits. I agree with everything you say. I really hope it will touch others too. The way I see it, human suffering is no less than animal suffering. The fact that billions are being slaughtered and tortured everyday is terrible. It is somewhat human nature to ignore things they do not encounter in their everyday life. I find it truly amazing how blind people can be. Every day I see people who are willing to give a great sacrifice for their own dog, but they give nothing to the animals they eat. Just the thought of what is happening to the animals in slaughterhouse while I am typing this is making me sick. I am now barely 16 and I really hope I will be able to make a difference once I get older. It is sad there aren't enough people like you.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:17 PM
I watched your speech on you tube and it changed my life.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:35 PM
I watched your speech 20 days ago. I was crying and being angry, enthusiastic, frustrated and determined all at the same time. I studied philosophy and sociology here at Ljubljana university (Slovenia), I've loved animals since I was a little boy, trying a couple of times not to eat meat, but never being successful for more than a day or two. I admit now, I was a selfish hypocrite. I adored animals whenever I saw them in nature or on television, but always passed by the neighbours farms ignoring the cruelty, slavery, suffering. Your lecture changed something in me. My wife came to see to me while I was watching your video because she knew something was wrong. I was crying and completely upset. After the lecture was over, we went for a walk because I wanted to clear my head from the horrible things you said (being right in every single sentence!), and when we got back I decided to be more honest and sincere, to accept your invitation, your challenge! When the first day of not eating meat, eggs or milk was over, I wanted to see if I could do it for the rest of the week. I kept the promise and continued not to eat meat (or any animal products). After ten days I published on my FB profile a longer text, explaining what I felt, what I thought, what was going on with me in the past few days. I lost 2 kilos. I sweat less and even if I do, it does not stink. A couple of days ago I went to a local cosmetics shop (cruelty free) to buy some organic cosmetics, I started to speak with the saleswoman who told me she also saw the video. So, dear Gary, thank you for doing what you are doing, for being brave in the name of those who cannot speak for themselves, who suffer enormously, who are dying every day to feed our perverted desires. As a sociologist and a person of morals, I could never be at peace with myself if I would simply just stick to veganism, without spreading the word, getting involved, being active. My first plan for the future weeks is to write an essay to our department website (sociologija.si), posting your video and explaining what I am doing, how I managed to do it in spite of being a meat-eater my whole life, and what I plan to do in future. I promise to take all three groups of my students next semester to some slaughterhouses and make them see what our SOCIETY is doing. Then we will return to the classroom to see your lecture (I am teaching Sociology of Globalization, Classics of Sociology and the Sociology of nation and nationalism).
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 4:34 PM
Just wanted to say that I LOVED the speech. Just recently went vegan. The discussion about activism has led me to engage the local area of Abilene, Texas, I'll be putting on cooking demos for the area once a week to help people get healthy while informing them about vegan lifestyles and benefits.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:15 PM
I recently watched your youtube video and I have to say my blinders were taken off.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:27 PM
I write you from México, I just have heard your speech at Georgia Tech, and it was an unexplained experience for me. You brought light into my life, and since now "meat, cheese, milk and eggs" are out of my life. Your words and example of life came at the right moment.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:43 AM
I live in Brisbane, Australia. I have just spent the last hour and a half watching your video presentation at Georgia Tech. I am both mesmerised and touched by your speech. You are the most intelligent, down to earth realistic teacher I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. You couldn't of made more sense on every topic discussed in your presentation. I am so thankful for you, for your being. You are a true animal activist and I praise you for that. I am very interested in becoming a vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:43 AM
I live in northern Israel. I have a wife and 3 kids. I was a vegetarian for more than 20 years, and I thought that I was OK for not harming the animals. Then I saw your lecture 3 months ago, and I understood what I had to do, so now I am Vegan. I sent your lecture to a friend of mine who was always mocking me for not eating meat. Now he is vegan and his wife is vegetarian. I also sent the lecture to my brother who was vegetarian, but started eating meat because of his girlfriend. Now my brother, his girlfriend and her mother are vegetarian. I also sent this link to many others, such as my wife—who sadly still refuses to watch your lecture, or read any of the articles that I give her. I just want to thank you for opening my eyes. This personal revolution that I made is something that I'll never forget!
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Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 10:51 PM
I am a veterinary student from Singapore. I have been an animal lover my entire life and switched to a vegan diet and lifestyle a year ago. I was 19 at the time and i feel that it is the best decision that I've ever made in my life. When i came across your video, i decided to share it with my mom and sister, who both went vegan because of you. I would like to thank you for putting your passion so succinctly in the best speech ever made.
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Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 10:42 PM
I am an Official Veterinarian in Brazil and I work in a bovine slaughterhouse in the State of Mato Grosso. this state has the largest number of bovine in brazil about 27 million. my function is to check all the compliances about the conditions. after watching your video, I cried so much. every day when I go to work it is like going to a cemetery. I stopped eating everything from animals since your video. I think I will not change the world, but I won't let the world change me. so thanks for being here on Earth and making me see as a Vet. I forgot the little Patricia, who always would give her life for a ant.
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Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 9:16 PM
I've followed you on facebook since my friend had the courage to show me your speech nearly six months ago. Since then I have been vegan, and have never looked back. Not only was I compelled to show compassion on my plate, but I have also opened my home for foster care for abused animals waiting for a new home, and I also engage in leafleting. I hope you know that you have made a tremendous impact on countless lives, and have saved a multitude of animals with the power of your voice alone. Thank you for all you do, and for who you are.
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Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 2:25 PM
I also wanted to let you know that your speech was pretty inspirational to me. After seeing it I question why I should remain a meat-eater, and as an avid angler and weight lifter that is saying something. I wanted to let you know that I'm going to try and make the move to veganisim and I hope that you find some solace in knowing you are responsible to that.
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Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 11:59 PM
I am 21 yrs old from Manila, Philippines. today is the day that I've found out about you. I've seen a video of you conducting a speech am currently checking your website. I am an animal lover who is not a vegan. After seeing your video, I just realized that everything you said were exactly right. I've learned a lot. I will practice veganism from now on. Your work is amazing. I am very much happy to know that there is someone like you who's out there to help and speak up for the animals. I will continue to support you and your advocacy.
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Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 11:08 PM
I am the organizer of the Bulgarian Vegetarian Society (www.vegebg.org). I saw your website and speech and find them especially great!
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Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 2:20 PM
I'm from Brazil! Have 35 years old. Been vegan for 2 weeks since I saw your speech.
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Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:41 AM
I watched your speech on youtube. I had thrown around the idea of becoming vegetarian in the past, but have never considered veganism until now. I think it is awesome you take your time and devote so much to educating the public. Just wanted to let you know your work is appreciated and I am now working to change my diet to help the cause.
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Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:41 AM
I'm from Israel and I just wanted to say you have really opened my eyes and made me think about many things I never would have thought about if I hadn't seen your lecture. You made me vegan! And my sister!
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Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:47 AM
I'm a college student that has been a vegetarian for 7+ years and a recent vegan that tried to tell my family and friends for years to stop eating meat for several reasons. I came across one of your speeches on YouTube and I felt overwhelmingly happy that YOU were able to say all the right things, all the facts, and the TRUTH about meat and animal mistreatment. In fact, I showed your video to my sister and her husband and they immediately threw out all the dairy and promised to never eat meat again. I plan to show my entire family, but it really warms my heart to know that at least 2 more people decided to no longer contribute to this massacre and to finally do what nature intended us to do. The way you deliver your speech is truly passionate. It's a gift that you have to be able to touch people through your words. I'm so thankful that there are other people like YOU that have this ability. Your speech will definitely continue to be one of the videos I show to people to give them that information or doubts they had in their minds. It honestly seems like you plucked half the things out of my brain and verbalized them in a way that people can understand. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for your dedication, perseverance, and passion for what's right and what needs to be done. You're a very inspirational person that I hope to one day be like.
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Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:12 AM
I found you on you You Tube and have been watching your videos. I am very impressed. I have been a vegetarian for 4 years and am now really convinced to go Vegan after seeing your speeches.
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Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 5:03 AM
I am becoming vegan thanks to you!
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 1:30 PM
I just saw a video of you and I must say it was the most moving speech I have ever heard. Although it caused me anxiety and tears to see what really goes on, it NEEDS to be seen. I have shared it with others. At this point I am just sickened by people, although I always try to find some good in someone, it's getting harder every day. Thank you sooooo much for what you are doing and never stop. You have a new follower.
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 7:42 AM
i watched your great speech recently through my sister. definitely going vegan. Thanks and cheers from Portugal.
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 7:42 AM
I am from Australia and after watching your video lecture, my mum, sister & I have turned Vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 7:44 PM
I'm 16 and I'm Portuguese. I started being a vegetarian when I saw Earthlings. But when I saw your speech, I started being vegan. And this is the way! I have shared your speech and have had great results! People are increasingly interested and wanting to change once and for all, forever, because it makes no sense to continue with these habits, traditions, tastes and conveniences. And, we are one! All different but all equal.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:40 PM
I am from Israel. My little sister is a vegan for almost 6 month now. She sent me a link to your speech. I enjoyed every moment of it, and even watched it again right away. All the things that you said there, it's all so true!! Ever since, I became a vegan and I feel so much better! Morally and physically! I Just wanted to say, thank you for opening my eyes, and mostly thank you for changing my life!
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:01 PM
You've became a legend here in Israel. You affect so many people that it's almost surreal. I see people around me - like in the end of days - turning from meat-eaters to vegans in one day, and embrace the ideas. Your place in the pages of history of ethical evolution of mankind is already secured!
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:01 PM
I just watched your speech on youtube, it was incredible. I was a vegetarian ... now turned vegan. That last video just pushed me over the edge.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:42 PM
YOUR SPEECH JUST CHANGED MY LIFE. I want to thank you for the hard work you have been doing for the planet. This is just pure logic and common sense. Thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:01 AM
I just saw your videos and am so touched by the lectures. I feel like I am talking to a superstar! Your videos are the reason why me and my twin sister went vegan. Your lectures made me laugh and made me cry. I've seen SO many lectures on living a healthy lifestyle but your just hit home for me. God bless you Gary for getting the message out about going vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:38 AM
GOD BLESS YOU FOR BEING THE PERSON YOU ARE. YOU REALLY CHANGED THE LIVES OF ME AND MY GIRLFRIEND FOR THE BETTER.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 3:30 AM
We were vegetarians for 12 years. And now we are vegan because of you. We will transmit your video to our surroundings. Thank you and bravo for your fight!
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 7:32 PM
I saw one of your videos on youtube. May I just say you are an inspiration! Thank you for what you have done and what you will do in years to come!
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:41 PM
Thank you so much for answering all of my questions and helping me with my school assignment. I have to say that I always tried to change the way my family thinks but have had no success. But now thanks to your speech my family is motivated to change their ways and be vegans now. You don't have any idea how much you helped me. If someday you travel to Spain, we are here for you.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:45 PM
I'm 36 and live in the north of france with my english husband and my two kids. I'm pregnant with a third one. I've been following you since the moment I saw you, and I've been really touch by your actions and your speeches. I'm a vegetarian and still eat some eggs because we saved a few hens last years. But now I promise that I will stop eating their eggs. I just wanted to say thank you for all the things you do. Your speech has been now translate in french and I try to show it as much as I can. This week two of my friends told me their point of view about meat and dairy changed because of you. They both went vegan. Thanks for the information in the Pregnancy section as well. It's really interesting.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:21 PM
I am 29 years old from Israel. I was a vegetarian for years until I saw your lecture. Now I am vegan. I am very proud of what you do and want to tell you that a lot is happening in our country thanks to you. Continue on your so successful way, may our world be blessed by more people like you.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:18 PM
Your speech helped me convince one of my friends to go vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:04 PM
In June I stopped eating land animals. Then I saw your lecture on Partido pelos Animais e pela Natureza's channel on Facebook [posted August 10]. And now I want to start veganism as soon as possible.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:42 PM
The video of the Georgia Tech speech is what gave me the final push to *officially* go vegan. Thank you so much for that, and even more so for all that you do for animals. You are truly an inspiration and a hero! I am spreading the word and sharing the video as much as possible.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:08 AM
you really changed my life!
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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:09 PM
I'm from Porto Alegre metropolitan area, RS, Brazil. I've recently watched your speech at Georgia Tech University about veganism and animal rights, and I want to make DVDs to show it to the most open-minded omnivores I know, the ones I feel will really care about it and the ones that really have a chance to change their habits. You really know how to convince people. This is not an easy task when you live in Southern Brazil, a place that shares many traditions with Uruguayans and Argentinians. We consume more cow meat and sheep meat than any other part of the planet, and "churrasco" (barbecue) is considered our official dish. However, our condition here in Brazil is far better than in the rest of South America. We have soy-meat, soy-milk and tofu, and veggie restaurants. My cousin has already decided to stop eating animals thanks to your speech. Also, my father-in-law and wife will make some DVDs and share them with more people. I've visited your website, and it is amazing. I used the "vegan athletes" section to show my cousin (who is addicted to weight training) that vegans and vegetarians aren't weak and soft because he was afraid he would lose his muscles, but the pictures of those guys changed his mind. You are a guy who deserves respect. And you will be called a hero 300 years from now (maybe earlier, maybe later).
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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:03 PM
I saw your lecture at the Georgia Tech on You tube via a facebook link yesterday and I found it superb! I am a vegetarian biologist who is now turning vegan. What you do is fair and right and your message sounds clear and can be heard loud. Congratulations for your great humane work for the voiceless.
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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 11:13 AM
I want to become a VEGAN as soon as my next lunch in a few hours. Thanks a lot for being who you are, for doing everything you do for the animals.
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Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 8:46 PM
You're a wonderful inspiration to all vegan people. I've been vegan for several years, I've seen a lot of things, and watched a lot of lectures. But your lecture at Georgia Tech was the best I've ever saw: direct, emotional, inspirational.
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 2:47 PM
I watched your speech and haven't eaten meat since, I don't intend to touch it again! You're right and for that I thank you! I have already visited adaptt.org and sit here genuinely shocked to my core that I was blinded for so long! And I'm loving veggie food! You're an inspirational person and I'm glad your fighting in the corner of the animals.
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:51 AM
I just wanted to say thank you! Your lecture video helped me to go from vegetarian to vegan and I couldn't be happier!
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Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 3:12 PM
12 weeks ago, after watching your speech the night before, I went 100% vegan! Thank you for sharing your experience with me as by now my body has detoxed sufficiently to see great improvements in health. I now am more active in protecting our animal friends and take much pleasure in sharing your speech with others and see the mutually beneficial change in them!
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Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 3:12 PM
I LOVE YOU. thank you for opening my eyes to the milk industry. i thought being vegetarian was good enough but now i see it's not. thank you, you are amazing!
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Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 3:12 PM
I'm 27 years old and I'm from Israel. I started to watch your lecture on youtube and I think I became a vegan after about 30 minutes. I saw the whole lecture through the end but I didn't need to.
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Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 2:27 PM
I'm from Spain. I'm doing a presentation at my school about vegetarianism and veganism. I'm 17 years old and I've been vegetarian since I was 12. I just saw your speech and I'm without words right now. I just wanted you to know that you helped motivate me even more. Please, don't ever change. I want to be like you.
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Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 2:15 PM
just wanted to say,you changed my life, you are a true inspiration! i made my whole family go vegan because of you. "BROCCOLI DOESN'T SHIT!"
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Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7:47 AM
I converted another meat eater to veganism using your lecture this morning. You're a rock star!
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Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 4:10 AM
You've inspired me and many of my friends to further pursue the Vegan lifestyle. I will help spread your words to everyone and hope you keep making differences!
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:23 PM
There is so much things I would like to say to you, starting with how grateful I am for taking off my "blinders"... which changed all my thinking and eating habits. And thank you Gary, the world is a better place with you.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 1:02 PM
I am a humble Ambulance Paramedic currently on night shift in Canberra, Australia, and have just stumbled upon one of your youtube lectures and am currently sitting absolutely dumbfounded. I had no idea how pathetic and ignorant we were as a race. I will be having a very serious chat with my wife when I go home in the morning about what I have seen during my shift. Unfortunately, my job involves me occasionally having to see people 'slaughtered' either on purpose or by tragic accident. I will also honestly say that I was eating a ham and cheese and horseradish sandwich when I was watching your lecture until you put a video clip on, when I fucking nearly through it up all over the place. I very quickly through it in the bin and still feel quite unwell thinking about it. Thanks for the education.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:41 AM
I wanted to thank you for opening my eyes. You changed my life. I’ve been vegan for a little more than a month and I never felt better! I hope some day the rest of the world will join us so we can all live together in peace.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:22 AM
I am an animals rights activist and vegan for several years. I work as volunteer for Associação Animal (www.animal.org.pt), an animals rights association in Portugal. Lately, I have received a link for a video of one of your presentations. I have never seen anyone like you. Such inspiring words and such an emotive speech could only come from a person chosen for a big mission. I realized that you have all the ingredients to inspire people to respect the other animals. You have a mixing experience (not always vegan), you have the right look, the know-how, the right and assertive speech. We can see that you know how to speak to an audience. You are direct and sarcastic in the right way. You are the one who can change the world by changing mentalities.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:34 AM
You are great man for what u are doing! I'm the only Olympic Gold medalist in Israel (Gal Fridman) and I'm vegetarian.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:33 AM
You are such an inspiration! I'm your biggest Australian fan. Please check out my website www.veganballerina.com and let me know your thoughts. I'm aiming for a vegan cook book out later this year. Keep up your amazing work!
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Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 5:34 PM
I've watched your videos a few times now and I learn a little more each time. I am currently in an environmental psychology class and need to answer a question about what can be done to improve conditions for the environment in the next few decades. Can I quote you? In your Q&A on youtube you mention the amount of land used for meat versus produce and also the amount of grains used to raise meat versus feeding people.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 5:34 PM
I have just watched your lecture on u tube and I can say "you have changed my life." I cried and become so angry at myself for being such a selfish person. You have inspired me a great deal. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. Starting today I will NEVER eat another living creature on this earth.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 4:14 PM
love love love your lectures!! I love how you get your point across! Your speeches are so inspirational and so interesting to listen to! I would do anything if people like you were in office and making the country better for animals! Listening to one of your speeches helped me with answering questions I'm always asked about my vegan lifestyle!
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Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 4:07 PM
Saw your amazing lecture online! It helped convince my fiancee and cousin to stop eating meat.
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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 9:33 PM
I just watched your vegan lecture on YouTube. You are my new hero! I have been a vegetarian for 4 months now, and your video was the push I needed to go vegan. Thank you for the work you have done to be a voice for those who have none.
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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 9:16 PM
I was born in Venezuela. I just saw your video cried a lot. I love animals and I'll change my eating habits, My Deepest heart and soul gratitude for all of your Light and courage into our world, for the animals, and our Mother Earth! You are a modern day saint and a huge inspiration!
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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 5:46 AM
Your speech is amazing. I hope the people who were there are now vegan. You are a GOD, the God of truth! I am proud to be vegan, never as proud in my life! Thank you for existing!
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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 4:58 AM
I am a professional musician from Nottingham, England. A few months back i was out in the pub with friends when i received a text message from my drummer saying ive emailed you a video you must see. I'm 32 years old engaged to Sarah and have two young boys. i stumbled out of the pub that night walked home via the Kebab shop ordered a chicken kebab for me and one for sarah and the boys, got in plated them up and we sat to eat I was sat at this computer catching up on emails from fans and eating, when I clicked the link to your youtube video. I sat and watched all of it. I was dumbfounded. totally in tears and vomited what i had just eaten. this was a few month ago now and since that evening myself or my partner have never eaten meat or animal products. You know what? I feel 200% better. I'm not sluggish. i'm fitter than ever. I used to have a gastric problem of chronic reflux and was on omeperazole daily to stop this. since moving to a vegan diet I haven't suffered once from reflux or acid indigestion. I would like to thank you personally for bringing this to my attention. watching that video totally changed my life. you've got a good soul Gary Yourofsky.
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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 8:31 PM
You are truly an inspiration! We need more people like you in this world, and I intend to be one of them! Thank you so much for being who you are and for standing up for what you believe in. You're amazing.
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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:55 AM
I was really moved by your speech. I have to do a speech for my Environmental Science class. Can I use the information on adaptt.org for my research. My topic is "How Veganism Can Reform the World Environmentally".
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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:55 AM
A friend introduced me to your speech today and as i am typing this - with tears - I want to say thank you. My world has changed immediately.
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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:47 AM
I'm from jerusalem. Been vegetarian for the last 12 years. I know many vegans but still somehow i couldn't make the decision to become vegan until I saw your video, decided no more. i owe this to you. you affect so many people. it's really amazing. Thank you for the wake-up call, i needed that.
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 10:14 PM
Just finished watching "Earthlings" and commented on their FB page. Someone then linked me to one of your videos and WOW, you are an AMAZING speaker. You were entertaining the whole lecture and you (along with Earthlings) has made me never want to touch meat or dairy ever again. Thank you for giving these helpless animals a voice.
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 7:11 PM
Your videos are inspiring, everyone should be made to watch them.
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 6:08 PM
I am Brazilian and I became a vegan with your help, watching your battle, your willingness to make change and your protests. I grew up eating meat, because I live in a state of Brazil, where the barbecue is a Tradition. Very ashamed of it. I wonder if you have any plans to come to Brazil to lecture, because we need you.
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 8:45 AM
I just wanted to tell you I have been extremely inspired by your 2010 lecture. I have always had a low meat based diet, but under some grand illusion meat was still part of my diet. However you gave an extremely intelligent, articulate, logical and rational explanation as to why it is absolutely absurd, unethical and illogical to continue using animal products.
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 7:06 AM
Did you know that you are being projected in a loop video in the Tel Aviv protest site? and the responses are awesome. people are watching the lecture in hundreds. now is the best time to do that as you probably follow the news and know about the protest wave. people's awareness is rising.
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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 1:12 AM
YOU ARE TRULY AMAZING!!! I REALLY WISH THERE WERE MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN THIS WORLD.
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:55 PM
I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION TO ME AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE.YOU CHANGED MY LIFE! I WAS VEGETARIAN BUT 2 MONTHS AGO WHEN I SAW YOUR LECTURE I DECIDED TO QUIT MILK, EGGS, ETC. MY BODY FEELS STRONGER THAN EVER!
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:18 PM
just so you know in israel there's a nickname for people who became vegan after watching your lecture (and there are quite a few of them): 'tivogary'. 'tivo' comes from 'tivoni' which is vegan in hebrew. that's why we are all so thankful and grateful for everything you've done and are still doing. you're really amazing!
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:23 AM
WOW WOW WOW! Just finished watching your speech held at Georgia Tech. YOU ARE MY HERO, GARY! I really mean that. Thanks for the awesome work you do.
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:15 AM
Got to say mate, I am so impressed with all that you stand for. Sadly, I have only just discovered you today. Thankfully I found you. Your video is fantastic. It brought tears to my eyes. One thing is for sure, I'm going full vegan. I have over the years been veggie off and on, been disheartened, turned back to organic meat ... sadly this isn't good enough and I know this. Your video threw any doubts I had out of the window. I have shared this video with friends and stressed it's importance. You're the dude.
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:15 AM
I saw your YouTube lecture from Georgia Tech. It was very inspiring! Thank you for taking my blinders off.
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 3:15 AM
I just want to thank you for your speech. Even though, intellectually, I agree with everything you say, I was so brainwashed into believing that cow milk for infants was the ok thing to do. It's hard to constantly fight the established way of thinking but I am more committed now than ever. You are a rock star! I think you have the most significant and monumental job the planet has ever seen. It couldn't be in better hands.
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:15 PM
I am Brazilian, vegetarian and your newest fan! I will strive to become vegan after watching your speech. Thank you! Continue in this fight. Our fight!
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:04 PM
your speech is creating a revolution in Spain and South America. someone told me he wants to use your video to make a big broadcasting in schools.
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:04 AM
I live in Brazil, and help an NGO with more than 1100 animals. I watched your speech on the Internet, and would like to burn it to a DVD and distribute to many people. I became vegan because of you. Do not ever stop.
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 7:31 AM
I just want you to know that I sent your speech to my mother, and now she is vegetarian (not vegan because of... cheese, what a surprise!) She was thinking about going vegetarian for a long time, a bit more since I am vegan, and you finally convinced her! Thank you so much!
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:27 AM
I watched your speech on youtube and I'm a vegan thanks to you. you made a huge difference in my sister's life too. I showed it to her and a friend and they both went vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:35 AM
Thank you Thank you Thank YOU! Your speeches are awesome! Keep it up! When I was a vegetarian, I watched your video and stopped drinking milk right away. I've been vegan ever since!
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:10 AM
I'm from Argentina, and just finished watching one of your lectures. I couldn't stop crying. I'm a vegetarian who has cheese, milk, honey in my fridge. I'll try to give it away tomorrow and start looking for other options. I'll do everything I can to be able to stop eating all this stuff.
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:00 AM
I just wanted to say you ROCK. I wish more people were like you and would listen to you! You make me feel sane in a world that is completely insane.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:56 PM
Just wanted to let you know that your speech changed my life. Not only have I become Vegan, but my boyfriend, sister-in-law, and mother have all become vegetarian. Keep up the wonderful work.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 9:44 PM
I have just finished watching your speech at Georgia Tech. I feel so ashamed that I've allowed myself to NOT see. Thank you for everything you've done for the animals and getting the message out to people. I became a vegetarian after watching the Four Corners footage of the treatment of cows in the Indonesian slaughterhouses on the 30th of May. After seeing your speech I am now vegan. I can't believe we humans can treat such gentle animals so cruelly. Thanks for risking your life and freedom and speaking out for the abused animals. We need more people like you on the planet.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:48 AM
just saw your video and I'm totally excited and saddened at how misinformed we are in this fucking society. thanks for opening my eyes in Barcelona.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 8:25 AM
i just wanted to let you know how much your lectures have changed my life! my dad and i went vegan a couple of months ago. we had been vegetarians for a long time but never really made the step to a vegan life until i showed him one of your lectures. since then three of my friends have become vegan, too! we are getting active and inform people at my uni in germany and in london, where i'm originally from. i can't believe it took me so long to go vegan! this was the best decision of my life. keep up the good work and i won't stop spreading the word also! thank you for your compassion towards animals and everything you do!
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 8:25 AM
I saw your lecture on YouTube and it made me think totally different. I live in Sao Paulo. Been vegetarian for 2 years and vegan now for a week.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:44 AM
i just watched your lecture and i must say just how thankful i am for having people like you in this distorted world we live in. no one could ever explain the situation better than you.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:27 PM
We are a small Non Governmental Organization located on an island in Brazil called CEBIO that means in English Conservation Center of Biodiversity.(www.cebio.org.br - sorry it is only in Portuguese). My girlfriend and I volunteer and would like to say that your speech will be a fantastic tool to be shown in local schools over our county and partner universities. This email has two goals. First to say, congratulations from the depths of our hearts. Your words are echoing all over the planet, HELPING AND SAVING ANIMALS AROUND THE GLOBE. Second, mother nature has chosen you to be her mouth to scream to stop this massacre, opening peoples mind about what we are doing with our earth planet fellows.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 5:51 PM
i have just seen your lecture on youtube and i've decided to go vegan. i wanted to thank you and to tell you that you are a great man for doing what you do. i have sent written letters in the past against bullfighting, and was a member of an israeli group against animal experiments but thanks to you i now understand that it was simply not enough. Not even close.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:55 PM
i am a vegan from israel. today i saw your famous lecture from 2010. Wow! You are a genius and a Great man. A lot of people in israel talk about you and the lecture and become vegan or vegetarian. you are amazing! you are a symbol and a leader and you are the angel and the hope for Our friends, the animals. Because of people like you there is hope for the animals.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:59 AM
I'm from Portugal and I became a vegan because of you. I will change, and leave the least impact possible on mother earth. I'm in the process of veganism for a week now, and I feel much better in every way. Your speech turned my wife vegan too! We have a son who is 5 years old who has never eaten meat or any animal products because he never liked it. But it was never necessary to give him vitamin supplements. And Gary, whenever you feel sad, remember us, you have changed us, one at a time.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 6:01 AM
Thanks for your words.Thank you for your motivation. I just finished watching one of your videos and will continue my fight. My brother, who was a vegetarian, saw it with me. He has decided to go vegan. Thank you for existing.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:26 AM
You're a huge inspiration to me! I cannot thank you enough for what you do. If only everyone could see your speech.
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 11:22 PM
I just watched a speech you did for some college students. I always thought it was normal for human beings to eat meat. However after hearing you speak I can honestly say you have changed my way of thinking. I tried joining other animal rights activist groups but my eating meat was always an issue and I didn't understand why until now. I want to start living a vegan lifestyle. I know now its the right thing to do. I am so happy there are people like you educating people on this horrible shit that is going on. It makes me sick to my stomach seeing these poor animals treated like that for no reason. Thank you so much for opening my eyes. My whole life is gonna start changing because of that speech. I'm gonna show it to as many people as I can.
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 10:09 PM
I live in Belo Horizonte, main city of Minas Gerais State. I had no intention to became vegan. but today I watched a lecture of yours, and I'm thankful about all that information that you brought to me. I admire what you do.
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 6:21 PM
I cried after watching one of your lectures. I have never cried before about this issue. I never knew who you were, but I do now. I will stop eating animals.
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 3:35 PM
I've been a vegan for almost 7 years and today I found a video of a lecture you gave. I downloaded the video because it was the best speech about veganism and animals rights I've ever seen. Would you mind if I upload it to my Facebook page so my friends could see it whenever they want? You are an inspiration.
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 6:17 AM
I saw your lecture at a university in the USA. It is super powerful and most of all sincere. It is 6 a.m. here in Venezuela and I am starting with a good vegan breakfast. We talk about the planet as if it were ours! But it is not! Thank you for opening my eyes to the cruelty and hatred. People are without common sense! I'll start a life with more consistency with the planet and all beings who share it Hopefully you will come to Venezuela.
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 2:40 AM
I've been a vegetarian for 6 months now and after seeing your video, I'm totally converted to veganism! It got to my boyfriend too, which means the world to me. And I'm sharing your link with everyone I know! Thank you so much for lacing your speech with logic - its what the world needs! You're my new hero! Kindest Regards from Cape Town, South Africa.
Comments from Students and Supporters, July 2011
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Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:54 PM
I admire your work. It's a hedonistic world but I will not participate in the massacre. Because of your video, it makes us feel that we are not crazy. I hope someday i can see u in Argentina.
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Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:32 PM
Met a new vegan here in Perth today. We were talking about our vegan turning point. She said she watched your speech, didn't sleep for 3 days and then went vegan. Just thought you'd love you know the difference you are making.
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Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 7:31 PM
I turned full vegan from your speech. I found 2 vegan shops in my city that i never knew existed so the transition was rather easy (especially since last cow milk coffee made me throw up ... had the image of the beaten calf in my head). You planted a seed and I'm all up for the challenge. It's way too important. Thank you so much for the inspiration, for everything you've done for the animals. You got your room booked in heaven for sure.
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 10:53 PM
I just saw one of your videos, it has changed my life, thanks for open my eyes, greeting from Colombia !
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 3:09 PM
I'm from Brazil. I would like to say that the work you're doing to stop animals from suffering is just amazing. I would like to do 1% of what you have done.
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 1:41 PM
I just wanted to tell you that you've changed my life! I've been a vegetarian since September 2010, and have wanted to become vegan, but not really stuck with it. I found your speech last week though, and I'm definitely all in now! Thank you so much for what you do, you're very inspiring to me. I really look up to you and thank you for all that you've done and do for animals.
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 4:04 AM
thanks for opening my eyes. i'm vegetarian, but thanks to you i want to become a vegan. you taught me a very important lesson to coexist with our animal friends.
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 4:24 AM
I saw one of your lectures on YouTube. You are brilliant.
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 2:03 AM
thank you for having the cojones to stand your ground and be the outspoken power of example you have been. i have been subtly disgusted by meat for years and over and over given in to the roll of the eyes and lame explanations of our dominant meat-eating culture. your story about going to the circus in anticipation of viewing the sweet, fascinating elephants but instead being saddened and disturbed reminds me of when i went to the zoo last time and just turned around and left in tremendous sadness upon seeing the caged animals. obviously my consciousness questions and rejects our cultural relationship with animals. not having the cojones to freely embrace my own obvious internal reactions is what made my reactions subtle. ive questioned and set aside my own doubt and distaste when looking at bones on plates from chickens and pigs and steers i've eaten for years. now after watching you, its over. i will not participate in murdering and exploiting animals any longer. i have quit on my own twice, for two months each time, only to finally give into the pressure of my own meat-eating habit combined with the rudeness of rolling-eyed friends. no more. its over. im vegan. you give me the strength to stand up to any doubt or question or a-holes i may encounter. july 15 2011 is my vegan sobriety date. i am 46 years old.
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 11:17 PM
I just watched your lecture online and I was really impressed. Congratulations for your amazing work and for being such an amazing speaker and an inspiring advocate for the vegan cause.
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:26 PM
I had a chance to watch your speech on youtube. It shocked me, opened my eyes and I've been vegan since then. I'm from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and want to know how can I help. Congrats for the spectacular work.
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 6:54 PM
Last Monday you lectured in my class at UMD and I found everything you said to be extremely enlightening. Since then I've committed to not eating any animal products. I've shopped at Trader Joe's and have been eating lots of fruits and vegetables and grains.
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 12:33 AM
I am not going to lie. When I first started watching your lecture, I thought to myself, 'Oh no here comes yet another member of the vegan police, here to shun away others from the wider movement.' As you went into detail though, I saw the rationale behind your method. Your message is powerful and all I can say is please keep doing what you are doing.
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Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:25 PM
I just saw the speech you gave to the Georgia Tech class in summer of 2010, and I just wanted to THANK YOU!! cause the world needs more people like you; I find it powerful, truthful and most of all life changing, after this I don't think there's another way to live; so, for that THANK YOU and keep going. I was a vegetarian already and was actually trying to go vegan all the way, and used to find it a bit difficult, but after hearing and seeing the information you presented I find it not hard at all, it was the thing it was missing for me to take the final step to a vegan diet. I'll get all my friends and people I know to see your speech to get more people to change their life style .
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Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:11 PM
Our Philosophy 101 professor, Joseph Krylow, showed us one of your lectures last night on YouTube. I wanted to let you know that you are a powerful and beautiful speaker. I have never seen arguments made for veganism with such force. Not a single person can walk away from your message unchanged. I went vegan 8 years ago after watching videos of slaughterhouses/factory farms, but returned to an omnivorous diet after a couple years. Being vegan is so difficult, especially in a rural, non-progressive area such as mine. I do feel defeated, discouraged, and especially frustrated when my diet is the laughing stock of my friends, family, and coworkers. Your message was exactly what I needed to hear. You are so right--WE are the sane ones, THEY are wearing blinders. No one can walk away from this message and continue consuming animal products without guilt. I am so glad you are changing lives. Animals are not my highest passion, but the realization of what must take place in order to consume their products SHOULD be life-changing for ANYONE. Being an "animal lover" has nothing to do with it. Being peaceful, compassionate, responsible, and sane is all that is required.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:52 PM
today you changed my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:36 PM
Just watched your youtube speech. Ive been considering going vegan for a while. After your speech, Im 100 percent sold. No looking back. Just want you to know that Ill also do my part when it comes to raising awareness about this (speaking to family members, friends, colleagues, etc.). this is important. Wishing you the best of luck on your mission towards a kinder world.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:55 PM
Just found the Spanish version of your presentation on youtube. I'll make sure my Latino community gets it.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:40 PM
My twelve year old brother posted your lecture on Facebook. Three months ago, he drove my mother crazy when he announced he was going to be vegetarian. She cooked two different meals every day for two weeks until she gave up and learned how to make veggie burgers, veggie lasagna, etc. He alone has changed the diets of my parents, my brother, our cousin, my husband, our two sons and myself. Since he posted your video yesterday, we all have decided to give up eggs and dairy. Thank you for all of your efforts, courage, confidence and loyalty to the animals. And thank you for spreading the word. It reached us.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:36 AM
This is the best speech ever! My sister saw it 2 weeks ago and has since started a vegan diet!
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:16 AM
I have been vegetarian for 25 years and will now be taking the next step to Vegan which I started with lunch today. Just to say thank you for reminding me about the things I knew already.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 7:18 AM
I have a blog and I've just shared your video. I will link your site too (www.bsblibertacao.blogspot.com). Anything you need in Brazil, count on us.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:54 AM
I'm argentinian. My wife and I saw your video and from that moment we became vegan. So simple, thank you very much for removing the blinders.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:00 PM
Just watched your speech via Youtube and I was moved by what you said.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:19 PM
I wish I had seen your video 30 years ago. I just posted one of them on my blog: brazil nut. http://brazilnut-nyc.blogspot.com/. Thank you for everything you do for the animals!
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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:03 PM
Your speech motivated me to do the same here in Brazil. I am in some hardcore music shows so I can talk about veganism and animal rights in the intermission between the bands. Thank you for what you do and thank you for the inspiration and motivation to do something similar here in Brazil.
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 6:56 PM
Just watched a youtube speech. I've been vegetarian for about 2 months now, and was slowly working towards veganism. I stopped eating all animal products besides cheese. After listening to your speech and especially after seeing what goes on in dairy farms, I will not be eating cheese ever again. Thank you for your insights and showing me that a vegan way of life is what I want for the animals and for me. You are a magnificent speaker and you stand for a belief that will shape my way of life from now on. Please continue what you're doing knowing that your words DO have an effect on people's way of thinking.
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 6:30 PM
I'm from Peru. Your speech at "Georgia Tech" is so helpful because it's so difficult to convince people. But now all I do is show them your video with Spanish subtitles! I think you are doing a great job. All my vegan friends are sharing it here in Lima city.
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 5:26 PM
I recently watched one of your lectures on the internet and it really inspired me to go vegan. I have always considered it and always felt guilty for eating meat, but I thought I needed to. Now that I understand the truth, it really pushed me to go through with veganism. I live in Canada.
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 4:16 PM
For a year I've been trying not to eat meat but I ended up eating fish, and cheese. today is the day I go vegan because I watched your video. You answered all of the questions I had in my head. thank you. I'm from Barcelona.
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:04 PM
Watched your speech and was very moved. I grew up in Harper Woods/Detroit and remember my dad taking us to the slaughterhouses downtown near the Farmers Market. We were addicted to meat! How sad that he didn't know a better way. I'm a new vegan and looking for support. I know the health benefits for myself, but the 'no harm to animals' part is really sinking in and driving my decisions.
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 7:35 AM
Thank you very much for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 7:21 AM
Upon stumbling on your speech video at a hangover youtube session, I have opened my eyes to what that tasty meat really cost and after doing some research on my own I have gone vegan. My father couldn't believe it after all he raised me a full out carnivore eating semi raw meat since I was 6 and he refused to see your video at it's full extent. He just doesn't wanna see the truth. Personally I don't think that what you and the others do will change anything. People are lazy and selfish they - like you said - love to talk about how nice they are. but in the end they just continue with their life style no matter what. Either way best of luck in your fight I wish I had the same faith in people's ability to change as you do. all I can do is go vegan and try to convince everyone I know and have contact with to go vegan as well. but ain't easy. they just don't wanna change their life style. It really makes me sick sometimes.
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:54 AM
I just wanted to thank you for opening my eyes to something I should have seen a very long time ago. Nothing has ever given me more reasons to cry, and at the same time my one chance to ever be 'happy' in this world. You are amazing and I am so grateful I got to see your speech on youtube. We have a new life; me & my fiancé, my mother and sister in law. and I also have 3 friends who have made the same choices as us after you opened our eyes. Thank you and lots of love from little Norway.
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Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 1:59 PM
I wanted to drop you a quick note that after seeing your speech on YouTube and those horrific videos you show, I am now a vegan. Prior, I was essentially a functional vegetarian for health reasons. I'm shifting completely now for moral reasons. I knew about the cruelty but felt it much easier to live in denial. Thank you for everything you do. The world needs more people like you.
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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 6:03 PM
Saying thank you for what you do is not enough, but it sums up everything I feel when I hear your speeches. Thank you for fighting for animals, and thanks for making me live life without blindfolds, sharing your wisdom with the world. From Chile.
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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 10:06 AM
just want you to let you know that your work is not in vain. since i saw one of your videos, i haven't eaten any meat, eggs, cheese or milk. i was always an animal lover but needed someone like you to open my eyes regarding those poor animals in the farms. i don't miss the meat at all. you are a gift from God.
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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 8:59 AM
You've changed me! i owe you everything. i'm honoured to have listened to your words. You are a something really special! i am deeply grateful to have been enlightened by you.
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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 8:40 AM
I just saw one of your lectures and I can say that I am really impressed. There were a lot of things I didn't know, so now I can say I'm really proud of my lifestyle. You're amazing and wonderful!! And one of the best persons in the world (and that's for sure).
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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 4:42 AM
I think you are amazing! Your speech inspired me greatly.
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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:58 AM
Thank you very much for your great work. From Madrid, Spain
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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 4:46 PM
You are an inspiration to me. God bless you for doing great things for the animals! Take care and continue what you are doing!! You have my respect.
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Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:34 PM
We're from Slovenia. We're a small band, called La Vers - (lovers) - lovers of life and all that is natural. We're vegan for more than 10 years now, and we promote our lifestyle through our music. Few years ago we made our first video, and it's a story about a farmer and a cow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD5aMgWUos). I want to thank you for your contribution. Someone translated one of your lectures in our language and this serves us well.
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Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 3:34 PM
I have very recently become acquainted with who you are, your mission in life, your website and your talent. I am thoroughly impressed by your intelligence, knowledge-at-your-fingertips and courage to let your voice be heard. I am barely starting to watch your Georgia Tech video, but reading a bit through your website is enough for me to want to contact you.
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Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:44 AM
I'm from Torre del Mar, Málaga. SPAIN. Today, I saw your discourse. I have no words to explain how I am feeling. Normally I eat a variety of food because doctors explain that we need dairy, meat and eggs. I have some vegan and vegetarian friends. I always respect them. But they never opened my eyes like you did today in 1 hour. I PROMISE that I'll TRY bit by bit to change my eating habits. I PROMISE. From today on I'll see the world with different eyes.
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:30 PM
I heard your talk in Cecil County, MD, a year ago. My daughter is taking a speech class and she chose the topic of "Don't drink your milk".
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 6:43 PM
I talked to you outside in the hallway after class today. Your speech was very good and I learned a lot. I'm definitely going to change my eating ways.
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:46 PM
You're an amazing soul. Thank you for using your time, intelligence and voice to educate and bring change. I feel honored to be able to listen to your speech ... watching it now. Its simply amazing. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. You're very captivating to listen to. I especially appreciate your comparison of herbivore to carnivore. I shared your lecture with a co-worker yesterday, who came in to my office crying after she watched it. She hugged me and thanked me for sharing it with her. I said I hoped that it inspired her to be vegan. She shared it with her boyfriend who is a meat eater with a multitude of health issues and he was convinced to try a vegan health style, too.
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:17 AM
i watched your lecture and was very moved by the things you said. you convinced me. i am 17 years old and living in Israel.
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:33 AM
i can't describe how thankful i am after seeing your lecture. we need more people like u!
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:38 AM
This world needs more heroes like you. Keep fighting, please!
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:16 AM
Just saw your youtube lecture. I think i've reached my tipping point. Thank you, Gary, for being an active activist.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3:41 PM
I've really enjoyed your website, so much information. I could spend hours on it. Love how you understand old habits take time to break ... having said that I`d rather jump in feet first and just make the switch, as everyday I stall some animal will suffer or die because I was selfish. So thanks for the push, your words and compassion were just what I needed to hear.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 1:20 PM
You are truly an inspiration to all of us who despise the current treatment of farm animals. Thank you so much for spreading this very important information to our countries youth.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:58 AM
I just wanted to tell you thanks to your speech at Georgia Tech that I have become a vegan and i feel so much better.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:18 AM
I loved your speech in YouTube. It really touched me and opened my eyes and I was ashamed of what I doing. I'm only 16 years old and haven't eaten any meats, eggs, cheese, or milk in 4 days and I will keep doing it. My two brothers are doing the same now. I will keep sharing your videos to many since it worked with my friends.
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 8:59 PM
I am from Montreal. This lecture was quite impressive and as an elementary school teacher, your message will continue by my way. I was cutting out meat and cheese mostly for my health but after your speech I am cutting out milk, eggs and honey. I want to show this video to some friends and parents, but mom and dad don't understand english. Can you make this in french?
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 3:37 PM
just saw your video. god bless you! I own raw/vegan restaurant in Brooklyn Rockin' Raw, please come by when you're in NY.
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 3:06 PM
Man you don't know how much you've awakened me. Your words let me think and open my eyes. Greetings from Argentina!
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 5:41 AM
Amazing news, my niece is now vegan! We watched you video as a family and when it was over she was pretty quiet. After a few day passed she told my husband and I that she was vegan and had been telling her friends the very day we watched the video! I couldn't be more thrilled! I am just thanking God for you. I don't know if you are a believer or not, but I know God is using you to help save his little creatures and to open the eyes of mankind! I have been telling everyone who will listen to watch your video and the q&a after.
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 6:43 AM
You have been an absolute inspiration to me! I've been vegetarian for about a year, but after watching the video on youtube of one of your lectures as well as watching Earthlings, I have been totally vegan for 3 days! I just thought you'd like to know that your message reaches all areas of the globe even here in England.
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 4:23 AM
I'm from Israel. Last week I saw one of your inspiring lectures on the net. It was really amazing. After seeing your convincing speech, I decided to become Vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 11:40 PM
I just want to say that i watched your video on youtube about 6 months ago and it gave me the courage to voice my opinions on veganism and animal cruelty in a way that i was hesitant about prior to viewing your seminar. Through showing your speech to my friends and family it has converted three people to a vegan lifestyle. This means a lot to me so i just wanted to say thanks for changing our lives for the better.
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Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 11:40 PM
I'm from Argentina. I would like to congratulate you for all your work. YOU'RE A GREAT MAN! I hope someday that food that you can easily find in USA arrives in South America (it looked really tasty).
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Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 4:02 PM
You've changed my life for the best. My dream is to open a vegan restuarant in israel.
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Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:42 AM
I'm 16 from Israel. I am vegan for almost 3 years now,and I wanted to tell you -thank you. I saw your lecture, as a vegan, and it made me want to become an activist. I only started but last weekend I turned 8 people into vegetarians and 6 into vegans,with a lot of help from your lecture.
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Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:05 AM
After I watched Earthlings, I wanted more truth, and clicked the link in the caption that led me to your speech. I couldn't pull my eyes away from the screen, and I cried my heart out. I am 18 and currently unemployed so the transition to a vegan lifestyle is EXTREMELY hard without an income. But I am going vegan and I'd like to thank you for changing my life. You sparked my passion for ACTIVISM, something I felt I could never do even in high school when I saw other intelligent students, in debate teams, speaking to people of higher status. Your preachy-ness and demeanor is something that we need. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your knowledge compacted into a lecture truly enriched my life, and I am forever changed because of you.
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Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:04 AM
I'm 26 years old and living in Israel. I recently came across one of your lectures on Youtube and it truly stunned me. When you see the truth, the light, you cannot go back, once your eyes are open you cannot close them. I cannot go back to living in complete denial. I want to thank you on the behalf of the billions of silent creatures that you took onto yourself to speak for. It warms my heart to see that there are people in the world that still care so much that they're willing to sacrifice their own life to save others.
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 8:50 PM
I returned to veganism after watching your "milk is as cruel as steak" lecture via a link. I have always been big on food but I love my food more than ever now. So thanks for your influence.
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:43 PM
I came across your lecture you blew my mind away. Totally. You are absolutely amazing. the lecture is just perfect and I admire you for doing it. I passed the link to everyone I know. I am planning on going over your website in the coming days to get some "ready answers" because I am kind of tired with the eye-rolling "we need meat to survive" attitude. You rock Gary! All the best wishes and if you are ever in Hamburg, Germany, let me know!
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:33 PM
I'm from www.IAmVeg.org.il an Israeli portal for vegans/vegetarians. Your lecture influenced a lot of people here.
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 11:53 AM
I grew up in a meat eating household, and was always 'forced' to eat meat as a child. I never liked it and it always bothered me for some reason, but I never knew why I thought everyone was SUPPOSED to eat meat and dairy. I knew I always loved animals, though. Not until I became very interested in animal welfare did I start doing some research into what is really going on in the world. I came across your speech and website a few months ago and have shared it with several people. I found the move to veganism difficult, not so much in the dietary aspects, but mostly in the social acceptance amongst certain friends and persons. While veganism gets easier over time, I find it's still a daily challenge. Whenever I feel a little hopeless, I reference your speech and website and it reaffirms my beliefs, so I wanted to thank you for all of your hard work.
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:52 AM
I am grateful for the labor that you are doing in defense of the animals. everything you do for them, you are also doing for me. it does little compared to your work, but I have created a blog in which I denounce abuses against animals http://blog-de-aracos.blogspot.com. Your friend of Spain.
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 11:50 AM
your speech changed my life and gave me better point of view by changing what i eat and how to get others to decrease the use of meat and milk. keep making the world a better place.
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 11:50 AM
Thanks for playing a massive part in changing my life for the better. Making me a better & healthier person. I'm indebted!
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 9:45 AM
I watched your "best speech" video and i am on the road to becoming a vegan. The dairy info made such an impact that i have almost eliminated it overnight and i have cut down on my meat consumption also. Thank you from Melbourne, Australia.
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 6:40 AM
I watched one of your lectures on YouTube last night and it was absolutely brilliant. You are an eloquent and courageous speaker. I want to personally thank you so much for all that you have done especially for liberating the prisoners from Canada that were scheduled for slaughter (I am from Canada). You are a hero, point blank. You have so much courage to be willing to face jail time for our cause, and I admire you considerably for that. After watching your lecture I am inspired to lecture to students myself at my university and I'm going to take steps to do that. Please continue posting videos on YouTube and let's get the message out to the ignorant masses.
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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:15 PM
Greetings from Argentina! Your video about veganism is very strong and it's true that we all live with blinders on. Your speech inspired me to be vegan. Amazing. I admire you for having the courage and ability to convey what many of us feel but do not know how to.
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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:35 PM
Since last speaking with you, you have changed the minds of 2 previous meat eaters into 2 healthy vegans. I am still working on my parents.
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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 2:14 AM
i watched your lecture and decided to become vegan. thanks for showing me the truth.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:25 PM
Thank you for the hour of education that turned me from vegetarian to Vegan for life! I hope to support you in any way I can. People need to know the truth as that leaves them with no excuses. Your friend from Australia.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:38 PM
I just watched your speech on animal rights, and I am absolutely astounded. I had no idea those things were going on. I knew slaughterhouses and those things existed, but I always thought it was a little more humane than that, and I also didn't realize we were killing in those numbers. That being said, you've inspired me to become vegan. I've already started planning a shopping list - including vegan dog food for my Westie - and I can't wait to start. I've always had an extremely soft spot for animals, and it destroys me to see and hear the way these innocent creatures are being treated. I tried my hardest not to look away during the footage you presented to the class, but I eventually had to because it was almost impossible to see straight through all the tears.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:55 AM
Yo dude! thanks for opening my eyes!
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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:44 AM
I'm from Israel. I wanted u to know that it's the biggest pleasure knowing there is someone like you in this world! U are really the best thing that happened to me! Until few days ago (before I heard your lectures) I thought, I'm the only one who saw how fucked up this world is! I tried many times in many ways through my life, to do what you did - to talk for the animals and express their feelings. Every word and every message you gave in your lecture was in my heart since I was little but I never knew how to explain it so correctly and so powerful like you did! You made me believe again that we can stop this unfair war against Animals and really start a change in people's mind, a change in the world. And now, thanks to your inspiration, I got my hope back!
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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:00 AM
I watched a few of your videos and you have changed my life and my future kids' health, my friends' health, and overall my health. I am a vegetarian proudly starting today. Thank you for spreading the word on animal rights and standing up for what you believe in. Granted the videos made me pour out tears within seconds and I got angry, but I'm glad you brought more awareness. Appreciate all your hard work and creating future peace to animals.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:52 PM
Firstly let me say you are truly the most inspirational person I have ever heard speak. My friend sent me a link of one of your speeches on Youtube & I have just finished watching it on the bus on the way to work on a cold Sydney morning. I haven't eaten most meat for the last few years but I was eating the occasional prawn or piece of fish & still eating cheese & eggs, which now I have absolutely no interest in. From today I will be living a vegan life. I can't believe that I have never thought about the suffering in the dairy industry until you opened my eyes today.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:30 PM
Thank you for validating everything I have believed since I can remember. I have always been repulsed by meat. The blood, the skin with hairs still attached, and let us not forget the actual BONES! I can't tell you how many dinners I spent in my room as a child because I refused to eat it and when I did I would vomit. I never enjoyed the taste because I couldn't get past the texture and the sight of it. In college, I began to understand that I was not a picky eater, it was biology. As I studied anthropology and took more advanced biology classes, it became clear to me that meat eating should be left to other animals. I was a vegetarian by 18. I tried to go all vegan, but was honestly too lazy. A friend of mine posted your lecture at Ga Tech and I watched it. I felt both validated, and horribly guilty. I saw the cows beaten, their babies abused, and realized that NOTHING is worth that. Nothing is worth calves stolen from their mommies side and put in veal crates so we could steal the food intended for their babies. I thought of the cows with mastitis, and all the agony they must suffer alone in a filthy barn. I am DONE with dairy. I have never been able to eat eggs, because, well that is just gross. Bees can keep their honey, because that has always been gross too. Thank you for giving me to opportunity to do the right thing. I am a member of an animal rescue group, and a foster home for kittens/cats who are orphaned or very ill. I love them so deeply, and the thought of someone mistreating them brings anger from the depths of my soul. Once I saw that ALL animals were entitled to that kind of compassion, there was only one choice. I am forever grateful to you for speaking the truth, and laying it on the line. Keep being the voice of reason, vegan just makes sense.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:20 PM
I listened to your lecture on youtube and it really affected me so much that i couldn't eat something with meat, milk or eggs. as a muslim i have to respect all animals, it is written in the quran. but how do i explain to other people why i became vegan? i believe in your way and i only want to be connected with my values as a muslim woman.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:42 AM
Thank you for showing me the truth. I had been a vegetarian for years but after I saw a video of your lecture i became vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:25 AM
I cut out all dairy products last month to try and reset my very unhappy digestive system. It only took a few days to notice a difference. I was even more surprised to discover that after the dairy had left my system, I found the whole concept of eating meat - the look, the taste and the smell - quite repulsive. Watching your vegan speech drove it home for me. I had never been a fan of eggs either. I'm now in the process of phasing all animal products out of my diet and embarking on a cruelty-free lifestyle.
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:46 PM
I am 100% vegan as January 1, 2011! It changed my life! Your contribution for the peace and love between all the beings in this troubled World is on the same level of the contribution done by all the pure spirits sent by the Lord to purify the planet. God Almighty bless you!
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 8:34 PM
I'm 14 years old from Israel. I just wanted to say thank you. I tried to be vegetarian for a long time. But after seeing your 1 hour video my life just changed and I became a vegan without thinking twice. The food is so much better than I thought. Now I'm so much healthier and enjoying my life. I actually lost 10 kg.
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 5:49 PM
Just listened to your hour video. Thank YOU for being the voice for the voiceless victims.
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 7:30 AM
i've recently had a revelation watching your utube lecture. i greatly admire u and what your doing. i've stopped riding my beautiful mare, and now you've looped the loop ... i've become a vegan. i've been reading through ALL the points of your site. it's been done in a very thorough and intelligent way, answering all questions. i've learned so much. u are an amazing and talented speaker. u have the gift of passing the message in just the right way, and your very brave. thank u from belgium.
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 12:11 AM
I'm from Russia. I saw your lecture 3 days ago and it inspired me to finally go VEGAN. (I've been a vegetarian for one year). You've opened my eyes on facts about dairy products. Thank you very much for what you're doing. Veganism is the future of our planet!
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Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:04 PM
Just a quick note to thank you for your informative speeches on veganism. I have been a vegetarian for 2 and a half years and am making the move toward veganism after seeing your speech. Please keep spreading the word, education is the key to ending the torture and massacre of defenceless animals worldwide. I have been asking my family and friends to view your speech with an open mind as I now feel it is my duty to attempt to inform people.
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Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 4:45 PM
You do not know me, but you changed my life. I'm 15 years old from Israel. I was a vegetarian for two and a half years and had considered veganism. But I was afraid of my family, they thought I was crazy because I was a vegetarian. I was afraid of what my friends would say and what people would think. after I watched your speech, I was more than convinced that veganism is the right way. I showed the video to other people as I wanted them to understand. Two of my friends became vegan thanks to you, and I've finally become vegan. I'm glad to say I feel much happier now. I feel good about myself and about my lifestyle, no matter what people think.
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Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 10:56 AM
I saw the speech you gave at georgia tech on youtube and it was bloody brilliant! Until last night I was BLIND to the damage peta was causing. I don't want anything to do with them now but I was a member of their "street team" where doing certain things gets you points for free stuff (stickers, clothing, books etc.).
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Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:19 AM
I'm from Australia. I just watched your speech and wanted to say thank you! May God/Goddess Bless you. I know they are many times over, for all that you are doing for their blessed animal kingdom.
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Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 3:19 AM
I'm eternally grateful and humbled to co-exist with true activists like you.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 9:52 PM
I'm from Israel. I am not a vegetarian yet. But I almost, don't eat meat, but use milk products and eat eggs. I have just seen your lecture and it is really great. it has affected me. I've posted the lecture on facebook, and I'll send it through email too. I think this has a tremendous power in it, and it will change some people, because when you change one person, you change whole world with it. Thank you for your efforts, and keep doing this holy job.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 7:20 PM
I am from Australia and I stumbled across a speech you made back in 2010 and I was in awe of you and every word you spoke was like a thought straight from my head. Thank you for being such an amazing voice for our animals.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:51 PM
I've decided to take the extra step to eliminate milk, cheese, and eggs from my diet and become vegan. Now in the few short weeks of being vegan I've never felt more amazing in my life! I feel more connected to the universe, animals, nature, and have an amazing love and appreciation for food than I ever had as a "carnivore". I'm so lucky to have run across your speech at Georgia Tech on youtube. It was an amazing inspiration to me and elaborated on a lot of the reasons I believe in the vegan lifestyle. The views you expressed in the speech have helped my mother understand my choices a lot more and made my boyfriend become vegan as well! I've showed it to as many people as possible and though it hasn't turned everyone vegan it has opened their minds and their views on the lifestyle have changed tremendously. Thank you for all that you're doing. You're truly making a difference in people lives, and more importantly, the animals lives.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:43 PM
Can I get Serbian subtitles for your speech? I've watched it and I'm amazed with everything you've said. But many people in Serbia don't know the English well, so I wanted to get the subtitles so I can play the video through my NGO organizations.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 7:46 AM
I am from Israel. After watching your lecture a few weeks ago on YouTube, me and my girlfriend were very strongly affected, and have become totally vegan. Knowing that you get no personal benefit out of it, I must tell you, this mission of turning our world cruelty-free seems nearly impossible, and demands mainly - a lot of noise being made. You have the gift of stirring charisma, and the ability to fearlessly stand out there and act out on this unbearable injustice.You are the face and voice of many people such as myself, who support you in every action you take, because acting so strongly for animal rights is not something everyone can do. If i were a rich man, I would have sent you millions of dollars. If I were the prime-minister I would have ordered your lecture to be shown in every classroom to every student in Israel. But being just an ordinary person, I can only turn myself vegan, spread the word to everyone i know, and send you this e-mail hoping it would encourage you to maintain your devotion to this noble path you're walking on.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 7:01 AM
My husband and I live in Russia, in Moscow. Since February of last year we have completely given up meat but ate eggs and drank milk. Now, inspired by the video on YouTube, we will no longer be consuming that stuff either. We write this letter to express our gratitude for your labors, for the love you bear to the world. Thank you for what you are! You are a Man with a capital letter!
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 6:01 AM
Just wanted to say thank u for sharing the truth with me. From Israel.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 5:24 AM
I am an animal-rights activist volunteering here in Israel at "Anonymous". I'd love to add you to my contact list and share all the videos and information that you post. I've shared your lecture, and got some great responses. Your work is amazing.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 5:09 AM
Thank you for you opening my eyes about the crucial things in our world. My wife and I were thrilled and totally shocked by your lecture. The video has been translated into Slovenian and spread throughout the world. Thank you for everything. With best regards and sincerest cheers from Slovenia.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 2:38 AM
You can add one more to your count.
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Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 11:35 PM
I just watched the speech you did at Ga Tech in 2010 and have shared it. I am so in awe of you and want to thank you for all you do for animal rights. You are truly truly an amazing individual.
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 11:04 PM
Many blessings for speaking for our beautiful friends. Vegan for life.
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 8:35 PM
i've been veg for 6 yrs and recently tried going raw. after watching your 'best speech ever' video, i no i can do it! Thanx u for all u have done to help the animals.
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Sent: Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:37 PM
I hope you don't mind but we added your amazing video to our website today at http://thepeacefulplanet.org/2011/07/08/gary-yourofsky-veganism-animal-rights-lecture/. We know we're a little behind the times with this but our Peaceful Planet activities have been virtually non-existent for the last 6 months due to lack of funding. It's still "buddy can you spare a dime" time but we thought "fuck it", we've got to start moving on. And it was partly due to watching your lecture. That gave us the inspiration to put on our Peaceful Planet boots again. Anyway, it's an awesome lecture! I love your teaching style and I just wish you were able to come to the UK to lecture to the students over here.
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 4:26 PM
Yesterday i got a call from my husband telling me he was going to turn vegan, and i told him, what? You need meat, eggs, milk and cheese to be strong and healthy. And he told me wait until u see this video. I got home and watched it, and i understood. We are both quitting meat, eggs, milk and cheese. This shows the culture that we are living in, the poor information. I just wanted to thank you for changing my life. I cried the whole night after your video. You should be on international tv. My husband told me a week before that animals might not have feelings, but that all changed after he saw your video. Thank you again and don't stop.
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 1:18 PM
I saw your lectures on the internet and, man, you're a joy to look at. Really inspiring! On behalf of all life forms of this planet, I salute you! I posted one of youtube videos on the blog of my website even though it is a photography website. Thinking of making a vegan awareness info subsite of this website at the moment. Your site and you will certainly be mentioned!
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 12:10 AM
I've been a vegetarian for about a year now and watching your video and seeing how passionate you are, you've inspired me to become a vegan. I LOVE IT!! I've even put you on the top of my list of inspirational people on Facebook. Anyway, I don't wish to take up more of your time just wanted to let you know and to continue fighting the good fight, you've inspired me to be more active and fight as well!
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Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:00 PM
Just wanna say your speech really moved me especially where you talked about the Learned Behavior, when we were children we all loved animals and they were our friends. Now we think they are stupid and deserving of punishment or abuse. That is so true! You are one of the few speakers who have SHINE. Please continue with your quest.
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Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:41 PM
I've shared your video on facebook. I showed it to a young man today and he's very interested in becoming Vegan and spreading the word to his friends!
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Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 6:20 PM
YOU ARE MY HERO. After I saw one of your lectures on youtube I knew I had to be vegan, I cried so much. You are amazing Gary. I am from israel and a few friends of mine became vegan because of you. You speak from the heart, so real. It's so touching. I wanna be just like you.
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Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 2:52 PM
Thank you so much for your work!! Your speech is very inspiring, it has literally changed my life, I have switched from vegetarian to vegan because of it! I was watching Earthlings on TheAnimalHolocaust's Youtube channel and was directed to your amazing speech, I have been a vegetarian for about 2 years now, but after watching Earthlings and your incredibly inspirational speech, I am determined to be vegan for good!
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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2011 2:44 AM
I'm from Israel and I've been vegetarian for 13 years now. I saw your video and was impressed and actually shocked by the info that you gave. I am now trying my best to be vegan. As a start, I didn't drink my milk with my breakfast today. I just couldn't think of eating pus. I think it's great and it's a big honor to earth to have a person like you.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 8:19 PM
i live in Israel. i watched your lecture and I adore what you're doing. is there a russian translation because i want to show it to my mom? i want us to start being vegan together with her. she has diabetes and i'm sure that she will feel a lot better if she were vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 4:34 PM
I caught your video through one of my new animal activist friends and I found it both educational and inspiring. You are such a great speaker! Thank you so much for what you do. Your rhetoric, research and passion are something to really admire.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 4:14 PM
You're that guy who did those brilliant speeches. I now think I would be a cannibal if I ate meat. No school or teacher told me. They tell our children to eat meat and animal secretions etc. No wonder cancer is rife in this modern society. Keep up the fantastic work my friend. Love and support from Ireland.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 3:03 PM
Thank you so much for everything you are doing for the animals! Your speeches are some of the very best I have ever heard. I also want to thank you for putting on subtitles; as I am profoundly hearing impaired, I depend on them.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 2:59 PM
I am a vegetarian because of your speech. PLEASE help me decide how I can become a further activist such as you and help the treatment of animals. it just depresses me and I really AM wanting to change the world. I DO believe one person can. It just starts with an idea like yours.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 8:22 AM
Thanks mate for the videos. I was already a vegetarian of 15 years considering giving up diary products. You made my choice easier. So I am thankful. From Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 2:57 AM
Wow. I've ALWAYS been a vegan at heart, but my immediate family and friends have been hardcore, self labeled 'meat eaters'. Recently I've been on a hard weight-loss kick. Trying to get to a healthier weight, and tone up a lot. Everyone around me has been doing Atkins, so I joined the bandwagon and it's been working more or less. I just eat egg (because I can't stomach cooking meat/blood when cooking it, etc). I choke down as many eggs and pieces of cheese as possible to hit my needs for Atkins induction phase. I definitely want to go to my true vegan calling, but I will miss the pound drops per week/month I've been receiving on the Atkins induction phase. I did quite a bit of research and found 'Eco-Atkins'. I was wondering if there's anything you know that could help me to lose what I'm losing on the atkins induction phase? Thank you so much for your time, you're amazing.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 6:33 PM
Thank you so much for what you do. It was your speech on utube that changed my life. I immediately converted to a vegan lifestyle after watching it at the start of this year. Thank you for teaching me the right way.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:55 AM
Just want to say that your speech was the last ingredient i needed to totally avoid meat. You are wonderful and i am gonna make as many as possible watch your speech. Keep up your amazing spirit and forceful fight for animals.
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Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 3:22 PM
I watched your lecture in YouTube and I went vegan (I am 37 years old, and I love animals). I am an atheist Jew from Israel (yes an atheist Jew is a possible combination) and your lecture made me think about the holocaust. After you removed my eye barriers I knew that being a vegan is essential and the only human way to go thru existence. I am so grateful that you opened my eyes, I am doing my best to spread this Gospel but as you must know it is not easy especially in a religious community that feel that they got the right to eat animal from god itself.
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Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:23 PM
I watched your lecture and was really moved by your the emotional intense-ness you speak with. It almost feels like you're going to cry at some parts of the lecture, and your honesty and sincerity really touched me. it's really empowering watching someone so passionate. I sent your speech to some friends and one of them became vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 3:48 PM
I saw your speech and was truly inspired. It reinforced in me that I am on the right path. I Thank You for that! I just wanted to reach out and let you know I support you and what you do!
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Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 7:03 AM
Just found you and your video talking at the school. really powerful. the world needs more passionate people like you. many animal rights people are passionate but are not as equipped to create good reasoning around the topic. no offence to them but you have researched and articulated your experience and beliefs well. i think you are brave, courageous, and wonderfully intelligent and inspiring for me to know men like you out there exist. i think the world is becoming more ready to make this shift.
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 7:07 PM
Just wanted to thank you for helping me to take off those blinders.
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 6:19 PM
I am a Corporal in the Artillery corps from Ashdod, Israel. I watched your video and i must praise you. You are charismatic and kind. The movie was very difficult for me. i puked. my mother and my little sister (13) cried a lot. The reason i wanted to talk with you is, that i want to be involved! i want to change like you, to influence, this is very important for me!
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 3:40 PM
I just wanna let you know that you've turned many people vegan here in Copenhagen. I showed a big group you're amazing video and everyone went silent on me. And that's a good thing, cause they talk all the time. You should visit our humble organisation here in Copenhagen. We are called ANIMA and we grow bigger and bigger every year. Our campaigns are fur, animal testing, circuses and we always share vegan flyers and teach veganism. I just wanted to share my world with you cause you made a big impression on me and you have a one more fan here. Thanks for your wisdom, compassion and cool spirit!
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 7:32 AM
You're amazing. I became vegan just because of you. Your work is amazing!
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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 6:48 PM
A quick email to say 'thanks' for your lecture. It was not until I was 50 years old that I started my conversion to veganism and your lecture has helped crystallise my own thoughts on the treatment of animals and our responsibilities as humans.
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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 5:43 PM
I have been vegetarian for a few months (and most of last year, I fell off the wagon last Christmas) and I am slowly but surely making my way to Veganism because of your speech.
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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 11:46 AM
My partner and I have recently created Slovenian subtitles for your speech. This week, we started spreading your video with Slovenian subtitles via email and talking about it in forums. The feedback is already flooding in. And here's why I'm contacting you (besides the reason that I need to tell you how amazing you are and how I admire your work): a journalist and an editor has requested to print the transcript of your speech, in the form of an article, in a Slovenian magazine. We have some connections in other mainstream publications and we can hope they'll want to write about you and your video (hopefully) going viral.
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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 2:19 AM
My boyfriend and I have watched your speech. Never give up on speaking, Gary! You're the animals' guardian angel.
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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 12:58 AM
Just watched some of your lectures. Thank you, thank you, thank you. As a vegan, even tho I already knew most of the info you shared, it was still one of the most powerful teaching tools I have ever encountered.
Comments from Students and Supporters, June 2011
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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:54 PM
You rock Gary! I haven't eaten meat since I watched your video last week, and I'm working on the vegan thing. Keep it up and thanks for the inspiration.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:49 PM
Just watched a video of your speech at Georgia Tech on youtube. I consider myself a strong man but that brought me to tears. Thank you so much for doing what you do. It definitely opened my eyes.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:57 AM
I have become aware of your work and find it inspiring and deeply moving. Me and a friend of mine are starting to get together a public access show on NECAT channel 19 in Nashville on comcast cable and was hoping that you might be willing to allow us to use your speeches to help us send a message of peace and compassion to the local area. We are planning on creating a diverse format to the show, but using it to express our views. We are both vegans and believe in animal rights, civil rights and human rights and the show will reflect those beliefs albeit in an artistic manner. We are experimental artist/musicians and we tend to create videos that are non linear. That being said, we would like to use your speeches like powerful soundbites that would carry the message of animal rights to those who watch the show. I hope you'll consider this because I deeply respect all you do. And we would use your speeches with respect.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:36 PM
I would like to thank you for your amazing passion, vision and compassion. Your speech is life changing. I have watched it a few times and intend on watching it in the future along with sharing it with my fellow animal lovers.
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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 2:53 PM
I'm a longtime vegan/animal activist and I just watched on YouTube the talk you gave at Georgia Tech in the summer of 2010 and was just amazed how much thought-provoking information you gave in an hour. You seemed to combine the best of everything I have ever read into one talk covering everything! Thanks so much for what you are doing. What you are doing is on such an amazingly large scale and I really admire you.
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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 1:45 PM
It is a pleasure for me to write to you today from London, England. I came across your speech a couple of weeks ago on an animal rights forum. Its power, truth and raw logic could not be denied. Although I am already vegan, I learned so much from your speech and it made me realise that meat eaters are not the only ones who can benefit exponentially from your lecture and your activism. I visited your website and greatly enjoyed and was impressed by your essays. I wanted to write to commend you on your grassroots activism for animalkind. I firmly believe that your vegan tour will radically overhaul people's attitudes towards animals and vegans. If William Inge said animals would depict humans as the devil, he and they would surely make an exception for you as their champion.
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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 7:41 AM
just wanted to say your utube video changed my life around. i have gone totally vegan and so has my g/f and we have never fell better and to know that we are not participating in hurting any beautiful creatures is a great feeling.
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Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 7:30 PM
I am a student of Professor Droba and had the opportunity to hear your speech on veganism. I loved it! I just wanted to say that and thank you. I am really motivated to finally take the steps to becoming a vegetarian and eventually a vegan (hopefully officially in the next year). You're awesome.
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Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 4:07 PM
You spoke at Georgia Tech last week, and your speech made sense to me. I am going to transition into veganism. I went on my first vegan grocery shopping trip last Friday and was half-excited to try those vegan food brands you recommended (the gardein chik'n filets were pretty good) and half-discouraged by just how many foods have milk and/or egg in them. Thank you for opening my mind.
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Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 10:57 AM
Just watched your speech for the first time today and wanted to thank you for everything you have done and continue to do. Your words are powerful, moving and you are able to put into words everything that I try and convey on a daily basis. After being Vegan for a year, I've finally found my purpose on this earth. I am opening a Vegan cafe hopefully by next summer in Canada. You will be on our Hero wall. Thank you for devoting your life to changing the world. I see the change starting. I know it will take time to happen but people are recognizing the truth so KEEP FIGHTING!
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Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 10:53 AM
I'm from Russia, Moscow. i'm 25 years old. I don't visit circus and zoos. For 10 years, I have not eaten meat, but always drank milk, and eaten eggs and honey. Today I watched your lecture on youtube. My hands are still shaking from what I saw and I want to say thank you for everything you do, for what you do. Now I'm VEGAN. In our country, people do not pay enough attention to this issue and there is very little food for vegans, just a couple of stores in most major cities in Russia, but that will not stop me.
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Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 6:46 AM
I came across one of your videos and took an hour to hear what you you have to say about the meat industry. I was shocked. We are so oblivious to what is really going on, so brainwashed by the meat eating society that we can not distinguish what is right and what isn't. You made me change my diet completely. Thank you so much for opening my eyes. It was a life changing lecture!
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Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 3:46 AM
I just watched your youtube video "the best speech you will ever hear" ... it really is! I can't wait to expose my friends and family to this!! Hopefully this will help them to see the right way!
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:23 PM
I happened to stumble across a Utube video of one of your lectures that was posted on the "Earthlings" Facebook page. Let me start with large "thank you" for all you do for animal rights! I am Vegetarian, converting to Vegan. I believe that if I really have care and concern for animals, then I would be nothing more than a hypocrite if I was to continue eating/wearing other animal products. When I watched your lecture it was like a sigh of relief to know there are people such as yourself, out there trying to REALLY help! Again, "thank you" for opening up so many eyes to the reality of it all, and right down to even showing the simple parts such as food alternatives for anyone that might wonder where to start with it all.
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:46 PM
A friend and fellow vegan recently sent me your speech and I was blown away. It was so wonderful to finally hear someone talk about the need for direct action. Also, thank you thank you thank you for your piece on PETA and the Humane Society. I have so much respect for all that you've done and I am now inspired to figure out new ways to take radical action...any tips? Thanks!
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Sent:Friday, June 24, 2011 2:38 PM
I am from Slovakia and I have been vegetarian for eleven years. I have been having very close to being vegan. But after seeing your video I am vegan. I am very pleased and grateful for people like you.
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 1:49 PM
I can't thank you enough for what you are doing. I am making steps toward being a vegan. I have been a vegetarian for over a year now. I just can't go back. You are an inspiration!
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:44 PM
i'm 16 and have been vegan for a year now. a couple of friends posted your lecture on facebook and i watched that and the questions and answers afterward and i just wanted to tell you how great your lecture is! I also really like how you are totally for the animals. My mom and younger sister (13yrs) have become vegetarian after me, but they are struggling with making the jump to veganism. I think how you said there is more cruelty in a glass of milk than in a steak will help convince them when all 3 of us watch your lecture tonight. I thought your story on how you freed the 1500+ minks in Canada was hilarious, bold and courageous and awesome. I've had so many thoughts of breaking into places like that and freeing the animals and its probably going to happen one day. Thank you SO much for spreading veganism!
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:18 AM
I just saw your lecture with hebrew subtitles and I'm upset with you for two reasons. First, I love meat! I practically worship it! If a steak could talk, and told me to kill my father, I WOULD! Second, I'm also extremely mad at you for not showing up on my laptop screen earlier! Thank you so much for this lecture! The blinder-removal surgery was PAINFUL as hell, but it was totally worth it! The universe and I thank you. VEGANS ROCK!!
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:13 AM
Your lectures have become a firm part of my vegan toolbox for change ... really really good work!
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 5:59 AM
Just wanted to say thank you for your wonderful way of waking people and opening their eyes. It's not just about showing horrible videos about the meat/milk/eggs industry, a huge important part is about the information, the attitude when you go and explain people, in a non condescending way and with real knowledge and belief.
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 3:11 AM
Yesterday I watched your video on youtube. Very inspiring. For 20 years I have been vegetarian but now I am making a step further and becoming vegan. You gave me a lot to think about. Thank you for doing this, I wish I had the same energy to spread the message and educate people like you do.
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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:20 PM
I just wanted to say that I saw your speech and I love what you're doing so much! I think you are way more convincing to the non-vegans of the world, because you offer arguments that you just can't, well, argue with, unlike Gary Francione, who seems to just want people to change because he says they should! I think you are doing a million and one good things for the vegan movement and i just wanted to say thanks!
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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:25 PM
Just wanted to tell you that your speech is amazing. I can honestly say the world would have been a better place if all people were like you. I wanted to thank you for your huge donation to the world. It really influences me to make a change and be a better person. Karma man. You deserve the best! I will pass on your speech to as many people as possible!
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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:44 PM
i am from israel. i just watched your lecture and was impressed and very amazed to hear and see all those facts about animals. i knew we were living some kind of lie. I want to bring back my body and live peacefully. I really think more people should know about this. you sound a bit like Eminem. you are amazing man and may god bless you.
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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 8:19 AM
I have come across so many posts of animal abuse and your lecture was the last straw. morally I can't eat animals anymore, as much as I love what it tastes like, I can't be a part of this ongoing abuse. I'm from Jerusalem and every year we remember 6,000,000 jewish people who were murdered in that very same way we treat those sweet animals. it makes me wonder if we learned anything. as humans - we need to value life so much more :)
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:51 PM
Just watched your video on You Tube at the suggestion of a friend. It was amazing. I am involved in Humane Education activities with local primary and secondary schools. Would it be possible to acquire the footage in DVD format to show secondary students here in Australia? www.speakforanimals.info/
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:48 PM
I've played your talk on our radio show, and appreciate your approach. I've been working in this area for over 20 years, now with HealthyPlanet.org.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 6:47 PM
I was a part of the class that listened to your lecture today. I must say you provided very sufficient evidence for going vegan. The video you showed painted a picture in me that I will find hard to ever forget. I am a "meat-eater" but your message brought forth a new appreciation for animals, especially on the side of food. I just wanted to say thank you for sharing a view for a more humane way.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 6:20 PM
I have just recently watched your speech on Veganism, and since then have become a Vegan. I am overwhelmed with emotion in your flawless argument, in the truth, and my boyfriend whom i couldn't show him the total insanity in eating meat before, right then and there we both knew it was what we had to do. He turned to me and was like, "i have to do this, i'm going to be Vegan." I will hopefully educate everyone that comes into my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:08 PM
I was sitting in Professor Klein's class. Thank you for your time and knowledge, you've gotten my brain thinking about a lot of things you spoke about.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:05 PM
I just got home from your lecture and before I clean out my pantry and fridge I wanted to take a moment to thank you for opening my eyes to my own hypocrisy. My 4 month old puppy is my best friend in the world and all I could think about today was how I would never let anything happen to him, yet I sit by idly while millions of other animals are tortured. How is that any different? I am not a big meat-lover to begin with and rarely eat chicken, pork, or beef and thus have been eating Boca Chik'n patties for a year now, but have decided after your lecture I will now cut out all meat, poultry, fish, etc. I recently found out I was lactose intolerant and have given up milk. I was having a harder time giving up cheese and had to laugh when you called out my exact situation in class. I now have that extra push I needed to let go of dairy products all together. I look forward to looking at your recipes and vegan transition advice because I am ready to become a part of the compassionate vegan community. Thank you so much for opening my eyes and allowing me to stop perpetuating evil.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 8:59 AM
I think you are absolutely amazing! I have learned a lot from you and am in awe of you and everything you do and have done. I am also very grateful to you for the information you had in your speech online. Now I have a lot more ground to stand on when I am telling people about being vegan and why it is the right thing to do.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 5:50 AM
I saw your lecture on youtube. It inspired me to change my status from vegetarian to vegan. I admire what you do for animals!
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:46 AM
I saw your lecture and decided to become vegan. Thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:00 AM
I recently watched your lecture on Veganism. It was very powerful for me and my husband who overheard it in the other room made the choice to become Vegan as a result!
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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 1:03 AM
thank you for the positive impact you are making upon the world.
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Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 7:12 PM
I am a 21 year old from Cape Town, South Africa. I just wanted to say thank you for educating people about the cruelty human inflict on animals every day. I am watching your speech right now and it is very powerful and informative. Thank you for inspiring me, motivating me, and helping me.
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Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:35 AM
I want to say thank you. because of you I'm a vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:07 PM
My husband Ben is now vegan! He said your talk, combined with the video that you showed, did it for him. He cannot get any of those images out of his mind and he's really affected by it all. So glad and proud that we are BOTH 100% cruelty-free.
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:54 PM
you're amazing! i'm only 13 and i wish i was like you! you should start going to middle schools! come to my school and you will change people's lives at a young age. i'm a vegan and i admire you!
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:02 AM
I appreciate everything you're doing for the cause. I've decided to run for Congress to try to raise awareness about our issues and change laws and people's minds. I think your passion is terrific and I'm grateful to you for dedicating your life to helping animals. I've watched your videos and learn a lot from you.
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:04 AM
I adore you. You changed my life and the life of at least 7 of my friends.
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 4:13 AM
Thank you for speaking out and telling the TRUTH. you are a brave and intelligent man. i've vegetarian for 10 years, i did struggle with veganism, precisely because of - you said it - cheese! i go vegan from this day forth. we CHOOSE to go through life blind, deaf and dumb. i admire and respect you. From South Africa.
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 9:05 PM
Keep doing what you're doing. You've motivated me to be a better me!
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:38 PM
You are amazing! I have been a vegetarian for almost 3 years and always wanted to be a vegan but didn't have the "willpower" to do it. A friend of mine posted your speech on Facebook a couple days ago and it has changed my life. The most important thing you taught me was that I was being selfish. I don't NEED to eat or drink dairy and to do it simply because I like the taste is unacceptable. Animals being tortured are not worth the taste of cheese. I am now a vegan and I plan to fight for animals who can't defend themselves. I will be passing your video along to all of my friends and family and will also be opening dialog with them about the topic! Thank you so much what you're doing. You are a gift!
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:28 PM
Your lecture affected my whole family and my children no longer want to consume animal products. Thank you for removing the blinders. I realise now that my ignorance was bliss.
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:16 AM
Have just finished glancing through your website - it's great! Your speech was the last little kick that I needed to go from vegetarian to vegan. I have decided to keep on spreading the word about the cruelty towards animals on this planet and am encouraging people more than ever to make the change. It's amazing how many people would prefer to ignore the facts. I just wanted to thank you for inspiring me and for all that you do to combat the lies spread by the food industry. You are amazing mate.
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 4:09 AM
I am from Gedera, Israel (a small town near Tel Aviv). Watching your lecture raised questions that ultimately led me to one obvious answer - veganism. Even if you don't like it, you're already part of my biography, part of the perfection of joy that is part of my life today.
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 4:06 AM
I really wish you could make an appearance at my university in the Dominican republic; I'm not a vegetarian but would love to converse with you more so I can fully understand it. I'm not whatsoever affiliated with any political party, and I think that your lesson will be very much appreciated at my university.
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Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 3:26 AM
I'm from Israel. I happened to see your lecture and I was shocked. I was exposed to things that I did not know and I thank you for that.
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Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 9:20 PM
Saw your best speech you will ever hear lecture via a friend. thanks for changing my life and putting my boyfriend and me in our place. i can't wait to slap my parents with the video.
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Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:56 PM
I'm 15 and I really want to fight for animal rights! I want to support you over here in Belgium as best as I can. Can you maybe come here to my school one day? Some people really have to wake up.
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Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 12:34 PM
Yesterday I watched your speech for the first time on youtube and it brought me to tears. I wish you had come to my school when I was younger and saved me years of eating tortured animals. Thank you so much for what you do! It is comforting to me to know that there are people like you in the world!
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Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 8:11 AM
Just wanted to let you know that I've been vegetarian for 6 years, and decided to become 100% vegan following a video I saw of your lecture. Thanks for your words and perseverance.
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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:33 AM
I have seen your presentation prepared for Israel and was moved to tears by your passion, sincerity, and incisiveness. You make the argument for veganism so simple and at the same time so complete and you put your whole life on the line.
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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 2:08 AM
You are truly an instrument of the Creator and you speak truth. in the end, you are the winner. My heart and spirit is 100% with you in your endeavors and God is loving and blessing you for what you are doing.
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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:36 AM
i am from israel. i would like to thank you for the magnificent lecture on youtube! thanks to that, my brother, his girlfriend, and I, are now on our way to being Vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:13 PM
I watched you speak last night and I am so very grateful for people like you in this world. I am a new vegan and it is the very best thing I have ever done with my life. I am finding it hard to live in this world, the amount of cruelty is suffocating. I am trying to find ways to make a difference in southern CA. Just wanted to say thank you for all that you do.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 1:05 PM
I had a chance to watch one of your videos. You made perfect sense in everything you said and I am seriously thinking of changing my diet as a result. You're right about the animals and also about the harmful effects of our rotten diets.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 1:37 PM
You are a true inspiration. someone posted a video of one of your lectures. I heard you mention some things I wasn't aware of about veganism (no honey, no silk, no wool, etc.). I went to your website & found loads of useful info.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:27 PM
I've watched a video of yours on youtube about veganism and I've decided i want to become 1 too. I was wondering if you can help me get started.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:54 AM
I have watched your lecture about 10 times now as it keeps me angry and motivated about everything. My eldest brother watched it with me the other night and lets just say, his blinders were completely blown off! I grew up in the Australian outback and the part in your lecture where you say that we were all animal rights supporters when we were kids is just so true! I remember traveling to a cattle station with my sister and my dad, we stopped along the way as my dads friend (the owner of the station) has just shot a beautiful cow and was cutting it up in front of us. I remember my sister and I were screaming and crying and begging him to stop. My dad told us that everything was ok and to stop crying. I love my dad but I remember being so confused as to why my sister and I were the only ones upset by this! It is just so incredible how much children can be impacted and persuaded by adults. It was my dad so of course I wanted to believe him but I will never forget that! I also remember watching female cows being desexed without any anesthetic. It was just so horrible and I got very upset. The farmers were laughing because I was crying about it and I get so angry when I think about it now!
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 4:12 PM
I have been a vegan for a few months now, ever since I stumbled across your lecture on the net. I want to thank you for turning my whole world upside down...for the better. My food, cosmetics, clothes, cleaning products and even bank have changed. I could go on about the positive changes I have made, but that's not what it's about. So I would like to thank you for the countless animals that won't suffer in my or my family's name. You are on a remarkable and altruistic path so it's important to be thanked. I'm sure that all the thanks you need is knowing that there are a few more vegans out there, but as an extra thanks I have added a link to a song that has been an uplifting inspiration to me when faced with the negativity that this lifestyle choice sometimes brings. I hope you enjoy it.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:05 PM
I received a message from a co-worker early this morning saying that he would like to go vegan and asking would I help him. I sent your speech to him via YouTube and even though I have been vegan for 20 years, I watched it again myself. Your words help me to be a better voice for the animals.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 11:38 AM
I am more than tired of apologetic "activists" and very much appreciate your no-bullshit approach to AR/Ethics education. I have just volunteered for a trial of ethics education being done in primary (grade) schools here in Australia and am inspired by your lectures. Thank you for doing what you do, it is much needed on this savage earth.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:06 AM
I'd love to post some of your information on our blog. A group of friends from our local animal liberation group (Australia) are in court this Wednesday after a protest/rescue operation at a hen torture farm. We're all heading to court to support them. We often talk about your influence and example.
Anyway, have a great day.
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Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:48 AM
Just saw your speech from Georgia Tech in summer of 2010, and, NO BULL, I think you just converted me.
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Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 7:55 AM
I just want to say that I watched your lecture on veganism via a friend's FB post, and it was one of the mot inspirational speeches I've ever seen; no, not one of, probably the most! You are an amazing speaker and I hope to receive the opportunity to hear you in Ohio at some point if you come out this way. And btw, one of my good friends has decided to try vegetarianism (and hopefully veganism) after watching your lecture!
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Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 4:40 PM
I watched it all today. very good. forget actors and politicians. people like you are heroes. you save countless lives in what you do. keep it up sir!
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Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 4:40 PM
I just saw one of your speeches and was impressed. I very much respect what you're doing. You're a real inspiration for a beginning activist like myself! All the best from Switzerland!
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Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:39 PM
I'm from israel. I've been sitting on the fence for a long time now. Never got the courage to do the switch. But after watching your lecture on youtube, I got the "push" i needed and decided to go vegan. i'm happily vegan for a month or so now and i'm reading all i can on the subject, influencing all around me in some way. so I just wanted to thank you and tell you must keep doing those lectures and use the web as much as possible as it opens a way to reach a lot of people who will probably won't be able to hear you live.
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Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 5:13 AM
I really admire your style of delivery.
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Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:36 PM
I'm a high school student living in israel. I saw your lecture on youtube and it has some very interesting points. I understand how misinformed we are, especially here. I am a vegetarian but after listening to your lecture i am turning vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:55 PM
Thanks for the add and thanks for waking me up. I caught your speech by accident online and its changed my life. You are awesome.
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Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:01 PM
I'm a student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. I wanted to tell you that lots of people here in Israel have seen your lectures and are interested in what you have to say. You are truly inspiring.
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Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 8:33 AM
Greeting from Greece. Just wanted to say that I love your speech. Thank you for opening my eyes. No more meat for me, no more eggs, milk or cheese. No more cosmetics on my face and body that are tested on animals. Thank you, thank you, thank you is the least i can say. I'm gonna let all my friends about your speech. Hope they do the same thing with me.
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Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 10:57 AM
I just wanted to thank you for sending along your DVD, and for your brilliant talk. I shared it with my students yesterday, in the undergraduate course on human/animal rights I'm teaching. They were deeply moved. Thank you for the invaluable contribution you are making to the movement, and I hope our paths cross in person someday.
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Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 6:06 PM
Saw your lecture on youtube and it was inspirational. I'm a vegetarian, but since seeing that, I've cut out milk and cheese. I am on my way to becoming a vegan.
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Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 5:20 PM
I just watched your Georgia Tech 2010 lecture. Amazing! You are a powerful speaker, honest, eye-opening, and direct without judgment. I have been vegan for 18 months now, and will be for life. My Mom recently went vegan and I watched this video with her and she loved it. It completely reinforced her decision to be vegan for health reasons. I can't thank you enough for this speech and the work you are doing - I will be sharing it for sure; my activist voice is a whisper compared to yours.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 9:29 PM
I shared your video with a friend of mine who I thought I could never convince. After watching your video, he is vegan now. He said he could never touch meat or dairy again. You are a very special person.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 7:14 PM
just want u to know that u changed my world.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 4:06 PM
I saw your speech. I was shocked. I have gone vegan since that day. It was last month, and I have not looked back ever since. Thanks for educating me!!!
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:36 PM
your video on youtube effected me very strongly. its been two weeks since i saw it and i haven't touched meat. every time i think about eating or see meat images, words from your video go up to my head and all i can feel is nausea. i saw videos like that in the past but from some reason it didn't effect me like yours.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:32 PM
I just saw one of your speeches the other day online. It was great! I've been a vegan for just over a year, and since then my eyes have really been opened. Your speech opened my eye even more (peta and hsus stuff mostly). I just got done reading most everything on your website. Thank you for having this great truth out there for everyone to read/hear.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:37 PM
you are such a vegan rockstar, and i wish so badly that you would have come to my school and opened my eyes sooner. i wish i was unafraid like you too. you are just a most awesome, amazing, individual.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 9:04 AM
My son James got an A on his final english exam. Presenting "'my vegan life and why'. Inspired by Gary Yourofsky.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 6:29 AM
Thank you ever-so-much for articulating the truth, for using your powerful communication skills on behalf of the innocent animals. I have already shared some of your thought-provoking lectures on video.
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 6:25 AM
I have seen one of your lectures and you totally opened my eyes.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 7:28 PM
I watched your lecture on youtube entitled 'the best speech you will ever hear' I have been meat and dairy free for 30 days now and still going. I think it's safe to say if i've made it this far, i think i can go forever. it's way easier than i thought and i feel so much healthier already. I no longer take sleeping medications, my energy lever is higher, and i've lost 20 lbs from doing nothing except changing my diet. I recently competed in a martial arts sparring match against a black belt in karate. being only a brown belt myself i was scared. at the end of the 3 minute match, my opponent (who bashed my veganism) was huffing and puffing on the ground and i was deemed the winner. i then looked down at him and asked "whats wrong? all that meat weighing you down?" to this day my instructor and fellow students refer to that match as "veggie vs meat" and the veggie won. Thank you for your guidance, all the best on your future quests to help change the world.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 1:35 AM
Your lecture just made three more vegans.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 3:42 PM
I wanted to say THANKS! I have tried being vegan a couple times but I always go back to cheese. after watching one of your lectures on youtube though it has finally given me that extra push to stay vegan. Thanks for all the information and support I think you are a really awesome guy and you are doing great things. There's nothing wrong with a little civil disobedience in my eyes!
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Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:58 PM
While my husband has not said it, I think your talk at Georgia Tech (we watched it yesterday) may have made him finally "get there". He cried during your talk. It hit him deeply and it impacted him hard. God bless you for what you are doing, for all that you have done. I believe, that you truly are making change on so many levels, maybe even more than you realize.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:55 AM
I became a vegetarian when I was 15, vegan at 16 and then at 22 I lost my way and slowly slipped back into the dairy world, followed by meat. I'm now close to 28 and finally my eyes are starting to open again. I stopped eating meat about a month ago and stumbled upon a video lecture of yours yesterday. When I got to the dairy video, head in hands and countless sobs later, I vowed to stop eating dairy and eggs again too. Keep up the fantastic work. I always dreamed of becoming just like you, freeing animals, chaining myself to cars in front of the circus and aligning myself with the ALF.
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Sent: Tueday, June 07, 2011 6:04 AM
Your lecture changed my life, thank you...
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Sent: Tueday, June 07, 2011 3:05 AM
My friend just recently went vegan and after sharing the video of your speech with her, she showed it to her husband. He was so moved that he he is going to make the leap to veganism also. Thank you for the continued inspiration. It really reminded me of the importance of outreach and education and my desire to reach as many people possible everyday.
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Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 2:13 PM
I am watching your lecture at youtube. You are a wonderful person. I always liked animals but always ate animals as well. I have never thought about the process about Animals feelings. I am trying to eat fruits and vegetables, pasta, rice ... working on it.
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Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 11:50 AM
I was talking about your surname and how beautiful i thought it was. Like you are from the sky. Sent here from above to spread the word on living a compassionate life. Thought that you might need some kind words, as everybody does. And then i saw your post about being hassled about smoking weed. Sending you love, as you send love out to us. You're not alone, and you're not judged. You're celebrated and loved. You're of the sky. Nothing's more beautiful than that.
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Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 10:04 AM
i'm from Israel. i watched your lecture on youtube today and i thank you for opening my eyes and reminding me of the truth that was covered with fear and other things that make us hold on to what we know and to what's "normal". i love you for each word that you said today. i use the word love because when i meet truth, first it comes to my heart and that's how i feel right now, physically like someone woke me up from a bad dream. like you said, change comes from doing and not from talking. i don't think i can stay apathetic after today.
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 11:39 PM
You made me take the last changes needed for ZERO cruelty eating! keep spreading your words of truth and wisdom! you are a great speaker!
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:53 PM
Thank you for standing up in what you believe. It has changed my life and I am now a much better person! For years I have had blinders on and ignoring the truth. I too will stand for what is right! Vegan is the only way to be a good human being! I agree with all that you have said in your video!
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:30 AM
I was a student in an Intro to Philosophy class that you came to in Royal Oak. I was considering being vegan for a while before you came but what you had to say made it not an option for me to put it off any longer. So, I just wanted to say thanks for everything you do, and let you know that your hard work has paid off again.
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 4:42 AM
I'm a political science student from the KULeuven in Belgium. I watched Earthlings 3 months ago and I immediately turned vegetarian. Yesterday I saw your speech on youtube and now I'm vegan. I think because of your charisma and good point of view you can influence many people. I was wondering if you sometimes come to Europe to do your presentations? If that's the case, it would be awesome if you could come to speak in Belgium at the KUleuven.
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 12:17 AM
Last week I heard your speech for the first time, and it was really one of the best speeches I have ever heard! I also showed my students in 9th grade (I am a teacher) the video. They were very interested and impressed, although I still got some very silly remarks and "justifications" to continue eating meat from a few of them which I found exasperating and I lost my patience with them a little bit.I have seen the slaughter of pigs with my own eyes and it traumatized me. I also foster and rescue animals from the streets in Mexico where I am confronted with lots of cruelty as well so that is why I quickly lose my patience with people who try to find excuses to justify any kind of cruelty. I have been a vegetarian for 8 years. I have eaten organic eggs. However, a few weeks ago I stopped eating cheese, and after watching your video I stopped eating eggs too. I am going vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 7:47 PM
i'm a student at the Academic College of Tel Aviv - Jaffa Israel. Your lecture had a great impact on me and some of my friends.
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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 5:08 PM
While I was already familiar with most of the topics you covered in your lecture, I am really glad to have watched through the entire video (including the most agonizing-to-see animal cruelty footage) as it reminded me that I've made the right decision years ago, and you are one of the most inspirational and charismatic speakers on this subject I've ever seen. You have a special gift, Gary, and knowing that you are out there, doing what you do, gives me a sense of hope for mankind and for a much better future with more compassion, reverence for life and nature, and less violence. You make the world a much better place, and for this I am truly grateful! Please don't ever give up.
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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:59 PM
Your talks have been a valuable tool in educating my friends.
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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 11:28 AM
You made me leave work in the middle of the day, go outside and think. you shook me and inspire me and i thank you for that. god bless you.
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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 9:23 AM
Your Georgia Tech lecture inspired me to quit dairy.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 9:04 PM
I was raised a vegetarian and still consumed dairy all my life. I even started eating meat in the past few years occasionally. The cruelty that is taking place Globally towards animals is always something that ripped my heart out. 1 month ...ago I watched one of your lectures. I am now Vegan and loving it- I notice I feel a lot healthier and no longer get lethargic or congested from dairy products because ive stopped supporting these industries and have stop consuming it. When people ask me why I became a Vegan I give them your name. One person at a time makes all the difference. Thanks for changing my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 3:04 PM
Today I had the great pleasure of hearing you speak, your compassion, empathy and sincere desire to help other living beings that share this planet is a RIGHT-IN-YOUR-FACE-EXPERIENCE that NO ONE SHOULD MISS. Since the world has such a disconnect about where meat comes from, educating young people in Schools, Colleges and Universities allows you to reach many more people at a time in their life when they have their first opportunity to choose how they want to live. Not only do you educate about the horrors, you also provide options and links that allow others to make informed choices, which is equally important when you are trying to help someone to see from a different perspective. For me having to watch the video was extremely hard as I wish I could save ALL creatures from the pain and suffering they endure as a direct result of HUMAN GREED and IGNORANCE. Please keep up the good work and know that with each speech, each lecture, each act of compassion you draw another being into the knowledge that there is a choice and each individual has the power to make a difference.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 2:09 PM
i'm a 2-day new vegan from Israel after watching a special video broadcast of you in Tel Aviv. I am happy that the animals found themselves such a charismatic speaker. I am also a student of NATUROPATHY and intend to learn everything about veganisim and food.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 2:27 AM
I'm a Christian with 17 years clean & sober, 100+ days off smokes and trying to learn how to be more healthy and eat right. I watched a lecture of yours and it inspired me. I want to learn more and follow in your footsteps. I have huge compassion for animals and want to let go of my dependency on meat!
Comments from Students and Supporters, May 2011
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:10 PM
I am speechless. So much truth, so much injustice. I ll never see things the same way again. Never again will i touch a drop of milk and it will break my heart whenever I see a bottle of it. Thanks for speaking for animals. You are an incredible being, an inspiration! Please never stop speaking up. You are gifted.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 7:24 PM
A video of you on youtube helped me change my life. I'm now living vegan and want to be a part of the people who will change the world to a better one. I'm living in switzerland.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 3:58 PM
I wanted to thank you for broadening my horizon by several orders of magnitude. At first, I simply watched Earthlings and was too floored to put my thoughts together for several days. It is simply impossible to watch without getting really upset unless you're dead inside. So after putting myself together, I started to educate myself as well as I can, finding the video of your speech in the process. It was enlightening. So, after deciding I wanted to become vegan, I simply got going. Greetings from Austria.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 3:56 PM
I just wanted to thank you for giving me the factual ammunition to use against my animal eating friends and family.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:12 AM
I was Veg for 22 yrs and was thinking about veganism. Hearing your speech on youtube made me realise what I already knew. Wish I had done it 30 yrs ago and wish I could make up for all those years of milk, eggs, cheese and honey. Thanks mate you are amazing.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:36 AM
someone from my office is going vegetarian because of your lecture and is passing it on to other people. we're in Israel and your lecture is being intensively circulated in Israel.You're having a H-U-G-E impact here.
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 6:00 PM
Greetings from Germany. Just seen your brilliant presentation on youtube!
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 4:54 PM
it's been day 21 of my veganism. the world is so different without being blind-folded. I am happy to be a part of HUMAN-KIND again. I cannot thank you enough for your amazing talk, your charisma and the truth of your path.
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 11:18 AM
Your direct and upfront words of encouragement is exactly what my wife and I needed. It's time for me to stop making excuses and take responsibility for my actions. No more excuses from this point on, I will take charge of my life. I don't want to be full of shit and a hypocrite.
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 10:29 AM
Thanks to your lecture I've been vegan for 3 months now. I know it's not a long time but I'm never tempted to give up.
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 9:59 AM
I recently watched your video on YouTube and just loved it! No doubt I will spend hours reading through your adaptt.org website & sharing everything I can on my journey from vegetarian to vegan. Thanks for being an inspiration to many.
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 6:26 PM
Your speech changed my Mum.
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 3:29 PM
I watched your lecture and it was amazing. I send this lecture to all my friends, talk about it and try to do everything I can to help the miserable animals.
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 1:35 PM
Thanks to you, I am now, not just a vegetarian, but a vegan. Thanks for your shopping list. Frustrated with those people who I send your youtube video and they say "oh, I was only able to watch a few seconds because I can't stand to see those poor animals"...... and then they continue to eat meat. My acquaintance list is decreasing.
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 12:27 PM
My cousin just passed along your speech. Today is day 1 for me being a full on vegan! Thanks so much for opening my eyes and all the work that you do!
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Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 1:39 PM
Your lectures turned my vegetarian boyfriend into a straightedge vegan! i cant thank you enough!
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Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 12:59 AM
You have so inspired me with your words. I have had several 'attempts' at being veg but this time there is no going back. I feel you are so so right - animals are sentient beings and need to be added to a new constitution of new earth as being protected alongside humans. I love your name have you ever pulled it apart - you r of sky - you are an angel for the animals.
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Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 12:49 AM
i've been a vegetarian for 19 yrs. i'm now going vegan after listening to u.
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 7:15 PM
I recently came across your speeches on YouTube and I was blown away, to say the least. I became a vegetarian in January 2010, and am now going through the transition to a vegan lifestyle. I am 15 years old and I feel that if at my age, I can see that living a meat-eating lifestyle is wrong, and I have the strength and determination to give up meat, eggs, milk, cheese, fish ... why can't others? Others who are so much older and with so much more wisdom. After doing more and more research and watching more videos, I came to the conclusion of going fully vegan. If I had one wish, I would have wished to have been told the truth sooner.
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 6:58 PM
this evening I listened to one of your lessons about animal rights and veganism. You are one of the most impressing, empathic persons I've seen and heard in the last years. Thank you for your gorgeous engagement! I am so happy that on this cruel planet there are people like you.
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 5:30 PM
I showed your speech to my 24 yr old son and he is now eating vegan. I am spreading you link to everyone I know.
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 2:16 PM
I first watched your speech online a few weeks ago. I had already been vegan since the start of this year and was blown away by how concisely and smoothly you covered every question and argument I have faced on my journey. Your speech turned my boyfriend vegan instantly - no in-between vegetarianism for him! I have been working to spread your speech around to those I know. You ARE making such a huge difference and I'm sure you know that.
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 1:17 PM
Myself, my husband and our two sons aged 1 and 6 are all vegan. I asked my 6 year old what he wants to be when he grows up, "I want to be like that Gary man from your face book who saves animals". Your speech converted my husband too.
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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 9:56 AM
I just wanted to say thank you! I recently came across your speech and it blew my mind. A tidal wave of emotion flooded through me and i realised how insane the situation is. I've been teetering on the edge of vegetarianism for months now (after 28 years of meat eating), but the normalisation of eating meat, and the obvious brainwashing of the population is shocking and very powerful/well designed. I wish to be the change that i see in the world. Since watching your speech, Ive shown it to my parents, who are now vegan! My mother suffers with high blood pressure, over weight, knocking back Statin drugs and the rest. She has stopped the drugs with no more meat. She already feels better!! My girlfriend has also taken the step to vegetarianism. She was so upset when watching the footage from the farms. When she was 8 years old, she became Vegan! But over the years, the brainwashing did it's thing, and she forgot and left her passion behind. The realisation truly shocked her, but also the fact that she had been duped. The descent into hell continues it seems unless we stop eating meat, and the industry FAILS. Thank you for opening my eyes, and showing me who i prefer to be.
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 8:45 PM
I viewed one of your lectures. I cried extensively. You are so very aware. You speak the truth.
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:21 PM
Since i saw your video i became vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 4:53 PM
i just have seen a video from one of your speeches, and it's simply amazing! i wish i could argue like you. i'm going to use some of your arguments. greetings from germany.
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:10 PM
there are some amazing people in this world. Gary, you are one of them. thanks for your videos, for your page and most of all for your love and respect of animals.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:37 AM
Thank you for opening my eyes! I admire you very much. I began being a vegetarian after seeing your speech! Hopefully more and more will follow your steps and try to make a change in this cruel world.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 3:00 AM
Just watched your Georgia Tech speech. Thank you. So much! I am 100% certain now that my decision to go vegan is rational. I will show everyone around me that one does not need to become a victim of propaganda that the meat, egg and dairy industries spew upon us on a daily basis. Thank you for all that you do, Gary. You give great hope to all of us and re-ignite the belief in a better, more harmonious world.
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Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 4:27 PM
You are doing wonderful things. You have a special gift. I don't know what it is exactly but something touched me deep inside, You can change people. I've been a vegetarian for 15 years now. Since i heard your speech, I had a revelation. You gave me the impulse to change for real and not just to quit eating cheese and milk, but you taught me how to fight with more determination for my values, and in convincing other people to change.
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 6:32 PM
From now on I'm stopping meat. After watching one of your lectures, I decided to do so! Thanks for guiding me.
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 5:05 PM
good news. after showing your speech to my mum, she has now decided to go vegan!
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 10:14 AM
Your videos are being watched here in Portugal. Amazing speech. I wish they run across the entire world.
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:59 AM
Thank you for the inspiration. My daughter and I are beginning the process of becoming vegetarians and then gradually vegans.
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 3:20 AM
I'm 15 vegan and I just wanted to tell you that you are one of the most influential people in my life. I admire you and your actions and that inspires me. I just hope that there will be more people like you.
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Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 7:29 PM
I just wanted to say thank you so much for your beautiful lecture about veganism, it has touched so many people here in Israel. please continue the excellent work you're doing for the animals. on behalf of all us vegan activists in Israel.
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Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 8:59 AM
thanks for everything u do. i've been vegan for 10 weeks now. u have motivated me to become a better person. as a fire fighter, i have to hear the usual "really men eat meat" line. but little by little people r seeing the light. thanks to my love of cooking i even got my wife to become vegan and a few friends.
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Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 6:38 PM
3 months ago I watched your video, and I have been vegan for 3 months. I know it might not seem like a very long time but it is the best decision I have ever made and I have no doubts about being one, despite all of the criticism I get. Thank you for making this speech! You have changed my life in such a positive way.
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 11:13 PM
Watched your Georgia Tech lecture sometime back and have turned vegan. Thank you so much. You are an inspiration!
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 5:04 AM
Just this very minute an omnivore friend of mine asked me "what can I do to help". I told her to watch your speech. Within 30 minutes she replied, "Thank you for making me more aware of this. I am going Vegan and will also try and convert my husband and son."
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 4:02 AM
I came across your work on YouTube recently. I strongly believe that those in the 'know' have a responsibility to spread the word to open the eyes of the blind. You're doing this on a grand scale. You seemingly have have the ability to make people think, to make people question the way they live their life. At the moment all I seem to do is make people belligerent.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:14 PM
So many new vegans here in Israel thanks to your lecture. Even my Brazilian mom decided to stop eating meat right after watching you (just vegetarian for now, but she used to buy at least 5 kilos of meat every week).
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 6:11 PM
I just watched your YouTube lecture and I am so impressed with your work. I have read many books, watched many movies and researched factory farming extensively. I believe your presentation finally woke me up. The more I sit and ponder the animals and absolutely GET IT like never before the more it's like waking up to realize I have been a slave owner all my life completely oblivious to the animals tortured, unrelenting suffering!
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:14 PM
I am a fresh vegan and loving it. Cheers for pointing out the simple truth in my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:00 PM
I'm an instant vegan thanks to you. I will do what I can from now on to help spread the word. Thank you for saving my life. You have a friend in Israel.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:11 PM
I've never had a hero, never. But in you I do. You are my favorite person on this planet!
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:10 PM
I will be spreading your lecture to anyone i can. We need people like you.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:21 PM
you're very inspirational. thanks for helping me to become a better human being.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:56 AM
I just recently converted to being completely vegan. I have been a vegetarian for about 6 years now. After seeing one of your lectures on youtube I was inspired to change my lifestyle. I completely agree with everything that you say and that is on your website.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 8:47 AM
Watched your lecture over a month ago online. I decided that day to follow your lead and to alter my lifestyle. Since then I only eat vegan food, I do not buy or wear leather clothes, I become active in promoting animals' rights and I do it proudly, without a moment of doubt about making the right choice. I feel as if your words had made sense out of many incoherent thoughts I've always had, and when everything made sense, I was ready to make the change and now I know there is no turning back anymore. Thank you for what you did for me and for many others I'm sure, I hope that it won't take long before enough people would see this great injustice that I see so clearly now.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 7:44 AM
I saw the video of your speech today and all I can think is ... I didn't know. I'm a vegetarian today, now!
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 8:46 PM
Just saw ur lecture, amazing!! You opened my eyes & I'm a vegan now thanks to you. My fridge is full of cheese & meat ... guess I will make lots of cats happy.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:51 PM
Just watched your lecture at Georgia Tech. It was amazing! Decided to go vegetarian a few months ago when I turned 18. Now I'm turning vegan. It's people like you that make the world a better place to live.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:46 PM
I want to say thank you. I really appreciate people like you. Fish is the only non vegan thing left in my diet. Now I will stop eating fish. Best wishes from Israel.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:21 PM
I was watching your speech late Sunday night and my husband came over to watch also. After it was over, he said to me that you finally convinced him. He had been eating dairy outside of the house and some meat too but now he's made the switch so we're doing vegan together.I shared your speech on my wall and I hope some of my animal eating friends watch it and wake up!
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 2:18 PM
You've inspired me so much to go completely veg. The animals and I can't thank you enough!
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:57 AM
Just watched one of your lectures -brilliant -really fired me up. It's such a shame you can't come to England, but in your absence i'll be spreading your lectures to everybody i know.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 7:51 AM
I believe that with your approach you touch many people's hearts. Thank you for being such a dedicated loving human being. I'm inspired! Cheers from Israel!
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:49 PM
Vegetarian for a few weeks ... vegan as of now. your videos are inspiring
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:59 PM
Hugs all the way from Malaysia. You are just awesome!
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 11:20 AM
I just saw one of your lectures. I'm all shaken up. The slaughterhouse movie made me cry and I forced myself to watch it all through. Thank you for you important work!
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 11:10 AM
i recently saw a video of your "Best Speech Ever" on youtube and was blown away. thank you for your passion, knowledge & everything you do to combat speciesism & non-human slavery. it can be very discouraging trying to help people "remove their blinders" in order to acknowledge the truth and you are truly an inspiration. best of luck with ADAPTT & your lecture tour.
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 9:50 AM
I've been vegetarian for almost two years and after watching one of your speech's on youtube I'm going Vegan. I sent it to all my friends and it convinced two of them to go vegetarian.
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 8:52 AM
I watched your lectures through the internet, and it's shocking, but I am really glad that there is people like you. I am going to go veg as I can't pay a single penny to slaughterhouses and dairy farms anymore.
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:11 PM
I recently became vegan after watching your Ga Tech speech on youtube.
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:02 PM
I live in Israel. Just wanted to tell you that i agree with everything you said in your lecture on youtube, including the concentration camps metaphor which I thought of myself a few years ago (McDonalds = Maidanek, Burger King = Bergen Belsen). Until a week ago I was a vegetarian and because of that lecture you gave I'm now a vegan and so is my wife. The world can be a better place because of people like you. If there is a god I'm sure he agrees with you 100%.
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:47 AM
Thanks for all the hard work. You've changed my life and I know you will continue to change the lives of others.
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 2:36 AM
I want to thank you for all of your lectures. You changed my life. I became vegan and I live much better, morally and health-wise.
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 12:59 AM
I'd just like to tell you what an inspiration you are. I've been a vegetarian for three years and after I saw your lecture on youtube from last summer in Georgia, I've decided to go vegan! I hope you continue doing what you are because it's amazing and I can't thank you enough. Best regards from an 18 year old girl in Sweden.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 11:17 PM
You are amazing! Just saw your youtube video. I am so impressed someone cares so much for those who cannot speak for themselves. Thank you so much! I hope to help with at least a little of what you do one day, the laws are so upside down, you are a HERO.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:15 PM
I watched your speech today and decided to turn vegan from vegetarian. Your speech was very moving and I'm glad there are people like you in the world.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 9:39 PM
I've just been watching the lecture you did online and I'm so grateful someone as dedicated, convincing and intelligent as yourself is spreading the word on veganism. You've seem to find a wonderful way to impart all the important information about animal exploitation.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 9:01 PM
My wife showed me one of your lectures. It was very enlightening.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 3:28 PM
Thank you very much for your unforgettable presentation! You changed my life and many others in Israel. Because of you I realized what it really is love animals!
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 3:26 PM
I've just discovered your famous speech on youtube today. There is not enough words to describe what I feel listening to you. You are absolutely amazing Gary. Thank you for everything you do for animals. You just reinforced my desire to fight.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 11:20 AM
Saw your speech. It was great. I will be making a lifestyle change.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:59 AM
My wife showed me your lecture. I totally agree with your words. You're a brave and very Cool warrior like St. Francis of Assisi.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:10 AM
I'm from Rome, Italy. I've been being vegetarian for 10 years. Then I watched your video on Youtube. And now I can only feel guilty seeing what happens on a dairy "farm". I should have been aware of all this. My life is going to change again as it did 15 years ago.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 6:47 AM
I'm from Israel. I watched your lecture last night and was amazed. Not because I didn't know about the horrific and unbearable abuse out there, because for 23 years I was one of those people who supports this industry. I want to say THANK YOU for opening my eyes. I feel disgusted and ashamed. Mostly, when I look at my mirror. I have been working in a dairy farm for a decade, and always had animals around me. I have always knew what was the future for the cows and the calves. They always went to a slaughterhouse. I will make a drastic change in my life, and hopefully in others lives. I will become a vegan and will raise my future family as vegans. You are my hero and my inspiration. I can't thank you enough.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 3:21 AM
My first vegan day. I've been a vegetarian for more than thirty years and always thought that was all I needed to do to stop supporting animal cruelty. I've had my eyes opened after listening to you.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 2:31 AM
Just saw your video and as a vegetarian who loves cheese I just made the conscious decision to swear off of that too! Thank you for the video! You are truly an inspiration!
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 2:18 AM
My son shared your 2010 speech at Georgia Tech. I am no longer a vegetarian. I am a vegan and from now on there will be no animal products in my home. I love animals so much. You are an AMAZING human being.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:35 AM
I love you. I watched one of your speeches on youtube today & after almost 5 years of being a vegetarian I am now going to become a vegan. You made SO many points I wish I could preach to my friends daily! I'm going to make some friends of mine watch the same video. My dream is to own my own Animal Rescue Shelter & to own a Vegan Shop. I live in Alaska where EVERYONE hunts. Even my dad. I don't live with him because we don't get along & he has animals hanging on his wall. Not really a place I like to visit.
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:02 AM
I'm so in awe of you. Your lectures are riveting and vitally important. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 9:44 PM
I watched your speech last night until 2 a.m. Couldn't stop watching. I was so mesmerized. I posted this on my profile also. Spreading your info to others. Totally agree and I have been a vegetarian, but am now doing the vegan lifestyle.
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 6:10 PM
I do not feel like a hypocrite today. My diet has harmed no one. I feel good about this, and I have eaten some very delicious food. Thank you Gary for keeping me informed of the facts. I love my animal brothers and sisters so very much.
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 5:07 PM
Just watched your lecture and it was absolutely fantastic. I cried because you said everything I wanted to say to friends and family and anyone that will listen. Thank you for your inspiring passion and for doing what you do.
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 4:59 PM
Would you mind if I put a link to your website on my bands website. I posted your lecture on my wall and a fellow veg has converted to vegan and my meat eating guitar player is now veggie with a view to become vegan.
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 3:01 PM
I just wanted to let you know that I'm almost 7 months vegan now and I know now I'll never go back. You opened my eyes and forever changed my life and the lives of so many innocent beings. I will try to continue to spread the word that you so generously passed on to me when you lectured here at City College.
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 1:50 PM
I'm from Israel. I was lucky to receive your lecture on youtube from a friend today, and I wanted to thank you for everything that you are doing to promote veganism and animal rights. I have been vegetarian since I was 15, and I avoid dairy almost entirely, but it has been very hard for me to give up eggs - until now. I am determined to become fully vegan, thanks to your lecture!!
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 1:07 PM
Your lectures are amazing! I was a Vegan already but I can watch your lectures over and over again.
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 9:08 PM
Just watched one of your lectures. I have been vegetarian since I was 11 and I am now vegan. I sobbed the whole way through your lecture and my wonderful dog was licking my face trying to make it all better. Keep up the excellent work.
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:56 PM
I just saw your lecture on youtube, and posted it to my FB page. You are the best educator I have ever heard on the topic of animal rights. I am vegan from this point forward.
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:50 AM
I've seen your videos/lectures on youtube and have shared them with several friends. I refer to ADAPTT frequently as well. You've done a most excellent job with all of this.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:29 PM
My boyfriend stopped eating meat and dairy products the same moment he finished watching your video. Now, both of us are like we should've been from the start; decent human beings. All the best from Serbia.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:25 PM
a friend showed me one of your speeches and it truly has set me on a path of change.
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Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:10 PM
Saw that talk you did at Georgia Tech and shared it with everyone I know. Thank you for delivering such info to people who know no better. Shine on you crazy diamond.
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Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:03 PM
I've seen your lecture on youtube and on ADAPTT. It is so educational without the "shock" factor that most non vegans are offended by. Your lecture was so perfect.
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Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:31 AM
I saw one of your lectures. I always was a vegetarian. but now you convinced me to give up cheese.
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Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 9:02 PM
I already got 2 people to become vegan after showing them your speech. Then I watched your speech again, and it inspired me to write to the following to the Anti Defamation League: "I am 17 years old, Jewish, and vegan. I read a couple of articles on the ADL website that condemn animal rights organizations for comparing what animals go through to the Holocaust. What is different between what animals go through today and the Holocaust? The victims go through the same thing such as being gassed and shot. What you are condemning in your articles is promoting discrimination. The same kind the Jews went through. I am furious that one of the most famous anti-discrimination groups, would be promoting speciesism."
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Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 4:59 PM
My friend talked me into watching your lecture. I was resistant because she knows I hate cruelty awareness videos. I kept my blinders on purposely. That was yesterday. Today I am vegan FOR LIFE.
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Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 1:06 AM
I LOVE your lecture. It is the most amazing lecture I have ever seen, in my life, bar none. What you are doing in educating people, is priceless. If I wasn't a vegan before I saw your video, I would have been one right after. Let me say, I've only been vegan a couple months- but I wish I had done it a life time ago. I had NO IDEA what was going on with the animals. And sadly, I guess I was too selfish to realize that the meat and dairy on my plate were the products of murder. Why didn't I ever realize that? Why didn't I care? I'll never know, but I know now, and I will never turn back. I feel like a piece of shit for eating that crap for 22 years of my life.
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Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 8:36 PM
I watched your lecture on youtube today and was very inspired by your activism. My boyfriend's family has also recently gone vegan (upon watching your lecture) and he is switching from being a vegetarian to a vegan after your lecture. I just wanted to let you know that your message had reached us and you have spared that many more animals from being killed and eaten.
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Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 8:20 PM
Thank you so much for all the inspiration you provide and for your down-to-earth resources. Your words have helped me and mine so much.
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Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 5:40 PM
I have just recently watched a video of you giving a lecture at Georgia Tech in 2010, and a lot of the views that you have expressed both bewildered, shocked and astounded me. I cannot say that I want to condemn or applaud your views right now, simply because I've yet to think enough about the matters that you discuss and fight for on a daily basis. Although at the same time I find myself unable to stomach the thought of dairy, cheese, meat or eggs right now. You are quite a strong speaker, and your words have had quite an effect on me. But I am really shocked by myself, because I have never thought to consider where these products came from and what creatures have to suffer so that they can be supplied. My own ignorance in this instance really shocked me the most about all of this. I can tell you're hugely passionate about this. That kind of passion's what incites change in the world. I'm looking into your website, and "stealing" your lecture from youtube so I can burn it to a few cd's to give to people I know, since it really did open my eyes. I would like to say thank you for opening my eyes to something that I was really just too stupidly ignorant to consider before.
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Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 3:35 PM
THANK YOU for your wise, powerful and engaging words. From 90% vegetarian, I decided to follow your ethical and morally-correct train, and go all the way to veganism.
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Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 4:31 AM
just had to send u some words that a friend said about your lecture: "I was not aware of what it meant to be vegan. Gary explained and demonstrated it so well. amazing. veganism is the right way for me to live and will open up much more tasty options."
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 11:07 PM
Just watched your 1h10m speech and 30m Q & A following it, then individually posted it on about 300 of my friends pages. I love what you do, and you are the best speaker I have heard.
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 11:07 PM
I was happy to see they screened your speech at the Sydney Vegan Expo.
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 9:01 PM
I have been veggie for almost 10 yrs. But when I saw your lecture I turned vegan. That was two weeks ago. It was much easier than I thought.
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 7:04 PM
Your speech is excellent. Thanks for the uplifting message. I have seen so many videos on animal abuse and slaughterhouses and Food Inc. and Food Matters and Earthlings and so on and so on. I wish I saw your videos before as well. And I wish you came to Temple while I was there. Your speech alone may have pushed me further to the point I want to be in life.
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 4:35 AM
A huge thumbs-up from Singapore!
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 2:39 AM
I've seen your lecture at Georgia Tech and got filled with compassion. I'm sure you'll be glad to hear that it got translated to Hebrew and been watched over ten thousand times since April this year. I've also peeked at your website and was happy to find out that there are plenty of replacements for meat. Thank you for the fascinating lecture, I hope to hear more from you on this subject in the future.
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 10:36 PM
it's almost 6 in the morning in here. i'm writing u from my hometown in israel a few moments after seeing your lecture. i am speechless. and i am so thankful by watching your wisdom and simplicity. i am going to take a part in the revolution and become a vegan. i know it can be hard at the moment because i'm living with my parents but i'm gonna do it. i am totally against killing and am going to spread the true love however i can. thanks to u i'm gonna make a change by making others aware. i wanna help to stop the suffering. this is crazy. we lost the respect of our own principles because we kill a pure, innocent creature that doesn't do anything wrong to us. thank u for teaching me and opening my eyes, may God bless u.
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 5:19 PM
Thank you for accepting :) I had an opportunity to watch the speech you gave at Georgia Tech this afternoon and I must say it was perfect. I felt really proud to be vegan and realized that the movement is in great hands with people like you leading the way.
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:57 PM
I'm so happy. Two of my closest carnist friends just saw your lecture with the hebrew subtitles and decided to go vegan. I have been trying for 6 years and you have succeeded in an hour. They have posted the video on their facebook page and there are now at least 2 more vegetarians that we know of.
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 4:02 PM
I'm from Israel. I was very impressed to see your lecture and to hear your ideas. I'm planning on starting to spread these ideas here and might need your help.
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 11:08 AM
What an amazing man you are. I just read parts of your website. If only this planet had more people like you what a different place this would be. Keep up the amazing work.
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:50 AM
Congratulations for your compassionate speech to students in favour of animals! Someone has to do that in Europe also. I am Secretary General of Paneurope (the oldest European think tank with almost 10,000 members in 25 countries) and therefore I could help promote such an action. My think tank is only dedicated to European political purposes but it can open doors (European Parliament, Council of Europe, universities, etc.) for other causes. What I had in mind is opening the minds of the European citizens to animal welfare.
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:22 AM
I am currently living in Israel. I saw your lecture on facebook and decided after years of thinking about it, to go vegan. My dog Jojobean was sitting next to me throughout the whole video making me feel even worse about eating animals. So, i went out and bought myself a ton of nuts and veggies and fruit and soy stuff and went nuts. It's been a week and i feel great! Thank you for listening and for helping me get to the decision to make this change. You took my breath away, and helped me understand i can make a change. By you taking your message and passing it on, you have changed my life, made me understand what i am doing. MY BLINDERS ARE OFF! I hope that by passing this message of truth along, I can help as well.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:12 PM
I went vegan over six years ago after getting deathly sick from eating chicken. Over time I starting learning more about animal rights, environmentalism, ecology, health, etc. etc. etc. I've spent this much time reading, researching, learning more, listening to lectures, and somehow hadn't heard of you before today - and that bummed me out hard. Of all of the things I've come across since the first day I went vegan, your lecture (and Q&A) on YouTube is by far my favorite that I've seen. This community and movement could seriously benefit from more people taking a no-bullshit stance on issues and answering questions people have in a truthful, but to-the-point manner. I loved it. It's sometimes hard, but looking at this from a non-vegetarian perspective, I imagine that the lecture is life-changing. Viewing it from an activist's point of view, I can tell you that it is extremely inspirational. Keep up the lectures - what you're doing is awesome.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 12:29 PM
I am 17 in 11th grade. I saw your speech on YouTube and just wanted to let you know that it changed my life. I have thought about going vegan before but never did. As of yesterday, I started. I am so happy to have made this change in my life. I have a strong love for all animals and always have. Your speech really moved me and it just made me go, wow! When you said we aren't even meat eaters and that we don't have that instinct to attack, it just made so much sense to me. I literally cried all day and still cannot get the image out of my head of the guy punching and beating calves. My mom just got a mini pot belly pig so to think that someone could do that to animals just sickens me! I just wish people would think of animals as equals, after all they were here before us! This was initially their place. For the people that disagree with me on this I say hey go watch this speech on youtube ... maybe you will change your mind! I am totally committed to this and will never touch anything animal again! You are a kind-hearted guy and I am so glad I got to see the speech! I will continue to spread your speech around and hope that people will open their eyes! I am wondering if there will be any lectures in Michigan? I really want to bring my family!
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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 9:47 AM
I thought you would like the message below from someone who saw my posting of your incredible speech: "I just wanted to personally thank you for posting that amazing speech. I watched the entire thing and it made me reconsider why I went Vegetarian over a year ago. I am now on Day three of a Vegan diet."
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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:12 AM
The circus is in town and guess who's NOT going! Thanx for posting 'We must be the devil' Gary. You're a great man.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 3:57 AM
I watched your speech twice over. Then spent most of the night awake deep in thought. I am glad I have lived long enough to see the case put forward with such gentle persuasive words, words that stop you in your tracks and draw your soul out through your eyes and ears.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:45 AM
You are one of the most inspirational people I have ever seen. Thank you so much for all that you do, you are amazing.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:16 PM
I was a student in Professor A. Droba's ethics class a few weeks ago. I wanted you to know your words truly impacted my sister and me, and we have decided to become vegetarians. We are three weeks strong and don't intend on stopping anytime soon! I thought you might find it cool to know your work really is impacting people!
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Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:21 PM
I viewed your video and it changed me forever. Never again will I eat meat and I am looking for alternatives for dairy products. This decision really, really feels good. That is how I know it is right. Thank you for enlightening me.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 1:15 AM
Me and my husband and friends are vegan, and we thought, oh what can this lecture do to us? We are already convinced anyway! Surprisingly, we sat glued to our chairs admiring your amazing energy and fierce way of delivering the message. No more silk gloves (literally and metaphorically). Harsh things need to be said in a harsh way. I forwarded your Georgia Tech lecture to many; hopefully they will watch it and feel the same. Thank you so much, it is good to know of people like you, and it makes me feel I am not alone carrying all these strong feelings.
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 10:40 AM
Thank you for a wonderful speech. I just watched last night. Your message is so important for these young kids. Please keep going. With hope, this will be a period looked back upon in shock.
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 6:47 AM
I recently went Vegan after seeing the amazing lecture you gave at a USA university on facebook. Thank you with all my heart, your speech has totally changed me. It has also lit quite a fire inside of me, and I now feel compelled to "educate" as many people as I can, about where their meat and dairy come from. I really can't comprehend how anyone with an ounce of intelligence or compassion can continue to buy these products after seeing your speech. I don't blame anyone who eats meat/dairy who doesn't know the truth, (that was me just 2 weeks ago.) I do however take issue who those who have seen the truth, and choose to ignore it. How can this be??? My brain can't even begin to comprehend how they can rationalize it. I have found this to be even more unsettling than the videos you showed in your speech. Thank you again for the incredible work you do, you are an amazing voice for the voiceless.
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 6:21 AM
You are a legend. I wish people would actually listen though, they are just so narrow minded. Makes me really sad, but also glad that I am bringing my children up as vegan. Maybe when their generation is grown up they can be the change that we need to see in the world.
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 6:15 AM
Just watched one of your speeches. Fantastic, powerful and very sad. I'm looking into Veganism now.
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 5:59 AM
Greetings from Armenia. I have watched your speech on FB today and it is a really interesting and important subject. Absolute pity how animals have been treated. Your message is clear and logical. And it is more healthy to be a vegetarian.
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:33 AM
Saw your lectures on YouTube about Veganism, was really touched. I am already a Vegetarian, but will now try to be a Vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 7:34 PM
i'm your new fan. sent your video to all my friends. i'm a vegan shoes designer turned vegan cook to promote veganism in italy where i live.
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 11:02 AM
I'm your typical 56 yr old overweight male, who is trying trying to lose weight and get healthy. I cried like a baby last night, and after waking up this morning I'm still tearing up with shame and guilt. I have always said that when a person is un-educated about a subject, that's OK, they just don't know, but when you know, and don't take action, you're a fool. I won't be foolish any more. Your intense argument has for ever changed me and for thatI am forever grateful. I have been trying to eat a raw food diet for the last two months (about 95%) and I rationalized that if I was invited to dinner at someones home and they were serving something with meat or dairy I would just eat it and go back to raw the next day, so as not to be a clog in the wheel or put the host out. But now I see an opportunity to spread your talk with others. Today I have become an activist. Your message, your tone, your deliverance is spot on. Your target audience is correct and we need to support your efforts to change lives forever. I thank you Gary, I feel very powerful today.
Comments from Students and Supporters, April 2011
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Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 6:27 PM
was hypnotized by the lecture. i am ashamed how people can be so cruel 2 animals. here in israel i will do my best to SHARE your speech. u are my hero.
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Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 5:05 PM
i am from Israel and i am in my last year of vet school. just watched your lecture on you tube and i wanted to say thank you for the knowledge you gave me and that finally someone gave me a mirror in the face and gave all the correct answers for all my excuses.
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Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 9:57 AM
Right now I am trying to make sense of my mind, pushing every dark thought behind. But I cannot. You are a hero Gary. I never say that, never look up to someone but it has emphasized my thought on going 100% subjective, spending my lessons to teach about animal rights and if I lose my job and freedom so be it. You didn't lose a thing, especially not your voice.
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Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 9:12 AM
I found out who you were last night & I watched your "greatest speech you will ever hear" & everything you said blew my mind. you are an inspiration. with your speech I am changing my life.
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Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 3:29 AM
This is from one of my friends: I watched that full thing. I am angry & upset at those graphic clips of what happens to those poor animals. I shouted in anger & I almost went into tears man. That man Gary Yourofsky changed my life. I'm changing my ways on eating. The end clip of the poor cows & calf. I almost cried at that & I never show emotions, I can't believe this.
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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:12 PM
Just wanted to say that you are the bomb! I have recently taken the red pill, and can't go back to how I was living. I thought that just eating free range organic animal products, and using cruelty free products was good enough...But a light bulb has clicked, and I am now vegan. No turning back. I have been watching some of your videos and I find you so inspiring. You are a legend. Thank you so very much for all that you do, on behalf of our four legged/flippered/scaled/feathered animal/mammal friends.
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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:41 PM
i saw your speech. great great work. i shared it with my mom and two brothers. and now one of my brothers has decided to become vegan thank you for your help and inspiration and education.
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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:39 PM
I absolutely love everything you stand for and represent. Thank you so much for being such a sane & reasonable and PASSIONATE voice for the animals. I only wish I could articulate my feelings as well as you do. The animals have a champion in you Gary - and I deeply respect you for that.
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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:04 PM
I saw your video about 2 months ago. It's the single most powerful video I've seen in my life, particularly as it clears up an enormous amount of ignorance in one hit. Immediately after seeing it, I switched from meat eating to 100% veganism for the following few weeks. You are a truly amazing person. I wish you all the very best in your efforts to help us and the animals. I mention your Georgia Tech talk to people regularly in my posts.
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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 5:51 PM
I'm a competing freediver. I think you've made me change my life. Just one word - WOW. (followed by a bow).
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Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:14 PM
You are such a inspiration for all the thing that you do for animals! I am trying my very best to become vegan after being a vegetarian all my life because of you.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:16 PM
I'm from Israel, I saw your lecture on youtube, and it shook me to the core, 10 days ago. I have started to be vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:47 PM
I went to your lecture today. I had been playing hit and miss with veganism for about a year. Your lecture and video made me feel ashamed of myself. Anyway, I'm now a true and determined vegan, and I would like very much to receive the other websites you indicated you have available. I will be passing on all I learned from you today. Especially the info about pus and mucus in cow's milk. Thank you for helping me take the final step. You are my hero
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Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:48 PM
saw your lecture on youtube and decided I want to stop with the meat and milk. I want to tell you you're an example to everyone.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:09 AM
I'm volunteering in Shevi, an animal rights organization in Israel. First of all, thank you for fighting for the animals. I was already a vegan before I watched your lecture. But I heard from a vegan friend that your lecture affected people in Israel positively, making them take a step toward veganism. I watched it and I'm still amazed. I would like with your permission to make copies of your lecture with hebrew subtitles to give out in our organization activities.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:49 AM
I saw one of your lectures through face book. my comment was "couldn't explain it better". My only pure love is to animals, i do admit eating flesh once in a while but you should know that today (Israel time) one less person will be purchasing animals ingredients.
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Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 2:20 PM
The word hero gets thrown around a lot, but you sir, are nothing short of phenomenal. Your charisma gives these animals a voice of passion and purpose.
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Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:45 PM
Want to thank you for a wonderful speech. Been Vegetarian for over 13 years now and well, just got inspired to go Vegan. No doubt, from now on yours will be the link which I'll give to the people who will ask me, "Why did you go Vegan?"
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Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:54 AM
You changed me forever. Can't thank you enough.
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Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 7:43 PM
You are one of the coolest persons ever walking on this planet! You are saying things that I try to tell people all the time here in Sweden. Thank you for doing what you do for the sake of the animals!
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Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 8:40 PM
I am a swimmer from Indianapolis. I want to tell you that your lecture amazed me and I became vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:15 AM
Just saw the lecture you did online at Georgia Tech about veganism and I 'got it.' Thanks for your insights and commitment to making an impact on this world by educating us. I will definitely start by making changes in my life, and sharing your video with others.
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 9:20 PM
You've given the most logical, unarguable, eye-opening argument for a cruelty-free world that I have ever seen.
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 8:38 PM
You are on a crusade and give the best talk I have ever heard on animals. Your www.adappt.org site is very powerful stuff. You are the Mother Teresa of animal rights on all levels. None of the glamor of PETA, just straight scientific and moral dissertations changing ome mind at a time.
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:32 PM
I think you have changed my life.
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 10:47 AM
I watched a lecture of yours today and after deliberating on the subject for the past few years and feeling very uncomfortable eating meat, I've decided to become a vegetarian.
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:34 AM
Your message is awesome. I was already vegetarian but now vegan thanks to your video!
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:11 AM
God bless you. Thank you for keeping the word out there. Even converted vegans need to be reminded occasionally as to why we took that step in the first place.
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 3:19 AM
I just watched Georgia Tech lecture on youtube. I just wanna take the time to say thank you for removing those blinders from my eyes. I'm not gonna lie to you, I am a meat, milk, and egg eater, but the video in the slaughterhouse you showed made me sick to my stomach knowing that I play a role in that. Even as I am writing this, the image of the calf getting beat seems to be permanently imprinted in my head. I just wanna say thank you and keep up the hard work.
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 2:59 AM
I've been eating vegan for 10 days now. I've been moving this direction for a while, but your video was my tipping point.
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 12:02 AM
Your lecture at Georgia Tech converted a dear friend to Veganism last night.
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Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:01 PM
I never really considered how bad meat eating/dairy industry was until i read "Eating Animals" so i went veggie for a week. Then i watched Earthlings and my veggie and previous carnivore status was completely revoked (and i owned a restaurant and a country pub that was meat based and i don't now). The quote that spoke about all men being like the Nazis in their treatment of animals really rang home for me because i had always been about equal rights for humans and not realized the hipocrisy in treating animals that way. Your speech was the most reasoned, well-thought-out out argument for veganism i have ever seen because it is common sense and passion all in one and i know i can use it to answer any questions that are thrown at me. it may be small potatoes but of the first few people that have watched it with me, my dad (55 year old meat eater) and one of my best friends (a 6'4 gym freak) are trying veganism out. it's all about education and you are the most accessible form of it i've seen.
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Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:06 AM
your lecture has inspired me in so many ways! I think you are a brilliant speaker and I am considering showing your video to the Eastern Illinois University section of VEG (Vegan/Vegetarian Education Group) that I just started. thank you for all of the great work you do.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 2:34 PM
I have been 'veggy' for ages, but at the back of my mind I knew this was only a half-hearted gesture. after watching one of your lectures, I got the nudge I needed to go vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12:58 PM
I am 22 and I am from the Ukraine. 3 months ago I become a vegan because I wanted to lose some weight and because I read some articles that said animal food is not suitable for human bodies. After I watched your lecture I became sure I will never ever eat animal food again. My beliefs have changed. Now I am not eating any animal food not because I want to lose weight but because: 1) I know how animal food is produced and I do not support this; 2) I feel just great without eating animals 3) I don't want to kill to live. I would love to show your videos to some of my Ukrainian-Russian friends, who are not supporting me in my new lifestyle, but I can't find any of your videos with Russian subtitles. So, for this moment I will just translate everything to my friends when I meet them. Anyway, I would like to say thank you for doing all this and thank you for inspiring people to join you.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:16 AM
I saw a video of your speech at Georgia Tech. I was happy being a vegetarian but couldn't let go of the dairy addiction until I saw your video. THANK YOU.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:27 AM
I'm from israel. i just finished watching your lecture on youtube. i am a vegetarian of 20 years since the age of ten, in a meat-eating house. and i always wanted to go vegan but always failed. i just wanted to tell u that your lecture was very inspiring and i am confident that this time i will succeed. even my husband who still eats meat was overwhelmed and is serious about changing his ways, which is something i was trying to do for years! so i just wanted to let u know u are making a big change all over the world. i am going to send this video to everyone i know.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 6:18 AM
just saw your lecture for the first time. although i have been exposed to most of the things you were talking about—you are by far the best speaker—and most inspiring one i've heard. the world needs more people like you.
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 5:19 PM
You are an amazing speaker and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your work with animal rights. you've inspired me and I love your passion! If we could even get 1/4 the the world to watch this speech on youtube you did in Atlanta, we would have a better world.
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:25 PM
I've been a vegetarian for 6 years and a vegan now for 3 days (because of you). My friend posted your video as his status and I stayed up for the entire hour and 30 minutes watching it the other night. I know you're probably busy, but I just wanted to say that it's amazing what you're doing. I go to one of the most redneck schools and activists like you definitely inspire me.
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 2:41 PM
God bless you Ive been a vegetarian for 24 years and am seriously thinking of going vegan thanks to you.
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 8:16 AM
Blessings from the land of Israel. Just saw your lecture on youtube and felt that the timing is very symbolic. Tonight we celebrate the holiday of Passover (also known as the holiday of freedom) when we retell the story of breaking free from slavery in Egypt, thousands of years a ago. May this generation, our generation, be the one to create a new story, a new narrative in this planet history: a reality in which ALL beings breaks free from slavery. Happy freedom holiday to all of us.
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 8:10 AM
I am a senior high school student in Dubai UAE and I just watched your talk at GA Tech. I was a vegetarian before i watched it but now I'm going to turn vegan. I became a vegetarian because of things you talked about but i couldn't become vegan because i loved cheese too much. but now I will give it up. Thank you. I sobbed my eyes out after watching the short clip of the dairy farm at the end. I love the work you are doing and you just made one of my meat-loving friends turn vegan. You're a true inspiration and I really wish you the best with all your work. Thank you thank you thank you. You've made everything i believe in feel worthwhile and have given me hope that things will really change one day.
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 6:22 AM
This lecture changed my mind, just wanted to let you know. Subtitles made it more appealing, you should consider to get translations for common languages around the
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 9:08 PM
Thank you for a inspiring speech you did at Georgia Tech in 2010. I saw it over youtube. I became a vegetarian a while ago, but this speach really pushed me over the edge! You have changed my life! I will continue to past this to others. Thank you again and God bless!
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:26 PM
I'm from Israel. You do a great work. I saw one of your lectures on "YouTube" and I want to tell you that I wanted to stop eating meat because I love animals so much, but I didn't have the power or something to push me to do it until I heard you. I heard you yesterday and I stop eating meat immediately.
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 3:11 PM
I am a music composer/producer from Portugal who likes to write conscious stuff. Loved your lecture. You made me want to make a vegan song. Keep Blessing the youth!
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 12:13 PM
I recently listened to you speak and was very impressed. I think you speak for so many of us. A few years ago I wrote a book on animal welfare. And I get "curious" traffic to my site. I was wondering if I could create a hyperlink for your video to post on my site? Perhaps visitors can benefit from your words and ideas. Thank you for all you do to help our animal friends, as well as your efforts to help the humans that (at times) are too ignorant to help themselves. Your video really touched my heart and I am hoping it will do the same for others. www.compassionisachoice.com
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:04 AM
I just watched some of your videos for the first time. Outstanding! Just had to say that what you are doing is awesome.
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 6:58 AM
I am a vegan environmentalist living in Tel Aviv, Israel. Someone translated your talk and uploaded it with Hebrew subtitles. I have reposted it, as has at least one other contact of mine and it has been getting hundreds of hits a day. So you seem to be hitting a spot way out here in the Mid East, where so many people think all social issues are secondary to making peace. This video is a great resource.
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Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 8:17 PM
i want to wish you all the best to your noble work. you are very inspiring and i believe you are changing peoples lives. definitely ours.
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Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:52 AM
A month vegan now, growing strong and getting stronger. another friend has just been converted too!
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Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:42 AM
thank you for the hebrew subtitles. it's a tremendous help, especially for my deaf friends.
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Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:40 AM
Watched your speech today Gary, I'm from Australia, it was so amazing and inspiring to me and gave me the hope that I needed to continue to speak out for the animals and I thank you for that!
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:47 PM
I live in Queensland Australia. I just watched your speech on Veganism which I found on facebook. I got it! It broke my heart and I woke up. I am now Vegan and spreading the word to as many of my friends as I can. Keep up the amazing work you do. You are a true friend of the Earth and its inhabitants, and I thank you with all my heart.
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:34 AM
I saw one of your lectures yesterday on the internet, I was blown away. This information was incredibly important for me.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:15 PM
I really appreciate everything you do for our animal friends. As a fellow vegan, I hope to become a better animal activist, and spread the vegan message as well as you have.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:56 PM
I'm from Israel, and i just listened to your lecture and wanted to thank you for everything that you do for the animals, this was a life-changing lecture (it was translated with Hebrew subtitles) and during the last 4 days almost 1,000 people have watched it! It really is encouraging to know that change is possible.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:39 AM
Thank you for sharing your wonderful lectures with the world. you're seriously one of my favourite speakers!
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 7:47 AM
Watched your You Tube Lecture in full today. I'm a long-time vegetarian who has played with veganism on and off for years, but your lecture has pulled it all into perspective again, and I thank you for that. No more falling off the vegan wagon for me.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:06 PM
I've committed! I've gone vegan, and your lecture helped the decision (from vegetarianism).
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:57 PM
I wanted to thank you for being who you are. I saw your lecture and Q&A online and couldn't help but get teary. You get every point across so vividly. You also taught me, a vegan for 3 years, things that I had never known before that will be sure to spread the word on.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:29 PM
I really enjoyed your lecture/argument. Thank you so much for your efforts and I truly hope it hits home for most of us. I would like to take my family to a lecture of yours. I am all about this. It will definitely take time to make the change, but I can't wait.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 6:05 PM
I am a student at the University of Akron. I attended your lecture last semester and I found it very informative. For my class I have to give a persuasion speech and I want to persuade people not to drink dairy milk. My persuasion involves the blood/pus found in milk, the hormones, natural and added, and the animal treatment. I have found some information from credible sources about the growth hormones that cows are injected with. I am planning on citing you/ADAPTT website.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:33 PM
Feedback on your speech from a friend in California: a year or two ago, she was telling me that it doesn't matter how we treat animals. But she agreed to watch your speech last weekend, and she was very inspired. She said you're a powerful speaker. She and her teenage daughter are now looking for ways to be more "benevolent" to animals and the planet, and she has asked me for links and recipes. She has also requested her local grocery store to order coconut milk/yogurt and frozen desserts -- and they have done so.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 1:45 PM
Saw your lecture for the first time yesterday. I've been a vegetarian on and off for the past 40 years, but after seeing you speak so passionately to those young people at Georgia Tech, I am READY, WILLING & ABLE to go vegan! Thanks for the inspiration.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:52 AM
You really changed my way of thinking after your lecture i saw today on YouTube.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 7:53 AM
I'm an Israeli 12th grader, and I've just watched your lecture on YouTube. I really adore the way you touched most of the issues connected to Veganism and Animal rights in just an hour and ten minutes. I believe that it's really important for people to watch your lecture. I've shared it with many of my friends, and I'm about to make sure that at least some of them will fully watch it. Thank you so much for being the voice of the silenced.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:47 AM
I have already gotten the lady that does my facials and her husband (whom I work with) to watch your speech and they went vegan. In turn, she shared the info with a couple friends and one of them went vegan. There is also a girl at work that I have been chatting with and has gone baby step vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 1:28 AM
Your video is amazing, best speech I'll ever hear. It turned my best friend vegan. Thank you.
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 6:31 PM
I had the vegan booth that I've had before here at the circle in Miami Springs at the Springs River Festival (1000s of people) this past weekend. We gave away vegan food and had a projector to a large screen showing MeatVideo.com. I met a number of students who came by and were very supportive because of the lectures you have given at the local high school. One senior was vegetarian and recently went vegan. Two 10th graders have been vegan since the lecture. One of them insisted that his parents watch your youtube lecture. The parents are now "on the path" and they debated and then decided to show the information to their 13 yr old daughter. She's vegan also.
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 12:22 PM
keep up the amazing work, my dad after watching you speak is about to change his 55 year old way of thinking.
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 12:20 PM
Keep at it! Your talks work! Switched me a month ago and now I'm close to getting a few people I know switched!
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 11:07 AM
I saw your speech and have to say I'm a big fan! I have experimented with vegetarianism before and failed! But following your speech, I'm going to try to slowly work towards full veganism! Thanks for the motivation!
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 2:29 AM
I'm from Jerusalem, and a huge fan of yours. I find your activism inspiring, your lectures fascinating and effective, and I hold you in the highest respect.
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 12:44 AM
since posting your video, and drawing a big debate along with it, several of my facebook friends have asked my wife and i about going vegetarian/vegan. i just want to thank you again, because that alone is worth its weight in real lives, and you deserve the thanks for that with everything you have encountered during your life.
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 2:49 PM
I wanted to let you know how you've changed my diet. I started out as a vegetarian last year in November, but after watching your speech in February - I became a vegan the day after and I have not touched a single animal product ever since. Just wanted to let you know that no matter what people tell you and how they try to pull you down - you have made a change in this world and I am 100% sure you will continue to change it for the better. You are amazing, keep up the good work!
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 12:58 PM
I just wanted to send you big support from Israel and to thank you for your activism for animals. You are our Martin Luther King.
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 11:31 AM
I am from Australia. Thanks to you I will now be actively working to save innocent victims from being abused. I am definitely willing to take a bullet if it means I have saved just a few of our fellow brother & sisters. In my opinion they are worth so much more than us emotionally as they are the the real meaning of true innocence. I truly love what you do & just wish the whole world was like you. It makes me sad that they aren't. You are so extremely amazing in every way, a revolutionary, a saint & you will be etched in the history books forever, even if not everyone agrees with you now—they certainly will in the end. You're the most beautiful human being I have ever watched.
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:27 AM
I think you're amazing! Your words and the way you deliver are like none other! I owe my veganhood to your words. Was vegetarian for years and thought i was fantastic, doing my part and all. I would never address the dairy industry ever. I watched your lecture and you called me out and made me take a look at myself and what i was supporting, so thank you! I watch and share all the time you have such a powerful gift!
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:07 AM
We've been there before, not long ago, with slavery, holocaust ... when those who saved the tortured and broke an obscene law, have been punished for it. I admire your love for anything alive and i admire what you do.
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:00 PM
I practically memorized everything you said without even trying and I do share all the information you spoke of to the people around me. I found your youtube video and I watch it online a couple of times already and I send it out to friends and family. My boyfriend LOVES meat but when we watched your video, he gave up meat and milk, still working on the the eggs and cheese.
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:55 PM
I watched your video for the first time and I must say You are one out of a million. I love how you go against the grain and try to help others with the truth when most of our Nutritionist, Pharmaceutical, and Physicians only care about the INCOME of their practice. When I passed your lecture on it instantly changed my hard headed X-husbands view on Vegans; and if you can do that you truly are amazing. I just love you and who you are. Thank you for what you do and may blessings rain down to help support what you do because I know you are no where compensated for the work you do. You are a blessing to others.
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:06 PM
Just saw one of your speeches and I'm going vegan. Just wanna let you know. Thanks from Costa Rica.
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:04 PM
I've watched your speeches & think you're AMAZING!!
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:10 PM
Just watched your Georgia Tech speech that was on YouTube. I found it to be very informative and interesting. I'd like to thank you, I will no longer be eating eggs. That was nasty and I NEVER would have thought about them like that in a million years. I heard the bee vomit = honey but NOT eggs = hen period.
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 7:12 PM
I just watched your presentation on youtube. It was so brilliant!!! I admire your bravery and your speech brought tears to my eyes. Keep up with good work and don't let anybody discourage you! I stopped eating meat 2 years ago and now I want to become vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:02 AM
thank you so much for crossing my life yesterday. you see, i was part of the meat-eater pack that knew we actually don't need meat, or that calcium doesn't not come from nasty cow's milk, there's not such thing as humane killing and animal research is a joke, unfair, unethical and wasteful. but ignored all this because i was cruel, too comfortable and selfish. i wanna share an experience with you, so i'm sorry if it's a bit long. i worked (2009-2010) at the department of anatomy and neurobiology of university of california in irvine (uci) under the mentorship of dr. anne calof. there's a lot of different projects running in the lab but they are mainly about neurogenesis and development using mice (wt and transgenic) as model system. when i started i was neutral about animal research. if i had to do it, i'll learn it and do it... just as any other lab technique. well, they taught me how "wean and tail" them. the tail part consists in putting the pups in a chamber of analgesic gas, hopefully not too long 'cause they are so small they can die if left too long, taking them out, burning a blade (to sterilize) i will use to cut a small piece of tail to genotype (by pcr) and then, because you know this we do it we hundreds of them, i have to mark them with a number. this number is a hole that i punch out of the ear of the mice. the hole in different part of the ear tells me their number/id. there are other ways, i'm just telling you the way we used to do it. after genotyping, then i decide which mice are the ones i want for whatever experiment we would be running. usually, in my case, my boss wanted everything because she was neurotic like that, but normally we would take the wild types of the litter and the knockouts. well, you know the punnet square, right?! so, out of the litter these "special mice" occurred with very low probability, even lower if you want only, let's say the males because you don't wanna introduce the eros variability that a female would bring. so, if i get 3 usable mice out of a litter of 19.... what do i do with the rest? yes. i sac them. that's the term they use. i put them in a chamber and asphyxiate them with co2. put them in a bag and then in the freezer. without exaggerating, i could kill 60 of them per week. and that's only me with my colony. there were 3 other colonies in my lab! co2 was used for adult mice but what about the pups, whose hemoglobin is different and co2 doesn't work properly? well, those we take from the mom and dad -which we keep them so they keep producing maybe a more "useful litter" and take a blade and cut their heads off. they squeak, they twitch even headless, their head make sucking movements... and you know the sad part. they were the lucky ones. because the things we did to the "useful mice" are, i don't even know what word put here to describe it. also, since there were a lot of development projects, you can imagine that this entitles the killing of pregnant mice at different gestation stages and dissect her pups out, put them in a buffer, still alive in their amniotic sacs and dismembered them taking out the parts we needed and freezing them in liquid nitrogen and tossing the rest. all of this was following -most of the time- the ular and iacuc protocols. this protocols are a joke, btw. this experience made me grow from neutral to what the fuck?!?! it made me very unhappy and my life changed because of this experience. so wasteful! from wasting animals to all the waste in general! plastic, chemicals, human labor, electricity, more plastic!!! all the energy spent... for what?!?! to get a knowledge that maybe -maybe!- we can extrapolate and eventually use it for the benefit of humans that make themselves sick?!?!?! and why them? because i am literally bigger than a mouse so i can grab them and keep them in a cage?!?! i don't work there anymore since last september but the lab is still funded and up and running. hers and others at uci. i usually tell my experience very detailed to all my friends and people i meet. they are horrified by the things i "scientifically" did in the name of.... knowledge? progress? research? i still don't know. but i always finish my story the same way: "you know, people always empathized with the specific case of the poor mouse i experiment with but you vote this keeps happening everytime you use your make up or/and buy drugs in the pharmacy for your grandma". and this is so annoyingly true! people will agree that putting pumps to suck the petroleum in the amazon of ecuador is a bad idea but they fail to connect the dots that you keep voting for this everytime you put gas in your car!!!!! anyways, my email is getting too long. i just wanted to thank you because i was being an hypocrite: a meat-eater against animal research! the irony! but now i really know. and i thank you for helping me with that insight. you are doing a great job in touching and educating people and i hope that my story can inspire people around me to make the change. we need healing for the slaves and the slave masters. i usually tell the animal research story with a straight face and i like to be very detailed -but i hope it doesn't come across as i'm a cold blooded bitch. i suffered this, awoke, asked forgiveness and stopped. no more.
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:07 AM
i watched your speech on youtube, and it was incredible. such honesty and passion.
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 8:41 AM
I watched your video lecture this week and I want to thank you so much. This is everything I want to say to people but can never seem to find the right words, or am able emphasize the seriousness of this. People think it's 'cute' that I am vegan and care about animals. I think if they saw your lecture they would take what I am doing much more seriously. If it's okay with you, I'll make copies of the lecture and pass them on. Thanks again, you are an amazing human being!
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:35 AM
Thanks for the inspiration and for making my family and I switch to a vegan lifestyle. Keep up the good work! Regards from Greece.
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 3:19 AM
I am a college undergrad at ASU. My sister sent me your lecture. I think you made many excellent points that I have not ever considered before. Aside from all the benefits to health, the animals, and society that you mention, I feel that this is much bigger than just a change in diet. This is a change in human nature. Love, compassion, empathy, sharing, kindness are all side-effects of adopting vegetarian and vegan diets. I know that I want to see these principles in my society, but more importantly, to see them in myself. In the past, I have prided myself on being a superior meat eater, capable of eating large amounts of meat for my size. I feel that this video has given me the necessary tools to remove meat from my diet. I hope you continue to find strength from within yourself and support for those around you. The only limitation you have, is yourself.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:37 AM
Your Georgia Tech lecture was incredible, and two of my friends who have seen it are making a good effort to live a Vegan lifestyle.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:43 AM
I admire your speech. I'm hiring a translator & video professional to put Indonesian subtitles on it. Malaysian would be able to understand it as well.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 3:27 AM
I found your talks through a post on a youtube comment in the earthling's documentary. I can't say how happy I am happy to have found all this and thank the person who posted it. My family and I are now switching to a vegan diet without second thoughts. Thank you so much for everything you're doing and keep on doing it!
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:21 AM
You don't know me but I'm interested in your information/life cause. You helped change my life for the better. Now I'm trying to reach out to people around me and promote a happy Vegan life. Thank you for your inspiration.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 12:08 AM
you are a great role model!
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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:37 PM
I saw your presentation in Professor Short's class today, and I wanted to tell you it was great! I have been a vegetarian for eight years now, and have always wanted to be vegan. I told my sister and friend some things from your presentation, and they're making the transition with me!
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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:49 PM
I just wanted to say that I have watched you're film/lecture. I admire what you do. I am in awe of what you do, and I am beyond greatful to the Gods, the heaven, whatever, that you are here on this planet and making the sacrifices that you do to help those that cannot speak on their behalf.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 8:03 AM
I found your speech on Youtube. When I was 11 I became a pescetarian, and when I was 16 I became a vegetarian. But now, after watching your speech, I finally took the big step, and became 100% vegan. Thank you! I even showed this speech to my mom, dad and older sister, and they are all on their way to becoming vegans as well! I cannot thank you enough for everything you do for the animals. It is really inspiring. My biggest dream would be for you coming to Norway and hold your speech here. There are so many people that just don't want to open their eyes, and I therefore think Norway needs you. GO Gary!
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Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:05 PM
I viewed your lecture via YouTube. I just wanted to thank you so much for "taking the blinders off". I became a Vegetarian on 1 August 2010 and wasn't sure if I was ready to commit to becoming Vegan because I thought it "didn't really harm the animal". Geez was I wrong! All it took was an hour of watching your lecture and my mind was completely made up!! I can't believe I spent years harming my body by ingesting dead carcasses, "hen periods", "bees vomit" and other things! Again...thank you, thank you, thank you! I am very grateful...and so are the animals!
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Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 11:58 AM
Gary, your voice, it's making this a better world one speech at a time.
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Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:39 AM
No milk in my house thanks to your wounderful speech I watched at youtube. You go Gary!! You are a true hero!! I hope you will come to Sweden for visit.
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Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 11:41 PM
You don't know me, but I just saw one of your lectures, and you are SO right on.
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Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 10:59 PM
I watched one of your speeches and I did not expect it to affect me the way it did considering I have worked for a beef slaughterhouse, "house of slaughter", in Texas and a turkey processing plant in Minnesota. Some how your message has driven me to choose a Vegan life style. I am not a complete vegan yet for I do have some weaknesses but I will get there. I have been speaking to my wife about my life changes and hope she makes some changes as well. My sister-in-law has already stopped eating beef ever since I had her watch "Earthlings" with me and she plans to go further with it. Physically I feel FABULOUS, not only have I lost weight, I have not had an issue with heartburn after my meals. That tells me a lot. That tells me that meat and dairy products were actually poisoning my body, weighing me down and always feeling lethargic, waking up in the middle of the night choking on the acid that I was regurgitating. And now I have none of that and that was only after the first month and not eating animals.
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Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 6:58 PM
Nothing, in all of the years that I have researched, educated and applied myself did for me what you were able to accomplish in just one hour. I admire you greatly!
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Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:31 PM
It's a most excellent speech, as well as your website. Both have helped me tremendously. I particularly liked the portion where it shows brand labels on the different vegan foods, since when I found the speech, I was searching for products!
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Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 3:40 PM
Thank you for your amazing speech in NY. You really pulled my blinders off in one shot. The video you showed made me feel something I never felt before. My heart raced fast and hard, and I cried the whole 4 minutes. It's amazing what this world has come to; hurting innocent creatures for selfish reasons. It disgusts me. I went from a meat eater and cheese addict to a vegan in one day. It has almost been a week and I love it. I feel happier, lighter, and healthier already. However, I don't feel that this is enough. I'd love to actually get involved much more and wanted some tips.
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Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 1:27 AM
saw your speech on you tube. someone translated it in german! i never heard such an impressive speech. I shared your speech many times here and i will do it again and again!
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Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 6:57 PM
Your lecture is one of the most impactful things I have ever seen. You are doing a great job!
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Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 5:32 PM
Fucking awesome lecture!
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Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 4:13 PM
I have been talking to my husband and son about the content of your lecture and, although they haven't viewed it yet, today whilst shopping at the local supermarket, my son (age 16) bravely said to my husband "I don't really want to eat meat dad", to which my husband surprisingly replied "Okay then, we shall choose something from the Vegetarian aisle." This was a massive step for both of them on many different levels. First step Vegetarianism, second step Veganism. I'm working on it! Thank you so much for doing what you do Gary; you are protecting animals, changing lives and saving the planet, I have the deepest respect for you!
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Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 3:18 PM
Thank you for your passion, compassion, dedication and hard work! You are creating many little ripples that will begin to swell into a much larger wave of compassion and ease of suffering.
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Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 3:36 AM
You keep making "Ripples" dude. They'll become waves, and the waves will result in a "Vegan Tsunami" effect!! The effect it will have for all the other earthlings and environment will ripple on throughout eternity. Its the Universal Law of all living things.
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 6:56 PM
Writing out part of your lecture on youtube to analyze it. Its fucking brilliant ethically ... like i can't see flaw in it.
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 4:18 PM
I recently saw your talk at U of M-Dearborn and was really impressed by it. I am now working my way toward vegan. I am writing to ask you if it would be okay for me to use part of one of your videos for a persuasive speech I have to do for a speech class? Please let me know and keep up your quest. It is amazing.
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 12:12 PM
Thanks again for inviting me to experience your presentation live. It was incredible. The hair on my arms was standing up and I'm vegan! Experiencing how strong of an impact you are making is tremendous! I really admire how you keep it real, say it like it is, show compassion, passion and stay humble all at the same time. You are authentic and approachable and it's very clear to me why you capture audiences and transform lives.
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 10:42 AM
Went to see my sister. Made her watch A Delicate Balance and your Georgia Tech lecture. Turned her Vegan last Night!! I saved your site along with a whole bunch of recipes and links from your site on her desktop before I left.
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 9:11 AM
i watched your video about 2 months ago and been vegan since then. thank u for showing me i don't have to eat meat and i feel much better since.
Comments from Students and Supporters, March 2011
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Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:25 PM
thanks to YOU my brother and his girlfriend have taken the first step
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Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:26 PM
I stumbled across your speech and have watched it twice in 24 hours. THANK YOU for what you do. You are so smart and eloquent, I just can't even express my gratitude for the way that you are educating people. You are an inspiring activist.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:14 PM
I just watched your speech at GA Tech, and just had to say that I really really enjoyed it. Sometimes it takes a speech like yours to jump start the dormant activist in me, you know? I've grown accustomed to the BS that Vegans get every day for being "pussies" and all the other usual insults. I can't sit idly by and let someone go off about that crap any more. I vow to argue my point far more often than I do now. I cannot stand for torture getting passed off as the norm. I will direct them to your video. That was concise, direct and unflinching, but also didn't hesitate to call bullshit on most of the meat-enamored arguments. Which, of course, are not even arguments but just false statements.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:22 PM
I watched a video of you on youtube and it affected me at the core. In fact, I feel very emotional after watching it, because of the passion that you showed and the information that you revealed.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:31 AM
So I watched your speech, and made the switch. It's nice to see someone take an informative approach to convincing others instead of attacking them for their beliefs. Your arguments are just facts presented and you can't have a better speaking style than persuasive, it's a nice reminder for me while I'm dealing with my family.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:44 AM
Side effects of compassion: My blood pressure has gone from 180/120 to 150/80 in one week of a vegan diet! NO meds, never no more! No kidding! I didn't have high blood pressure for the normal reasons. its because I had a ufo (nodule) on my kidney that was causing my aldesterone levels to rise and my bp was up to 220/180 at one time. spent a week in hospital where I was prodded and picked at and given three different types of medication to take everyday for the rest of my life. I couldn't get the nodule removed as I only have one kidney. I have been very stubborn and have been meditating and looking after my diet and managed to bring it down to 180/120 no meds. but when I saw Gary's speech my conscience wouldn't let me go on participating in the madness of eating my fellow creatures or enslaving them.
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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 9:16 PM
Thank you very much for everything you do daily for the animals. I admire all your work and dedication. I'm starting being an activist and seeing what you have done it is a great inspiration.
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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 9:03 AM
I had my daughter watch your video. It changed her like it did me.
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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 11:34 AM
I'll keep spreading your words because they have had such a deep impact on me and helped my fiance go vegan so we can raise our son vegan!
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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 5:57 AM
You fuckin rock! I'm live in Sydney, Australia and Ive recently converted to veganism. I've been making as many people as I can watch your lectures.
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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 5:40 AM
I'm from Israel. I study nutrition and my final paper work will be about Vegan life. I was watching some of your lectures and read all the articles on your website. you've helped me a lot just by reminding me all the time why is it so important.
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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 12:14 AM
You are friends with my sister. she is a new vegan I am starting to lean away from the meat and am currently doing an argumentative research paper in my English class on being VEGAN!
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Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:38 PM
Your speech at Georgia Tech was the tipping point for me. I had been vegetarian a few years ago then got back on the meat wagon. I had been contemplating going vegetarian again with a gradual transition to veganism. On October 31, 2010, I was an omnivore. On November 1, 2010, I was a vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:36 PM
I've reposted your speech on FB and 3 of my friends went vegan right away!
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Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:35 PM
your speech is very inspirational. i watched it yesterday, went straight to vegan today. bought a lot of stuff you recommended, and had my very first veggie burger today, it was awesome. i have always wanted to be a vegetarian, but always thought it might be too hard, but your words made all thoughts go out the window and i am never going back.
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Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:48 AM
First off, you're absolutely amazing!! I share your videos all the time and I want to thank you for doing everything you do. I was wondering if you would happen to have a transcript of your speech. I am working to become a certified health counselor and someone has asked me to do a speech for their building. I would OF COURSE credit you however I wanted to do a sort of mini short version and use much of what you have said. I wanted to tell people of you and spread the vegan way.
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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 7:41 PM
My younger sister was a vegetarian for years but recently decided that she wanted to eat meat again. After a few weeks of it, I watched a video of your speech in GA and showed it to her. Before she was even halfway through the speech she was done with meat for good. I guess she just needed to be reminded why she stopped eating creatures and you helped. You have an awesome job!
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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:11 AM
You are not only a hero for me, but for all life on this planet. No hyperbole; your lecture on YouTube from Georgia Tech changed my life.
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:22 PM
During your visit to UCF, I had the opportunity to sit in on your very informative and passionate presentation on Animal Rights/Veganism. Due to health issues, I have had to become aware of foods that can cause my particular disease to flare. I have found that by changing my eating habits there has been a reduction in the frequency of these flares. Being able to hear facts about how and what the industry adds during the production of meat gave me a better understanding of what food causes and what to avoid. Your speech was also very eye opening as to the indignation and cruelty placed upon our fellow inhabitors of this world. As a person raised on a beef cattle farm who had been desensitized to the atrocities that were in my own back yard, I thank you for standing up and speaking for those who cannot. I hope that you will be able to reach many more individuals such as myself.
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:30 PM
You spoke in front of my Philosophy class at OCC Royal Oak. I was starting to take serious time to consider why I am a meat eater and began to research more about how animals are being treated, so it was extremely ironic when you came to our class. You being to answer questions about the slaughterhouse from personal experience was impactful. I am now completely vegan and will have no difficulty staying that way, especially the more educated I become on the subject. I have even turned my girlfriend vegan and plan to change others. I am a charismatic person who will do what I can for what I feel is right. Thank you very much, not only for helping me acquire additional knowledge, but for having the integrity to truly be nondiscriminatory on the most fundamental level.
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:09 PM
I've seen one of your speeches on youtube and I want to thank you for opening my eyes on all the crap the cows are going through for milk. I was already a vegetarian for about 8 months, but after the video I was convinced that I had to be a vegan. You informed me in a very entertaining way and did the trick as i'm sure it does for hundreds of people. Please keep doing what you do you are great at it and I'm really happy that there's people like you to do this work.
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:39 PM
I'm a 15 year old girl from Israel. Seeing your lectures online helped me make the decision to become vegan and be aware of what's really going on in the egg and milk industry. I thank you for that and for encouraging people around the US, and around the world to become aware of animal abuse and exploitation of any kind. I just wanted you to know that you affect people outside the USA as well. Many people will be honored if you come to Israel and other countries, since there are vegans here too and many people that just need to hear the right words in order to become vegan and activists. Since I personally don't know any vegans here in Israel and there are almost none vegan or animal welfare organizations that actually do something, I'd like to raise awareness to my friends and family. Do you have any tips on how to do so amongst the people I'm close to and in my school? I'm currently trying my best in order to be taken seriously.
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:33 AM
I was watching your lecture on youtube and I was so moved by it. Since 10 minutes ago I am now a vegetarian and hopefully soon a vegan. Good luck with your battle and I hope more people who listen to your lectures are like me and take a stand. I am from Iceland.
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:29 AM
Your speech last week was very inspiring. I have to admit, I ate meat once afterward, but I can't tell you how guilty and disgusted I felt. I couldn't handle myself. But, I am happy to say that I haven't eaten meat for almost a week. Thanks so much!
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:32 AM
you're really talented bro. my previous approaches to teach my friends about veganism usually failed, but then i found it more effective to share ur lectures, they work wonders.
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:34 AM
I saw your GA tech video for the first time a few days ago and it was really inspiring. I really hope that i'll learn to become as forceful, fearless, and moving as you. You seamlessly articulate every aspect of veganism in a way I could never personally do. I find myself quoting you when trying to explain to meat eaters the rewards of a vegan lifestyle. I'll continue to watch your video as well as read your essays when I feel helpless about our meat eating society. I'm glad there are people like you in this world.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:44 AM
I am a student in Ronnie Hawkins UCF ethics class that you spoke at recently. First off your presentation was very compelling and I must say you created quite a stir. You had such an impact on me that I stopped eating meat the minute I got home. It seems that somewhere inside we all know that eating meat is wrong, we just need a little slap in the face to wake us up. I guess I'm going on week three or so and I feel great. I asked you a guestion about the availability of protein in vegetables and it seems that you were right that they provide plenty because the amount of weight I lift at the gym went up since I made the switch. I want to say thank you for what you do. Best of luck with your endeavors in the future.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:46 PM
The blinders are coming off. Thanks to your inspiration I have turned my partner and kids vegetarian (they didn't notice) and we are now almost vegan. So for every person you reach they forward it on to others.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:42 AM
You have changed my life, thank you. ... another conversion.
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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 10:23 PM
Thank you for inspiring me sooooo much! You truly helped open my eyes and see the big picture! I have given up meat thanks to you and I thought I would never see that day (neither did my friends and family)! I showed my girlfriend your video and she was touched as well. She was a vegetarian for 3 years and after listening to your speech she is now a vegan.
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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 6:28 PM
I'm a 17 year old student in Ireland. you just turned me vegan after I watched your lecture online.
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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 1:32 AM
I just watched you lecture at Georgia Tech and I am thrilled at your articulation and passion. You helped inspire my voice.
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Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:48 PM
You are an awesome human being and I am the better for ever having come to know you. My life will never be the same.
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Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 4:38 PM
I was among the students at Miami University that heard your speech this past Friday. I just wanted to let you know that you have inspired me to make the transition to become vegetarian and hopefully a vegan in the near future. Your speech and especially the video that you showed have been running through my mind the entire weekend. My grandparents recently became vegetarians as well and I am inspired to do the same. Thank you so much for your opening my eyes.
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:37 PM
i just wanted to contact you to say, your speech i watched on youtube gave me the final push into veganism i needed and even gave me the extra push in wanting to spread the word here in australia too. Thank you so much, Im not easily influenced, religion has never appealed to me, im not judgmental, im just me, but holy shit this arouses something so deep!! would you have any advice or ideas for what i could do here is sydney to fight this war? I posted your video on my facebook and it seems it converted a meat eating "mans man" friend into a vegan!! you are powerful my friend!!! i salute you! I hope the universe gives you all the amazing karma you deserve!
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 11:07 AM
I saw your lecture in youtube. it was great. you spoke from your heart and i loved it.
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 10:50 AM
I love you Gary. I am so happy that you are here. I was losing my hope that anything will change. It is hard to fight something which has government, church and all business involved. You are a miracle and you are doing an incredible job with those kids.
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 10:34 AM
I loved your speech. I am a vegetarian because I am unable to give up the cheese. After hearing your speech, I am committed to making a serious effort to give it up for good.
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 10:23 AM
I just wanted to say a massive thank you for the inspiration you've provided me and I'm sure thousands of others. I'm an animal rights advocate from Australia and I just watched the lecture you gave at Georgia Tech last year and I was really inspired by it. It is so good to have someone like yourself who is able to articulate these issues in such an influential way.
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 9:01 AM
You changed the life of two people in my household: mine and my son's. Thank you many times over!
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 8:28 PM
I attended your lecture at U of M Dearborn yesterday. You were amazing. I've been a vegetarian since Thanksgiving, but you pushed me over the line to veganism. I just wanted to let you know that your lectures aren't in vain. There are some of us out there that need someone like you to open their eyes. You're really making a difference in the world. Keep on keeping on!
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 5:59 PM
I am writing a research paper for my English class on the benefits of a vegan lifestyle. You would be a fantastic resource not only because of your vast experience, knowledge, and passion, but because I am referencing your speech on animal rights and veganism held at Georgia Tech in 2010 in my paper. I would consider it a great honor if I could interview you via email.
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 6:16 AM
I'm 16 years old and from a town near the bottom of Australia called Albury-Wodonga. If you toured to Australia I would LOVE for you to talk to our school, educate my friends with his kind of thing so they understand my views as clearly as I do. I just watched one of your speeches on youtube and i swear it changed my life. I have already been vegetarian for 9 years and have been wanting to go vegan for at least 2 of those years. That was seriously the push I needed. But with that aside I need some help. I have to do a class assignment on a famous persuasive speech and to be honest, I have never been more persuaded in my life! I think the whole world needs to see that. Thank you for being so inspirational!
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Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:04 PM
Recently I attended one of your lectures during my ethics class at UCF. I just want to say how thankful I am you took the time to not only speak here but also all around the country. Since your lecture I have almost constantly thought about the subject and it's also the topic of about half my discussion with friends. I have taken the step to eliminate milk and red meat out of my life (which I had previously loved). Wit time, I am slowly becoming vegan, and I thank you for spreading the word.
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Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:12 AM
You are inspirational. I turned from being vegetarian to being vegan because of your speeches.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:56 PM
I was at one of your lectures in Florida. I wanted to thank you for that eye opener. I have been a vegan since that day. I haven't felt better with a moral peace of mind and also as an ultra endurance athlete I feel the benefit. I am faster, lighter and feel more energized than before. Also, I am losing body fat. I thank you one more time and keep spreading the word! I am doing the same and have some close friends that are going vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:06 AM
I am so blown away by your speech. I have heard people talk about why everyone should be vegan or vegetarians, but never gave it a second thought. I was in the first morning class on tuesday, sitting all the way in the back, crying during the movie you showed us. I can honestly say that I will be eliminating milk, cheese, meat, and eggs from my diet, thanks to you. Keep on going, you are awesome.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:21 PM
I just wanted to let you know that I found your speech today in James Hallemann's class fascinating. As you mentioned today, sometimes we just need that push to make things click. Your speech did that for me. After internalizing the things you said, and the video you played us, i made the decision to become vegan. I just want to thank you for sparking what i hope to be a life altering change for me. I wanted to ask you if it would be ok to use the banner of your site as a signature on a forum that I moderate. It is a forum for information on what was formerly the Rothbury Music Festival, which is now the Electric Forest Festival. I am an avid festival goer, and i think a lot of other attendees would be interested in your website, and the things you have to say. This summer I plan on spreading the word at the festivals I am planning on attending.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:18 PM
I just saw the youtube speech. Thanks. You turned me into a vegan today.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:37 PM
Gary, because I saw your lecture in a college in Toronto, I am vegan now. This is my 20th day.
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:09 PM
You are a TRUE inspiration.
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:51 PM
Your passion shows and you have the largest heart by wanting to spread the word on veganism and educate people on these important issues. If I held a fraction of your knowledge it would make it easier and less frustrating for me when challenged by ignorant carnivores. I love what you do. We NEED your UK barring lifted! Until this happens, I am happy to spread the name and word of Gary Yourofsky myself.
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 7:34 PM
I think you're amazing. I love all your lectures!
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 5:17 PM
I've been a vegetarian for just over a year now but your influence has inspired me to turn vegan. Thank you for opening my eyes. God bless.
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 4:39 PM
I've just been sent one of your lectures on you tube and have cried and vow to become vegan NOW. If you have any website link to a european company that sells some of the good tasting products you mentioned, I would be grateful if you could send a link or name. Also, Cyprus could really do with a visit from you, Wish you all the best for your future in educating the masses.
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:36 PM
I've watched all the videos that I have found on your lectures since I discovered you a week or so ago. Please don't ever stop fighting.
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:10 AM
Just wanted you to know that I think you are an incredible lecturer. I completely agree with everything that you stand for and I support you 100%. I hope that one day your tours bring you to Sydney, Australia. I would love nothing more than to sit in on one of your lectures. I hope you know that I look up to you, you're such an important figure in the fight for animal rights.
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:36 AM
So inspired by your lecture! We have around 20 vegan restaurants in our city. Vegan trend is going very strong in Mongolia. I hope one day you will give a lecture in Mongolia and liberate many souls from meat eating! Thanks for what you are doing.
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 7:29 AM
A long term friend of mine, one of my closest, went Vegetarian after watching your speech once he saw all the alternatives. He's a person I wouldn't think in a million years would go Veg. Thanks so much for doing what you do Gary. Don't ever stop.
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 8:02 PM
I am a student from Oakland Community College. I saw your speech in my logic class last November, and since then I have been vegan. Being vegan is very simple, and thanks to you I am living a much better life. I just wanted to thank you, and to say keep on keeping on my brother.
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 5:56 PM
From Brantford Canada. Love what you have to say about veganism and animal rights (watched a few videos on YouTube). You have a way about you that allows you to get the point across without sounding preachy! A rare talent indeed. Keep up the good fight because you have a lot of support behind you.
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 5:14 PM
Just watched your speech on Youtube and it's pretty fantastic. You make vegans proud!
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:29 PM
I watched your speech last night and was blown away!! I have been a vegetarian for 6 months and have been struggling to turn Vegan. I watched your video and immediately made my decision. I am now Vegan as of 3/13/11. I appreciate your speech and will continue to follow you.
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 3:29 PM
I've checked out some videos of you on YouTube and love your passion and dedication.
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 3:14 PM
Visionary speaker ... opened my eyes to the wrongs of the food industry ... amazing guy.
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 1:27 PM
You continue to keep me hopeful that the tide is turning and animals will one day no longer be food.
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 7:03 AM
So much RESPECT for your work. THANK YOU, on behalf of this planet.
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 12:23 AM
Thank you for all you do and say.
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Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 11:45 PM
Before I was vegan (2 months ago) my blood pressure was really bad ... 176 over 120 and I was 10 lbs. over weight. Since I stopped eating meat and all other animal products, my BP is 135 over 90. And lost that 10 lbs. Thank you!
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Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 2:04 PM
Thank you for pulling my head out of the sand!
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Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:58 PM
Obsessed and intrigued by the videos of your speeches I just discovered last week. Never stop doing what you're doing for the community.
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Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:24 AM
I came across one of your lectures on youtube and I just had to let you know how blown away I was. I was born & raised in the middle east and I have sent your lecture to everyone I know back home. (my mother loved your lecture so much she told me she was going to play it at her office so all her colleagues could watch it). You're truly amazing. Thank you for everything you have done & I hope you will continue to do it. I wish we had people like you around when I was at university! Genius you are!
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:35 PM
I'm 18 and have been a vegetarian for the past 5 years. I've been debating going vegan for about 2 years and Paul Chetirkin suggested I listen to some of your lectures on youtube. Well, I just wanted to say I'm officially vegan now. I started in October. I listened to your lectures falling asleep every night for a couple weeks and was so inspired by you. I just wanted to say thank you. You helped me to make the official switch and I feel so much better now. Thanks for your inspiration.
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:08 PM
I just accidentally came across your Georgia Tech Speech. It was stellar! Amazing! The whole presentation.
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 7:58 PM
I recently saw a video of your speech you gave at Georgia Tech. I think what you are doing is so inspiring. I really appreciate the reality of what you said during your speech and how you weren't just there to sugar coat the 'vegan lifestyle.' Finally someone has stepped up and commented on how illogical and absurd it is for people to actually be killing and consuming animals for their own selfish greed. I'm sure you get a lot of these emails but I just wanted to thank you for bringing some much needed light to the ill-informed meat eating people of the world.
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:37 AM
GARY, because of you my daughter can debate with meat-eaters and isn't afraid to.
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 7:59 AM
I just wanted to give you a quick shout-out and a thank-you for the presentation at UA yesterday. You're strategy is both dynamic and inspirational. I am ashamed and disgusted at myself for not having been more aware of this holocaust the human race is waging against our fellow animal brothers and sisters. I applaud you for what you do, thank you for contributing to a piece of a well-lived ethical life for myself, and I hope this email will be a small source of inspiration for you to continue fighting for justice in a chaotic world. Herbivore for Life.
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 2:13 AM
Emailed you last night ... converted!
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:34 AM
I am glad there are people like you in the world to help us understand. You are a great motivatioal speaker.
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 1:15 AM
In the first 10 minutes of your speech today at the University of Akron, I didn't know whether to hate you for the overwhelming guilt you brought to my conscience, or be grateful for the ethical revelation that I am unable to question. Your tattoo looked familiar, which in later research I recognized as the Animal Liberation Front. A few months ago, I had the "Iron Front" symbol tattooed on my shoulder. The Iron Front was a grassroots antifascist organization in the 1930s that attempted to bring down Nazism in Europe before it even rose to supreme power in Germany. When I got that tattoo, I made an ideal pledge based on what I had learned through artistic expression, that freedom and equality is the most sacred virtue of our humanity, that no one person of color or creed is inferior to another, that any oppression in this world will be met with resistance. Thanks to you Gary, I now realize that this includes animals. Starting today, I am making the transition to the vegan lifestyle. I have no counter argument to the idea that we have no right to exploit, kill, and eat something that was once alive, and I refuse to be a hypocrite. Even if I fail to make this change, everything you said and showed us today sticks with me for as long as I can think and feel, and I can't imagine that I can consciously eat a steak ever again without an ounce of remorse. I know I can do this. I will not be a consumer slave to the corporate fast food franchises that plague my America.
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 2:35 PM
So I just wanted to give you an update, on the results of your video and how it's helped me to open the eyes of my friends. Here's a quick breakdown: 5 former meat-eaters are now eating a strict vegan diet and raving about it in my office non-stop. And they are making the others in my office who were on the fence or balking at it, now pay attention; 3 friends who were vegetarian are now transitioning into a full vegan diet. My parents who are overweight and suffer from many health problems, are FINALLY making the switch. You are not only saving animals lives, but you just played a massive role in helping to save my parents and I am in tears while I'm typing this to thank you for it. Words can never express my gratitude for that alone; A former vegan who went vegetarian is now making the switch back. And just now I received this message from someone I barely know on FB: 'Sooooooo....you should help me go vegan and get into optimum physical health. I need you to impart your wealth of knowledge to me. I've always admired your health and body and I know you attribute it to your vegan lifestyle. Please help me. That video really opened my eyes.' I do not have enough "Thank yous" for what you do.
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:28 PM
I did some tabling at the Miami Dade College-Kendall Campus Green Fair. One vegan teacher who saw your lecture came by and we started a list for a veg club. Got about 20 students. Another student hung around and said he was vegan. When I asked him what made him go vegan he said "a lecture one night at FIU by Gary Yourofsky". I asked how long ago, he said about a year. He also said that he bonded with 3-4 other students the night of your lecture and that they've been supportive of each others vegan lifestyles ever since.
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:18 AM
just watched your lecture. truly inspiring, thank you for that! I wish you could come to Germany and do a lecture at my university!
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:59 AM
I just wanted to thank you for coming to UA-Wayne college yesterday and talking to us. I just wanted to say you did an awesome job. I was totally expecting to be bored and I definitely wasn't. I love it when people really bring it in an argument if they do it genuinely and in good faith. That's rare. I wish politicians would do what you do. Thanks again, and I wish you all the best. How many people don't even consider the argument has to be utterly soul crushing sometimes. Nothing but respect for the people who find the strength to keep fighting. I guess it wouldn't be called a fight if it was easy. Keep it up and know you've turned at least one person to your side.
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:24 AM
I have just seen your lecture and my faith in people has been restored somewhat to know that there are educators like you out there. I work for an Assembly Member in Wales (like an MP) and Im hoping to work towards a bill that will force all slaughterhouses, dairy farms, etc. to have CCTV. We are on our way to becoming an independent country from England, I hope that you are now welcome back here.
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 4:02 AM
Your speech ... I saw it on YouTube. I'm going Vegan as of about 6 hours ago. Committed for life. Keep on the brilliant path..
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:39 AM
I just watched your georgia tech lecture and was so inspired by your words. never have i heard someone talk about the moral issues behind eating animals so clearly and sensibly. you put things into a perspective that anyone can relate to, understand, and act upon. thank you for doing what you do, the world needs more people who think and act as bravely as you do!
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 9:47 PM
I've been a vegetarian for over a year, and watching these videos of your speech really motivated me to go vegan. I've been wanting to go vegan for months. Thank you Gary, you are a brilliant man. If only I could get my husband to join me in a veg life.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:37 PM
Watching your lecture was inspiring. It made me decide to ask my boyfriend to go veg (for a year ... hoping he'll chose it permanently) for our anniversary present instead of him buying me something.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:43 AM
I just watched your video this week, and it's very amazing! I am sharing it with all the people I know. I really admire what you do! And I'd like to know how I can get more involved in educating people around me about the food industry & animal cruelty. I would love it if you could come to Whistler, to do a speech? And if not, if you could tell me how I could show your video to the people here?
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:18 AM
Dude, you're AWESOME! Greetings from Montreal!
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Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:05 PM
I'm a fan of your lecture. I was glad to hear you describe veganism pragmatically, rather than emotionally. I think it will reach a wider audience that way.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 6:37 PM
My sis was visiting me in Toronto. The Vegan club at Reyerson University was showing your lecture last Monday night and I took her with me to see it. I made out like I hadn't ever seen it before and would she just "please go with me". Long story short ... she went VEG! WOOOO! Her FB wall has become a Vegan info page and she is spreading the word! Just wanted to say THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO!
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Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 9:50 AM
I just saw your lecture. I've been a vegetarian for 21 years and my wife watched the video the other day and said, “we're vegan”. I had a vegetarian burrito last night with sour cream and cheese and she said, “pus” and I got pissed. I watched the video just now and I'm a changed man. Thanks so much for this. Our daughters are 11 and 8 and we'll teach them about the cruelty of these industries. Thanks again for opening our eyes.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 9:34 AM
You are an amazing speaker.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 12:42 AM
Just watched/listened to your GA Tech speech. Bravo, sir. You must be changing and affecting minds with these. It's obvious that you speak from the heart and with conviction. I love how you remind these kids that you aren't trying to sell a damn thing. I've forwarded the speech to a few Los Angeles high school teacher friends with hope that they can find a class/school willing to book you. Keep up the important work that you are doing!
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 8:41 PM
Gary, you changed my life forever, vegan all the way!
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 1:16 PM
Greetings from Brazil! I have just watched your lecture. I just wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS! You really know how to pass the bullet points of the arguments, you know, those that make the audience think. I was impressive by your ability in keeping the audience paying attention the whole time. Keep up your wonderful work on opening people's eyes!
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 12:59 PM
I want to say thank YOU for doing what you do. I love your style - straight to the point and right in people's face, it's very honest. You inspire me even more to be an Activist. Thanks SO much for your time, I hope to meet you someday.
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:49 AM
I just wanted to say that you are utterly amazing. Are you coming to the UK anytime soon?
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 7:26 AM
I am the organiser of the Manchester Vegan and Vegetarian Festival (UK) and would have loved to have had you as a guest speaker, unfortunately I now know that you are banned from the UK!! You have to laugh when they ban people like you on the grounds that a supposed Vegan Terrorist (joke) is comparable to a member of Al Queda! I found your speech on you tube very inspirational and have been telling everyone I know about it, converted two veggies to vegans last week after they watched it. Thanks also for putting the Q and A up too. Keep up the excellent work.
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 6:29 AM
It has started with my family opening my eyes and now it's a snowball effect. Thank you so much for your youTube video lecture. Making dvds to hand out to anyone who talks food with me, which is just about every person I come in contact with. Also, my wife and I want to open a vegan restaurant or market of some kind. Thank you again!
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 5:20 AM
I would just like to say your 'best speech ever' vid is amazing and so inspiring. Big love to you and keep up the amazing work!
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 2:40 AM
Know of you through Cully Miller in FL. Cully offered a challenge, an opportunity to open my eyes and become aware. Vegan ever since. Gary, I thank you for sharing your courage, determination, passion, compassion and love for the voiceless. Thank you for continuing to make a difference. You truly are inspirational. I'm simply speechless; just a most sincere thank you.
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 1:51 AM
I just wanted to send you an email telling you that I thought your speech was simply AMAZING. Even as a vegan and animal rights advocate I learned things more in-depth from your speech than I have through my own readings through animal rights books. I also love your approach to speaking with people. Anyway, just wanted to say that you've inspired me a lot!
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 10:08 PM
I just wanted to thank you for your youtube videos. I watched one at the request of my vegan friend Andrea Jones. Thank you for your inspiration. As a business owner, teacher, and lecturer myself, I was thrilled with your use of humour and body language as well as media material to drive the point of veganism home. Well done!
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 8:14 PM
Keep on moving the revolution forward my friend.
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 5:46 PM
Just wanted to tell u because of u i became vegan. was vegetarian then watched one of your lecturers on youtube and took my blinders off to the milk and egg industry. So thank you!
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 5:26 PM
Your speech finally drove home a message my heart (and my best friend) has been trying to tell me for a long time. My husband always told me he'd never support going vegetarian, much less vegan, but you've changed his mind as well. So thank you!
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 4:37 PM
I just watched one of your Youtube vids that a friend sent me. Awesome speech! Thnx for all you do to help animals.
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 4:20 PM
I am watching one of your videos. I do eat meat. I would like to be Vegan but that is easier said then done. I HATE watching the videos of animal cruelty. I don't believe all meat eaters treat animals in that way but I may be blind. I don't believe you will ever change mankind, but at least I am doing my best to learn and looking into becoming Vegan. I'm going to read your website an do my best to learn. I'm glad there are people like you in the world, thanks for directing me to your site, I am willing to learn.
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 3:23 PM
I watched your speech on Veganism last night. I became Veg a few months ago and recently have been making my way all the way Vegan. Your video helped that official "switch" happen this morning :) Thank you for your energy, insight, and loving the animals in the true and authentic sense of the word.
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 3:22 PM
Thank you. I used to be vegetarian and have gradually been slipping because it is "easier." I am in tears and sick to my stomach. I used to think it was okay to eat cheese and eggs because I wasn't killing an animal. Thank you
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 12:58 PM
You are such an inspiration to me. Thank you for all you do for the animals. For the world.
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 9:48 AM
I just watched you "Best Speech Ever" I LOVE you! I think you ROCK and would love to know when you are in the NJ area so I can bring people to hear you speak.
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 12:25 AM
You have changed my life, After watching your speech I took 5 days off of dairy and meat to learn more about the meat and dairy industry, and just 3 days ago I decided to eliminate meat and dairy from my lifestyle. I completely broke down and couldn't believe how long I had contributed to this. I no longer have any desire for meat or dairy. I am so happy now.
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Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 7:07 PM
Thank you so much for "the best speech you'll ever hear"!! That finally got a friend of mine to go vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 4:09 PM
Best text message I've received from a friend this afternoon: "Because of the video that you recommended, I am making an effort to stop eating pork, chicken, beef and eggs. My life long friend is modifying his diet as well and so is my mom."
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Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 2:21 PM
that is the third time i am watching this lecture. just cant get enough your passion is contagious!
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Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:35 PM
I have been a vegetarian for over 25 years and vegan for close to 15. My husband was vegan for awhile and started up on the cheese thing again. We watched your video last night and he said "that's it... no more excuses." I think YOU made a huge impression on him and it sank in.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:39 PM
I watched your "best speech ever" video a couple hours ago and can not stop thinking about how amazing it truly was. I posted it on a bunch of people's walls, and encouraged people to watch it on mine. I'm already vegan, but it made me want to be vegan all over again! I believe that video as well as your live speeches can change lives dramatically and make this world a much better place. It was, hands down, the best youtube video I've EVER seen in my entire life.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:12 PM
I just watched this with my 9 year old. He was very upset that you were ever labeled an "international terrorist" and exclaimed "That's ridiculous, Gary is a Freedom Fighter!
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:01 PM
I have been working with the same people in an office for years now. They are constantly winding me up (good nature at least) about being vegan. They are all meat eaters (many of them "Ted Nugent Proud" type). So today I shared your video with them. This afternoon, for the first time in years they asked me to talk to them more about my lifestyle and asked serious questions about how they can make begin to make the switch.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 7:34 PM
Reading your Frequently Asked Questions in ALL ABOUT VEGANISM veganism is wonderful. But these videos are fantastic. You get to see and hear people that are just like everyone else asking questions that everyone has. And you answer in an honest way, without getting frustrated or angry, which is incredibly difficult (at least for me, sometimes). These videos are such a wonderful resource. Please keep it up and keep on posting them!
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 7:10 PM
I was with the army guy who spoke to you after your presentation. Thank you for opening my eyes, I plan to educate myself thru your website, adapt.org. Thanks Gary again for spending a few extra minutes with us after your presentation.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:58 PM
Your speech, below, changed my world.. The world we should all live in, man.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:25 PM
I wish I had your courage!!! You are awesome!
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 5:13 PM
Just watched one of your speeches at a school and it was one of the best vegan speeches I've ever heard.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 1:47 PM
From Vancouver. Just saw your amazing speech.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:06 AM
I'm a dentist from Belgrade, Serbia. I've been vegetarian for years, and that was pretty hard here, we are a stuborn "meat for breakfast lunch and dinner" nation. I saw one of your lectures on youtube and instantly became vegan. And feeling great after just three months.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:08 AM
You are an inspiration to me. I share the video of your lecture with whomever is willing to watch. Thank you for helping open our eyes and heart to the cruel reality billions of innocent beings are faced with every second of every day. People are SO hypocritical but the truth you speak makes it MUCH harder for people to maintain the status quo.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:02 AM
Your speech made me and my husband go vegan. We aren't missing anything.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:10 AM
I decided to be vegan after watching your speech.
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 12:51 AM
I just wanted to thank you for the kick in the ass i needed! After 9 years as a vegetarian I finally transitioned to vegan. By the way I became a vegetarian after hearing you speak when I was 15, so i have you to thank for that too. Also, my boyfriend johnsteady is using a part of your lecture in a song. I heard a part of it and it sounds great. It is what I would describe as underground lyrical hip hop. I already gave him your email and he will send it too you as soon as recording is done. Thank you so much, take care and I hope you have a great tour. Change minds!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:40 PM
I've been thinking about going vegan for a couple years. I stumbled across your GT lecture and you put me over the top. I started on March 1 and am not looking back. I appreciate what you do.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:03 PM
I just wanted to say that I have been vegan for 12 years, and I still learned things in your "Best Speech Ever" lecture than I had never even realized. And you did it in a way, with a relatable message, that is going to help me explain my views so "meateaters" can understand. Thank you for what you do. And being able to do it in such a way that people, such as myself, are reminded why we initially made the lifestyle change in the first place.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 8:29 PM
Good news, my husband saw the Sasha Farm video of the calf running back to his mother the other day and later that evening he said he was considering going vegetarian. I sent him a link to your GA Tech lecture and told him if he really wanted to stop eating meat he should go ahead and watch it. An hour later he called me and said that he'd prefer to go vegan! He was even quoting you during our phone conversation, it was adorable.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 8:18 PM
watched this today...AWESOME!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:56 PM
Subject: From a buddy of mine after years of strong resistance
This his presentation by Gary Yourofsky has been haunting me. Veganism is the way to live in integrity within the parameters of life on earth. I believe in the commandment thou shalt not steal. All ten of the traditional commandments are just a version of thou shall not steal. Veganism is a commitment to live without stealing from our fellow living creatures. I took a second look at the beginning of the Yourofsky video. This guy is deliberately breaking laws, going against the establishment, and making a stand for an extremely important cause. I am touched, moved, and inspired by the stand this man is taking and the risks he is taking and the courage and intelligence that he brings to this cause.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 6:34 PM
I share your lectures every chance I get! Love you warrior of peace and positive change!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 6:32 PM
I have to admit I haven't watched your video yet. But you did help me decide to go vegan via my daughter. She watched and through her I was convinced. It has been a week for me. Thought it was going to be difficult, but it has really been rather easy. Tiffany is a big fan of yours.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 6:30 PM
became vegan couple months ago after watching your speech and 3 of my friends follow me. Thanks Gary your the BEST!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 6:11 PM
almost 3 weeks Vegan for me now and I'll never look back. you have truly changed my life Gary and you are saving so many animals :) YOU ROCK!!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:46 PM
You touched my heart.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:09 PM
Loved your lecture that I saw on Youtube! Thanks for all you are doing.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:58 PM
Your video of your speech made me go from vegetarian to vegan, I had no idea how much suffering the dairy cows go through, and as a mother I can relate on a personal level. There is no way I could ever continue to contribute to the pain of losing your child for any human or animal. My mother in law lives beside a farm and says she can hear the mother cows sometimes just crying for days for their babies back. Absolutely horrific, it makes me so angry, people need to smarten up and realize what they're doing. Thank goodness for you Gary, keep educating people, help bring back the compassion!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:37 PM
Sharing this connection with you (you turned my husband vegan), and now having him as support in our lifestyle choices makes me smile!! Huge shoutout (((THANKS))) Gary, you have made it possible!!!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:25 PM
LOVE your endless spirit!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:21 PM
I have watched your video so many times. I have posted that video to my page over and over and am getting some really good feedback from my 'once' meat eating friends who have stopped eating meat, they have also stopped drinking milk and are onto Soy milk! Becase of you!!! You really are an amazing person and I am in absolute awe of you. Keep up the amazing work. You're an angel for the animals! You're an inspiration to us all. We're following your lead, because you give educated speeches and facts. It's just so great. Going to share your link again just now!!!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 11:26 AM
I viewed one of your lectures at a college in Toronto, Canada with my sister this past Monday. Wow, what an informative, eye opening event that was for me. Thank you, keep up the good work. It trickled down to me... and will do so, from me as well.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 8:19 AM
I just became of who you are and the work you do by watching the Georgia Tech lecture that somebody sent me a link to. You are now a person whom I respect and admire so deeply. I made my 15 year old daughter and 9 year old son (who are animal lovers), watch your lecture to explain to them why we are now a vegan household. I wish to God I had heard your lecture 35 years ago.(I am now 40). I will do anything I can to help further your cause, and you can be sure I will be picketing outside our local rodeo this summer - even though I will probably be the least popular person in town. Thank you so much for being you and what you have done for our world.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:56 AM
You're so inspiring Gary, never stop what you are doing! Such a wonderful way to get the message out there. Years of conditioning and brainwashing CAN be undone. It really does only need to start with one person and in your case, you are getting through to a massive number of people, and you have my admiration and appreciation for that.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:02 AM
So wonderful to hear such impact u are making on these people and being a voice for those who cannot speak. Fantastic job!
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 3:05 AM
I really appreciate your passion and just want to tell you that I am very inspired by you. Keep it up please. The world needs more people like you.
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:33 AM
Wow! Thank you so much for all you share. I so appreciated the way in which you deliver the information and have gained some good methods, from watching this video, which will help me in explaining my choices more effectively. I send you my love and support in your endeavors. Just keep in mind that even the smallest pebble makes a ripple in a pond.Your lecture has moved and inspired me I thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:21 PM
Your speeches are amazing!
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 6:36 PM
Just saw your speech at Georgia Tech on line. I was already a HUGE animal activist, but your speech gave me so much more ammunition for my fight to end ALL animal cruelty. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 5:38 PM
watched one of your speeches on Youtube. what you do is amazing and heroic. Sincere heartfelt thanks for all that you do.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 4:53 PM
I just want to let you know how much just one of your speeches changed my life. My girlfriend made me, a meat and two veg man for all my life, sit down and watch, for an hour and 7 minutes, a video of you giving a speech to some school kids. I want you to know that from that point I chose to no longer eat meat, or eggs or drink milk. If everyone took the time to watch "the best speech you'll ever hear" this planet would be a far better place to live on. I am lighter, I feel good about myself and feel happier for the lives of the animals I have saved by no longer participating in the support of a cruel industry.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 12:56 PM
God bless you for your work, Gary, and may He sustain you throughout your life, and work
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 12:03 PM
You are amazing! Thanks for being a shining light in a world of darkness.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:53 AM
I am a police detective in Melbourne. Been on the veg path for a while but after watching your amazing lecture straight away full vegan. Thanks for the lecture. Your work and messages are inspirational. I see that you haven't been banished from Australia (haha) just wondering if you have any intentions of coming here and speaking? This country is full of red neck meat eaters and I used to be one of them!! You certainly would not be arrested by me. I would prob be right beside you! Anyway thanks again your lecture changed my life and hopefully also the 30 odd people I forwarded the link to!
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Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:20 AM
I have no words to say how much me and my boyfriend appreciate you. We were both were vegetarians until we saw your speech, and that was exactly what we needed to go vegan. When you said that vegetarians don´t go vegans because of cheese, we put in the garbage every product we had with milk. We never felt the taste of food like now and it´s amazing, so i have to admit it was the best thing i ever did.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:29 PM
You are amazing. Your speeches go beyond words, and should be heard worldwide.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 4:53 PM
I hope you know how incredible you are, and what an inspiration you are to all of us. What you do is essential and there's no better age group to be spreading the message to than young adults. You are changing their lives while being someone for all of us to look up to. And of course, you are making immense progress for the animals, which is what matters the most.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:44 PM
you are doing the best job of anyone i have ever seen. it was brilliant that you refer to the 10 commandments and golden rule as not having an asterisk next to them.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:09 PM
What I love most about this speech is how logical and encouraging it is. Truly brilliant.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:31 AM
Thank you for all you do for the animals and humanity.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:35 AM
I have 2 friends that have made the change after watching your video on Utube.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:23 AM
You're awesome Gary. My vegetarian brother watched your lecture & is now 100% VEGAN since he watched it!
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:58 AM
FIVE STARS FOR YOUR SPEECH!! its been shared all over my inner and outer net. Thanks again for your spreading of words! Love from Denmark .
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:47 AM
Loud mouth Vegan, animal lover and fan of your GA tech speech that I turn on to everyone I know.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:15 AM
I guess you get thousands of emails thanking you for the amazing work you do and the inspiration that you are but I would like to add my voice to the masses anyway. My husband and I watched your speech on veganism and we were really inspired by you, and proud to be vegans and bear witness to the message you spread that is the only ethical way to live. Thank you for your courage, passion and conviction,
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 4:02 AM
i saw your speech a while back and have been posting and sharing ever since. i am a 35 year veg/vegan and trying to educate people on the evil of eating animals i tackle on a daily basis. i watched your speech three times and took precise notes. i am able to answer any question and blow the myths and justifications away in an organized and diplomatic manner. THANK YOU! This is the most important speech anyone could ever hear. thank you for all you have done. you are a hero and have my full support.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:13 AM
I just saw a video of your speech last year at Georgia Tech. So impressive! Keep up the great work!
Comments from Students and Supporters, February 2011
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 10:21 PM
My sister watched your speech the other day and though she raises pigs for slaughter (I can't seem to get her to "get it"), she is starting to abstain from EATING meat, but she said this video was very impactful and I HOPE that one day it will all click and she'll make the total connection. But she was very moved by the way this was done and how you walk the talk. She said my anger turns her off, but this didn't, this opened her to it. Rock on Gary!
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 9:22 PM
Love all your videos, & the hard work that you do!
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:34 PM
I now have at least 4 friends who have shared your lecture on their wall and are turning heads.
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 1:43 PM
You wouldn't believe the reaction of my friend to my posting of YOUR speech. He's a Texas guy - raised on beef, etc. He watched it last night and got really upset and said it was life changing for him. So he's making the conversion.
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 10:20 AM
Thank you so much for everything you do for the animals! Your speeches are absolutely fantastic! I'm trying to get as many people as possible to watch them! You're one of the best speakers I've ever seen, so it's easy to recommend your videos. Keep up your brilliant work, and never give up!
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:41 AM
I have a new found love for veggies and nobody has to die for me to eat it. and it's all because of you Gary. THANK YOU for opening my eyes!
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 2:34 AM
You were the first person that ever brought the vegan lifestyle to my attention, and I was 21. 21 years of my life went by before I was told any of these things, and I can't help but be angry. I'm angry at my parents for encouraging me to eat meat from birth, for not caring about their own child's body, and for eating poorly and probably cutting their own lives short. I'm angry with my teachers for not teaching me these things that I now consider to be of the utmost importance. I'm angry with people that buy meat/dairy, fully knowing that they're destroying what is my planet too. I'm angry with our government, and with workers that see these processes up-close and personal and never say anything about it. I am angry with humanity. I'm getting my BFA in painting at UCF. I wanted to be an artist because I thought I had something to say to the world. But now I know that doing is more than saying. I no longer want to tell people about what's fucked up about society. I want to DO something about it. But I don't know where to start. In light of everything we've learned in these last few months, my boyfriend and I have decided that we're not interested in getting corporate, 9-5 jobs after college. We want to pursue activism and really try to make a difference. However, we have absolutely no clue how to go about doing this, or even if it's possible to support ourselves this way. We don't want to be rich, in fact, that's the last thing either of us want. We just don't want to starve or be leeches on society. I thought that you would be the person that would know how to help us. Where do we get started? What can we do? Is there a way to get to the root of the problem? (What even is the root of the problem, is it capitalism?) I'm not unwilling to devote my life to what I know needs to be done, I just don't know how to do it. Thank you for your help, for opening my eyes just a tiny bit, and for never giving up on what you know to be right.
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:39 AM
You are a legend. Keep rocking.
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:54 PM
Love your lectures and the work you do; it sometimes gets frustrating trying to get out the vegan message in this non-vegan world, but people like you provide us all a great source of strength and encouragement.
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 10:37 PM
Finally a guy who knows what he is talking about.
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 6:45 PM
I just want to thank you for loosening my blinders. I spent many days researching your lectures and what you had to say about the meat and dairy corporation. I have been experimenting with some of you food suggestions and I was quite surprised how good it tasted. Tofurky and Vegenaise taste exactly the same as turkey and mayonaise. I am currently on my path on excluding all meat and dairy from my diet.
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 6:02 PM
You are a true warrior for the voiceless and watching your speech has changed my life forever! Thank you so so much! Compelling, powerful and indisputable ... what a call to action! Brilliant!
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:07 PM
I watched your video after seeing it posted many times by people on facebook. I am lucky to live in an era when it is possible to add my voice to many who want to add to the well-being of the animals. Thank you so much for your courage and your work with students. The words you used to describe human physiology - that we perspire, use a side-to-side motion in the swivel of one's lower jaw with teeth for grinding, and have longer intestines - were a helpful inspiration in the talk I just had with a friend. You Rock.
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 2:37 PM
Just watched your incredible speech on YouTube at GA Tech. Thanks for your passion in creating real change.
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 1:21 PM
I pray you bring light to the reality of what the world is doing to our animal creatures to the generation you will be speaking to. I have a granddaughter that is 3 yrs. old and now that you have given her Grandma and Grandpa a new way of living, she is on her way to becoming another "Gary Yourofsky" for her generation. She is working on her mom and dad already by saying cows and chickens cry and hurt when they die and she doesn't want to eat them anymore. You are loved and appreciated by all.
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 12:17 AM
it's never too late. after viewing your most recent lecture, it certainly changed my mindset about eating meat. it was the most disgusting thing, but enlightening at the same time. thank you for doing what you do!
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 10:17 PM
You're my hero! Thank you for the amazing work you're doing, Gary. Wishing you an abundance of all good things.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 6:58 PM
Have been a Vegan for over 2 years now. just saw your lecture. amazing. Showed it to my boyfriend. he has gone vegan! Plus, here's a quote from my brother-in-law who once told me a while back that he could still eat a cow (and enjoy it) after watching it get slaughtered. I never thought this day would come. "I watched this video, it's a little over an hour long and I found it very interesting. As someone who eats meat, dairy and all the stuff that goes with it on a regular basis, I somewhat feel like a douche." AND! My sister just sent me a message and wrote "I just watched gary's video that you posted and it was awesome. He's a great speaker and I'm very inspired to start taking meat, cheese, eggs and milk out of my diet.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 6:34 PM
You Inspire Me!
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 5:47 PM
I think what you do is awesome man. I watched a video of a presentation you made at a University class. You present very clearly as to why I should maintain my vegan status, why being ethically driven to make appropriate personal choices is so important for the world. My choice of food is such a small and easy change to make, yet with such far reaching ramifications. Know the impact you have is HUGE.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 4:44 PM
You are an inspiration, thank you.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 2:40 PM
I respect your speech and passion for the truth. You gave the most impressive presentation, argument I have ever watched and listened to.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 11:10 AM
I think your speech on animal rights and veganism is so persuasive and inspirational, i feel like i have to thank you for it.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 10:39 AM
I watched a lecture of yours and think you are amazing. Thanks for your efforts
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:00 AM
Vegan for 14 days now thanks to your video lecture on youtube!
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 2:33 AM
LOVE all that you represent and are trying to change in our horrible world.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 2:12 AM
You are amazing.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 1:28 AM
saw a video on you tube of one of your lectures. you are great. keep up the good work.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 1:25 AM
I just watched your speech at Georgia Tech. Thank you so much for your passion and realness in telling the truth and speaking the minds of so many vegans. You're doing an incredible job and are really good at it. I loved your approach - passionate and real and down to earth - not condemning people through judgment but being real about how painful the choice is to be a meat/dairy consumer. I admire your guts to speak out and agree it is time, people need to wake up from the cavemen behaviour, so cruel, so unnecessary especially now in 2011. So thank you so much, you are awesome and I hope you keep going. I will be sharing about it whenever I can.
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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 12:05 AM
I would just like to say that I have watched your speech and would just like to say thank you. I have been doing a lot of research on my consumption as a human and my contribution to all of the suffering I have been a part of and have recently discovered that the way I have been living is not normal. There are some serious changes that need to be made in my life and my child's. Thank you Gary for the lecture.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 10:15 PM
Factual, passionate and clear. The animals are lucky to have your voice. I don't know how you do it, but it takes strong convictions and courage to face an almost hostile crowd time after time. I would call what you do reasoning, not preaching. Please don't let the shallow fools get you down. If you resonate with one person, that is a victory. You are on the side of what is right and what it means to live a truly compassionate life. We all admire you tremendously for it, and gladly follow your lead.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 10:06 PM
I just wanted to say thank you for doing what you do.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 9:27 PM
Because of your lecture I saw on YouTube I'm now vegan for 12 days. I feel the best I ever have.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 6:05 PM
i think you are one awesome man! i think what you are doing is absolutely incredible, i saw you on youtube and to be honest your video changed me. can you help me be more like you though? how can i stop eating meat? it seems to me that meat is everywhere and when i saw what they do to animals i was so angry! you are so right all those fast food places just show cartoons and stuff and not what really happens to animals.... i looked into my Dogs eyes and i cried because i wouldn't want this to ever happen to them! the way you put things is so true, this is truly a massacre! us human beings are heartless i was really angry so now i want to go vegan. can you help me, like give me some advice? THANKS!
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 4:14 PM
thanks for all that you do! You are a truly inspiring person.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 3:25 PM
I've posted the video of your amazing speech, and I hope many of my friends will see it.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 3:22 PM
Last night, I convinced my parents to watch your lecture with me. Now, because of showing them YOUR speech, they too are starting to make the change.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 1:43 PM
your speech is amazing. You wrap it all up so well, bless you for the energy you give. You are amazing.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:34 AM
You're an inspiration to me to become a louder voice in the vegan revolution. i bawled listening to your speech on youtube, it was exactly what i needed to refuel my determination! love you.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 7:16 AM
I just want to thank you, Gary. Not only have you made almost my whole family, including myself, 100 % vegans in a very short time, but you have also reunited my family and made us closer! Before we watched your speech and became vegans, we had much less contact with each other than we have now. This has in fact saved our family in so many ways. We are your biggest fans here in Norway, and if you ever chose to visit our little country, I will drag all my friends and family to go see you. Keep up the fantastic work.
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 5:01 AM
I have just watched the lecture you gave at Georgia Tech and wanted to thank you for an incredibly inspiring and motivating video. I lived in the UK for 20 years and recently returned to France where I was surprised to see that the vegan "movement" is growing and very dynamic. I posted the video on my facebook profile in the hope that others may be inspired. A few people expressed regrets that the video was only available in English and as I worked as a translator for many years, I would be honoured and delighted to translate it and add French subtitles. I have a growing and active network of vegan friends who are already looking forward to a French version and some of them have volunteered to help me wit the technical aspect, should you authorise me to go ahead with the translation.
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:50 PM
I'm from Québec City, Canada. I listened to our speech today at my university. Rarely will some students have the chance to hear a powerful message like yours. After listening to you, quite frankly, I did not have a single argument to raise. The only thing I wished is that your video was viewed as many times as the Justin Bieber's videos (460,000,000 times). The part that striked me the most was the one about cheese. I'm almost vegan, almost. The only thing I didn't cut was the fucking cheese. But after your talk, man that was the kick I needed. I have to admit that you 'arrogance' is what people need. Well, I wouldn't call it arrogance. I'd call it CONFIDENCE, HUMANITY. I'd like to leave you with those words of wisdom (just as your words are in your speeches) from Augustine quoted from my favorite author Chris Hedges: Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. Your talks provoque anger, I just hope that people will have the courage to do something so that this situation do not remain. A new inspired soul from Québec.
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:17 PM
I just watched your speech online and I want to thank you for your courage and inspiration. I became a vegetarian a year ago and I'm now transitioning to vegan. Your knowledge has taken me to the next level and I appreciate your dedication. Looking forward to hearing you speak live.
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:23 AM
i watched one of your lectures the other day, fantastic!
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:20 AM
You are one the greatest inspirations for veganism we have ever heard and we have already seen the results in our friends circle, people choosing to be vegans because of your words, you are brilliant!! Go Gary Go!
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:19 AM
Awesome to know you are creating a wave of influence of this magnitude is overwhelming. You are an inspiration for our young leaders of the future, leaders with true visions that can empower people with belief!
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:14 AM
u are changing the world Gary! the time will come where ur name as well as other animal fighters will be seen as heroes and remembered in history i'm so happy to witness this moments! u will always be my inspiration.
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:10 AM
Wonderful! You are an inspiring human, Gary.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8:07 PM
You spoke at my school two times. The first time was the previous school year and I was in the 11th grade. I'll admit, you didn't get to me that time, but that's probably because I missed the first half of your speech. The second time I heard you speak, I heard it all. I saw the video. I felt as if I was lying to myself when I said I love animals. Now that I am aware of what animals go through in the animals farms, you've inspired me to take action. I'm going vegan, but I also want others to know about the cruel things animals have to endure. Now, I'm not as brave as you are to go and release minks from mink farms, but I am hoping to plan a proposal to my school's administration to eliminate meat (and hopefully dairy) from the school's lunch menus and substitute that with vegan options. I'm hoping this goes through. Thanks for the inspiration. You've definitely left a mark at my school.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:05 PM
I just watched your speech at Georgia Tech. I just wanted to tell you thank you for what you are doing. I am in the process of "reprogramming" and your speech definitely helped reiterate the facts of why I am going vegan. People keep giving me reasons why my choices of not eating meat aren't valid and your speech helped me explain why they are.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:28 AM
Your speech today was very straightforward and to the point, which I liked. The video and the things you told us really got to me. Me and my mom have been talking about cutting out all meat. I think its very harmful what they do to these innocent animals! Me and my Mom are big animal lovers which is one reason why we have considered going this way. My mom also had breast cancer 5 years ago which makes me very afraid.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:13 AM
I have been watching your seminars and learning lots about you and think you are amazing.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:39 AM
If this is really u, u r my hero. Thanks for all u do for animals! I've posted ur speech many times on FB and it has helped people make the transition into vegans/vegetarians. When I have the opportunity to hang out with meat eaters and show them ur video, it almost always works and something clicks in their brain. I love it and appreciate your passion! Keep up the awesomeness.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8:35 AM
You are the real thing Gary, a great role model for the rest of us.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8:29 AM
Just watched your AMAZING You Tube Video.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8:33 AM
I saw a video of you speaking against meat, dairy & eggs. it was brilliant! Over an hour long, but I sat & watched it twice!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:14 AM
A bit more feedback for you. my Aunty who had been mainly vegetarian ... she has now watched your video and has let our family know tonight, that she is now going the full way. And that is just awesome!!! She always had interest, but was not willing to give up the dairy & a few meat addictions. Truly what you have said in the video, you are speaking in such a way, that can reach those close & far. I was so inspired on Facebook last night after your video (which I posted,) but I also wrote fully what I had been holding back about the truth of the cruelty etc, in sake of previously not wanting to come across as too righteous or dogmatic. Anyway, after this post I made, I received a comment from a new FB friend that said after watching the vid & my post, it pushed her over the edge from being at a stage of indecisiveness. And she was so grateful. The choice was now clear for her of what she wanted. I was very impressed how you delivered all the information in your video and it made me go a step further in my passion to promote it.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:02 AM
You are a hero. Your recent speech has made 3 of my corpse munching friends vegetarian and 1 vegan. I've been trying 25 years to convert them all. My husband has gone vegan now and my 2 children have never eaten flesh and your speech has made me convert their diets to vegan also. I'm ashamed they have only been vegetarian so far, but I've made the connection.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:29 AM
truly inspiring.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:01 AM
Thanks for all you do to educate people. You are a wonderful speaker. With people like you a vegan planet is possible!
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:48 PM
As I read the comments from so many people, they repeat the words "thank you" over and over again. So I couldn't possibly begin to start out with that, or could I? Let me just say that you have not only saved another animal's life by your outstanding speech, you have saved the lives of two people. A married couple that were heading down-hill going no where fast. You saved us mentally and physically. My husband and I watched your video over a month ago and have not eaten, used, fed to our 4 dogs, or any other thing that we could possibly have any control of, any animal products at all. My husband is a diabetic and is already reaping the health benefits of it. And for the past several months every time he would eat any meal whatsoever, he would almost regularly have to dash to the bathroom to ...."lose it" one way or the other. That has not happened since we became Vegans!! I, on the other hand have a heart that is so full of love that I can't believe I could have thought of divorce 2 months ago. That's the road we were headed down. And I have always "loved" animals but have never loved them without blinders on. Being born and raised on a dairy farm, it was pretty hard to see the truth!! My own father was one of those men you spoke so lowly of. I am ashamed of what he did....Some people say that your approach wasn't a "get in your face" approach!!! I think it was, and I am so glad it was. I wish you would come to Texas and kick some ass around here. I'm sorry. What did that come from??? Just writing about my father and what he did is so upsetting. But I am changed. My anger is only that people still won't listen. And you, my friend, are the reason that my life is changed. So I will end this with the words that so many say to you. Thank You, thank you, thank you!!!!
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:51 PM
I just watched a video of one of your speeches. Your strength in character comes across clearly. Thank you so much for what you do. You are such an inspiration
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:31 PM
just watched a video of your lecture and it was absolutely amazing! Thank you for doing such great things.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:20 PM
Awesome site dude (adaptt.org)! I really like the death counter. It is what I'm showing all my friends who are questioning my change. Not bad questions, but more or less "why". I point this site out and show them the numbers and I can see faces lose color instantly. My own son is now wanting to try it, my other son, blinders are tight. I ts gonna take some time with both of them. I know they will see the way. Thank you again for everything, I guess you can say you sort of saved my life, I'm eternally grateful.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:58 PM
I've seen a lecture of yours. Absolutely brilliant. You have astounding communication powers. You really should be spokesman of the entire movement.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:17 PM
I am a fellow vegan, author and speaker. My name is Brenda Davis, and I have written, Becoming Vegetarian, The New Becoming Vegetarian, Becoming Vegan, Becoming Raw, Dairy-free, Defeating Diabetes and The Raw Food Revolution Diet. My website is www.brendadavisrd.com. I am listening to your u-tube lecture and just had to write. You said something that gripped my heart. I have to share a story with you. When my son Cory was 3 years old (he is now 23 years old), we were driving by a McDonald's and he asked me if we could get one of their hamburgers. I thought perhaps the time had come for me to explain to him that the hamburgers at McDonald's are made of cows. He looked at me like I had just lost my mind and strongly said, "Mommy, people do not eat cows". When I told him that they do, he started to cry. Then through the tears he said, "But mommy, them have eyes; them have mouths; them have noses and ears. Mommy, don't they know that cows are people too." I was astonished that a 3 year old could see this so clearly when adults are so blind to these realities. I was struck by how similar your words in your presentation were to what my son said. I thought you would appreciate this story. I hope our paths cross someday. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you are doing to protect our fellow beings. You are a hero if ever there was one.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:47 PM
I came across your YouTube speech recently, and am very happy to have found it. You're an incredible speaker and have figured a fantastic way to present veganism and its urgency. I hope one day to develop such an oratory ability. Thank you and God bless.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:25 PM
Greatly admire your battles for the rights of all living creatures, Gary! Please keep up the great work.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:41 PM
I just watched a video of one of your lectures on youtube and found it very inspiring! My mom showed my dad a clip about why humans aren't meant to eat meat and it made my former farm-boy father think. I'll keep working on him. Thanks and keep up the good work!
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:37 PM
This speech changed my life forever
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:37 AM
Listening to your talk on veganism. Incredible
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:16 AM
I recently watched your speech and I was so blown away by it, you are awesome! I have been Vegan for almost a year now and you took the words right out of my mouth. You are so smart, well-spoken, simply genius! It would be great to see you in Canada! Thanks for all that you do for animals.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:09 AM
Blew my mind.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:08 AM
I ADMIRE AND RESPECT YOU VERY MUCH. AND ADAPTT IS A SITE I REFER PEOPLE TO OFTEN. I ACTUALLY MEAN TO GET BUSINESS CARDS WITH ADAPTT MADE UP TO GIVE WHEN OUT AND ABOUT. LOVE YOUR HEART AND KIND SOUL
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:04 AM
I'm here to express my tears of gratitude for sharing such in depth, real, knowledgeable & down to earth message for veganism. Thank you so kindly & so very much. I have spread your message amongst my Facebook pages. What a precious & amazing thing you are presenting to the world. I support you wholeheartedly & highly commend such work you are doing.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 3:19 AM
You are a voice of reason in a wilderness of pain.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 3:04 AM
I am one of your biggest fans all the way over in Australia. I think your efforts to shed light on the horrors of the worlds meat and meat products are absolutely wonderful. I hope i can make a difference as much as you have one day! Keep up the fantastic work... the world needs people like you.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:47 AM
Your speeches are amazing! I wish everyone could hear you speak.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 11:40 PM
I have stumbled upon your speech/lecture posted on Youtube. I watched the whole thing, and I shared it immediately on my FB page. Now, I am simply a 2nd year university student, who is trying my very best to become informed about such a critical issue. And it hasn't been long, but I have already encountered struggles in the process of trying to spread the message to others. Whenever I try to convince my friends and family all the benefits of veganism, I end up feeling inferior, because I am going against the status quo. Most of them are nice in front of me, but I can still sense their thoughts, regarding me as foolish. I find myself often feeling helpless and frustrated, and I want you to know that you are now my mentor. You have inspired me to continue further, to not give up. You let me know that what I am doing is right, despite the opinions of society. I know I will never be brave enough to protest directly against violent institutions or anything radical like that but I promise that I will live the rest of my life and be a part of this movement. I will take all the knowledge acquired from your lecture and beyond, and continue to inform others. Thank you for empowering me and making my life that much more meaningful. Thank you for standing up for animals!
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 11:35 PM
We were so impressed with the video on your lecture on Veganism, brilliant work, thank you for doing this. We have been vegans for 10 years now and love it. We are also pop/rock musicians, our music is for the higher consciousness, love, joy, bliss. Hope you will come by our page and listen to our music. Kosmic Evolution.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 11:14 PM
I just came across your video through S.A.N.I.T.Y. and I couldn't stop watching it. I am going to show it to as many as I can. You really ripped it up so to speak, touched on so many areas. you're leaving meat eaters dumbfounded. I often prepare vegan meals for the meat eaters in my life and they approach it like it's some kind of alien life form. I'm always like, "How can you eat mutilated, murdered animal parts and then be hesitant and scared to try a quinoa burger!!!"And you totally captured and expressed that perfectly! So inspiring. I am just pleased to know of your existence. Thank you!
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 9:36 PM
Woo! You are amazing
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:44 PM
Some time ago I sent an e-mail to you in which I said that I'm planning to write German subtitles for his speech. Now I'm done and I have shown his speech to some of my friends. This speech persuaded 3 more vegan persons on this planet here in my area. Great Job Gary! You can use my translated version for everything you want.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:38 PM
You are my hero.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:33 PM
I am writing you from Norway. I'm a vegetarian, but my goal is to be a vegan in a month.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:12 PM
I just found out about you on Facebook! You are an AMAZING person and I love what you do for animals. I cannot wait to watch your lecture and finish exploring your website. I have been a vegetarian for quite some time and I am working towards complete veganism. I think your website will point me in the right direction.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:40 PM
Some of my vegan friends shared one of your lectures calling it the best speech ever. I thought that maybe they were over exaggerating, but then I watched it. I have to say that was the best speech ever. I've listed you as one of the people who inspire me, because you really have inspired me.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:22 PM
Success!!!! my boyfriend watched the video last night (Chris Lowe). he was glued to the screen, Almost shut it off during the dairy video but I stopped him. I hadn't watched it myself all the way. I needed to see all of it. After it was over he said "I'm done" Thank you again!!
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 11:59 AM
I watched your lecture last night for the first time in its entirety. Blinders off, well let me say that Mine are now. I can only tell you how rotten I feel today. I have been a murderer, a hypocrite, and a selfish douche. But not anymore! I have made a vow, with my wife Jennifer K, to never EAT OR BUY animal products again. I realize that it takes some self education to make it thru the de-brainwashing of our minds. I love to read, can you send me a list of books to guide me in making the best choices for our animal friends?
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 11:16 AM
Thanks for coming to visit our class at UCF last week! I'm only on day 4, but I feel great about my choice to be vegan. I tried being vegan once or twice before, but it was out of guilt rather than an empowered sense of acting on the behalf of radical kindness: thanks for re-framing the positives of veganism as an activist issue that people can feel good about and take ownership over. Thanks so much again for coming in to Dr. Hawkins class and sharing your passion with us.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 10:37 AM
After watching your speech on Youtube me and my family are going Vegan. It has been going well, there is a whole new world. I am re-teaching myself to cook. I have had many friends support me and others who are upset. My brother is so upset that he will no longer talk to me. I feel very good morally and know in my heart i have made an excellent choice. My son Noah has been a vegetarian since he was 9 and my son Ryan has been talking about no longer eating meat for a while now. When I told them I wanted to go Vegan they were both on board. Thank you for being you, your charisma and intelligence in your speech and the way you presented the information was spot on. It was hard to watch the clips, I cried, I covered my eyes, then I got angry. My family thanks you, for waking us up.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 10:26 AM
Thank you for doing what you do! Your speech was eye-opening and thought-provoking.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 9:35 AM
I have to tell you that my wife and I were deeply moved with your lecture on Youtube.com. We became vegetarians early last year but never went all the way to become vegans until now. I had never seen anyone delivering such a compelling speech with convincing evidence. I guess we have been desensitized by our sick culture. I have been passing your speech video to most people I know expecting to change some lives and stop this nonsense for good or we will never break free from our own ignorance. Thanks again and if I can be of any help down here in Chile, just let me know. You got an ally here. I have thought about translating your video to add subtitles or dub it. It would be a nice thing to have some compelling documentary with YOUR arguments. Some sort of Earthlings 2.0 or something like that. All the best for you, our fellow earthlings and the cause to start living like real human beings.
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 4:17 AM
I just finished watching your speech. i couldn't even stop to go pee. i'm convinced, in an unshakable way. so that's it gary, i joined your tribe the moment i finished watching that video. like you said I LOVED THE TASTE but i can't trade the animals suffering with the pleasure of the taste. thank you gary, thank you so much. eggs are going to be tough on me, i love eggs. i am sooo grateful to you and i am going to force everyone i know to at least watch the whole video if not give up meat, milk cheese and eggs at once!!
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:39 AM
Amazing amazing lectures!!!! I wish you did them in french so I could share the love here in switzerland too!
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:24 AM
I just watched your speech on you tube and checked out your website. I must say, your speech moved me very much. Thank you!
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:26 PM
Love everything you are saying in your lectures. More power to you! I'm sharing your videos and website. Thanks for what you are doing.
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 3:36 PM
Thank you, thank you, thank you! for what you do for the animals!
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 1:17 PM
Thank you so much for hard work-also for visiting NC.
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 12:38 PM
You are my idol. I used your video to help successfully turn 5 friends this month to vegans. Plus, my wife finally changed over to vegan because of your video and thus my daughter as well. I'm going to post to my wall the information I send to my friends who are interested in changing to a vegan lifestyle and it includes your video. I learned so much from your video - thank you!!!"
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 12:18 PM
Before I saw your Georgia Tech talk I had only a vague notion that men like you existed. Thank you for being what all men should be.
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 10:23 AM
You are great and I wish you the best life possible wherever you may be. I hope you will live long and that the message of animal liberation will spread all over the Earth. I HAVE had my last piece of cheese.
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 9:36 AM
Saw your talk and it blew me away. i need to learn how to speak well in order to spread the vegan message better. right now i am too passionate and either cry or shout at people at some point. but i am working on it. in case you have any tips please share. but i guess a lot of it is practice. grateful for your talents and determination.
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 8:27 AM
The world needs more people like you in it. Keep up the amazing work that you do. Those dear animals need all the voices they can get.
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 6:46 AM
I have never heard someone present a more powerful call to be a vegan! I've been a vegetarian for 17 years & I AM now committed after watching your video to stand as a VEGAN. Thank you. I shared your video on my page & blog.
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 4:33 AM
I watched your video. you are amazing!
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 6:11 PM
I just watched your amazing lecture to students on youtube and I would like to thank you for everything you do for the animals. You are amazingly driven, eloquent and convincing. The world needs more people like you. Thank you Gary, keep the good work. You are an amazing human being.
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 3:21 PM
just got off the phone with my brother in England, he has just shown your lecture to my Mum & my other brother Christopher. they thought you were BRILLIANT!!!!
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 2:26 PM
My daughter watched one of your lectures last night. She called me afterward and said she is now officially vegan. I haven't gotten the chance to watch it yet.
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 1:06 PM
your video has been circulating. I "borrowed" it to show in contrast to Oprah's sanitized "vegan week" with a "shame on Oprah" letter to the network suggesting she have you on the panel. Then let's see how many people really think about how we treat animals.
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 10:36 AM
amazing speech! im a vegetarian, borderline vegan.after watching your speech i am now getting there very quickly. its all thanks to you. i wish the world was full of intelligent and compassionate humans like you.
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 9:16 AM
We believe SO strongly in what you are doing and wish we could do more. You are making such a difference in the lives of so many animals, and that is so important to us. We are following you closely on FB and wish you the best in the future. Take care and keep doing what you are doing.
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 12:18 AM
your YouTube presentation is essential viewing.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 9:25 PM
Ive just had the pleasure of watching the lecture that you did at Ga Tech last summer on youtbe. I was so moved and disgusted at the same time by what I saw that by the end of the speech I had been converted to veganism. Ive been following this regimen for over a week now and I can honestly say that I don't miss meat or the by-products. I feel a lot less cloudy in the head and Ive started to lose weight. Makes me very happy that I will soon be able to come off of the HBP meds soon. I would like to know where your next lecture will be? Im also gonna bring some friends to see if I can get them to become more aware and convert also.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:58 PM
My dad has agreed to watch your speech! we are talking about the main man of meat eating of all time!
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 5:58 PM
Thanks for all your hard work Gary. You're making the world better slowly but surely!
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 5:41 PM
I watched your video with my husband. He is now converted. Thank you.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 3:49 PM
you inspire me. you are a real man. much respect.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 3:29 PM
Thank you for your lecture, I was very inspired by it. I put it on my facebook and one person who watched it was moved to tears (as I was) and determined to change. She emailed me to say she was going vegan. Before i believed that dairy farming was cruel but I hadn't really thought about just HOW cruel and awful the whole system was. Some of my friends who were veggie are now going vegan as a result of me showing them your video. Thanks to youtube, facebook etc, ideas are now spreading faster. Let's hope the human race can evolve beyond its bloody history quickly. Tipping point may be approaching sooner than we think! Thank you for your work for all the oppressed and enslaved animals on this planet
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:28 PM
I just followed a link to your video lecture at Georgia tech. I loved it and shared it with all of my fbook friends.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:53 PM
you are, indeed, the preacher man, and a great one. your video should be required watching, even for activists. your grasp and delivery are such a gift to the animals and those humans who seek peace for them.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:15 PM
well its been 2 days now and I have watched your video 3 times, it's extremely inspiring and has made me even more determined to raise awareness for these poor animals. Brilliant speech mate. We need more people like you on the planet.I will be following your quest closely.
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From: Cully Miller
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:29 AM
About two weeks ago, I stumbled upon Gary Yourofsky's YouTube video on Veganism from his 2010 Georgia Tech lecture. I recognized the genius of it immediately and jumped at his invitation to see his presentation Live (@ UCF on 2/14).
I don't want to recount his arguments in this review, simply because I couldn't do them justice – his lecture speaks for itself. What I witnessed was near flawless execution and immeasurable passion, delivered in an unapologetic style that could only come from witnessing unspeakable acts first hand - things that have clearly left emotional scars and burdened a soul with the weight of a message that (by and large) would rather be swept under the rug. To sloppily regurgitate a perfectly crafted message would only serve to diminish something I passionately want to promote.
That being said, I wanted to offer my impressions of the man himself. I'm not entirely sure how to word it though. Yourofsky is a completely fascinating mind and as far as a complete stranger could ever encapsulate another after one encounter, I humbly offer you the following. Keep in mind, these are only my impressions.
As a point in fact, I have yet to read any of Yourofsky's controversial essays. I will at some point, but I simply did not need to filter the unadulterated truth of this lecture through some convoluted sense that I must agree 100% with everything anyone has ever said in order to validate them. I don't even agree with myself 100% of the time – no need to hold anyone else to a standard I myself could not meet. I probably will find them thought provoking though.
I think what I find so intriguing about Yourofsky is the contrast of his struggle. There is something compelling about the head-on collision of frailty and power. With Gary, you get them both super-sized. It's as if he screams in whispers, and whispers in screams. For as much as he demands you bear witness, it is not beneath him to drop to his knees and mercifully beg you to actually change on behalf of animals. It was surreal...to see this larger-than-life figure on his knees pleading, "Enough." It shook me to the core. So exposed. So frail. So singularly powerful a moment as to give me hope that change is coming. Demand and Beg – a rare combination indeed.
His colorful past is at the very heart of his credibility. At the same time, it's this colorful past that often provides the hurdles he must overcome in finding sponsors for his tour or even support among like-minded groups who shy from this controversial figure to protect their donation streams. It is a constant tug-of-war between gaining mainstream acceptance and fighting the system. And something tells me that he needs that struggle. It's what makes him epic. And I do mean epic.
What is clear to me is that the brilliance I witnessed was built upon the blood, sweat, and tears of failures too numerous to count. You don't get this good by accident. This is a man who stood up and spoke with passion about something his audience didn't really want to know ... and he encountered resistance at almost every turn.
Instead of humbly disappearing into the background, Yourofsky kept speaking, kept taking his lumps, kept crafting his message. It's as though he painted a bull's eye on himself - "Target me. I'm strong enough to take it. But you're going to listen. You're going to hear me."
He constructed his message brick by brick, and when the mediums available were not effective, he tore the whole building down, started from scratch, and created a medium of his own (his lecture circuit). This foundation provided him the control he needed to lay out his argument in the most electrifying and compelling way - without interruption, subtlety, or time constraints. He didn't want to provoke thought, he wanted to create a call to action.
Needless to say, I knew I was going to like Gary Yourofsky even before I met him... and I was right. He and his girlfriend were gracious enough to invite me out to dinner after the lecture and it was something I'll never forget. I got a chance to look him in the eye, thank him, and tell him he was an animal hero. I know he appreciated it. I also know (in the back of his mind) he was already thinking about the few students that gave him resistance and how he could improve his message.
One thing is for certain though – Gary Yourofsky makes me a more effective advocate for animals. I proudly promote my Vegan lifestyle at every opportunity. From this point forward, when someone asks me questions, I can direct them to the video of his lecture. I can then pick up where Gary left off. I can hold their hand through the process. Gary gets me in the door. I'll do my part to close it behind me.
I asked Yourofsky how long he thought it would be before this country adopted a cruelty-free lifestyle. I expressed that I thought it could happen in 50 years. He hesitated and suggested 100-150 years. Maybe he didn't see the lecture I just saw? Keep doing your thing, Gary, and my money is on 50. You are making a difference.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:08 AM
Your video has changed my life!!! I had no idea it was like that! I went Vegan in one day 4 weeks ago and I feel fantastic! I love Vegenaise & tofurky sandwiches! I no longer take allergy meds and I lost weight too! I am totally loving my life. Thank you Gary!
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:34 AM
You rock man, keep up the good work
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 7:45 AM
Vegetables have never tasted so good to me. I can't wait to try all kinds of new vegan dishes!!! It's only been 1 week since I watched your video and converted to vegan and already I feel FANTASTIC. I've lost 11 lbs to boot!! I mostly did it for the animals and to help end their suffering but all the health benefits are a big bonus to me!!! Thank you for what you do Gary!
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 7:27 AM
You are a revealer of truth. When a lifetime of blinders comes off and the truth is exposed, life not only takes on a different meaning, but you get to possibly live a longer and enjoy a healthier life, animals stand the chance of a new and better destiny, often times we get to lose that extra bit of weight and feel healthier and more energetic too (another bonus), the world gets to be a better place for us all. The world gets to benefit all round with a vegan diet, vegan compassion AND your mission is integral to this.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 7:04 AM
thank you for doing this important work.
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:24 AM
I just finished watching the lecture you gave at Georgia Tech in 2010. First and foremost I would like to say THANK YOU for doing what you do. It saddens me to watch all of the footage I have watched of animals being tortured and slaughtered. I want to be a voice for them and am ready to fight for them. I have been very successful at keeping my blinders on and blocking out truth and that probably explains why I have been anxiety ridden my entire life. The reason I am writing to you is because I want to devote my life to promoting the vegan lifestyle and fight for these animals. It would be an honor to meet you and possibly work with you one day. Until that day, could you give me some advice on starting this path. I am proud to say that in a short period of time I have "awakened" many others. I don't intend to stop. Any guidance you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:33 PM
Thank you for all you do!
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:10 PM
I'm 16. I saw your lecture on youtbue. It was just mind blowing. At first I was just skeptical and wasn't sure if I was going to believe you, or even what the video was about. But i've always had an open-mind and as the video kept progressing, I got hooked. I would just like to thank you for being who you are and sticking up for all the animals like this. We will never change as a whole but I do want to change. For me, for the animals, for us. I think it will be amazing if we could actually accept these facts and have everyone live by them. You're exceptionally smart AND brave. I'll show the video to as many people as I can and hope they do something about it.
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:59 PM
I just saw a video of you on Youtube and wanted to say I Love the work that you are doing.
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:35 PM
Your speech is spreading here in New Brunswick, Canada. More people going Vegan because of your efforts!!
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:33 PM
I just listened to one of your speeches on youtube. I think what you are doing is great! I have been a vegetarian for more than 7 years because of health issues. I recently started thinking about vegan and highly decreased buying dairy products. Your speech gave me the push I needed to do this. thank you for giving me some thought. I am vegan starting from now and will try to persuade others.
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:06 PM
G'day from Australia. You are a hero and thank you for being one. All my respect to you.
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:58 AM
My husband and I are eternally grateful to you for sending us out of our comfort zones of being vegetarian to strictly vegan. We feel so good about our diet choices and try to share info about veganism every chance we can. We have even actually rescued a pig, from becoming bacon. Her name is Miss Piggy and she is about 400 lbs!!!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:46 PM
Really enjoyed your presentation and your brutal honesty. Your lecture reached me and here is the funny. I am in the entertainment industry and have always made fun of Vegans. I had a stand up routine dedicated solely to ridiculing Vegans and the soft pansies that couldn't man up and eat a burger. I reveled in my alpha male inspired need for meat and had totally forgotten my childhood love of animals. You took my blinders off to and opened my eyes to many things that I had made sure to relegate from my mind. I'm done eating my animal friends. Now the really strange part is that I have a voice that can reach millions of people when I choose to. You have reached a brother that is known for beating people over the head with the truth and changing people. I too have been a motivational speaker and I also produce films. I am in 100%. Thank you for removing the blinders.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:33 PM
Thank God for people like you Gary. You are my hero and inspiration!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:23 PM
You changed my life. Your speech made me open my eyes. I am now a vegan and when I bring life into this world, I will not let them partake in the senseless and selfish cruelty either.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:22 PM
Let me start by saying I was introduced to you by way of my friend from high school, Jason Barnes. He had the youtube clip on his facebook page. I watched it tonight and had an eye-opening moment. I have seen such videos before but paired with your speech it was life changing. I have been practicing vegetarianism for a while but am ready to implement the changes to make vegan my way of life.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 8:32 PM
I saw a speech you did on youtube ... amazing.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:28 PM
Love your lecture on You Tube. Thanks for all you do for the animals!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:27 PM
You are an extraordinary person! I appreciate you. Just know, you are one of my HEROES!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:11 PM
I would like to thank you for the eye opening presentation you gave to our class Tuesday, early in the morning. I've been interested in veganism for a few months and you did nothing but solidify any ideas had about going Vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:03 PM
Possibly one of the best AR speeches to date!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 3:27 PM
I just saw a vid of your lecture a GA Tech and was amazed!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:14 PM
I was at your lecture in October at Cecil Community College. First of all, I wanted to let you know that i brought 6 friends (3 vegan and 3 non vegan). the three meat-eaters have since become vegans from that night forward. So your effectiveness is astounding! One of the ladies that I was with that night has been a vegan for 33 years and she told me last night that you were the best speaker on veganism that she has heard in her 33 years. Now that says a lot!!!!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:11 PM
I'm a big fan. You're an inspiration!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:48 AM
Your youtube video really opened my eyes!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:08 AM
I just wanted to tell you that I showed a younger girl (15) a video of your lecture, and she went from new vegetarian to vegan, and from that she showed 3 of her friends and they all became vegetarian/vegan too! you're making a huge difference!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:12 AM
Glad you do what you do. This is real education not learning about some stupid history class.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:28 PM
Gary you are truly an inspiration. Keep on preaching the word.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 6:20 PM
I stayed up late to watch your speech. I'm sobbing my heart out right now after seeing the clip from the dairy farm, even though I had to skip some of it. I was the veggie who couldn't turn vegan because of my love of cheese, just like you said. Those images from the dairy farm will stay with me for ever. Thank you for sparing me the horror of watching Earthlings, I needed a final push and you have given me it. You are an amazing man, and a truly great speaker. I sincerely hope that you manage to take the blinders off many more people, society is being fed a bit fat lie, and we are lapping it up.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:50 AM
I just wanted to say thank you. I heard your speech yesterday at UCF and I was blown away by your pure passion for animals. I have been vegetarian for about a year now, and thanks to you, I am starting today, and everyday of my life, as a devoted vegan. I also want to encourage you to keep doing what you are doing. I admire you for being able to go in front of thousands of people and speak from your heart about what you believe in, and not let the criticism and backlash effect you. The world needs more people like you! After hearing you talk so persuasively about it for an entire hour, I don't know how people can deny that living, breathing beings don't have rights.
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 11:29 PM
Easily the most powerful, thought-provoking speech I have ever witnessed. Supporting people like Gary, (who are making waves in this corpse-munching society) must be a priority in this World.
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 10:56 PM
This is MY FAVORITE LECTURE! It so impacted my life! I have shared it often.
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 7:51 PM
I watched your speech that you made at the college in Georgia. It was the most intense and heart breaking speech I have ever heard in my life. I have always been an animal lover and your speech has made me realize I need to take my love for domesticated animals and take it the next step. You have made me realize I need to stop being a hypocrite. People who proclaim to be "animal lovers" keep their blinders on and think that dogs and cats are the only ones being abused and or killed. The recent case of a video that circulated on Utube called 1 boy and 2 kittens have outraged animal people all over the world including myself. I am currently active in a group trying to find the scum who did it. Most of these people are not even vegetarians. How can you fight so hard to protect the rights of cats and dogs and not take a second look at the cruelty we put farm animals through? So now after watching your speech I have decided to fully take my blinders off. I will no longer be a hypocrite. It is something that has bothered me for years but just kept on with eating what I thought we were supposed to eat. Thank you again for making me see the whole picture and I and your other fans support you 100%!
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 1:57 PM
This speech and Earthlings are what made the difference for me!! Thank you!
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:27 AM
I really enjoy posting your speech often because it will not get old until the day comes when animal flesh and dairy products are removed from the food chain. I truly believe your speech marks the beginning of the end of factory farms and slaughterhouses. We just need to make sure a very large number of people hear it. Gary, when you are speaking, you float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. My daughters Nicole and Danielle were vegetarians until they watched your video. Now they are both vegans and so is Danielle's husband Anthony who ate animal flesh and dairy products. Many facebook friends have told me they became vegans after watching the video and they all seem to be sharing with their friends and associates. I personally believe your speech is not only the best speech anyone will ever hear, it is also the most important speech anyone will ever hear including all government and religious leaders in the world. You are my captain.
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:54 PM
You presented at my school today. I didn't get to stay and tell you what I thought of the presentation, so I decided to do it by e-mail. Your lecture completely changed my mind. I cried while I watched the video of the animals in the slaughterhouses, being killed & tortured, just for the hell of it. I've always loved animals, because my dad taught me they're like us. The deserve to be treated like people who have feelings, & emotions. I'm 15 years old, and I've always been a meat-eater. Your lecture touched me. I already talked to 3 other people about it & they can't believe it. I showed the "Conklin Dairy Farm Brutality" video on your website to them, and they were as affected by it as I was. Thank you, for helping animals. Thank you for giving this lecture at my school. I've decided to stop eating meat, cheese, eggs, & milk. It's gonna be tough, considering that's all I've been eating for 15 years, but it's definitely worth it. I admire you so much for this. Don't give up on trying to make a change. It's definitely working.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:49 PM
You are absolutely brilliant! You say exactly what I am feeling! I also grew up eating meat and dairy and it wasn't until I started my degree in Biodiversity and Conservation, that my eyes were opened to the indefensible world of animal cruelty! My parents purchased land 5 years ago and have been building their house for the past few years. Their plan is to live of their land and grow their own produce. Recently my dad has been thinking about starting his own free range pig farming. You can imagine how shocked and upset I was when he told me! I have told him that if this happens I will not be able to come and visit as seeing these innocent slaves and knowing they will soon be slaughtered would just be too much for my heart to handle! I am going to show him your wonderful lecture and I know that this will take those blinders off him! My parents do support my decision to be a vegan but I think it's high time my family understood WHY I am vegan. My arguments aren't cutting it anymore so I am going to show them your lecture!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:33 PM
I just watched your speech and I'm sure you get this a lot, but it was seriously the best & most informative speech about veganism/animal cruelty I've ever seen or heard. Absolutely amazing. I wish more people would have open minds and open hearts, and it's sad (and sickening) as a society we can't pull our shit together and be humane. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for what you are doing.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:23 PM
I was a new vegan for a few months before I listened to a lecture you did on youtube. Blew my mind open even farther, for which I'm grateful. My dog is vegan now too. Love your site, love you!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 8:55 PM
i just want to thank you. Me and my girlfriend went Vegan after we saw the speech you had. Amazing speech that took my heart. I/we feel better than ever. My mother went vegan too, after the speech. Hopefully gets her vegetarian sister her blind-folders off. We also trying to get my sister to go from vegetarian to vegan. So 3 vegan and 2 vegetarian soon to be vegan thanks to you. Best regards from Norway.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2:30 AM
Your talking points are solidly irrefutable. I definitely feel more empowered in debates and general conversations with omnivores, and I plan on posting this speech to my wall on a monthly basis, just to refresh. Thank you a million times over.
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Sent: Saturday, February 5, 11:01 AM
I've been Macrobiotic for over ten years but not totally Vegan. I considered it until I saw your speech Gary. You pushed me over that line.
Comments from Students and Supporters, January 2011
NOTE FROM ME: The following letters were sent to me during January 2011, when I thought that I would no longer receive funding for the vegan tour after 2010:
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Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 6:19 PM
Greetings from Germany. I write to you because of your speech at Ga Tech. This speech of you really was bombastic. It is so good, and you explained so much interesting and valuable stuff, e.g. the fact about the acidity of our blood after meat-eating. I never knew most of the things you told. I really love your speech, and because of your speech I became vegan. Your words made me cry. And these words I will never forget. I think if I would have had the possibility, or let's say the honor to listen to you there, I think i would have embraced you, really. I never saw someone expressing all those facts in such a brilliant, and emotional way. Thank you Gary for everything you did, you do and you will do. I will follow your example. I'm on to write a German subtitle for your speech. And then I will spread your message and give it to my friends.
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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:34 PM
I just want to say that my husband and I are proud to have made the decision to be vegan after watching your lecture yesterday. We will be making many changes in our home and diet. Thank you so much for opening our eyes and lifting our denial. Keep doing what you are doing!
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:00 PM
I have always been an animal lover, a member of a few animal charities. 2 weeks ago I was sent your best speech you will ever hear video on youtube and I watched it and I found everything you said could not be argued against. Then came the clips of the animals in the slaughterhouse and later the dairy, I am a 52 year old man and I cried for the first time in many many years, I am not ashamed to say that but I AM ashamed to say I was a meat eater, I ate meat 2 times a day. i caused suffering to what I loved, I decided from that point on despite the fact I hardly ate vegtables that meat eating was no longer an option for me,how on earth could I call myself an animal lover if I carried on eating meat. So I am weaning myself off meat, with the full intention of being vegan. i am doing OK I have not had any meat now for 2 days, (dairy products I never had anyhow). so thanks Gary, if I had not seen that video I would be having meat right now, thank you for bringing this to my attention
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:52 AM
I just saw your lecture on youtube, it is amazing, the world needs more people like you, thanks for all you are doing for the animals. I will cross post this video as much as I possibly can. people need to see this.
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Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 10:24 AM
I want to thank you for the wonderful lecture that I found on youtube. I am a vegan for over 11 years and will not go back to using animal products. But sometimes I lose hope and feel that it makes no difference what I eat or do. I have to remind myself that it does. For every individual who do not have to be slaughtered, milked or squeezed in a little space in the dirty areas it makes a difference. Today you reminded me of it. If I was a good speaker as you, I'd traveled around Sweden. It would really be needed here.
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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:05 PM
I am so thankful for you and your work on behalf of our animal brethren. I am a 25 year vegetarian and recent vegan convert - thanks mostly to your lectures!! I know your work is extremely difficult and I admire your resolve and your staunch conviction. I live in Philadelphia and used to play some pro football back in the day so I'm not afraid to speak my mind or offend anyone, too.
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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:59 PM
I have just seen your speech on youtube. I just wanted to say thank you for the inspiration. I have posted it on my FB page as well. I have been vegan for nearly five years now and your speech is the first one that has highlighted certain issues with such clarity. I hope you can find a way to travel more and hold more speeches. Your work is amazing, thanks again for reminding me why I became vegetarian and then vegan in 2006.
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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:20 AM
I just watched one of your lectures. I have been on the edge of stopping to eat meat for quite a while. I sat here crying when I saw the footage of how the animals were treated, like I always do when I see such things. But eating meat, drinking milk etc is so ingrained in us, it has been hard to let go. But I can't be a part of this anymore. It's impossible. So I just want to thank you for finally tipping me over the edge. And I really hope that you will have the opportunity to continue lecturing. Please, you have to!
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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:28 PM
You are amazing and you deliver the message so well! Thank you for all you do to spread the message about veganism.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:31 AM
Yesterday I watched one of your speaches on youtube. I was blown away by your power and the way you talk. Thanks so much for everything you do for the animals! I just want to wish you strength and let you know that, whenever you intend to come to Switzerland, you have a place to stay. we would love to welcome you. we highly appreciate your work and thank you for everything you do from the bottom of our hearts.
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 11:02 PM
keep up all your wonderful work, you're making the world a better place. i've been a vegetarian for the past 4.5 years and am now going vegan because of watching one of your seminars. i thank you and the animals thank you.
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 7:39 PM
i just wanted to write to you to tell you that i think that the work you are doing is amazing and to thank you helping me come to a decision about mine and my child to bes future. I just watched one of your lectures on you tube and the videos you showed the students will stay with me for the rest of my life. I have been vegetarian for about 19 years, i became vegetarian when i was 13, i always knew that eating meat was wrong but i never really thought about dairy until i saw your lecture. You were right when you said that vegetarians will always be vegetarians because they don't want to give up cheese!! Well, that was me 2 hours ago, cheese and quorn products (i don't know if you have quorn in the states, i'm in Northern Ireland). i didn't want to think about giving up dairy because it was too convenient and always an alternative to meat. But after watching the brutality that went on in that dairy farm opened my eyes and i thank you for that. I am 18 weeks pregnant and have told everyone concerned that my baby will NOT eat meat, i just want to bring my child up knowing that eating, wearing, abusing and using animals is wrong. I have to say that it has been a struggle for me trying to defend my beliefs about vegetarianism, but now i have an even bigger problem, how the hell am i going to tell them all that i am now a vegan??? i just want to say again that i really do think you're amazing and i just wish that there was more people in this world like you Thanks a million for taking the time out to read this, all the best in the future and keep up your brilliant work. I really wish you could come and educate some of the people in this country too.
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 3:59 PM
I am one of your many fans I intend to continue posting your speech several times each day on facebook and twitter suggesting that everyone who sees it shares it. Hoping that someday soon it really catches on throughout the world. In my opinion every rational person that takes the time to seriously consider the merits of your speech will find it difficult to continue eating animal flesh and or dairy products.
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 6:48 AM
I live in Melbourne Australia. I found out about you via Facebook. One of my animal activist fb friends posted a video of you when you visited Georgia Tech last year. At the risk of sounding "cheesey", I just wanted to say that I am SO GRATEFUL that someone like you exists. Australians, unfortunately, love their meat too. "So what do you eat"? is still a common question when you tell people you're a vegetarian. We've come a long way, but we can go so much further. Therefore, I was wondering whether you have any plans to visit Australia????
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Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 12:37 AM
Watched your video on youtube tonight. Convinced me to go vegetarian.
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Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 10:55 PM
For the past twenty years or so, I have been introduced to many avenues of increasing my health, and have gradually adopted those which seemed most important and feasible. None of these has had so dramatic effect on my spiritual awareness, however, as has my decision a day ago to stop eating animal products and to seek to replace other items which profit from the exploitation of animals, such as leather and fur, silk, wool and down. Though I have been exposed some to vegetarianism since childhood, having been born and raised in Germany, my personal conversion to an even more gentle way of eating and its enhancement of the beauty of life came in the course of your fantastic speech. I m a Vegan since yesterday and so is my 14 year old son. Your speech was sent to me and it changed my entire outlook on things and I m so very thankful. God bless you each and every day and may god has mercy on the ones that still suffer. Thank you for your profound heart piercing speech. Sometimes it takes a very special person to get more of the message through. Gary, you are one of those special people!!!
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Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 10:59 AM
just watched your video the Best speech you will ever hear, and it was :) I have shared your vid on the facebook and will keep on sharing. I wish so much that the world will wake up to this, perhaps one day. I luv what you do and have done in the past for animals and wish you all the best for the future, thanks for being who you are.
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 7:42 PM
I intend to organise a World Vegetariann Congress on Nov. 5 , 6 2011 in Delhi, India. I would like you to be a speaker in that event. Kindly tell me what all needs to be done towards achieving the same , i.e. u finally coming over here and delivering a powerful speech to awaken the nonvegans who r still living as zombies and not realising their faults .
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 11:00 AM
I want to begin by saying I watched your lecture @ Georgia Tech summer 2010 yesterday and I must say I'm impressed. Not just by the lecture but by your passion and all that you've done on behalf of the animals without a voice. Thanks for all you do. You are a very unique and special person with a beautiful heart and soul!
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Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:06 PM
I just saw the video of your lecture from GA Tech...fantastic! As a vegan of about 5 years who is always looking for new and inspiring ways to get the message out, I must say that your lecture/video has got to be among the most compelling I have seen for informing those who are eating a "normal" diet. As you know, the tricky part is getting the data to people in a way that is accurate & thorough, yet not accusatory. You do this superbly! The great part is that it gives persons like myself a tool that we can share with others. Thanks so much for your hard work and commitment.
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Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:36 PM
Thank YOU for the lectures, the traveling, the fight. I saw the lecture on FB last nite, w/ the OHIO footage a few months ago. I've been vegan for 10+yrs but let it slip here and there (Panda Express chow mein NOT vegan but ordered it once in awhile). I will NEVER ease up and get weak for a moment after your lecture. It reminded me just what the fuck I went vegan for and how the animals suffer from even just one non vegan. I will post your video on FB daily. I run a dog rescue in Ojai, CA called Pulling for Paws and network w/ fellow rescuers who are NOT all vegan. Ironic that they bust their asses to "save" dogs/cats but at the end of the day they stick a fork in another four legged creature.....speciesism I agree! Again, thank you for making a difference.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:08 PM
I just wanted to thank you for your work. A vegan facebook friend of mine posted a link to one of your lectures, which I reposted and the response I got was that two of my most stubborn meat-eating friends who constantly argue with me over my "extreme vegan views" have decided to go veg. I am flabbergasted. Your work is amazing, just wanted to tell you that you have reached the hearts of many, and I admire your work tremendously. I have three little children and have been vegetarian my whole life, and went vegan after learning about the horrors of the dairy industry in 2005. I'd love some input on how to facilitate change, and thoughts on what people like me can do to make the world a better place, aside from the facebook postings and attempts to change minds of current friends and families. (and the factory farm stickers the kids and I put on meat packages when I go grocery shopping, hehe) Thanks for all you do... From me and from the thousands of animals you have saved...
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:40 PM
you are amazing. Thank you for your work and that amazing lecture!
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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:34 AM
im changing my life 2day! thank u so much dude, ur fuckn amazing! that video changed my life! im taking control of my individuality and starting a change in my life! it was like God wanted me to see this for a reason! when i heard that part about Eggs are the remains of a hens menstrual flow, i woke my babies mom up n told her to stop feeding my kids eggs! lol, i know it seems extreme but i was appauled! thank you adapttvideo for posting this!
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 6:58 PM
I am very glad that I found you on the web. I watched your lectures, but must say that I had to fast forward a bit through some of the film, because it was just too awful to watch. I'm sorry to hear that you had to stop lecturing due to running out of funds. I wish I had money to give you. What I will do is abstain from being a part of this barbarism. Yes, that is what I call it. That is what it is. I want no part of it. Thank you for enlightening me.And here I thought that the Dark Ages were over. Nothing could be farther from the truth! I have thought about becoming a Vegan for quite some time, but kept denying the truth to myself because it was easier. Easier to continue to eat those sausage sandwiches, cheese steaks, etc., because it was a tasty, quick way to feed my face. Now, I don't have a choice. Well, yes I do.....I guess I could remain a flesh eater, and dairy consumer, but that would make me complicit in this awful business. I want no part of it. Not anymore. So you see, you are doing great work Gary.....to raise our awareness and consciousness to what is going on in our world. And it is a sad world indeed. Which leads me to ask you two important questions: What does one do, after being enlightened besides becoming a Vegan. Meaning, how can I sit by every minute knowing the poor animals are suffering so...? How does one keep on going? I just cannot get this out of my mind. Oh, and by the way, I have good company: My grown son has become vegan as well. My second question is this: In a part of your lecture which shows a dairy slaughter house, there was the most heinous of acts taking place. Were any of these people ever held accountable? Meaning, some courageous person was taking this film. I know they were acting courageously, because he or she had to keep quiet in order to get the film smuggled out of the place. In other words: It must have been hard to sit by while they watched the evildoers, I cannot call them people... abusing those poor creatures, and not want to kick the living hell out of them. It would be difficult for anyone to even go on an investigation such as this, but I know there are some good people out there, like yourself, that want to get the truth out. But, in particular, where the man is kicking the baby cow, and other abominable abuses seen in this film, were any of these people, or businesses ever brought to any kind of justice? Where is the justice, Gary?? Gary, I hope you receive this letter. I hope you don't think it is dopey. I will never forget you and what you taught me. I care very deeply about the animals and wish there was more I could do. But I want to say that I am truly thankful to you and other courageous people like you, who are actively trying to put an end to the suffering. And I am sure that if the animals could talk, they would shout from the rooftops how much they appreciate you, too! Please write back if you have a chance. If you don't, I will totally understand. As I am sure you are a very busy person! P.S. A copy to God in Heaven (If there is such a place)