Comments from Students and Supporters, 2012
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 2012
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Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 1:00 AM
I am astonished by your life-changing speech! You are an awesome speaker! You make the world a better place. I'm from Chile and wish you could give a speech at my school.
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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 1:52 PM
I'm 21 years old and live in Poland. I'm vegan since March 2012. You have been opened my eyes. There were two main reasons for my switch to veganism: your lecture and a great movie called 'Bold Native'. I am very glad there are people like you in this world. Keep doing what you are doing because your words reach the farthest corners of the world and change people's hearts. Thank you for changing my life.
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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 9:31 AM
I'm from Slovakia. From December 14 I've been pure vegan. I've been talking to people about the morality of veganism.
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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 1:29 AM
I accidentally found your video on YouTube and clicking on that video and watching the entire hour of it was not just the best speech I've ever heard but it is also the most powerful and inspirational message I have ever come across. Thank you for making a difference. As of today I am a vegan and so are the 5 people I showed the video to and hopefully many more will see it with my help as well. I am so inspired and motivated cutting milk, cheese, eggs, and meat out of my diet but that isn't enough. I want to do more.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 11:23 AM
Thank God for the energy and the compassion that you've been spreading about animals rights. Your voice and your dedication inspire me in so many ways, and one of them is to wholeheartedly continue to find ways convincing others of the truth about meat consumption. Please keep doing what you have been doing because without people like you, the rest of us will feel rather weak to voice the truth about killing animals.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 7:10 AM
I live in Greece and recently saw your video on veganism and instantly went vegan. Your speech was so powerful it was impossible for me to eat meat-dairy-etc afterwards.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 4:25 PM
i saw your video AND really liked it. i became vegan and have to thank you.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 3:41 PM
Thank you for opening my eyes. I had been a vegetarian for so many years and never thought anything of consuming eggs and dairy. Since discovering your work I haven't touched them! For Christmas I sent all my friends and family an email telling them I wasn't giving this Christmas but was sharing. Sharing links to your website and your speech. If anything, it has got most of them thinking. I would just like to say that you are my hero and I wish that more were as brave as you are and hope that I will be too one day.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 4:12 AM
I'm 15 years old from Venezuela. I saw your video a couple nights ago, and I'm just shocked. I am also shocked about the love that you have for animals. It's not easy what you're doing. It's not easy to convince people. It's not easy to give up an easy life to save animals. It's not easy to talk in front of many faces that see you like "WTF man, shut up, I love meat". It's not easy to be in jail. Any part of what you are doing is not easy. I wanna be like you. When I woke up the next morning after seeing your speech, I told my parents that I would never eat meat again and that I wanted to be a vegan. My parents got mad and made me eat cereal with milk for breakfast. I vomited it. I think it was something psychological because mind controls the body, and every time I got a spoon with milk near to my mouth I just couldn't stop thinking about the cows who deserve rights and we don't give it to them. I'm just 15 years old but I know that I was born with a mission like yours: give them a chance. And how difficult it is to change a tradition, a normal thing that happens every year, how difficult it must be for you to convince people that we are not carnivores. It's hard what you're doing. And I want you to know that you ARE NOT ALONE. I feel just like you. I admire you.
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Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 3:53 AM
I'm from Israel. I've seen your lecture and become vegan. I also sent your speech to my friends and one of them became vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 2:34 PM
I saw your 2010 workshop on youtube. It was indeed shocking to see how blind I was. I feel like hitting myself in the face just to diminish the shame I feel.
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Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 2:40 PM
I watched your video. I live in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now I've decided to become vegan. I do not know why I was waiting to do this.
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Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:49 PM
I recently watched your powerful lecture online and became vegan right away. Ever since I became vegan I've been listening to vegan podcasts to get more info and today they were saying that you did a lot of change in Israel. The podcast was "all things vegan" I also sent the link to your lecture to all my friends on facebook. I want to spread the word. It's the least I can do.
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Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:46 PM
One of your videos was sent to us by Ingeborg Bosch, writer and founder of Past Reality Integration (PRI). My husband started the studies to become a PRI therapist this year. We already stopped eating meat but after your words we will go vegan right away. You do amazing work and explain everything so clear. We will work hard to spread your work as well.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:01 PM
I just became a vegan three days ago after watching your video. Keep up the good work. Each one of us must stop supporting these abusive practices and businesses.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:56 PM
I would like to thank you for opening my eyes to things which I was blind to. I watched your lecture about animals about one month ago and I decided to stop eating meat forever. You have inspired me to find out more and I did it. The more I learned the more I was convinced that we as humans are not designed to eat meat and we should stop it immediately if want to survive on Earth. Nowadays I am 70% raw but hope one day to be 100 raw. People in China say that a big journey begins from one step and I believe that your mission will be pay off in the future and more and more humans will change their minds.
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Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:11 PM
I'm 16 years old from Brazil. I'm sending you this e-mail to thank you for opening my eyes for making me see what I was doing, for showing me how bad I was. Your speech made me make the best decision of my life: become a vegetarian (soon I'll send you an e-mail saying that I became vegan). You're an inspiration, and a HERO not just for the animals, but for everyone including me! You helped me to become a better person. And I will be eternally grateful to you for that. The world needs more people like you!
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Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 6:47 PM
I live in Spain. Today I saw your video which made me radically change my opinion about the carnivorous diet.
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Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 2:34 PM
I want to thank you for your amazing work protecting animal species, including me. I am a physical education teacher for students ages 11-16 years and will be showing them your video soon. Today, my wife and I have emptied the pantry and refrigerator of all food derived from animals.
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Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 8:09 AM
I'm from Greece. I recently watched your speech from GA Tech and was amazed by the lack of knowledge I had on that issue. The last 5 days my food is vegan and I'm checking your web for ideas and menus!
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Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 8:42 AM
I'm from Israel. For the last 27 years, I have been consuming dairy and meat products until I saw your unbelievable lecture. My sister and her boyfriend watched your lecture last year and have stopped consuming meat and dairy products altogether. They are proving to be a great source in helping me complete the transition. I wanted to thank you, as you said so accurately in your lecture, for removing my blinders. Thanks again for giving me the information and courage to make the choice I should've made a long time ago. Since I've watched your video, 6 of my coworkers and friends have also stopped consuming these products. I hope more will follow.
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:33 PM
I wrote to you a little while ago to thank you. I decided it is time for me to stand up and follow your path even more. I would like to talk to people in schools. I contacted a few high schools and colleges in Montreal and surrounding areas and most of them are really interested in having me speak to the kids. I am working on my speech right now and it is inspired by yours. Any advice is more than welcome.
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:02 PM
I just watched your Animal Rights, Human Physiology & Veganism Speech on YouTube and was very moved. Three years ago I stopped eating meat. After seeing your speech this morning I am now a vegan. I attend Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. My school is very unique as the school cafeteria is vegetarian (http://mum.edu/).
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 9:31 AM
I am a nurse and see the results of our diet every day. So my only thought right now is to get DVDs of your speech and lend them out. I am planning on getting permission to get our group of nurses together and play it for them. I think the world of what you are doing and hope you continue for a long time. It made a difference for me. I was an on and off again vegetarian until I watched your speech.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:33 PM
i wish there were more people like you out there. i salute you sir.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:23 AM
I am living in Sweden and currently studying psychology. My task is to find a speech which has the purpose to convince. I am going to analyze the way that you are trying to convince people. I found your speech on youtube called "best speech you will ever hear" and I must say that I agree. I was stunned during the entire speech and will be becoming a vegan. You convinced me. Thank you for an amazing speech!
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:51 AM
You are a core reason that me and my friends have made compassionate life choices. The speeches you have given and the life choices you have made are nothing short of inspirational.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:00 AM
Tomorrow I am giving a speech about speciesism, veganism and what an animal sanctuary is. I'm once again inspired by your work. Do not think your fight doesn't touch people because it damn well does.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:00 AM
I'm a Swedish vegan. I run a blog which aims to inspire people to go vegan through easy to make recipes, interviews with committed vegans and animal rights activist and articles about animal rights. I would really like to do an interview with you. You can take a look at my blog; http://annorlundararing.wordpress.com.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:09 PM
your lecture i watched on youtube was terrific. i don't even know how i ended up on that video but it doesn't matter. you opened my eyes to what is really happening out there. i'm a 44 year old sanitation worker for the city of new york who loved his meat and cheeses. i especially loved milk. i'm on my 3rd day without any meat or dairy and not only do i feel a little better physically, i also feel better about myself as a person. i don't miss it at all. That's the most surprising thing. i will spread the word about you and your lecture.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 7:39 AM
I really want to thank you for all your hard work. Too bad I'm not that good with words like you are. When people ask me why I live the way I live, words seem to be lost. I want them to feel what I feel, but that's not possible. So instead of trying to make them feel, I'm now letting them see and hear the facts for themselves by referring them to you speech on Youtube. I'm proud to say that my parents have switched to a vegan lifestyle, and so have 4 of my friends (and hopefully more in the future!). I couldn't have done that without the help of your speech. I'm from the Netherlands.
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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 12:59 PM
I saw your video here in Brazil and will NEVER again eat an animal.
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Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 9:33 PM
I am from Belgium and just watched your video. I didn't move for more than 1 hour listening to you. I will change and will tell my friends and family what I've learned from you and I'll show them your video.
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Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 1:23 PM
I am 15 years old and living in Greece (Thessaloniki). I watched your lecture recently on youtube and it convinced me to be a vegan. Thank you very much for your inspiration and information!
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Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 5:02 PM
I had the opportunity to see your "Best Speech" on youtube and it definitely challenged me! Since watching the video, I have been trying to be conscious about what I'm purchasing in terms of products. However, no excuses. I am going to give it all I got.
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Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 1:54 PM
I never heard your name until today. A link to your Best Speech Ever youtube video floated through my FB newsfeed and I dared to watch. I've been ready to take the blinders off for a very long time now. I'm your age and only recently, within the last year, did I fully commit to stop eating meat. As of today, I am no longer going to eat cheese either. I believe it was my yoga practice that helped me to drop the desire for meat but I've been the typical vegetarian stuck with cheese, justifying it all the way. You're too kind in saying people are uninformed and misinformed. Many people, like me, just don't want to deal with the responsibility that comes with knowing the truth. I'll be honest, I could barely watch the slaughterhouse segments in your talk. I never wanted to know the reality. What I saw changed my life today. It was horrifying—worse than I could ever have imagined. And I can't thank you enough for waking me up at last.
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 8:21 PM
I want to thank you for standing up for animals. I loved your speech! It turned me vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:16 PM
You have literally changed my life. I was so ignorant and happy in my ignorance. I had watched animal cruelty videos etc. and cried my eyes out at the atrocity of it but i still continued to eat meat and animal products like most people do because it tastes good and it's convenient and it's all i knew until i watched your video. It wasn't as graphic as many videos I had seen so it wasn't that that changed me. It was you. The way you spoke and the things you said really were like a slap in the face. Nobody likes being told they are a hypocrite and that's exactly what I was and I'm glad I can say that is not the case anymore! I have shown your video to many people in the hopes of changing their minds, and a few actually have.
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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 4:10 PM
I had the opportunity to listen to your admirable speech. I consider the work you are doing fantastic and I agree with everything you say in your presentations and would like to congratulate you with excitement and enthusiasm. I am a great admirer of yours. Inspired in your work, some friends and I have launched here in Brazil a national campaign in favor of animals. We already distributed a booklet called "Peace and Love" and some people have already stopped eating meat after reading it. You can visit our site at www.pazeamoraosbichos.org. Now we are entering the second phase of our campaign and would like to distribute free material again. We are preparing a DVD and with your authorization want to include parts of your work. This DVD should reach millions of people. I would like to clarify that there is no commercial interest involved in this work.
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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 12:37 PM
thank you for everything. you changed my life. you are changing the world.
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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 6:49 AM
I'm 16 years old and vegan. I was not raised this way. It was my own choice. I get no support through my family and have to pay for my food separately, with my own money I earn through babysitting. I just watched your life changing speech and was blown away at how great it was. It was amazing and I think it is so cool how you stand up for animals in a really radical way. Seeing this video has given me so much answers and useful ways of explaining veganism and points to show that I'm not silly or unhealthy for being vegan. I agree with everything said 100% and think more people should see be aware of whats going on. I would love it to have you speak at our school or even just have your video be shown. I want to start standing up for animals in radical ways like you are, to make my message clear and leave a mark in this world.
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Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 6:29 PM
I will never be the same after watching your speech. Your message was direct and clear. As I drive from Sacramento to Southern CA, I have grown to dislike the area where the slaughterhouses are located. The stench is awful. I have known and been in denial. So much happened during your presentation. I was taken back to the west coast of Africa where we were put onto those ships and my ancestors were brought here through slavery. Thank you for telling us the truth. I am glad that you have brought this to me.
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Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 9:59 PM
I am a 15 year old girl living in Iowa and have been vegan for a couple of months. I had been vegetarian since the 7th grade and then your speech made me make the final switch earlier than planned (my 18th birthday was going to be celebrated by going vegan). Your video helped me make the connection between the dairy industry and cruelty and I want to thank you for that.
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Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 7:29 PM
I watched your amazing speech. I didn't think twice and threw away everything in my fridge. I hope you'll come to France one day.
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Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 1:16 PM
I am 30 years old from Hungary. I've watched your video. Amazing! I've been thinking about the vegan lifestyle because of health. After your video, I realised, that it's not just about health. It's about morality. You changed my life. I will talk about your work with everyone I know.
Comments from Students and Supporters, November 2012
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 11:55 AM
I'm 15 years old from Israel. I wanted to tell you that you have given me a great inspiration. After watching your lecture I became vegan. Before that I was a vegetarian, I thought that being a vegetarian is enough and there was no need to give up milk, eggs and honey. After your lecture I realized that I was wrong. I asked my teacher to show your lecture to the students. You made a big change in my life.
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:19 PM
Just watched your speech and was blown away. I've been a vegetarian since the age of 19. I am now 44. Over the last few weeks I have considered going vegan. Because of your speech I am now totally dedicated. Only wish I had truly "taken off the blinders" much sooner!
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:04 AM
I was really moved by your talk. I hope you continue to influence others who are deprived of this valuable information.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:48 PM
I am 13 years old and live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I watched your lecture at Georgia Tech. I have decided to dedicate my life to animal rights and liberation. You are my role model and idol.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:57 PM
I have watched one of your speeches on youtube. It was so inspirational that I have now adopted a vegan diet. I am horrified as I had no idea of the scale of suffering these beautiful sentient beings have to endure. I did not realise the impact that these images would have on me. I feel as though my heart is being ripped out. I pray that there will be a shift in people's consciences and that there will be an end to this horror.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:09 AM
I am 22 years old and live in Austria. I've seen your video and I feel so happy about people like you. I've been a vegetarian for one week now because of you. I feel absolutely great and don't miss MEAT! I feel so angry because my Mum made me eat meat all these years. Your lecture was absolutely awesome. I will never eat meat again because of how bad it is for the animals, me and the planet. It's absolutely time to change and to stand up for those who don't have voices. I hope someday we will all think the same about this.
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Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 2:12 AM
I've seen your video on youtube and it made me change my mind.
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Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 9:59 PM
I'm from Queretaro, Mexico, and just wanted you to know that you are a great inspiration for me and my brother. Because of you we turned to be vegan a year ago. I really feel great and so does my brother.
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 1:47 AM
I came across your speech on youtube last month, and you have changed my life! Thank you so much! I've been vegan ever since and I feel great!
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Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:34 PM
WOW! Your lecture was amazing. I'm a 38 year old husband and father located in Ohio. My wife became a vegan a little less than two years ago. I'll refrain from writing at length about our last 18 months, but I can tell you it's been quite the roller coaster ride. Anyway, I'm not a vegan or even a vegetarian and neither is our 7 year old daughter. But my wife wishes we were. I just wanted to tell you man to man that I admire and respect YOUR message, vision, mission and purpose. Ironically, the day before Thanksgiving you've made me pause and seriously consider the facts of what you've presented. The one thing I can't come to grips with is how I could sincerely and genuinely care so much for animals, yet turn around and eat them without even thinking twice? WTF? I've been doing it blindly and robotically for so many years that it's just part of going through the daily motions. I've been freakin' duped and brainwashed like everyone else. Society and American culture is pretty messed up when you stop to think about it. God is probably so sad and disgusted with our society's selfish ways. He no doubt gets angry, too. Peace be with you and may God bless you.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 7:16 AM
Greetings from Berlin, Germany. Impressed by one of your speeches, and as an active vegan, I made some electronic tracks with your voice, compressing the message in a short form: http://vigor-calma.restorm.com/albums/59052
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Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:31 PM
I am a seventeen-year-old high school student living in Ontario. I wanted to sincerely thank you. You are an inspiration. The facts you provide depict the truth. You don't waste time glorifying anything, or attempt to make us pay just to learn what is happening everyday, every second, under our noses. I have watched your speech twice, and both times I have learned so much.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:22 PM
I became vegan because of you. I feel much better and am really happy about it.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:36 PM
A friend of mine just turned vegan and I didn't really understand why. Some of my friends were laughing at him and asking, "Oh is it because of that video everyone is watching?" Tonight I saw your lecture. I was stunned. Your speech made me laugh and cry and I almost vomited when I saw the slaughterhouse videos. I want to thank you for opening my eyes for a different way of thinking. I love animals but mostly I love justice, and I can't let myself be a part of something that is so unjustified.
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 2:13 PM
Congratulations on your beautiful work full, compassion and respect toward animals, people and our planet. Because of you, my husband and I took off our very convenient ignorance mask, collected more information about what humans have been doing with respect to animals and the consequences of it. As you mentioned, we were living thinking that our lifestyle was not harmful. After so much information, it is not possible to live and enjoy life as we used to do before. We had to change to enjoy it in another way. We are joining you in this cause and will use your video to evoke more consciousness in our friends and colleagues. Your work did change our lives.
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 9:59 AM
I've seen your presentations/speeches on youtube and I want to be vegan. I live in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 9:10 AM
I just want to say thank you for your awesome speech. It really opened my eyes, and it's not about my heath. It's about ethics! I just became a vegan right now. Regards from Brazil.
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:13 AM
just watched your speech and i am speechless. i am a holistic chiropractor here on Oahu and i feel so cut down deep inside. how could i not have seen it more? my blinders were on but now they are not. thank you for your passion. not only do i want to become vegan but i also want to help educate those around me so we can put a stop to all this insane killing.
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Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 3:14 PM
I think what you're doing is fucking awesome and I'm doing my best to become a vegan. There's really no reason not to. My body isn't a fucking graveyard. Sorry for the language, I'm just pissed that I didn't know about this until today.
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Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 1:52 PM
I'm from Portugal. I've finished watching your video and it was really inspiring for me. I went vegan today! Thank you for opening my mind, and bringing tears to my eyes.
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Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 5:17 AM
I live in Italy. I watched a lot of your videos on youtube, and went vegetarian. My next step is veganism, soon.
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Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 12:47 AM
Just saw your GA Tech speech today. It's a very thorough video that made me go vegan over night. I have shared your video with several of my co-workers, family, friends and I can say that the number of people around me that are straying away from animal products is growing. I am a type one diabetic and in the one month that I have been off animal products my blood sugar levels are more stable, I have more energy while sleeping less at night and I'm generally in a better mood. I thank you for your work and will do my best to spread the word.
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:30 PM
I live in Spain, I'm vegan and a great fan of your fantastic speech. I only wanted to say to you THANK YOU, because you are inspired me in many ways with your speech. Your speech, but it gives me brilliants points of view about speciesism, anatomy and much more.
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 8:34 AM
I live in a very small country called Malta. I used to drink 2 cartons of milk per day. My Celiac problem came around 2 months ago now. I thought the only choice I had was to eat meat. But you know you are right. I am being a total idiot. All the necessary nutrients come from vegetables and other plants. I am turning vegan now. If only they were more people like you to make us realize the truth!
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:33 PM
I have been vegetarian for a couple of years now, and just watched your video on Youtube for the first time. When I eat animal products, such as egg whites, I make an excuse that for health reasons I need to incorporate this into my diet to ensure I get adequate nutrients. Well after seeing your video today, I will no longer be using this excuse. There is no excuse or legitimate reason to consume ANY animal products, no matter how small the amount. I found your video very moving. I literally sobbed watching the footage of the dairy farms and slaughterhouses. I have watched Earthlings before and had the same reaction, but over time I have put the blinders back on as I tell people my reasons for eating veg. Next time I will be quoting parts of your speech. Thank you for making me see the truth again, reinforcing my beliefs, and for changing my life.
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:12 PM
I just wanted to thank you for your speech. I have been a vegetarian since I was 13. But I got a kick out of your speech when you started up about the only part holding us back is cheese. Well, its been two weeks without cheese, and I am still vegan. Not only that but you challenged my husband who is a red neck meat eater. We are finally eating the way we should, together.
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:11 PM
I am a vegan philosopher activist located in Sweden. I am going to start lecturing in schools about our responsibility towards animals. I really like your speech. May I have your permission to use parts of your lecture?
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:54 AM
I am 14 years old and live in Poland. I watched your lecture and will not eat meat anymore. What you do is great.
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:51 AM
Yesterday I watched your video and the Q&A session. Impressive. Your words are so clear that I don't need any further clarification.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:05 PM
I became vegetarian almost three years ago. Then I saw your speech and I just couldn't keep fooling myself. I'm now starting a vegan diet. I just wanted to tell you that besides the thousands of students listening to your lectures, you have touched many hearts in other places around the world. I'm from Santiago, Chile, and me and my wife are going to be 100% vegan now, thanks to you. Thank you for your passion and for opening our eyes.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:26 PM
I live in Buenos Aires. 3 years ago I stopped eating meat, and now because of your video, I'm leaving eggs and milk. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING SO CONSCIOUS AND A REAL HUMAN BEING.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 5:39 AM
I just watched your speech and it impacted me very much! I have stopped buying meat and dairy, and clothes made from animals. I also decided to do my persuasive speech on why we shouldn't kill animals for meat consumption and clothes to wear.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 3:22 AM
I'm a freshman at American University in Washington, DC, and I've been a vegan for two years. I cannot get over how dynamic of a lecturer you are and how your passion on this subject enflames my own passion.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 7:34 PM
I just saw your conference and love your work. I was born vegan. My mom and dad went vegan a few years before I was born, and my mom has a vegan restaurant. But then I turned vegetarian. But now I'm going vegan again. I want to thank you for doing this.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:18 PM
I watched one of your lectures on youtube. Such an inspiration you are! I've been a vegetarian for almost 2 years now, but gave up milk\eggs after watching your speech. You are a brilliant speaker.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:31 PM
Saw the video. It is without a doubt going to gradually get me to go vegan. I am a student, so I fall victim to the convenience argument. I graduate in December so plan to change that ASAP.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:05 PM
I am 60 years old. 4 months ago I saw your speech on the Internet and I immediately knew that my life was going to change. I am much more happy today, and feel better with myself. Hope that some day people will stop eating animals and all the products that we produce from them. Thank you for opening my eyes after so many years.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:26 AM
I literally just heard of you for the first time a couple of hours ago via Facebook. I saw your speech from Georgia Tech & shared it on my page, because I believe everyone needs to see it. There should be a movie about this to reach more people!
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 11:47 PM
I'm from Mérida Yucatán México. After my sister showed me and my husband your life changing speech, it really changed our lives. We are decided. We love animals and nothing can excuse the pain they suffer only for our belly's "satisfaction".
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 9:57 PM
I was sent a youtube link of a lecture you gave at Georgia Tech in 2010, and as I watched it, I felt like more of an asshole with each passing second. I grew up watching national geographic instead of sesame street. I thought I was animal lover. But I never gave up meat, I was conditioned to expect meat in some form, in every meal. I wasn't stupid, but like most people I chose to rationalize and make excuses, instead of confronting the way I really felt about the terrible things I knew were happening. After seeing that lecture, I really couldn't bullshit anymore, and make any excuses. Thank you for being up front, not watering anything down, and leaving people with nothing but the knowledge of what eating meat and dairy means, what they were doing, and the conscious decision to either make a change or knowingly continue taking part in something so fucked up.
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:47 PM
I always smelled there was something wrong about meat. But it tasted so good, and that kept me from thinking about it. When I saw your 2010 speech at Georgia Tech, I knew I couldn't keep being part of that, I couldn't keep being indifferent. You reconnected me with the animals that I once loved and then stopped caring about. You made me realize that no matter how they disguise that burger on TV, it's still a massacre, slavery and the corpse of an innocent being whose life was ended. All the memories, feelings and things that animal felt and knew stopped so I could have 10 selfish minutes of pleasure on my tongue. Now, I only hold one thought: never again.
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 10:36 AM
I had to express my gratitude for your speech. When I watched it, I was suddenly overwhelmed and cried as if I was 5 years old again. Your speech was so inspiring. I am a 45 year old woman, and for the first time in my life everything you said made sense to me. I have been eating meat unconsciously without any regards to what I was putting in my mouth. The video of the cruelty and suffering of the animals made me so angry and sad, that my motherly instincts wanted to save everyone of them. I know that my part in this world to make a difference to protect these animals in my small way would be to go vegan and live that lifestyle. I was at a restaurant last night and when I saw cheese going on every taco/burrito I physically felt sick. I am feeling empowered and look forward to shopping for fruits and vegetables. I felt so ashamed after watching and listening to your speech. I will move forward from that shame and DO THE RIGHT THING. I appreciate your website as well so that I can find new ways of eating food and buying products that are natural and do not endanger any animals. I'm hoping to change the Karmic nature that I've done into a positive cause. I'm so eternally grateful to have heard your speech.
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Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 7:40 PM
I'm an Argentine musician living in London. I ran into your YouTube video and honestly have to thank you because I can really see how blind I've been. I assure you I'm willing to change.
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Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 6:42 PM
My daughter posted your speech on her new website Healthy Chicks with Curvy Hips. It was very enlightening. I have stopped eating meat, milk and eggs! I'll be 60 in 9 days and have changed my life. Thank you for showing me the true life of our poor animal friends. I was enraged at what I saw and cried for the helpless animals. I have been eating vegan for about a month now and love it. My husband on the other hand is a meat eater. I want him to watch and he refuses. Maybe someday he will come around to the good way of life. Thank you so very much for all of your hard work to teach us the right thing!
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Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 10:28 AM
I saw your lecture on youtube. The reaction was instantaneous. I gave up meat. I never in my life will eat meat again. I've already divulged this info to many people and have managed to win four more for team vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 5:20 AM
My friend urged me to see your talk. While watching, I started to understand that I was doing something wrong for a long time, and I can sincerely say I learned a lot about myself, my friends and my family. I have empathy for the animals and will keep a vegan diet because of that reason.
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Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:46 AM
I watched your EPIC speech on youtube, and I'm simply astonished.
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Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 1:10 AM
I just wanted to let you know how much of an impact your speech made on me. I haven't eaten any meat since you spoke at U. of Michigan-Dearborn last year. I always felt compassion and love for animals and didn't eat much meat as it was, but after your speech it really motivated me to go all the way. From the day I left the classroom I have been a vegetarian. I'm working my way into taking the full plunge as a vegan! My mom has also joined me in becoming a vegetarian. I always knew how horrible the meat industry was and the death of innocent lives, but always tried to disconnect myself. Thanks so much for fully opening my eyes! I truly don't know how anyone could bite into a burger after your speech!
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Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 7:43 PM
Today I saw a video of your speech and was so moved and convinced of your presentation that I can call you my hero. After watching your speech my complete vegan life will start now. Everything you do makes this world a better place for the animals. You are a great guy for sure and I hope God (or whatever power you believe in) blesses you.
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Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 5:04 PM
I found out about you because one of my friends posted your video. I am so glad I watched and learned more about a kinder life! You brought new thought and attention to a different side than I had thought about before and for that, I thank you. Please continue to inform, educate, and inspire people all over the world and bring up issues that need to be learned. On that note, I am having a difficult time making an eating plan for myself. I am in the military, so I have to be fit all year round. Switching diets has been very stressful because the base I am on in Japan, well, it is not so easy to get everything I need to make meals. Is there an easy and simple diet that you can suggest for me to start? Preferably one that does not involve too much cooking because I live in a dorm room without a kitchen. Any information you can give me to further this amazing vegan experience and lifestyle would be very appreciated and helpful!
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Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 4:18 PM
I'm from Argentina, and I wanted to thank you for ripping the blind fold off my eyes; your SPEECH WAS SPEECHLESS FOR ME, ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT.
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Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 12:21 PM
I live in israel and am 20 years old. I was listening to a song on youtube and came across one of your speeches. I was a vegetarian when I was younger but when I joined the army it was hard for me to be picky about the food I eat. I don't wish to give you excuses for eating meat. I just wish to tell you that your speech made me feel ashamed and a fool for letting go of my principles. I want to thank you for waking me up.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 4:00 PM
I am a 31 year old brazilian man who was searching videos on youtube when I cam across yours. I wanna thank you for sharing it with us. I feel the honesty in your voice. I'll never eat or wear anything related to animals ever again.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:50 PM
I watched your speech and it was truly inspiring. I just want to say thank you for your activism because if you did not do what you do, some people, including myself, would still be brainwashed and misinformed. I'm officially convinced and avoiding animal products at all costs.
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 9:49 PM
Greetings from Australia! First of all words cannot describe how many thanks I owe you. For years I had suppressed [info about] the Dairy and Egg industries and had taught myself that what I was doing was "Enough" until one night I stumbled across your video. My entire life changed overnight and I haven't looked back since. So a thousand times thank you! Secondly, through your video, reading through your website about 100 times and through my own research, I have started conducting my own speeches in Adelaide, Australia in regards to Veganism and ethics. So far it is still pretty low key. I am going into youth groups for local churches (I'm surprised I haven't spontaneously combusted yet, being an atheist, but that's another story) and for small town animal rights groups around here. I have been denied entry into quite a few schools as apparently my material goes against their nutrition courses. I was just wondering if you would be able to give me any advice on how to surpass these issues and how you got up and running.
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 6:55 PM
I'm a high school student in congressional debate and I am writing a speech on animal cruelty. I've seen your video on YouTube and was very inspired. I was wondering if you had any great information I can add to my speech. I would really like to quote you as a source.
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 3:24 PM
your speech convinced me to go vegan. haven't eaten anything from an animal for 2 weeks. i feel a lot better like this. you're making a difference. thank you for the amazing work that you do.
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 5:36 AM
We subtitled your horse racing video to Hebrew, and put it on YouTube and Hakol Chai's facebook page. As a result we got a very nice article today about it on NRG's site. Here is a link to the article: www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/413/586.html?hp=1&cat=459. The timing is amazing because we are going to national election soon—much earlier that it was supposed to be—and this is the perfect time to put some pressure on the ministers. So your video is doing this job perfectly! Thank you for that!
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Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 10:13 PM
You have totally fucked me up. I had some knowledge but I will have a hell of a time tomorrow ordering food. I will share your speech.
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Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 4:25 PM
meat free for 3 months since I've watched your speech on youtube it has brought down my blinders.
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Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 10:58 AM
i wrote you 3 months ago after i saw your speech and become vegan. i want to thank you again. your speech has a big effect in israel. me and my brother and 2 of my friends become vegan. yesterday one friend told me that the husband of her sister went vegan too. another friend recently switched to soy milk and cut down on some of the meat he eats. my father has started to eat less meat and feel better and i noticed that all the people around me have become more aware of what they're eating.
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Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 4:40 AM
I just wanted to tell you that what you are doing is absolutely incredible. I watched your youtube video for the first time a few days ago and cannot stop thinking about it. I have been vegan now for one year but your speech helps me to remember why I have made this choice in my life. Because it can be difficult—as you know—to live among animal eaters who do not understand or want to think about where their food comes from. You do an amazing job at making people consider thinking about this. Please do not stop educating people. You are making a huge difference in our world and you have a gift for communicating with passion and truth. I will continue to attempt convincing friends and family to watch your video.
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Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 2:26 AM
A few days ago my daughter who just turned 14 informed me that she wanted to become vegetarian. I told her that we should research this and we discovered your lecture on video. Well, it changed our views. I sat here in tears watching what cruel things are done to animals just so we can eat. You are absolutely correct, we are all conditioned to eat meat from the time we are small children. We are now weaning ourselves away from meat, I stopped right after I saw your video. I am still in shock. I can't even think about drinking a glass of milk without being disgusted. I just didn't realize how low my fellow humans had sunk just for the sake of their diets. Thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 1:09 AM
I am from India, I am 21 years old and was a non vegetarian until yesterday. I decided to go vegan for the rest of my life. I decided it in the middle of watching your video. You absolutely changed my life. To be honest, at first, I did not want to see it because I knew there will be something that would make me feel guilty. But something just forced to click the link and now I am glad I saw it. I can't tell how ardently I love chicken and cheese but now I just can't even think to have a bite of it. I had no idea about the abuse these animals face. Thank you once again for all your work for the innocent beings on this earth. You are amazing!
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Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 1:03 AM
I keep finding things everyday that make me think that we are just a SICK SOCIETY and I'm a part of that. I just finished watching your speech and I want to make some changes in the way I eat. I didn't know that certain food is harmful for our own bodies and I never really cared about the animal treatment either but now I feel that it is my responsibility to practice what I believe in. I can't keep eating meat or animal products, it disgusts me. Everything that you said in this presentation made so much sense to me and I want to share it with the people around me, with my family and relatives. I believe that VEGANISM IS THE FUTURE. I want to be at peace with myself. I never wrote a message like this to anyone but I wanted to let you know how I feel. Eating meat, dairy and eggs is not an option for me anymore, I want to protect these animals, they deserve to live as much as we do.
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Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 9:03 AM
I'm very happy to be a vegan now. Thanks so much for all that you do. You are a true inspiration to me!
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Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 9:20 PM
my son and I have been vegetarians for quite some years. we stumbled upon your 'best speech ever' on youtube and then decided we were going to become completely vegan.
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Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 5:32 AM
I am a 36 year old woman from Poland. I watched your speech one month ago and from that moment I stopped eating meat. I always thought I was a peaceful and conscious person who loved animals. But something was incomplete. Your video opened my eyes. It was very moving. I just don't understand how blind I was. It is a big step in my life. I really feel free.
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Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 2:12 AM
I'm living in Bangalore, India. I was a milk taker but just quit 15 min ago after watching your speech. From many years my brother and I have been trying to convince people about animal rights issues, but nothing is as effective as your speech. The world is a very cruel place.
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Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 12:37 AM
just watched your Georgia Tech lecture including the Q&A & shared it after not being able to find any fault with it at all.
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:47 PM
I am a 14 year old Animal Rights Activist living in Florida. I just finished viewing your speech at Georgia Tech in 2010. So inspirational, and so informative! Definitely given me some new arguments for when I try and convert my friends! I am a big fan of yours.
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 7:32 PM
Your lecture completely changed my life. Your video made me cry and tremble. I found myself. You helped me. I want to change the world with you.
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 7:16 PM
You made a convert out of me, and I, in turn, converted my family.
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 1:38 PM
I'm from Mexico. I just want to thank you for doing what you do. You are changing lives, animal lives. And human ones, like mine. I was a meat eater as of yesterday. God bless you.
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 1:21 PM
Oh my god. I've just seen your video. You made me cry. I can't believe that cruelty. I WON'T EAT MEAT ANYMORE! That video definitely helped me make a final decision. HOW CRUEL IS THE WORLD. HOW CRUEL WE ARE. STUPID HUMANS.
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 10:46 AM
I watched a speech that you gave at Georgia Tech on youtube. You've won me over. You probably get a ton of emails from people like me, but I want you to know I so appreciate you and your efforts. Another delicious dairy free food: coconut milk Greek yogurt from So Delicious.
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 8:38 AM
Just a quick email to thank you for your speech about being vegan. It changed my way of life when I saw it about 7-8 months ago. I congratulate you for your efforts which are amazing. You have a home if you decide one day to come to Spain.
Comments from Students and Supporters, October 2012
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:55 PM
Thank you so much for awakening me to the horrors of meat cheese milk and eggs industries. Best regards and thank you for changing my life and the lives of my children.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:19 PM
I am in college and was researching animal welfare speeches when yesterday I found you and the speech you gave at Georgia Tech in 2010. That was the first time I had ever heard of you or what you stand for. I was so impressed with your communication skills and poignancy, that balance you were able to keep between expressing the facts while not seeming like you were attacking the audience.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:16 PM
I'm 20 years old from Argentina. I wanted to ask your approval to show your speech to people in my country. Thank you very much for standing up for those who can not defend themselves.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:07 PM
i'm from Israel. vegan for almost a year. mainly did it because of the health issue. never thought about the animals until I saw your lecture. you really got me hypnotized and opened my eyes regarding the animal issue. your speech made me so emotional and it just hit me and suddenly I realize how terrible and cruel humans are. it makes me so angry that most of the public are so blind that they don't even think about animals, they think that they are made to be our slaves and a piece of food in our plate, like we own them or something.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:18 AM
I really enjoyed watching your speech. It's 3am in NYC and being a bored college student with no class due to Hurricane Sandy, I typed "greatest speech" in the youtube search field to have my mind inspired before I went to sleep. I clicked on your link out of curiosity and it was my best decision of the week. I have been a vegetarian for 7 years and have been flexing back and forth from veganism. Today, I committed to staying vegan now. I would like to thank you for that. I sent the video to my vegetarian friend, and after watching, he too has decided to go vegan for good. I'm sure you get this all the time, but Gary, you speak the truth. I couldn't deny that I had to make the complete change to a vegan life.
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Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 7:41 PM
I recently watched the YouTube video of your lecture at Georgia Tech in 2010. A friend of mine, not anyone I'd ever expect to do so, and whom I believe was actually sharing it in jest, posted it to my Facebook. You have changed my life.
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Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 1:27 AM
I am a huge fan of your lessons/philosophies. You are the true embodiment of what it takes to be a real supporter of non-human animals. I contact you because I am writing a book about Animal Rights, and would like to incorporate some of your quotes into it.
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 9:25 PM
I'm an 18 year old female from Turkey and you have inspired me to do so many things. You are an absolutely amazing human being and I've gone veg about a month ago. My family isn't very happy about it because they eat meat every meal and use animal products. It's both for my own health and the good of those animals. I aspire to be like you and let people know that they're not only hurting animals for nothing, they're also putting themselves in danger. I'm joining a vegan collective club here in Turkey to spread the word. People don't even know what a vegetarian is, let alone veganism. So I'm hoping to inform and inspire those who are not aware of it. It's all thanks to you, I wouldn't have been doing all these if it weren't for your speech. Thanks so much for everything. You've changed my life.
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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 11:33 AM
i'm a 37 year old man from israel. after watching your lecture, you changed my life. knowledge is power. i've tried to spread the message but people rarely listen. so i signed onto a dating site and pretended to be a hot sexy woman that went vegan. i wrote that i went vegan from your speech and attached a link to youtube. anyway, every day at least 100 males watch my page and talk with me about it. i guess when you are a hot sexy woman, men will listen to you.
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 7:06 AM
A friend recently showed me a YouTube video of you giving a talk about Veganism at a University. I have been a vegetarian for years, but your talk has prompted me to become vegan. What really helped me the most was when you frankly admitted to loving the taste of meat and dairy, and then you went through some of the vegan replacements for meat and dairy. This honesty and your enthusiasm to show us the vegan meat and dairy alternatives was what opened my heart towards going vegan. Also, the entire talk was great, very well thought out and it is important that you don't hold back on educating us about just how bad the meat and dairy industry is.
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 4:24 AM
Just looked at your video. What a shock. Bravo. We need someone like you in France and Turkey. Congrats for your strength and energy. I forwarded your video to my friends.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:15 PM
I just saw a video of the speech you gave at Georgia Tech in 2010.. All I have to say is WOW. You're an incredible speaker.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:39 PM
We admire your work so very much that we named the last person we rescued at our sanctuary after you. He's still a baby (http://on.fb.me/PrH8bt). Also, as a person who likes to debate, I gotta tell you that your speech is certainly one of the best things I've seen. So moving, powerful and trustworthy.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 3:38 PM
3 days ago, by chance, I found your video on Youtube. It's simply amazing. I was thinking of becoming vegan, and I just want to say that you gave me the last push to do it. Probably a lot of people have told you that before, but I want you to know that your speech is reaching the end of the world here in Chile, South America.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:15 PM
I'm 25 from Israel. As a kid I didn't like meat because it was a dead animal. But my parents pushed me into thinking it was healthy and important. When I was 21, I knew it was bullshit and decided to take a stand but I continued to eat dairy and eggs. I didn't know what was behind these products. Today I saw your lecture, after refusing to do so for a long time. I don't remember crying like that in my whole life. I can't sleep because I keep thinking about your words and those horrible videos. This world has earned another vegan and I had to tell you how much I admire your sincerity, your hard but not aggressive words, your honesty, your goodness and kindness, and your strength that will change the world. Thank you for showing me the truth.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:46 PM
I'm one of the UM-Dearborn students you inspired with your speech. Just wanted to tell you you've really helped me open my eyes and stop living in a cave. Had to write an animal rights essay and just hearing about hunting infuriated me. I brought up many points you mentioned and I just wanted you to know people like you are what we need in this world. You're a true role model man.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:50 PM
Thank you for your truly mind and heart-opening talk about animal rights and veganism. I now can proudly call my self a vegan. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. May you always be well and peaceful.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:36 PM
I just watched the video of your profoundly moving speech you gave at Georgia Tech. Wow, I was in tears watching the cruelty of all those animals. What a sick society we are. I have seen some photos before but not to this extent.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:15 AM
I decided to be radically kind. Thank you for being an eye opener, for making me educate myself and open my heart to other beings on this planet.
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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 10:40 AM
I recently viewed your 2010 Georgia Tech lecture. I appreciate the stance you have as I went veg for purely selfish reasons (health). The videos you provided were disturbing to say the least. I will be cutting out cheese to cease supporting such injustices and will continue to transition to a completely animal-free lifestyle in my future decisions and purchases. I really like logic and data having been schooled as an engineer. Many of the statements you made were driven by such and I wish you continued success. I believe we as a society (myself included) need individuals like you to shock us awake without creating a barrier of an us vs. them mentality. I liked how you translated/correlated the belief system of injustice/suffering/slavery of human-to-human to human-to-animal.
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Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:50 PM
I became vegan after seeing your speech.
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Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 2:52 AM
I'm a 17 year old girl from Australia whose life has been totally changed by your lecture. I have gone from being someone who ate dairy, eggs, meat to completely 100% vegan, literally within the hour of watching your lecture. I just want to thank you for making a difference and educating the people and myself on such a major, yet un-talked about issue. I am confident I will lead a happier, healthier and longer life. I honestly thought Vegans were a little crazy and vitamin deficient, but you cleared all of that up and have set me on the path of peaceful living.
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Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 11:16 AM
I saw your speech at Georgia Tech, and it was great. I was amazed that you were 40 when you made that video. You looked no more than in your late 20s or very early 30s. I'm turning 27 in a month and it would be great if I also experienced that "side effect" of this new lifestyle.
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Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:16 AM
I just watched your speech given to a university class at Georgia Tech in 2010 on youtube. I became vegan just over a year ago but am always being questioned about why I chose a vegan diet by friends and even some family. I found your speech inspirational, informative and riveting. I shared it on my facebook page as I feel it is all the reasons why I choose a vegan diet, in a nutshell and spoken by a very powerful orator. Thank you for devoting your life to the animals. Although I am not religious, if ever I thought I saw God in anyone, it's you.
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Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:14 AM
I became vegan instantly after watching your lecture on Youtube. And I know many others who did too. What you are doing is extremely important and has a tremendous effect. Do not stop this sacred mission.
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:05 PM
You have become one of my idols since I watched your video 3 months ago. I have turned Vegan since watching it, and my family and friends are now being influenced by this change that was only made possible by your efforts. I hope you continue and carry luck with you wherever you go.
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:57 AM
We present a vegan-environmental radio show (the first in the UK) and we wanted to use a short clip of your speech from Israel. It is part of wider segment called "gary yourofsky takes israel by storm" and your websites and speeches will be linked in our show notes.
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 7:35 AM
I am from Puerto Rico. If you can change me, then millions of others can be changed, too.
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 4:04 AM
I want to THANK you for your lecture that's up on YouTube. I was a vegetarian for 2 years before I went vegan and that's thanks to you.
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:16 AM
I live in South Korea. Yesterday, I saw your lecture on YouTube! and was in shock and horror. I've been vegetarian for 3 months but now I decided I quit vegetarian RIGHT NOW and go Vegan for the rest of my life starting today.
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From: Vegan India [mailto:veganindia@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:38 PM
We are excited to announce that your interview has been just published! Here is the link: http://vegan-india.blogspot.in/2012/10/in-conversation-with-gary-yourofsky.html#sthash.v304b79w.dpbs.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:15 PM
I am a 21 year old Vegan, animal activist living in Australia. I am organising a demo day in my city on November 1 where a large group of us will be getting tattooed with the 269 brand and raising money for our local farm sanctuary and animal liberation group (ALV). I am making a video that will be projected onto the parlour and looped throughout the day. I was wondering if you would mind me using some quotes of yours and questions you ask from your lecture? I always recommend your video whenever I am talking to someone interested in veganism and I would love to be able to use some of it. I'm hoping to get some main stream media at this event to raise awareness so wish me luck.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:11 PM
I just want to say that you opened my eyes today. I was the type to always think vegans were weird, I could never have imagined in all 32 years of my life what the real truth is.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:02 AM
You just blew my mind with your lecture. After seeing you speak, I feel like a button has been switched on. I am going to go vegan!
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Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:24 AM
I'm 15 years old from down under in SE Queensland Australia. I am grateful you interrupted my life. I've always wanted to do more. I've lacked the motivation to do so but you have become my new role model, hero and motivation. I am officially turning vegan and taking more action.
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 7:54 PM
I am a Vegetarian and have been working on being Vegan. After watching your speech, I have decided that now I am officially Vegan. I think you have the best way of explaining veganism and animal rights.
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:57 PM
I saw your lecture and it changed me.
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:10 PM
I'm Chilean, 19 years old and currently study at the university. I saw your video and haven't seen that determination in someone in a long time. I hope you keep doing lectures in universities, educating people about the abuse and murder of animals.
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 11:51 AM
Your video really touched me deeply. It is amazing.
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 1:25 AM
I'm writing from Cordoba, Argentina. I just want to THANK YOU for all your work for the animals and for us humans because your speech is life-changing. It certainly changed mine when I went vegan after 2 years of being a vegetarian. I learned about you from a group called Animal Soy (in Spanish it translates to something like I'm an animal too'). I watch the speech from time to time and show it to people. Sadly our culture is FILLED with speciesism and animal exploitation in all forms. Your work is inspiration and motivation, KEEP GOING!
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Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 11:45 PM
A member of my local vegan group posted your video, and I watched it yesterday. I have forbidden myself from watching any more extreme animal rights videos, as they cause me great pain and suffering. I have been a lifelong vegetarian, but only learned about the horrific cruelty to animals in other industries last year and transitioned to a vegan diet. I felt compelled, for some reason, to watch your lecture at Georgia Tech. Although the information you presented was not new to me, I was blown away by how eloquent, passionate and professional your lecture is. I am currently working to open a fairly large vegan supermarket in Phoenix, AZ. Our community is very under-served and in desperate need of an ethical grocer. There are many hurdles to jump, but if I am successful, this will be the largest vegan supermarket in the US (probably the world). I would be extremely honored if you would consider attending our Grand Opening, if we are able to get this off the ground. Keep up the incredible work!
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Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 4:37 PM
You've ruined my life (joke) because your speech made me vegan. But my family, co-workers and friends are giving me trouble. Nobody seems to understand why I changed and they think I'm attacking them!
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Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:36 AM
Me and my friend watched your presentation and we decided to become vegans.
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 3:22 PM
I'm a 17 year's old student from Barcelona (Catalonia). I'm doing my last course in high school, and I must to do an assignment about cruelty to animals. I used to be the typical person who would say. "I love animals." But I ate meat, cheese, milk, etc. One day searching YouTube I saw a video of you. I was so astonished, and I asked myself, "How can I been so stupid?" Now I'm vegan and I'm happy to help the animals. When I finish school, I want to help more.
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 2:32 PM
I just watched your 'Greatest Speech Ever' on You Tube and wanted to thank you for all your efforts. The level of cruelty that exists is shameful and is the greatest stain on human history to date. Both my husband and I are vegetarian but after watching your speech we are going vegan as of NOW. I wish you the greatest success in waking up the apathetic masses. I will do my best from here too.
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:41 PM
Thank you so very much for what you're doing for animals, for your courage, stamina. I've been reading much about you and truly respect what you are doing. Unlike most of the world, you are living your convictions. My husband and I have been vegetarians for over 40 years; I've been a vegan for at least 20 of those years; my grown sons have never eaten meat. For us, it's all about the animals. Good health and a very youthful appearance has been a natural consequence of this as well, but that's difficult for others to accept or believe. The question is often asked: What's your secret? And the answer, unfortunately, is not as palatable as a magic pill. Recently, I was given a volunteer position on Party 934 independent online radio, 94.9 FM in the Hudson Valley, New York. I have a slot on Sundays, 8 pm - 9 pm our time in Western Canada (11 to midnight EST.) I call my show, "Sexy Vegetarian." On this Sunday's program, October 14, I would like to feature a 15-20 minute excerpt from the brilliant speech you gave at Georgia tech in 2010. I may try for two, another excerpt next week. I'd like to give the audience a taste, and then lead them to your speech in its entirety. I already mentioned you last Sunday, October 7th, and put the link on my "Sexy Vegetarian" Facebook page: www.facebook.com/asexyvegetarian. All shows are followed up with podcast - www.party934podcasts.com - search for "Sexy Vegetarian." It takes awhile to load. Thank you again for addressing the outdated and brutal speciesism that darkens our world.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:24 PM
I watched your speech on Youtube about a year and a half ago and it changed my life. I've always had deep relationships with animals - particularly my pets. I grew up as an only child not knowing anyone but my mother and father, and relied on my dog to fill that void where friends typically reside. I remember feeling uncomfortable about eating meat as a little kid, specifically because my best friend was an animal, but simply didn't want to give up animal products, especially when my parents thoroughly communicated that I did not have a choice but to eat meat - that I'd be unhealthy with out it and all the diatribe I'm sure you hear everyday. I largely ignored that twinge of guilt, and continued on loving my pets with great sincerity and passion, while mindlessly killing the animals that fed my habits. When I saw your video, I was scared. I listened to everything you said and my heart started beating faster, as all those thoughts of inconsistent value of animal life came back at full force. I tell you with the greatest respect that your words made me feel like I was trying to breathe under water. As I watched your video, my dog sat right by my side, and my bird on my head. They mean so much to me, more perhaps than my human family. With no hesitation, I simply considered all animal products off limits after your speech. It wasn't like ripping off a band-aid, or reluctantly giving up some great thing - I didn't feel like a martyr. I simply decided that society's habits are unacceptable and refused to harm another creature out of indifference or ignorance again. I've been vegan since, needless to say. But what's really interesting is that last week, for the first time, I attended an animal rights club at my university, excited to actually get to meet another vegan (as until then, I had not), and realized that we were all brought together by the same Youtube video. I wasn't amazed, simply because I think your video would make any rational person reconsider their habits, but I felt a really strong sense of community - a community grown from you! So, I suppose this is simply a thank you that should have been delivered two years ago. Ah, better late than never I suppose.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:33 AM
I am forever grateful for your message. It is not everyday that a person's long established core beliefs and understandings are turned upside down. You have a gift (as I have seen other unconvincing vegan advocate videos) and the world is fortunate that you have committed your life to this cause. I am not sure how the Martin Luthers of the world get their public status/recognition but I see no reason why you should not be added to the list sometime in your lifetime.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 3:36 PM
I must do an interview for a school project with someone who is my role model. Can you answer these questions for me. Why did you go vegan? How does animal agriculture affect pollution? Do you travel the world and give lectures? I went vegan after watching your speech. I was vegetarian before your speech but you convinced me that is not enough. So thank you for that.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 6:04 AM
I just wanna say you are an excellent person. I'm from Portugal and I was vegetarian for about 5 months. But guess what? I'm now a vegan after I saw your speech. To Hell with the cheese.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 3:05 AM
I'm from israel and just heard your lecture. I am mortified and sick to my stomach. Thank you for opening my eyes about it. I will definitely go vegan. Carry on your important mission in life. You might save this earth eventually because you speak the truth.
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Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 1:37 AM
I'm an 18-year-old vegan living in Costa Rica. I'm on my 8th month of being a vegan. Right after I saw one of your videos I decided to become vegan overnight. I am currently part of a vegan Spanish facebook page called Generando Conciencia (means "Raising Awareness") with over 50.000 likes. I'm currently getting my bachelor's degree in business administration and I want to apply veganism to them. One of my biggest dreams is to open a collection of luxury vegan and eco-friendly hotels and resorts with the best vegan food ever. I just sincerely want to thank you for making a difference.
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Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 6:57 PM
Thanks for your advice about forgetting evil people and trying to talk to those who are willing to learn and to listen.. I've been trying to convince many people. It's hard when they don't want to listen. I've influenced about 7 people who are thinking about becoming vegetarians. You are very special to me even if you don't even know me by name.. I think about your words at least once a day.
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Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 8:53 AM
persons like you are needed, honestly. my girlfriend and I have been vegetarians for years. a few months ago we watched your amazing speech on youtube. at the end with no words we looked at each other and we knew we had to switch. we are vegan and could never ever go back to vegetarianism. that's because of you, you can make that difference for so-called omnivores of course but for vegetarians too.
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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 1:48 PM
I want to say how inspiring you have been to my husband and myself, and, in turn, we have passed your video around to our friends and family and becoming vegan is spreading like wildfire in our group. My husband is from Israel and we have been vegetarian for years. However, he stumbled onto your video a few months ago in Israel. Your speech has changed us forever!
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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 5:29 AM
I am from Germany. On the 3rd of November I will organize a benefit concert in support of an animal sanctuary, where cows who were rescued from the dairy and factory farming industries live. Before the concert there is a programme where a speech and a reading about the topic of veganism is given. I saw your speech and really liked it! I think that your speech can make a lot of people think about what they are doing. I'm wondering if I could show that speech with german subtitles at the event? There will be 100 guests.
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Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 11:13 AM
I can only say one thing: YOU ARE A HERO. I ate meat for 32 years and was a little scared about being vegan until I found your speech. I cried for at least an hour, not only for the shocking video but for your amazing words, courage and charisma. Everything you said was totally right, logical and un-debatable and I instantly made the connection. It's been like a rebirth: now I can see everything clear. Now the sight of meat makes me not only sad but I have shivers and waves of disgust. The real difficult thing is to coexist with meat eaters, their myths and the fact the majority of them don't even want to talk about it. But the least I can do is forward your message to everyone, now and for rest of my life. You are a true legend who is changing thousands and thousands of lives.
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Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:20 AM
Just finished your Georgia Tech speech Q&A and I noticed all the questions were focused on people's concerns about pacifying their taste buds should they go vegan and the out of pocket expense. I was so upset after watching that calf get stomped on that I can't imagine being concerned about my taste buds ever again. I have been vegan for the last four months and I am converting my 9 year old son to a vegan diet. This conversion has been fine for me but a bit of a challenge for my son. However, we are doing just fine. Thank you so much for standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. I am trying to do the same in my little neck of the woods.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:27 AM
I'm writing on behalf of my husband Thomas Torelli, who is a small independent Italian director and producer. In his professional career he has had the opportunity to work in several fields, from television to advertising, but the thing that fascinates and interests him the most is documentary films, especially on social issues. A documentary film about the vegan/vegetarian choice is the reason we are contacting you. Thomas is starting to work on a new project on this subject and after doing some homework, the important role you have in this matter was clear and evident. The idea is to explain to everyone in a clear and straightforward manner why our present dietary preferences are unsustainable. We are killing ourselves, the planet and billions of helpless animals, hence the title "The Serial Killer". We strongly believe that your participation in this project is of great importance, your strong message and presence would be of great impact and that is what we would like to achieve. It would be really great and it would make us really happy if you accept our invitation to participate in the film with an interview. We just found out that you will be here in Italy soon, if you accept our invitation it would be great if we could take advantage of your stay here and organize the interview here in Italy, in any of the cities you are visiting. Thank you again not only for your time and patience, but also for all the great inspiration!
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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 11:08 AM
Five days ago I watched your speech on Youtube and my blinders are gone! Thank You So Much! Me and my wife have not touched Meat, Cheese, Eggs or Milk since. I grew up in restaurant kitchens and learned to cook from my chef stepfather. I have taken great pride in knowing HOW to make meat taste good. With the exception of possibly bacon, NO meat tastes good without heavily seasoning it. Cook hamburger, steak, pork or chicken without ANY seasoning and it tastes like crap! Since the blinders fell off, I realized that MEAT DOESN'T TASTE GOOD, IT'S THE SEASONINGS that make it taste good. Thank you again for helping us wake up!
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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 4:54 AM
I saw your video with my daughter (14 years old). I have to say thanks for opening our eyes.
Comments from Students and Supporters, September 2012
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Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 3:24 PM
I'm a 22 year old living in Israel. I just saw your speech.You literally punched me in the face with the horrible truth. Just before I watched your lecture I was gonna make a chicken breast dish which I like very much and now I just can't do it. You really show the world a different way of life. You're truly blessed for doing what you do! I must say you look very good for a 40+ year old. I thought you were 25! You are a living proof that the vegan way of life is healthier. Thank you for showing me the truth!
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:26 PM
I'm 15 years old from israel. I heard your lecture for the first time, and since then I'm not eating meat at all. My family won't let me be vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 3:42 PM
I'm 17 years old from Czech Republic. I watched your speech not too long time ago on youtube and I have to say that it totally blew me away. Your speech turned me 100% vegetarian. I can proudly say that I'm slowly becoming vegan and that's all just cause of you. I appreciate all the things you do for animals. You are amazing and we need more people like you.
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 3:05 PM
I just wanted to thank you for your very inspiring speech and all the good things that you do! Me and my fiance saw the only logical option was to go vegan about 5 months ago because of your video. Thank you so much for all the lives you save and the people you help to see the truth.
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Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 6:07 PM
Thanks to your video at Georgia Tech, I decided to go vegan! I want to let you know that the reason why I'm going vegan is not for me, not for MY health because that would be too selfish, too egocentric! I'm going vegan because of all the poor animals. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to take the right pill (Matrix). You are a true hero!
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Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 12:08 PM
I just watched your lecture on You-Tube and wanted to thank you for the work you are doing. I was one of the cheese-addicted vegetarians you mention in your lecture. I am now fully committed to veganism and will never go back.
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Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:31 PM
Thank you for all the information in your videos and website. After looking at all your information, I decided to go vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:30 AM
YOU turned me vegan. Thank you for doing this. For years I've been deeply compassionate about animals. I have my own small dog rescue program that I do here in South Africa. I go into townships, fight with people, scream and shout, take on small crowds of dangerous people and win by getting the puppies out of the hell they are in. I bring them home, get them well and strong, and find great new loving homes for each one. During all of this, I ate meat and dairy, and something inside me screamed every time I did. But I silenced that scream for years and years. I felt deeply that I was a hypocrite, loving dogs and doing what ever I could to rescue them, then going home and taking part in and supporting the insane world of meat-eating. THEN, I saw your lecture and cried for days, filled with rage and hatred for my species, and immediately became full vegan. I will NEVER eat meat or dairy again. Ever! You are my hero, and the most amazing man. I just wanted to express that, and thank you for changing my life. I wake up in the morning and I know deep inside me that I am not a part of that world any more. There are no more deaths and no more hellish lives that I am responsible for. It's a wonderful feeling. That scream inside me is no longer there.
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Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:31 AM
I'm from Israel. Yesterday I saw your lecture. I was shocked to know how little I knew. You really have opened my eyes.
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Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:06 AM
I was really shocked but enlightened by your YouTube lecture.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 10:08 PM
Saw your youtube video. I'm a fucking vegan now, period.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:04 PM
I saw your video in youtube and was so amazed by your disquisition. I want to change the world and make the animals happier.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 6:30 PM
I stumbled upon your video and it got me really excited to share this most vital information with as many people as I possibly can. I regularly repost it every 10 days or so, just as a reminder to those who didn't watch it the last time. It's very powerful and straight to the point no BS. I'm so inspired to read the comments from people on your website – well done. I often wonder if anyone actually ever watches it but continues to go down the same road regardless. Shame on them if that's the case.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:05 PM
i have seen your speech on youtube and want to be a vegan. my only problem is i'm 11. my parents don't listen to me when i tell them to watch your speech. i can't buy vegan food on my own. what do i do?
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:49 PM
I'm from India and I just want to thank you for your video. You educated me on so many things. I have been a vegetarian for 22 yrs and I was very proud about it thinking that I was doing something great. I loved ice creams, milk and all dairy products but had no clue of the suffering and agony behind the dairy industry. After your video, I regret my previous lifestyle of vegetarian. I have decided to be a vegan for the rest of my life.
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Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:56 PM
I just watched your video and I am moved. I am a Jain and we do not eat meat eggs and honey. I always was aware of veganism but not to the level you have explained. For me meat and eggs are strictly forbidden but milk and milk products are not. But you moved me. I stopped consuming milk.
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Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 3:15 PM
I recently watched your speech. I have a keen interest in nutrition and was toying with the idea of becoming vegan after reading Alicia Silverstone's book, but I admit it was purely for health reasons. Your speech was what made me ultimately make the decision. I was totally blown away. It has completely changed and inspired me. A massive thank you for that. Funny thing has been peoples' reactions, almost as if I have personally offended them by eating this way, which is totally bizarre.
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Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 2:02 PM
Thank you for the inspirational speech. Recently I translated it to Latvian (there is a version on YouTube) and my vegan group would like to show it publicly on October 4 in Latvia.
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Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:40 AM
Your speech was astounding. I reside in South Africa. Thank you for the huge difference you have made! It has certainly made an impact on my life!
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Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 1:22 PM
I have been moving toward veganism BUT your lecture has done it for me. No more animal products. Thanks for the push.
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Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 5:53 AM
I'm from Belgium. I've been eating meat, milk and eggs daily for 20 years. My story is exactly the same as many others on this planet, regarding to how our society manipulated us. I loved animals when I was a kid and as you said, I've been disconnected from them. But what gives me the power over another living being's life. I watched your whole speech, cried and laughed because it cleared my mind. You showed me more than I imagined about most animals' lives. I don't want to have any part in this! You taught me many things and I've got no reasons to keep eating meat, milk and eggs. I finally feel better with myself, and I want to thank you for that. I got a better idea on how I want my life to look like in the future and how to do it. I hope that neither someone nor something will ever stop you from doing what you're doing. You're giving hope, peace, love and freedom to many living beings, and I'm part of them. Keep teaching, taking off blinders and freeing animals!
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Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 5:21 AM
I wanted to thank you for coming to Israel. I was at your lecture at Ben Gurion University (Ber Sheva), I didn't really see the lecture because as you asked I left the tickets for the non-vegans. I, along with many people in Israel support your statements. I even know meat eaters who acknowledge the animal Holocaust (why they take part in it is a sad lesson in human selfishness and inherent evil). I am not one to argue with results and clearly you get amazing results. You have also empowered those of us in the "radical" abolitionist groups by giving the other groups proof that the best methods are not sugarcoated. In order to change someone, you must make them uncomfortable. Change is not possible through sweet talking. Many will hypocritically continue to disagree with your methods even though some of them became vegan because of them. I love the parts in your lecture where you speak from the heart, when you are talking about morality.
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Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:54 AM
I am from Basque Country in the north of Spain near France. Yesterday I saw your video and it hit my conscience so much. I have to start making things right with the animals so I will go vegan now. Thanks for opening my eyes. I was blind and I hope more people start opening their eyes.
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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:55 AM
I am from Poland. You convinced me and my wife and my young children to be vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:13 AM
I'm a girl from Spain who came across your speech at Georgia Tech. I have reflected a lot and I am convinced that being vegan is the best option.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:18 PM
I reside in Sydney, Australia. I've primarily been vegetarian all my life as I was raised in a Hindu household. But after viewing your lecture from a recommendation of a friend, I found no plausible excuse except ignorance in continuing on. So I'm vegan now.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:20 PM
I just wanted to say that I love your website and your speeches/videos on YouTube. I was vegetarian before seeing them but became full vegan after. Your Best Speech Ever gave me what I needed to accomplish that. I haven't felt better in my entire life! It's a nice bonus to the ethics, returning to our herbivore roots. Your efforts to remove the "animal product dreamworld" from the sight of the masses is incredible. I pass on your work to as many people as possible.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:42 AM
I am Chilean, but living in Mexico. I want to say many thanks. Today I changed to veganism. I feel better and happy. Your video on youtube was the key to changing my eating habits.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:39 AM
I wanted to thank you for changing my life. I am from Italy and ate the Western diet based on animal products. My girlfriend also changed. We walked on the wrong path, then listened to your words and went vegan. We never thought about animal discrimination, and we've re-programmed our brains. I think your speech should be seen in all the schools of the world. I think everyone should know what is hidden from us.
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 4:45 PM
I just watched your lecture. I am now going vegan. Thank you for taking the blinders off.
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 10:51 AM
I'm from Singapore. I have great admiration and deep respect for what you're doing to save the animals who truly do not deserve any of the abuse and cruel treatment that us humans have cast on them. You have reached out and touched the lives of so many people. I had my first day of being a vegan, and I'm so excited for more of this vegan lifestyle! I had Indian food for dinner and I am so happy, and so full too. Because of you, my eyes have been opened to the devastating effects of my selfish actions to the many innocent animals. Thank you once again! You're right, and you are radical and it's those who are radical who will change the world! God bless you!
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:58 AM
I'm sixteen years old, and I was in your lecture at Haifa University. All of my life I loved animals. I thought that if I put water out for stray cats then this is a real love of animals. I found all of my answers to every question in your lecture. You really change my life. I wanted to thank you for opening my eyes. By the way my teacher is vegan and she showed your lecture in one of our classes.
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:29 AM
your lecture was amazing! it changed my life! you are my role model! thanks for everything you do for animals, for revealing to my people in israel the horrible truth and for helping people become aware of what's happening in our world. you truly are inspiring!
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:07 PM
I'm from Israel and I'm 22 years old. I've seen your lecture and you changed my life. Thanks for everything!
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 4:06 PM
First, I want to thank you for the things you are showing to people like me! I just watched the video and honestly I didn't know any of these things. Me and my husband are making a huge change including our daughter who is 5 years old.
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Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 4:37 AM
I'm from Israel and still in high school. I saw your lecture from 2010. It is amazing. I could see your honesty while you were talking and you got me.
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Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 7:40 PM
I am 16 years old from israel. I am now vegan. You are an amazing person. I am just so happy to know that there are people like you.
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Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 1:40 PM
Thank you for changing my life. One more person has gone vegan thanks to you. You have opened my eyes, and I understood what was missing in my life. The only thing that I feel sorry for is that I didn't watch your lecture a year ago when my facebook friend posted it. I hope you will come to visit again our tiny country. We all love you very much.
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:37 PM
I was amazed by your video and I'm reconsidered my whole life, for the better! Newly converted vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:35 AM
For many years I've wanted to stop eating meat for health reasons but I just liked the taste too much. After coming to your lecture in Israel, I stopped eating meat. I am appalled by the thought of eating it. I've started enjoying vegetable dishes much more. I hope to regain my health from an illness I have for many years. Thank you for all the your work for the animals and humans. You changed my life.
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:23 AM
My boyfriend and I watched your lecture 6 months ago and turned vegan. I know you probably get emails like this one all the time but I think it's important that you do so that you have proof everyday that what you do is effective and important. I came to your lecture in Be'er Sheva- Israel, and the best tip I got from you was "speak for them like you would want to be spoken for". This is what I was missing when I was debating meat-eaters. When I argue with them now I just don't give a fuck about their feelings, only the animals. So thanks to you, I don't take part in this monstrous industry. My dogs and cats are vegans too, and I can handle meat eaters better than I used to. Thank you for existing.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:24 PM
Your video profoundly changed my family and me forever. My wife, four year old son and I have been vegans for two months and plan never to participate in the inhumane subjugation of animals ever again. As a soldier in the US Army I realize it may be tough, but I have eaten vegan MREs, purchased my own boots made from synthetic material and am spreading the word amongst my fellow service members. Thanks for helping remove the blinders.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:50 AM
I just saw one of your videos on Youtube, the one titled "Best speech you will ever hear". I wanted to let you know that I found it really inspiring. I've been a vegetarian for a few months and was considering abandoning dairy products and eggs as well. So, since you told me what cows go through in the dairy industry, I find the taste of milk disgusting. It's funny how the brain is able to modify what your taste buds prefer.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:37 AM
I just watched your lecture on youtube. We are going to make a huge change in our family.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:53 AM
First, I want to thank you for putting a mirror in front of me, and showing me the atrocities. I am changing my diet to vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:10 AM
just recently watch your youtube video and it completely has opened my eyes. i thought i was a peaceful loving caring man but i only looked at myself and our species and not the other species. i'm going to become vegan. thanks for making me realise what is going on.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:02 AM
It does my heart good to know that you are out there for our precious animals. I think you are very brave. I will be giving a talk in March about how we treat animals and, although I think I know it all, I shall be watching your lecture over and over and taking bits from it. It's so inspiring.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:11 AM
I've recently been re-evaluating my eating habits, and consequently, I have been doing a lot of online research. I just watched your speech, and I felt compelled to email you and let you know that you are my new hero.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:31 AM
You are a great awareness creator.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:14 AM
A few weeks ago I celebrated my one year anniversary of being vegan. I made the decision to go vegan immediately after watching your "Best Speech You Will Ever Hear" on You Tube. Since that time, I've shared the video with others and spoken with them about being vegan and they too have given up animal products. Being vegan is easy. I don't feel like I go without. I don't feel like I'm missing out. When I think about the horror and torture that animals endure to end up on someone's plate or on their back, it's not even remotely tempting to ever eat or use animal products again.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:48 PM
I am vegan for over a year after seeing your lecture on a screen in a Tel Aviv park last summer.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:32 PM
I saw your lecture today and was shocked! You affected me so much that from today I'm a vegan. I swear on my life. I love animals with all my heart and I'm going to do every thing that you say.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:01 PM
Thank you for being so incredible. I can't believe I got to shake your hand today after your lecture in Jerusalem. You are one of the strongest forces for Good in human history. You don't know how much hope this gives me,that one person can make such a huge difference to better the world. Thank you for being the loudest and most powerful voice for compassion, and the strongest defender of the weak. Don't ever stop, the world needs you.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:06 PM
I'm a student in Israel and I just heard your lecture at Ben Gurion University. I was eating meat, milk, eggs, etc. for 27 years. "WAS" is thanks to you. You made me cry today, not only because of what you said, but for the videos you made me see that I haven't had the courage to confront.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 8:37 AM
I am from Sydney, Australia. I saw your famous speech a week ago. I was REALLY impressed by everything you said. I have decided to be a vegan. But I have a leather sofa, shoes and expensive bags. I won't buy leather items in the future for sure but what should I do with those things which I have now? Should i get rid of them? Thanks so much opening my eyes!
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Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:04 AM
You probably don't remember me but you changed my life. A year and an half ago I sent you a message that I went vegan but was afraid because I was sick with mono and had an ulcer and was going into surgery. I was overweight by 55 kg, You said to try it to see how I felt. I went vegan and lost 45 kg. I have a new way of life.
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Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 7:42 AM
I hope you still remember the woman from Boulder Colorado, We met at the market in Tel-Aviv and we spoke in front of the cameras for a few minutes. I am one of your biggest admirers and I try to spread your word where ever I can. I am the second generation to the Holocaust survivors and I personally don't give a shit when you compare the animals to the Holocaust victims, in fact, I love your compassion.
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 10:40 PM
I found your speech life-changing. I am constantly bombarded with traditional ideologies about how meat, dairy and eggs are needed for optimal health. As a result of your speech however, I have come across clinical researchers such as Dr Neal Bernard, who not only advocates a vegan diet, but backs up everything with evidence from health studies. I have gained wisdom which has changed my life. It's as if I was blind before and now I can see. I am healthier, not only physically, but spiritually. Through sharing my knowledge and providing resources, such as speeches like yours, I have been able to enlighten others. It is so scary to think I lived as I did for 20 years, thinking myself an animal lover, and that I was so conditioned by society it didn't even occur to me that there was another way, that I completely dissociated the food from the pain and suffering of animals. I wouldn't kill spiders, I loved my dog like a child, but then I'd eat a sheep, or have some gelatin-filled crap for dessert. I can't believe I considered vegans to be strange, when I was the one contributing to mass slaughter, wearing leather, drinking another mother's breast milk; contributing to global poverty and environmental devastation; heading down the path to disease and poor health. That lifestyle seems utterly ridiculous in comparison to veganism now. Thank you, thank you so much. You are an inspiration and as I continue along this lifelong journey I will be forever grateful that I encountered the YouTube link to your speech.
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 5:37 PM
I write to you from Athens. Yesterday, on youtube, I watched a speech of yours. It was the first time that I saw you and the first time I heard the word "vegan" even though it's been 19 years since I've stopped eating meat (for no other reason except my sudden awareness of the fact that I wouldn't ever be capable of killing an animal). I liked your passion for what you believe and the fact that you didn't compromise your beliefs. I realized that I should have questioned the milk, eggs and cheese that I was eating. Unfortunately I never did until you told me.
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 2:37 PM
i'm 15 years old and i'm from israel-jerusalem. i wanted to tell you that i saw your lecture on youtube. it affected me and now i'm vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 12:53 PM
I am the founder of a non-profit upcoming online media channel for urban music in England called GrimeUpdate (Grime is a genre in England). On a daily basis I network with a lot of different people, with different races, religions, views and values, and with this comes an extremely wide array of types of food that people eat. Today when I logged onto twitter I saw a conversation happening between 2 well know urban artists from England; JME and Dizzee Rascal. JME had tweeted Dizzee with the link to your video of a speech you gave at Georgia Tech. I opened the link and assumed it would be a music video or music related. Usually I would have closed the video. I mean who in their right mind doesn't love eating the carcass of an animal? But I decided to give this video a chance, and I'm so glad I did. Your video opened my eyes to some horrible things that are happening in our world. It made me think about the farmers I personally know who wake up in the morning to their wonderful, happy, excited dogs. They pet them, play with them, show them the utmost love and respect, then they go to work and shove 50 cows into a tiny space where they await to have THEIR BABIES, steal their milk, bottle it up, to be sold to the community. I have been told some horrible stories about animal cruelty but have never once been affected. But after watching your video and thinking about what information I had just processed, I felt physically sick. For at least the last 10 years of my life, I have eaten very little, quite possibly no vegetables or fruit! I want to change that from now. I had to let you know that you have made a difference to the way I see a lot of things. I have never acted so quickly upon ANYTHING before in my life.
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 11:38 AM
Greetings from London. I just interviewed Queen's Brian May ahead of the debate over badger culling and the possible return of fox hunting. He has just become the RSPCA's vice president. What a boost for animal rights! I am also following the story of the Israeli Mazor farm and it's ongoing battle with activists objecting to the export of monkeys for experiments. I would like to request an interview with you for Huffington Post.
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 9:47 AM
I used to be a meat eater. After watching your video and seeing how these animals are treated I looked down at the burger on my plate and saw nothing but pain, misery and torture. I felt with every ounce of my being that eating this was wrong. I stopped eating any animal products that day. I won't wear them or eat them. I grew up in Chicago on the south side by the stockyards. I remember hearing the animals crying but was so conditioned by my environment to eat meat and dairy that I convinced myself it was ok. I am so inspired by all you do for animals. I will to the end of my life do what I can for animals. So thanks for being such a kind, caring individual who stands up and stands by his convictions.
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 4:33 AM
I'm 25 years old from Israel. I've ALWAYS loved animals SO much that I was afraid emotionally to be a vet or someone that volunteers in order to help them. I guess being told that "meat is healthy" just didn't let me stop and think. But YOU did! And I'm grateful for that. Those who know me, know I got my own way and that I never get carried away with other people's ideas. Unless I believe in them of course. I believe in whatever you say. Watching your youtube lecture was astounding. Unfortunately, all of the tickets to your lectures here in Israel have been sold out. I can assure you that I'm NEVER EVER gonna touch meat EVER again.
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 12:00 AM
Thank you very much for educating us and allowing us to see what we do not easily see.
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Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 11:47 PM
thank you so much for giving me information on the health effects of eating animal products. I'm 8 years old and I'm really sad how the industry treats animals too. thank you for caring about animals.
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Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 11:31 AM
Until about a week ago, I was a meat eater for 35 years. I sometimes questioned the cruelty of the meat industry but always had counter-arguments too. About a week ago my wife (vegetarian since childhood and recently converted to veganism) showed me your Georgia Tech lecture. Bang! I am now proudly vegan and never looking back, and trying to spread the message. May the awesome work you are doing carry on gaining strength.
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Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 4:22 AM
Me and my girlfriend saw you lecture on youtube a couple of days ago after a good friend of mine recommended it. I'm very thrilled and excited to say that after 24.5 years of meat, eggs and cheese, we both became VEG! You really influenced us.
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Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 2:38 AM
I just watched your video on the Compassion for Cruelty link. I have been a vegetarian for many years and am going vegan now. Thanks for all you do.
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Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 1:58 AM
I have been recently awakened to the horrors of our current lifestyle and feel both extremely idiotic for my blinders and impassioned to make a difference. If you ever decide to come to Australia I know several people who would be lining up to see you. You inspire like no other!
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 3:26 PM
This random guy walks into my work where I am a bartender. After a few moments of talking, he asked if anyone ever gave me some information that changed my life. I don't know why he chose to pass your speech information on to me since he didn't give it to the other girl I was working with, but I am so thankful that he did because I was living blind. I refuse to live like that anymore. Thank you for doing what you do and making it so easy to make the changes.
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:17 PM
I am 15 years old and when I watched your speech on the internet I went vegan on that day. I feel great and I love being a vegan but you just realize how mean and stupid people are. My mum is vegan, too. We both watched your speech.
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 3:01 AM
greetings from Israel. you really opened my eyes from the moment i saw your speech. from this moment on i will not eat any products from animals.
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 7:06 PM
I am so happy I got to watch your speech. I became a vegan after watching it. I am from Kiev, Ukraine.
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 4:17 PM
I saw your talk to the students at the college campus. What interested me was how you weren't selling any books, tapes, courses, etc. afterwards. I recently paid $20 for Will Tuttle's book 'The World Peace Diet' and although it is an enthralling read which I'm gobbling up every minute I can spare, I feel like a stupid for paying out of my grocery money for it. If I could've got it in the library I would've, but it isn't there. As I peruse further his links, web pages, I am feeling even more stupid. They ask for large amounts of money to train to be a facilitator. I'm not sure where this money is going but I feel very badly that in a world of dominating meat eaters the last thing we need is to set up barriers to people to learn more about the horrors and realities of animal suffering and what options we, who want the horror to end, have. It was refreshing to hear you state that you didn't want anyone's money and that you just want to get the message out there about the truth. The Vegan Compassion movement needs you. It is reassuring to have you out there encouraging dialogue, opening closed doors about food choices, shaking things up, rocking the boats and that you're not afraid to do so.
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:48 AM
You've just changed my life forever. I went from carnivore to absolute vegan in 1 hour. Thanks to you. When I saw your youtube lecture I was bawling my eyes out by the end. When I saw what they were doing I didn't even feel anger, I was, and am, heartbroken. I mean it to its fullest extent. I'm sharing this with everyone I can, and there will come a day when I will make a real difference.
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 6:07 AM
I came across "The best speech you will ever hear" and my eyes have been opened. After watching it, lunch was ready and I had chicken. I really love chicken, but I just couldn't eat it. At that moment, I committed myself to a vegan diet. Thank you so much for sharing your beliefs, planet earth has so much to offer that doesn't require slaughter. If you ever find your way down to Ghana, I'll treat you to the best yam dish you could ever have.
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 4:04 AM
i really liked your lecture on youtube. i'm a veggie of 5 years and now i'm going vegan. you inspired me. and i'm inspiring others right now.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 4:17 PM
I would just like to thank you so much for your amazing speech on youtube. This is what you have done: In December 2010, my mother was shown your speech. She was a vegetarian for 15 years or so. She went vegan immediately. She of course wanted her children (me and my brother) to go vegan as well. We were not interested at all! We were both meat eaters, and so was my husband. After a month or so, she managed to convince my brother to watch the speech. And then he went vegan right after! He also got his fiance to watch it the day after, and she went vegan! In one hour! My mother called me with this exciting news. I was irritated and didn't want to hear about it. I like the way I lived. I loved meat and dairy, and could NOT picture a life without my precious cheese. But I was curious because of my brother and sister in law. How on earth could a video on youtube make THEM vegan overnight? I just had to see for myself. And I did. One hour later I was vegan. It's insane! This is 1.5 years ago, and I haven't touched meat, dairy, eggs since. My aunt (my mother's sister) and her daughter were also vegetarians. They both watched your speech and became vegans. Then, I finally got my husband, who was eating vegan at home but NEVER wanted to be 100 % vegan, to watch your speech 2 days ago. He went completely vegan in one hour, and now we are both vegans. My best friend was eating at my house this summer and loved the food, and she listened to me talk about veganism, and she became almost vegan. Then she watched your speech a couple of days ago, and went completely vegan!
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 10:33 AM
I am 15 years old from Israel. I've been vegan for three months now thanks to you. Your speech changed my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 6:40 AM
You're a hero. I've always wanted to give the vegan lifestyle a shot. Your speech made me follow through with it.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 3:09 PM
I'm from Israel. Two months ago my boyfriend, Rafi, told me about your youtube lecture, and suggested we see it together. Needless to say we were a bit afraid to see it, so it took us 2 weeks. When we saw your speech, that was it. We became aware. It doesn't hurt to not eat animal products. It hurts when other people that you try to share it with tell you "it's bullshit". The suffering of innocent animals is bullshit. It really makes me upset and sometimes cry. Your lecture opened my eyes. I never made the connection that what I ate used to have a really hard life, and terrible death just because I wanted to eat it. I know that sometimes you may feel like people don't have a heart, but please keep doing what you do because some do have one. Some do change their lives and they help others change theirs. So please do not give up. So dear friend, I wanted to say thank you. You changed my life, and I will work hard to make other people see the world like I see it now.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 8:42 AM
a few months back i saw one of your videos on youtube. it changed everything. i think seeing your video was fate. i will die for this cause. i am willing to do everything and anything to get people to realise the fucked up shit that these animals go thru. i've never followed the crowd. MEAT IS FOR THE WEAK!
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 3:27 AM
i am from Israel, living in Munich with my Austrian wife. she was a vegetarian for the sake of the animals. i was a hardcore meat eater and a big fan of cheese. two months ago my big brother in Israel told me that he is vegan. i immediately started to laugh. i said, "what the fuck?" he saw your lecture and because of that i watched it and changed. changed forever. i am proud that because of your words and honesty, i will no longer harm an animal. and the change was not even hard. vegan food is very tasty. the only difficulty that i need to deal with is my friends and family. I'm sure that if there were 1,500 Garys around the world - veganism would be coming much sooner.
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 6:37 PM
I just wanted to write to you and say what an inspiration you are. I am a vegan for moral reasons. My mum is stubborn. I had never heard of you until I found your speech on youtube a couple of nights ago. IT REALLY DID LIVE UP TO ITS TITLE 'THE BEST SPEECH YOU WILL EVER HEAR'. I really can't say enough about how great it was. My mum was horrified watching the abuse videos and was also totally impressed with your speech. Afterwards she declared, "I WILL NEVER EAT MEAT AGAIN." She even swore off dairy. Even though we are all the way in Australia, your speech MADE A HUGE IMPACT on someone who I never thought would change.
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 3:26 PM
I watched one of your talks on YouTube today, and heard you say that you have about a 20% success rate in opening people's eyes so they go veg. I thought you would enjoy seeing your success rate in our family of seven. My 17-year old daughter and I were already vegan before watching your talk at GA Tech. These are the changes for the rest of our family: My 21 and 15 year-old sons went from vegetarian to vegan. My 11-year-old daughter also went from vegetarian to vegan. My husband ate meat, dairy, and eggs before your talk. After hearing it, he has stopped eating all land animals. It's a huge adjustment for him, but with the rest of the family vegan, he doesn't stand a chance! He complained that it would be hard at business dinners. I said, "Aren't the animals' lives and suffering worth a little inconvenience?" He agreed. Thank you so much for your action, courage, passion, and love for the beautiful animals God had blessed us with. You are truly their hero, and ours!
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 4:28 AM
There will be a time when "all this" will be banned, I'm sure. It will be illegal (like slavery for humans). And we shall be considered troglodytes from posterity. Our aim is to shorten this lag time. And it's already late! Hope you come to Milano, sooner or later. Otherwise I hope to see you in Florence. I am the Chief of Preventive Gynecologic Oncology Unit of the Department of Mother and Infant Sciences at the University of Milan.
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 2:45 AM
You made me a better person. Your lecture made me see a million things that were right in front of me, but I was blind. I've been crying for hours because I can't believe that I was a murderer for all these years. I want to be a good person so I'll be a vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 10:41 PM
I just watched your lecture at Georgia Tech. I was shaking and crying. My body is in shock right now. I have been a vegetarian for 10 years, but never did enough research to understand the fuckery that goes on in the dairy industry as well. I am a vegan as of this moment. I am very ashamed and unbelievably disturbed right now. You spoke the truth like no other has ever on this topic. Unfortunately, I have a mother who hates to think. She chooses her own comfort over anything, has weak morals, and she punishes me for having strong morals with sarcasms, criticisms, yelling, and playing the victim for wanting her to change. I got fed up with it. It's a long history of how I've been treated by her for 23 years. But today I left the house, came to the university where I have wifi, and watched your video again and cried some more. I have no where to go tonight and will be sleeping in the car. I don't want to go back. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you're doing. For being so fearless. You are appreciated.
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 8:31 AM
I watched your lecture about 6 month ago.I didn't know the meaning of the word vegan. I watched half of it and had to take a break. I knew I would watch the rest but needed some time to digest it all. You said that there is more cruelty in a milk glass than in a steak and I didn't understand why. When I was watching the part about the milk industry, I cried. I could not believe my eyes. It had such an impact on me. I would think of it days after and my eyes would start crying. I was ashamed that I didn't know that cows only give milk after having a baby! Or maybe it's best to say that I never really stopped to think about it. I thought cows just give milk and we people drink it. I am so embarrassed. I'm an educated person, and it never occurred to me. I knew then that I could never again touch animal products. I had no idea what I was supposed to eat, but I knew down deep that things could not be the same anymore. This is coming from a person that used to love milk products so much that when I needed to stop consuming them, because of a medical reason, I refused. If somebody would've told me a day before, that tomorrow I will stop eating milk and meat, I would've probably laughed. I thought you'd be glad to hear that. You are making a difference. I want to tell you "kol hakavod" which means "way to go" in Hebrew. Thank you for trying to make this world a better place.
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 6:40 AM
I have been omnivorous all of my life. But I've always felt inside me that something was wrong. I once asked someone, "Do not you think that animals are slaves of men?" He called me mad, and I believed him. But after seeing you on youtube, I understood many things that he did not understand. I feel like a blind man that can see for the first time. Now I'm vegan. I've decided to do everything I can to end animal slavery in my country. And believe me, here in Spain there is a lot of tradition, so I have plenty to do.
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 6:10 AM
I've watched your lecture and it hit me very hard! Now I can see clearly through the mist. I know that all the things that we learned about animals over the years was ONE BIG LIE! I love animals and think we need to protect them from the Holocaust.
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 5:38 AM
I work for "City Mouse", Tel Aviv, that belongs to Haaretz magazine. Towards the new Hebrew year that's coming up soon we are creating a project including the people that made this last year special in Tel Aviv. And since one of the most important events was the fact that so many people in the city became vegan, so much thanks to you, we would gladly like to include you in this project. What does it take? Only a picture. But since the title of the project is "the people that turned this year upside down", the 10 people photographed will be standing on their heads. But with all the humor involved, this is really for a serious cause. As a matter of fact, you are the only person known by the readers regarding this subject and if we can't take your pic, then there will be no one else since the editors are looking for known and famous people. So I will be sincerely happy if we can make this happen.
Comments from Students and Supporters, August 2012
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 5:44 PM
I'm 16 from Israel. Three days ago i watched your speech, and it really changed my point of view about the veganism subject and animal-human relations. It has been a long time that this issue was on my mind, and your video caught me at the right time. You made me believe that we can reconnect people with animals, so that in the first time of my life i feel part of something that is bigger than me. I wanted you to know that many people know about you in israel, and you really changed things here.
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 1:25 PM
i'm 16 years old, and me and my friends support you so much.
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 12:59 AM
I'm a big fan of your work. I watched your speech after being vegan for two and a half years and it still hit hard. You helped me realize that abstaining from the cruelty is only part of the battle. Being a light for animal rights and veganism is the half I had fallen away from. I've quit biting my tongue about the way I feel on a lot of issues. I just wanted you to know you've reached another person. Though I'm already vegan, your lecture set fire to me again.
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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 8:31 PM
i'm from israel. two months ago i watched your lecture and my life changed. i became vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 5:57 PM
i'm from israel and my husband is from france, but we are living in turkey. we've been trying to go from vegetarian to vegan. but the moment we finished watching your video, we went vegan!
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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:08 PM
My brothers decided to go vegan after listening to your speech, and my friend has gone vegetarian after watching, and his goal is to be vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:50 PM
I am 18 years old, and vegan. I watched your video and was amazed by the way you tell people THE TRUTH. I only know of you because of my friend who put it up on Facebook said, "I no longer have any argument for eating meat. Not a single one." Just a week ago, this same guy was questioning and even mocking my animal-free diet, saying he could never give up meat. But your speech blew him away. I think you do some great work. I have checked out your website, and thumbs up!
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:17 AM
Thanks for your now famous speech. It is truly amazing. I'm writing from Sweden Animal Rights Alliance, where we now are organizing similar school-seminars. I'm wondering if you've got a transcript of some kind that we can get? I think your speech is so perfectly balanced and it would be great to be able to use it somehow.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:34 AM
I'm from India, and I saw your lecture on youtube. I don't have any more adjectives that haven't already been used to describe it. I know that you don't travel outside the US much. So us vegans in India will try and spread the vegan message the best we can, and look at you as our guiding light to a future where the cruelty stops. I'm reaching out to you because I drew a lot of strength from your lecture, and it's a shining light in an otherwise dark world. It encourages me to carry on the same path, and make more people aware about what happens behind closed doors. I hope that in my lifetime at least, half the planet turns vegan. And with people like you, there's hope.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:25 AM
My partner and I have recently started up a conscious cinema club in Guatemala city (we are an English/Israeli couple who have made our home in the beautiful city of Antigua, Guatemala). It is our intention to introduce alternative, thought provoking and life-changing cinema to Guatemala, and your dynamic lecture is on our list of films we'd like to show to the public.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:46 AM
I came across your Georgia Tech speech and Q&A and was floored by your persuasive arguments to help remove everyone's "blinders". You're an inspiration to many, I'm sure, but I just became a pretty huge fan. I was vegetarian for 6 years back in the mid 90s, but I was terrible at it. I ate pizza, cheese sandwiches, gelatin, pastas, etc. instead of fruits and vegetables and nuts and legumes. These past few months, I've slowly started moving myself, my husband and my 2 young sons to a vegan diet. For support and encouragement, I've joined several vegan FaceBook pages which led me to your video. I found your speech as inspirational as those given by Drs. Campbell and Esselstyn. Know that you ARE making a difference.
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Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:02 PM
I was very inspired by your speech and would like to spread the word about your website. Would you mind if I made my own, not to sell to others, just for me.
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Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 1:46 PM
i've been "fighting" with myself for a long time on what to buy and eat. My girlfriend told me i should check out your video so i did. I just want to say thanks for the amazing speech. it really touched my soul and put me on the path to veganism.
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 6:48 PM
i'm 23 and recently started eating fruits and vegetables on a daily basis for the first time in my life. a month ago i probably ate fast food at least 4 times a week and i thought constipation was a regular thing. when i started just eating healthier, i lost weight and for the first time in life i can go to the bathroom naturally without laxatives which is a major accomplishment for me. i was addicted to laxatives prior to eating fruits and vegetables and my health has improved. i had a lot of vitamin deficiencies and severe acid reflux. my sister who is a vegan sent me a video of yours and it completely and radically changed my views on meat and dairy. i eat 8 fruits and vegetables a day. you have a way of reaching people in a way that is magical. i will definitely check out some good tasting vegan substitutes. i already cut out milk. i will soon be changing. thanks for spreading the word.
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:55 AM
Your speech at Georgia Tech was the most articulate, logical and compassionate I have ever heard. I have recommended it to many friends and posted it on facebook. You have an enviable delivery style.
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:27 AM
many of my relatives and friends have turned Vegan thanks to you. i am a great fan of your work. i want to follow in your footsteps!
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 7:32 AM
I became vegan after watching your lecture on YouTube. Thank you for enlightening my eyes: Some of the things I didn't know and some I tried to look away and ignore. The big bonus was that right after I started being vegan, I noticed that my body functioned better.
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:06 AM
I just watched your video with the intent of not changing my mind. You constantly asked for the audience to keep an "open mind" and to just listen. I did so and you reached me. I'm only killing myself with animal products. I want to make a change and pursue bodybuilding and be one of the few major bodybuilders who can still compete with others while being true vegan. I may not impact a whole lot but I just want to do my part and do the least harm as possible. Best of luck on your compelling speeches and thank you for helping give me a longer, healthier life.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:13 PM
I recently saw the speech you made at Georgia Tech and was amazed by your orating skills as well as your arguments. I am a Mexican living and studying at a university in Mexico City and have been a vegetarian for years and vegan for about four months. Since showing your speech to family members and friends, most of them have started to go vegan or at least have started consuming much less animal products. I just wanted to say I admire all of your efforts to make a change and intend to follow your steps and start getting active.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:55 AM
I'm a 17 year old from Germany, I first got interested in animal rights one year ago. I read some stuff on the Internet and looked up your name. What I found changed me for good, I watched one of your lectures and realized that you're the kind of person we can all learn from. This is the reason why I'd love you to come to Europe and represent animal rights here for the rest of the world as well. I can't be the only person to benefit from your explanations and ideas. People need to be offered a chance to change themselves, just like me.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:46 AM
i am 29 years old. i live in israel. i am jewish but i dislike all categories like that since it turns us into "us" and "them" and is the fundamental base for hate and discrimination. yesterday i gave myself the most amazing gift. i watched your lecture. you are an amazing teacher and i hope you will never stop teaching. i can say now that i am fully awake and aware. i feel like i'm giving birth to myself in my 30th year on this earth. i faced my old self in order to be my real self, to start my life over with a choice to be in and to feel every moment, and to be guided by truth and love. when i came into this world, my dad was a butcher. i loved the taste of meat before i even knew how to say the word. i saw dead animals in the large freezer since i was 4 years old, and i never gave it a real thought. you are a real teacher because you do it for the right motive, in the name of truth. the truth has set me free. thank you for bringing it into my home.
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:24 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed your speech. It was truly moving. I admire your eloquence and how real you are in articulating truths that people are ignorant of, or intentionally ignoring. Thank you for all that you do to promote the vegan journey and the liberation from animal slavery in all its forms.
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Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 5:03 AM
I have just watched your speech and wow your words are greatly moving. I live in British Columbia near the city of Vancouver. Something happened while I was watching your video. I have 2 cats, and one was meowing incessantly in the kitchen so i paused the video to see what was going on. There happened to be a small frog on the wall. First thing i did was put the cats in another room, and closed the door so the frog would not be harmed. I eventually got the frog out safely. When I sat back down and played your video I was hit. I eat meat and dairy on a daily basis, but I don't think about how it gets there. If I can feel the need for helping a small little frog, then why the hell do I not feel that same way for other animals which I consume on a daily basis. I want to thank you for reaching out and showing people what is truly going on.
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Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:50 AM
I have watched your speech and decided to go vegan. I have always found it weird that we ate cows and pigs, but dogs and cats were off limits. It's weird how we find it okay to torture and murder one animal, but we love and take care of dogs and cats. I live in Denmark, and there are more and more vegan restaurants. You opened my eyes and I can't justify eating meat and dairy anymore. I remember the first time I heard the term vegan and I wondered "what to they eat then?" But I have found so many vegan cook books and vegan blogs and the sky is the limit. Unfortunately, I have so many people around me who think I am crazy for going vegan and they act very defensive. If you came here and gave a speech, I am sure you would be able to open their eyes/minds and hearts just as you have opened mine.
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Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 4:05 PM
i'm 19 years old, and for the past 6 years i've always been a nutrition freak. the reason why is because i was a wrestler. i've been reading/watching books, articles, documentaries, etc. about going vegan. my eyes are opening up more. then i came across your video, and it was so inspiring. the videos you showed were horrifying. it's scary to know that those things are true, and you had all the knowledge to back it up. if people give me weird looks and crap for just trying to eat clean and save animals, i'm going to show them your video.
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Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 3:35 PM
Thank you for the dedication in spreading the truth. I was a vegetarian for many years & am well on my way to becoming a Vegan after watching your fantastic video on YouTube. I have also persuaded my long time friend to view your film; he has always been a meat eater & also quite a stubborn character when it came to his habits. After viewing this he has completely stopped eating meat & made comments to me such as "It's as if a light bulb has been switched on" for him.
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 6:33 PM
I am a 37 year old economist and government official from Ecuador. I believe that poverty, inequality and violence over the world are moral problems because we have the means to solve it but we don't have the will to do it. Cruelty with non-human animals is the base of our moral weakness. After watching your speech on youtube, I understand that we have to start with our own diet. I'll go vegan and will ask my wife and son to go the same way.
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 5:46 AM
I don't usually write to people. However, in this case, after watching your lecture on YouTube, I felt I had to. I have been contemplating the removal of meat for a long time mainly because of the cruelty involved. I can certainly say, that after watching your lecture today, I made up my mind for good about that. Your speech was what I needed to see and hear to finally make that decision. Exact, bright, comprehensive, exactly to the point. Way to go! And I wanted to thank you for that. Deeply. I am not much of a religious person, but there is something in Judaism called Tikun Olam (Tikun = Fix, Olam = World). World Fix. And that means leaving things better than you found them. Therefore your work is sacred. Not only is this a "Tikun Olam", it's doing it in the greatest way possible by actually saving lives. This is for posterity, as future generations will no longer eat corpses, and will look backwards on these times as dark and primitive. And it is because of dedicated and brave people like you. Thanks again from the bottom of my heart. I strengthen your hands and wish you the best in this holy war!
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 4:53 AM
you're my hero. thanks to you i became a vegan. i'm from israel and i am 11 years old. i hope i can be like you when i grow up.
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:44 AM
thank you so much for all the work that you do. I started veganism this year, and it's not difficult and I feel well in every aspect of my life. you have a lot of followers here in El Salvador.
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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:33 AM
I am fourteen years old, and after listening to a lecture of yours I became a vegan. At first the words were hard to hear, but then I realized that you're probably one of the only people in the world nowadays that has common sense! I was just wondering if you had any general advice on how to spread the word about veganism.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:10 PM
I am a Vegan Italian girl that lives in Grand Cayman. My husband and I would like to thank you because your speech made him Vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:48 AM
I live in Israel and watched your video on Youtube yesterday. I agree with you on is that killing animals is wrong, unjust and should not be done by humans. It is a moral claim needed to be strongly expressed. I support, with great enthusiasm, your moral point of view. Your speech mainly got to me in the sense that I am practicing a hypocritical life style – on the one hand protecting and loving dogs and cats, and at the same time eating meat, milk products and eggs. I will be a vegan to support the idea that humans should not murder other creatures, because it is ethically wrong.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 5:22 PM
Thank you for the change in my lifestyle that you've helped to inspire. It changed my view on food in our society. The videos had me heaving in shock, on the ground, pleading for an end to the insanity. When lunch time came, I couldn't bring myself to eat the tuna salad in the fridge. Dinner came and the thought of grating cheese over the top of my broccoli reignited the heaving sensation. The yogurt I'd bought that morning screamed from the fridge for redemption. As I sit here now sipping on a soy hot chocolate from a café in central Antwerp, Belgium, I draw upon this conclusion: I can't enjoy a butter-filled croissant this morning. I'm a customer who requires something that's not on the menu: Respect, love and an end to animal suffering. You are what you eat. I choose not to suffer because I choose not to eat suffering.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 4:25 PM
I'm 16.5 years old from Israel. You changed my life! really I just don't know how thank you. I heard that you are coming to Israel so I wanted to know what are the chances you will come to my high school?
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:36 AM
I am writing to you to say thank you for what you are doing. I found you through my mother. She and I have been contemplating a vegan lifestyle. Since we love and respect animals, we find it hypocritical to eat them. She sent me a link to one of your speeches and it impacted me positively. I feel that I'm in a transition to stop being carnivorous. I have seen the results both physically and mentally. Thank you for educating me (and the rest of the world) and I admire your willpower and drive to never give up and educate!
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:22 AM
I was completely BLOWN AWAY by your lecture. I have not come across a lecture on animals rights that was as inspiring, powerful, articulate, informative, rational and profound as yours. You are without a doubt the definition of a true hero. Even as a vegan since Christmas 2010, I learned new things from your speech and it inspired me to do MORE than just BE vegan. It made me stronger in my convictions. I feel that just living vegan is not enough, and I need to do more to educate others and be involved! After showing your lecture to my boyfriend's mother a week ago, his mother has decided to try and go vegan. She says, "I am this close. Every time I look at the stuff it makes me sick. All I see is cruelty. It's inhumane." And we've been trying to get her to change for literally YEARS now. Your words really got through to her. I made my brothers watch your lecture, too. We will have to see what they decide. Also a friend of mine who became vegetarian after meeting me is now working on becoming vegan. I plan to show your lecture to more people soon. I think you are a WONDERFUL and INCREDIBLE human being and TRULY A BLESSING to animals and us humans as well. If I ever got the opportunity to meet you in person or shake your hand I would be THRILLED and HONOURED to do so. You are an absolute ANGEL and I can't THANK YOU enough for all that you do!
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Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 8:59 PM
My wife and I live in Austin, Texas, and we've been vegan for quite some time due to your video. I'm writing you to applaud what you've done for our animal friends on this planet. I appreciate your work very much. Very much so that I've actually converted 3 of my close friends at work to veganism with a simple non-attacking conversation that eventually led to your video.
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Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 8:39 PM
You sir have inspired me to become vegan and I am a lover of steak and other meats.
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Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 6:36 PM
Thank you for being the catalyst that made me change, I think you're amazing and I aspire to be just like you and stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.
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Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 4:24 PM
I am 21 years old from Israel. Two weeks ago my coach discussed nutrition. He told me to stop eating meat, eggs and dairy and to start eating vegan. I was very confused and decided I must check out what the hell he is talking about. Then I found your lecture and it changed my mind and got me to start thinking about the animals that I used to eat, and about their suffering. Thank you very much for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 4:20 PM
I write to you from Barcelona, Spain. Thank you for opening my mind. My wife became vegan 1 year ago and I always told her, "Don't tell me about the animals' problems. I have mine." In February, my wife showed me your speech and I realised it was time to become vegan. In your speech you say that people eat meat for four reasons: Tradition, habit, convenience, taste. I think you should add a fifth one: Addiction.
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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 7:17 PM
My girlfriend and I want to thank you for everything you do! We watched a couple of your speeches and it turned us from Vegetarians to Vegans. You have the biggest heart in the world and we love you! We will always support you and animals everywhere in any way we can!
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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 7:16 PM
I wanted to thank you for changing my life. Today is day five being 100% vegan. After seeing the second video clip of your presentation, I could NEVER have a single drop of dairy or meat again. The images of those cows being beaten senseless will forever stay with me. I cried when I saw that, and I don't cry easily. You're doing great work brother, keep fighting the good fight!
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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 7:27 PM
Seven days ago, I was clueless to who you were. I work as a piercer in a tattoo shop. And where I work, we all are fighting for animal rights as best as we can. We adopted 14 rescue dogs and 9 cats. We are truly doing our best to make a change, but as much as we had good intentions, we did not have the right information. When I got to work on Monday, my boss asked all of us to sit down and watch the video of your life-changing speech. We all sat down quietly and watched the entire speech without saying a word. I have to admit we all cried throughout. Watching this speech changed my life, and I want it to change a lot more lives also. We are promoting your video all over our facebook page, and our personal facebook page. Our families and friends watched it and it became a chain reaction. I am not saying everybody will follow the path and become a vegan instantly, but every single person who watched your video told me it changed their life. And, very honestly, 28 people I know became vegan in the last week because of your speech. If your speech has the same impact everywhere around the world, I believe you will actually make an enormous change for animal freedom. Your are my hero. I truly hope we will meet someday, and I promise you that I will spend the rest of my life following your steps.Thank you for changing my life and the whole world.
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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 5:36 PM
I watched your lecture attentively. I was stunned and heartbroken at the unimaginable cruelty humans can inflict on innocent, defenseless beings.This is truly sick! To me these cruel people are not acting on their own will. I think they are demon-possessed. I believe we ought to base our diet on vegetables, grains and fruits. I am committing myself to substituting meat with protein-rich beans, tofu and other veggies.
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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 2:56 PM
I'm from Poland and I'd like to thank you for what you are doing! You can never stop! I was a vegetarian for the last two years but I become vegan while watching your speech. Me and couple of my friends are doing our best to persuade people not to harm animals and your lectures are extremely useful. Once again, please do not ever stop!
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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 9:41 AM
I'm glad this world still has people like you who fight for justice. Who care about others. This is a Short film that I recently made for Animal rights. "The Complicity" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitooglhztI&feature=youtu.be.
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Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 3:40 PM
I'm part of a band called Page One from Israel. We have a new song that was inspired by an insightful quote of yours. We thought you would like to hear it. It's called "What the Fuck Does an Elephant do in the Middle of Detroit?" Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3spLgTztBc&feature=youtu.be. [Note from me: My mild epiphany happened when my stepfather, a clown in The Shrine Circus, took me backstage to see the elephants. They were chained to the floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. I turned to my girlfriend at the time, Wendy, and said, "What the fuck is an elephant doing on 8 Mile and Woodward in Detroit in the first place?" It was the first comment I ever made about the injustice that animals endure.]
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Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:58 PM
I am from Colombia. I have seen your videos, and wanted to say thank you. I am now aware of the suffering of animals. Before your speech, I could not stop eating meat and milk. Now I am vegan and I love my lifestyle. You helped me to see the world differently.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 3:43 PM
i live in greece. somoene recommended that i watch your speech. i was shocked. i've taken meat and dairy out, and i feel like a new man. i'm doing martial arts, weight lifting, argentine tango, i play drums, and attend track days with my motorcycle. every aspect of my life and my stamina has improved twice as much. i was not expecting such an improvement. thank you for your effort and for trying to awaken us.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 12:58 PM
Just wanna say thank you for changing my life! Turned 30 a few days ago and am proud to be a vegan now after hearing your speech. I really don't understand how people can justify eating meat after receiving all the info you clearly demonstrate. I just don't get it! The biggest enemy we're facing is indifference. Anyway I think this world is doomed but no matter what happens people like you rekindle my pride to be human.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 4:52 AM
I am a 42 year old new vegan. My son asked me to watch your inspirational speech a year ago, but I wasn't ready for the pain and suffering I would witness. Now I have made the choice to go vegan. I knew I needed to see the truth, so last night I sat down with my son and watched. I couldn't sleep last night and have been plagued with images in my head all day. I am having trouble dealing with the torture, pain and abuse. I thank you for your educational and honest approach.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 4:50 AM
After watching your life-changing video on Youtube on 30 June, I've become a vegan on 1 July 2012. And my baby Chloe, who's now 6 months old, will be a vegan, too. I will not introduce animal products into her life. My 2-year-old Alan still eats some meat in school because I cannot control what he eats there. But we only have vegan food at home. And when we return to live in Australia next year, Alan will become a full vegan as we prepare our own lunch to bring to school. You may think it is easy to find vegan food in China, but I can tell you it is not the case at all. After such a long time of suffering poverty, the Chinese nowadays cannot get enough meat! There's only one shop in the whole city of Guangzhou that sells the "sexy" meat flavoured vegan food, and less than a half dozen vegetarian restaurants. I want to THANK YOU for changing our lives for the better. I've always loved animals and cared about the environment, and I was ashamed that I had caused so much harm, but now I feel much better as I'm now causing less harm to the lives on earth and the earth itself. You are changing lives, you are changing the world!
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 4:32 AM
Your speech in that classroom was life changing for me, it was one of the first speeches that changed my views completely. I'm a vegan now at 22 and I'm trying to raise as much awareness as possible.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 1:52 AM
You really changed my life. I was already a vegetarian and now I've fully transformed to a vegan diet. I'm from Israel, and it's always surprising to me to see how Jewish people, who suffered so much and were considered to be lowlifes, were abused and slaughtered, are still having absolutely no compassion for animals. One thing about humans, we never learn from our history. Nothing. Thank you for removing my blindfold. The problem is we are born with our eyes wide open but we become blind because other people tell us how to think and how to feel. I'll continue following the right way, and one day when I become a mother, I will teach my children this way as well. So know you made a difference for the future as well.
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 11:37 AM
I would like to thank you for your efforts to spread awareness about the treatment of animals, the health-related consequences of an animal-based diet and your influence through these actions on my life. A while ago I tried to become a vegetarian after watching the documentary Earthlings. It wasn't until I saw one of your lectures in late June and the articles posted on the ADAPTT website that I began trying to adopt the vegan lifestyle. I'm still in the process of adjusting to it, but I have no doubt now that this is the right choice. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this.
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 11:09 AM
I have read about your lectures and the reactions audience members have had to your speeches, and I am very interested in writing an article about you for the Detroit Jewish News. Would you be willing to speak with me regarding your experiences?
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 9:39 AM
Finally! I found a way to express my appreciation! You are THE MAN! I admire you so much and if I ever get to shake your hand, you'll know it's me because I'll be the one pissing on myself and crying. I only hope to be banned from as many countries as you one day. You're my idol. And your speech in Georgia was phenomenal. I came across your email address on someone's tumblr. This person seemed very disgusted with your views about people who harm animals, but I don't get what isn't understandable. The punishment should match the crime.
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 8:36 AM
I'm one of the people who found the first pit bull rescue in Italy. We are the "Pitbull & Amstaff Rescue Italia". You can find us on the web and on facebook. We are all vegan. I hear you are coming to Italy in October, and I would like to know if you would be available to give your face and your name - which is well known by Italian vegans - for our rescue calendar. Just a few pics with one of our pit bulls. This is our rescue: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PITBULLAMSTAFF-RESCUE-ITALIA/121848514528778?ref=hl
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 8:21 AM
Like many other Israelis I watched your taped lecture online and was "converted" immediately. A dear Rabbi named Simcha Roth just passed away about a month or so ago. Last year he wrote a long detailed essay about why being Vegan is a godly decree in Judaism. The essay is in Hebrew: http://www.bmv.org.il/v/h-vegan.html but I suspect with some help you might put it to good use. He summarises the essay with these assertions; Organised premeditated slaughter of animals is cruelty-to-animals which is forbidden by Torah. (צער בעלי חיים), eating processed animal products as accustomed in the west is against the Torah decree of keeping one's health (ונשמרתם לנפשותיכם), Torah-keeping Jews should stop eating animal products in order to decrease the damage we inflict on earth (שלא תקלקל ותחריב את עולמי), When a religious jew goes vegan, they make a great contribution for enhancing the justice and integrity in the world (צדק צדק תרדוף). As you can imagine, most Jewish people today will find all this as novelty, and many will probably even mock it. He ends up his long essay with these words: "The message is clear - alas there's no deaf as the one that does not want to hear. Open your heart and open your mind: Would you like to be a good Jew? Would you honestly like to be religious Jews? Do you really want to be pious? - Go vegan." Spreading Truth is the most noble thing a man can do.
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 4:46 AM
Sitting here on a Monday morning in South Africa and I saw a link to your speech at Georgia Tech. Up until this morning, I still drank milk. Having changed my life a few years ago, including no meat at all in my diet, but keeping dairy (milk & cheese), I was brought to tears. I was sickened to my very core at the abuse animals suffer so that I can have white coffee (in SA we ALL use milk in our coffee). I love cheese, I can't get enough of it and am one of those people you spoke about - how cheese goes in everything. Or rather, it used to. I was so profoundly disturbed by the visuals and while knowing in the back of my mind that dairy cows suffer, tried to placate myself to think that it cannot be that bad. On behalf of every cow that has had to endure such inhumane torture for my pleasure, I apologise today. And I, as of 6 August 2012, no longer include dairy in my diet. I want to thank you for being a speaker who is not only open and frank, but one that inspires. Your one hour lecture has turned my life upside down and I cannot begin to explain how horrified I am. I am a hypocrite. I fight for animal rights in shelters, am anti poaching, anti trophy hunting, etc., but I was part of the holocaust nevertheless. I am proud to say that the operative word in my previous sentence is WAS. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 10:24 PM
Today my soon to be roommates told me that they've made a drastic decision about becoming vegans after watching your video. They wanted me to support their decision and agree to not eat any animal products at home. You have no idea how surprised I was, because they love meat and all other animal products. There were even times when they made fun of me for being a vegetarian. Of course I was ok with their decision and said I would gladly support them fully and even avoid animal products at home, and eat cheese and drink milk at somewhere else if I wanted to. Then they said "watch the video." I've never considered becoming a vegan until now. After watching your video, I've realized how selfish I was. I thought I was pretty aware of animal issues. I thought I was doing my best because I've adopted a stray dog and a stray cat, and I leave food and water for stray animals, but clearly I was very far away from helping, I was doing nothing. I thought I could start off by becoming a dedicated vegan myself and help my roommates by sticking to their decision, and will make sure people watch your video and I'll try to convince them to become vegans. That is the least I can do. But I know that is not going to be enough. Especially in a Muslim country where they have a religious holiday solely based on sacrificing sheep and cattle. You have no idea how cruel people can be, well actually you do because you've been to slaughterhouses. But Imagine that's being done in public, out on the streets for 3-4 days in a row. Thank you for opening my eyes and showing me what was in front of me all along. I'm sure your video will inspire many other people like it has inspired us. Animals in U.S. are lucky to have someone like you looking after them.
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Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 2:10 PM
You spoke to my Stress Management class at Ventura College, Cal., on February 2nd of this year. I just wanted to let you know that because of you, I have remained vegetarian since then, and I'm so close to being fully vegan. I have easily managed to eliminate 90% of my dairy intake, and I haven't had a drop of cow's milk since February. A friend of mine recently asked me to help him stop eating meat, and of course I passed along your lecture. It made a significant impact, and I'm going to continue to help him switch over to a meat, cheese, milk, and eggs free life. Thank you for all your hard work. It does not go unnoticed.
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Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 2:28 PM
i'm from israel and i just wanted to say thanks. me and my sister became vegan because of your video. your work is amazing and blessed.
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Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 2:06 PM
I watched your speech a few days ago and I'd like to enter in contact with you because I want to write a book about you and the truth that nobody wants to hear. I live in Paris, France. Thank you for everything, for opening my eyes! You're a great person. I obviously stopped eating animals.
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Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 3:34 AM
I am from Israel. You are the first living human who approved and agreed with my thoughts. I cannot even describe in words how much it will be an honor for me to be able to watch your lecture LIVE. I am trying to contact my school which seems to be quite hard since it is summer because I have read somewhere that if we wanted you to come speak at our school, we have to get the approval from the administration and send some forms.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:46 PM
I'm just a guy who watched your speech a couple months back. I just wanted to say you are an inspiration! The second I finished watching your video I turned vegan and I couldn't be more happier. I've always been an animal lover and I'm glad you have opened my eyes. Not only have I discovered better food but I feel so good that I'm not participating in a global holocaust. I just want to thank you for being such an amazing person, and I will spread the word myself. Being vegan is the best way!
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:52 PM
I've shown your video to a few non-vegan people and it is extremely effective. I would like to help translate your video into Indian languages (Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, etc.). Also, we would like to feature your video on our new Climate Healers website, when it goes live in November.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:18 PM
I'm from Mallorca. You changed my life earlier this year. Now, with the passage of time, my mother, my brother and some family friends have become vegans. We are so happy and excited about this, learning new stuff every day.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:51 PM
I have just watched your lecture online. Thank you so much. As you say, there are no excuses now. I am very grateful and determined to be a vegan.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:16 PM
Thanks for sharing your info. I am changing my eating way..
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 12:59 PM
I watched one of your lectures on you-tube and it really made me think harder. I've always been passionate about this subject but this lecture really opened my eyes more and made me realise things I hadn't thought about before. I live in England and I am 13 years old. I think that the way you think is the healthiest way any human being could ever think.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 7:33 AM
I wish to thank you so much. I was enlightened by your lecture, fascinated by your words. I turned immediately vegan after watching you lecture. Now a week after watching you and listening to your words, I am a happy vegan. My body is lighter. My mind is clearer. I feel energized strong and vital. I have always been a big animal lover but I was a meat eater so I felt the contradiction in life many times. How is it possible that a big animal lover like me eats animals flesh, blood, bones, etc. without any regrets. I am happy and privileged that I have came across your lecture, your story, your ideas, and wish to do anything in my power to spread the word. By the way, I went to my local drugstore and spoke to one of the pharmacists that works there. I told him I became vegan and he says,"Oh, you heard the Gary Yorofsky lecture. I stopped eating meat after listening to him as well."
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 7:27 AM
My 17 year old daughter told me yesterday that she wanted to change her lifestyle and become a vegan after listening to your speech. As her mom, I told her that I supported her decision. She told me that I should watch your speech and that I would be shocked at the videos that you show. Let me tell you, shocked is an understatement at the pure disgust I saw. I sat paralyzed on my bed and all I could say is O God, please no, please stop, someone help them please. I'm in the healthcare field and have seen a lot in my day but let me tell you that NOTHING prepared me for the abuse and cruelty that I saw happening to those innocent animals. I've had diarrhea twice now after watching that disturbing video and I'll never be the same again. I'm now going to be living a vegan lifestyle because I'm not going to support such an evil cause.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 7:16 AM
I've just watched one of your lectures and I just want to say I think you are amazing. I went vegan around three months ago and it's the best thing I've ever done. I think we live in such an ignorant world and the truth is so obvious when you open your mind. It's an incredible thing you are doing, being the voice for these animals. I really look up to you.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 6:26 AM
I am a dietician, living in israel. Before I began university I was vegetarian. Through the 3 years in university, I got the message that eating meat was very important for health. So, at the end of the third year, I started eating chicken because I thought it was crucial for my health. I was affected by a lot of social pressure. Yesterday, I saw your lecture, and am totally convinced. I will totally start a vegan lifestyle. I think it is very very important to do your lecture to the dieticians all over the world. We learn different things, and I think we are a little bit brainwashed on this subject.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:59 AM
You are an amazing and inspirational human being. We have shared your lecture on our Facebook page today (facebook.com/karmavore).
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 12:41 AM
I just watched the youtube video of your lecture, minus the fast forward through the torture videos. No guilt though I'm already vegan. And I just felt like why haven't I heard of this guy before? I haven't been a vegan for very long but I dove into it wholeheartedly and I never came across your group or name. I shared it in every way I know how/am able at the moment, but that aside I wanted to say thank you! For standing up for what's right, for having such a great charisma and confidence about yourself. I know that individual choices to be vegan make a big difference, but there's always a need for that ONE person that represents a movement, to push people a little further to do more and you are the best thing I've seen for animal rights thus far! It's just very impressive and respectable.
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 7:29 PM
I am a Roman Catholic Priest from New York. I have been in this ministry for 33 years and it has had its joys but it is often wrought with relentless frustrations. I wanted to tell you how much I admire you. You are a prophet in every sense of the word. Your passion and conviction are powerful gifts for animals everywhere. Here you will find a link to an article (http://thetablet.org/?p=15312) I recently wrote in our Catholic paper. I had to twist many an arm to get it published. I have received many positive responses. As you know, the church has done much good but it also continues to oppress so many in variant ways. That is what breaks my heart the most. I pray that you will continue to be a voice for those who have no voice! Your message is so powerful and most certainly has affected me deeply.
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:25 PM
I am a 36 year old Israeli living in NYC for the past 9 years. I wanted to thank you for changing my life and allowing me to cleanse my body and my soul from eating animals and animal products. I feel great, energized, vital and alive! When I was 5, I told my mom that I do not want to eat any animals and went veg for about a year and a half till the doctor told her to make me eat it cause I needed to protein to grow. I ate meat ever since and loved every minute of it. Like you, I thought it was so tasty and was comfortable with the disconnect, putting my head in the sand. It is a paradox cause I had so many animals growing up: turtles, cats, dogs, bunnies, hamsters, fish, parrots and more, yet I ate meat and dairy without asking myself too many questions. Your lecture opened my eyes and I immediately went veggie. You gave a wind of purpose to my life. I promise to spread the word the best way I can and wake up more people who, like me, are sleeping in their denial comfort zone. You are right, they have to give it up! Unfortunately, humankind is in most cases the worst kind. We kill each other and others with no good reason. Most of the people in your video are sadists who really enjoy hurting others. They get a kick from making others suffer. I had a neighbor like that back home and after I caught him throwing stones at stray cats for the second time I gave him a demo of how it feels to be tortured and he stopped. Thanks again, you are a great man with a great cause!
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 9:38 AM
i watched your lecture on youtube a few minutes ago and i have to tell you that you are my idol. now I've decided to become vegan for rest of my life. thank you for your activism and i hope you change many people.
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 8:43 AM
Thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:42 AM
You've just pushed me over the edge. I've been Vegetarian for 10 years, but the last few years I've been saying I need to be Vegan. Your comment on cheese stopped me.
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:42 AM
i'm 32 years old from Israel. i was referred to your lecture on youtube and i have heard about it from friends and seen it on the news. i'm sitting in my office and i have just finish watching your lecture. i have to admit that i didn't see how bad and sad it was until you described it. you got me and have definitely opened my eyes. what you are doing is priceless. i wanted to say that you are the best emissary that animals can ask for. i'm so happy to know that there are people like you in the world. i hope that you will continue doing what you are doing and convince people around the world to see the truth!
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:14 PM
I am embarrassed to tell you that I had to reach the age of 28 to realize, watching your video, how wrong my life was. I made a choice and I chose to not eat anything that can represent disrespect to any animal. I'm a Vegan. Regards from Portugal.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:19 AM
Saw your YouTube video yesterday. Vegan starting today. Consider another 3000 animals saved. Thanks for making so much sense. Best of luck to you in educating the masses and God Bless.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 4:24 AM
I recently began a food journal before I saw your speech and I was feeling good, documenting what I ate. A piece of meat here, a chicken leg there, a glass of milk and eggs and everything that I thought I was supposed to eat. I looked it over as you were concluding your speech and I was disgusted. I felt like I was gonna hurl. That was my reaction to seeing what I was eating without my blinders. Your message resonated with a part of me that always felt awkward eating chicken with bones (I could only eat nuggets) because the bones really creeped me out, as well as thick meats. I know that I can never eat meat and feel normal again. A change will have to be made, and it is because of your valuable insight. I warmly thank you.
Comments from Students and Supporters, July 2012
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:57 AM
I've seen one of your lectures and I want to thank you for opening my eyes. I hope we can gradually increase our numbers and live in a more harmonious and sane way on this planet.
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Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 8:33 AM
You opened my eyes like no one did before.
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Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 7:34 AM
I have been Vegan for about 8 years now. Your speech has done a lot to inspire me to be more vocal about my Veganism and keep my beliefs sharp.
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Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 3:59 AM
yesterday I watched your speech and sent it to all of my friends. you have many followers here in Israel.
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Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 12:59 AM
I'm Brazilian, I am 17 years old and I loved your lecture circulating over the internet. I want to thank you for your lectures and for the person who you are! Many friends of mine have become vegan after listening to you!
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Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:36 PM
i'm from israel. thank you for a mind blowing lecture!
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Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:01 PM
Thanks for your amazing lectures. They changed our life! It's amazing that people like you exist and open others' eyes on all the murders and cruelty.
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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 6:32 AM
I just wanted to say Thank You. I have been vegetarian for the last year of my life. I was raised in an area where hunting and fishing were considered normal activities. I personally was never able to pull a trigger, but carry the shame of killing many fish. I stopped when I had to help my father clean a hog that he had brought down during a hunt when I was around 12 years old. It did not sit right with me, and only added to the strange feelings I would have when eating meat. I watched your presentation at Georgia Tech, and it has changed me. I was finally able to realize that consuming cheese was devastating to animals. I am fully committed to my health and protecting the planet and its inhabitants as of today. I really enjoyed how you go about educating. You are able to show your anger and passion without coming off as attacking what people think is a normal way of life.
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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 6:14 AM
I was inspired by your YouTube lecture. I've recently decided to go vegan and a lot of people started questioning me to the point that I started doubting myself. But after seeing your lecture, there is no going back. So I feel obligated to say a simple word: Thanks!
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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 4:28 AM
thanks for your thoughts. you've changed me.
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:27 PM
Greetings from Lithuania. You became my third love in my men-love list. I admire the light and strength that spreads from your mind. Your speech inspired me to go from vegetarian to vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 9:54 AM
I really appreciate your effort to stop violence against animals worldwide. I just stopped supporting the meat industry.
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:47 AM
i am from israel. my friend sent me a link to your speech. after i saw it, i became vegan. i used to think i loved animals while i was eating a cheeseburger. now i know the truth. i hope more people will watch it and become vegan. keep up your activism.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:25 PM
I am a member of a small group here in Cornwall England called SAFE (Saving Animals From Exploitation). I have always been into raising awareness. I thought it would be good if we had your speech on DVD as a way of promoting veganism. Since we are a tourist town with people coming from all over the country and abroad, it would be perfect place to get the word out.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:56 PM
Many people are amazed what you say and I am one of them. It's not easy to speak out against culture, break habits so strong that people accept them as correct, and experience anger directed toward you. Me and many of my family and my friends in Israel, we have become vegans. Thank you for guiding us to think outside the box.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:04 PM
Your brilliant speech converted us from vegetarian to vegan 1 year ago. Thank you so much for the work that you do, you're incredibly inspiring and we just love your passion and energy. We emailed your video link to everybody in our contacts list. We continue to spread the word of veganism and use your video whenever we can. In fact, we are yoga teachers from Australia and have just moved to southern Ecuador, bought some land and are now intending to build a vegan yoga retreat centre which will have a vegan restaurant, organic garden and cooking workshops, conscious cinema and vegan education talks (of course show your speech).
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:16 AM
Thank you for encouraging me to veganism. I am a better person. I am sharing this info with my friends and parents and two of my friends just became vegetarian.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:49 AM
I'm from Italy and I would like to thank you for showing us a better way. I saw your videos and I decided to become Vegan. I had problems with my blood for years and after 6 months of veganism my blood is ok. Without meat, milk and eggs, I solved a problem that I had for 10 years. I have to thank you for this! You opened my eyes.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:37 AM
I just wanted to say thank you, again, for opening my eyes through your powerful speech. A year ago today I watched you speak on youtube, and decided right away - that's it, I have to go Vegan! Your comments and common sense hit home so hard and I could not think of any argument any more for NOT becoming a Vegan! Going Vegan was the only logical and ethical thing to do and it's exactly what I did. So, today is my one-year VEGANVERSARY and I have you to thank for one of the best decisions I ever made! It has been a wonderful and rewarding journey! I have been really lucky because I have the support of my friends and family. I may have planted some Vegan seeds in their heads too. Thank you for your powerful words and for making me see the light a year ago. I will be Vegan for life and for that I am forever grateful to you.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:03 PM
I've recently had the pleasure of viewing your famous lecture on YouTube. After watching your lecture I have become 100% Vegan. Your lecture is truly mesmerizing to say the least, and a real eye-opener. There is no doubt in my mind that what happens in the Meat, Dairy, Egg and Honey industries is simply so shocking that becoming a vegan is indeed a no-brainier. I even converted my vegetarian fiance to veganism.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:35 AM
Thank you for the information I saw on youtube. Starting this moment I want to be vegetarian! And I will be! You have a great vision man. Follow it, and you will succeed.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:50 AM
I watched your video on youtube the other day and was blown away. While I've seen things like this before, heard about stories, and even read books about it, it wasn't until your video, with common sense points backed up with legitimate arguments and facts, that I said screw this, I'm done, no more, I'm going vegan. I showed my wife the video and before she watched it she was kind of thinking that I was being silly, then she texted me later that day and was with me. Thanks for truly opening our eyes to real situations that are happening in the world and doing something awesome and heroic about them.
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Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 2:24 PM
I don't want to take much of your time except to say thank you for your part in awakening me. I had looked into Veganism after researching the Gerson therapy for my girlfriend who has MS and has just gotten over cancer. However, for me there was that final stimulus or missing link in my own psyche before I made that conscious step to change my life forever. A buddy of mine gave me the film Earthlings and your lecture to watch after we were shooting the breeze talking about the whole concept. He is a vegan and animal activist from way back. Well all I can say is that I watched both your lecture and the film and what I saw emptied my desire (and almost emptied my soul) to ever eat meat or animal products again, not for my health but for the sake of the helpless. The fact that I will get the added health benefits of which I have known and educated my girlfriend about is only a bonus. So thank you, I will be duplicating both movies and spreading the word to all I know!
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Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 11:04 AM
I would like to express my utmost gratitude and respect for you and your life's work! Thanks to your lecture, me and my girlfriend no longer want to consume animal products. Not only that, but my girlfriend's sister and her husband, together with their two little girls, are turning vegan as well! I think what you are doing is God's work, and I wish there were more people like you in the world! I would also like to commend you on your excellent verbal skills. You are a true inspiration to people! Thanks for opening all of our eyes!
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Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 6:13 AM
You have my deepest admiration. Your speech converted me in January 2012 to became vegan. Thanks very much that you are doing this for our planet.
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Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:13 AM
I'm from Israel I wanted to thank you. I saw your amazing lecture and now I'm starting to change and become vegetarian. I sent the lecture to all of my friends and hope the change will start on their lives also.
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Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 4:04 PM
I am from Israel. I would like to say THANK YOU for opening my eyes, for changing my life, for caring, and for your risks. You are a great person and I know you have changed a lot of lives and saved a lot of animals around this planet by making a lot of people go vegan. You made me a happy person, and a healthier person. You also made me smarter and more mature and definitely more aware. I heard you are coming to Israel! I'll come to see your lecture and hopefully I'll be able to thank you in person.
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Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 2:41 AM
I am 16 years old from Australia. You're speech on YouTube is literally AMAZING. A friend showed it to me and I've watched it at least 10 times while showing it to other people. My friend and I had to do a persuasive speech for English at school and we both did Veganism/Vegetarianism. We used a lot of concepts from your video. I wished I could have just showed your speech because you explain everything so well and so clearly. I really love what you're doing and wish more people could think like you do.
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 5:11 PM
I just wanted you to know that my son and his wife tried to get me to go vegan for months. I would try and would fail. After watching your lecture, I made the switch and wanted to thank you for all that you do! You made a difference in my life and I love you for that.
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 5:35 AM
I saw your lecture. There were things I knew but I ignored or did not want to believe. Today, I will not lend a hand to any more animal abuse.
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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:27 PM
I just wanted to thank you for all of the hard work you do to stop animal cruelty. I can tell from your comments that you have inspired so many people to become vegan and I think that's really amazing. I've been vegetarian since I was 14 and always tried to become vegan. Watching the video of your speech is what finally pushed me to do it, and I'm so glad it did. Six months vegan!
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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:31 PM
i've been thinking about going vegan for several months. then, talking with a friend of mine, he linked me your video and i decided to join this path.
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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:59 PM
Your lecture without question increased the speed at which I was evolving toward vegan. I didn't have a problem without meat but I thought it would be difficult to give up cheese and eggs. Thanks for helping me get there. I don't know why I ever wanted to eat animals or things that were excreted from them. I guess I was just convinced it was okay when I was younger as you pointed out. Finally I am at total peace with what I eat and it is wonderful. I love animals, why would I ever want to eat them, or cage them for their milk or eat their eggs – it really is insane.
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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:51 AM
i'm from israel. several month ago i watched you lecture and it gave me a slap to my face. after all the lies people tell us at a very young age that "meat is healthy" and "you should eat meat because it will make you stronger" and all that shit, i finally understood that IT'S NOT HEALTHY and i don't want to take part in this murder. thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:46 PM
I'm 24 years old from Israel. I just saw your lecture and I was so inspired that when the lecture finished, I went to the grocery store and bought soy milk and tofu products. most people don't understand the harm of eating animals and one hour ago i didn't understand it either. thank you for the great lesson you just gave to me.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:14 AM
i live in israel near jerusalem and yesterday i saw your lecture and i am still very much in shock because i'm a very religious person and i thought how can this be? the amazing thing is that when i looked in the bible, the commentators of the bible say loud and clear that from adam until noah people weren't eating meat. they were vegetables and fruits. i found a quote from a very important person, too. rabbi abraham kook was the first chief rabbi of israel in the 20th century and he said, "The day people stop killing animals is the day that human wars will come to an end!" amazing, isn't it? i'm going to start a new way today.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:07 AM
Thank you for opening my eyes. I'm from Israel and just now finished viewing your lecture. I now feel sick to my stomach. I hope I can save a cow, even one. Thank you so much.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:04 PM
I'm a 20 year old IT student from the Netherlands. I have seen your speech on youtube and you converted me from vegetarian to vegan. I feel great both physically and mentally better than ever before. To cut a long story short You're my hero! I think it's great that somebody teaches young people the insanity that is the current meat industry. From my mom, brother and me (all vegan), thank you!
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:21 AM
I'm from Ireland. I have gone from a vegetarian of 15 years to vegan, prompted by having watched your lecture. I found it to be compelling, critical and immediate. I had often thought about the veganism route but always found literature on it to be overly emotionally-charged, cloying and fanatical. I wanted a fact-based, well-researched, rounded appraisal of the situation and you supply that. I think that any open-minded person who is exposed to your appraisal could not argue against it. It now seems so outrageous to me that people I love—good people, animal-lovers, people with eco-passive houses etc.—go ahead with the consumption of animal products and refute the connections. I have become charged and piqued by what you taught me. I feel like I have been shown a secret text that portends the future and, when asked about the new-found veganism, I feel like I am sharing a basic, irrefutable, bedrock truth. And people often laugh at it. It is a difficult road, in this sense. But, like any nascent taboo movement, it seems outrageous to most but essential to a small few. I am sure of few things, but I am sure that this way is the only rational choice for the human race and, in time, it will become everyday instead of extraordinary. My brother is also gone from veggie to vegan now and my mother and I are having ongoing, animated discussions on it. She is yet to watch the lecture. I would like to thank you for doing what you do. You turned the lights on for me.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:09 AM
Keep doing what you are doing because I went from vegetarian to vegan. Keep it up because it works 1 person at a time.
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 6:12 PM
I am a 22 year old music student from Jerusalem's Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, majoring in orchestral conducting. I would like to thank you for your non-stop action in favor of animal rights, I watched your famous lecture about 3 months ago without any thought on becoming vegan. However, with absolute logic and great rhetoric, you managed to make me agree with you, and become vegan. I am now almost 2 months vegan, feeling better and less tired, eating delicious self made vegan burgers, cakes, spaghetti bolognese, and other astonishingly tasty food. I am about to hold an event in my house with some of my acquaintances in which I am to show parts of your lecture and parts of Earthlings, serving vegan meals and holding a debate, hoping to reach as many people possible.
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 2:21 AM
I'm from Guadalajara, Mexico, and I just want to thank you. I've seen your lectures on you tube, and my girlfriend and I are trying the Vegan life. For about 3 months, it's so far so good, and we're just feeling great! Now we're sharing with friends and family your lectures, information and our personal experience.
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 5:58 AM
With your permission I would like to show your lecture to my fitness group of 200 members. I think it is very important for people to listen to your message because it affects every one of us.
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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:07 AM
I refer people to your "best speech ever" on youtube. It made me open my eyes and become vegan. I thank you with all my heart for that.
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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 3:43 AM
after watching your lecture, I decided to become vegan, i'm really glad i came across it.
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Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 10:42 PM
I'm from Rosario City, Argentina. I just want to let you know that my life changed after I saw your speech on youtube. I hope one day you can come to my country.
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Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 2:39 PM
I am 17 years old and live in Israel. I saw your lecture and was shocked. I decided to become a vegan. I'm really happy and grateful that you opened my eyes and removed the vision blockers that society put on my eyes. I saw an article in the Israel TV and heard you might come here in September. I hope it's true. Keep up the good work, I'll do my best to help you and help our world and animal friends.
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Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 10:54 AM
I just watched your lecture after seeing an ad for it through the Israeli media. It was featured on the news and several other tv programs. Your lecture opened my eyes wider than they were open before. My wife and I decided to go vegan and raise our 5 month old baby in the same manner. I am about to immigrate to Wales next week and start working as a Chef in CAT- Center for Alternative Technology. CAT is a purely Vegan institution and all the restaurants and cafes in its visiting center are Vegan. Thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 6:07 AM
I live in Israel. I was against Vegetarianism and Veganism and for a long time I refused to watch your lecture for various reasons. After watching the lecture, you've managed to change my perspective. It broke my heart to see the kind of cruelty we are willing to administer just to satisfy our basic habits. I just wanted to say thank you for opening my eyes. I wont be eating meat again.
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Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 5:23 AM
i admire your work. you're a brave man. i went vegan. you inspire me, and i spread the message.
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Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 3:11 AM
I represent ELSA (European Law Students' Association) in Ukraine. You are one of the factors that influenced me to become a vegan. And I'd really like to help people at my university understand the truth. My dream is that you would perform your lecture at our university (National University of Law Academy of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise). Your lectures have helped bring veganism in the Ukraine to a new level. You have changed the lives of young people and opened their eyes.
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 8:51 PM
I guess you can say I'm a typical "tough guy", "meat head", capitalistic businessman. I tend to shy away from anything that boasts a "liberal" badge just because it makes it seem more acceptable in this "progressive" society, I have little respect for people who chase whatever Hollywood tells them is popular, and I don't appreciate "hippies" that spend more time discriminating against what the media tells them is uneducated and conservative, rather than actually believing in what makes sense to them. The reason I mention this is that I would assume that I am not the typical vegan supporter. Two days ago I saw a movie on YouTube about the fur industry and for the first time in my life, I couldn't sleep at night due to the graphic images. Before I go on, I must tell you that I am no stranger to graphic images. I actually served in a combat unit and experienced war first hand, and NEVER had trouble sleeping at night from what I've seen. For the past two days I've felt horrible and helpless, but was convincing myself that my consumption has nothing to do with what Chinese people are doing to fur animals. Today, by pure coincidence, I came across one of your lectures on veganism. I feel terrible and ashamed. I want to thank you for committing your life to helping animals, as I know that I would never have the courage to do that myself. I am officially a full vegan.
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 3:57 PM
I am from Mexico (Queretaro) and have been a vegetarian almost all my life. I am 41 years old, but because of your video about the animal holocaust today, I decided to become a vegan. You did something very important today. You changed my life for the better.
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 1:42 PM
I'm a 28 year old Brazilian guy. I saw your video on the internet for the first time today. You are amazing man! I'll try to do a regular diet with no meat, cheese, egg or milk.
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 10:13 AM
I wanted to thank you for opening my eyes to the horrible mistreating of the animals. I've always kind of known a little bit, but as you said, I had my blinders on. I always knew that chickens were kept in unsanitary conditions, in cages too small for them, by the thousands. I never really looked that far into the rest of it because honestly I just didn't want to see it. Back in High school (I'm 27 now) I did do a report on animal testing and doing the research for that report I came across some articles on veal, and how the calves are mistreated so badly, and kept in small stalls so they cannot turn around or move. I decided at that instant I would never eat veal again. And I haven't for upwards of 12-13 years. But why did I stop there? Why did I decide that it was not okay to treat the baby cows like this, but it was okay to treat the adult cows, pigs, chickens, etc like that? Honestly, I think it's because I was too selfish. I have told very close friends before that if I didn't like the taste of meat so much, I'd be a vegetarian. So because I like the taste of meat I should participate in mistreating and slaughtering these helpless animals? It's got to stop, and it's going to stop today. Today, July 13, 2012, I have decided that I am going to do my best to convert to vegan. I will do it. I have to. After watching your lecture online I sat there crying wondering how I was able to sit there and put up blinders and turn the other way when I knew in the back of my mind what was going on. I just didn't WANT to see it. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart for everything you do. I know the animals cannot thank you themselves, but I know they are grateful.
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 8:51 AM
I'm 14 years old from Israel. So on 25\02\12 I first heard your name. A good friend of mine is a vegan, and I never really knew why, so I asked her why. She said, "Gary Yourofsky." I replied, "What?" She said, "Gary Yourofsky. That's the reason." Then she sent me a link to the lecture. After 10 minutes I was already in tears. An hour that changed my life, changed everything. Obviously I knew they were dead, and that I was eating an animal, but I never thought it was THAT bad. You opened my eyes and I promise, I will never eat meat again. But there's a little problem. My mom wont listen to me. She said I can be a vegetarian but not a vegan. I PROMISE I'll be a vegetarian forever and as soon as I'll turn 18 I'll do what I WANT and I'll never touch meat, milk and eggs! Thank you for the lecture. Thank you for opening my eyes. Thank you for changing my life. Thank you so much for everything you do every single day! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:39 PM
I began veganism in May of 2011 due to watching your video. It was an epiphany for me. I conduct a Wiccan group at the all female prison where I work in Wyoming. I have shared my vegan experience with these women. They want to view your video one evening when our group meets.
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:17 PM
I'm from Brazil. I love animals which is why I've been studying veterinary medicine since 2008. I will be graduating next year. Three weeks ago I was watching some videos on the internet when I accidentally saw your video. It immediately changed my point of view of everything about eating meat, milk and eggs. I stopped eating all of it and started to talk to everyone in my house about it and I showed your video to them. Since that day I have been learning and preparing a lot of recipes with no animal food. I always wanted to fight to end animal suffering, but I never thought about not eating them. Oh, I was so dumb. But now I feel really happy because I know I am following my heart. I have really found something to fight for. And now I want to do more and more. I am thinking about opening a vegan restaurant when I finish my graduation and I want it to be a huge success. I admire your love and fight for animals and all the things you do for them. You are really brave.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:52 PM
I'm writing you from Caserta (Italy). I saw your lesson at Atlanta's Georgia Tech Institute. I never heard about you, your cause or the vegan diet. Television in Italy is the same as it is the USA. It's disinformation. Disinformation is our new century's disease. To change the Italian lifestyle, you have to change traditions. To change traditions, we have to change many generations. I think you're right. Vegans are right. We don't need to kill. I'll be vegan. I'll do what I can to explain to everyone I know how we can improve our health by becoming vegan. You're on the right path, and now I will follow you on this cause.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:23 PM
Watching one of your talks turned me vegan overnight and I cannot thank you enough. Your speech was the tipping point for me. It opened my eyes to so many things I had never even considered and I am so grateful I came across it. I have been vegan for a week now. I have already lost a few pounds that I had wanted to for a long time but just couldn't seem to budge.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:03 PM
I saw your video. It was so instructive and inspiring. I was a daily meat-eater, but I'm going to become vegan! Thanks for your teachings, I will treasure them.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:38 AM
you are my first contact with veganism. i am from romania. and i hope to discuss this lifestyle soon with my friends. thanks for being so direct and easy to understand, and so well-documented.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:03 AM
I just watched your speech on YouTube. Thank you so much for your incredible work. You are a huge blessing to mankind's evolution. I am a huge fan now.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:55 AM
I'm from Taiwan. Yesterday I was preparing for a photography speech and I wanted to look online for good speech examples. I searched for "best speech" in chinese on youtube. I saw your speech, clicked it and after one and half hours my life changed. I was living a "standard" life as a "normal" person eating meats. I didn't even think about it. But after listening to you I became a vegan without even questioning it. Every word you said had so much feeling in it, and those videos you played just made me feel super sick! Sick that I was so stupid for not realizing it. Sick how human beings are so ridiculous. Now it's such a pain watching people eating animals, even my parents. It's hard to change a person's mind set. You know when you're actually doing the right thing, people out there all think you are a freak. It's very difficult. I am sure that I will be vegan forever. I will keep this faith. And in this lifetime, I will find a way to do the same thing as you do, telling people the truth. Finding your speech was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me in my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:39 AM
I watched your lecture on veganism and was very moved by it. I will be pursuing a friendly lifestyle as much as I can.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:33 PM
I'm from Spain. Months ago I watched your lecture. Before it, I was vegeterian. After it, I converted to vegan. I did it because you really have removed my blinders. Since I was a child I loved animals, but I ate them. At same time I ate them, I was thinking that I was doing a wrong act. Why I continued eating meat? Now I know that I did it because the industry brainwashed me. Now I understand that if I love animals, I have to do something for them. Now I'm vegan, and I'll die vegan. You opened a new window in my life. Now I can live my life without hurting others.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:57 PM
I want to thank you for taking my "eye blocks" off and influencing me to become vegan. It is a great honor to hear that you plan on coming to Israel this September. I thought you could come to our school to give a discourse. The audience will be teachers and pupils in the range of 15-19 years-old.
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 10:46 PM
A friend of mine saw one of your videos on YouTube. By watching you she understood what I've been trying to say to her about milk for 3 years now. I made her a vegetarian a year ago and now after watching you she will cut out milk. I am from Chile living in Australia and my friend is Chilean/Spanish living in Ireland. So we can spread the word.
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 7:23 PM
I'm from Malta. I'm vegan because I truly respect animals. I was touched by your speech and am sure that some people would open their eyes if they had the chance to listen to you. I'm spreading the word and sharing your video. There's a big chance that this video will be shown in a reggae bar in Malta!!
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 1:48 AM
First off, there are no words that give proper praises for what you do for people, the planet, and most of all, the animals. Thanks for being a captain in our army.
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Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 5:55 PM
It's been seven months since I turned vegan. I saw your video on YouTube and decided to make the switch. I just wanted to express my deepest gratitude to you. I love you from the bottom of my heart.
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Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 6:15 AM
I'm writing you from Italy, I heard your speeches and they are fantastic. My cousin went vegan after listening to one of them, and she was deeply committed to meat, so your speeches have a lot of impact.
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 5:13 PM
I recently came across one of your vegan lectures and loved it, so I thought I'd drop you a quick email just to let you know what happened after and what you achieved from miles away. I loved animals ever since I was a little girl and I became involved in animal rights as I grew up. I first became a vegetarian almost 10 years ago and gradually became a vegan. My partner completely stopped eating meat at home almost since the day we met, by his own initiative, but he was still eating meat sometimes when out for lunch with other friends. He shared my views, but sometimes we are just so used to certain things we just need someone to open our eyes. When I watched one of your videos, I liked it so much I passed it onto him. I am super happy to say he has been a vegan since! And not only that, I forwarded your video to two friends of mine and they decided they won't eat meat anymore and they gave up milk too. So, I just wanted to thank you for your great work, I truly believe your lectures are amazing and can change many people and the way they see things. I will keep forwarding your links to friends and family, hoping more and more people change their diet and living habits.
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 2:40 PM
I'm a 31 year old I.T. guy from India who is working in NYC. I have been vegetarian for the last 20 years living under false impression that my life is cruelty free. I watched your speech about three months ago and I have had some sleepless days, and lots of tears. You are a living proof that lives can be changed in 60 minutes. I am trying my best to bring change in people around me. So far, I have managed to convert 3 people to vegetarians and 3 other people to vegans. Your site has wonderful information to help debate non-vegans.If I ever get chance to see you personally I would bow to you. For me you are nothing less than a messenger from GOD.
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 1:52 PM
I admire you and thank you for being one of the best professors. There is nothing better than to teach love to a living being. I've learned to care and love animals on July 5, 2012, 2 days ago after I decided to be a vegan right after watching your video. I had no idea how cruel people were to our brothers and sisters.
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 11:00 AM
i saw your lecture and have turned vegetarian.
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 6:17 AM
I am from Israel and after watching your lecture online I am thinking about going vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 2:55 AM
I'm from Israel and I've always loved and adored animals ever since I was a child but I haven't stopped consuming animal products until I watched your lecture on YouTube. Now, I'm trying to convince my friends and colleagues to switch to veganism as well. I am SUPER grateful for your existence.
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 2:44 AM
Thank you so much for opening my eyes. Your speech has changed my life.
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 2:41 AM
I've been vegan ever since I saw your video 10 months ago. I showed your video to my classmates at my college, and it had a huge impact. Not as big as I wanted it to be but I've grown to understand how difficult it is to make people care enough to change their lifestyle. After realizing how difficult it is I could only imagine how hard it has been for you, doing it for so long. Most of my family are vegans now, my boyfriend and his brother, too, and his brother's friend and several of my friends as well. It's really frustrating to try to convince people who truly love animals to watch it as they know if they see the truth their conscience wouldn't let them stay indifferent. Thank you for changing my life! Thank you for making the world a better place. The change will happen even if it takes some time!
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 1:52 AM
i was already a vegetarian but after watching your lecture i will be vegan.
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 7:04 PM
I've been vegan for a year after watching your speech. And I got some of my friends to watch your speech, too.
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 5:54 PM
I want to start being vegan, along with my two kids, too. I love your work. Thanks for trying to give us a conscience.
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:59 AM
You are amazing. No more meat nor milk and eggs!
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:31 AM
I'm from Israel. My sister told me about your lecture, explaining that we should be vegans. So I watched the lecture with an open mind. You have the ability to persuade amazingly. You speak boldly, with pieces of humor, not blinking for a second. I believe in veganism.
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Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:42 AM
Congratulations on your lecture video. It made me reconsider my way of living and I'm thinking of becoming vegan. I have a disease in the liver, and as the doctor told me: "anything that has blood in it will hurt you". I found all the things you say in the video absolutely true.
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Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 6:16 AM
i saw a few of your videos and i think that you have converted me from vegetarianism to veganism.
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Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 5:16 AM
I know you've been receiving many emails about how you contributed to the revolution in Israel, but I just wanted to add one more. Yesterday an interview with me was published @ Free From Harm, where I explain how you changed the lives of thousands in Israel. Would love for you to take a look at http://freefromharm.org/veganism/the-rise-of-vegan-culture-in-israel-interview-with-ikey-greene/. I know your work must be exhausting and frustrating and I want you to know that you really are responsible for saving so many lives and to thank you for that, truly and honestly. You are one of a kind and the best thing that has happened in this crazy country. Ever.
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Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:23 AM
I am from Colombia. A friend of mine shared one of your videos on Facebook today and I was in shock and cried, got mad and screamed. It was really inspiring to see that there are still good people in this world. I really wish no living being had to endure so much pain and cruelty. I am serious about becoming a vegan. I am going to show the video to all my friends and family, I hope they like it that much and become vegan like me. You are a great man and I hope you never give up because people like me will always support you. Thank you so much for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 4:42 PM
I'm Argentinian. I want to say thank you for your work and words. I'm already a vegetarian but you gave me the will to be a vegan. Last night I talked with my parents about it and I can't stop preaching about this to all of my friends.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 4:53 PM
I want to thank you for the lecture I saw on YouTube. This is truly the best lecture I have ever heard. I added your Gary TV banner to my www.lakers.co.il site. I don't know how I was so blind that I didn't know how milk/meat comes to my house. Thank you for opening my eyes!
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Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 8:43 AM
First I would like to thank you for your mission in life and all the amazing work you have done. I recently viewed your lecture at Georgia tech and found it very powerful. I really like your style and your blatant approach! I have a website on nutrition and preventative ways to keep healthy. I will be adding information on the dangers and consequences of eating meat and will definitely be using some of your information on your website. I also just started a YouTube page on natural ways of healing and posted your video from Georgia Tech. I believe all your work will not only affect, but change people's lives. Especially in schools. This is where true education starts. Once educated they will tell their family, friends and neighbors and then change is imminent. I would love to have you come to Switzerland sometime to hold a lecture! There is a big English speaking population here that work for big corporations like Nestle and Philip Morris and they need this info. Thank you so much for your time and please keep up the great work. I will tell everyone I know about your website!
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Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 7:07 AM
I just want to say THANK YOU. You opened my eyes, and now there are 2 vegans at my home! We'll do everything to change the people around us. I wish you all the strength of the world to continue the battle.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 5:42 AM
I am from Israel. Lately, I've been going through a tough time in my life. Eating animals was something that never made sense to me. But I thought that not eating cheese and milk were extreme and too much. After watching your video I was excited and everything made sense to me now. It's all disgusting and wrong and I am happy to start my healthy, clean and good Vegan life. Also, the videos you showed are really bad and I just can't understand how it is allowed to exist, and how can people like that exist. I shared your video on facebook and will try to convince everyone around me about how wrong, primitive, immoral and disgusting it is to consume animal products.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 8:11 PM
Thank you. You changed my life!
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Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 11:40 AM
Your lecture is so powerful I personally think it's what people need to see to get them to understand that eating meat/dairy is 100% wrong. I've been sending the YouTube link to everyone I know so they can hear it.
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:24 PM
I'm from Italy. Today, for the first time I saw your video and I think that you are THE BEST. It's time to stop killing animals, forever.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:21 AM
Thanks for opening our eyes. Thanks for being so understandable. Thanks for taking our common sense and making it work. Thanks for re-human-izing us.
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 2:32 PM
I've seen your video and I just want to say Bravo! I can't stand animal slaughter anymore. I'm in the process of going vegan. I've stopped eating meat, cheese and milk. Eggs will be coming out soon. You are a great man, and an example for every man.
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 1:53 PM
I watched your speech on youtube to a college class. It was brilliant! I felt compelled to email and say this as it reinforced all of my beliefs and thoughts.
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:00 AM
Glad I read your article. It seems to be a really good idea to start eating veg food. You impressed me and made me look at the world in different way. I have seen these videos many times, but never knew all the facts you mentioned. The main purpose of this mail is to thank for being human.
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 3:35 AM
I am impressed by your work. Watching your speech was the final drop that helped me make the final step in becoming a full vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 8:38 PM
I am Brazilian but I've lived in Portugal for 10 years. I am 45 years old! I watched your video and you convinced me! I don't want to eat or use products of animal origin anymore! I haven't eaten red meat for 12 years and I've only had soy milk for 3 years. Today, I stopped eating chicken, fish, eggs and cheese! My daughter is your fan. She is a 15 year old now vegan. I was impressed with your story and courage!
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Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 8:29 PM
You changed the way I live!
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Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 3:20 PM
I'm a biologist living in the South of Brazil. A friend of mine sent me your talk about becoming veg so I stopped eating meat completely, something I never thought I could! I will publicize your work.
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Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 1:47 PM
I was watching your video on youtube, and you have changed my life, After seeing everything, I realized that animals are being murdered, and we need to stop that. Thank you for teaching me this important lesson!
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Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 1:17 PM
Since childhood, I have always sought a way to make a difference in this world. For many years I have searched. I thought I found it a few years ago as I began to understand the energy crisis and the global warming from burning fossil fuels. Not until randomly finding your website online did I discover the answer to my question of making the biggest impact in the world. For starters, to become a vegan. Your lecture and website are full of food suggestions and brand names to get and it makes it a lot easier to shop now. Becoming vegan has simplified my life. I know I am going to meet resistance sometimes but, thanks to you, I have an arsenal of evidence that supports the vegan lifestyle. I plan to go back to Loyola University for my masters degree in accounting and business administration. I hope to be a positive influence there. We have had speakers like Vandana Shiva and recently Dalai Lama. It would be awesome to see you at Loyola as well.
Comments from Students and Supporters, June 2012
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Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 11:40 PM
I've been a vegetarian for some time, but knew that veganism was where it was at. Even before I heard your speech I was planning on going vegan later on in life. You've made it painfully clear that the time is now.
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Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 7:17 PM
You changed my life and I use you to change others. Thanks for looking after our planet.
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Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 7:00 PM
I've been a meat-eater for 31 years. 3 months ago, I saw your speech on Youtube. After this video, you opened my eyes. I never imagined how animals suffer. Of course, I was blind with medical studies about the health benefits of meat. After your speech me and my girlfriend changed our lives and are no longer addicted to animal products.
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Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 2:03 PM
I wanted to thank you for your wonderful lecture and bringing me information about what I put into my stomach and how much animals suffer. Thanks to you I'm a vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 1:52 PM
I'm 26 years old from Israel. I saw your speech by chance while walking down Rotchild Blvd. in Tel Aviv. I can not believe how 60 minutes can change a mans' life and perspective. Thank you. Keep being strong and keep making the world a better place. All I can say is that evil prevails when good men stand aside.
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Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 9:15 AM
I am 25 from Israel and was a combat soldier in the IDF. Your speech made me cry like a baby. You changed everything about me.
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Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 5:51 PM
My wife and I are showing our vegan videos on public access TV channel in many states. We would like your permission to show your videos on these public access channels.
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Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 5:47 PM
I'm from Argentina. I have been a vegetarian for half year and found one of your conferences online. I saw it and it encouraged me to become a vegan. Thank you for opening eyes all over the world!
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Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 2:27 PM
Without you or people like you, all those people in the world wouldn't know anything about animal abuse and veganism. I have convinced 5 people to be vegetarians through your amazing speech on youtube. And my father, mother and sister don't eat meat like they used to. They consume meat only once or twice each week! I am from Republic of CYPRUS and am studying veterinary medicine. My dream is to help animals and let people now about veganism and animal abuse.
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Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 12:21 PM
I'm 25 from Israel. I saw your whole video and I've got to say bravo. If there is anything I never thought I would be considering is becoming vegan. I actually shed a tear during you speech.
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:16 PM
I'm 14 years old from Coyhaique, Chile. You are changing the world. YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION. I talk about you every day to my friends because I think that you are a fantastic person and a real man. I'm trying to create a conscience here in Chile.
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:55 PM
You ROCK brother! Thank you for all your hard work educating people! My husband and I just recently adopted the vegetarian lifestyle and are very QUICKLY heading into veganism. Watching one of your lectures on YouTube will only make that happen faster! My dear friend Dr. Shmuel Asher wrote a book about how the bible scribes purposely changed the scriptures to be pro-meat eating/pro-animal sacrifice (https://www.createspace.com/3774429). He proves that God in fact DID NOT want that at all. I wanted to pass on the information in case you were interested in reading it. This book reminded me of your article titled The Bible, Jesus and Veganism (which is an excellent article that I am sharing).
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 11:18 PM
Where can I download that speech of yours? I want to show it in some schools here in Buenos Aires (Argentina) along with "Earthlings".
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:08 PM
I am 27 years old, married and have a 2 month old baby boy. I wanted to thank you for taking off my blinders. I have been a meat eater for 27 years and I have always known what was going on. I just didn't care enough to stop my habits. This past Friday I watched your speech and it really hit me in the gut. My wife was out of town and it was just baby and me. I called her immediately and told her what I just watched and that we needed to talk when she got home Sunday. My wife, like me, is an animal lover. We don't kill anything, except for all the animals we have been killing by eating them for years. I wasn't really sure how she would take it but when she got home, we watched the speech again together. As soon as the Q & A portion was over, I was grabbing my keys and heading to the store and she was heading to the fridge with a trash can. We are not impulsive people at all. I don't watch a study and immediately change the way I do something. But this was different. How can I sit and ponder the morality of killing innocents while I am consuming them. It was an immediate change in heart and mind. I know you probably get a million of these emails and don't have time to read all of them, but I wanted to thank you. I doubt I ever would have changed my mind if someone hadn't removed my blinders. Our home is now stocked with fresh ingredients, organic produce, and tons of cheater meals made by Amy's and Boca. I hope you read this email and it finds you well.
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 1:27 PM
Thank you for taking the blinders off. You're a good man. Keep up the good work. Watched your Georgia Tech video last fall, have been a vegan since.
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 9:19 AM
My wife and I have just watched one of your Youtube videos for the second time and we frequently share it with friends. Your work is outstanding, honourable, brave, powerful, inspiring and enlightening. I also understand how much criticism you must attract by speaking the truth on this topic and people do not enjoy hearing bad news about their regular meat-eating habits. And I'm sure I don't know the half of it. Your dedication and commitment speaks volumes to us. Personally, I shifted to a plant-based diet 2 years ago and I have cured the 'incurable' autoimmune disease Rheumatoid Arthritis after suffering terribly and having my entire future under threat. I now help others around the world shift to a total plant-based diet to get off medications and become pain free from this disease. Eliminating animal products is the first thing that helps people to start getting back on track.
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 7:05 AM
I'm 21 years old from Israel. I just wanted to thank you for all you are doing for animals and for people. You are a truly amazing, strong and devoted person. I watched your lecture which impressed me a lot. For around two years, I was researching the eating habits of our society, and how meat/milk affects our body. I was convinced that minimizing the amount of unnatural products was necessary. However, after watching your video, I decided to be vegan and try to convince others to try it too. I shared your video on my facebook page and recommended it to my family and close friends. They were all shocked and disgusted by the brutality. Hopefully this will persuade them to stop consuming meat and other animal products.
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 10:55 PM
I am a Registered Nurse in Alberta, Canada working in the operating room for 20+ years. Over the past few years it has become harder for me to distance myself from what I see at work (muscle, bones, organs, etc.) and what I put on my plate (muscle, bones, organs, etc.). See a pattern? It got so that I either couldn't eat it anymore or, over the past year, could only eat it if I actively tried not to think about what I was actually eating, and what the animals had to endure to give me that few moments of delicious taste. A short time ago on May 19 I found myself searching the web for information about animal welfare, factory farms, veganism, and I stumbled upon your lecture. Thank you for making that lecture accessible on the net. It was the tipping point I needed. From that moment, I made the life-changing decision to become vegan. I will admit that bypassing vegetarian and going straight to vegan was a digestive challenge I would have preferred to do without. However, I could not in good conscience give up meat and not other animal products for where would I draw the line? How could I say that the suffering of one animal is wrong and abhorrent yet another's suffering is not? Thus, for me vegan was the only choice. I know there will continue to be challenges ahead of me but no one ever said doing the right thing was easy. They just said it was right. A thousand times thank you!
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 9:30 PM
I'm a 23 year old student at a school called Empire in New York City. I just wanted to let you know that you are truly my biggest hero/ inspiration. I was already vegetarian for a year and a half before I stumbled upon your video. Your lecture really changed my life. I am a proud vegan for about 5 months now. You are the man!
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:45 PM
I'm from Israel. I have seen your lecture and decided to finally begin a new lifestyle by becoming vegan. I understand that it's going to be a process in which I will have to adjust to new things and I'm looking forward to doing so.
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 12:46 PM
I'm just writing to say thank you so much. I probably never would have heard about the necessity of veganism if I hadn't stumbled across your lecture nearly 8 months ago. I didn't know any vegans at the time and hadn't ever heard of animal rights. Your lecture completely changed my perspective about animals. I had just seen Earthlings a few days before, but incredibly, I kept eating meat. I was sickened by the documentary, but, I'm ashamed to say, my apathy trumped the sense of wrongness created in me by the suffering I'd just seen. I planned to just wait it out, let the feelings fade and forget about Earthlings. Then I saw your video. I began watching it because I didn't know what it was about, and then, thankfully, I decided on a whim to keep watching. You made something click in me, and I watched it twice in a row. I knew I had to change, and I went vegan immediately. You showed me that I could do it and, more importantly, that I needed to do it. My eyes were opened to the flawed, selfish, speciesist and anthropocentrist views I had been harboring, and I began to notice it in those around me as well. It was painful for me, not having the depth of knowledge needed to open their eyes, too. I began several months of intense research about factory farms, animal rights and ethics, environmental effects of animal ag, and nutrition. Even several long, animal welfare e-mails from my cousin, a veterinarian who works in the dairy industry, couldn't sway me. In fact, most of the things she said just reinforced my will to continue with veganism. She admitted to some of the cruelties of the dairy, egg, and meat industries while pretending not to have seen my questions about other cruelties. Her attempts to justify those cruelties she did acknowledge seemed so hollow after the sound truth of your lecture, and her silences were revealing, too. Anyway, I love being a vegan. I've tried a bunch of new foods and recipes, going from picky to adventurous. I gave my leather shoes to Goodwill and got some sustainable vegan shoes that I get lots of compliments on, sometimes from complete strangers. I intend to stay vegan for the rest of my life. Thank you for making it happen. You said in your lecture that you would take the blinders off, and you did. You absolutely did.
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Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 6:44 PM
I am Spanish and saw your video by chance on a social network, I thought I was kind to animals, but now I am feeling guilty. I thought we needed milk for developing bones, and meat for the proper functioning of the human body. You totally changed my mindset.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:56 PM
It's 10 minutes before midnight and I've been sick all day (most of my life). But in the last 100 minutes you have changed my entire outlook on life. Thank you for everything. Probably going to piss off my family but I agree with almost everything you have said and I will never look at bacon the same again. I hope I can make you proud. Hope I can make me proud too.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 2:38 PM
Thank you for defending the animals for me! I'm a vegetarian from Romania, but after watching you, I will become a VEGAN! Restaurants should show pictures or videos of that stuff. Maybe some people would think twice before eating meat! Nevertheless, education should start at very young ages. I hope you continue to go to schools to speak with children and mark them for life!
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 3:19 PM
I randomly found your speech on Youtube and it is the most honest and inspirational speech I have ever seen. I have decided to become a vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:39 PM
You are the man! Your video on YouTube was a slap in the face for me and I thank you for that, and for the last year and a half my life has changed, as the blinders are now off!
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:37 AM
I'm from Valdivia, Chile. I loved your conference and I'm starting to exclude milk, cheese, eggs and meat from my diet.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 6:18 AM
I have just came across one of your lectures on youtube. I have been vegetarian since birth. I was lucky enough to have vegetarian parents. And I have ALWAYS been firm on my choice, although many people during the years have tried to force me into eating animals, which I have never done. When it came to being Vegan though, I have been shaky. After seeing your speech, however, my views changed radically. I thought to myself, he went to prison so many times, he goes out and talks to people, educating them and he is doing all this just to let us know, who am I to not become vegan? So from today, I will eliminate any animal product from my life. I want to thank you for your words and your passion and strength in what you do every day!
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:48 AM
You are amazing. I can proudly write that I am a vegan thanks to your speech. I will do my best to advocate for the rights of animals and share your speech.
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:39 AM
i really don't really know what to say to you. you're a hero. it's incredibly comforting to know you are out there educating people, and i mean educating the fucking ignorance out of them. you know the real issues and you are not afraid to call things what they are: rape, enslavement and murder. this is the worst, and most relentless, holocaust this planet has ever seen. it's great to know there are people out there seeing this world as i see it. i run an animal rights blog on tumblr. in real life, i'm constantly in situations where someone or something is incredibly speciesist, constantly confronted with murder, rape and the people who cause it and love it. it's overwhelming. ever since i've opened my eyes to anti oppression theories i'm unable look away and i can not bite my tongue when someone or something is misogynist, homophobic, sexist, racist or speciesist. i feel like i am insane for believing everyone should be treated equally.
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Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 9:39 PM
I recently saw your video. Your take on the whole issue was both entertaining and powerful. I have been vegetarian for 5 months as of the 23rd of this month and the only animal product I have been consuming has been cheese. I knew I wanted to go vegan and you really helped me make that final push. The past 5 months have been amazing, I have increased energy and I feel all around happier.
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Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 7:05 PM
After 20 years of vegetarianism and knowing that dairy & egg production was inherently wrong but falling back on the "but I love cheese" argument, I saw your lecture on uTube and have become Vegan. Your lecture inspired me and I hope to work up to being more of an animal rights liberationist than I have been to date.
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Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 8:17 AM
Thank you so much for being an amazing inspiration. Whenever people ask me why I'm vegan I always send them a link to your lecture as it so perfectly encapsulates all arguments so perfectly. As a side note you inspired me to run my first marathon this year as I wanted to prove to my friends and work colleagues how strong and healthy inside the vegan lifestyle is.
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Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 11:01 AM
I watched some of your stuff on youtube. I was completely inspired by your words, your fearlessness and direct communication. I have been a vegetarian for years, and am trying to become a vegan, which I will do starting now. You said everything that was in my heart, amazing! It feels as though society is blind-folded, heading down a one way street — the wrong way. No one ever seems to speak out, to challenge the elephant in the room. Seems wildly strange to me and I am completely baffled by it. Amazed by people's ability to avoid the most important issue that exists.
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Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 8:10 AM
I'm from Israel and I'm 18 years old. I've been vegetarian since I was 9 and then I saw your lecture. Thank you for showing me the truth. I was blind for so long. Now I'm vegan and so is my 12 year old sister.
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Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 12:29 AM
I'm 20 years old, and I write from Brazil. Last year a friend showed me your speech and I found it amazing. I became vegetarian when I was around 14 after watching Earthlings, and the day I saw your speech I became VEGAN thanks to you! I don't even eat processed food and I feel really better! I'm an engineering student, and after I graduate, I want to open a vegan restaurant company in many many places. That's my plan, a vegan restaurant chain with cheap food to support the most people as possible.
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Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:23 PM
I saw your lecture on YouTube, and I've been vegan for 4 days. This lecture helped me to become more aware of why milk or eggs is plain bad (I had no doubts about meat). I am sure this was the best choice I could make. I am from Poland so being vegan here is much harder, especially when it comes to living in a small town. There's no shop selling seitan or tempeh, or even plain tofu. But, as far as I am concerned, convenience shouldn't be the highest priority. I hope veganism will be more popular here in a few years. I'd love to sample Tofurky.
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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:18 AM
I'm such a big fan of your work. I've been vegetarian since last year and now after watching one of your lectures I'm vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:58 PM
I've just watched your video on YouTube and you just completely changed my way of life. I showed my mum the video and now we're both vegan. I'm not sending this email for a pat on the back. I'm sending it to thank you and let you know you just helped 2 more people realise the harsh reality, and there are two less consumers of death!
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:27 PM
Two months ago I became vegan after I saw your video!
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 9:20 AM
i've watched your talks online and seeing your strength for the helpless of our world has motivated me to be more vocal. i've been vegan for 10 years, but passive, not feeling i could make a difference, and feeling beaten by the world. i see how much you are doing changing the hearts of people. your talks are fantastic. as far as i'm concerned, what you are doing is THE way to change. Thank you for inspiring me.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:00 AM
I am writing to you from Czech Republic. I just want to say thank you for the work you are doing and what effect you have on people. Your lecture changed my life and finally I feel great. It would be great if you had a lecture in Europe.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:04 PM
I started going vegan on my own, but I had a lot of problems and I was going to give up. I really was. But then I saw your video. Now that I know the true absolute force of what's happening, I can't go back to meat or milk or eggs EVER AGAIN! I'm so thankful. In a little over a month, I lost 14 pounds. In a little over a month, I became healthier. In a little over a month, I learned about you and started saving both the environment and the animals if not the world you and I care about. All in all, I'm 13 years old and I've convinced my mom, my friend's whole family, and 2 other friends to become vegan. I can't stand the atrocity anymore. I used to want to be a surgeon. After watching you, I want to copy you. I wanna be a nutritionist and a non-profit speech person like you are. You changed my life.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:01 AM
I'm 15 years old from Israel and been vegetarian for 4 years now. I watched your lecture on youtube. It was very convincing and I want to become vegan, but I'm afraid my parents won't let me. Could you please send me some articles that I can show them.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:20 AM
Wonderful lecture. I became a vegetarian just a few months ago, and after watching your lecture vegan feels like the right thing. But this isn't enough for me. I would like to become active.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:47 AM
I just watched your lecture. Amazing! You have completely won me over.
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 4:10 PM
Thanks for opening my eyes and mind. I always considered myself a true animal lover, but I was wrong. From last week until the end of my life, me and my girlfriend are newcomers to the Vegan world. Our brothers deserve it, and we hope they can forgive us.
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 7:51 AM
Last March I watched your video and since then I've change in a very positive way! I live in Spain with my husband. Two weeks ago he decided to become vegan too! We are learning about this new life. We feel very good. But we're worried and concerned about our world. It's very sad and unjust how we treat all living beings. Thank you for opening our eyes!
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 4:39 AM
Your video is so effective. You have done marvelous things! We spread it as much as possible. Also our daughter is growing up vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:28 PM
This is just a message to say a wonderful big thank you! The world needs more people like yourself. I have been a vegan for about a month and a half now. Although I already made the switch, you just set in stone every single belief and even taught me a lot I had not known about. I believe it's safe to say my 'blinders' are well and truly off and are in the trash! Thank you again for opening so many eyes, including my own.
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Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 4:32 PM
I just watched your one hour video with my 12 year old. We really appreciated it. I've been a vegetarian for a while, but your video forced me to go Vegan. I agreed with everything you said, and I agree that the "taste of cheese" was the thing that held me back.
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Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:52 PM
I'm from Sofia, Bulgaria, and I'm 19 years old. I was vegetarian since I was 14 an I've been vegan for maybe a week. You are one of the reasons I become vegan. THANK YOU! I like your way of speaking, I like what you are doing. You make this world a better place. The change starts with the man in the mirror. I will email your lecture to friends and hope that it will make them to think about it.
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Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 11:05 PM
I am watching your speech right now. I've been vegan for 2 years and you have just confirmed my dedication to the cause. I've cried my eyes out watching this. Thank you for what you do!
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Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 10:04 PM
I'm talking to you from Brazil. I saw your video last year and didn't know anything about veganism. Your lecture changed my life. I'm not a vegan yet, but I'm almost there.
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Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 7:29 PM
I am a 22 year old student raised on meat. Not so long ago my brother introduced me to some vegetarian food. It was then I realized that vegans have some really good points. Recently, I saw your presentation and found all the facts I needed to recognize something is damn wrong. Your speech is highly impressive and I want to thank you for your truthful insight and courage.
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Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 2:47 PM
I've been vegetarian since 2007. Your speech at Georgia Tech (2010) convinced me to go further. I'm really grateful. My vegan life - for my kids, too - is starting right now.
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Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 3:27 AM
Very straight and to the point is exactly what I look for when it comes to the dishing out of information and truth. I saw your speech on Youtube on some freak chance and it moved me. I used to poke fun at the idea of being a vegan and totally mocked it. I thought it was a radical way of life but after hearing you speak about it, it seems to make so much sense. My friend's sister is vegan and I never really understood why. After watching your speech you really instilled in me some solid ideals and morals toward the way we treat animals. Cruelty towards animals is fucked up as hell. I never realized it until you showed me the way it was going down. These animals are basically given a death date on their birthdate, and there is no such thing as a "humane" way of being killed. Being killed in general is inhumane. And you nailed it when you said that we are not neanderthals anymore. I totally was blinded to the idea of animals and feelings. How can I crack the news to my parents about me possibly turning vegan? I know it sounds like I'm coming out of the closet or something but my parents are pretty hardcore in the idea that vegans are radicals that make no sense. They are hardcore meat eaters and they would be the first people to tell me that I'm a moron for thinking any other way. My father is the son of a butcher and my mother is a hardcore christian where they talk about slaughtering lambs and how god gave us these creatures to give us sustenance. The driving point for me anyway was more of the fact that we are herbivores. You really did turn a hardcore meat-eater's head around.
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 8:03 PM
I have seen your videos and they're really awesome. Hopefully, veganism will rule this pathetic world one day.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 3:51 PM
I'm a Brazilian student and just saw your lecture online. Your lecture made me think more carefully about becoming vegan. It's not a simple change but the arguments you use are the truth. But I admire your work, your way of life, and hope that I can make the right decisions from now on. Thank you for making the truth public and my decision easier!
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 3:49 PM
i have just watched your video and from the moment you spoke i knew i would be veggie. how dare people murder animals and eat them. it is awful. thank you for changing my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 3:09 PM
I came across your video from an article in our student magazine at Ben Gurion University in Israel. After watching your lecture, you've exposed me to new views, particularly on the ethical level. During my military service I was trained as a sniper, and so I've thought at length about the question of "who has the right to take another's life." I had never included animals in these thoughts, as it is very easy to disregard them as "not human," but here is the crux of the whole issue. If we disregard them, then why do we feel compassion towards them, and why do we squirm at the sight of their slaughter? There must be a source for this hypocrisy.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:10 PM
keep up the good work man! you changed my views upside down. and I share your lecture and wisdom with every person I run into. good luck in your battles!
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:14 AM
I saw your lecture online and want to start eating vegan food only.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 6:27 AM
I'm the one who translated your speech to Serbian. Since then we've had some debates and discussions and I wanted to tell you that you've made many people vegan here. Keep the mission going.
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Sent: June 5, 2012 6:50 PM
I'm from Tucumán, Argentina. I became a vegan after seeing one of your conferences. Thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: June 5, 2012 5:27 PM
In the first place, I would like to salute you for your courage and your strong personality. Your lecture was the great strength I needed to start being vegan. Since my youth I never understood why we had to kill, torture and exploit animals. But I never had the courage to follow my convictions because of family, money and society.
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Sent: June 5, 2012 3:57 PM
I live in the Netherlands. I became a vegetarian at the age of 8 when I saw cows being dumped by cranes on the news. I am now 23 years old and because of your speech I decided to become vegan. I'm in love with your work and would love to share a prison cell with you one day by fighting the good fight! Thank you so much for opening my eyes even wider.
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Sent: June 5, 2012 6:25 AM
I came across your lecture a few years back and have since attempted to convince friends and family to adopt a Vegan lifestyle. I admire your work and would like to thank you changing our lives for the better. I hope your words reach many more people who are ready to listen but just haven't heard yet!
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Sent: June 5, 2012 5:57 AM
My fiance and I just watched your lecture a few days ago and have gone vegan. We were wanting to get involved by doing a protest. I really liked your chaining your neck to your car demonstration, so I think we're gonna do something like that. The shit you do, and how upfront you are about animal liberation is very inspirational. We are also going to be switching our dogs to a vegan diet in honor of Rex and his amazing health.
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Sent: June 4, 2012 7:19 PM
I'm part of an acoustic music project dedicated to raising awareness about exploitation called xTrue Naturex at www.xtruenaturex.bandcamp.com. I saw one of your videos a few years ago and was astounded by your amazing presentation. As a performer, I was amazed by your stage presence and delivery. You so beautifully layout all the arguments in such a concise, eloquent and yet hip way. You really are such a tremendous asset to this movement. xTrue Naturex tours around 3 to 6 months a year. I would like to extend an invitation that if you ever found yourself in a place where you would be interested in speaking on any of our tours or shows, we would feel honored to have you.
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Sent: June 4, 2012 12:34 PM
I'm becoming vegan thanks to you.
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Sent: June 3, 2012 6:51 PM
I am a 15 year old girl from Chile. I've always loved animals but never realized the horrible treatment they received. I always ate McDonald's, Burger King, and any kind of animal, but I still said I was an animal lover. I saw your video and cried. I feel like the most horrible person because of saying I was an animal lover after buying them mutilated in the supermarket. I'm going vegan because of you and your incredible speech. I need to do a speech for my English class and you are my inspiration.
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Sent: June 3, 2012 11:41 AM
I saw your 2010 Georgia Tech lecture last night. I was browsing the Internet instead of doing my homework as I'm trying to complete a degree and often find myself putting off tasks this way. This is the first time any good has come of my procrastinating. As a vegetarian of 17 years, this subject is not new to me of course, but I put off making the full transition to veganism, thinking I couldn't do it. Now I've decided that I'm going to do it.
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Sent: June 3, 2012 10:29 AM
Words are seemingly beyond me at this point as to best describe my reaction to your seminar. It has caused me to question much of what society and myself deem rational, tolerable and even necessary under the guise of dietary essentials. I feel my linguistic capacity is somewhat impaired as I'm still attempting to comprehend the severity of your video.
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Sent: June 2, 2012 7:02 PM
I just watched your video but didn't see the "big picture" until I listened to you. Today I am going Vegan!
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Sent: June 2, 2012 4:16 AM
before I heard your lecture I ate meat without thinking. my parents watched it, too, and they become vegan, too.
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Sent: June 1, 2012 10:43 PM
I'm 23 from Colombia. I just watched one of your amazing speeches and now I know that animal murder is unfair.
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Sent: June 1, 2012 8:41 PM
Your speech changed my life and for that I am forever grateful. I have recently switched from a vegetarian lifestyle to a vegan one. Thank you so much for all your work; you are an inspiration.
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Sent: June 1, 2012 7:21 PM
i'm from buenos aires, argentina. i just finished watching your video. now i'm vegan. i have no idea how i got to your video, but all i know is that i watched it a couple of hours ago and it changed my mind instantly.
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Sent: June 1, 2012 3:37 PM
Hello from Russia. I'm 16 years old and have just became vegan because of your speech.
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Sent: June 1, 2012 3:52 AM
Just watched your amazing lecture. I am veg but still hooked on dairy. I now realize that my dairy excuses are quite illogical. I used to be a Brahmin stud breeder. Lord, was I fooling myself by thinking that we were kind farmers. To even have them at all makes a mockery of my past attempts at kindness. After your video I must make a complete commitment to give up my addiction to cows milk and cheese.
Comments from Students and Supporters, May 2012
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Sent: May 30, 2012 7:32 PM
my wife and I are having major issues agreeing on the way to feed our 2 & 4 year old. i've been a strict vegan for a month. she is not and unwilling to compromise. you are the one who gave me the kick i needed to do what i should have done years ago. it has been so easy for me to make the change. happened overnight more or less. i needed VERY little convincing. i just watched your video and halfway through i was FULLY in!
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Sent: May 30, 2012 12:22 PM
I wanted to express my gratitude to you as I am still reeling from the horrors shown in those slaughterhouse videos. For years I have been trying to go vegan but this is the final straw for me. There is no going back. You have so honestly and powerfully painted the whole ugly picture behind the scams we have been "fed" for so long. It is totally unnecessary and unacceptable cruelty, driven by greed. $$ in animals... $$ in sick people. It absolutely MUST STOP NOW. This universally depraved treatment of animals is unspeakable, and I cannot salute you enough as a champion and hero on their behalf Gary. Thank you for being that loud voice for the voiceless that will not be silenced. Together, millions of our voices can scream even LOUDER!
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Sent: May 30, 2012 6:02 AM
Thank you for opening my eyes. I am transforming my life into no-harm. Not eating meat, dairy, eggs or honey is easy. Fun! Variety! No leather is easy. No cleaning products and cosmetics tested on animals needs research. But this is the only way to live as a true human being.
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Sent: May 30, 2012 4:42 AM
I'm from Mexico City. I saw one of your talks on youtube a few months ago. I've been vegan ever since.
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Sent: May 29, 2012 10:42 PM
I just watched your video and Q and A. I really like the way you deliver your info. You really and truly address and share the most important info in reference to fairness for all animals. Every kid in every school should hear your speech. Keep up the energy and remember that you are making a huge difference for so many souls.
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Sent: May 29, 2012 1:27 PM
I'm 22 years old from Argentina. I've been vegetarian for over 2 year now. After watching your video, I'm turning to veganism. I'm all about animal rights but was unaware of the milk industry cruelty. It turns out I was still blind-folded. Thank you for letting me see. Can I have permission to present your video at my college, and anywhere else I can show it?
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Sent: May 29, 2012 12:20 PM
Hello from Spain. I am 43 and yesterday I accidentally saw your lecture. Thanks for expressing your ideas and feelings so well, and with so much passion. It is a pleasure to listen to such a convincing person defending his ideas. I did not realize how hypocritical I was with my relations to animals until you explained it to me. I have two cats that I adore, and when I stopped listening to your speech I pondered a question to myself: What if someone ate my cats because they considered them to be lower beings? That thought disgusted me. But what's difference between cats and the piglets that died in your video? You made me rethink many things.
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Sent: May 27, 2012 6:07 AM
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been a vegetarian for 10 years. You opened my eyes. It's time to be vegan.
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Sent: May 26, 2012 10:46 AM
I'm from Greece. Last December I saw one of your lectures on youtube and became vegan the same day without being vegetarian first. I always felt that something was wrong about eating animals. But culture and tradition kept me from doing anything about it. Thank God you touched me, and explained it to me. Now I feel released. Everybody around me is arguing with me all the time about this, but this makes me feel stronger about it. I used to have an iron deficiency but now I m better than ever!
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Sent: May 25, 2012 12:34 PM
I can't even begin to describe how deeply your speech has touched me. I can really feel your passion and energy when you speak about our animal brothers and sisters because I feel the exact same way. I have been vegan for almost three years now because of my deep love and devotion for animals. They are no different from humans. Humans are just so arrogant and think that everything on this earth was put here specifically for them. It is a very pathetic and futile way of thinking but that's the way it is. It is the holocaust land for these beautiful creatures. They die in fear, pain, and panic. Nothing can ever justify eating them. People block it out. But only the very sincere ones see through it and understand that we are really all the same inside. You have really inspired me.
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Sent: May 24, 2012 6:51 PM
I can't stop watching your videos! Everything that I think and say to people is exactly what I saw from you! I share your videos on my facebook page!
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Sent: May 24, 2012 5:00 PM
I'm 33 from Italy. I watched your speech a couple of months ago and I instantly turned vegan.
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Sent: May 23, 2012 4:14 PM
You're the most beautiful person in this world, and the world thanks you for being who you are and what you are doing. You are the person that started the change. For 16 years I have not eaten milk products. Now I will remove meat.
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Sent: May 24, 2012 9:03 AM
I am a student at Automatic Electronic and Computers from Craiova, Romania. I just saw your speech and I am so impressed that I promise not to eat animals or animal products EVER! I am writing to thank you for taking off my "horse glasses" so I can have a clear view now.
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Sent: May 24, 2012 8:28 AM
I live in Australia and watched a lecture you gave on veganism. I was absolutely blown away by everything you spoke about. I have been slowly trying to move away from animal products for a few months and listening to your lecture has completely changed my view. I was having trouble moving away because I didn't know the real facts. After watching your lecture I also watched the Earthlings documentary and was disgusted and appalled at the treatment of animals. I have never felt so much anger. All in all, I just want to say that you are amazing and thank you for the work that you do. I could see in the video that you have such a passion for what you do and it is so wonderful to see that. I am looking forward to my own journey with veganism.
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Sent: May 23, 2012 4:47 PM
I'm 16 years old and I've tried veganism in the past and it didn't work. Then I saw your video. I will never eat animal products again.
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Sent: May 22, 2012 4:27 AM
Your speech really opened my eyes. I now tell all my friends about animal rights.
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Sent: May 22, 2012 11:55 PM
I am 22 years old and had a school project one month ago when I found your speech on YouTube. For the first time I decided to really listen to the animal cruelty within the food industry. My sister became a vegetarian around 3 years ago and she told me about how messed up the industry is. I was so stupid not to listen. In fact, I used to criticize her for her decision, and I regret it so much. Since I listened to your speech, I have not eaten or drank any animal product. I feel better than ever. I do not mean health-wise, but I feel clean. Like my soul is clean. My heart and mind are at peace.
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 9:00 PM
I am 19 years old, living in south Germany. In the place I live, the most popular food is meat. Everyone eats meat. Before I left my parents and starting living on my own, I saw vegetables maybe once a month. Your video inspired me. Because of the environment I was living in, I wasn't really aware of a whole lot of people fighting for animal rights. Every since I was little, it made me feel horrible and I couldn't agree with people who told me it was ok to hurt and eat animals. After watching your video, I finally realized that there are so many things I didn't know. I left my house last year and started living in the big city where I could finally stop depending on my parents and let them feed me whatever they wanted to. I started living by eating no animal based food, wearing no animal based clothes and so on. For over a year I've been living in this lifestyle and I wanted to thank you for encouraging it and teaching it to people. You opened the eyes of so many individuals out there and made a lot of change. I have done a few actions after hearing you speaking. Thank you for speaking so openly about everything.
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 9:07 AM
I'm from Poland. I am 27 years old and have been vegan for 2 months. It was a conscious choice, and now I feel ready to be vegan for the rest of my life. Your speech woke me up. Now I know that I do not need meat, eggs, cheese or milk. I love vegetables, fruits and animals that are alive! I have 2 cats. In Poland there are more and more vegetarians and vegans.
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 6:59 AM
Greetings from Israel. Around 1.5 months ago my boyfriend and I watched your lecture and decided to go vegan. And even though it has not been that long I can say that it was one of the best decisions of my life. Your lecture opened our eyes. It is quite easy being vegan. It is only society that makes it hard and the more I think about it the harder it gets for me to understand how people can not see "it".
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 3:56 AM
I am living in Turkey and have been VEGAN for one month because of your speech. I would like to thank you for your website and all the information you are sharing with us. I chose the right way and I am very proud of it.
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:25 AM
I've been vegan for around 6 months, ever since seeing your talk online. Please, never give up fighting the good fight. You're honestly making a difference.
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Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:01 AM
I recently watched one of your lectures. I have been a vegetarian since the age of 9. Watching your lecture was an eye-opener and made me turn vegan. I have only been with my current partner for around 4 months but showed him the lecture & he too has decided to go Vegan. And he was an avid meat-eater! He is a personal trainer, bodybuilder, teaches MMA & owns a gym. He is now preparing information for vegan diets for his friends, clients and anybody else that visits his sites/blogs.
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Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:49 AM
I have watched your speech and was very, very impressed. I immediately switched from vegetarian to vegan. And you turned my meat-eating boyfriend into a vegan as well. Lots of respect from Holland!
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Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:13 AM
I'm 32 years old from Israel. Since I watched your lecture 4 months ego, I became a vegan and I'm trying to tell everybody that this is what we need to do. I convinced 4 people to become vegan, but this is not enough. I can't stop thinking about those poor animals and I really wish to do more!
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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:13 PM
I have just stayed up until 3 in the morning watching your educational talk. I live in the UK and am vegan. I want to start giving talks on animal rights in schools. I just wanted to say you are a charismatic person, a great speaker and compassionate. You dont mince your words and the result is explosive! Your website is a tremendous resource too. You have inspired me to start going into schools and spreading the truth.
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 3:04 PM
Thank you for your vegan Lecture. I am currently researching information for an argument speech I'm doing in college. Your lecture and Q&A were so compelling that I made my family, two friends and my girlfriend watch it. I was looking for information on Google, but your video was more than enough to make a solid foundation for my project. Everyone was shocked at how much information you know and share in 90 minutes. Your speech taught me more about the meat and dairy industry than I have in the past year of research. It was like concentrated information, and better than reading a book! Certainly better than any book I have read on the subject.
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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 3:26 PM
I am from Israel. I saw your lecture and was very motivated. Needless to say, me and my kids are now vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 3:20 PM
I saw your video yesterday. I listened to your words intently. The fact is that I have been kidding myself for too long. I returned to Italy today from a short vacation. I went to the market and started crying in front of the meat department. You've touched my heart. The time has come to change.
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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 2:16 PM
I am from Chile, I have been vegetarian since 2006. I wanted to become vegetarian when I was a child but my mom wouldn't allow me. I've been wanting to become vegan, but for very lame excuses I didn't. Today I received an email with a link to your video, and it was so inspiring! I have no more excuses. I hope that many more can be inspired and become part of this! I already sent your video to my friends so that more people can become inspired by it!
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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:50 AM
I want to publish the subtitled Spanish version of your speech to my www.topsalud.com and www.comecologico.com websites. I will also create a link to your www.adaptt.org site. If God exists, you are his spokesman. Please come to Gran Canaria.
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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 5:51 AM
I saw your youtube video and had consumed meat and milk products. When people asked me if I cared about cruelty to the animals, I would say "I am a big guy and this is what nature intended so with sorrow I say I have no choice." I heard a lot of activists over the years but your lecture changed my opinion and got me thinking. 2. It's been two weeks and I've stopped eating meat, milk, etc. Since I hate cooked vegetables, I am on a raw vegan diet. The arguments against veganism, ones that I've used too, are weak and uneducated. This is a huge change for me and I want to thank you for that.
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 5:17 PM
I'm a weight trainer and a former competitive kickboxer who employed a personal trainer at the beginning of 2012 to assist me with training. The first thing he did was send me a link to your video. The second thing was switching to a vegan diet. I have noticed some great physical and mental changes. I have not suffered an asthma attack since January 14th, the same day I went Vegan. Asthma has plagued me since birth for 26 years! It feels great to be able to leave the house without an asthma inhaler. A lot of people ask me how I can be a vegan and still put on muscle. If anything, it's easier to be a vegan bodybuilder because every meal is supposed to be clean and nutritious.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:11 PM
I'm from from The Czech Republic and have been vegan since I saw your speech on the internet. I saw several spiritual videos in the last few months, but it was your speech that changed my point of view, and my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:21 AM
I live in Poland and was brought up on meat, milk, dairy products and eggs. I just wanted to thank you for your lecture on youtube. It touched my heart and for two weeks I've successively been on the vegan path. I feel more energy, empathy for animals and especially love for living creatures that has lifted me like the wind. Thank you again for inspiration, for everything you do, for what you say.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:35 AM
I have been vegan since watching your lecture 4 months ago.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:21 AM
I live in Poland and just watched your video and it did blow my mind. I thought about what you said for a few days and watched it again and you are right. A month ago I did blood test and had high cholesterol and other problems. I did vegan shopping, and there are lots of good protein sources like soya meatballs and lentils. Great respect to you man. It's an eye-opening video and I admire what you do. I will spread your videos to all of my friends.
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Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 3:13 PM
I'm from Buenos Aires. Your way of saying things changed my life.
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Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 7:13 PM
I think your a legend! I watched your lecture one month ago and it changed my life. I've been vegan ever since and will never ever think of going back. I feel amazing about what I'm doing.
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Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 1:04 PM
I am watching your lecture on the recommendation of my friend. I bought rice milk today and a lot of vegetable spreads. Up to now we ate organic chicken and game about once a week, but since watching your video, that has stopped. I see that was wrong.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:51 PM
You inspired me to go vegan! Your 'greatest speech ever' did me in. I made the cut cold turkey and never looked back. I was a SUPER SUPER SUPER meat eater before and no one thought I was going to last a day. Now I'm influencing everyone around me.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 3:19 PM
Just finished watching your video. I just wanted you to know that you have inspired me to turn Vegan from Vegetarian.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:13 AM
I watched your speech a few days ago and spent a lot of time reflecting on it. I agree 101% with everything you said. I am addicted to meat. It's sad really. I am probably responsible for more cow deaths than any other person. However, in all that time, I have felt significant guilt. I don't want to be vegan for health reasons. My entire motivation is moral. I'm aghast at animal use and the part I have played in it over the years. Your speech was an inspiration. I only hope I can have a fraction of your conviction.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 7:05 AM
I just watched your lecture and want to tell you how absolutely incredible it was! I became a vegan two months ago and stumbled across your speech which had been posted on several pages. You are an incredible speaker as well as a compassionate and very brave human being and I have nothing but admiration for you. My husband became vegan after seeing your speech and considering he was a meat eater for 35 years proves how amazing your speech is. If only everyone would watch it. PLEASE keep up the good work. You have inspired me in so many ways. I am spreading the word as much as I can.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:10 PM
Your speeches are amazing. I think your words can move a man. God bless you.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:08 PM
I was blind but now I see. Thank you for opening my eyes. What have we done?
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Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 1:25 PM
I came across your Vegan lecture and was absolutely amazed with you. I have been a vegetarian/vegan for 10 years and I am an animal lover through and through. It's so awesome to see someone with all their facts straight and with such a well put together way of conveying this very important message. Just want to say thank you for everything that you do and you are an inspiration!
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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 9:01 PM
I am a journalist living in Colombia.I love what you do and share it. I am also a vegan and want to replicate in my country what you do in the world. I would like to know if I can use your essays and speeches to tell students, youth, and many other people that animals deserve respect and dignity.
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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 10:05 AM
Thank you very much for your lecture. I've been vegetarian for 10 years. But from now I'm vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 10:31 PM
I'm 27 from Brazil. I love animals and always felt sorry for them in slaughterhouses, but I eat meat. However, today someone posted your speech on facebook and I watched. Man, you have no idea how you changed my point of view. Today at 20:40 was my last meal with meat. After seeing the videos and hearing your words, I started to cry and decided, "Meat never more." You really made a difference in my life. Each word you said touched me deeply.
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Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 1:11 AM
I saw your speech on youtube, and it made me vegan. I was a vegetarian since 13 but am now vegan at 18. Thank you so much for having a god damn heart. I know we live in a sick world, but you are changing it. Remember that. You're a beautiful soul and you touched my heart so much. You're doing amazing. Keep it up.
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Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:46 PM
After seeing your video, my husband decided to become vegan!
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Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 4:55 PM
I saw your lecture and will become a vegetarian. I do not understand how people have no feelings about animals. How long will the animals continue to suffer and how long will we continue to kill animals?
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Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 4:04 PM
I am a 25 year old Australian living in Macau China. I was inspired by your magnificent speech to be vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 9:13 AM
me and my husband both saw your great lecture two months ago, and stopped eating meat and dairy! we are sending your lecture to everybody we know in israel.
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Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 3:33 AM
After watching your lecture, your words spoke straight to my heart. I've decided to turn vegan!
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Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 2:58 AM
I am a Pastor of a small group of people in Washington. We are not religious. We follow the path of Spirit. All 120 of us are vegetarians who are now Vegan since watching your video. It blew us away. We had been vegetarian for a few years, but this was the missing piece for us. I own and run a very large cat rescue program called Eva's Eden that is part of our ministry. We are cage free, and take the worst cases from around our state and then rehabilitate the felines and adopt them out in what looks like a Kitty Disneyland. It is fabulous and we are now the largest in the Northwest with around 350 felines and 42 foster families. We knew we had to go beyond being vegetarians to being activists and it was your teachings, your fire, your passion that ignited us to go the next step. I have a bunch of on-fire youth, that are not sure of what to do with all that they feel inside. The others are totally into it all, but the younger ones want to do something more. I would like you to know what you have done for us. I would like to encourage you as I am sure that you get beat up pretty bad. I want you to know that 120 people were incredibly changed by how you spoke and how you have dedicated your life to this cause. We are standing with you. But not passively sucking off of the work you have done, without taking that baton and running too. Please know that 120 people caught your flame, and will change others by what you have given forth.
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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 7:04 PM
Thank you allowing me to attend the absolutely terrific lecture you gave at North Central College. It was such a great honor to meet you. Your message was phenomenal and your presentation truly superb. You are a natural communicator, extraordinary at hammering home the serious news then following up with a gentle, hopeful, or humorous comment when things are getting too heavy. You are gifted in the way you connect with your audience, convicting them without alienating them, and in fact, ultimately engaging them. I hope you are able to keep up the good work; I know it must be very tough emotionally to repeat the message over and over. I hope everyone who sees your lecture will forward your you tube lecture to 10 friends, asking each of those people to forward it to 10 friends. I recently turned 50, and everyone who asked me what I would like for a present, I asked them if they would give me 70 minutes of their time and watch your lecture. I will spread this message to everyone who will listen and I am totally indebted to you for opening my eyes. I will be forever grateful.
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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 1:49 PM
I just wanted to thank you for removing my blinders. 3 days ago, a friend linked your Georgia Tech speech to me, and I was immediately moved. I then watched several other brilliant videos on both the beautiful traits of farm animals, as well as the ludicrous health issues that come from eating animal products. All animal food products in my fridge are in the trash, and my freezer is now filled with vegan food. You are doing amazing work, and I wanted you to know that my girlfriend is on board as well.
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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 2:41 PM
Thank you so much for your lecture today at North Central. I am the annoying person who asked the cliche question about "the Circle of Life." I don't really have the words to describe how significantly you have changed my perspective. Whenever I see a lecture, I am intentionally skeptical not because I necessarily want to be difficult, but because I know that the only way that I can convince myself to make a change in my life is if someone can prove to me that certain choices in my life are not consistent with the ethics I supposedly abide by. You did this today. I was a vegetarian from the age of 12 to 17 because of my religion and then I abandoned my religion for various reasons, and consequently abandoned my vegetarian lifestyle. I told myself that I was a compassionate person who stands up for peace and open-mindedness but in reality, I think I was just too lazy to make the extra tiny effort to be a conscious consumer. Last year, my laziness caught up with me and I was diagnosed with cancer. I know veganism is the healthy thing to do. Before your lecture I didn't have the connections and respect for animals, myself, and the world to accept and take on the ethical responsibility of it. Today, when you gave the example of a mother putting her baby in a dumpster and posed the question "why is it wrong?", I made the connection. Thank you again. I wasn't expecting to be a different person by the end of today.
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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:01 AM
Yesterday I saw your speech on youtube. It change my life. I've wanted to be vegetarian for a long time. When I saw the cruelty and reality, I couldn't stand it anymore. I live in Spain and I really believe in your cause.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 4:11 PM
I'm 32 years old and I live in Israel. Ever since I heard your breathtaking lecture I am vegan. Thanks to you my eyes are open, and I've decided to help change the world! You've touched a lot of people here in Israel. People can not stop talking about your amazing actions! Thank you for turning this world into a much better place! Many people here in Israel are standing behind you and sending you support!
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 8:12 AM
I'm Spanish, I became a vegetarian after watching your speech. I will fight for animals.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 12:17 AM
I am 23 living in Montreal. I just saw your amazing speech and LOVED it. I've seen movies like Earthlings, Our Daily Bread and a bunch of PETA documentaries but I really liked yours because it uses logic over emotions.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 12:14 PM
Yesterday I watched your lecture video that was filmed at Georgia Tech a couple years ago. As I'm sure you've heard many times it was eye opening and disturbing and great. For that, I thank you. I've made the choice to go vegan, starting today. It feels amazing to say that. You've inspired me with your dedication, diligence and attention to every detail in providing us all with the wealth of information on your site. I had imagined making the transition would be very hard, but the comprehensive nature of your site really takes so much of that anxiety away. I will try to educate those around me every chance I get.
Comments from Students and Supporters, April 2012
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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 5:55 PM
we are a family drummers from Brasil and we make our own drums. so they are vegans like us. it doesn't take animal skin! we'd like to add your website to our blog at www.bandadjembefola.blogspot.com.br. one of our missions is to spread veganism through the drums!
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Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 10:28 PM
I LIVE IN CANCUN, MEXICO, AND YOU MADE ME CRY SO HARD, AND THEN GO VEGAN. ONE PERSON CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. IT'S WORKING!
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Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 6:36 PM
We are from Bologna, Italy. We saw your speech and you strongly convinced us to move towards veganism.
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Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 1:23 AM
I'm from Argentina. My brother is vegan and always told me about this. I always laughed. But now I see things clearly. I love your speech.
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Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 10:56 PM
I live in Sao Paulo. I would like to thank you for saving my life. Your video woke me up. I will not be an accomplice to this evil any longer. I wonder if I can create a company of vegan products with your name on it?
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Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 8:58 AM
After watching your video, I am convinced that your issues and solutions hold lots of water. I do want to make the transition to vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 5:00 AM
As of yesterday, April 27, 2012, I was blind. One of my friends posted a very interesting article which led to a very intense debate. Your video was mentioned in the post. I took the time and watched it and my point of view towards veganism and animal cruelty has been forever changed. I am not only inspired to make drastic changes to my eating habits, but I want to go a step further and become a voice on behalf of animal rights. I am sickened yet inspired. I was completely blind to every facet involving this issue. I had no idea what was going on. This is a true invisible holocaust. I do not know you, but I absolutely admire everything that you stand for and the work you are doing to promote a better world for tomorrow. I just want to thank you for your voice on behalf of the speechless. Quite frankly, I was quite speechless after hearing your speech. You have provoked compassion, passion and inspiration within myself. I am convinced that anyone who has a heart will be affected in the same way I have been.
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Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:37 AM
I just finished watching your speech and am overwhelmed! I am so inspired by your no-nonsense approach and would love to get your talk into high school and university classrooms here in British Columbia. Thank you for doing what you do. You've inspired me to do even more!
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:49 PM
I'm from Mexico and I am a math teacher of 24 years old, and I have a 4 year old daughter. I started being an activist for the environment in recent years until I came across your video, and was impressed by everything you say. You definitely completely changed my perception of everything. Now my daughter and I are vegan (for 2 months ago) and we are happy, and our health has improved greatly.
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:03 PM
You gave a speech in my philosophy class last week. I'm sure you will be happy to hear today will now be my 9th day without meat. I took to heart a lot of what you said and a lot of what I saw. I want to thank you for opening up my eyes.
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:38 PM
Keep up the good work! Your vegan lecture convinced me to change my eating habits.
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:40 AM
Over the past few days, I have been watching videos and reading articles about you and your mission. I thought I was a lover of peace and freedom. I thought I was an animal lover. How mistaken I was. I think myself a fool now and am questioning my path as a shaman. I have been wondering why I have met road bumps along the red road. I know now why my Red Man's fire is not burning bright. I eat the children of the Earth Mother. I refuse to be a fool any longer. I already started the process of removing animal products from my home. I want to continue walking the path and it starts today. You have reminded me that it is never too late to change one's fate. The fire grows already, deep within my being. I am doing a ceremony later today to ask the animal spirits to forgive me for being misled and to forgive me for contributing to their murder. I will follow your example by beginning with myself and raise awareness to others. This level of inhumanity must be stopped, if we are to heal the wounds of the Earth Mother and her children. May the spirits be with you and guide you always.
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 8:50 AM
i am 14 years old. i saw your lecture and became vegan instantly. i really would like to know if you intend to come to israel and lecture about veganism.
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:32 AM
I just saw your video where you explain clearly why we should be vegans. It was the first time I decided to watch slaughterhouse videos because I felt it was very hard to see so much pain and suffering. Right now I am fully aware of things that I didn't know. Your video has taught me things I never knew. After watching your video, I am convinced that I should be vegan. Your arguments convinced me and I can not refute them. I congratulate you for what you do for animals. You are admirable. And even if people think or say I'm crazy, now I'm not so blind. I have not enough words to express my appreciation on behalf of the millions of animals who are suffering right now. You will be rewarded for all the work you do. I hope you come to Chile to give a lecture on veganism.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:29 PM
I just want to say thank you for speaking at St. Mary's today. This was such a life changing experience for me. You sincerely touched my heart. You honestly opened my eyes to become a vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:22 AM
I'm 32 years old from Italy. I saw your speech and immediately became vegan. It's been two months thanks to you. You're a wonderful man. And now I feel I'm a better person too. I read about the Animal Holocaust every day. I wish I knew sooner. It's my fault, but I didn't know the animals' reality. Gary, you're our salvation!
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:35 AM
THANK YOU for everything you do for the animals! I saw your great lecture on youtube. I am planning to do a documentary about peace between humans, animals and the earth. Many interesting conversations with wonderful people from all over the world are being integrated into the film: Dr. Marc Bekoff, Dr. Jane Goodall, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Dr. Will Tuttle and more. The film should be available at the end of 2013. Is there any chance that I could interview you? My cameraman and I could visit you in the USA (we are from Austria). I'm the author of the book "Du sollst nicht töten! - Plädoyer für eine gewaltfreie Ernährung" ("Thou shalt not kill - plea for a nonviolent diet").
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:10 PM
You are doing holy work. You have opened my eyes and heart! I let all my friends know and hope they change, too.
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 9:10 PM
My husband and I are new vegans. We decided to go one step further after two years of vegetarianism. And I must say that we did this after seeing one of your lectures on YouTube. You opened our eyes.
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Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 11:01 PM
I've watched your speech and I was stunned. Thanks for inspiring me to a new way of living my life without harming someone.
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Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 7:05 PM
Thank you for helping me with my work. I did a video to promote veg food: http://vimeo.com/40829251.
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Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:32 AM
I just want to say thank you from Slovenia for making me see and changing my life! My sister changed her opinion, too.
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Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 2:35 AM
I heard your speech at the University of Akron in my Introduction to Philosophy class. When I was younger, my great-grandparents had a farm. I used to go to that farm and play. They had raised this one turkey around the family more than the other animals. It was kind of like a pet dog or cat. I chased it, it chased me, and it all seemed innocent for grandma to say go feed the turkey and I'd go out and feed it. It went on like this for a while and I named it. Grandma told me not to but I did because I started to identify it as my friend and thought, "it's alive and my friend deserves a name." I came back to grandma's one day and my turkey was gone. Grandma said she had a surprise for me so I waited patiently until dinner to see what it was. I look on the table and saw a big plump turkey. Grandma looked at me and said, "Now look at what all that hard work did, Lexi? It paid off. Now we can eat the turkey you've helped fatten up." I screamed and cried. I didn't wanna eat and was abnormally afraid of my grandma from then on.
I knew meat was an animal and grandma always said they had to die for us to eat but it became so real at that point. She sat me down and told me that that's the circle of life. Animals eat other animals and therefore we are apart of that same cycle. It's sometimes hard, she said, to see the real world the way it is but you just remember that older and wiser people will help you grow into this along the way. I was only 7. That is the first day I remember being bred, as you say, to have no empathy toward animal suffering.
How do you separate the actions of people close to you and their injustices and how do you not grow hatred for these people? Or how do you not feel bad about yourself for still loving them and thinking highly of them knowing they were responsible for so many lost lives? For so much abuse toward animals? I do recognize that no one should lose their life, families, freedoms for my pleasures or desires. Especially when it is not a necessity.
I talked to plenty of people the days after your speech and everyone told me they'd seen slaughterhouse videos before and it's just a phase. That everybody wants to be a vegan or vegetarian at some point in their life because now they know what's really going on. But eventually you'll eat meat again. You'll stop thinking about it. I believed it for a second. I went to work after that class and ordered Subway's flatbread with chicken strips and cheese. For those minutes when it was being made, my stomach was growling and I thought to myself maybe everyone's right? I took a bite and all of a sudden it came back up. I couldn't even eat it. Those images of the slaughterhouse and the thought of how my body was being affected by the meat and cheese, and the pus inside the milk that made the cheese, turned my stomach. My whole body was screaming NO THIS ISN'T RIGHT and I threw it away. When I was in work the other day, someone brought me a sandwich from McDonald's. I said thank you but I no longer eat meat anymore. It became a heated debate of why that was the stupidest thing he'd ever heard. As if I sprouted three heads. I left feeling angry and a little alone. I wondered, how often do I have to fight people on this? I'd like to say thank you for opening my eyes. I feel like I actually see this world for what it is now.
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:26 PM
I wanted to express a heartfelt thank you. I have been a vegetarian for around 3-4 years. The choice wasn't a hard one for me, because it came from my heart. I no longer wanted to cause death for my satisfaction. But I hadn’t taken the steps to become a vegan. Lately, I have felt the pull more and more to cut out the rest of the animal products I was consuming. And then I watched your lecture and the rawness of my actions and complacency fell completely on me. Since watching your lecture last week, I am confidently stepping out to be a conscientious vegan. It is not enough to just not kill, but to not cause suffering. Some suffering is worse than death. and I don't want to have that on my head any longer. And you'll be happy to know that I watched your lecture with a group of about 70-100 people (it's a group called The Oneness Foundation in Blaine, WA) and I believe that we all have made this decision together. Lives are being changed! All of us, of many ages and backgrounds, are making it our goal to educate others even more now. It's great seeing the young and older alike grabbing this and wanting to make a difference! So thank you for your stand, every up and down, the good days and the hard ones. Thank you for taking the slander and for answering the questions. A fire was lit inside of you back in the circus and the fire is still catching.
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 11:12 AM
I can't thank you enough for what you have done. You have changed the life of a US Air Force man. I never knew the harm I was causing eating meat and animal products. Now I'm on my way to becoming an animal rights activist and a vegan bodybuilder/personal trainer. I have spread the word about your message all through Beale AFB in California. I was a vegetarian in high school and a phenomenal wrestler. My energy was limitless and my strength was uncanny. But when I joined the military, meat became more readily available. I went from 185 pounds and 7% body fat to 300 pounds and 20% body fat. I'm gonna continue to spread the word about the harm. My blinders are OFF!
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Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:40 PM
you got to me. i'm now a vegan. i donated all my meat and cheese.
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Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:13 AM
It's been 10 years since you gave a lecture at my university (U. of New Hampshire). As a student, your lecture had such a profound impact on me that I went vegan that very day. My entire life is based around veganism: I graduated from vegan/vegetarian culinary arts school, The Natural Gourmet Institute, and have worked as a vegan chef in NYC for the past four years. I had the opportunity to work at one of the best vegan restaurants in the world, Pure Food and Wine, where I met my future lovely husband. I currently work as a pastry chef for a new raw/vegan cookie line called Sweet by Jana, and also started my own vegan personal chef service where I prepare vegan meals for clients in their home (www.pigoutvegan.com). I wanted to take this opportunity to THANK YOU for basically making me who I am today. I don't have a clue what I'd be doing in life if I didn't have a passion for vegan food, and I have you to thank for it all! If you are ever in NYC my fiance and I would love to visit with you. Hopefully one day our paths will cross again! All the best to you and thanks for everything you've done and all that you do for the animals.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:24 PM
You spoke with my class today in Akron. I just wanted to take the time and say thank you again. You REALLY inspired me to change the way I'm living. I love animals and you really brought it to me how we are harming animals each and every day. I would like to transition into a Vegan. I viewed your website and just fell in LOVE. I didn't know there were so many substitutions for meat, cheese, and etc. I feel I can help you change the world one day at a time. Just wanted to say thank you and to keep up the AWESOME work. I know for damn sure if you could change my perspective, you can change a lot of others!
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:09 PM
I have been a vegetarian for approximately 14 years now and I'm 29 years old. I always thought that being a vegetarian was enough. I always used the excuse as to why I'm not a vegan as "Well they don't kill the animal to get the milk". After watching your video (a friend of mine posted it on facebook after a class to which you gave this powerful speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania a few days ago) I was ashamed of myself for never looking more into the dairy farm industry. I was one of the brainwashed individuals who believed "cage free" meant humane. All these years I have been an animal lover and have tried to tell family and friends about this amazing cause, but all along I was a part of the horror. Not anymore! After 14 years and seeing your video, being a vegetarian is now not enough. You were right when you said that cheese is addictive and will be the hardest thing for me to give up, but I am willing to do it. I'm seeing it as a challenge for myself as well as the beginning of a new me. So again, thank you for what you do and the message you are spreading. You are definitely reaching people!
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:55 AM
I really want to thank you for changing my life. I saw your lecture 6 months ago and became vegan. I feel much better as I've lost 22 pounds. I look great and most importantly animals are not killed or suffering because of me.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:58 AM
I'm living in Taiwan. I watched your speech on youtube and I'm convinced, I truly am.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:51 PM
Firstly, I would like to thank you immensely for all your perseverance, your outstanding knowledge in this area and overall your general approach to challenging animal abuse and torture. I think I can say that you have done what many (including myself) had only wished they would have done themselves. I have only recently turned vegan in the last 6 months. After seeing your video 2 days ago and forwarding your link to every single person I know, and converting my parents to vegans, I feel that I should be doing more in trying to eliminate animal torture and cruelty.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:54 AM
Thank you for changing my life!!
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Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 8:25 PM
Thank you for working hard every day to passionately educate brainwashed folks about the ugly truth of the meat and dairy industry. Reality smacked me hard in the face once I realized what a hypocrite I was. Like most folks, I fought for the rights of pets and cursed zoos for imprisoning animals for our amusement. Yet, I failed to realize that all animals deserve equal rights, especially those grown for food. Thank you for opening my eyes and forcing my blinders off. Today is Day 1 of my Vegan Transition and surprisingly, it hasn't been too bad. Please keep doing what you are doing for us folks who lack the courage to break in to a mink farm to rescue hundreds of innocent minks. Although I am too cowardly to fight such injustice head on, I will make it my duty to spread the awareness of Speciesism in hopes that more Vegans will arise.
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Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 3:31 PM
You inspired me and my friend. I was a vegetarian for many years and after I saw your lecture on YouTube I decided to become vegan. Your message is so strong that even my friend who had never thought she would stop eating meat and cheese became a vegan and it's all thanks to you.
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 8:06 PM
I just saw one of your lectures, and you've convinced me and my friends to become vegans.
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 7:49 PM
I just watched your speech and it changed my life entirely to make me see the big mistake. I never will be free if I keep committing this mistake: eating meat, drinking milk, etc.. You are truly charismatic and everything you say is so true that there is no way to catch you in a lie. I thank God for you having appeared in my life today. I ask forgiveness as I feel pretty bad about myself, but already beginning to mend the multiple murders, beatings, rape, etc. that I've been taking part in (with respect to the animal kingdom that is). I'm going vegan right now.
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:46 PM
Just 5 minutes ago I finished watching a video with your marvelous speech. I just fell in love with your way of speaking, with your way of transmitting such important and difficult subjects as the horrendous treat of animals. I think you give very good arguments to meat-eaters. In Poland there is still a lot to change. I sent your video to some friends, hoping that they will find it as interesting as I did. Thank you so very much for your effort, your kindness and especially your knowledge and the way of spreading it!
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:03 PM
Let me start off by thanking you for what you do. I periodically review your materials on ethical veganism, mostly because it is so moving and inspirational. Thank you for helping me to see the truth. I am trying to spread your message as much as possible.
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:59 AM
I think you are truly amazing and I have been touched by your ways. I watched your speech and tried to put it under scrutiny and find some fallacies but I could not because you make a lot of sense.
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:53 PM
I recently viewed your speech on YouTube. At first I was very skeptical when the video started but by the end of video I was shocked. You have certainly opened my eyes and taken off the blinders, and for that I thank you very much. I honestly had no idea how much damage was being done.
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:55 PM
My girlfriend and I just finished watching your lecture, it was very eye opening. We would like to become vegans. Thank you for a life changing point of view.
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:26 PM
Last night I watched the video of your lecture in my Ethics class in MD. I just needed to email you and tell you that I am one of those people that always said, "Nobody will ever be able to change my mind, I am a meat eater 100%." But after taking this class and watching you speak I have to say that my logic tells me that I have no justification for eating meat except to say that it tastes good. I just wanted to let you know that maybe you don't change the mind of everyone who sees your lectures, but you managed to break off my blinders. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me, you can be sure that I will pass it along, as I do like to talk!
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:59 PM
Your lecture literally changed my life. Your courage, charisma, and knowledge gives others the strength to not simply follow the herd. You challenge us to think for ourselves, and you have helped me personally realize that going vegan is one of the greatest actions any individual can take towards positive social change. My friend went from vegetarian to vegan overnight because of your video, too.
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:29 PM
I am happy to inform you that me and my family are now veg. We all feel much better, and healthy!
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 8:41 AM
After listening to your speech, and watching that AWFUL video, I couldn't look at my chicken dinner. I have decided to become vegan. I was a hard core meat lover!
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Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:12 PM
Just got done watching your speech you did in 2010. What an eye opener. My wife became a vegetarian for animal cruelty reasons. I still ate eggs, cheese and fish. No more. I was really disturbed by the video you played near the end of your speech, too. I cannot believe the cruelty that I observed. It brought me to tears. Keep spreading the word about this inhumane treatment of all of god's creatures. You have added at least 2 more people to your cause.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:32 PM
I'm from Israel and about to finish my first degree in nutrition. My friend sent me a link to your lecture on facebook which affected me a lot. Can you send me your lecture with Hebrew subtitles so I can show it to all my friends and family. You are doing an amazing job and I think that all of us should know the truth behind this industry. Thank you very much for opening my eyes!
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Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:14 PM
I recently watched a speech you gave on veganism held at Georgia Tech over the summer of 2010. I was very inspired by your words and moved by your message. I attend a middle school in NJ. I am 13, and I am in the 8th grade. In my Honors Language Arts course, we are currently working on an Independent Study Project for which we could choose to research any topic. I chose vegetarianism/veganism as my topic. I will be presenting this project for many people and I hope to be able to "remove their blindfolds" as you have for many people. I was hoping that you could answer a few brief questions for this project of mine. Thank you very much for your compassion. You are a true example of a moving speaker.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 1:17 AM
You have inspired me to go vegan. I have been vegan now for the past 6 months and it is the best decision that I have ever made in my life. I am so thankful for the knowledge that you have shared.
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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 3:27 PM
I saw your lecture today and I will go forward in a new veggie way. I'm 99.999% percent sure that you are right and on the right path! I wish more people would understand.
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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 5:27 AM
I have watched your 2010 lecture in Georgia Tech and it was a life changing experience. It will not be easy to abandon old habits, but I'm ready to give it a try.
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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:19 AM
I just watched your lecture on veganism online and it was great. I am already a vegan and actually have been working to spread awareness for it on my campus at Endicott College (which is in Beverly, MA). I just wanted to let you know that you're a hero, and that the world needs more people like you. There is so much apathy, hate, and ignorance in this world and it truly is an encouragement to see your speech and know that you exist.
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 4:59 PM
You are a real hero to all of us, and a living example to follow! Soon the time will come when people will be ashamed to eat meat and we will not even shake hands with the carnivores.
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 10:04 AM
On behalf of every vegetarian, vegan and animal lover that I know of, I'd like to thank you for everything your doing. You're a great inspiration to us all. I'm also writing to see if I can obtain a copy of your lecture on behalf of the national animal rights organisation in Denmark, "Dyrenes Alliance" ["The Animals' Alliance"]. We have lots of pamphlets, stickers, information folders, etc. But our problem is that sort of information can only include a certain amount of material, which we fear isn't enough for most people. It is simply too easy to toss away as soon as they get home. We would like to hand out DVDs for people, as we see some potential in this; people tend to be more receptive to new information when the TV provides it. There are numerous films about animal rights and the horrors of the animal industry, ready for us to use. These videos, though, do not always appeal to people's empathy for the animals but, unfortunately, tend to make people offended in their way of living and thereby unreceptive. We're looking for a video that deviates from this and instead remains non-offending. I think I speak for everyone when I say that your eloquence is far better and much more effective than any other lecturer or reality movie from a slaughterhouse. I therefore ask whether it is possible to obtain DVD-versions of your video lecture to hand out to people in the streets.
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 6:09 AM
What you are doing is absolutely amazing and I admire you for it. I think you must be turning people vegan at a colossal rate, because after watching your lecture on youtube I immediately became vegan and have been for three months now. And I will be for the rest of my life. You turned my two brothers vegan 6 months before me. You are an amazing speaker and leader and I'm so glad I watched your lecture! Keep going man. You're doing great things for this world.
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Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 8:29 PM
I'm 23 from Spain and studying nutrition in the university. There are a lot of myths about nutritional deficiencies in vegetarians and vegans from health professionals that need to be destroyed. I watched your speech on youtube and from today on I am vegan. I'll share your website and speech with all my contacts.
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Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 5:31 PM
I live in Azerbaijan, which has no animal rights awareness what so ever. And I really want to change that. I am a 22 year old student at Baku State University studying international law. I watched your lecture and became a vegan. I really want to do more to stop this cruelty. I talked about this with everyone who is willing to hear, but I don't feel like it's enough.
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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 2:53 AM
I wanted to personally thank you for enlightening me. I am ashamed I haven't known these things until last week.
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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:44 AM
First of all I have to say that you are a true inspiration to vegans. I had never thought about becoming vegan before, mainly because my parents are big meat-eaters. Now that I'm at University I have an opportunity to turn my life around. Your lecture got me thinking that perhaps I am 'addicted' to meat and dairy products, a somewhat strange confession that I had never thought of before. I think becoming vegan would completely change my life in a good way, I'm overweight and have asthma at the age of only 19 so perhaps if I change now then I can safeguard my future.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:38 PM
You changed my world last night. Over the past week I have been thinking about going vegan. I will be doing it not for me but for the animals and our world. I saw your speech on youtube and I can not say how much I appreciate your honesty and clear passion. You can consider me a vegan for the rest of my life thanks to your work. I am so excited for my new life. And I intend to take to heart your comments about our need to be ACTIVE, not just by way of bumper stickers.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 10:41 PM
I watched your amazing lecture from 2010 on gary-tv.com. You changed my life (and therefore, the life of many cows, chickens and fish).
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:23 PM
I am Polish. I watched your video and was in shock! I can't believe this is happening in the world. I grew up in a small village. I saw my grandparents castrate small pigs when I was 11. I asked him if they felt pain. My grandpa said that pigs forget quickly. I thought that this behavior was fine. I was terrible and cruel and am ashamed of this now. I thought I was a good man throughout my life. God forgive me how mistaken I was. I just sent your video to all my friends on my facebook. I recently became a type 2 diabetic. I am in sorrow that my folks taught me such bad habits. And I was believed that they were very religious. I just can't understand how our parents, teachers and doctors are so blind to the obvious facts. I know that I am only one person but I promise not to touch any animal food ever again in my life.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 6:19 PM
I am very appreciative of you for coming to my school. You inspired me to become vegan. The passion that you have for what you believe made me want to do the same for what I'm passionate about. I have always been told by my parents and my teachers to just tough it out, and go with the flow, and it will all work out in the end. But you helped me realize that I CAN do what I want and I should at least try to make the world a better place for me and my children to come.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:46 PM
Greetings from Poland. I watched your lecture. Starting today I am becoming vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:03 AM
Subject: A new documentary includes a part of your speech
Just in case the director didn't notify you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqT82oGeax0. The part where you're at is the 48-minute mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mqT82oGeax0#t=2870s
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 12:09 PM
Greetings from Poland. I've been vegan for more than a month now and feeling good. My weight went down a bit. My skin is looking better. I didn't expect such changes. I've turned one of my friends vegan as well. Let's change this sick world.
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:13 PM
Your speech has been duplicated on DVD and given to many including a friend that moved to Durango, Colorado. Because of your speech a vegan community is starting up. They are inspired. Check out this bumper sticker they just made ... look at the small writing ... http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3224104640214&set=o.396119973732640&type=1.
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 10:04 AM
I'm from Argentina. Your speech encouraged me to become a vegan. For many years I've struggled with obesity because of my consumption of cheese, eggs, and all sorts of animal fat. Three years ago I was truly depressed and my weight was around 300 pounds (I'm only 21 years old) so I decided it was time to change my life. I started going to doctors, support groups, diet groups and all of them kept telling me: You need to eat meat, eggs, and cheese but just eat less. At the beginning of this year I found your speech and immediately became vegan. Your words gave me the strength to change my life and stop believing that I was better than any other animal in the world. I have lots of pounds to lose, but now I'm proud because I'm doing it without killing or hurting animals. Thank you so so much for making this a better world and helping others like me to become better humans too.
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 7:29 AM
You probably hear this all the time but your talk was truly inspirational and although I was already vegan, I felt more justified in my decision after hearing it. I shared it on Facebook and three of my hardcore meat-eating friends turned vegan overnight. Six months later, they are still vegan and strong in their convictions too. One of them, a very 'macho' man, sat and cried in the dark for an hour after the torture scenes.
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 7:12 AM
Thank you for freeing me from my blinders! I'm now switching to veganism. I really hope all the people will open up their eyes to your message.
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 3:41 AM
You were amazing. I am a veteran of the US army and I was touched by your story. I have made the choice to become vegan.
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Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 9:54 AM
Greetings from Puerto Rico. I just saw your speech and it shocked me. I feel guilty. I am a personal trainer and gym owner and I always advocate a healthy lifestyle. I've changed some things since I saw your speech, but I want to do more and encourage the people around me. You are a patriot of planet earth!
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Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 12:53 AM
I'm from Argentina. The truth of your speech inspired me to be vegan and start defending animals.
Comments from Students and Supporters, March 2012
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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:13 PM
You came to my school (Lehman College) and gave a talk in October of 2011. Just wanted to say that it was great, I went home and changed all my eating habits. At first everyone complained what a pain in the ass I was being. But they've accepted and even started to change their diets, too!
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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 1:24 PM
I'm from Argentina. After watching your speech, I decided to be vegan. I admire your work!
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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 7:25 AM
I have been a proud vegan for 5 years. Your video only intensified the pride I have of being committed to this lifestyle. It's comforting to hear someone validate all the information I have been trying to address to my peers and family. After a while, my facts get shut down so much and criticized as "radical bullshit" that I begin to lose faith in my own words. But your speech is enlightening. Thank you so much for rekindling my enthusiasm for animal rights.
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 3:44 PM
I watched your lecture, and have been vegetarian for 4 years. Now I will become vegan! I will help you by sharing your site!
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 9:18 AM
I'm 21 years old and from Spain. I live in a little village in Catalonia. I've seen your conference on youtube, and have decided definitely to become veg, and also my family and my boyfriend.
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:13 AM
I just watched your speech. I'm 47, and love to eat chicken. So now that's out along with beef. I love to eat shrimp but won't eat that anymore either. This vegan thing is going to be hard for me, but you're right, animals have feelings.
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Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:04 PM
I'm from mexico, currently finishing my studies at the UT university. By complete accident I found your lecture and didnt know what it was about. The title was "best speech you will ever hear" and they weren't wrong about that. You gave me some great facts that i wasn't aware of. You are one of the heroes of the present, one of the few people who could actually change the world. It just that more people need to know about these facts.
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Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:00 PM
You are amazing and I've been adapting to a vegan lifestyle since hearing your speech. I would just like to praise and admire you for being such an incredible person. I always cringe whenever I hear lectures about saving the world by others because many of them are too passive and bland. There's no enthusiasm from them and, consequently, none found in the audience either. But you - you have a demanding presence and I feel the forthcoming change as you speak! Your arguments are spot-on, obliterating the "facts" claimed by meat-eaters. You are definitely one of my heroes and I've been bragging about you to my family and friends.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:39 AM
That was the best speech on veganism I've ever heard! At first I was dissuaded by the fact that it was over an hour long, but you were so enthralling and passionate that I didn't want to stop watching. I must say, I am envious of you for having found your calling. I want so badly to help animals, but don't know how. Sure, I adopt/foster pets, rehabilitate orphaned wildlife, educate people when I can, recently went vegan, volunteer at shelters, don't go to circuses, zoos, or rodeos, but it's not enough. Continue your awesome crusade. Thank you so much for all you've done for animals. I wish to be as effective as you one day.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:42 AM
I'm a Taiwanese college student at NCTU. I've already been a vegan for 1 year. After I watched your video, I want to do something like you and give speeches or set up a website like ADAPTT and spread this thought to everyone in Taiwan. To stop all of the wars or any other conflicts in the world, it has to begin with what we put into our mouths!
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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:23 PM
I'm a 23 year old Chilean Psychology student and have been a vegetarian for two years. Before watching your lecture on youtube I was thinking of quitting dairy products. After I watched it I know for sure. Thanks for what you do, honestly. It's very important. I was thinking on doing the same, although it's pretty tough down here in Chile.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:02 PM
I am from The Netherlands and just watched your vegan lecture and it impressed me a lot. I learned a lot and need to do something ethical for a change.
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 6:15 PM
I'm a 37 year old online entrepreneur from Israel. I just saw your lecture from 2010 and I am shocked, sad, full of shame and confused. I am a fat man who loves to eat meat, milk, eggs and almost any kind of dairy but I understand that as of tomorrow, things MUST change. I'd like to invite you here to Israel to give your speech. I am making a big change in my life and I want my people to make this change too. I am holding a conference here in Israel 4 times a year. It called: The AffiliGang. It's a conference for the online affiliates and online marketers. If you'll be willing to come here to Israel, I will launch the AffiliGang 8th conference in the concept of your lecture. You will be the key speaker. I admire you.
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 5:21 PM
I am a 27 year old female residing in South Africa. I wanted to thank you. Your lecture has truly changed my life! I am determined to make the world a better place, starting with myself! Your speech was certainly eye opening and since I watched it, I have started changing my life.
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 2:45 PM
I'm from israel and currently serving in the army. I'm a big fan of your work which was introduced to me about a month ago. I'm showing your lectures to as many people as possible.
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 2:40 AM
I saw your lecture on YouTube yesterday. Found it shocking and eye opening. Good luck turning all of us into better people.
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Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:38 PM
I've recently viewed your video. I'm a 23 year old who's been eating meat and dairy products since when I was a kid. I've never really looked directly at the factual evidence behind animal cruelty. I never really considered it, despite knowing that slaughterhouses were never a humane way to kill an animal. I've heard and seen inhumane acts of cruelty to animals. I guess I stood on the sidelines and blindly thought "Oh, meat's good for me." I guess I was wrong. I've decided to change to soy milk straight away, after hearing of the "pus" related risk included in milk. I'm intending on keeping to a stricter diet, hopefully to benefit not only myself, but to prevent the torture of innocent animals on this Earth. I have eaten soy meat with my friend before, and it's very nice and I respect you in what you're doing in your lectures. Keep up your charismatic talks with the youth of today and hopefully I may meet you one day to shake your hand with respect and acknowledgement. I guess that may never happen, given our difference in continental land masses, but thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:03 PM
I'm 24 from Israel and I just wanted to thank you. Thanks for opening my eyes. You've change my life and a lot of other people in Israel, too. I will continue to say your name to all of the people that didn't see your speech yet. I wish you could come here to Israel and make a big revolution! You inspire me every day.
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Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:49 AM
I've watched your Best Speech You Will Ever hear, and loved it. I have been a vegan for over a year now and have inspired my grandma to go vegetarian and eat a lot healthier than before. Today, I showed her the video of your speech and she is vegan now! This is a huge deal for me as I'm not the only vegan in the family anymore! Also, she's over 70 years old. That's highly respectable to make such a change at her age. Your reference to concentration camps in WWII surely had a great impact on her, as she had also been in one of those camps and watched her family die.
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Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:51 AM
I do a Sexuality and Health pod cast out of Brooklyn, NY. I watched the video of your lecture and it changed my life. It would be an honor if you would be a guest on my show. We broadcast from 6-8 on Tuesday nights.
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Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:39 AM
I'm from Paris and am contacting you for your testimony about slaughterhouses. I'm doing a contest in Femis (french film school) and the subject is "inhuman waiting" -- what happens to animals in slaughterhouses as they wait to be killed. Can you give me your opinion in 5 or 6 sentences.
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Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:45 PM
I found your video on youtube and thought it was a great teaching tool. I am part of an online guild with the majority of participants in their 30s, and many conservatives and liberals who argue about many subjects. I put your video on the public website and they said it was one of the best video to watch and then compare it with the myth of the cave by Plato. Thank you for sharing the speech on youtube. I´m spreading the link to my friends here in Brazil.
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Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:17 PM
To be honest I feel like my whole life has been a lie. The tables are turned when one realizes the reality of things and how much harm is being done to animals in slaughterhouses and to the human body by consuming these products. I used have the infantile delusion that animals just kinda entered the slaughterhouse after a mildly happy life and were instantly killed, no pain involved, and then cut up. I live in Paraguay, and the knowledge you give is groundbreaking and would benefit millions of people. Just wanted to thank you for taking the blinders off my eyes and helping me make decisions that will ultimately save lives of animals and improve my lifestyle.
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Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:28 PM
I am grateful to have been present for your Q&A session at Lone Star College. You challenged some of my life perspectives and I now feel closer to achieving inner peace. You've helped me to realized what I consider to be morally right and just in life and to understand the dangers to health that ingesting animal products cause, of course. But most importantly, you have inspired me to share this philosophy openly. I am going to do my best to set an example for all my loved ones by being as morally good and as healthy as I can be. It takes someone as courageous and persistent as you to help us to question the, perhaps, thousands of years of tradition, conditioning, and conspiracy of unnecessary killing and enslavement. You've earned my respect.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:32 PM
I watched your speech on YouTube earlier today. After 32 years, I am now a vegan. You dispelled a lifetime of lies in one hour. I probably made my mind up after ten minutes. You're an inspiration. I'll do my best to spread the word. From John Lennon to Gandhi to Jesus Christ, they've all been persecuted. You're in good company. And in my opinion you're right up there with the best of them.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:30 PM
You made me a vegan 3 months ago.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:03 AM
After seeing your speech online, I became vegan! Thank you for opening my eyes, for helping me become healthier and happier, and for helping me save animals.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:39 AM
I am from Germany. I love your lecture and started my vegan diet right after. Your presentation has opened my eyes. You have quite a lot of fans in Germany. Maybe you visit us sometime? The world be a better place if there were more people like you.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:25 AM
What you do to raise awareness is amazing. Your speech turned my brother vegan overnight!
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Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:49 PM
You will change the world one person at a time. I turned vegan recently and though it's a day by day learning process, your video has no doubt secured my mind to know there are causes, groups, and individuals like yourself who are doing so much more to help someone like myself learn about "becoming vegan". I thank you sincerely for being you, for choosing your path, and more than anything, for speaking out and helping people like myself become aware.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:48 AM
I'm 42 years old, and live in Israel. I became vegetarian when I was 7. My whole family eats animals. It wasn't easy. At the age of 11 I started cooking for myself because I wanted something to eat except plain salad. But I *LOVE* dairy. I'd been thinking of becoming vegan, but did nothing about it. After seeing your lecture, I decided to DO IT!
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 9:31 PM
I was fucking pissed after your speech. I wish someone would have told me all of this years and years ago. I stopped eating everything (dairy/meat) after your speech. I heard you speak last Monday at UM-Dearborn and even attended one on Wednesday, too, just to hear it again. You are the fucking man. I tried "Silk" Soy Milk and it tastes way better than regular milk, especially with cereal. I still don't get how some people in my class won't go vegan after they hear the evidence. This country is filled with dipshits. My blinders are gone now. You're the #1 hero on my list.
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Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 4:36 PM
I'm 17 and from Catalonia. Yesterday I saw one of your talks on youtube and it was really striking. At the age of 16 I decided to stop eating meat and 8 months after that I decided to be a vegan. It was the best decision I ever made. Maybe the most difficult thing is to make my friends understand why I am a vegan and why I'm so happy of this. After seeing your talk I thought: "It would be amazing to make people watch this speech every time they ask me why I've made this decision". Your words have helped me to defend veganism. It's the best video I've ever seen, and since I'm immersed in this world and you express your feelings and thoughts really good, I never thought anyone to touch on this issue so perfectly. I'm still shocked. I've already convinced 3 people to watch your speech and go vegan so I hope to convince a lot of more people the rest of my life!
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Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 10:33 PM
you took my blinders off. keep doing what you're doing. you ARE truly opening eyes.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:01 PM
I am giving a speech to my class about veganism and your speech was very inspiring and gave me a lot of good ideas. I was wondering if you could give me the link to the first video you showed so I could use it in my speech?
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:17 PM
I was in your class Tuesday afternoon, and I was really moved by your speech. I have thought about becoming a vegetarian for years. It always made me sick when I actually thought about what I was really eating, and where it was coming from. Your speech made me certain that I am going to become not only a vegetarian, but a vegan. The health benefits of going vegan are very important to me, especially because I am going to school to become a registered dietician. I already eat mostly fruits and vegetables. I don't like dairy products at all, and I will never drink milk again after the info you shared. I also don't even really like the taste of meat. I always have to eat my chicken with tons of ranch dressing (that I'm not going to eat anymore either). And red meat never tasted good without ketchup. So the transition to vegan will not be that hard.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 6:57 PM
I saw your video and I would like to thank you because it changed my life.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:45 PM
It's been eight months since I became vegan. I am healthier, freer and happier. In the month that followed my decision, my sister, my super catholic mother and my partner Irena, who is head of the department of quality and hygiene at Sodexo Slovenia, all became vegan. We've also converted our three year old daughter and 6 month old son to veganism. Three of my co-workers at the Department of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana changed, too. Plus, six of my students want to write their final thesis under my mentorship about animal rights, veganism and similar topics. In the capital Ljubljana, every month there has been another restaurant offering vegan dishes. We have been consistently asking local bars and cafeterias around faculty for soy or rice milk. After a month or two, all of them started to offer the vegan milk AND vegan sandwiches. Things are changing, I see it as some kind of revolution. Also the media pays much more attention as some of our movie "stars", writers and politicians joined the cause and became vegans. There is almost no discussion of vegetarianism any more because the arguments against milk are so strong that no one can object. My sociology department has decided to organize a series of round tables about relevant issues of our time. We entitled the project MAKING THE FUTURE, RESPONSIBLE SOCIOLOGY. The next event is about food entitled either "Food of Tomorrow" or "What is going to be on tomorrow's menus in Ljubljana". I will be the moderator and we expect to fill the biggest lecture hall at our school. Can we use some short sequences from your famous lecture as part of the presentation?
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:42 PM
I'm 14 and been vegetarian for 3 years. Last night I went vegan because my friend showed me your speech. Everything you said made perfect sense to me! For 3 years I've been telling people that I would never go vegan. You inspire me!
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:57 AM
I am vegetarian who eat eggs and all dairy products. But from today on I am going to cut it out. I have always dreamed about helping animals more but how can I and what should I do? I want to be an activist just like you and make change!
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:09 AM
Just wanted to say that I watched your video Sunday night. My wife and I have been vegetarians for about 8 years and have toyed with the idea of becoming vegan but have not been sufficiently motivated to take that leap. That was up until Sunday night! Many thanks for equipping us with the knowledge and desire to take that next step. We feel certain in our choice to become vegan thanks to your passionate and very clear presentation and are very grateful for that.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:36 PM
I'm an Italian student and I wanted to thank you for your speech about speciesism. After listening to you I was not able to continue eating meat and animal products and now, after just a month and a half of veganism, I'm finally free. You gave me the impetus to change.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:50 PM
I'm from Buenos Aires. I'm just writing to say thanks for opening my eyes. I love your speech!
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:34 PM
I talked to you after your presentation, and would like to bring a friend with me to your next lecture. I want to eliminate eating cheese, eggs and meat from my diet.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:59 AM
I came across your speech on Youtube and I was blown away. I'm from Santiago, Chile, and I'm a vegan since the day I was born so I need not be convinced. But the way you say it. Some people have it, some people don't. And you have it and I'm so grateful that you are using it to speak for animals rights.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:09 AM
Just a short note to tell you about my immense admiration for your speeches, energy and ideas. There are very few respectable people who are devoting so much of their time and energy to try and make a better world. I have totally ceased to eat meat and all animal products, and your videos have helped me to understand and be aware of the amplitude of the horrors that we human beings spread on this earth.
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Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:03 PM
Ever since I watched your lecture I can't touch meat and milk. I was a vegetarian for 3 years but ditched it a long time ago, turning into a hypocrite and living a lie. As a true animal lover, your lecture made an immediate impact. I sent your lecture to a few of my friends. You are so brave for dealing with people! You are truly a blessing to this world and a true angel. The world is a bad place and people like you are a ray of light in this darkness and evilness. If all the people on this planet were like you, this place would be heaven. Thank you again for fighting for the truth. You are a hero!
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Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:28 AM
I watched you on youtube and can do nothing but admire you. You're one of the bravest men in the world.
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Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 4:30 PM
I'm a 16 year old sophomore in Arizona. Your speech changed the way I thought, and brought up issues I never even gave a second glance to. You're my hero. And I hope someday I can be like you. If the world was filled with people like you, the earth would be perfect.
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Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 3:13 PM
I saw your video. I'm shocked and definitively vegan now.
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Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 1:01 PM
I just wanted to send some love your way for taking the time to educate us about the enormous amount of hypocrisy that exists, and should be blatantly evident to anyone who decides to open their eyes, in our antiquated dietary practices. Your speech is a very reasonable and scientifically sensible look at the entire issue, and it is exactly what we need. I have avoided many videos/materials on the subject, mainly due to the fact that I think a lot of videos and talks are a bit over-the-top and easy to excuse as being nothing more than sensationalism. Your speech provides a well-balanced approach, which was a pleasure to listen to.
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 2:57 PM
I'm from Brasil and since I saw your video last Friday I have not eaten anything that comes from animals. This will be permanent. When my friends ask "did you became a Vegan", I say, "No, I became HUMAN."
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 12:37 AM
I would like to begin by telling you that I heard one of your speeches for the first time today. I have been telling myself for years that I would eventually give up meat when I found it most convenient for me. I have worked in a small animal veterinary clinic since I was 15 years old and I knew at that time animals would always play the biggest role in my life. I am now 23 and have just now figured out what is right and what is wrong. I saw the kinds of things that these dogs, cats, reptiles, birds and other "pets" had gone through. I have always believed these neglected or abused animals that I had come across deserved second chances, and I was always the person to give them that chance. I had no idea, however, the types of things that other animals that landed on my dinner plate every night, lived and suffered through. Being an animal lover I never thought myself to be the type of horrible person I truly was. You are an inspiration. I never understood vegans until I heard you speak. I want to be a voice for these animals. Nothing anyone has ever said or done to me in my entire life hurt me as bad as those terrible excruciating videos. I'm sick about them. It was easy to ignore but I can no longer pretend it doesn't exist. I'm disgusted by the world we live in today and I can't live an evil lifestyle anymore. Thank you for opening my eyes and teaching me the hard way. I am only thankful that I can begin living in peace without anymore regrets.
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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 8:33 PM
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the work you do. You are an absolute inspiration and a soldier for the animals. I am a student at a veterinary tech school. I was the only vegan there until I showed two people your video. Both swore an oath of veganism to me. I believe that you have finally found a way for people to understand just how ridiculous all of this is. Keep fighting the good fight.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 11:37 PM
You came to my class on the 6th and I haven't stopped thinking about what you had to say/offer. Honestly, I came to class thinking you would be some closed-minded fool who wanted everyone to be just like you, but I was impressed with all of the facts you presented. I am shocked by how ignorant I have been all of my life (19 yrs). When you explained about carnivores, omnivores and herbivores I couldn't believe that I had never realized that before. And today I'm actually feeling angry that no one had ever told me! I told my boyfriend and he didn't believe it either until I told him everything you were telling us in class. It's repulsive to think of any human ripping an animal apart and eating it. I know some of my family and friends will not be supportive and make rude comments, although I was shocked to find out that not only I will be transitioning to vegan, but so will my mother, grandmother and boyfriend! I cannot believe how blind I have been and again thank you for opening the door for me and others like me who have been misguided by society and the meat and dairy industry. I could go on forever telling you the impact you have had on me. I've already bought almond milk and it tastes great!
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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 7:08 PM
I became vegan after watching one of your videos. I admire the way you approach this philosophy and how honest you are while you speak. I will spread the word that needs to be heard. Like you, I feel compassion for all creatures on earth, but I also know about the ignorance that blinds us. Unfortunately, it is painful to know the truth, and even more painful when people cannot hear it. But those who can hear are listening to each one of your words.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 1:23 PM
my neighbor, who is the chief of surgeons at an Illinois hospital, watched your speech and was so impressed that the following day she immediately decided to become a vegan. she has already purchased a number of vegan food items you recommended in your video. she has shared the info about your speech and your website with many of her friends and associates.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 11:30 AM
I am a high school senior in Illinois. I am writing a research paper on veganism and its benefits. I would like to include an in depth look at how veganism supports the protection of animals, so I was wondering if you would be willing to take some time to answer a few questions on your opinions and experiences. Your work has inspired me to become a vegan and I hope that I can inspire others through this research paper.
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 3:54 AM
I just watched your lecture. I've been a vegetarian for over 8 years. And my boyfriend just turned vegan. Your lecture convinced me to finally do it.
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 3:41 AM
I'm from Chile. I just saw your speech today, and that's it. I'm gonna go vegan.
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 2:38 AM
I love earth, animals and peace. So now I'm vegan, too. You are doing your mission on this earth well.
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Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 7:37 PM
i am an israeli film student, moving to new york next year. several days ago i watched your lecture that was translated to hebrew. i wanted to let you know that i took it very seriously and i'm changing my lifestyle along with a few other classmates who watched it, too.
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Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 2:44 AM
I came across your YouTube video. Really good stuff, Gary. For quite some time, when I started thinking about the fact that we are actually eating animals, it never felt right. I think it is long past due that I stop.
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Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 12:54 AM
I watched your video and it was absolutely great! I have been a vegetarian for the past 30 years but after hearing your speech I want to give up cheese and eggs. I have already given up milk as I drink almond milk.
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Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 1:42 PM
You are truly an inspiration to me, and I am so thankful for all of the work you do. I am making sure everyone I know sees your talk on youtube. It gave me the final push to cut eggs and dairy out of my diet after being a vegetarian for 2/3 of my life.
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Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:32 AM
After watching your video, I've given up meat, eggs, and dairy. I've been a lifelong meat-eater, but after that wake up call, I decided I wanted to change.
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:10 PM
I'm from Lima, Peru. I've been vegan for 2 years. People see me as a strange person but after watching your speech I am convinced my choice was the best in my life. God bless you.
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 7:15 PM
The video posted on youtube was presented to me by 2 students and after watching it, it inspired me to become a vegan.
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 5:35 PM
I'm writing to you from Poland. I saw your lecture on Youtube with polish subtitles. The video is named "Inspirujący wykład, który może odmienić Twoje życie - Gary Yourofsky". That literally means "Inspiring lecture which can change your life - Gary Yourofsky". Whoever named that video was so right. You literally influenced me so much that I promise tomorrow will be different. There will be changes in my life. And I'm sure of this. Before watching your speech, I bought 3 litres of milk and 10 eggs. You have to know that I'm poor and do not have money to waste. Buying 3 liters of milk and 10 eggs is really something for me. I have to work 2 hours to buy these products as 1 hour salary is 6 "zł" which equals $1.50 per hour. And then I randomly found your video. Even though I'm a big boy of 21 years old, I cried twice during your lecture. I kinda knew how animals were treated but I needed to see it with my own eyes to understand the scale of their suffering, of violence and the pain they experience. I managed to drink one liter of milk and eat 4 eggs before your video. But after your video I took all eggs I had left in my fridge and threw them out. Then I discarded the 2 liters of milk right into my toilet. My eyes are still filled with tears. That's how touching your speech was to me. I'm never ever going to buy animal products in the future. I really respect what you're doing. You've inspired me to activism by wanting to spread information. Even though we don't know each other and we are never going to talk face to face, I'm really thankful and grateful that I could listen to such a person like you. Yesterday I didn't even know you existed. But this day brings so many changes. You are a great person. I'm going to remember your name for a really long time (probably until my death).
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:47 PM
I'm 16 years old and living in Romania. I saw the speech you held at Ga Tech. After the video, I totally changed my style to vegan and this is my first week without any animal products. In this period I changed my family's eating menu and I've got big plans in my mind. Please continue your GREAT lessons that change the face of the earth!
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 5:58 AM
I would like to thank you for opening my eyes. I live in Czech Republic surrounded by a meat culture. But when I saw your lecture, I immediately changed my eating habits.
Comments from Students and Supporters, February 2012
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Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:09 AM
i'm from taiwan, and just saw your lecture on youtube. i'm very touched and grateful for your encouraging wake-up calls for all of us. you are very brave and daring. I am feeling better every night because no animals suffer any more because of me.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:05 PM
One of my friends shared your speech and it has changed me. I made my girlfriend watch it and she is now drinking soy milk and eating veggie sausages. I plan to wean myself off of dairy, but I live on a naval base and it is slightly harder to find things on base. But I am a woman of my word. You are a truly amazing being.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:47 AM
I just watched your speech. Even after being vegan for over 10 years (I'm 41), you taught me a few things I did not know. I wish I had watched this when I was young. Please keep doing what you're doing. You're an excellent speaker and an indispensable hero for the animals.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:24 AM
I want to thank you so much for all your inspiring videos (lectures) which I hope are going to help me in my plight in attempting to help my meat-eating family make the switch to vegan. I myself have been a vegetarian for the last several years (since I was fourteen, I am now twenty) and a vegan for the last year and a half, unfortunately I come from a very Biblical religious background which deters my cause in helping my family make this big switch as somehow no matter what facts or footage I present on the subject it always relates back to the fact that 'God told us to do it in the Bible' as you can imagine this is increasingly difficult for someone like me who has a deep concern for animals of all types whether they be your average domestic pets or cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, fish and so on. You continue to inspire me and give me hope for the future—there was once a time when I thought I was the only one that cared. People like you make me forget about myself and what people may think of me and give me the courage to tell people the truth no matter how they react to it or what abuse I may receive because of it. In you the animals have a guardian angel and a defending voice of justice that they themselves can never have. I have to say I have NEVER come across anyone who has replicated my beliefs so exactly so once again thank you SO much for everything you have done and for everything you continue to do.
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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:09 PM
I saw a video of one of your lectures and I want to go vegan. I am 15 years old and what you talked about truly moved me and I've influenced my family greatly with my new eating habits. I recently joined a local vegetarian society and I live in Colorado Springs and would love it if you could come to give a lecture! It'd be amazing and I really want to meet you because you are such and inspiration to me in how you believe so strongly for something and cherish all living things. Even if you cant come, I would be honored if you even responded to this message!
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Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 12:14 PM
You lead the fight tirelessly for animal rights and the protection of human health! 2 months ago I watched your video and I became a vegetarian. I am almost vegan! I would like to use your video to send a message of "change" in the country where I live, Italy. I will use your video for conferences and exhibitions on why to become vegan.
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Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 3:42 PM
I am from Spain, vegetarian since I was 25. Two weeks ago I saw your video and from that moment I was vegan. Thank you very much for showing me the whole truth. I can not imagine a world without people like you!
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Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 12:52 PM
I have always been big on preventing cruelty. However until I saw your talk I was eating chicken, eggs, milk, and the occasional beef and pork. After watching your talk, I have switched to the vegan lifestyle. I am ashamed it took me so long as I am 41. However, my switch has brought about the change in both my daughters and some of my friends! Thank you for what you are doing and keep it up! For every person you change, they change someone and they influence someone and on it goes.
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Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:33 AM
I am 28, vegan and an AR activist from Bucharest, Romania. I want to have my own site/blog with info on veganism (animals, health, environment etc.). Can I use some info from your site please? Of course it will be translated into Romanian. This would be very useful for me and it would help our goal. And since you are truly inspirational and I admire what you do big time, I want to start lecturing in high schools or universities here. All best and keep up the magnificent job!
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Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 3:09 AM
I am from the Czech Republic and I'd like to thank you for what you do to make this world a better place. Yesterday I came across to a video of your lecture on youtube. Never in my life have I watched such a powerful video/speech! After your lecture I immediately decided to refuse to eat eggs, cheese and drink milk. I realised how hypocritical I was being only vegetarian! Something have moved inside of me and I cried and cried and cried and my Soul feels much better now. I share the video with as many friends as possible even if some of them still refuse to see the cruel reality. I do not give up.
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Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 12:19 AM
My friend showed me a video of your speech for some students in America and I have to say, I was astounded. I've met vegans and vegetarians before, and I've never truly understood their way of thinking. Two days ago, I gave up meat for Lent. I'm not religious, but it seemed right. Then I watched your video, and I saw just how right it is. I'm simply sending you this email to thank you for showing me just how right veganism is. You are a truly great person, and you deserve recognition for your heroic acts to help preserve the world we live in.
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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:36 PM
Just wanted to give you some feedback on your efforts. I've been sending your video to many friends in many countries (thank God you have subtitles in so many languages) and many of them go veg after watching it. All of them, and you know how we were and how meat eaters are, they have many things to say, many excuses, but after watching your video ... excuses just fall away!
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Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 8:54 AM
Your speech changed my life!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:29 PM
I'm writing from Greece. It's been 8 days since the last time I ate meat, cheese, eggs, etc. and I don't miss them.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:42 PM
i saw your video and learned a lot from it. i've always been vegetarian but now i've stopped eating dairy products. this cruelty must stop, it's terrifying. i admire your actions. i really think what you're doing is right and i wish everyone thought like you.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:01 PM
I'm a 20 year old student from Groningen in the Netherlands. Today I came across your inspirational speech. It really was an eye-opener for me. You've completely changed my way of looking at animal rights and veganism. I believe that every person, regardless of where they come from, should watch your speech. That's the only way for us to make a rational decision between a vegan lifestyle or the continuation of animal exploitation.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:54 AM
I'm 25 years old from Israel. My diet was based on meat and dairy products every morning, noon and evening. Vegetables were a sort of a "sin" to me. However, around 2 years ago I started to realize that I didn't like the fact that I was always tired after every meal. My mother, father, brother and sisters - like me - always dropped to our beds out of tiredness after most meals. Around 3 months ago I saw your lecture and it really did change my life. I have never connected the dots before. I want to thank you for 3 things: 1) for doing this out of belief and not for monetary reasons; 2) for doing something good for other people even though all of the problems it causes you (police, big corporations, etc.); 3) for helping me rid these habits that were destroying my body slowly but thoroughly. Your lecture is inspiring my mind and soul and please know that you made one soul on the planet happier, healthier, and more merciful to other humans and animals. You are changing the world around us.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:33 AM
Last Friday night I was looking for some tips on speaking when I came across your youtube video. So I played it, and about one hour later I was Vegan. One of the wonders of life is that you never know what is around the corner. Thankfully it was your simple, logical, and well thought-out insight. I haven't, and don't plan to, have any more animal products. Revolution! Thanks for opening my eyes. No words can explain the appreciation.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:24 PM
YOU are my role model in life.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 6:16 PM
I am a PhD student from China. I know you are mostly lecturing in the US, but perhaps in the future you can come to China? The meat and dairy consuming in China isn't as heavily as western countries but we do have a much greater population that builds the foundation of meat consuming. There is a large population of monks who are vegetarians. However, the monks don't reach out to people and encourage vegetarianism. I haven't heard about organizations or persons like you actively talking about vegetarian/veganism to the public in China. Most people don't even know about this topic, or choose to ignore it like I did for the past 28 years.I really respect what you do. Your lecture changed me and I just started being vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:33 PM
I watched your lecture on youtube and saw the truth. Now I'm vegan. Thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:17 PM
I'm an Italian vegan blogger living in Holland. (http://despin67.blogspot.com/). You're a concrete inspiration to me. I am spreading your videos in Italian and Dutch. My idea is to "train" other vegans in Italy and in The Netherlands to do what you do in the US schools. Your words are my words. Speaking for animals, and for real Humanity.
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Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:23 PM
I want to thank you for being a huge inspiration to me. I went vegetarian in August 2009. Most recently I went vegan. Because of this change in my lifestyle, I have not been able to maintain many relationships with people because so many of my "friends" and even family started bashing my lifestyle and for a while it was difficult for me to even go to work because people were so mean to me. My own sister and nieces said horrible things to me that pushed me to move over 800 miles away from my hometown. I believe if it weren't for your speech that I watched on YouTube, I wouldn't be able to shake off the horrible things said to me and about me by people I considered very close to me. You are a true inspiration. I have never been healthier or felt more compassion for all living creatures. For the first time since I've been vegan, someone I now work with came to me and asked if he could come over and try some of the food I eat. He wants to learn about being vegan and all reasons I chose to go vegan. I was almost speechless. I just wanted to thank you for your amazing videos and all of your effort. You are someone that many people respect and admire. Thankfully, now living in the Portland area, I have access to many great restaurants that are vegan/vegetarian.
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Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 6:14 PM
i'm 29 years old from Rome. you opened my eyes and changed my life with your speech. now i appreciate more of the little things in life. i hope to see you in Rome one day. we need more people like you in this world who fight for truth and justice.
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Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 5:06 PM
I am a 16 year old from Czech Republic who ate dairy products, and meat and other animal things. But I love animals and do not want to hurt them. Your speech motivated me and changed my opinions, and from now on it's only natural products (fruits and vegetables, and other plant items). You really changed me. It would be a dream come true to meet with you sometime.
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Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:06 AM
You're a genius! I became vegan a few month ago, and everybody looked at me weird. Then suddenly there was an "epidemic" at my work place in Israel; 5 more people went vegan. And its all because of you and the best lecture we all ever heard! Please keep up the good work and we will too.
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:27 PM
My husband is being very supportive and is helping me to make our home into a vegan one (we have two young kids). A dear friend of mine whose brother owns one of Italy's well known fast food chains was shocked by your video and has not touched any animal food product since he saw it.
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:25 PM
I watched your lecture and it was amazing. I have been a vegetarian for 10 years and just became vegan along with my sister, her boyfriend, my friend and my dad who had been eating meat for 40+ years, because of your speech. I deeply respect you as a person. Thank you for changing how I see the world. You have changed my life and the lives of others.
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 6:49 PM
I live in Germany and went vegan two months ago. But it wasn't because of your speech. But I found out about you and your lecture later on, watched it, and it helped me a lot. I think you are a very good speaker and the way you state your points has helped me make my/your/our point when talking to relatives and friends. Thank you for your effort to make the world a better place.
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:25 PM
My husband and I watched your video recently. Your speech touched our souls and we became vegan. I was doing research on how to introduce solids to my one-year-old. And I met a vegan couple and their beautiful vegan toddler. Then I saw your speech and right at that moment I knew that nothing would be the same for our family. My baby boy will be raised as a vegan thanks to your inspirational speech. I realized that there is not a Turkish subtitle option. I want all of my friends and family to be able to watch it.
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 3:19 AM
I'm Italian, and after 2 years of vegetarianism, I am now vegan thanks to your beautiful video.
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:02 AM
Big love from Israel. I was blind but now I see. Just wanted to say thank you.
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Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 10:09 PM
I was in an Ethics course at University of Akron last year. You influenced me a lot. I started a vegetarian diet in October and have not regretted it at all. I have now been influencing my father, who is dealing with cancer. He is doing much better. Granted he loves meat, but only eats it when I am not around which is very rare. I have greatly reduced my dairy intake as well. I appreciate your presentation and am so glad the University gave you the arena to present. It is very useful and educational. I am now losing weight and feeling much better. I love animals and this has given me a new opportunity to educate others and to feel good about it.
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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:31 PM
I was on the fence for a while. But after watching your video on youtube I decided to be vegan. It's been three weeks now and I am not turning back no matter what. I also have my office talking about healthier eating. So far I haven't taken too much shit from them and one co-worker has been reducing her meat consumption based on our conversations. My wife has also decided to cut back on meat and consider going vegan herself. I think she will. Thank you for opening my eyes, hopefully improving my health and for your passion to make this earth we live on a better place, especially from the animals' point of view.
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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:40 PM
I live in Israel. A few days ago I watched your lecture on YouTube and I can definitely say that I am a new person. You totally changed my life! All my friends in school are going to see your lecture in class in a couple of days, and I'm sure that there's going to be a big change in all of our lives! Thank you so much for making me a better person.
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Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:28 AM
I am a student of National Institute of Technology in Trichy, India. We are an institute known for its national importance, run by the Indian Federal Government {started under U.K- India R.E.C project in 1961}, next to prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. I just came across your lecture at Georgia-Tech and was very much surprised to see your dazzling video posted in you-tube. I totally agree with your views and thoughts. I humbly request you to give us the pleasure of having your lecture at our prestigious institute at your convenience, which can change the fate of around 4000-7000 students.
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Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:56 AM
i have been a meat eater my whole life. but you have changed me. after seeing your speech, i'm going to start to be a vegan. i can't believe what the animals go through, and the poor things cant even defend themselves. i would like to help out my community just like you have been doing. i have to write an essay for my english class and i've been wondering if I could write it about you?
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Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:52 AM
I'm from Chile. You are amazing. I've been a vegetarian for 8 years and now it's time to become a vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:48 PM
I was a student in Steve Ethridge's Composition Class at UCF yesterday and I just wanted to thank you for everything you do and for coming in yesterday and presenting that amazing speech. That was truly the most impactful event that I have ever experienced and I just wanted to let you know that you truly made a difference in my life. You're such an amazing person for everything you and I truly felt a tug on my heart to start making a difference after what I saw and heard yesterday. I have always been a huge animal lover and have tried to stay away from meat as much as possible, but just like you said, I had my blinders on before, but now since I am truly exposed to the reality of it all, I know what I have to do now to make a change. I am going to work as hard as possible to become a vegan and I already bought tons of Gardein packages and the first meal was amazing! I just needed to tell you thank you so much for everything you do to make the world a better place and I hope I can meet you again someday and do lots of the same work you are doing for God and animals! I am going to live the rest of my life in a better way and truly make a difference because of you! You are an Inspiration and a Hero! God Bless.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:46 PM
I just watched your lecture. I am from Hungary, translated Earthlings to Hungarian a few years ago, and would be VERY-VERY happy to translate your lecture as well.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:28 AM
I saw your video and wanna be vegan.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:53 AM
I'm 19 and live in Israel. The day before I saw your lecture I had my night meal of pork steak, which was my last. It's been 3 days. I have health issues, I was born with SMA type 2 disease (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) and am currently in a wheelchair. I'm used to going against the world. I had to. When I was a kid, the doctors said I would die by the age of 8 and If I didn't, I would be hooked up to a breathing-machine. Everybody thinks that SMA is a death sentence. And everybody thinks that killing animals is right. THEY DON'T KNOW SHIT. I want to be a part of the real world. Nobody has to kill a cow or a chicken or a duck to survive. It's 2012!
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:02 PM
You've inpsired me to go vegan! I've always questioned the morality of the things we humans do both to each other and to the animals. Yet I've been held back by that one question in my head: "What am I willing to sacrifice for the good of suffering animals?" That one question held me back for a long time, and it churned my insides a bit because it hurt me to support the hurting of others. Though you easily convinced me by making me realize that in truth, I'm not sacrificing anything. I'm making my life better at the "cost" of making other lives better too. I'm almost ashamed when I think of how I suppressed my own morality due to vague excuses. So I'm here to thank you for removing my blinders, and making me see that going vegan is better both for myself and everyone else. It's just a pity I had to see a benefit for myself before I did the change. Though I guess this way is at least better than nothing.
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:51 PM
I am impressed with your fight to the animals rights. I would like to put your video on my web page which will be done by the next month. A lot of people follow my work, and I have a good chance to get them to start thinking about what we are doing do the animals. What you are doing is very necessary.
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:39 PM
I am from Bucharest. I saw your video. For 10 years I've been thinking about all the things that happen to animals. I am still corrupted, but I quit smoking 2 packs a day so I know I can do this. Your video is motivation enough. Hoping for a more peaceful planet.
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:28 PM
Greetings from Norway. I just wanted to let you know that you are a real inspiration. Please don't ever stop. A couple of weeks ago I considered being a vegan but I wasn't sure if I could do it. Your video removed all doubt I had. I've loved meat and milk and eggs almost my entire life, and I was completely addicted to it, but because of you, just the thought of a glass of milk now makes me sick to my stomach. And it just makes me sick the kind of world we live in, where people look at me weird because I don't want animal products anymore, and they are all brainwashed into thinking that meat is normal, and healthy. So thank you, thank you so much for changing my life. You are amazing. And you are a very talented person, you really know how to speak so that people will listen.
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 11:47 AM
I live in Israel. I came upon you after a friend sent me a link to your lecture. I was vegetarian for 8 years and vegan for two. But a couple years ago I started eating meat again. Your speech took me back home to where I really want to be. A day after listening to you I went back vegan. It's been a couple weeks since and I'm really proud of my choice. I get questioned a lot so I basically quote you and eventually refer them to your speech. I think your activity is outstanding and you're doing an amazing thing. Thank you for what you are doing, I know the animals appreciate it, and so do I.
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:52 AM
I am from Barcelona, Spain. I was watching some of your videos and I really believe in your words and actions. I will try to change my life because your activism has motivated me!
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:24 AM
I'm 20 from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Been vegetarian from 2009-today. I saw your video and now I'm vegan for life. You're a genius! I'm a fan of yours!
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 1:03 AM
I am a secondary student from Adelaide, South Australia. I have been passionately Vegan for almost a year now. I loved your lecture, and strongly support your stance on animal rights. In year 12, students are required to complete a 'research project' on a topic of their choice. I have chosen to base mine on a comparison between a herbivorous diet, and an omnivorous one. I would like to be able to further my knowledge in a number of issues related to diet, as well as animal cruelty, and additionally pollution. I was hoping that perhaps you might be interested in answering a few questions via email, so that I might be able to include the information you provide me as a primary source I can use in my research.
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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 8:55 PM
i'm from buenos aires, argentina. today i watched your video and it changed my life. the torture videos were very hard to watch. thank you for showing me a part of humanity i thought did not exist.
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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 5:04 PM
I saw one of your videos and was amazed and disgusted at the cruel truth. By listening to your eloquent speech and by watching the video footage I was awakened in a way I was never before. Although I dislike watching these type of videos, (because I usually kept the mentality of only watching and feeding my brain with positive things thus remaining ignorant and becoming insensitive), I was able to finish it until the end. So I am grateful for you courage, your sense of compassion, your view on morality and ethics, and love towards all living creatures. I will be vegan for good, and educate my friends and family in these matters.
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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 2:54 PM
I recently watched your lecture and thought it was enlightening. It convinced me to make the transition from vegetarian to vegan. In addition to this I really want to help spread the word.
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 8:01 PM
I'm Paulo Borges, a teacher at the University of Lisbon and president of the newest political party in Portugal, the Party for Animals and Nature. We managed to elect a representative in the last regional elections in Madeira Island. We would like to invite you to give one or two talks in our two main cities, Lisbon and Oporto.
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 2:32 PM
I am from Czech Republic. A few minutes ago I saw your lecture. I have never felt this way before. Everything you said is right. I don't need meat. I would like to live in peace.
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 2:26 PM
I'm from Italy. I've just watched a video of your speech. My heart feels terrible. I just feel stupid and idiotic. I should pay for my stupidity. I'll never eat meat again in my life. I'm just an IDIOT.
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:21 PM
I'm from Italy. I've been thinking about turning veg for years, but there was always some pro-meat-eating arguments in my mind, and fears, that I wasn't able to counter. Then I saw your speech. And when I showed it to my almost-wife, we decided to turn veg together. By the way, you may be interested in knowing that the most famous Italian doctor, Umberto Veronesi, who is the Head of the European Institute of Oncology, is vegan! During interviews he refers to himself as a vegetarian but in fact he states that "humans should eat only fruit, legumes and vegetables." I think that turning veg has nothing to do with the concept of "revolution". I simply see it as a further step toward a sustainable evolution.
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:54 AM
wow man you changed my life. i watched your lecture at Georgia Tech and i think your work is incredible. today you helped me understand life.
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 5:26 AM
I am one of the volunteers of Viva! Foundation in Poland. My goal is to promote vegetarianism/veganism and the ethical treatment of animals. I'm going to organise an Animal Film Festival in May. Is it possible for me to use your lecture about veganism in Poznań (one of the biggest cities in Poland)? I already organised the projection of "Earthlings" in December 2011.
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Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 12:23 PM
I am writing from Istanbul, and taking care of a small vegan restaurant called Loving Hut. I watched your speech before writing a speech of my own for the film festival here. We will be showing 'Forks Over Knives' and i will be talking about veganism as it pertains to nutrition and climate effects on the 21st of February. I wanted to ask if it would be possible to make translation of your speech to turkish and copy it on cd and let people take it with them when we have events and also for people who come to the restaurant.
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Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:32 AM
An English version of the Israeli website has just been proofread: www.gary-tv.com/en/. Last week, a well known Politician in Israel gave his reaction to your speech at www.gary-tv.com/garymain/?page_id=2834. And there's an article/mini-project in a very popular economic newspaper in Israel called the Calcalist. The article was the cover story of the Leisure section, and it names the "10 stops on the way to veganism" and the first stop is your speech: www.calcalist.co.il/consumer/articles/0,7340,L-3562186,00.html.
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Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:20 AM
Today I saw the speech you gave at Georgia Tech. It truly inspired me to get totally rid of the addiction/habit of eating meat. I believe that most meat eaters also love animals, and don't mean to hurt them. The big problem is that people just don't realize how meat came on their plate. You are doing a great job waking up people, and I am forwarding the word to people around me.
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Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:43 AM
Thank you for your hard work for animals, earth and all of us. I've been vegetarian more than 10 years but after watching your lecture on youtube I decided to be vegan.
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Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 12:43 AM
You have made a huge impact on me. I share your videos with everyone. I admire everything that you do and I am making a difference every day too. My heart is crushed knowing the torture that humans put animals through. Thank you so much for what you do.
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Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:45 PM
u change my life 4 ever and ever.
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Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:38 PM
I saw your famous lecture. It had a huge impact on me. My appreciation to you and your work is beyond words.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 8:08 PM
i am from trento, italy. i've had the pleasure of watching your famous speech on youtube. i think it's the best video to make people understand the vegan choice. when someone asks me about my choice, i always give them the link to your video! i run a fanzine about hardcore punk music and it will be great to do an interview with you. i showed your video to my 55 year old mom and she's reducing a lot of meat in the kitchen.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 6:16 PM
I have to say that I was very skeptical of being vegetarian or even vegan before your presentation. I did not even write down your e-mail when you told us to because I thought you would not be able to convince me. I was afraid of change. I could barely watch the video you had showed us in class and that was just an ounce of what animals go through. I love animals, but when I see that chicken breast in my sandwich from Subway, I like to forget it came from an animal. We have all this fresh produce in front of us and the first thing we think our appetite wants is a beef or chicken. This high demand for meat is discouraging but I will not let it get the best of me in my goal to become a vegetarian and possibly a vegan. I want to be consistent for my health and love for animals. Today, I went to the grocery store and did not buy any meat products. I really respect that you go around and speak in schools with great honesty and sincerity. I love how you share not just facts, but life experiences with your father and other family. Looking at PETA's website probably would have never convinced me; even watching what doctors on TV or my brother telling me to go vegetarian when I was younger did not convince me, but you did and thank you for that.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:11 PM
Thank you for your interesting and convincing speech. I watched your lecture and have not put a piece of dead flesh into my body since. I have been criticized by many since changing my diet. I also refused to purchase tickets for the upcoming NY circus event.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:20 PM
I WANT TO PERSONALLY APOLOGIZE FOR THE RUDENESS YOU EXPERIENCED IN OUR CLASS. I think it was TOTALLY disrespectful for anyone to tell you to leave because this is not their personal room and you weren't invited by them. I was appalled that the woman sitting next to me even had the nerve to say such a thing, especially considering that she's a senior citizen and expects respect so she should give respect also. I really enjoyed your presentation and appreciate you taking the time and effort to try and educate us about a very important topic. I plan on trying some of the products that you showed us and see if I like them. I've had vanilla soy milk before and it wasn't bad at all. It actually tasted better than regular or 2% milk. Plus I'm overweight and would definitely consider changing the way I eat. I'm pregnant and plan to breastfeed so I know that the healthier I eat then the healthier my child will be. When you left a lot of students began to argue and say that she was very rude because they had more questions. Once again I apologize on behalf of the very rude individuals.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 7:57 AM
i am 24 and i have been vegan 2 month now. before i saw your lecture i still had a doubt about how dairy products were harmful and caused so much suffering to animals (my addiction speaking of course). it is also a bit more difficult to make the transition here, in Romania, as we have no imitation "meat" or "dairy" dishes. i have shown your video to my father, boyfriend and some friends and it made a huge impression every time. some intend to become vegan and are consulting me with their shopping lists. your arguments leave no room for question. for that i thank you with all my heart.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 6:30 AM
I am from Vigo, a town of Spain, in Europe. I am writing to say "thank you" because you've made me understand everything. I was really blind to suffering of animals around the world until yesterday when I decided to go vegan after seeing your video.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 1:32 PM
I wanted to say thank you, thank you, thank you. I know you probably hear this often. I have decided to go vegan and cannot believe how strong those damn blinders can be. How funny that I have 2 dogs, volunteer at local shelters, and yet ate animal products. Thanks for being our best friends' guardian angel and making people like me who 'thought' they were animal lovers realize we are the devil in disguise to these poor souls.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 12:54 PM
I don't know if you remember me but I am the 17 year old student from Spain who did the project about Veganism for the school. I interviewed you some months ago to complement my project. I had an oral presentation today, and it was a success! Teachers and students congratulated me. I have just received an email from a student who wants to become vegan! I'm very happy with the results. I have to thank you so much, because you are a role model to me.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 12:55 AM
I'm from México and just saw your speech. I really want to become a vegan, I think we need more people like you in this world.
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Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 6:32 AM
you are not real. you are not real. you are not real. you are not real. you are not real! you are an angel. i thank god for creating you. i thank you for unbrainwashing me. i thank u for opening my eyes. i love u.
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Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 10:11 AM
I fully admire your work. I am a vegan myself, but I have never seen a speech on this subject as powerful as yours. Would you please join our group of scientists who want to show the world a truly New Science? Please check us out at www.pateo.nl/English/academia.htm. I would love to add your name to this list.
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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 5:36 PM
I'm watching your speech on speciesism. I'm going vegan. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 6:59 AM
I assume you get a lot of fan-mail but I have to give you my gratitude. The speech I found on youtube changed my life. I used to be a tired/always sleepy boy who ate 3 portions of meat/fish a day. I couldn't see what the causes may have been as I was eating healthy? First, I stopped eating animal protein for moral reasons but now I can't stop because of physical ones. I have never felt more alive and alert. Please keep up the good job. This world is far from perfect! And maybe one day we will look back, and tell our grandchildren that you were the Martin Luther King of the animals.
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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 6:00 AM
I'm 28 from the Czech Republic. Yesterday I saw your speech and you totally changed my way of thinking. However, I'm very angry. Are we living in hell?? I still believe that people would be willing to change and stop the cruelty if they only knew. I must say that you are an angel for the animals and you have my all respect for what you do! I'm sending your video to everybody I know and they are doing the same.
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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 3:11 AM
I'm a student at Ventura College. You came and delivered a speech in a couple of my classes and you definitely changed the way I think, eat, and live. I've been a vegetarian all my life, and hearing you talk finally motivated me to switch over to a vegan diet. I never realized before how much my actions make a difference. Your presentation really moved me and I wanted to thank you for everything you do. You are an inspiration to me and those around me.
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 6:08 PM
I am so grateful to have attended your lecture on veganism at Ventura College. Your website is a great resource for me. THANK YOU for dedicating your life to such an important and vital cause. YOU ARE A TRUE HERO. MORE POWER TO YOU!! You have lit the flame under my feet to stay strong and speak up for those who desperately need us.
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 5:51 PM
thank you for opening my eyes, my mind and my heart. my son told me to see your video and now we are vegan, and my mother too! and she's 76 years old!
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:15 PM
I watched your video on youtube and bought my first carton of Almond milk. I love it!
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:01 PM
I saw one of your lectures on youtube and it was amazing. I'm a convert.
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 11:47 AM
i'm your big fan from Italy. your speech is great! i'm 16 years old in high school and studying science. we had a conference and i shared your video and i talked a lot about the vegan choice. the conference was a triumph!
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 6:58 AM
I am 33 years old from Spain, and just wanted to thank you for the incredible work you are doing. You changed my life. Here in Spain, there are many people who follow you. I'm making a DVD with the documentary Earthlings and your speech at Georgia Tech. I have about 500 copies and will distribute them freely at universities and institutes in Barcelona, along with papers relating to veganism, ending with "If you want to change the world, now is the time. I am asking you to only make 5 copies of this video and give them away." This is an experiment, something like a chain, and I hope it goes well.
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 2:29 AM
i'm from italy and just watched your video yesterday. i cried like a child although i'm 22. i started being vegan. you are such a good person and i wish everyone could be like you.
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 1:22 AM
you came to my stress management class at ventura college on wednesday, and you changed my life. i decided to become vegan. i had been thinking about it for a while, and your presentation gave me that extra boost.
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Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 6:46 AM
You Are An Amazing Inspiration. All The Best From Serbia!
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Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:43 AM
I shared your video with my daughter. She called me last night crying. She vows to be vegan forever. You have a very powerful message.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 2:22 PM
Thanks for being the person you are. You are making a difference and impacting people all over the world to become better people. I'm a film composer originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Don't hesitate to contact me if you need original music for your videos. I'll be happy to write it at no cost. God bless you always.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:15 PM
I recently secured a 1/2 hour timeslot on Queens Public Television (QPTV), which I named "Glass Walls" and I submit existing A.R. content to be aired. I am very new to all this and have acquired so far just a few dvds, one of which is a segment of your lecture. It will actually be airing tonight at 8:30 pm. I wanted to give you the courtesy of telling you this. I so admire you for your courage and commitment towards animals.
Comments from Students and Supporters, January 2012
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Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:00 PM
I watched your lesson on veganism on Youtube and found it really inspiring! Don't ever stop what you're doing!
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Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:46 PM
i just wanted to thank you for your words and for your courage. i'm a 33 year old french man, and i've been interested in a vegan diet since i was 24 when i started studying buddhism. i never had the courage to go vegan. but yesterday, i saw your speech and i was really impressed. i've decided to go vegan. the slaughter has to stop. this industry is such a shame. i really wonder why it took me such a long time to face the truth. i feel terrible. thank you so much for finally opening my eyes.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:29 AM
I just wanted to say that I want to become vegan solely from watching your speech!
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Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 9:50 PM
I'm 22 and because of you, I am a new vegan. I had never really thought about what I was eating before until my brother sent me the link to your video and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Both my mom and I went vegan after watching it, and haven't eaten meat since Christmas time. Neither of us misses meat at all. I've found new loves; barley, squash, smart balance buttery spread, etc! I'm very happy I made the switch and overall feel so much better about my body and what I'm putting into it.
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Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 12:23 AM
your speech has put me on the vegan path. so congrats for getting one more person off of meat.
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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 7:12 AM
I live in Tel Aviv, Israel. I just finished watching your lecture on youtube. I am literally sitting here crying, mainly because I feel so sad for the animals and what they have to go through because of us. I am also upset with myself for not "investigating" this situation earlier. It is true that we are in denial. I always wondered about this but it never bothered me enough to really do something about it. I was raised in South Africa. If you know anything about South Africans you will know that they love eating meat. So needless to say I came from a house where we had meat on our table every day. I am ashamed of this now. Thank you for speaking to me through this lecture. You really hit home. My fridge is usually filled with meat and milk and cheese. Even on my salads. After sending this mail I promise to you and to myself and to every animal out there, that I will throw out all the milk, all the cheese and give away the meat in my fridge.
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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:01 PM
I so respect everything that you stand for. I saw your lecture and became vegan myself November 7, 2011.
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Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:41 AM
Cheers from Israel. I just wanted to let you know that I've been vegetarian for 12 years. Watching your lecture made me vegan. Don't think for a second that you're not making a difference.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:13 PM
I am utterly disgusted with the meat and dairy industries which have been lying to us and brainwashing us our whole lives. We are force fed this nonsense as children and believe it. So we have the meat and dairy industries making us sick with the wonderful backing of the USDA and FDA and our government. And alas, the pharmaceutical industry comes to the rescue to "help cure our ailments" for $$$$$. Total bullshit. I've seen the light! Thank for spreading the word and taking a stand. You are an inspiration. And I appreciate your website. I am learning so much about veganism. I am NEVER going back to meat, dairy, eggs, cheese, honey, gelatin, sneaky by-products, fur, wool, leather. None of it. It's time to live in peace.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:47 PM
I am from Israel. I saw your speech on YouTube 6 month ago, and I've been vegan for 6 month and will be all of my life! this is the best thing that happened to me and I want to thank you so thank you very very very very very very much! you are my hero!
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Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:54 AM
I am an artist from South Korea who is living in France. I am impressed by your speech. I am going to go vegan for the animals, and speak on their behalf. You are so cool. Thanks for letting me know the facts. I'll always be rooting for you.
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 6:04 PM
I recently watched one of your speeches on youtube that has extremely moved and disturbed me. It was the ultimate push that has set my mind on not only avoiding meat but to completely cut out all dairy and egg products as well.
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 5:28 PM
I'm a 53 year old ex meat eater. I watched a video of yours on you tube from Georgia Tech, and it truly changed my life. I will never eat or consume animal products. I was raised in Alaska, and we ate meat or fish for every meal. I've watched a lot of animal rights videos, and I only thought about the cruelty of the factory farming of animals, not the rights of animals. Your video showed me a totally different outlook. Combining the facts about cruelty, the physical harm that eating meat does to the person, and the planet. Thanks again for enlightening me.
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:04 AM
I showed your speech to my boyfriend and my dad this weekend. My dad will be giving up red meat. It's a start from a 60 year old meat habit! My boyfriend is going veggie. I'm trying to get a lot of people to watch your lecture.
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Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:06 AM
I'm 22 from israel. A friend sent me your lecture and I became a vegan. I showed it to my family and they stopped consuming animal products too. My boyfriend saw it yesterday and he went vegan as well. When the time comes to start my own family, they will be vegan, too. Thank you for opening our eyes to the truth that was there all the time. You are doing something great in this world! People in israel are influenced by you, and i'm sure it's the same in other countries.
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Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:23 PM
Cheers from France. Your speech made me excited about going vegan. Thank you for everything. You're a God and I admire you!
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 11:05 PM
My name is James Wilks, winner of the SPIKE TV show the Ultimate Fighter and UFC fighter. I thought I would get in touch with you. I am working on a plant based athlete documentary which I think will have a huge impact on people switching their diet. I think that athletes will do the best job at dispelling the myth that one needs animal products.
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Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 4:53 AM
I would like to thank you for your teachings. I'm not blind any more, and I really want to stop this animal holocaust. I am a student from Serbia. Can you tell me some of the best things to eat quickly in the dorm?
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 3:25 PM
Hugs from Portugal. We have a 1 and half year old daughter, and we want her to follow the vegan lifestyle. Can you give me some tips about how we should do it?
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:07 PM
I'm 29 years old and live in Italy. After watching your video, I decided that it was "high-time" to stop and think. I haven't eaten meat for 8 days and I don't miss it.
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 6:23 AM
Greetings from Belgium. You are an inspiration and I wanted to thank you. Yesterday I was a vegetarian; I watched your lecture at 1 AM and I turned vegan at 2 AM.
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 4:12 AM
Someone had told me about your lecture on veganism at a vegan group I attended in my home city of Manchester, UK on Wednesday night. I watched it last night on YouTube for the first time ever and was simply bowled over by it. I have been slowly moving towards veganism for a few months. However, I think your lecture has been the thing that has made me decide once and for all that I am going to commit to veganism. I wish everyone I know would watch it, and I wish you could come to the UK and do some talks here! Thanks for being the inspiration I needed to commit to the diet that I know is the only compassionate choice.
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:11 PM
Your speech has blown my mind. I have been vegetarian for 2 years, now a vegan. I want to show my mother your speech so she is more understanding of my decision. Do you have an Arabic translation?
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:34 PM
I haven't eaten most meat for a few years. However, I have been eating a lot of fish. After I saw your video in youtube, I am completely convinced not to eat any more meat in my life. I just want to tell you that your video made me cry like a baby and I do not feel ashamed of crying. I still have a node in my throat as I'm writing this.
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:09 PM
I have just recently stopped eating meat after going to the Creative Health Institute in Union City, Michigan. I recently joined a vegetarian group in Decatur, Illinois, and someone there talked about your video. I must tell you I am just sick at heart about the plight of the animals. Thank you so much for all the education you are doing.
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:36 PM
I saw your video yesterday and I became to be vegan! Someone translated it to Serbian. Your work is excellent. You made one girl far away from you change her life! I've already started to speak with my friends about this. You are great. Keep going.
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:10 PM
I'm 17 years old. I live in England and I'm a musician. For my new school project I'm going to compose a song and use some audio quotes from speeches of yours. It's going to be about animal cruelty obviously. I feel I need to change something in my life. You're a great man and inspiration for me to be a better man.
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:29 AM
I found your speech on the Polish website www.alterkino.org. I've been vegan for 10 years. I am writing my PhD dissertation on the Moral Status of Animals at the University of Szczecin, Poland. I am writing to you because I was amazed by your charisma and passion. I try to give lectures from time to time in different cities in Poland, but they are all stiff, sometimes a little bit complicated or boring. I admire your talent to speak clearly, wisely, yet simply and directly. This year me and my friends from the Department of Ethics wanted to prepare a free open conference on Animal Ethics. Unfortunately we were not able to find a guest who would specialize in animal ethics. Peter Singer has no time (and I do not agree with a lot of his ethics). We can't afford to fly Tom Regan here. I've also written to the Oxford Centre of Animal Ethics, but they were all busy too. Anyway I'd rather invite you than any others as I've seen Singer before in Warsaw and his lectures are a bit boring. It's great that your lecture is available online. I have already put in on our website on Practical Ethics (unfortunately it's mostly in Polish, but you can see it here. I like when you speak about ALF actions, like it was something natural we all should do when we see injustice in front of our eyes. I would never have enough guts to do such things but I have always understood that it is necessary.
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:28 AM
I recently stumbled upon your lecture at Georgia Tech. I'm not a vegetarian but you have made me think about my dietary habits. Thanks for making me think.
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:24 AM
I am from Perth Australia. I both loved and hated your speech immensely. It really moved me. Keep up the mind blowing work.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:21 PM
I just watched your video. It was fantastic!! You're an inspiration.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:48 PM
I am from Spain, and I'll turn 18 in 2 weeks. I started veganism 2 months ago. My family and friends criticize me constantly. My dad keeps pushing me to eat meat. I was starting to get tired and was gonna give up until I saw your speech on youtube. Thank you so much. I am glad there are people like you who fight for animal rights. You made me feel that I have to fight for what is right.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:47 PM
My husband and I decided to go vegetarian about 3 months ago. Recently we saw your lecture. It changed our way of living. Today we threw out all the food products in our house that contained animal byproducts. We as a family have decided to go vegan. We have two young children and they too have decided that animals are important to us and we don't want to be part of a system that abuses, tortures, and kills animals. I commend you for everything you do for animals!
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:06 AM
I'm a med student from Poland. I just came across a video of your lecture at Georgia Tech. I couldn't stop crying after watching it. Thank you for the wonderful work that you do everyday to save the animals. And thanks to you I'm a vegetarian now and I want to become an activist. You're a great man Gary!
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:41 PM
You've turned two of my friends vegan! Keep up the phenomenal work.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:17 PM
I've heard your speech and I was astonished. You are a very persuasive speaker. I am really interested in becoming a vegan.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:00 PM
I've just see your shocking video. THANK YOU SO MUCH ! From now on I'm vegan! Thank you!
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:41 AM
I want to say thank you for your speech. I learned so many new things. I share your speech with all of my friends.
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Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 7:09 PM
Firstly let me begin by saying that your lecture was inspiring, and I am going to become vegan. As a Muslim (white British convert, probably not your typical Muslim) I believe that all animals should be treated with respect and as equals. The Quran certainly does not advocate the atrocities that occur every second on this planet to innocent animals. Thank you for such an honest and eye opening lecture that should surely impact anyone who sees it. Those whom it does not affect are clearly too brainwashed by the "system".
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Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 7:02 PM
I'm from Poland and i'm writing to you because i saw your speech. This film was very important for me, I'm agree with you. People should stop eating meat. I'm 23 years old and would like to thank you. I'm in the process of completely stopping my consumption of meat, cheese, milks and eggs. I'm sharing your ideas with other people. I admire your courage.
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Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 2:36 PM
I'm 21 and I live in Israel. I've recently watched the lecture you gave at Georgia Tech, and I felt the need to let you know that it turned my world upside down. I'm originally from Bogota, Colombia, and as a proud South American, meat has always been part of my menu. Over the years I've had many friends turn to vegetarians as did my current boyfriend, however I was always reluctant to follow them under the impression that meat and animal products are a necessity to humans. Two days ago, my boyfriend whose biggest passion in life is pizza, woke me up and said: "I think I'm going to be eating a lot of vegetables from now on." Since this guy wouldn't be caught dead with a carrot in his system, he had my attention. At first I was upset since I've always been told that being a vegan is bad for you and makes you more susceptible to diseases, so obviously I was worried for his health. At this point he told me about your lecture and suggested we watch it together. So I sat in front of the screen with my dog's head resting on my lap and watched the entire thing. I want to tell you that I am not easily affected by lectures and empathy isn't something that I feel very often, and yet from the first video you showed on that lecture I couldn't stop crying. I sat there, and I simply wasn't able to understand who would do such things to innocent beings? I couldn't believe how ignorant we all are and how many lies we are being fed with ALL the time. I can say without a doubt that the images from that lecture will be burned in my mind forever, and it pains me so much that there is so little that I can do help them. I want to thank you for taking my blinders off, and showing me truth about this industries. I want to thank you for fighting the way you do and not giving up (I can't imagine how hard it must be to fight against ignorants with power). I want you to know that as insignificant as one person can be to such a struggle, I've changed my lifestyle to veganism, and it's important for me to let you know that you are responsible for that. Needless to say that your lecture has been forwarded to absolutely everyone I know, hopefully changing their lifestyle as well. I never thought I'd experience such a radical change, and I only wish it would've happened sooner. I hope that you keep getting through to people like you did with me and I would love to contribute as much as I can to help end this cruelty.
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Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 1:05 PM
Thank you for the voluminous amounts of information. You changed the way I look at our society and myself in an instant. I watched your lecture and it was so insightful and helpful. I was a pescatarian for a while, but when i saw your lecture i realized that all living things feel the same pain no less no more. At first i wanted to become a vegan for myself, to better my health but i realized that was just selfish and i shouldn't be a vegan just for my sake, but for the sake of the animals that suffer each and every day. I want to take a stand and make a difference, even though i'm 15 and i'm limited to what i can and can't do, i still want to do all i can to spread awareness and stop animal cruelty.
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Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 3:08 PM
My husband showed me your video right after I saw a show that discussed not drinking milk. If you would have told me 15 minutes before the video that the day after, at lunch, I'd skip the chicken and eat nothing but rice and potatoes, I would probably have said no way. I love food, especially dead things. But your video changed my life. You are so damn charismatic and explained things so well that even though things are well known to us, we do not want to believe. I really didn't want to watch the slaughterhouse video but when you said, "if it's not good enough for your eyes then why is it good enough for your stomach" convinced me to see the truth. Thanks for every piece of knowledge you shared with us.
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Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:40 PM
I was a student in Professor James Schultz's philosophy class that you spoke at in November. You may remember me because we spoke for a few minutes, the one in the wheelchair that works for Oakland County Community Mental Health Authority. First of all, I wanted to give you my sincere thanks for your presentation. It's always refreshing to have someone reveal any truth to you that you have been denied through living such a jaded life of conformity. I have been a vegan since your presentation. I could continue about my path of enlightenment through veganism but that's not exactly the reason I wanted to email you. The real reason is I had a perspective on veganism I thought might be unique or new to you. I train people on the rights of recipients receiving public mental health services. A large portion of our training explains the history of Community Mental Health and how prior to the Community Mental Health Act that was enacted in 1963, people with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities were often institutionalized and abused, neglected, and mistreated in every unthinkable fashion. The environments of these places they lived are appropriately paralleled to concentration camps and their is an abundance of first hand accounts and actual video and audio footage to prove it. We explain to the staff of the people who now serve public mental health recipients, that though it may seem inconceivable to treat human beings like this by today's standards, our justification for doing it 50 years ago in "the land of the free" was that these individuals were not viewed as "human" in the first place. Because people thought that having a cognitive or mental illness made you incapable of feeling or "understanding" relationships, they did not necessitate love, compassion, or hope for these people. Even people that had developmental disabilities, like cerebral palsy, that could not speak or communicate physically but were very high functioning on a mental level, were often thrown into the mix of this categorically misjudged group. I found your comparison of industrial farming to the holocaust intriguing on a higher level because of my experience with dealing with our history with the disabled. I find that when I use that comparison to talk to people about veganism they get extremely angry and accuse me of using gross generalizations. People cannot seem to understand the fundamental link between disregard for the capacity of all human beings to feel and need love and compassion and the same exact disregard for animals to also feel and need love and compassion. Forget cultural and religious differences, how about the people who don't think or communicate like "we" do? The ones who are only capable of uttering a grunt or thrashing their arms to demonstrate their distress? Very much as you explained how a caged mink will move their head around and around in circles, in my video of a now closed institution the camera at one point zooms in on a child with her hands in a prayer like position, staring at the ceiling, rocking back and forth. If the holocaust is nothing like caging and wasting the lives of innocent animals, is institutionalizing people with severe disabilities until they contract pneumonia or hepatitis and die without ever experiencing love and compassion a more relative comparison? Does it get a little more difficult to draw that line for people between human rights and animal rights? Can we honestly and confidently say that a person with a severe cognitive disability has more of an ability to feel and more of a need for compassion and love than a cow does? Our psychology forces our perceptions to be influenced by the degree in which we relate to others. The less we relate, the less we sympathize. Impressions lead to perceptions, perceptions lead to behavior. If people could step out of their defensive stances for one minute and recognize that as a species we have so many mental fallacies, or mistakes of logic in our thinking, and that we are routinely unaware of those fallacies, we could transcend our own natural ignorance and advance in the evolutionary process, rather than sticking to the traditional mistakes of our predecessors. Evolution isn't just about looking at what we have done in the past, but looking at how we have changed. Our ancestors believed a lot of weird things. Why can't we acknowledge that thinking we're supposed to be eating everything that is not a Homo sapien might be one of our many historical errors of judgement? Thanks again for your work and how it has inspired me and the way I do my work. Its not just about being a vegan, it's all about rights, and that's my specialty.
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:56 PM
I live in the Russian Federation. Your speech has very much inspired me to become vegan.
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 8:38 AM
I'm from Israel. I'm a vegetarian for almost 4 years. I saw your lecture about veganism and it really affected me. I've quit drinking and eating milk/cheese products, and I started drinking soy milk. Knowing there's a person like you that fights and makes great efforts for animals comforts me. I send you lots of strength and light in your struggle.
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 8:34 AM
I just wanted to extend my thanks, I recently viewed your lecture at Georgia Tech. I've just stepped it up a notch from vegetarian to vegan, I truly didn't realise the amount of harm caused in the dairy industry, and am quite ashamed of my own ignorance. Thanks for getting rid of my blindfold! I will encourage as many as possible to watch your video.
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Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:40 PM
I watched your video of your speech. I have been thinking about becoming a vegan for almost a year. After watching your video, I do not need any more convincing to go vegan. I believe many people are just not educated on the issues. I believe that if more people knew about the brutality that was going on there would be bigger changes.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:24 PM
I'm 35 years old from Israel. I just saw your lecture on youtube, and you shook my world! I never really considered the moral/humane aspects of animal eating as you made me realize them now. Thank you so much for opening my eyes, I will deliver your message to everyone I know.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:08 PM
You are a true hero. I just watched one of your talks and became aware of your existence. Beautiful man! You have inspired me to be more active in spreading the vegan philosophy here in Oslo.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:50 PM
I live in Houston, Texas, but I'm originally from Mexico City. My paternal grandfather, who was my best friend, was a Lithuanian Jew, whose family was in the meat business. Therefore, my grandfather was a "butcher". I grew up visiting him every Saturday at his butcher shop and I have still the images of truck downloading skinned cows on big hooks. I'm now a holistic practitioner and your lecture has touched me in a very powerful manner. You're a wonderful speaker and a true animal friend. You have become my new Guru and inspiration.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:56 AM
I am from Italy and I think you are great, actually fantastic! I love what you do and how you go around showing and proving to people that animals are equals to humans! I was almost vegan before your speech. Now I've decided to eliminate milk.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:45 AM
I watched your wonderful speech with my girlfriend and now we are both proud vegans because of it. You do a wonderful thing for society. Very admirable. If you are ever in Dallas on your tour, I am the owner of a great event space you can speak at. It's called The Quixotic World. We are not looking for any money or pay outs. We simply want to get the word out and turn the whole world vegan, one convert at a time.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:01 PM
I recently watched the video of you speaking at Georgia Tech and felt compelled to contact you. You are a hero in every sense of the word. I define "hero" as someone who stands for something greater than himself, and that only *begins* to describe you. I was already vegan when I watched the video (I have been for quite some time), but witnessing your speech inspired me to dedicate my life to the cause. I thought, "Here is this man fighting for the rights of animals to live and love. He's a soldier on the front line, an incredible use of his life. How could I let him fight this battle without all the help he can get?" My girlfriend and I have since shown your video to 8 people, 2 of whom have transitioned to veganism.So thank you for your passion. I aspire to live my life with a modicum of your soul and vigor. Your vision and commitment are a breath of fresh air.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:15 PM
I'm from Belgium. I recently watched a video of you, and I was very startled. I've been a vegetarian for 2 years now (I'm only 16), and I always believed that milk and cheese and eggs weren't so bad. You have opened my eyes to do something about this.
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 10:33 PM
I just watched your video from 2010. I am in awe of how you get the message across and at how much of a hero you are to all non-human species. I am going to watch all the videos and read anything I can that you have written.
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 7:52 PM
I am 16 from Uruguay. Yesterday I saw your video, and I must say you are a genius. I have eaten meat all my life but never thought about the reality of what I was actually eating. You are my inspiration to change my life and the lives of many innocent animals. You are very brave, and I feel very proud that the world has people like you. Never change who you are, you changed my life.
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 4:42 PM
I'm a 17 year old kid from Israel and saw your lecture on youtube. your claims are very interesting. it made me think. my dad is a vegetarian but he never told me why. he said when you grow up you'll understand. now I know what he meant.
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:33 PM
i am from israel. i just saw your lecture and from now on i am a vegan! i never thought that you could convince me BUT omg! your speech was exciting and very very very accurate and interesting. and i get bored easily. you are a unique and awesome man. i wish we all were like you. god bless you friend. i want to thank you for opening my eyes.
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:04 PM
I been eating less meat and cheese which is contrary to my culture. Your speech at Georgia Tech is inspiring me to be vegan.
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 11:24 AM
Just last night, I watched the Georgia Tech lecture with my wife. I am vegan, and she is not. For years I have been trying to show everyone in my life the way of the vegan. Unfortunately, I have not had much success. Last night changed this. I believe there was a real breakthrough with my wife. She was definitely affected by your lecture. At first, the response was, "I'll cut back." I then asked her if it would be O.K. for me to cheat on her, but only sometimes. I then stated, "Clearly, it is a taste/texture issue, which to me is inexcusable. How can taste buds influence morality and ethics? I just don't get it." I truly believe I have her on the right track now, and it's all thanks to you.
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 11:23 AM
i just saw your lecture on youtube and wanted to thank you. if i had been told or made more of an effort to look into all the cruelty to animals at a much younger age I'm sure i would have become vegan then. You helped me understand much more about the positive effects of veganism. And now i have all the more to defend myself with when a meat eater thinks I'm being ridiculous. It's crazy that we have to defend ourselves for not slaughtering animals! Keep up the good work. it certainly means something to me.
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Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 10:10 PM
Just stumbled upon your talk via YouTube. You are the man! I became an instant Vegan after seeing Earthlings a year ago. But what this movement needs is exactly someone as compassionate as yourself.
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 6:52 AM
I am 33 years old from Israel. I am so happy to have you in the universe. What you are doing is blessed! I have been vegetarian since I was 12 years old but now I became vegan after watching your video. I am now in a point in my life where I realize that the most important thing in my life is to help these poor animals! And I want to dedicate most of my time for this.
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Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 6:16 PM
I stumbled upon your lecture as an ignorant meat eater. You've made a very strong argument on behalf of all non-human creatures. I've gone against strong opposition with friends and family in persuading them to practice courtesy and see where and how their food is made. I continue to stand my ground. They say the quickest way to a human heart is through their stomach. Thanks again for speaking on behalf of those who cannot. Your talk stirred a dormant sense of what is right and wrong that has been covered up far too long.
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Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 5:36 PM
Me and my wife got very excited about going vegan after watching your speech. We were vegetarians for a long time. It's the cheese that has stopped us. But no more. We are now your fans from Brazil.
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Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 10:45 PM
Dear God, I was so incredibly shocked and touched, and I cried so much. I held my beloved Gina - a labrador girl (she was quite confused to see me weep that way and she was so anxious to console me). Thank you for telling me things I just didn't know, for showing me things I never got to see, for opening my eyes! I will never forget the words, the pictures you showed during your lecture and the lesson I learned while watching your speech. Today is my first day of new thinking, a new awareness and bring a new vegan for life! Some years ago, I changed to exclusively organic food but now, that is far from being enough for me. Thank you for doing what you do, for fighting and teaching to really make this world a better place for those mistreated souls that deserve respect, love and care. I still can't believe what I saw hours ago. It honestly broke my heart.
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Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 3:21 PM
My family watched your video. Me and my sister went vegan. The rest of my family went vegetarian.
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Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 2:39 PM
We're from Israel and we watched your lecture which inspired us greatly and now we are both happily vegan for over six months. You're awesome.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:14 PM
I'm 18 and live in Turin, Italy. I saw some videos of yours, and decided to become vegan. I'm doing an essay for my high school using parts of your speech. I'd like to organize a conference at my school to make people aware of this issue.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:39 PM
I am 36 years old psychologist who lives in Ecuador. I am an activist of animal rights. I work at USFQ (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) in the clinical psychology area. I am frustrated and upset and I want to make a difference. I think that education is the way to change minds and habits. I want to arrange a conference and give some lectures at my university about animal rights, ethics and veganism. I saw your video on veganism and it is the perfect way to connect people with animals. Can I use some information from your video to make a video here in Ecuador?
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:54 AM
Just wanted to send you a quick thank you! Your lecture was truly eye opening. I recently went vegetarian & after listening to you I will be vegan. You are an amazing speaker! I laughed & cried. I was shaking when your youtube video ended. Can't believe I have been blind my whole life!
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 5:37 AM
I'm a vegan now.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:18 AM
i'm from the north of France, and vegetarian since august. i found your speech on the internet, and i'm very happy to say that starting today i'm a vegan for life. my sister watched it, too, and it totally convinced her.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:08 AM
i'm from mexico and just recently watched your speech. i'm 24 years old and have been eating animals all these years. my new year's resolution is to stop and become a vegan. i no longer want to be a part of this cruel bullshit. but more than that i want and need to do something more. i just can't stand sitting here while millions of animals are being abused and slaughtered. it's depressing just to think about not doing anything about it. i want to be an activist. i also want to thank you for being who you are and standing up for animals. i really admire you and your courage. you made me realize that there's a reason that i'm still alive. that i might even have a purpose here and that there's still hope for animals, and for this world. and i just convinced my mom to go vegan because of your video. no more meat or dairy in this house!
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Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:10 PM
My name is Helen Vonderheide and I am a producer from Los Angeles. I recently came across your youtube video and was so personally moved that I felt compelled to take action as a film maker. I would like to help you get your message across through a documentary that is more personally and emotionally engaging. Not that you haven't done so already but something to really engage an audience to take action as well. How would you feel about partnering up with me so we can create something that will have a powerful, ripple effect? Please take a moment to check out my website and learn a little more about me: www.justbeefilms.com. I would be honored to work with you in some capacity.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:00 PM
My name is Samuel McAnallen, director of a feature-length documentary currently under production in Australia. I am contacting you on behalf of our team to request comment for the documentary. The mission of the film has been to invalidate the myth that there is a great division between humans and all other life forms and that humans are somehow superior. It dissects and criticises the popular, subjective reasons for human superiority and then furthers matters by comparing humans and other life forms from a more evolutionary perspective. The film strongly promotes critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of all life forms on Earth, while overcoming underlying strongly anthropocentric beliefs. Speakers in the film include: Dr. Richard Ryder, inventor of the term speciesism, and Dr. Bernard Rollin, authority on animal consciousness, university distinguished professor, author.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 2:48 PM
I watched your video. It was inspiring and motivating. Since watching it, I've gone vegan. Your video gave me the push I needed! Keep up the great work. You are amazing.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 9:45 AM
I'm from Israel and almost 17 years old. As a very serious athlete (boxer), I always thought that vegetarians were crazy. Two months ago I decided to watch your wonderful lecture. I thank you for helping me make the transition. I feel better, stronger and I'm happy that you showed me the truth. Now, all five members of my family are also vegan and I'm also strongly affecting a very large part of my school.
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Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 4:08 AM
I live in Israel and am doing a project in English class about you. Can you send me some information about you and your life.
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Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 1:22 AM
I saw your video and you made so much sense about animal cruelty. Thank you for making sacrifices with your life to save the animals and may many people follow your footsteps.
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Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 8:20 PM
I'm from Mexico. I have seen your lecture on youtube. Me and my girlfriend started a company, dedicated to making supplies for cats. We want to start a foundation dedicated to animal rescue in Mexico City. Thanks to your talk, we are now vegans. We would like to have each person who is interested in adopting a pet watch your speech at the shelter before they adopt. We are confident that human consciousness begins by respecting others. Animals are seen as things, and not as lives and when we change that image, respect and peace will begin to emerge.
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Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 3:18 AM
I would just like to thank and commend you for all of your humble and valiant inspirational works in making our world a better place. Me and two of my friends support this cause. The three of us are in tenth grade and are currently attending secondary school in B.C. We would like to make a difference like you have. We all feel very strongly on this issue. We would like to do whatever is in our power to make a change. We were wondering if you could be so kind as to recommend some potential methods that we could use to help the animal liberation movement. Though we fully recognize that we are not able to do much on a large scale, we would be honoured to help on a much smaller scale. We see you as an inspiration, and a hero.