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Vegetarian Elite
Moby: Truths of the Golden Rule and “Gristle” - P2/2
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So Miyun came up
with the title "Gristle."
And we then tried
contacting a bunch
of relative experts
in their respective fields,
or experts
in their respective fields,
to see if they would
contribute chapters.
And we got lucky
because we ended up
with a really interesting,
eclectic, well-informed
bunch of people
who have all contributed
amazing chapters about
each respective aspect
of the consequences
of animal production.
Welcome to
Vegetarian Elite
for the second part
of our special feature on
multiplatinum musician
Moby, and “Gristle,”
a newly released book
he co-edited
with Miyun Park.
Today, we will
look further into this
information-packed guide
that has received
a wide range of supporters,
from celebrities,
to doctors,
to the ordinary consumer.
Supreme Master
Television
interviewed Moby and
asked him what he hopes
readers will gain
from reading “Gristle.”
The main message is for
people to be more aware
of the ramifications
of animal production,
specifically
animal production
on factory farms.
So it’s a very factual book,
we have
15 different experts
in their respective fields,
writing
the different chapters.
We’re just sort of
presenting the facts and
hopefully letting people
make up their own minds.
The chapters
and their authors include:
Environment
by Lauren Bush,
Workers
by Christine Chavez and
Julie Chavez Rodriguez,
Zoonotic Diseases
by Dr. Michael Greger,
Children’s Health
by Sara Kubersky
and Tom O’Hagan,
Global Hunger
by Frances Moore Lappé
and Anna Lappé,
Taxpayers
by John Mackey,
Climate Change
by Danielle Nierenberg
and Meredith Niles,
Animals
by Wayne Pacelle,
and Communities by
Paul and Phyllis Willis.
Present at the first stop
of the book tour
in Los Angeles, USA
was two-time Canadian
Ultramarathon champion,
Ironman triathlete
competitor, and vegan,
Brendan Brazier,
who wrote Gristle’s
first chapter on Health.
When they asked me
if I could contribute
and write about health,
I thought, “Well
that’s a great opportunity
and I’d love
to spread a message that
I feel very strongly about
and feel as though
it could really help
a lot of people and animals
and environmental issues,
all kinds of things.
So, I’m really, really
proud to be a part of it.
Within this opening chapter
are facts about meats,
eggs, and dairy,
as researched
by the prestigious
Harvard University
in the US.
For example, did you know
that 90% of chicken flesh
tested at retail is
contaminated with E. coli
and campylobacter
from fecal matter?
This statistic makes chicken
the most common cause
of food poisoning,
affecting millions yearly.
Just one bout of
campylobacter can lead
to an entire lifetime of
irritable bowel syndrome.
Or did you know that the
leading cause of seizures
is from a brain parasite
called Taenia solium,
which is a tapeworm
found in pork.
The studies also found
that a single infection
of salmonella,
often found in eggs
and other contaminated
meat products,
can leave one with
painful, chronic arthritis
for the rest of their life.
And did you know
that mad cow disease,
which can even
be humanly contracted
from eating farmed fish
that was fed infected
cow meat, can be fatal?
In fact, the pathogens
cannot be cooked out,
even at temperatures
high enough to melt lead.
One of the most popular
topics of the evening
was tax subsidies
for the meat industry,
a subject often shielded
from public knowledge.
The meat lobby,
the factory farming lobby
is not so happy
about our book and
so they issued a statement
saying something like,
“Oh, it’s easy
for rich rock stars
to eat vegan, but
what about the rest of us
who can’t afford it?”
I was like, “Well,
remove the subsidies,
create a level playing field,
and a pound of beef
without subsidies
would on average
costs about what, $25?
A meal for 4
at McDonalds, if you
removed all subsidies,
would be about $75.”
Removing subsides
from dairy production,
from beef production,
from tobacco production,
why not?
I mean,
if we’re talking about
lowering the money that
we pay into federal taxes,
why not cut out subsidies?
Vegan food is inherently
less expensive
than animal food, it just is.
It’s more efficient,
and it’s less,
inherently less expensive.
Food subsidies,
in a very egregious way,
distort the cost of food.
It’s easy for me
to talk about veganism
because it’s a healthier way
for people to live.
And if you removed
food subsidies it would be
a less expensive way
for people to live.
I don’t know
if people are talking about
lowering their tax bill
and employing
free market economics,
animal production would
be a great place to start.
Let a pound of beef cost
what a pound of beef
actually costs without
tax payer subsidies.
Without
much public knowledge,
billions upon billions
of tax dollars
are pumped out to
subsidize animal factories.
A 2008 report
from the Union
on Concerned Scientists
found that every year,
US$1.16 billion goes
to subsidize distributing
and applying manure
to fields,
$1.5 – 3 billion in taxes
is wasted
on animal agriculture’s
antibiotic overuse and
public health impacts.
In total, over $30.1 billion
in taxes has been used to
fix manure lagoon leaks
and paying for
falling property values.
In effect,
unhealthy fast food meals
cost dramatically less
than nutrient rich organic
fruits and vegetables.
Part of my childhood,
I grew up in the inner city
and we were very poor
and so I know exactly
what that’s like.
We wouldn’t have access
to fresh food, so we’d
just go to McDonald’s
or Burger King.
McDonalds, and
In & Out Burger, and
Burger King, the reason
they can charge nothing
for their food,
is because it’s so heavily
subsidized by tax payers.
You remove
the tax dollars or
redistribute the subsides
so the subsides
go to promote
healthy agriculture
and go to promote
food stuffs that actually
don’t kill people.
A family of four,
a woman who’s
just finished her shift and
just wants to feed her kids,
is she going to go
to McDonald’s if it’s $75
to feed her kids a meal?
No, she’ll go
somewhere else, or
he’ll go somewhere else.
So, I think
it’s key to the idea
of examining subsidies
and removing subsidies
from really nefarious
agricultural practices
that hurt the animals,
that hurt the environment,
that hurt the communities,
and that hurt
the consumers.
If you look
to the plagues of
the 20th and 21st centuries -
heart disease, cancer,
obesity, diabetes – these
are all related to diet,
and they’re all related
to diet that is subsidized
by our tax dollars.
And so end the subsidies
and shift the focus away
from industries that
create unhealthy food
to industries
that create healthy foods.
When we return
from this brief message,
we will examine
one of the hottest
and most relevant topics
of our era – climate change
and its worrisome effect
on the environment
and our existence.
You are watching
Vegetarian Elite
on Supreme Master
Television.
Welcome back to
Vegetarian Elite.
In our brief intermission,
could you guess
how many animals
were slaughtered
simply for consumption?
In those brief two minutes,
around 43,500
innocent animals
had been killed in the US
to be the meat
on someone’s plate.
So they got this one page
and it says, "Number
of animals killed per year
in the United States:
it’s 11,429,831,400.”
That’s in a year and
that’s a huge number!
But then
you break it down,
and then number of
animals killed per day:
31,314,000.
And then number of
animals killed per minute
in the United States:
21,750. One minute!
The book’s editors
discussed several topics
often unknown
to the general public –
the filthy and
hazardous conditions
of factory farms.
One in four animal farm
workers suffer from
respiratory problems like
asthma and bronchitis
brought on
by noxious gases
including hydrogen sulfide,
methane, and ammonia.
Dust and harmful bacteria
generated by
decomposing manure
can cause toxic,
oxygen-deficient, and
explosive atmospheres.
To contain the toxic waste
produced by the animals,
factory farms
make manure pits.
The National Institute
for Occupational Safety
and Health, NIOSH,
they are so concerned
about these
manure lagoons that are
on so many factory farms,
that they actually have
a publication
that’s called, quote
“Preventing Deaths
of Farm Workers
in Manure Pits.”
Human Rights Watch has
determined that working
in a slaughter plant,
is the most dangerous
factory job in the country.
And no one wants to
live by a factory farm.
Gristle’s chapter
on Communities details
the falling property values
around factory farms.
Pig factories
in the US state of Iowa
lowered by 40%
the value of homes
located within half a mile;
homes within 1 mile
were robbed 30%
of their property values.
An undisputable part
of the event’s discussion
dealt with climate change
and meat production.
A report
by the United Nations
Food and Agriculture
(FAO) underlined
that livestock production
is the number one cause
of climate change, causing
at least one-fifth of all
greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s so strange
that people will talk,
be advocates
for climate change, and
still eat animal products
and still support
factory farming.
I mean it is, not to indulge
in too much hyperbole,
but that’s
the equivalent of like,
working on heart disease
and lung cancer
and smoking cigarettes.
CNN and CBS
legal analyst,
and attorney Lisa Bloom,
also present
at Gristle’s book event,
offered her comments
on the direct connection
between meat raising and
environmental degradation.
Well
I’m a lifelong vegetarian
and I’m a vegan now.
There’s no question that
the number one contributor
to climate change
is livestock production.
In fact, more than all of
the cars, planes, trains,
and boats in the world
contributes
to climate change.
And climate change
is the biggest threat to
my children’s generation.
It’s probably
going to be the biggest
humanitarian crisis
in world history.
So I think we all have
a moral imperative to do
whatever we can to stop it.
And the quickest way
to make an effect
is to immediately start
on a vegan diet.
It also happens
to be delicious
and good for your health
so it’s a win-win.
But you know,
the methane gas
that cows produce
which is a big contributor
to climate change will
very quickly disappear
from the atmosphere
if we stop producing
livestock, versus the CO2
stays in the atmosphere
for a very long time,
so it just makes sense
on so many levels
to stop eating meat,
to stop eating any kind
of dairy products or eggs,
from a climate change
point of view and also to
reduce animal suffering,
and also for human health.
Towards the end of question
and answer session with
members of the audience,
Moby offered
a poignant notion
for consideration.
There’s a fallacy called
“The Is-Ought Fallacy,”
which is to justify
the continuation
of a bad practice because
it’s already in existence,
which is what,
how people use
the argument they used
to justify the slavery.
Saying like, “Oh, well,
slavery exists because
it’s always existed.”
And one of the arguments
before the Civil War,
for the continuation
of slavery was that it was
the economic engine
that ran the country.
So people, a lot of people
pre-Civil War said,
“Yes, slavery is bad, but
without it, what happens
to our industry?”
And unfortunately, from
an ethical prospective,
I don’t think that’s
it’s enough a justification
for continuing really
nefarious practices.
In this particular case,
animal products are
an incredibly inefficient
use of resources,
specifically grains.
It takes an awful lot
of grain, let’s say,
20 pounds of grain
to make 1 pound of beef;
chicken is
even less efficient.
And so, if you’re making
less animal products,
it actually does more
to solve the issue
of global hunger, and
more to solve the issue
of keeping people fed
in the inner city,
because you have
all this extra grain
that can suddenly go
to feed people directly,
rather than fattening up
cows and chickens.
Thank you
for your company today
on Vegetarian Elite.
We would like to
express our gratitude
to Moby, Miyun Park,
and all the contributors
of this informative book.
May your dedication
as purveyors of truth
bring awareness
to the public about
the harrowing effects
of animal agriculture
which jeopardizes
all facets of life.
And now,
please stay with us
for Between Master
and Disciples,
coming up next
on Supreme Master
Television.
May wisdom
and compassion
guide your life always.
Find out more about
Moby and “Gristle” at
Moby.com
and
Gristle-Book.com
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