"(Music)" "This is high cow country." "This is summer grazing country, some of the best in the west." "This is the country of big beef herds." "(Music)" "It is like a pleasant dream for this white faced ruddy coated youngster." "Of all the faithful servants of man-kind down through the ages none has served us better than Old Bossie, the cow." "Since time began milk has been one of the most nutritious of all foods." "The baby chicks are so soft and cuddly." "This is Betty's and James' favorite chore." "No dinner bell is needed to call this chow line into action." "And it is quite a strain on masculine discipline to observe the rule of ladies first." "Sue-uhh!" "Sue-uhh!" "Ahhh, Ahhh!" "Sue-uhh!" "Sue-uhh!" "Sue-uhh!" "Ahhh, Ahhh!" "Sue-uhh!" "Uncle Jim?" "How do cows make milk?" "Oh, they make it out of what they eat." "Yeah, but what do they eat?" "Well, come on." "I'll show you." "Why that looks like some of our breakfast cereals." "That's me!" "Or rather, could have been me." "No, I didn't grow up on a farm, but I had a pretty idealic American childhood." "I grew up in Evansville," "Indiana, which is a small city in the middle of corn country." "I was what my mom called a good eater because I always cleaned my plate and drank my milk." "This is really me." "(Music)" "When I was growing up my dad worked in concrete block manufacturing to bring home the bacon." "And I love me some bacon, and eggs and especially cheese." "But after I grew up a little and moved to New York that all changed." "(Music)" "Do you know what a vegan is?" "Not really." "A vegan is one who only eats vegetables." "Close." "In addition to vegetables they eat fruits, grains, beans, nuts and seeds." "In short, anything plant based." "Yeah, so they don't get muscles like this." "Some of them do fish but it just depends on the person." "Not really." "A true vegan doesn't eat fish, meat, poultry, dairy or eggs." "A vegan also doesn't buy any clothing made from animals, such as leather, fur, wool or silk." "Could you ever go vegan?" "Ahh, I don't think so." "No." "I would love to but I love my meat." "What about for $10,000?" "No." "$100,000?" "No." "Why should I change?" "Good question." "Why would anybody want to go vegan?" "But right now there are millions of Americans that are doing it, which can seem impossible in the world we live in." "I always thought vegetarians were different from me but I kind of got it." "Now vegans, that was a whole different story." "I just thought they were a little off, slightly crazy and quite extreme." "But then something really strange happened to me." "I became one of them." "Here is what happened." "I found out that animal food and clothing production aren't as idealic as I thought or as healthy for the planet or our bodies." "I started to do my homework, delving deeper and deeper into the way our food and clothes are produced and suddenly veganism and vegans made a whole lot of sense." "Now don't get me wrong, I still understand that meat and dairy currently play a large role in the economy and in our cultural heritage and they can provide important nutrients for people in all kinds of economic and geographic" "circumstances." "And of course I realize that for many people in the world veganism isn't even a viable option now." "But there is a whole side of this story that the vast majority of us never even get exposed to in mainstream culture." "When I was exposed to it I kind of freaked out." "I wondered if I went vegan, would I have to eat dry chalky bran muffins and grow out my armpit hair?" "Would I have to become a radical lesbian anarchist?" "Or, would I have to join the animal liberation front?" "But once I started doing it, it wasn't so hard and I felt really good." "In fact, I lost fifteen pounds in just a few months without even trying." "Still, I couldn't help wondering, would anybody react to this information the way I did?" "I find it easy but what about people who came from different backgrounds and face different challenges?" "To find out, I decided to search for a few regular New." "Yorkers who'd be willing to go vegan for six weeks and learn what it's all about." "I'd tell them the side of the story they hadn't heard before, see how they reacted and see if their veganism stuck." "Like everything in New York" "I found what I needed on." "Craig's List." "I interviewed twenty five potential vegans before I made my decision." "In the end, I chose three people from three different demographics, each with their own challenges in going vegan." "But they all had the same motivation for doing the project." "They wanted to lose a little bit of weight, to look good and to feel healthy." "They didn't really know much about the environmental or ethical reasons for being vegan, yet." "And the best part?" "I didn't even have to pay them $100,000." "They did it for free." "The first one was Tesla Lobo, a college student from." "Queens who lives with her family." "Hey, Tesla." "How are you?" "How are you?" "Hi." "This is my dad, Manny." "This is Marisa." "Hello." "Hi Manny." "Nice to meet you." "My mom is Honduran and my dad is Peruvian." "So Peruvians always are known to cook very well." "My dad, he is not a chef, but he is a really, really great cook." "So there is always, like, pork chops and there is always steak." "And there is so much meat in here." "And more meat." "And more meat." "And my dad, like, 3:30 food is done." "Like, I don't have to worry about anything or make something for myself." "(laughs)" "I'm saying it in English." "I prepared the food that is from my country." "We call, in Spanish, is lomo saltado." "It is like a beef stew with" "French fry." "When you grow up in a different country, like my country, his country, it is different." "Over there they are going to think that you are crazy." "I am sorry to say that, you know, but that is what they are going to think." ""Oh my God."" "She is crazy." "How is she going to live" ""without meat?"" "You know?" "I don't like beans." "I don't like vegetables." "I like salads." "I love salads and tomatoes and cucumbers." "But I don't like broccoli or..." "Yeah, no one believes that" "I will last." "You're not going to last." "But I'm very," "I don't know, like..." "I mean because if you don't last, you know, we won't know about it." "You will hide it." "And you know, you will cheat and none of us will know." "That's mean." "I am very, very determined and I'm very, very competitive with myself." "Like I like it when someone says, "you can't do that."" "It's like, okay." "Thanks." "And then I always end up doing it." "Its like I know, like I'm just that type of person." "But it is just my dad's food." "It's tough." "The second person I chose was Brian Flegel, a twenty seven year old bachelor from Manhattan." "I grew up in California and my mother is German and so she would make a lot of meat dishes." "But she was a great cook as a lot of mothers are." "I came to New York and just sort of tried to find food that fit with what I grew up with, just like I think we all do." "Yeah, that is a rack of lamb." "When I have a chance to have a morning I love to make myself breakfast." "I always go out." "Oh wait, they're there." "Empty, alright." "I'm an actor, trying to be an actor." "So that means I have a lot of different jobs." "I work at a bar called." "Orbit, sort of a jazz restaurant." "Do you like tofu?" "Umm, no." "I mean yeah." "I mean I don't know." "Be honest." "Okay, I don't know how I feel about tofu." "My mom would say to me if I said I was going vegan, she would probably think it was sort of so weird new religion." "I kind of think they're from outer space, actually." "They're VEGANS!" "You know." "WE COME TO KILL" "MR. MCDONALD." "You know." "Have you ever tried to like someone you didn't eat before?" "I have." "I have tried to switch to chicken and that is about as far as I go, I suppose." "The third person I chose was a working single mom from Brooklyn who doesn't have time to cook." "She is psychiatrist." "Dr. Ellen Mausner by day and a stand-up comic Ellen." "Orchid by night." "I don't eat a very healthy diet." "I eat a lot on the run." "I grab what is available." "I really like to go to those big price club type places and get the enormous, feeds fifty people, meat lasagnas and things like that." "I have two kids." "I have a ten year old daughter and an eight year old son." "They're great kids and we eat the same stuff so a lot of dairy, probably too much, a lot of cheese." "Milk, of course, more cheese, some cream cheese and some yogurt to go with the cheese." "I think this would be a step in the right direction." "They can learn from me." "I would try to introduce to them these ideas, eating more healthy, eating more fruits and vegetables." "Do you promise to try everything, even a little, little bit?" "Oh, okay." "Do I have to?" "Did you know what the word vegan meant?" "No." "Ummm" "(laughs) What was your reaction when your mom told you?" "Um, well I didn't know if she could live without eating meat." "You didn't know if she could live without eating meat?" "Because, because why?" "She likes meat." "She likes it." "I love hot dogs." "Kosher hot dogs with all the trimmings." "I live near Nathans in Coney Island." "But anyway I have heart disease in my family." "Both of my parents have hypertension." "My uncle died of a massive heart attack." "He didn't get much warning." "It was really terrible." "So I think it is the way to go and maybe this is the kick in the pants that will get me to do it." "This really is it." "We can't even eat anything tonight, because after we get the blood work we can't screw that up." "(Laughs)" "I'm going to say it like this, so just bear with me." "PHILLY CHEESE STEAK." "(Laughs)" "Umm, good." "I asked for cheese on my fries and there is no cheese on my fries." "There is something primitive about eating meat, right?" "The texture?" "You tear it with your teeth and your fork and knife and, errr." "And we make noises like." "AHH," "Caveman (laughs)" "Here we go." "(All) No meat!" "(laughs)" "I brought Tesla, Brian and Ellen to Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a family physician and author of the books." ""Eat to Live" and." ""Disease-Proof Your Child"" "to hear about how to go vegan the healthy way." "But first in order to track their progress, Dr. Fuhrman took some medical tests." "(Scary Music)" "The first thing you have to realize is that the" "American diet is dull and what that represents." "The American diet is 40% of calories mammal products and" "50% of calories in processed foods like pasta, salad oil, sugar, pretzels, chips, cold cereals, soft drinks." "That leaves over about 9% of calories left." "Half of that is white potato and the other half is what we call unrefined plant." "FRUPF, fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds, you know, legumes." "So those unrefined plant food is just a small part of the American diet." "What we find from the scientific studies around the world is that as the unrefined plant foods increase in volume in a diet of a particular population to that extent heart disease and cancer go down and almost disappear as that goes up." "We're looking for foods that have more nutrients and less calories." "And the food that wins the prize, the number one gold medal is green vegetables." "And then let's rate all the rest of the foods." "Berries, beans, eggplant, mushrooms, tomatoes and they are so high in nutrients per calorie, no matter how much you could possibly eat of them you are still going to lose tons of weight." "You can't be overweight, even if you overeat on these foods." "Why should we die unnecessarily of heart attack, strokes and cancer if you don't have to?" "Dr. Fuhrman has helped thousands of people fight disease through optimal nutrition." "We got to meet one of them." "I was a vegetarian prior to starting this, but I used to eat, use dairy." "And unfortunately I considered myself a vegetarian, but I didn't like vegetables." "So, it was the whole vegetables thing in the beginning that was difficult for me." "I had never even tasted kale." "And now it is my favorite vegetable." "I feel very strongly that she most likely wouldn't be alive today if she didn't find out about this information." "So, people don't usually live through four heart attacks." "She is lucky she made it this far." "And now after, I guess, eighty pounds of weight loss and finally being brought back to good health again she has got a, you know it's a wonderful thing to have people switch." "You can have a whole, another life now." "Dr. Fuhrman invited us to his house to meet Chef Robin." "Jeep and his family and to show us some healthy vegan food we can make." "Umm." "But this one is mine." "So, tell us about this soup you made." "Okay, it is a cream of pea soup, but there is no dairy in it." "The cream is made with raw cashews." "It makes a wonderful, wonderful rich creamy soup." "Umm." "This kale is steamed kale that is chopped up with a cashew butter cream sauce." "This is actually the best thing I've tried so far." "Are we going on like a lower to higher scale here?" "Are we starting with, and then, because this is really good." "I'm not going to like it." "Do you de-stem all of that or do buy it prewashed?" "The rapunzel is this green vegetable." "And that is how I am with the kale." "I just, every day we have this." "We want you to taste a lot of things." "And you are going to find some things you like better than others." "And eat more of those things you like better than others but still taste other things." "Uh huh." "Try to taste something else." "Like with a child it takes about fifteen tries of tastes before he starts to like the food." "You are going to find the same thing." "Let's try some of Robin's dessert now." "This is with some of the whipped cream on top." "That is a beat and carrot cake." "And now I am pulling out the sauce which is a butternut lemon sauce." "This is the whipped cream, which is macadamia nuts and dates and soy milk." "But Dr. Fuhrman, I always thought macadamia nuts were very high in fat." "All nuts are high in fat, but the thing is we are looking to have a diet that is high in nutrients." "The fat we eat we want it to be high in nutrient fat." "Look, I finished it." "The healthiest food is whole plant foods, preferably organic and locally grown." "But sometimes it is good to start with vegan versions of the things you are used to eating while you are transitioning." "Healthy food." "Healthy food." "You can find this kind of stuff at every health food store." "Tofurky, fake turkey, this is really good, Oval." "Bologna, Smart Deli is really good." "Look Gimme Lean Sausage," "Gimme Lean Ground Beef." "Not a single picture of a cow." "That's right." "It comes in a box so it's not going to go bad." "Lean Gourmet, Cheese." "Alternative Cheddar, mozzarella, nacho and." "Monterey jack." "Okay, yogurt, yogurt." "Whole Soy is a brand," "Silk is a brand," "Veganaise brand mayonnaise, it is good stuff." "Personally, my favorite is." "Purely Decadent Soy." "Delicious." "Umm." "Very nice." "This is what we've been talking about, your flax seed meal." "It has fiber, linyens and omega 3 fats which are good for you." "So many brands are committed to no animal ingredients and no animal testing." "Then I took them to a neighborhood deli to show them that you can find vegan alternatives almost anywhere." "Boca burgers and garden burgers." "Yeah, we don't even know what is in real hotdogs." "Earth Balance 100% vegan, non-dairy, natural buttery spread." "That sounds good, actually." "Grocery stores have tons of food that you probably have no idea that is vegan." "Now it's time to play." "Is It Vegan?" "Teddy Grahams, chocolatey chip, are they vegan?" "Yes." "I'm going to go buy some" "Teddy Grahams now." "What do you think of." "Nilla Wafers?" "I'd probably say no." "Nooo." "Do you know what whey is?" "It comes from milk." "Yeah." "No whey." "Are we keeping score here?" "I'm going to say, yes they are vegan." "Yesss." "Hah!" "Wow." "I would guess it had eggs or something." "Yeah, it's not." "It is." "Instead of cow's milk, you do soy or rice milk." "See, that was a trick question." "It was a trick question." "What do you think of this?" "Please, let it be." "Yes." "Duncan Hines, baby." "Oreo cookies and that." "Let's give it up." "We can stay fat." "I know, I can stay fat." "(Music)" "(Singing) Moo Shoes fit me fine." "Them Moo Shoes feel just fine." "Sara and Erica's Moo Shoes fit me fine oh Lord, and the cows are as happy as they can be." "This looks like a vegetarian shoe." "Doesn't it?" "I mean you can just tell that someone is a vegan by their shoe." "As opposed to shoes that just happen to be vegan because they are cheap knock-offs." "These shoes are made as alternatives to leather so they breathe and they last and they wear and the break in." "This says 95?" "What is going on with this shirt?" "Average number of lives saved by a vegetarian each year." "Oh, yeah." "There aint nothing girly about being a vegan." "If I had this jacket I'd be like the most desirable man in the city because I would look like a bad boy, but then it's like sensitive, you know?" "You've got to give us money for the empanadas." "Empanadas." "Not empen-AY-das." "Empanadas." "Empanadas." "Empanadas." "I decided it was time to take Tesla and Ellen for a girls' night out." "Where do vegans go out for a good meal?" "Well, in New York City we're spoiled with 126 veg restaurants to choose from." "But you don't have to be from the Big Apple to find great vegan food." "There are a growing number of veg restaurants and cafes all over the country, from." "Mazulla, Montana to." "Ardmore, Oklahoma to Bar Harbor, Maine." "But there are also plenty of tasty animal free choices at chains and ethnic restaurants too." "(Oriental Music)" "(Italian Music)" "(Latino Music)" "(Rock and Roll Music)" "Tonight, I chose a trendy restaurant that is not just vegan, but raw as well." "That's lovely." "How are you feeling?" "Really good." "Really good." "How?" "I feel lighter." "Usually after a regular meal with meat or chicken or fish you just want to put your head down and take a little nap." "I don't feel that way with this." "I also notice I'm losing a little weight, which is very gratifying because I was really at the fork in the road where I was going to go into fat middle aged spread." "I see myself getting a little slimmer in the tummy and in the thighs and that is great." "I want to go all the way with this." "I've never had any kind of sushi in my life." "No kidding." "Oh, no way." "That sauce is a little spicy, but it's very good." "I wasn't too surprised that Tesla was having a tough time." "Not really liking vegetables or beans does limit one's options." "This is a big bowl of like cabbage." "The first week or two is always the hardest." "While your body goes through withdrawl and you haven't really gotten the vegan lay of the land yet." "Look at the food!" "I was curious to see if it would start to get easier for Tesla." "I'm still kind of hungry, but something that." "Dr. Fuhrman said that is kind of interesting is that since I'm always kind of hungry everything does taste better." "I went out to dinner and I had, there was nothing I could eat, but this enchilada that was with spinach and artichoke and mushrooms." "And I don't like artichoke and mushrooms, but it tasted good." "Brian, meanwhile was adjusting easily, feeling great and eager to get in shape." "He was psyched when I brought him to the gym to work out with Kenneth" "Williams, a prize winning body builder and passionate vegan." "Every athlete needs protein, but it is not the quantity it's the quality of the protein." "Right." "So, most athletes now today do animal based protein." "Right." "I do soy." "Right." "I do spirulina." "It just works everything." "I mean it's your body." "What are you doing?" "(laughs)" "Just keep going." "I eat tofu, tempeh, seitan." "My man Brian is going to attempt 120, y'all." "Now, Brian don't hurt yourself." "Let's go." "Do you think I can do it?" "I think you can do it." "Am I ready?" "I think you can do it." "Ready?" "Let's go Brian." "Uhh, look at that." "Beautiful." "Two." "Good, beautiful." "Like that." "Real quick." "There you go." "Just like that?" "Nice and easy." "Not too hard." "One." "Two." "Three." "Four." "And... flex them like that." "You can do one of these ones." "Oh shit." "That comes up like so." "That is the Mick Jagger." "Like that one." "Yeah, Mick Jagg... (laughs)" "Wait, I don't know what to do with my hands." "What am I doing with...?" "No meat." "No cheese." "Thank you." "Sucks." "Do you think you'll be staying vegetable or veggie or whatever they are called?" "Right now, no." "Because I want cheese." "But we'll find out." "Tristan only eats meat." "Look at him." "He won't eat turkey" "(laughs)." "And my cousin over here is eating turkey." "Tristan." "Yep." "Doesn't like it." "Oh, look he ate some." "Yep, nope, there it goes" "(laughs)." "Tristan eats bacon every morning or sausage links." "It's just our way of living." "In our gumbo we eat wild squirrel, rabbits, deer." "Don't you eat alligator?" "Crawfish." "Can you guys eat fish?" "No, it's an animal girl." "But it's treated okay." "No, it's not." "Well, when you take a fish from like down underneath, say a tuna, right?" "If you take him from all the way from the bottom, this is what Marisa told me, from all the way at the bottom and you bring it all the way up to sea level there stomach like explodes, which" "can't feel very good." "Because it is coming out of their mouths and they're dying." "And also when they use these big nets that drop to the bottom of the floor of the sea level, the sea floor, and it picks up everything." "Even like fish that they don't want to pick." "So the stuff that like, you know, the little crabs and the little things that they can't eat die for no reason just to get this fish." "That is why it is inhumane." "Let's say you go out and you hunt your own food and you shoot a deer yourself and they you eat it." "The deer dies." "Is that inhumane?" "The whole thing behind it is we don't need to eat it to survive." "We could eat other things, so why not let have less suffering?" "Because we've been doing it for years." "Would you eat your dog?" "I eat them." "You'd eat a dog?" "I'd eat a dog if it was cooked good." "(laughs)" "Hi baby." "Hi baby." "Are you hungry?" "Let's feed this." "Yeah, see every day, seriously, when I'm here all by myself, I so, I was like," "I keep doing this." "(laughs) It's sad." "I like to smell it." "Tristan and Deuce swinging." "You got them both in?" "Yeah." "Let me see?" "(laughs)" "I invited Tesla, Brian and Ellen to watch undercover footage of what goes on in places where most animal food and clothing comes from." "I figured they probably had the same image of Old" "McDonald's farm that I grew up with, so it was time to show them the truth." "I didn't show the worst of the worst." "Just practices and conditions that are found on farms every day in the U.S." "It was images like these that were the catalyst for me to go vegan and I was curious to see how they would react." "The following summarizes the information they received." "In the past 50 years, world meat production increased five-fold." "In order to meet this demand for a growing population and keep it affordable many farmers have had to convert their small family farms into large industrial sized operations." "They have streamlined every part of the process to be able to compete in the market place." "Unfortunately that means having to treat animals like machines." "Of all the animals on the farm a typical steer raised for beef probably has it the best." "But even he must undergo routine procedures without anesthesia." "A typical dairy cow is forced to produce 340% more milk today then she would have had to produce in 1950." "Like all mammals, she won't produce milk unless she gives birth." "After her baby is born the baby is taken from her within about 48 hours so that her milk can go to humans." "If the baby is male, he will likely be sold for veal or raised for beef." "The mother, meanwhile, will be reimpregnated by artificial insemination, and the cycle will continue until she is killed for hamburger meat." "Scientific studies have shown that pigs are very intelligent and complex social animals." "A typical mother pig spends most of her adult life in confinement." "Within about ten days her babies are taken away from her." "The babies receive no anesthesia for routine procedures." "Veterinary care is too expensive so they might die from infection, injuries, faulty construction or neglect." "A typical bird raised for meat is born in a hatchery." "If he is lucky he will survive the sorting process." "His snood, or comb, is cut off." "Parts of his toes are cut off, and part of his beak is seared off, all without pain killers." "Because he is genetically altered, his breast grows so large so quickly that his legs may no longer support him, or he could die from heart failure." "A typical male egg type chicken is sorted out from the females." "He is considered useless because he won't lay eggs and he won't produce enough meat, therefore he is killed." "He could be ground up alive to be used for animal food or fertilizer, or just thrown away." "A typical baby female chick will become an egg laying hen." "She will be crammed into a tiny wire cage." "To prevent her from pecking her cage mates to death one third of her beak is seared off, but she still might have to share a cage with a dead bird." "She could suffer from an impacted egg, a prolapsed uterus or cage related injuries." "Animals used for food and clothing are not covered under the Federal Animal." "Welfare Act." "Most states have common farming exemptions so as long as the practice is common it is considered legal." "The Federal bill that is supposed to protect animals during slaughter is not adequately enforced and it doesn't include birds." "Why didn't I know about this before?" "It is not something I really consciously thought about, you know?" "It gets you really angry." "Like, I don't know." "It gets me mad because I'm like "How is this allowed?"" "That doesn't make any sense to me how this is allowed." "You can really see that these animals are experiencing pain and terror and all these sorts of things." "Because you can see them when they are not and you can see them when they are and it's pretty damn obvious." "And at that point I got a very physical reaction to that." "It raises a lot of questions." "And I don't blame anybody but I think we have to try to help make some changes and I'm willing to do that." "I used to eat veal all the time without a problem, and that makes me angry." "Because then it's like, you know, I was those people." "I'm those people that, you know, do those things to those animals." "It's not against the animal farmers." "It's raising everybody up." "You can think of it that way." "You don't have brow beating and blaming these people." "They are not the bad guys and we are the good guys." "That is not fair, really." "There is a much bigger picture here." "You know, I'm a pretty hard nut to crack with these types of things so I think for most regular people that would watch this film, how can you walk away not feeling a little bit like you have to re-evaluate" "some things." "At least take a look at personal choices in that way." "And I think that is something that probably going to make me think about it later." "I'm never eating meat again." "Like, I can't." "Like, how can I look at a hamburger and just eat it without being hurt about it?" "I can't." "I asked Ellen to call a large producer of free range organic dairy and eggs." "I gave her a list of questions that an everyday consumer wouldn't think to ask." "Producers bank on the fact that most people won't probe this much and that customers assume that labels such as free range, organic and humane mean more than they really do." "Yes, hi, good afternoon." "I'm a mother and I am very concerned about getting healthy organic foods for my kids and I'm also an animal lover and I saw your website." "I was very impressed and I was just wondering if I could ask you just a couple of questions?" "Yes." "Regarding the steers, are they castrated?" "Right?" "Right?" "With a rubber band?" "Is there any anesthesia used?" "Like cutting off the blood flow?" "And then what happens?" "Does it really just fall off?" "Now, say an animal has a terrible infection or one of the udders is infected, it has mastitis, they would not be given antibiotics?" "And then what happens to them?" "And how are they destroyed?" "Oh, you mean like a bullet?" "And what are the space requirements for the chickens?" "Is that considered a lot of space?" "Yeah." "Where do you get your chicks?" "Okay, and what do they do with the male chicks?" "What would your guess be?" "The chicks never see their mothers?" "Do you have any guidelines regarding the transport of the chickens?" "I know that chickens are not covered by the Humane." "Methods of Slaughter Act but..." "Well, I very much appreciate your time." "You were so knowledgeable." "And I wish you good luck with everything." "Thank you." "Bye-bye." "(Music)" "So, we've covered factory farms and organic farms but what about small family farms?" "I took Ellen, Brian and." "Tesla on a road trip to see how a modern small family egg farm functions." "It didn't really fit the image we had of what a small farm looked like." "One of the brothers took me in he wouldn't let me walk down the thing but I got to get right up next to it." "And it was just sort of explaining that they currently had about 3,800 chickens in there and that same place, he said, holds 30,000." "And it looked like 3,800 looked packed." "Unfortunately many small family farms can't compete with factory farms unless they apply some of the same practices." "And of course, all animals raised for food end up being slaughtered." "Except for the two spent hens that they egg farmers gave us." "What does it feel like?" "It's soft." "Do you feel it breathing?" "Do you remember what they said?" "They said it three times." "They said it three times." "They said it twice to you and one time to me that if you don't want him you can always eat him for dinner." "Brian, Tesla and I took the hens to Ooh Mah Nee." "Farmed Animal Sanctuary, a haven where rescued farm animals can live out their lives with no threat of becoming someone's dinner." "He doesn't like it too much." "Ooop, there you go." "Oh, look at they're walking now." "She is waiting for her friend to come out." "They'll just walk around and get used to, you know, their surroundings until they feel comfortable." "You see how large her comb is." "Within a month or two that won't even affect her vision." "It won't flop over like that." "(Chicken noise)" "Aww." "She didn't make that sound one time." "Do you think she has seen a rooster before?" "I highly doubt it." "(Clucking)" "Group hug." "Group hug." "Group hug." "What do you think, chickens?" "We did it." "We did it." "Day one out of the." "Day one out of the city." "Out of the city." "So, where are we camping?" "What are we?" "Where are we staying?" "Jason helped us set up camp out on the farm while Ellen and her kids camped out in a hotel room." "This is the future of" "America right here." "Sitting around a campfire with soydogs." "Well that is a beaut." "That is a beaut." "Good work." "Tesla, our food critic?" "Off the hook." "Off the hook." "Off the hook." "(Music)" "Ellen and company joined us in the morning for a tour of the farm." "And these guys are former veal cattle." "This is Gilbert." "Somebody got Gilbert when he was a tiny baby and they were going to slaughter him for their Easter meal and they fell in love with him and ended up bringing" "Gilbert here." "If you itch a certain part of Devlin's back it makes his tongue go crazy." "Babe was rescued by a school teacher in New Jersey." "Her students had watched the movie "Babe" so they wanted to meet a pig, and her husband went to a slaughter house, of all places, and they wanted to bring a little pig into their classroom." "So he got this little pig from the slaughter house and they said, "Have her back"" "within 48 hours."" "And they absolutely fell in love with the pig, the whole classroom." "So the teacher hid babe in her condo in New York City for two weeks until she got a hold of us." "And Babe has been here ever since." "They all have personalities, just like humans do." "Some of them are friendly." "Some of them are shy." "Some of them are like ferocious, and so they shouldn't be eaten." "The other reason for this particular road trip was Vegetarian Summer Fest, an annual gathering where vegetarians and veg-wanna-be's can connect and exchange ideas and information." "Veg Summer Fest also features lectures by leaders in the vegetarian movement." "The first lecture was given by T. Colin Campbell, professor emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University." "I started out, as you heard this morning, basically from the farm and came from that background and was focused primarily on the idea that we all need to get more protein and we particularly needed to get more animal protein" "especially." "He spoke about the China." "Study, which is considered the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted." "This twenty year project examined the relationship between diet and disease in one of the few areas in the world where people still consume a mostly plant based diet." "He teamed up with Chinese and British researchers who went into 65 counties in rural China and found out what 6,500 people ate and how they lived." "Well, it turns out that as soon as a little animal food starts creeping into the diet in some counties, you know, blood cholesterol level starts to go up, cancer started to appear." "Heart disease eventually then began to appear." "Since the beginning of." "Dr. Campbell's research the connection between meat and dairy consumption and disease has been confirmed over and over again in scientific studies and even studies of studies." "Diabetes is a disease that more and more people have to worry about." "Fortunately, studies have shown that a healthy low fat vegan diet can prevent diabetes and even treat it better than the American." "Diabetic Association diet and common medications." "The two strongest cancer links are the ones between prostate cancer and dairy consumption and colon cancer and red and processed meats." "Finally, vegans have a 26% lower chance of dying from." "America's number one killer, heart disease." "That is because they avoid meat and dairy which contain artery clogging saturated fat and cholesterol." "The science on plant based diets is overwhelming and has lead the nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals to state "appropriately"" "planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian, or vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of" ""certain diseases."" "But the American Dietetic." "Association doesn't determine government nutrition recommendations." "The government has its own committees to determine the official nutrition policy for the country." "So, what they chose to say, you know, is very, very important." "They are translating the science into public policy." "It is very important that the people on those committees really be objective." "In the days when I was involved, the chair people of those committees were good." "They were objective and often times outside of our community they didn't have any conflict of interest." "Now, in two of the most recent committees the Food and Nutrition Board that sets the nutrient recommendations and also the." "Dietetic Guidelines." "Committee, in one case it was chaired simultaneously by the same individual who happens to be a major consultant for the dairy industry." "And so under the circumstances you are going to have a committee that is really biased, seriously biased." "And so for example, when they came out last time, increased the milk consumption from two glasses a day to three glasses a day." "That is why it happens." "As a practicing" "Christian, Tesla was drawn to the Christian Vegetarian." "Association table." "But, like, my mom's argument and my brother's argument was always," ""God said that he put animals on Earth for us to eat."" "The way I look at it is if you take a look at Genesis in the first chapter it describes how God actually prescribed for everybody, people and animals, a vegetarian diet." "It wasn't until after the falling that people started to eat animals." "So, at least the way I see it is the original intention and the ideal as described in Genesis 1," "Garden of Eden, was a vegetarian world." "There are some people, for example, who need to eat meat just to survive." "And those people who do eat meat should certainly not be condemned." "But if we have a choice, then the choice that I think is going to be more compassionate and more consistent with what the" "Bible is trying to teach us about is going to be a diet that is going to be plant based, a vegetarian diet." "Hi, how are you?" "Oh!" "(laughing)" "We met up with former cattle rancher Howard Lyman, who turned his family's small organic farm into a giant feedlot operation." "He witnessed first-hand how factory farming destroyed his land and over time as he opened his eyes to the truth, became a vegan advocate." "He claims that by demanding so many animal foods, we are literally forking the environment." "We are digging more graves with our fork than anything else and it is not just our grave." "We are digging the grave of the future." "We are destroying the planet." "Howard's lecture was about an hour long." "But it doesn't take an hour to understand the basic problem." "The demand for animal food is getting higher and higher every year, but producing them is extremely inefficient and polluting." "In November of 2006 the." "United Nations Food and." "Agriculture Organization published a report identifying the livestock sector as one of the top contributors to the most serious environmental problems." "According to the report, farm animals contribute more to global warming than the entire transportation sector." "How can this be?" "For one thing, animal protein production releases much more carbon dioxide than plant protein production." "See, first you've got to grow and harvest the feed grains." "Then transport them to the farms where the animals are." "You need energy to operate those farms." "Then to transport the animals to the slaughter house." "Of course you have to operate the slaughter houses and finally you have to process and store the animal flesh." "On top of that, farmed animals also produce methane when they burp, fart and breathe." "Methane is twenty three times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere, according to the EPA." "Now add to this the fact that we have cleared 70% of forests in the Amazon and elsewhere for cattle grazing and cattle feed." "The good news is that switching from the standard" "American diet to a vegan one for one year would reduce your carbon dioxide emissions more than switching from a normal car to a hybrid." "In 2008, the top man of the world's most important international agency dealing with climate change finally came out and said, "Please"" "eat less meat." "Meat is a very" ""carbon-intensive commodity."" "Never have we had less clean water than what we have today." "In order to get one pound of beef, you have to feed a steer 6-10 pounds of grain which also means that much more water is used because you have to irrigate all of that grain." "And cows drink 50 gallons of water or more per day." "But it is not just what goes in to the farm animals that is the problem, it is also what comes out." "For example, hogs in North" "Carolina produce ten times more fecal waste than people do in North Carolina each day." "And all that poo has to go somewhere." "Often it is stored in huge open aired sewage pits called lagoons." "As these fill up the waste is sprayed onto fields." "Unfortunately the lagoons are prone to leaks and spills and waste from sprayed fields runs into lakes and streams and contaminates ground water." "Never in the history of the world have we ever had fewer fish than what we have today." "A 2006 study reported in the journal Science claims that one third of the ocean's species are already in collapse and if current trends continue, by 2048 all the ocean's species will be in collapse." "In the same way that we have industrialized land animal farming we have also industrialized fishing." "You've got huge nets that are acres wide." "Lines with hooks that can be fifty miles long and tons of gear dragging along the ocean floor obliterating coral and flattening natural landscape that provides essential habitat for many species." "Unfortunately they snag non-target species too." "Fisherman discard about 25% of what they catch, world-wide, according to." "US News and World Report." "Of the ocean fish that are kept, a percentage ends up in fish farms as feed." "For every pound of farmed fish produced world-wide, several pounds of marine life may have to be caught and killed." "Right now, the world population is 6.7 billion." "By 2050 the population will reach over 9 billion, according to the." "United Nations." "If everyone adopted a vegetarian diet and no food were wasted, current food production would theoretically feed" "10 billion people." "That is what the population reference bureau says, anyway." "Unfortunately, the trend in the developing world, where most of our population growth comes from, is to eat more like Americans." "That means more meat and more dairy." "You might have heard the statistic that says," ""If the whole world lived"" "at consumption levels of" "Americans, we'd need three" ""to five more planet Earths."" "I just revel in the fact that I am able to come here and spend time with people who have the opportunity to change the world." "And from the bottom of my heart I will tell you we need to change the world or our society as we know it will not survive." "We got the message loud and clear that plant based diets are better for our planet and our bodies." "That left one question unanswered." "If animal products are so bad for us, why did we evolve to eat them?" "We tracked down Dr. Milton." "Mills, a physician who has lectured extensively on this particular issue." "And currently what people believe is that when human beings moved out of equatorial areas into the more temperate areas around the globe, where plant foods weren't available year-round, it then became necessary to eat animal foods in order to survive." "And that is when humans developed sophisticated hunting technology so that they would be able to make it through, say the winter months when plant foods weren't available until they could then start gathering their plant foods more." "And the other thing is that once we decide that something is either necessary or desirable, we enshrine it as a cultural value." "And once it becomes part of our culture, it really doesn't matter whether or not it's necessary or important for survival, we'll do it anyway because, you know, we consider it to be necessary and important." "Right." "So, it seems that it was evolutionary advantageous for humans to have as many food options as we could." "And that is why we became omnivores." "But now that so many people in developed countries have access to healthy plant foods year-round, we don't need animal products to thrive anymore." "Because we are killing the planet with our growing meat and dairy habit it has now become evolutionarily advantageous for us to adopt a plant based diet." "One forward thinker of the past century became vegetarian at the end of his life." "He is quoted as having said," ""Nothing will benefit human"" "health and increase chances for survival of life on." "Earth as much as the evolution to a" ""vegetarian diet."" "Meat is bad." "Tesla?" "Vegetables are good." "Animals are friends." "(Speaks in robot voice)" "Vegan." "Vegan is the only way." "(laughs)" "(Speaks in robot voice)" "Some are black." "Some are white." "Some are different." "We are all together with vegetables." "On that inspiring note, we left Vegetarian Summer." "Fest and headed back to." "Ooh Mah Nee Farmed Animal." "Sanctuary to meet Jason's wife, Cayce, who tells us a little bit about raising the next generation of vegans." "I'm eight months pregnant right now." "Wow." "And we have Aiden, our five year old." "There are several great books on you know, pregnancy and the vegan diet." "So we were very convinced." "I mean this is the healthiest diet for us, as well as for our child." "But we had a lot of, a lot of skeptics, a lot of people who question that." "And we went to the pediatrician, their whole attitude was, it was really sad, they were giving me a list of all the illnesses and ailments I could expect" "Aiden to have within his first year." "None of these things occurred." "You know he has been just wonderfully healthy." "On our way out of town," "Cayce took Tesla, Brian and me on a mini-fieldtrip to a place that reminds us of the fate that the animals at her sanctuary are spared." "This slaughter house closed down, I think in '79." "So, everything is pretty dated but it still shows you the layout of any slaughter house today and I can still walk you through the process that every animal is, you know, forced to endure when they are sent to a" "slaughter house." "I feel that it is a really haunted place and that the energy here is really full of all that fear still." "I feel it right now." "This is a journey I wish that everybody could take." "Imagine to be an animal and you are being herded down this little corridor." "(squeal)" "Move out, move out." "(squeal)" "Move out." "This is the door that after the animal is stunned, they drop." "Hold still." "(bang)" "So this would slide open and the larger animals, like cows, would be hoisted up." "(moo)" "(squealing)" "This is, this falling tank right here." "So, where these chains hang the pigs would come in and then they were dropped into the scalding water." "These raked things here scoop up the animals, flip them over into here and then start to take off the rest of the hair and prepare the body for being dismembered." "This board actually has lots of knife marks on it so I guess they began cutting and dismembering here." "We end up becoming a part of that machine that we create to do the job." "We end up becoming like a spigot or a spoke just as dry and matter of fact as that." "You have to deny your compassion." "You have to deny your empathy." "You have to deny your feelings and that is the worst part of it, I think." "On our long drive home we pass the same kinds of farms we've heard so much about." "We decided to randomly pick one to see if what we'd been hearing was true." "We knew we could get into serious legal trouble going into a building so we decided to look around outside, which could only get us into minor trouble." "Tesla has already broken the law, but do you know what we can say?" "We can say we thought no trespassing was this road here." "Let's try it." "Oh my God." "This is disgusting." "I got it." "I got it." "I got it." "I can't believe that." "There is no way that anyone could talk around what we just saw, or explain it away." "It was exactly, like I said." "Like they were garbage." "I don't understand that." "All we saw were three dead pigs." "But this was a farm, not a slaughter house." "And for us it was proof that animal deaths are considered acceptable losses in an industry that treats them like economic units." "We were meat eaters like three weeks ago having no problem eating a bacon cheeseburger delux." "And now we are like upset." "We don't even care about getting arrested to make an effect." "That is crazy." "And if that can happen with us." "I know and I'm an idiot and I love meat." "Eating meat three times a day that we can go this far and it can make sense to us to the point where we want to break the law and we are not crazy." "It is the fact that this issue is real." "This is a real fucking issue." "This is not something that we are concocting." "Because, you see it is not like I want, like I want to go and get arrested." "It's like it is worth getting arrested for." "Yes." "On the drop of a dime, we go, we walk up, what do we see?" "A dead pile." "Exactly what everyone has been telling us he is going to see." "And it is right there in front of our faces." "Completely in front of our faces and there is no way to deny what we just saw." "So here I am in New Hampshire and actually my mother surprisingly enough is pretty cool with the whole vegan thing." "She has actually purchased all of this vegan food." "They have been somewhat pensive, my stepfather and my mom, about talking about factory farms and a vegan lifestyle." "I think maybe they think in the back of their heads that this is going to be a temporary thing." "I'm still waiting to see if this is going to be a temporary thing for myself." "I believe that I will live like this for the rest of my life." "For me to be all of the sudden confronted with changing my life I have to say, no not right now." "But it is perfectly acceptable for you to do it." "I would say that it would be non-compassionate even to raise an animal and then kill it." "There is not an essential nature to me needing whatever that animal has which I can get from other places." "You don't think killing an animal is a part of life?" "No, I don't think it has to be." "Carnivores kill other animals." "But that is a carnivore." "I don't believe we are carnivores." "I know that I am certainly caught up in the emotional aspect, but I am trying to be as rational as possible." "I am a little bit worried when I go to Honduras because they are going to cook us everything and I have a feeling I am going to see chickens." "(laughs)" "I am going to see chickens." "And we are going to have to eat them, and that is going to suck." "We're going to eat you." "We're not going to eat him." "This is a, we are eating right here." "We are not eating him." "What do you eat?" "Like how do you live?" "They are very, they didn't understand it." "They go, "But what do you"" "feel bad about?" "Like, they are animals." "You are supposed to eat them." ""What do you feel bad about?"" "(Music)" "It's July 5th." "I just feel a little sprinkle of rain and we are very happy to be here heading from New York, beautiful New York to London." "Good luck, mom." "You may tempted but you are on a vegan diet." "Can I remain a vegan because I swear to god it is like being a nun at an orgy." "I have found oatmeal, grilled tomatoes which are fantastic, baked beans which" "I love anyway and have lots of protein and fiber." "On the menu is a place where they put a "V" next to things that are for vegetarians, or vegans." "This is vegetarian lasagna." "Isn't that beautiful?" "This is one beautiful vegetarian sandwich." "Thai Curry in a pretty sea shell shaped dish." "Well, it's gone now but I had bean soup and my children are eating more fruit and vegetables than they have had in a long time." "Yeah right." "They are getting the ripple effect of my veganism." "A lot of adventures lay ahead of us." "Roman baths." "We asked about vegetarian restaurants and we found one called DeMuths." "This has bean sprouts on top, bits of toast, lentils, peanuts, tomatoes." "Then the kids are getting nachos with a lovely salsa." "We are going to a vegetarian restaurant called." "Food for Thought." "That is the universal sign for hunger." "Allrighty." "Well, we are going to eat very well today." "Now I am going to dig in and enjoy this lovely meal." "You said, "I want to talk"" "to you in person." ""I feel bad."" "And so I think I know what that means." "I am still vegan." "Oh, you are?" "Yes." "But, I'm scared Marisa." "And I was talking to Harry about it and I'm like," "I'm going to start crying." "I feel so bad." "Because I don't know if I want to stay vegan." "I'm tired of having my dad cook food and it's like, okay are you done?" "Because then I've got to go in and make my own food." "And I can't eat with my family." "I'm tired of like, I've gone out so many times where it's like I have to sit there and he is like," ""Are you going to eat?"" "And I'm like, "No, because"" "I can't eat anything."" "I'm sorry." "I'm such a punk." "No, no." "And it is like hard." "Yeah." "Because then it is like," ""Why are you doing it then?" "Why are you doing it then?"" "And then I said, "Because I"" "feel like a hypocrite if I" ""don't keep doing it."" "And I don't want to not be vegan." "And they are like," ""Well, then just don't."" "I, just, it's so confusing." "A lot of people," "I think, think about veganism like a religion, which is totally wrong because it is not you have to live by certain rules." "It's about minimizing suffering." "It is not about being perfect." "So, what I would love for you to do is to just try a little bit at a time." "Do you think that might work?" "Even if it is just vegetarian for now?" "See, I was thinking about that too." "Because that is a whole lot easier." "I could have pizza." "That is so much easier." "But then, I've said it to" "Marisa I think being vegetarian is like it's not the whole thing and I think you should do it full." "What do you feel like is the thing you are lacking most?" "Like, what do you wish for?" "I wish everybody I knew was vegan." "Then you need to join a vegan meet-up." "You know, you live in." "New York City." "You know, you could be a vegan anywhere but it is really damn easy in." "New York City." "This shouldn't be a negative thing." "This should be a positive thing." "I just feel like this is a life decision and I've got to make it now." "Do you really think that you will be able to stay vegan?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "I don't know." "I want to say yes." "But it could be glaringly just thrown back in my face when like three months later" "I'm working in a slaughter house or something." "But I don't know what to say." "I mean I really think I feel right now, yes absolutely." "I'm not seeing a lot of hurdles in front of me." "I mean I am trying my best to be realistic about the elements that like, alright" "I'm going to be vegetarian if worse comes to worse." "But I really don't even see being a vegan, like being a big problem." "So, here we go." "The first thing you see is corn, Earth Balance here." "And this actually tastes much better than regular butter." "Um, like I said earlier, I made grilled cheese sandwiches and I don't have any of the regular American cheese left but I have some of this, this is like mozzarella." "And this is really tasty too." "And it melts really well, the Tofuti." "And I have some courage burgers." "These are not, these don't taste like beef burgers, but they taste like chicken burgers." "It's a rack of lamb." "And it is kind of weird to hold it, now." "And this was going to be my prize." "I was going to eat this at the end of the project." "And here it is, frozen." "Would you, so you mean you don't want it anymore?" "No, I don't." "Um, what do you think would be an appropriate thing to do with it?" "Should we feed it to the cat?" "(laughs)" "Here we are back at my kitchen." "It's six weeks later and there have been some significant changes made as a went the vegan route." "I am absolutely hooked on soy milk and it comes in a lot of different flavors." "I like the vanilla and I am absolutely thrilled with the coffee which you can serve hot or cold and it tastes very good." "What would you think if your mom said she was really going to stay vegan?" "I would think that would be really good because she would stay really healthy and live longer." "On an average day you will find a lot more vegetables in this fridge than there ever were before." "Cherry tomatoes, the kids love them and they pop them like candy, especially when they are watching TV." "They've gotten, their taste buds are more attuned to the real flavors in things instead of the diluted junky flavors." "Hummus which, you know, is absolutely delicious." "I found it easy to do." "I thought it would be difficult." "I don't know why, but in reality this food is all around." "And I only wish I had found this sooner." "Because I am meeting people who have been vegan for twenty or thirty years and" "I go, look at what I have been doing to myself for twenty or thirty years." "You know, but let's start now, you know." "So this has been a great gift that you have given us." "So, thank you." "Hi puppy." "Hi." "Hello." "Would you say your tastes have changed or expanded?" "Yeah, I'm willing to try a lot more things now." "There is my fake butter." "This is margarine too because now I like margarine and cream cheese." "Alright." "Everyone loves the cream cheese and they keep wasting it, which gets me mad." "Umm, my sauce, my marinara sauce." "Um hum." "And I have blueberries." "I have apple sauce which I did not like too much." "That is okay." "My wieners (laughs) which I fell in love with camping." "I went shopping." "Um hum." "With the new guy which is going very, very well." "He is like, "If you told me"" "that you would stop being a" ""vegan," he's like," ""I will marry you."" "He is like," ""because you are perfect."" "He is like," ""You're like perfect."" "He's like," ""But you won't cook for me and that kills me."" "And I'm like," ""I'll cook for you baby."" "(laughs)" ""You might not like"" "what you're going to eat," ""but I'll cook for you."" "I never thought I'd want to stay doing it." "Like, seriously?" "To stay doing it?" "No, I never thought I would feel so guilty and I didn't think it would work, the experiments." "I didn't think it would work, and it did." "Come on let's head back." "I'm nervous." "Your blood pressure dropped, your systolic blood pressure dropped about" "20 points." "Is that bad?" "That's good." "(laughs) I don't know." "Okay." "You lost two pounds?" "That is awesome." "(laughs) That's pathetic." "But we have to get the blood first." "We've got to get the blood first." "What do you mean the blood first?" "It's about the blood, not about the weight." "Oh, who is about the weight?" "183 1/2 you lost 5 pounds 5 pounds, yeah!" "Wow, huge improvement in your blood pressure." "Awesome." "My blood work was excellent, since you brought that up." "And I think my blood pressure was better than yours." "And I lost five point something in poundage." "You can't compare one person to another." "Each of you have to improve from where you were to where you are now." "Oh yes." "Thank you so much." "Dr. Fuhrman." "I appreciate it." "Thank you so much." "Thank you Dr. Fuhrman." "Yeah!" "What's up!" "Welcome!" "How are you?" "Oh my goodness." "Did you get all my letters?" "Hi Ellen." "Hi Tesla." "Ellen this is Harry." "Harry this is Ellen." "Hi, nice to meet you." "Can I get a hug?" "(laughs)" "We were at my aunt's house and my aunt had like bean burgers or something, I don't know what they are made of, but I nibbled on it or whatever." "I don't know what she had to nibble on." "Spinach nuggets or something." "It was good, but." "Like the stuff that you are like, spinach, not me." "Spinach nugget?" "Yeah, after a while you are like, spinach nuggets." "Like and you don't want to, like your taste buds, it's funny how adaptable our bodies are." "When I'm at work and I'm at the cafeteria and I see people eating a very greasy chicken or beef stew, I feel like going up to them and saying, "Do you realize what"" "you are eating?" "Plus you are killing" ""yourself."" "But I mean..." "I'm feeling like I've been informed now." "I'm just so proud of you." "I've had so much fun." "You guys have, this is like the highlight of my, you know." "When we look back, it's amazing what we have done." "It's amazing what we have done, all the different things." "It was so much fun." "Thank you so much." "(Music)" "(Music)" "The truth is, you don't have to be famous to make a difference in the world." "You don't even have to be an activist." "You can just be a regular person doing your own thing every meal every day." "Because that is how conscious living is changing the world one person at a time." "(Music)" "Hello." "Hello." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Blood oranges?" "Is that real blood?" "Okay, I'm having my first blood orange." "Delicious, tastes like any other orange if you don't think about the gory part of it." "It's tofu salad." "It's like egg salad, but made with tofu." "Wait." "Sing your breast milk song." "I can't sing that right now." "Sing it right now." "Look at you." "You look like me in the morning." "You look like me in the morning." "Yes, oh I know." "It certainly looks like a scallop." "It has the texture." "If it is not a salad it is good." "(laughs)" "You don't like egg salad at all?" "No." "Okay, then you don't have to try it." "No, I don't have to try it." "Okay." "Oh, I wish that I had some breakfast for you guys." "I wish I did." "(singing) Dr. Fuhrman, please give me some breast milk cheese." "(laughs) Yeah!" "She doesn't like it." "That is great!" "I never had tofu before but it is really, really good." "Really?" "Yes." "It is not like okay good but the way you prepared it right now it tastes like chicken." "It's really really good." "Really?" "Yeah." "Let's see you eat it." "Uh hum." "It's true" "(laughs)" "(singing) You're giving me the way to live, now just give me some breast milk and make it okay." "I don't get it." "It comes from humans." "It's not from animals or even dogs." "It's breast milk cheese." "Let me make an omelet please." "Dr. Fuhrman." "Is that okay?" "(Applause)" "Thank you, thank you, thank you very much." "Uhm, kitten?" "Excuse me." "Excuse me kitten." "How dare."