Student vs Vegan Activist | Rapid Fire Q&A | Lab Based Meat | B12 | Animal Testing | Plant Sentience

In this Q and A interaction the student had come incredibly well prepared for the Q and A. He had many questions to ask ranging from my opinion of lab grown meat, to eating meat from an animal that has died naturally, to animal testing and how Vegans cannot be perfect, to B12 supplementation and finally ending with a debate on plant sentience. Don't miss the ending line!
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For the Vegans out there who want to and are in a position to financially support my work, please read the following. If you like the work we do and feel you can support us when it to comes to the maintenance, repair of our equipment and also our overhead charges please consider supporting our Patreon. There are tiers that range from $1 a month to $15 a month. You can choose any tier you want to, but please note that I will not be making any exclusive content for Patreon as me and my partner are too occupied making content for our current social media handles. Thanks in advance. Also if you are non vegan please do not become a donor. Don't give money for a cause that tries to abolish animal exploitation while exploiting animals yourself in order to cancel out your guilt. Please do not support me financially if you are not a Vegan yourself. Thanks! Patreon Link : www.patreon.com/ArvindAnimalActivist You can now support my work via Google Pay as well : arvindanimalactivist@oksbi

[@LouisGedo]

*Create a Better 🌎 and a Better You by.................Living Vegan* 💜

[@eligamer9811]

You are the real Hero Arvind in the earth🥰🥰♥️♥️

[@Bhavyapatel.]

I suggest you to convince a religious guru to turn vegan , it will make a great difference. Veganism is the best please live for long Long live Arvind

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

​@@LouisGedo👶

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

​@@eligamer9811 Thank you for providing me with my daily LAUGH, Slave! 😂 Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

[@samidhapatil2401]

The confidence you have arvind Anna! ❤

[@GreenVegan816]

If people don't even care about animals, why are they so concerned about plants? Because it makes them feel better about eating animals. It's a ridiculous argument, and they know it.

[@berniv7375]

Arrogance and cruelty is no match against compassion and logic. Thank you for the video.🌱

[@Mayur_Kedare]

I feel like we should ask, what is the reason to believe that plants feel pain? If plants feel pain then they should have locomotion, having pain would be something akin to a vestigial organ in human body, from evolution point of view there is no purpose for plants to have pain it would be torture to feel heat of the sun or body parts breaking due to insects and herbivores, the defense mechanism isn't doing anything much, the defense mechanism isn't deterring any herbivore. Whereas, when animals feel pain it is actually making us care about them, as we know what is suffering.

[@justaudience337]

I don't care about animals and even i dont give sh!t concern on plants. I just want meat meat and for that i can slaughter goat, pig, fish, hen, buffalo.

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

​@@Mayur_Kedare sentience: the capacity to experience feelings or sensations, as distinguished from perceptions and cognition. The word was first coined by philosophers in the 1630’s for the concept of an ability to feel, derived from Latin “sentientem” (a feeling), in order to distinguish it from the ability to think/reason. Therefore, sentience ought not be confused with consciousness, though the two are closely related. As far as biologists can ascertain, the simplest organisms (single-celled microbes) possess an exceedingly-primitive form of sentience, since their life-cycle revolves around adjusting to their environment, metabolizing, and reproducing via binary fission, all of which indicates a sensory perception of their environment (e.g. temperature, acidity, energy sources and the presence of oxygen, nitrogen, minerals, and water). More complex organisms, such as plants, have acquired a far greater degree of sentience, since they can react to the light of the sun, to insects crawling on their leaves (in the case of carnivorous plants), excrete certain chemicals and/or emit ultrasonic waves when being cut. Perhaps the most strikingly-obvious phenomenon that demonstrates plant sentience is the way in which vines SENSE the presence of external structures, using such formations to support their stems and tendrils whilst growing. In animal life, there are up to five sensory organs that are able to detect external stimulants or percepts. ADDITIONALLY, many forms of metazoans have acquired a degree of consciousness, in which a subject-object polarity is established. Therefore, when carnists claim that “plants have feelings too” upon being confronted with vegan ideology, they may be correct (at least in a rather diffuse sense of the term “feelings”), so the most logical reason for being vegan is not because plants are completely without sentience, but simply due to the fact that humans are an herbivorous species. If Homo sapiens were naturally omnivores or carnivores, then no sane person would condone veganism. In summary, all forms of organic life are, by definition, sentient, yet TRUE consciousness is found in those animal species that have a certain level of intelligence (that is, as a general rule, vertebrates, though there are a couple of notable exceptions to this general rule). Cf. “consciousness/Consciousness” and “carnist” in this Glossary.

[@JayShriRamji1]

Plants don't have nervous system

[@Youtubeuser54321]

The student tried to be smart and thought he could outsmart Aravind with his points ..But Aravind demystified all his points with his explanations.. Well done once again

[@JehRiy]

Again,feel lucky to have you as our leader!!Mind blowing explanations! Render everyone speechless!

[@ishaankhan101]

❤

[@SadanBabuscorpionking]

first of all plants and animals are made up of cell both have chromosome,,,,, there are same in various ways and different in other ways,,, same goes to animals and humans have similarities and differences otherwise show me a human who lays eggs 😄❓ Brain maynot be the only way to feel pain,,, if you oppose that then understand before these studies shows plants have sense of fear and capability of talking through pheromones which were recent studies showing up.did you think that there is possibility for plants to do this some decades before 😄❓ you would have argued against that. I think plants have feeling, fear and pain. The problem is we couldn't hear the cry.That doesn't mean they are happily standing for you to eat. I believe human are omnivorous. If plants(living thing) rights are myths then animal rights(living thing) is also a myth... The Myth that born on human brain. Brained living thinks the thinking brainless life doesn't matter. This guy once ate meat and he was thinking of doing something that will give fame and money. Now he is asking money saying plants doesn't matter,,,, just animals does,, veganism vs meat eaters does have a scope.

[@Live_and_Let_Live6270]

I would like to appreciate the student for being logical and not talking with an intent to win an argument. He had genuine questions and got the answers for them. No BS or demeaning tone. 😊

[@jjradV]

Arvind, you are a true asset for the vegan community, you have an incredible gift of communicating,explaining, with such patience in answering the same questions over and over again from people always looking for excuses to continue abusing and killing animals instead of choosing something else to eat. You will never know how many people have become vegan because of you !

[@BeyondaThought]

I hate how meat-eaters sometimes feel the need to be dishonest with their responses to simple questions. They know the answer proves them wrong, so they'd rather not say it.

[@jayeshpatel9854]

Arvind did a great job of pressing him for an answer is a polite way - "you're making a joke of it but be honest"

[@lorddrakkon9562]

That's not meat eaters; that's people. Humans are like that.

[@sushnivvangari7087]

Great questions asked by the student and greatly explained by you, sir.

[@じゃみっと]

I personally think the student was going overboard in his line of questioning, particularly the "plants feel pain" questions. He also took it upon himself to answer back to Arvind, even after Arvind have him perfectly fine answers. If the student doesn't become a vegan know, he is a fool.

[@vijaypithe9492]

Arvind is legend vegan. A legend animal rights activist.

[@SadanBabuscorpionking]

He is beggar begging for money,,,, saying dont eat animals eat plants they are just standing happily for you to eat😄😄😄 I will eat my saalad anytime with my chicken biriyani and some rhaita.

[@Sumit_Sinha347]

@@SadanBabuscorpionking What you do today will again come to you as result of your karma. IF you kill and eat an animal then it will also eat you, that is bound to happen you can not escape !

[@rollsaroundindirt]

"no kill meat" I'm keeping that, thats excellent. also I like how you handled the carrion argument. "Its not vegan but I don't have a problem with it". thats much better than debating whether its a loophole in veganism. You speak amazingly well, how are you not more well known

[@r.b.8018]

I’m a vegetarian. And no kill meat is a health disaster meat. All great western money bags and billionaires are eager for such things. Just like what happened during Covid and vaccine. Pfizer! So don’t fall for such nonsense. Nothing artificial has been and can be good for humans.

[@sumanrao1739]

You can get B12 from duckweed which grows on stagnant water in lakes and ponds. From fermented rice. From moringa. From nutritional yeast.

[@knowledgehub9420]

From mango seed powder , from all fermented food naturally create din our body

[@poojarihawa]

But amount is very less.

[@seshadrisarkar3785]

Long live Arvind

[@Vaish.001]

Dont worry he is a vegan 😉

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

@john__6087, there are two reasons why vegans comprise a fraction of one percent of the population: The main reason is due to humans’ failure to care about what they put into their own bodies - as long as it tastes good, who gives a damn about the consequences to one’s own health or the ethical concerns regarding other creatures or the environment? The other reason is due to vegan advocates and animal rights activists being inept in their understanding of morality as well as their abysmal grasp of human physiology. Almost every single vegan activist I know of wrongly believes that we are omnivores, and they are clueless in respect to metaethics and applied ethics. But that is not the most unfortunate thing about the matter. The saddest thing is that there is hardly a single vegan activist even willing to spend an hour or so to learn proper diet and meta-ethics with the World Teacher Himself, Jagadguru Svāmī Vegānanda, despite him freely offering to do so on his social media platforms. 😩

[@agtube2998]

One more thing, taking away a child from his parents(human or animal) causes a lot of trauma on the contrary a plant uses different strategies to make sure his fruit is taken away. Plants have evolved various strategies to entice animals to eat their fruit, which helps in seed dispersal. Here are some common methods: 1. Color and Attraction: Fruits are often brightly colored to catch the attention of animals. Red, orange, and yellow are common fruit colors that stand out in natural surroundings. 2. Sweetness: Many fruits are sweet due to the presence of sugars, which appeal to animals' taste buds. 3. Aroma: Fruits emit enticing scents that animals can detect from a distance, attracting them to the source. 4. Nutrient Reward: Fruits often contain essential nutrients and vitamins that are beneficial to animals. 5. Soft Texture: The soft and fleshy texture of fruits is more appealing to animals than hard, unripe fruits. 6. Seed Protection: Some plants have evolved seeds with hard shells or pits that are indigestible for animals, ensuring the seeds are eventually dispersed away from the parent plant. 7. Symbiotic Relationships: Some plants form mutually beneficial relationships with specific animals, like birds or mammals, that become their primary seed dispersers. 8. Timing: Fruit ripening is often synchronized with the availability of animals that can disperse seeds, ensuring the fruit is eaten when the seeds are ready for dispersal. These adaptations help plants ensure their seeds are spread to new locations, increasing their of chances survival and reproduction.

[@HariKrishna-sc1ur]

Being vegan is the best we can do at this time

[@Mrx-xrM]

I being non vegam would balance the scale 😊

[@abhisingh8712]

Great work to spread awareness among people towards vegan

[@shravanprabhu4924]

The patience of questioner is also commendable. He is not trying to defeat arvind but he is seeking information

[@Kingsdragonz]

Very well spoken, Arvind! Well done.

[@andrewpaulgoti]

Good job answering the student's questions. One point to note: Pond lentils are a plant source of vitamin B12, and people can get B12 from eating a small bit of soil on unwashed vegetables also. Regarding animal testing for human medicine, there are many alternatives that make animal testing obsolete, such as: Cell cultures, computer models, consenting human volunteers or paid test subjects

[@HariKrishna-sc1ur]

New info thank you❤

[@samgodwin3118]

WTF you are talking about... The only thing I hate about this Vegan people is this... You are saying Instead of testing on animals you can test on human volunteers... Never trust a human like you who talks about being Generous about other living beings...

[@santhosh2513]

By doing animal experiments we're studying whole pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics that's not possible through cell culture or computer model

[@andrewpaulgoti]

Torturing humans is also not possible, but it is currently legally permitted to do to animals even though they aren't even the intended beneficiaries of the experiments ​@@santhosh2513

[@madhavjha1]

I have changed completely from non vegetarian to vegan, after seeing your videos. Thanks a lot.

[@ShreyRupani]

Very clever student, clever students become more vehement vegans over time (provided conscience + opportunity + drive).

[@mcc5295]

thanks for raising awareness on this issue. hopefully all of us can work together to end brutal abuse of animals 🙏. please people . I Appreciate the content . Keep moving foward. We must stop exploiting animals

[@BeEthical-LoveAll]

Excellent explanation 👏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you Arvind 🙂

[@jonjonwp]

You know your stuff. Big respect for you and your work,

[@ritikchaudhary7164]

simply amazing. Thank you for clarifying these doubts and it feels good that people are taking a scientific approach in understanding veganism. Thank you once again.

[@sushmakulkarnii]

Hi Arvind! I’ve been watching your videos lately. They’re phenomenal!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@kalki2449]

It feels like I found someone to support my thoughts logically... Thank you so much dude🎉

[@Nick_Lyston]

I think your last example would work better if the non-sentient human were alive but permanently brain dead. Then they can still be alive and react to stimuli like a plant.

[@bhavikasicka3098]

Have been following your advocacy for a while now, Arvind, and my respect for you, your knowledge and patience, increases day by day.

[@harsh9023]

This one was spot on. Cleared all the confusion a non vegan could have flawlessly. But one more addition to the last point. Even if we want to minimise "suffering" of plants, the best way of doing it is going vegan becuase it requires far less amount of plants to feed the entire population and we don't need to clear forrests to make them agricultural land.

[@bhavikasicka3098]

I agree. Jain Veganism is another option, but obviously, these carnists don't care about either plants or animals. They only care about themselves.

[@ladyaudrey9976]

Excellent work, as always. Thank you 💚💚💚💚

[@therealgrimreaper68]

He always has well thought out answers and answers with honesty

[@sushmasingh.6912]

You are my inspiration and I’m blessed to hear ur speeches you are an amazing person keep up the good work

[@keshavrathore5228]

Spot on 🔥🔥

[@Debangshu.Chanda]

So happy to see you back after such a long time 😊

[@MeowMeow-ju4vf]

I'm almost compelled to turn vegan listening to Mr Arvind. Thank you!

[@AvS0225]

Amazing how you respond to everything with patience and facts. Hats off dude

[@Vegan_4The_Animals]

The end tho 😁🙃

[@capucinebellucci3476]

Animals are here with us, not for us. Be vegan 💖💖

[@xatoriusxVSExbhuttoriusx]

10:06... *SPOT ON!* 👏💥💯💥✨

[@Mayur_Kedare]

I know right. If there is a point to choose between alive and not alive we choose alive because we care about sentience and when it comes to point between both alive we again care about sentience.

[@sumalyabarman7291]

Last part was absolutely awesome ❤

[@isabellezablocki7447]

Arvind is the master mind of veganism!

[@tilottamadas2742]

welcome arvind. happy to see you

[@yatharthtrading137]

These people really don't want to seek new things and they really don't care about any species pain & suffer. They just want to argue to satisfy their ego and prove they are right. But hat's off to Arvind patience and on point argument.

[@eligamer9811]

You are the real Hero Arvind in this earth🥰🥰♥️♥️

[@thimbaiah9005]

This guy is one of the few logical vegans I've met.

[@simranak960]

Sir you have been like the brightest star in the sky. At last the answer was really great.

[@rd-tk6js]

Any grain kanji or sprouted pulses are rich in B12.

[@xatoriusxVSExbhuttoriusx]

*GUESS WHO'S BACK!* 💥💯💥☘️💚🪬✨

[@tradehut2782]

The person asking the questions is intelligent and confode😊 Great questions

[@kabirdas5572]

this guy is extremely underrated

[@unpluggedkishor6729]

The best part is... Arvind is a young guy & he have very long way to go...

[@uog293]

B12 is soil derived. So if you pull a tuber and eat it without washing you get a huge amt

[@Pian0Arpeggi0s]

Back with a bang! 🎉

[@jigyashusingh3362]

Most logical❤

[@HuckleberryHim]

Wow, first time encountering you and I am blown away! Amazing to see what veganism is doing in India; honestly, it makes me so optimistic, so many Indians are already vegetarian and open to this reasoning and there is a history going back millennia of animal rights philosophy. I never thought about this, really, but the "modern vegan" movement hitting India is going to be a tremendous force People like you are leading that charge. Bravo! So informed and articulate, the animals are blessed to have a warrior such as yourself on their side... hope to see you continue to do amazing things! You're already at 50k subscribers too, keep going! A breath of fresh air for veganism, inspiring. I am an American with Desi heritage and I can't tell you how encouraging it is to see stuff like this, I have seen some Indian vegan athletes as well, the wave is certainly growing

[@benjamindsouza6736]

Absolutely brilliant arguments! 👌👌👌

[@veganism]

We must all go vegan 🌱

[@meetamohini2833]

More power to you , Arvind Activist

[@SaravananVallalar]

Hi Aravind, as always you rocked with the answers for all the questions except the point "We are Omnivores". We are herbivores actually. Because our digestive system is mostly matches with Herbivores and our animal ancestors such as monkeys and its variants all are Herbivores. Compassion is the only key towards peaceful life. Taste the Compassion. Trust me your life will be beautiful with a beautiful heart.

[@isabellezablocki7447]

No, we are omnivores, we are capable of eating animals and plants. Herbivores have no interest in eating animals. But with compassion, we can eat a vegan diet and thrive on that diet.

[@Mayur_Kedare]

Humans are omnivores as the ancestors had to scavenge and hunt and cook animals when there was ice age and ice covering the vegetation. Before that they were eating mostly plants. Humans are mostly compatible with herbivores but we can eat cooked meat and some people eat raw meat even though we humans don't have any innate special adaptations for flesh of the animal. It is not just about biological features, it is about habit also. Just like you can say a Panda has carnivore feature but they are actually herbivores.

[@jonjonwp]

@@isabellezablocki7447 Plant based diet. There is no such thing as a vegan diet.

[@farhanmohammed1189]

Very well spoken. This man knows what he's saying.

[@sportspoint9131]

Great work

[@ashwinnair2325]

brother plants do suffer too. the difference is animal meat requires much more plant than human eating plant directly. Plus plants are usually eaten either indirectly by fruits which is meant to be spread, eat vegetables which too doesnt kill a plant. eating grain too does kll plant it just kills less plants when you directly eat them instead of feeding them to animals and then eat animal.

[@jigyashusingh3362]

Both are genuine person ❤ good and perfect questions❤

[@sourabhjha9755]

"You are lying if u are saying that u dont get what he is saying coz I can totally FEEL this pain." ~ The plant in my garden

[@rohan_aher]

End was 🔥

[@harip.nambiar5674]

That last line!!

[@jonjonwp]

It was brilliant.

[@vivekn7797]

Wonderful explanation Cheers.

[@ygoefinding]

I love the way u explain things 🙏⭐️

[@prietya9906]

You can get B12 from mango seed powder. That is a known source of vegan B12.

[@tabrezahamed9250]

Even the plants can feel pain but we can't able to hear it we humans can hear between 20HZ-20000HZ anything more or less we can't hear 💯

[@veryonlineman]

Bro is back

[@fatfreebutterr]

Arvind man, you should try double down burger from KFC, I was watching your video while having that and it's so delicious. Kudos ! you are making great content

[@BeVegan686]

Arvind sir one suggestion for your work: 1. Please you can discuss with Acharya Prashant by this it will helps to reach your voice rapidly🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@yuvaraman435]

That's why we worship cattles As they help us in agriculture

[@shadestj]

Arvind, you have such a unique and intelligent answer to every question. 🔥

[@gurumoksh7919]

I love how people killing animals are ready to save plants and fight against plant protection

[@saianirudh998]

Welcome back.

[@vidyajyothigandlur5271]

People should realise difference between defense mechanism and emotions

[@keshavram3521]

It would take atleast 100 decades to make this vegan campaign success.

[@user-gv7lp7pb1z]

Perfect explanations Aravind 🐾🙏🌱

[@RightSideOfHistory123]

I have a doubt, I didn’t quite understand what Arvind’s response was to plants warning other plants when the forest was getting cut down. Can someone please explain it to me. Thanks.❤

[@josephraju715]

According to research, the places where people live longer around the world are classified as blue zones. Now there are 5 blue zones around the world, out of which people 4 zones are vegetarians.

[@Mrx-xrM]

No no. Humans used to hunt from ancient times. All 5 zones were non vegetarians.

[@gyanibaba6099]

After a long time. Giving smooth answer of everything question wow❤❤

[@smit17xp]

bro that last one was so lit

[@sharmi9891]

I noticed many want to be a Westerner and adapt their culture/food. So many diseases have arisen in India because of this. Even the mindset!

[@nature402]

Amazing work 👍👍

[@kalki2449]

Please don't stop posting videos....

[@vishnuvardhanreddysuryakapa]

We can get B12 from Mango fruit seed

[@clarkkent1764]

Omg , making them realise with plants is damn

[@5onic]

Based, the only good vegan youtube creator on the platform at this moment.

[@lauratanln]

Great work by Arvind again!

[@Radhykumar]

Final answer you rocked arvind.....

[@conscious__being]

Crazy and wonderful Arvind.

[@sehelisultana9034]

Hello Arvind You are doing great job . I want to ask what is the source of your knowledge about animal cruelty? I also want to educate people about this. 😊

[@Valley_of_emotions]

well there are research which states that plants actually produce sounds which we normally can't hear when they're in stress... wanna explain it too

[@sarikakacham91]

For b12 also vegan can get from mangoseed powder. Recent research has proved it's seems. In andhrapradesh here manthena satyanarayan ji says this he is a doctor of naturopathy. Even you can do survey on this.

[@Patrick-yc3tf]

Aren't there several B12 sources, like pimkin seeds and chia seeds.. etc? I don't think Arvind right when he said it comes from just animals.

[@bhagavatam7613]

We need to eat life to live, So Eat sensibly Don’t eat something which can show emotions.. Every thing is a life, but here we are eating to survive, so we need to eat as simple as a life like a fruit which can easily become a part of our life.. So right now if we have an option better to go for a plant life than an animal life… If you don’t have an option there is no point in it

[@Yohan_2001]

He's a chill guy