Why HISTORY's Greatest Minds Didn't EAT MEAT | LIVEKINDLY

[@LIVEKINDLY]

Who is your favorite famous vegetarian historical figure? Do you think they would be vegan if they were alive today?

[@edyann]

Sir Issac Newton and of course... they would all be vegan today! Btw... this year I celebrate 30 years of being vegan! 💚

[@rainbowsprinkles3122]

edie ann V OMG 30 years!?! Congrats💚

[@edyann]

@@rainbowsprinkles3122 Thank you! Yup! I'm an old school vegan..🙈💚💚💚

[@Phaseriffic]

@@edyann Wow, congratulations!

[@edyann]

Thank you guys! I was only 13 and this October 13th it will be 30 years!

[@toninof]

Pythagoras, 2,500 years ago: “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”

[@toninof]

@French blue8 Thank you for the comment. Yeah, some humans were aware long time ago of all the suffering our species were causing to the non-human animals. It wasn't only Pythagoras, but also Gautama Buddha, Lao Tzu, Sokrates, etc. However, the tragedy is that after 2,500 years we became only more efficient in killing which now happens at unprecedented rate. Suffering is intrinsic to life, but we are the only species that generate suffering through animal farming - all other predators kill in order to survive, we're killing systematically although we have technology to produce food without causing suffering. I wish I could share your optimism, my friend. Unfortunately, cognitive dissonance is deeply rooted in human minds.

[@heruuuuu]

Killing plants is also being a "destroyer of lower living beings" isn't it?

[@toninof]

@@heruuuuu That is a very frequent meat-eaters' argument, my friend. Plants are certainly living beings, there are proofs that they posses certain kind of intelligence, too. That being said, to the best of our knowledge (according to scientific studies) plants do not have a central nervous system and thus do not experience suffering. Even if we neglect that fact, you cannot possibly put in the same category picking an apple or tomato which will grow again on the plant that continues to live, with the suffering of a sentient being whose life is ended with a knife, in a gas chamber, or with a hammer. I was a meat-eater for over 50 years and was using the same (and many more) excuses that you used in order to avoid seeing the truth. You shouldn't trust anyone, my friend, but I'd like to ask you just one thing: go to one of those factory farms where they breed pigs, or cows (or any other animal). See the conditions in which they spend their life before being slaughtered. Or just stop by the truck that transports pigs or cows to the slaughterhouse....or just visit the slaughterhouse... Whichever of the above you visit, just spend a minute to look in the eyes of these animals. Once you do that, let me know what you saw in those eyes, and I'll be glad to continue this discussion.

[@heruuuuu]

@@toninof You bring up good points. But plants are a very different life form than us. They may not need a nervous system to feel pain. Furthermore, there is evidence that plants scream when stressed or damaged but on too high a frequency for us to hear. I'd say that's a sign of feeling pain. I agree that factory farming is terrible. But that doesn't mean eating meat is bad. Yes, a lot of meat comes from that nowadays but not all of it. My point is that no matter what, you have to eat to survive. To eat, you have to kill. Just because a lot of the meat people eat comes from horrendous treatment of animals in factory farming doesn't mean that the act of eating meat is terrible. But we should really respect the animals that we are going to eat more. By the way, let me know if I misunderstood anything you were saying or correct me if I'm wrong with something. Hope your doing well :D

[@toninof]

​@@heruuuuu I think we understand each other well and are on the same page in many aspects. Disagreeing is normal as long as people are able and willing to listen to each other's reasoning and arguments. As for the plants - I agree that we cannot be certain that plants don't feel pain. We just don't have an evidence for that yet. As for the non-human animals (focusing on farm animals now), we know that they experience identical feelings to us: happiness, sadness, grief, joy, pain, fear. They suffer in a very similar, if not identical way to humans. We kill millions of sentient beings daily, and it's not only about killing, but also about the horrendous life conditions of those sentient beings before they are killed. For me, an integral part of evolution is finding the more ethical ways to feed our species and to treat other sentient beings. Our civilization enables us to produce food that just does not need to generate suffering (e.g. lab-grown meat, supplements, etc...). Killing is part of the history of our species, unfortunately deeply rooted in our tradition. However, many other atrocities were also a part of our tradition: slavery, child sacrifice, women's rights deprivation, cruelty based on racial differences, etc. We have overcome most of those and made significant progress in others. However, there's still a huge disproportion between our technological progress and ethical one. Just some of the thoughts :) All the best to you.

[@michaeld4861]

Leo Tolstoy " as long as their are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields, the vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism."

[@ajayreddy8732]

Brilliant! Thanks

[@SuperEman500]

@Central Intelligence Agency exactly, as they say where I grew up " In this world it's kill or be killed Motherfucker" Baltimore Represent.

[@understandingthelight4547]

there is still such thing as self defense. but its another deal to go out and kill just for pleasure or food when you can eat a million other things

[@someguy2135]

Tolstoy should be added to the list. Google vegan and vegetarian quotes for more.

[@nitishkulkarni929]

@@SuperEman500 Ayo! Omar coming!

[@keeradavis6832]

Im literally crying tears of joy!!! My favorite scientists!! They never cease to inspire me, I had no idea!!

[@russelmurray9268]

Yes but some didn't accomplish this untill they died or were about to n some ate flesh on occasion lol not a life long habit just a trend

[@vietnamd0820]

I’m inspired as well!

[@loumason6120]

@@russelmurray9268 Yes but but but but...SIT DOWN

[@meme-zs3pl]

Me too. I found out last week about this. It's so nice to know.

[@dawnfeatherston1685]

Right.

[@davejoson1100]

1 .Socrates 10:15 2. Leonardo da Vinci 1:08 3. Buddha 2:24 4. Rosa Parks 3:08 5. Benjamin Franklin 4:05 6. Nicholas Tesla 5:09 7. Albert Einstein 6:05 8. Isaac Newton 7:03 9. Thomas Edison 7:25 10. Susan B. Anthony 8:08 11.Gandhi 8:46

[@bitanga698]

Nicholas???? Nikola Tesla

[@solmyrwizard229]

wheres hitler?

[@someguy2135]

@@solmyrwizard229 Where is your list of terrible people who ate meat? I could spend the rest of my life typing out such a list. Much longer list than your single outlier.

[@solmyrwizard229]

@@someguy2135 my point is evil people can still be vegan. people are people. everyone has potential for evil. including me. killing 17 people isnt a small sin i think. smoking does kill, i lit a cigg during a gas leak. no one found out it was me.

[@someguy2135]

@@solmyrwizard229 Accidents happen. I don't know about the legal issues for you, but the philosopher Kant would say that you did nothing wrong. Intent is the only relevant thing in your situation, unless you thought you might be endangering people, but did it anyway.

[@shannaveganamcinnis-hurd405]

Why do you think some of the great people of the world care so much about oppression of ALL BEINGS?

[@btuard]

www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766083651/gandhi-is-deeply-revered-but-his-attitudes-on-race-and-sex-are-under-scrutiny pennandslaveryproject.org/exhibits/show/slaveownership/earlytrustees/benfrank

[@Kuykendall_7557]

@@btuard no

[@chazchillings3019]

This makes me glad that I do not contribute to the killing of animals.

[@laurentfaurite8660]

You kill every day plenty of animals.

[@IEEteammateMATT1]

You pay for the vegetable and grains to harvest and kill small animals in those fields

[@chazchillings3019]

Animal Mother no I don’t. I’m vegan.

[@chazchillings3019]

Laurent Faurite no I don’t

[@spiritualau8263]

@@chazchillings3019 you’re deluded. Habitats had to be cleared out for that shit you eat. Mono cropping destroys the soil. Every time they harvest your food they kill rodents and bugs in the millions. 1 cow vs millions of innocent animals, you chose what is truly more ethical!

[@Kiyarose3999]

My favourite is- ‘’While there are slaughterhouses, there will be Battlefields’’ ( Leo Tolstoy)

[@Kuykendall_7557]

That literally makes no sense but ok

[@Harsh-23]

@@Kuykendall_7557 lol did you even watch the video properly 😅

[@Kuykendall_7557]

@@Harsh-23 Damn I didn't know there was a proper way to watch the video 😮. And that's foolish to judge like that because it don't make sense either way, unless it's referring to the battle between vegans and non-vegans. Then that would make some sense.

[@Harsh-23]

@@Kuykendall_7557 hmm im not good at explaining things lol, but the video does tell few reasons, re-watch the part about tesla. Slaughtering animals effects moral values shouldn't that lead to fights?

[@Harsh-23]

@@Kuykendall_7557 also a person can slaughter animals mercilessly will not hesitate killing humans either don't you think so?

[@edyann]

It's called being civilized! Great minds are civilized!

[@btuard]

so civilized am I right? www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766083651/gandhi-is-deeply-revered-but-his-attitudes-on-race-and-sex-are-under-scrutiny pennandslaveryproject.org/exhibits/show/slaveownership/earlytrustees/benfrank

[@viakaji]

Well said 🙏

[@edyann]

@@viakaji 🤗❤

[@forrestswanson3308]

@@btuard If you lived back in his time you'd probably be racist too (even though it said he outgrew it, dont know about the niece thing though.

[@pranavgainz4180]

EDISON?!? 😂 he killed animals with AC current. I don’t think he believes in proper animal welfare

[@ezragilchrist9461]

Edison did not eat meat, but he did electrocute a elephant

[@thuglifeinventor]

Yes seems like a fake news propaganda

[@DavidPerez-xh9og]

"to my mind the life of a lamb is no less presious than that of a human being" he was so right on that so you already know my favorite . 6 years on plant based here and counting

[@TheNaughtysheriff]

I agree, some people flip out when you express it tho

[@angiebyrd4016]

This is so inspiring! Being a vegan in southern USA can be difficult because people are uneducated about where "food" comes from, but this video helps me feel better and know that I'm making the right choice and great minds think alike! :)

[@Buddhist_Gnome]

Have you ever seen the documentary The Invisible Vegan? It's one of my favorites!

[@angiebyrd4016]

Casey Cope i havent seen it I’ll have to check it out!

[@Buddhist_Gnome]

@@angiebyrd4016 the full doc is on youtube! kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHTTo3tpeNOIa6M

[@annabelgrace1267]

Wait, is you mean I don't know that the chicken I ate tonight, was not a living hen? Oh. Well, I am glad my meat was not a toy. I am about to have a second helping.

[@angiebyrd4016]

@@annabelgrace1267 good for you! do what makes you happy babes🥰 sending you love and light💜

[@carfacetube9942]

Pythagoras from ancient Greece. Before the term vegetarians was invented, vegetarians were called pythagorians.

[@lauratanln]

Pythagorians! It's a bit too long. Vegan is better.

[@rickicoughlan8299]

Ultimately, it doesn't take a great mind or genius to be kind. It takes a simple heart.

[@traymis]

Great thinkers had the wisdom to avoid eating meat They had an awareness of the animals we mistreat These gentlemen of great invention And women demanding our attention Realized all creatures are of a solitary heartbeat

[@RMBlake007]

Hitler and Charlie Manson were also vegetarians. Are they "great thinkers....with wisdom"?

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

​@@RMBlake007 Hitler was not a vegetarian. His chef said his favorite food was pigeon. Hitler didn't care about slaughterhouses. What about there were many nonvegan tyrants and criminals? It's clear that people wanting to have compassion for animals and all sentient beings want to be better and have thought deeper about these things instead of just blindly following culture, taste pleasure, and the propaganda that animal products is needed when it isn't. Gary Francione has been a vegan for decades and is still healthy. Also, vegans are still human and so they're not perfect. Watch Plant Based News, Earthling Ed, and BitesizeVegan for facts about veganism, animal agriculture abuse, health, and the diet on the environment. A few bad vegans and your negative subjective feelings doesn't change the facts and that there are some good vegans.

[@xMASZELx]

This makes me feel less alone in not eating animal products :)

[@mrchips96]

Nice to be in such great company! Vegan is the most intelligent and compassionate choice! ❤️

[@samyakjain1602]

Yeah

[@zoltanandras604]

I'm sorry but the Buddha was not vegeterian. He got his meals from random people, so he didn't really have a choice. He only refused meat, when an animal got killed extra for him. The Buddha didn't support the killing of any animal and in his teachings he is telling us to do the same. I'm also a vegan because i'm a buddhist.

[@mysticmouse7261]

Karma

[@somnathsamanta7065]

All buddhists should become vegetarian or vegan.

[@sashanealand8315]

buddists are evil, have many evil experiences with them, ultimate selfish and lack of compassion for others

[@lauratanln]

Most Buddhists are just vegetarians or plant based dieters though. Veganism means opposing the oppression of animals in any other way so this will include milk, eggs, skins, furs, honey, silk as well as using animals for riding, entertainment etc.

[@pdude1911]

"All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap." - William Blake (1757-1827). Great video, vegan for the animals for life, salute from Holland 😊

[@tamarajasinski820]

There is a wonderful documentary: animals and the Buddha. Please watch.

[@kaykay1570]

Yes, i loved it so much. Its being around years now, too. Amazing 💚 glad to see the doc be promoted 😁

[@russelmurray9268]

The leader of Buddhists the eats meat or does no encourage veganism

[@sapientchange8368]

I took your advice and just watched it. Was a joy. A confirmation. Thank you.

[@spiral-m]

@@russelmurray9268 unfortunately the Dalai Lama was misinformed by his doctors due to an illness. I suppose he is still living in the dark in that respect

[@la3261]

man burgers taste good

[@iglimolla9190]

Vultures are carnivorous birds. Yet it is found that they aren't cruel or heartless. Usually, like eagles, they do not attack living humans or animals. Their habit is to eat the flesh of dead bodies. There was an incident in my childhood that I can still vividly recall. On the west of our locality there was a large field which bordered on a tributary of the Ganges. As the soil wasn't fit for cultivation nothing could be grown there. On the upper side of that fallow land was a mound upon which stood a large tamarind tree. A vulture lived in a nest on the tree. Beside the mound was the site for the disposal of carcasses. Cows used to graze in the field as did a few horses and sheep. Once an old cow came there and fell flat on the ground due to utter exhaustion. The veterinary doctor came and said, “The cow has no chance of survival. She is likely to die in few hours.” The owner of the cow was a very kind-hearted man. He tried to save the cow in various ways but in vain. I noticed that as long as the cow was alive, she gently wagged her tail, even when her eyes were half closed. There was no other symptom of life, at least that is what it seemed to me. I also noticed that while her tail was wagging,the vulture stayed patiently in the tree. It came to eat the cowʼs flesh only an hour after her natural death. Human beings are more cruel than vultures. Their hearts donʼt melt even at the sight of tears of innocent birds and animals. Just to gratify their sense of greed, they mercilessly slit the throats of animals with sharp knives and swords and thus deprive them of the right to live, even while preaching the hollow dictates of religion. -SHRII SHRII ANANDAMURTI 18 January 1987, Calcutta (From Neo-Humanism in a Nutshell Part 2)

[@dawn8542]

Because they are detrtivores. Scavengers.

[@ChrisGaultHealthyLiving]

Awesome, love this! I’m still a new vegan but glad I’m in a great group!

[@austintomkewitz7206]

I'm 20 been vegan for 3 years most important thing is eat enough and always remember legume plus grain equals complete protein

[@sergianimations6262]

You gotta exit that cult. All you do is eat a great hamburger at McDonald's and eat what you want ¡FREEDOM! Now if you followed these steps... You're free of food limitations -Ex-Vegan

[@RMBlake007]

I eat very little meat...mostly veg, cereals, fruits and nuts. So, I'm not opposed to ppl having healthy diets and whom want to be vegans. However, you should reconsider this "great group" as both Charles Manson and Hitler were also vegetarians. Being vegan isn't a sign of righteousness, intelligence, or wisdom.

[@rodanderson8490]

Budda did NOT start a religious movement like we associate with Christ and Mohammed. Budda taught a "philosophy of life" and DEFINATELY did not want his teachings made into a religion. Following his untimely death, the people who started the "Buddhist Religion" did so for their own power and glory -- NOT for Budda. Almost everything about Buddhism is the opposite of what Budda taught during his lifetime. Shame on them.

[@kmurray51]

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) "We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain."

[@la3261]

that’s sort of wrong but sort of right

[@richardwiediger7298]

Makes me ashamed to be human!

[@hmmm-rr7hv]

I made a list similar to this one once. I was conversing with my younger brother (I'm vegan, he's not). So I made a list of "big names" to show him (it felt pretty good 😄). I'm gonna post the whole thing here (a little note: Some names on the list, like Darwin, were not vegetarians but still advocates of vegetarianism or non-violence): Zoroaster (circa 1500 BC - 1000 BC)- ancient prophet, founder of the first monotheist religion. Founded a vegan religion. Credited by some for being the main influencer of the greek philosophers (Pythagoras, Socrates etc). Pythagoras (570-490 BC)- Greek philosopher, mathematician, mystic, known as the Father of Vegetarianism. Until the word vegetarianism was coined in the 1840s, vegetarians were referred to in english as "Pythagoreans"(Pitagóricos). Buddha (563-483 BC)- “To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.” Socrates (469-399 BC)- Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Master of Plato. Hippocrates (460-370 BC)- He is referred to as the "father of medicine". “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Plato (428-347 BC)- Master of Aristotle. He is the best known of the ancient philosophers and helped to establish the foundations of Western philosophy. "The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds." Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)-"If man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat." Martin Luther (1483-1546)- was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1726/27)- English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist. Widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time. Newton dedicated much of his time to the study of alchemy. About him was said: the first modern scientist or last of the magicians? Voltaire (1694-1778)- French Enlightenment writer. Advocate of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)- Author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)- German philosopher was one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)- Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy,. One of Russia's greatest novelists. Moral philosopher, humanitarian, and mystic. One of the most influent defenders of anti-estate and liberal ideologies. Mark Twain (1835-1910)- American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Van Gogh (1853-1890) Henry Ford (1863-1947)- Founder of Ford. Sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Thomas Edison (1847-1931)- Maior inventor americano. Fonógrafo- grava e reproduz som. Motion pictures(vídeo ou filme). Lâmpada prática, caseira, mas não a primeira. Primeira usina elétrica. "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Gandhi (1869-1955)- Leader of India's independence from England. Great icon of peaceful political fight and revolution. Inspiring other civil rights and freedom movements across the world. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.' Albert Einstein (1879-1955)- "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." The Dalai Lama (1935-present)- Tibetan spiritual leader. The Dalai Lama is said to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, a Bodhisattva of Compassion. Richard D. Ryder (1940-present)- British psychologist and philosopher, invented the concept of speciesism (especismo) in Oxford in 1970 while co-initiating the modern animal rights movement. Paul McCartney (1942-present)- "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." Bill Clinton (1946-present)- President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Steve Jobs (1955-2011)- related to the creation of the Iphone William Henry Gates III (1968-present)- American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. Person to hold the title of richest man alive for the longest time in the modern world. And probably would still be if not for his philanthropism. Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (1977-present)- Bill Cinton's Vice President. Nobel Prize in climate change activism.

[@hmmm-rr7hv]

a few quotes from Charles Darwin: "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties ... The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind." "The grading of forms, organic functions, customs and diets showed in an evident way that the normal food of man is vegetable, like the anthropoids and apes, and that our canine teeth are less developed than theirs and that we are not destined to compete with wild beasts or carnivorous animals." "The most extraordinary workers I ever saw, the labourers in the mines of Chile, live exclusively on vegetable food, including many seeds of leguminous plants." "The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."

[@hmmm-rr7hv]

quotes from Pythagoras: "The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul" "Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life." "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."

[@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094]

Unfortunately Dalai Lama is a total fraud and he eats animals citing some bullshit health reasons like most moronic hypocritical carnists

[@hmmm-rr7hv]

​@John Plum Man, that's probably the longest youtube comment that I've ever read, but I read everything. So, yeah, there's a lot of vegetarianism on the Bible, and other holy texts too. I also became vegan for spiritual reasons.

[@ElenaHaskins]

@@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094 The Dalai Lama is a meat-eater www.thestar.com/news/world/2010/10/16/the_dalai_lama_is_a_meateater.html

[@veman5409]

Wouldn't it be amazing if IQ tests were a major part of running for political office?

[@scubadiva666]

Ironically, the first IQ test was developed to determine if those tested were smart enough to fire a gun.

[@russelmurray9268]

Lol not going to happen we would find it hard to electric someone

[@happycrafts_2310]

The problem is that terrible political leaders are often very intelligent, but either fake being dumb to manipulate people, or make dumb decisions because they don't care about anyone or anything. It'd be great if politicians' levels of empathy were tested as well as their IQ levels.

[@blanckieification]

That is not their agenda. They just want people smart enough to do their jobs, but not smart enough to question why they do it.

[@elly8353]

IQ tests unfortunately don't measure emotional intelligence or other forms of intelligence, which are just as (if not more) important when someone is in a position of power.

[@nickyrivernene5921]

Your mention of Thomas Edison lead me to read about Topsy, the elephant poisoned, stung up with chains and electrocuted on Coney Island. Apparently it was 10 years after Edison had left the company but it is a truly heartbreaking part of history of animal abuse :( Here you will find a video of it, I watched it, poor Topsy :( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29

[@rodanderson8490]

Thomas Edison may have left the company but he was still involved. Edison built the 1st electric chair in the world for the same reason -- to try convincing people that AC was dangerous. May his corrupt soul reside in hell for eternity.

[@Inktownicon]

I learned about this from bobs burgers 😂

[@nickyrivernene5921]

@@rodanderson8490 I have only just seen your reply two years later lol, yes, I have now heard that he experimented on animals too.

[@LouisGedo]

*Create a Better World by..........Living VEGAN*

[@kunalkashyap5773]

Yes because everyone one wants to live nice

[@eggwatch596]

No

[@LouisGedo]

@@eggwatch596 Why Not?

[@LouisGedo]

@@eggwatch596 How *exactly* am I forcing you ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@LouisGedo]

@@eggwatch596 What region is that you're living in?

[@murali4849]

Plz mention varthaman mahavir also the entire Jain community is vegetarians

[@harmeharkhanna4225]

Great video, however, there was one historical mistake. Benjamin Franklin, while still an incredibly important figure in American history, did not "discover electricity", he discovered that "lightning is electricity".

[@marieangeli3333]

The Nobel Prize for Peace and the Nobel Prize for Physics are two different awards. There is no Nobel Peace Prize for Physics.

[@maxwellsequation4887]

Ya I laughed so hard when I heard that 😂😂

[@Z-ManTheOriginal]

Thomas Edison??? He executed Topsy the Elephant all kinds of other creatures, didn't he?

[@weirdunclebob]

About the quote “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” As you said, it is a quote from the (fiction) novel 'The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci ' by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and is therefore not an actual quote from DaVinci but simply what Merezhkovsky believed DaVinci might have said. Massive difference.

[@someguy2135]

Here is my favorite Einstein quote: "In a letter to Max Kariel he said, "I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience," and soon after became a vegetarian. Enstein's famous quote, "Nothing will benefit health or increase chances of survival on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." If he were alive today, he would be vegan.

[@mikomirkoable]

Yeah... he was vegetarian for ONE year, the last year of his life. Had he been vegan his whole life, brain fog and cognitive malfunction caused by denutrition would have prevented him to play such a role in the science field.

[@spiritualau8263]

@@mikomirkoable ⬆️

[@someguy2135]

@@mikomirkoable So you are saying that he eventually grew wise enough to become vegetarian for the rest of his life. Better late than never. I switched in my early 60's, but I will be vegan for good. It's never to late to do the right thing. Like most vegans, I now wish that I had done so sooner. As a bonus, I feel more energy, and have fewer aches and pains from inflammation. I can work out hard and not feel sore muscles.

[@Nastheweasel]

If it makes you feel better that a physicist who was a life long meat eater said some positive things about vegetarianism, Hitler who was also a vegetarian should tske you the other way.

[@someguy2135]

@@Nastheweasel I would say that I am more impressed with what Einstein thought about the subject than what Hitler did. Insane people can make the right choice for the wrong reasons.

[@2806Niky]

🙏I admire these wonderful people who have compassion for our defenseless animals, who do not torture animals just to please their palates.💪

[@RoadtoRadiance-Burma]

Buddha did not really promoted vegetarianism over meat eating. The fact is that they looked all food content as equal, with the only concern on how you did earn the food. He did say that it is personal choice for monks if they only want to be vegetarian. He deterred meat being killed for the consumption of monks though. Monks are not allowed to eat meat if they know or even doubt the animal is killed for them.

[@IsaacWale2004]

Hitler was also vegetarian. But no, it is cool to hear about these people being vegetarians.

[@lauratanln]

How do you know Hitler was vegetarian? Even if he was, it was for his own health and nothing else.

[@NandaLinnAung]

Good collection, glad to know some of them do not eat meat. we have to make our lives and our world better one day at a time. I like Ghandi's quote. in Fact, our body does not even want to eat meat, our society tried to influence to eat meat, if my parents would allow me not to eat meat, I would be born vegetarian or vegan. But that was not their fault as their parents would have done the same thing, the most important thing is, we need to get out of the mold and start thinking as a person.. Great video.

[@chitravenugopalan6663]

At first, I had been thinking scientists as opposing Goldly virtues and after hearing their glories/life stories I realised their peace of mind by kindness had been victorious over layman's thoughts on oneness. Virtue brings Value.

[@levette]

I’ve just joined the vegetarian club. I love it

[@BillyBob2015]

Informative and thank you.

[@lenbuckholtz2740]

You forget the most famous vegetarian of all. Adolf Hitler.

[@viviendaquino8364]

He was not vegetarian at all. That is well known to be propaganda.

[@tlothompson6935]

@@viviendaquino8364 What constitutes a vegetarian? Most of the people in this video didn't become vegetarian until their final years. If I declare I'm vegetarian starting now, who's to say that I'm not? He at the very least was an animal lover and created hunting laws.

[@viviendaquino8364]

@@tlothompson6935 He was never a vegetarian. This was propaganda from Goebbels. Murderous psychopaths are well known by criminal psychologists to start out by being cruel to animals. Your points are ridiculous.

[@atefkhelili..8135]

Nikola tesla my inspiration ❤ 2 years vegan ✌

[@mmaenthusiast9566]

Any benifits like brain sharp or like other things would be great if u explain any benifits

[@yugalbasnet]

​​@@mmaenthusiast9566rom my three years experience of vegetarian my digestion problems, acidity have minimize and mental clarity, memory power, spirituality have rise one psychological fact is when we have control on food it is little easy to control our emotions too and i have experienced it.

[@dawnfeatherston1685]

Literally that's how certain paintings and work got done cause of the abundant energy vs exhaustion today.

[@brianlawson4439]

I didn't realize Pythagoras was vegetarian very enlightening and inspiring

[@somnathsamanta7065]

The list should include Great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

[@lauratanln]

Wow it's such a huge pity Ramanujan was not rightly diagnosed or else he wouldn't have died so young and he probably make more tremendous contributions to mathematics! Just read about this great man through you.

[@gingertea123]

Love it - great video thanks

[@lordrefrigeratorintercoole288]

To bad they only did it in the last years of their life. it could be a good excuse for carnivores "Look they died becouse they went vegetarian". Still i admire their sincerity, and it is true if we want to evolve as a species we need to go vegan and merge with technology. Nature can only do so much to evolve us, the rest is on us.

[@scubadiva666]

@Dlonra Reggenzrawhcs True; I was 37 before I went vegan, and I know a lot of vegans regret not switching over sooner.

[@kaykay1570]

It was only 3 of them that did it at the end

[@michaeld4861]

I love how you sneak in "and merge with technology" at the end there lol, I for one will not be becoming a cyborg anytime soon, allowing someone to remotely hack into and influence my body does not sound like evolution to me, I think the buddha had it right

[@lordrefrigeratorintercoole288]

@@michaeld4861 ah dont be so negative. as new treaths arise so do new countermeasures.

[@kaykay1570]

@@lordrefrigeratorintercoole288 we need to start appreciating the natural world first. That means less mining, consumption and destruction, which means slower progress in technologies. It seems to be one or the other at the moment.

[@2806Niky]

🙏💛🧡❤J'admire ces gens formidables qui ont de la compassion pour nos animaux sans défense, qui ne torturent pas les animaux juste pour plaire à leur palais.🙏💪

[@jenniferk1941]

This was a wonderful video:))) We are talking about some of the most intelligent people who walked the face of this earth....Think about that for a second!! Jenxoxox!

[@russelmurray9268]

They weren't veg for a long time just for a short time not completely

[@loumason6120]

@@russelmurray9268 IF NOT THEY KNEW in Their heart and Great minds IT WAS WRONG ..SO STFU!

[@ronweiss4115]

Nikola Tesla, a fellow Venusian

[@azuldeprusiarock]

It's so inspirational, kind and beautifl what they thoght and trasmitted to everyone... WHAT AN AMAZING PEOPLE! Kisses, hugs and love from Argentina and thanks for this lovely channel!

[@hummushero9428]

Didn’t Thomas Edison electrocute animals with AC to try and show it was dangerous?

[@mindadio]

I enjoy and appreciate your videos, but I am a stickler for detail ... near the end of the Leonardo section, you show two images from Michelangelo's fresco paintings in the Sistine Chapel, including the extremely iconic "The Creation of Adam." Great stuff, but, wouldn't want vegans, or, especially, potential vegans, to be misled, become resentful or confused. Otherwise, keep up the good work. Oh, and maybe Edison does need a bit of an asterisk ... or to be put on a different list

[@bruceleggett7500]

I think you meant Benjamin Franklin read Thomas Tryon's book?

[@willm5814]

I don’t miss eating animals in the slightest, also now find I try not to harm anything...my favorite was catching and releasing scorpions in my place in Costa Rica (tossed them into the forest)

[@lauratanln]

Are you vegan now?

[@willm5814]

@@lauratanln Yes - it's easy - easier if you watch some of the videos about how animals are treated in our food production system ;)

[@lauratanln]

@willm5814 I know right.

[@harrowgateguy]

It is hard to believe Edison felt compassion toward animals when he electrocuted horses and elephants in front of groups of people to try to get people to not use alternating current.

[@kalpanasrivastava2052]

It baffles me how people eating meat portray themselves as intelligent and kind. Such a facade! So you have a pet cat or a dog and a mouth full of juicy steak. Look at what animals have to go through for that!! Selling it in tin cans and eating it on a costly dining table won't make you civil. EVER.

[@annabelgrace1267]

Why should I feed my pets superior sources of iron, protein, etc and feed myself vegetation? I will eat meat and feed my pets meat.

[@annabelgrace1267]

As for our intelligence and kindness, there are more intelligent meat eaters than non meat eaters and there are more kind hearted meat eaters than vegans.

[@kalpanasrivastava2052]

@@annabelgrace1267 says WHO? a parrot? Your idea of kindness is as distorted as your imitation games. I don't see any intelligence in eating what I proclaim to love. Ciao 💕

[@annabelgrace1267]

Let's see, what is the proportion of meat eaters? So you are telling me that no meat eater has ever been kind? That no meat eater has been intelligent enough to heal the sick, to become engineers, to become literary greats? That in all history not one? How did we survive without the vegans when veganism has only been around for less than a hundred years? The kindest of all is GOD and HE became the sacrificial Lamb for all mankind. HE fed HIS followers fish. So take your worldview and keep it to yourself.

[@carfacetube9942]

2:10 and 2:14 are by Michelangelo. Not Leonardo daVinci.

[@mahendrapalesha5482]

Nice video. Better add subtitles so that appeal to more viewrs.

[@soilikasanen]

The difference between plant based eating / vegetarianism and veganism is that the first is done usually for own health (since dairy industry is meat industry and egg laying chickens are slaughtered, too). The latter is practiced because of others, and not accepting speciesm.

[@gerrigigi]

Rosa Parks was amazing. That's all I have to say about that.

[@blomegoog]

Stopped watching at Edison. Electrocuted an elephant.

[@dendemano]

My wife stopped eating meat as soon as we were married.

[@rafaelgelpi2718]

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[@understandingthelight4547]

thank you for the video, happy lac-to vegetarian here!

[@edytamodlisz1049]

Thank you 🌸

[@Gilberto-k9d]

Great video

[@maenad1231]

Can Albert count? He kinda ate what was infront of him which is why he ate caviar when it was given to him

[@meme-zs3pl]

Lovely topic. You read my mind. I've been reading up on this topic for the past few days.

[@MarmaladeINFP]

In numerous traditions going back millennia, meat and in particular red meat was seen in terms of materialistic needs, sensory desires, embodied life, grounded experience, and worldly existence. So, along with seeking purity, a meatless diet (if typically including some combination of fish, eggs, dairy, and sometimes fowl) has been associated with lower levels of extraversion, physicality, libido, lust, virility, vitality, vigor, strength, confidence, assertiveness, aggression, anger, rebelliousness, independence, growth, heat, etc. Particularly in early civilization, such traits were seen as unwanted or even dangerous, if today we often idealize them. The goal of vegetarianism and other plant-based diets, in the ancient world, was rarely health and long life; since earthly existence was not always seen as an inherent positive. The purpose was religious, spiritual, and ascetic; to bring oneself closer to God or higher realities, or to raise one's consciousness and turn one's focus inward. In the West, many of these dietary ideas were systematized in humoralism and made famous by Galen. Then Galenic humoralism was Christianized in the Middle Ages. This motivated the meat bans prior to Carnival, out of fear of peasants revolting as they sometimes did. It's probably true that keeping a permanent underclass malnourished keeps them subjugated. Much later on, it was modernized by the Seventh Day Adventists who, in funding so much nutrition studies, helped to secularize the plant-based diet. The original motivation was from a divine vision of Ellen G. White and it was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of breakfast cereals, who spread it. In response to moral panic, they promoted the belief that fiber would suppress the libido in boys and keep them from sinfully and dissipatively diddling themselves. The Adventists bough the Blue Zones company and have used it to proselytize their dietary theology of salvation (see Belinda Fettke).

[@LiveLifeLori]

That's awesome that so many in our history became vegetarian/vegan. I'm sure they would have predicted the world would have followed by now :(

[@davidbrown8763]

I absolutely love this very important, enlightening and informative video. Thanking you for spreading this beautiful message, which could save our fragile Planet, I intend to offer a more in-depth contribution to your extremely noble cause.

[@WS1968]

Isn't it important, for to can know, how the character and (nutrition)behaviors going on? It's so simple: if a human is born, it didn't know anything. The living-environment is in responsibillity, for what goes on, over the 5 senses, to the newborn live, to give wellbeing stamps, which creates the character. (The neuropsychologic-sience can explain this too).

[@laurahutton3067]

Did they eat fish?

[@curlyredcafe]

What a wonderful, informative and interesting video!

[@russelmurray9268]

Thank you

[@craftycrafter1960]

This is really so amazing!

[@pappy9892]

Emotion has overwhelmed me. I'm so happy. Thank you.

[@RADHARANIGAYATRI]

I Was surprise about Thomas Edson until I know he did cruelty experiment with dogs and elephants!

[@emekecho2024]

i wish you didn't squeeze #billgates who supports animal industries, animal agriculture & animal testing in between these geniuses.

[@ErinnEarth]

Really nice video, vegetarianism is in fact, a really great thing. As much as I hate to say it though, Guatama Buddha died from eating bad pork. He had a terrible bowel obstruction from it. You'll have to cite the source of your information that he was a vegetarian.

[@FifthRobin]

As a vegetarian this makes me feel less alone 😌

[@khushikumari1327]

Hey im indian as here mostlyy people are veg .. im one of them

[@FifthRobin]

@@khushikumari1327 Good, thanks :)

[@khushikumari1327]

@@FifthRobin b,t.w r u indian?

[@Mijn24]

@@khushikumari1327 no they aren’t, a lot of Indians eat mutton and eat dairy

[@smotty2hotty]

What's stopping you from being vegan as being vegetarian still causes and supports unnecessary animal cruelty.

[@paolarosichetti4056]

Buuuullllshit!! 😂😂😂

[@sonukumarchoubey4510]

Why are you not listed SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN the very famous INDIAN Mathematician.

[@joshuapentel]

Rosa parks didn't do anything. She just posed for photos. It wasn't her who did what they say she did. Fun fact. Clean eating does change your life. 9 years later I would never go back to animal products ❤

[@IZ7IZ7]

Very interesting

[@kathryntate6809]

I personally don't have one but thanks for this fun information!!

[@rosekiller123]

We must learn to Utilize not use and Abuse in this planet!

[@rrn7769]

Hm, Adolf Hitler was vegetarian too... and so what?

[@inetivable8188]

yes people who are vegetarians because of logical reasons of personal choice ... seem to have better understanding of things .... i guess if a human understands pain of animals which cannot communicate or say how they feel what they want .... is kind of awakened within ... maybe they have better senses ...

[@adammcguk]

Benjamin Franklin did not discover electricity! He discovered that lightning was made of electricity.

[@WyattCayer]

My man socrates coming in clutch!

[@Donna_B]

I think Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye are two modern day scientists who should be inspired by these historical icons & Go Vegan!!! Do it for the planet, the animals & all of us! They're smart enough to know it's the right thing to do! 🌱🌎

[@QuickMadeUpName]

Lol

[@ProgressiveVegan]

Vegetarianism is basically the same as eating animals. Living vegan is the only ethical choice. Please consider learning more at these non-monetized sites: www.UpgradeToVegan.com and www.VeganVids.com

[@tonyf2956]

My friend loaned this book onto me. The Essene Law: The Everlasting Agreement by Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Asher. A must read. New translation with commentaries. It explains Jesus and how we should be living and following the 1st Law. I found this on Amazon. Another good one is The Land of Met and Honey.

[@la3261]

hey is it just me or does this video seem a little fake

[@haritarawat1741]

But still when I share this with meat eating people they laugh at me and ridicule my opinion! I hope soon everyone realise their responsibility as a human to other beings.

[@HAHAWTFOMG]

CESAR CHAVEZ Mexican-American Activists was also vegetarian.

[@guitargirl7452]

This is great! Inspiring historic individuals who also cared deeply about the welfare of animals. I was thrilled to watch this.

[@adammcguk]

There is no Nobel *Peace* Prize in physics.