JACK: ... I'm Jack.
Um, so you mentioned the progress, the moral progress, we've made in, for example, sexism; racism.
My question is... Well, for me, the greatest injustice in the Western world right now is our treatment and exploitation of non-human animals.
So my questions is: since we don't need to consume animal products to survive or be healthy
and as, if we do, we create such a massive amount of suffering; how do you morally justify not being vegan in 2019?
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RICHARD: If you imagine what descendants of the future will look back upon, in the way that we look back upon slavery,
I think you put your finger on a very likely solution, a very likely answer to that question, the treatment of non-human animals.
I am not vegan.
I am struggling to become so and in my cooking at home, I am vegetarian
but when I go out to dinner, I don't go out of my way to say: "I won't eat meat".
So I'm on the path, so to speak, and that's as far as I can say it, presently.
DAVID: Religion doesn't have a very good track record on animals, killing.
RICHARD: Well, no. The Bible says they are put into the world for that purpose.
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