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i'm michael lanfield and in this video
i'm going to be talking about
what we can do as vegans and vegan
advocates when we
are witnessed to some
violence some some of direct abuse and
you know
in front of us or in our circle we
see some or we witnessed some violence
what can we do
if it's violence to non-human animals or
if it's violence to humans
what can we do what can we do
with ourselves to heal this and what we
can do
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now this video is so important because
and sorry for the background noise but
there is
a child in this house and
he often is shouting so sorry for that
but in any case what can we do
if we are witnessed to
abuse or our witness to some form of
abuse
may it be with non-human animals or with
humans
what can we do directly or indirectly
to stop
this these abuses from happening what
can we do
to alleviate that suffering what can we
do to
have compassion for these individuals
so recently someone told me that
they witnessed human abuse
and i want to and also i've
also been witnessed with witness to
animal abuse and i just want to share my
feelings
of what i do in situations or what i
would do in situations like these
so let me talk about first non-human
animals because i think this is very
very important so i've been
a witness to animal abuse directly and
indirectly meaning
i with
was bearing witness to the animals
chickens pigs cows
and other animals in slaughter
trucks in these big transport trucks on
the way to slaughter
and in these situations there is not
much we can do
to immediately or directly save these
animals
we have to realize as vegans and vegan
advocates
that the only reason these animals are
being trucked to the slaughterhouses
because of
consumer demand so if consumer demand
goes down
the number of animals will also go down
so it's just consumer demand the more
people that go vegan
the more animals or the less animals
will be killed
and the more animals will be free okay
and so we need to realize this is the
main thing
if we blow up slaughterhouses
or if we you know send fire to these
laboratories
where animals are used and abused
um even if there's no one in these
places
okay all the humans went went home
there's nobody working there we rescued
all the animals from those
horrific places even if we blow up
20 of these slaughterhouses it's not
going to make any difference because
these
petty little
you know destruction that we do to these
buildings
it's just going to keep on going on
they're going to build these
mega corporations are going to build
more slaughterhouses
or they're just going to ramp up
production to the other
slaughterhouses and
you know i this doesn't work it's
consumer demand basically so if we get
consumers
to either you know to go vegan basically
that's
that's what we want to do is to get
consumers going vegan
then um that's the whole
solution basically get more and more
people going vegan right
now we promote veganism but if they want
to do less than veganism
that's all we can do we can only share
the message but we're not here to share
a message of
lesser than veganism because what we
want is we want people to go
vegan now having that
taken care of what do we do in
situations
where animals are being abused where
animals are on slaughter trucks
where we see the farmers or the
slaughter house workers beating the
animals
or killing the animals what do we do
unfortunately
again it's due to the fact
that it's consumer demand okay
so what we need to do is we need to
in these situations we can probably take
a video
or take some photos and upload them to
social media
and share our morale friends and family
and maybe
one of some of them will have empathy
and have compassion for these animals
and
you know eat less animal products or
even go vegan
and so the whole idea is to
share as much as we can the suffering
well first of all first of all it's the
idea
is to bear witness to really understand
what these animals are going through
to have as much compassion as we
possibly can sorry much
as much empathy as we possibly can with
these animals
to have our deep revelations and
awakenings
while bearing witness and connecting to
these animals
uh individually and also as as groups
that's number one number two is to
if we can to take some photos take some
videos and share it around with
everybody as many people as we can
through social media
even if we share to 10 people
or 100 people or whatever amount of
people one person
might be inspired to go vegan or at
least to eat less animals
and so that is what we need to do
because the more and more people
share the message get people to see the
what's happening with these animals
and to talk about how we can instead of
you know supporting violence we can
support compassion and support
love and support respect for all beings
so another thing that we need to realize
third thing is that it's consumer demand
okay it's consumer demand so we have to
when we're bearing witness or when we
are
uh you know in these places with other
activists and advocates sharing the
message and bearing witness
not only can we like take photos and
take videos and share them on facebook
or youtube or
elsewhere but to hand out leaflets to
people people that are walking passerbys
or people in their cars when they're on
a you know
red light or something like that as much
as we can
hand out some vegan leaflets and don't
sugarcoat anything
tell it as it is tell it as it is
okay in the most loving compassionate
way possible
okay so we share it
with vegan flyers or vegan leaflets and
what we also want to do is
i mean to do all of this of course but
to do all of it to share the the message
through
social media and also to be handing out
vegan leaflets
and to bear witness to see these animals
face to face eye to eye
okay now what do we do when we see
somebody like a slaughterhouse worker or
or farm worker
beating these animals or killing these
animals what do we do
how do we save these animals people feel
in despair
or horrified or saddened
by what we are seeing
so how can we what can we do in these
situations
and the whole idea is really we can't do
anything we can talk to the
slaughterhouse workers and say
there are other ways to make money we
don't have to be killing animals and
all of that stuff trying to
have empathy for these people because
they're just
wounded and hurt just like all of us
are and we need to have empathy and
compassion for them as much as we can
and so these are the things that we can
do when we're direct
experience uh direct witness and
and experience violence and we witness
that
not just seeing it on a video but
actually witnessing
it in front of us
but when we are experiencing
um or witnessing violence
pertaining to people so let's say
we are in some situation where somebody
is hitting or abusing
someone else another human if it's
within our families or if it's family or
or
friends like actually not just
slapping even though slapping is you
know slapping a child
is not a good thing at all
but i mean physically abusing
a child or understanding that that child
was physically abused
maybe your family member
doesn't do it you know directly in front
of you but
you know that that person does
physically abuse
for example their children or
or their spouse or someone
because i've seen even on facebook how
some people are
are even saying that well they've been
in domestic
violence abuse with their spouse and
even
even women towards men so women are
actually
abusing men i mean it's more more men
abusing women but i've often even seen
uh stories and even even friends through
facebook
women abusing men and how eventually
the men got out of the abusive
relationship so what can we do
in these contexts when we are
either being physically abused if it's
mentally
verbally or or or physically
or if we are witnessing somebody else
abusing somebody or
knowing that they are abusing you know
someone
what can we do um again
this is a product this abuse is the
is the outer effect of
what is happening when somebody's eating
animal products
now again not everyone is going to abuse
a companion animal
or abuse their spouse or children
but we need to realize is that when we
look at the popular at the vegan
population
of the world hardly and i
understand that the vegan population is
very small compared to the rest of the
world
but the vegan population virtually no
one
no one that i know of or even that i've
heard of
abusing someone else now they may abuse
somebody
mentally through their words or
something like this because i know a lot
of
um or i used to know at least a lot of
angry vegans that that were hateful
towards
towards towards pre-vegans or non-vegans
verbally but i'm talking about actually
physically abusing
another so i never heard or never
witnessed or i don't
know of any vegan physically abusing
another
another being okay maybe
maybe some insects or maybe uh
mosquitoes or something like that but
not deliberately abusing another being
okay no matter what not of not
physically abusing another being
but we can definitely say people that
are eating animal foods
a lot of them are abusing either their
companion animals
or some farm animals or their
any one of their family members maybe
their spouse or children or
whoever and so we realize
that the reason most likely the reason
that these people are abusing animal uh
animals or humans
is that they're consuming the food
because don't forget we consume that
food we're consuming fear
violence terror suffering depression
disease and
we are getting a lot of that we're
getting a lot of sickness we're getting
we're getting the same things back
basically and uh it's no surprise when
we're eating
animals just like i did in the past i
abused my companion animals
because the violence was going in me and
i had all the
outrage their anger the judgment
the steal the theft the stealing
i had the physical anger within me
because i was eating
terror and the fear and the physical
violence
i was eating it because those vibrations
because when people are
abusing animals the farm the farm
workers and the slaughterhouse workers
and by no means
um i mean all farming
all slaughterhouses have abuse no matter
what
i mean even in your backyard farming
you'll see that
humans are abusing these animals because
they are trying to dominate these beings
that don't want to die and so
these animals are trying to struggle to
get away
from the human because they don't want
to die
so unfortunately almost
all farmers and slaughterhouse workers
to some degree
use physical um
physical torture and punishment on these
animals
and so what we need to realize is that
when we're witnessed
to some form of violence when it comes
to human violence
we ultimately need to have
empathy and compassion for these
humans that are causing this violence
because they are consuming the violence
so it's a product of
what they're what they're eating
so what they're doing basically is
they're eating the
foods that are extremely
extremely violent and they're becoming
violent
so what can we do
in these situations when we see somebody
beating somebody directly
in front of us or when they're beating
us or
when we know that these people are
beating
someone behind closed doors what can we
do in that immediate
moment well
that's a very difficult question and
again this has to do with consumer
demand
okay what they're doing is they're
beating these animals because of
consumer demand
okay so the more again the more people
we get going vegan
or at least the more uh leaflets
vegan flyers and the more we talk about
it on
on social media and the more we just
share this message
to as many people as we can the more
people will start to
start to realize what they're doing and
start to
go vegan you know or at least they will
start to consume less and less animal
products
so sometimes there or most of the time
there is really nothing we can do
we can try to
share a message of love and compassion
with them
and just tell them directly look
i know what you're doing and
i know because look first of all
everyone
is innately compassionate we have the
heart
the heart is always within us the heart
is
the organ that contains
our emotions and our feelings
okay so our emotions and our feelings
are always there the love the compassion
the
empathy the caring
the kindness the joy the happiness
we we have that but sometimes
for a majority of people it's been
heavily suppressed and hidden
for many years or even decades and so we
have to understand
that was me back then okay maybe
not directly abusing animals but that
was me back then eating the animal
products
so what so it's like i'm looking at
myself
so what can i do
to plant seeds of awakening within that
person
or at least reawakening because we know
that person has already awoken
and that awakening i mean that those
people
innately know that what they're doing is
not right they've been born
um compassionate and loving and caring
until
our pro our culture programmed the
opposite
and so we need to reawaken
to the love for all life and so what
would we
say to ourselves if we're looking at
ourselves if we're
seeing ourselves beating another animal
what would we do
what would we do and so
i think what is really needed and the
key to everything
is love but love in a certain way so for
example
if we see someone let's say our i don't
know
whoever it is in our family let's say we
see someone in our family beating
someone else let's say like really
beating
um and usually like they beat
for either two reasons either there's
there's an actual reason
for it maybe they were doing drugs or
something and their parents found out
and they started beating them or
whatever
so that is kind of what i would say
not legitimate beating but it's like uh
beating for some reason okay
now the other beating would be because
that
other person is not doing what
the parent or whoever is doing the
beating that person is not doing what
the parent wants so for example let's
say the child is screaming all the time
and just just screaming all the time
and stomping their feet and making all
kinds of scene and
and acting up and all kinds of stuff
right and then
eventually the parent is saying nicely
please
you know don't what a however the parent
is saying nicely not to
not to abuse you no not to make those
noises not to scream and not to do all
that kind of stuff
whatever it is the parent then
eventually starts beating
the child and then sometimes it goes on
for however long but it goes on for
years and years and years and years okay
now it might be that for example the
parent might be just stressed from their
job or whatever
and they're taking it out on their kids
by beating them for example for whatever
reason they
they drink they're alcoholics or
whatever or their drug addicts
and then they after they get drunk they
start beating their spouses or their
children
and that's that's how how it goes right
so there's only one thing that we can do
in this in this instance okay what these
people need
at this time is love okay as much
love as they possibly can get and so
we need to go up to them just plainly go
up to them
and start start to give them a hug
like really hug them with all your heart
and all your love
hug them give them your love hug them
kiss them on the cheek or whatever
kiss them give them your love hug them
like really love them and say i
understand i understand i love you
i love you i understand i love you
and do this you know
and suddenly because what happens is the
people need
love that's what it is we're lacking
love in this world
people are so bombarded with our culture
and with all the suffering
and with all the stress and with all the
negativity and with all the fear
throughout our whole
society that we just need love so love
these people
you know love the the person who's the
abuser especially
we need to love them as much as we can
now i know some people will say well
they're doing the abuse they're they're
causing the violence and so how can we
be loving towards them it's like they
need love
you know they need love just put your
arms around them and
love them and hug them and stay like
that don't just hug them for like
five seconds hug them for like a couple
minutes
and then you do the same thing with the
child
okay and realize that
you have to come from a state of love
you have to come from
a full unconditional love from your
heart
and understand that love is lacking in
this world
okay and another thing that we'll do
once
the current situation dwindles down
the event then you start to
discuss how
somehow connecting that
and their and the compassion that they
have within them
so don't just directly talk about
veganism
because they won't make that connection
we've got to understand that
we need to tell the people
not we have to tell the people that they
are compassionate they are loving
they're
caring and they love their families
we're here together to create a better
world
and to tell them that they are not bad
people it's a program
that our culture has put on us um
tell them that we we're all of us are
stressed and depressed and
we all there's so much violence in this
world we need to bring more love and
caring and kindness into the world
and do that while you're with those
people
okay and do it from the heart
from a loving heart and you know in a
way when we're speaking to them
we can in a sense we can say you
but not you in a sense of judging them
like
you are bad or you're doing this because
you're you're you know like
don't say that try to
um just understand
what they're trying what they're going
through you know try to have as much
empathy and compassion for them as
we possibly can and to
just send as much love as we can to them
not only do we do this in the moment we
also do this when we're by ourselves
meditating and we focus on the people
like our families for example and close
friends we focus on them
being vegan right at that moment
being vegan right in the moment
seeing them eating in our minds when we
have our eyes closed
in our minds picturing them eating a
vegan burger
or eating some fruit and vegetables and
not causing harm or anything like this
but see
what we actually want what do we want
these people
to do okay how do we want like our
families and close friends
we want them to be vegan so we have to
envision that in our minds
we have to envision that we have to see
them in our minds
eating that burger and no matter what if
we see them
physically personally eating another
burger
chicken burger or eating
drinking some i don't know milk or
eating some cheese or eggs
we don't see that
but we see we envision
in our minds that they're eating
something else
and we see them as pre-vegans as they
are actually
vegan now okay pre-vegan is actually not
even the right word
like physically they're not vegan yet
but the universe
wants the wants
uh basically how the universe works is
that
we have to say what we want right
now and we don't see it as what we want
we said as it's already happening okay
so these people our parents are
sisters and brothers they are vegan
now and we picture that in our minds we
envision that they're vegan
now we might see them eating
again eating a chicken burger or
whatever but we envision them
eating vegan
right now in our minds we envision that
and we hold them in our hearts
and we send that out to the universe
and so these are the things that we can
do
if we are witnessed or if we see we
see some violence in front of us
and sometimes we may not be able to help
directly at that moment but we can do
whatever we can
to make this world a better place
and to bring about peace in the entire
world
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