Barack Obama responds to vegan question (Subtitled)


Senator Barack Obama responds to a question from vegan, Nikki Benoit, during a public meeting at Gibbs High School, Saint Petersburg, Florida (August 1st, 2008) The transcript of the conversation between Nikki and now president-elect Obama appears below… Senator Barack Obama: The young lady in the t-shirt, right there. Nikki Benoit: Thank you, Senator, very much for your strong environmental position. The United Nations actually has reiterated that factory farming is contributing more to global greenhouse gas emissions than all of transportation. I think that as a global community we really need to be the leader and moving more towards non-factory farming animal agriculture. It’s very egregious. There’s 10 billion land animals that we are funnelling our precious water and grain through when 70 per cent of all of our grain could help feed the world’s hungry. So, as the next leader of the most amazing nation in the world, how can we set the example on the more nutritional, plant-based diet that’s more eco-friendly and sustainable, that can maintain our water resources and all of our grain. Thank you very much. Senator Barack Obama: Okay. Well, it’s a great question. Now, I have to say in the interests of full disclosure, that I do like a steak once in a while. I’m just being honest. I like barbecue. I’m not going to lie. But the young lady makes a very important point and that is this: right now, our food system world-wide is under enormous pressure. It’s under enormous

25 thoughts on “Barack Obama responds to vegan question (Subtitled)”

  1. @QuantumQuacks What in the hell are you talking about? I eat steak without vegetables all the damn time. Oh brother, you people have no clue what normal every day people do. Quit hanging out with hippies and go meet some REAL people. Live in Nome Alaska or Bison SD and tell me how that vegan thing works for ya. (Schwarzie quit weightlifting because steroids shriveled his manhood beyond repair)

  2. @TaureanRuler The only way a human won’t impact the environment that they live in is if they were vaporized. But even then the particles could become lodged in an innocent sparrows eye as it flew past.

  3. @granitehills2t Vegan do realize that their veggi consumption Disrupts the animals food supply as well

  4. But any veg diet isn’t dangerous at all. Some are just prone to deficiencies which also happens among omnivores and since our livers can make vitamin supplies for a year like for B12, deficiencies aren’t that common. Carnivorous diet is the diet that is dangerous. Do you believe there are people that believe one 2000 calorie, all-meat meal a day is good for you? And then you see them with scurvy, arthritis and cancer. Red meat is too carcinogenic. Breast cancer, stomach, colorectal cancer.

  5. And nobody would eat meat if vegetables wouldn’t make it tasty. Nope. You can’t eat it. It’s impossible. Even charcoal comes from plants. But all this anti-veg movement is just ridiculous. People pick on vegs because of the image of weakness. Carl Lewis made a record on a vegan diet. How weak is he? Jim Morris is still bodybuilding at the age of 75. Although I haven’t heard him saying that he is a vegan, but he said that he eliminated animal products. Is Schwarzie still bodybuilding like Jim?

  6. But when obesity-related diseases cost you $150 billion each year, then you really have a problem. How can you eat that nasty burger? It’s all ground up garbage that is made edible, otherwise a lot would go into landfill. Yeah, advanced meat recovery. You never know what’s in that burger or hot-dogs. It’s the same for marshmallows. Just boil some skin and bones, make it edible and ignorant people will eat it.
    Have some self-respect and go to a japanese restaurant. Sardine stocks recovered.

  7. The entire American diet must be changed. I tried eating an american diet for a day just to see what Americans are eating each day and I couldn’t go pass the breakfast. There’s so much sugar in cereals that my teeth started to hurt and I had that strange feeling in my mouth and painful gums for days. I had to brush my teeth 5x a day and it barely helped. How can you eat that? Then I was glad to switch back to asian food. What’s better than some steamed veggies chinese style or teriyaki noodles?

  8. @DextervonSchumann I feel sorry for humans like you. You are right about one thing, “animals don’t matter”, the human animal that is, specially those anthropocentric human vermin such as yourself which plague this earth.

  9. @MichaelBallack91

    All food kills you. Oxidation of any type of food = free radicals = cellular/DNA damage = telomere shorting and senescence = death. Also, even though I’m a vegetarian myself, eating meat doesn’t equate to death. There are plenty of healthy lifestyles one can pursue. The MAIN reason that eating more vegetables and less meat is important isn’t because of animals (really, they don’t matter) but because of our fellow human beings. Less feed for animals is more food for us.

  10. @MichaelBallack91 Shut upp idiot meat isen’t something that kills you your lifestyle is what kills you. If you sit on your arse eating and not exersising you will get heartproblems. And it is proven that vegetarians is more vaunrable to disease and live shorter lives because they miss out on the healty proteins etc in meat. And the healtiest thing is to eat vegetables/meat and exersise its not more healty eating only green or only meat.

  11. @granitehills2t The problem is, people who eat meat are not stupid. I’ve found vegetarians are much dumber than anyone I’ve ever known.

  12. @truth2748 Veganism is not obviously healthy that was what i said in my comment and you took offense. I know many who have messed up on vegan diets as did i .. despite great effort and good intention, i want there to be good sound advice for people… so we can all make improvements in the way we live on this planet .. and that requires good debate as well as inspired individuals. If a deep religious focus is needed for veganism to be healthy then that is worth people understanding.

  13. @JenniferGodin825 Yes this is insane and depressing. The TB in britain is a result of sugary food fed to cows .. which attracts badgers and they catch it/transmit it too. Even hill sheep are fed sugar in winter. I lived for years on a research farm and it is so depressing how animals are messed around with.

  14. @JenniferGodin825 i was so chubby as a vegan, put on lots of weight. All my meat eater friends are dead skinny. Whenever i go back to veganism i get fatter again.. despite good food combining etc. Guess i am trying to make up for the lack of certain amino acids. My weight is bikini body perfect when i am an omnivore (with v limited animal products) .. veggie always makes me go a bit sickly and fatter.. despite many different lifestyles. Fat is good for you if its good fat.

  15. @JenniferGodin825 Hee, there is great data on this now. Cooking seems to have been important from early on as our molars are too small for raw plant eating .. yes there is a lot of data and it gives no credence to the idea we were ever a vegetarian species… certainly never vegan as even apes supplement their diet with lots of insect matter. There really is lots of evidence now.

  16. @MichaelBallack91 That doesn’t help overpopulation now does it? If all the “stupid” meat eaters die of heart disease it kind of helps you cause. Perhaps you should think of a way to sterilize the omnivore population and all of the omnivores would simply go extinct. Is it true that vegan=social liberal=Marxist=population control? Just curious.

  17. @JenniferGodin825 Bone meal is illegal in the U.S. and Canada, since the BSE outbreaks. Obviously you have no clue what you are talking about. If cattle couldn’t digest CORN then they would not put on the necessary weight to get a finish and consequently farmers would feed them GRASS. Grass fed cattle are much more expensive to fatten as it takes much longer to finish. Are there things the industry could do better? Absolutely but you need to learn about the industry before you criticize.

  18. @Fraterculae
    Humans are geared to be vegetarian/vegan. Ever wonder why we have flat faces and round jaws with molars for grinding grains and plants? ever wonder why we used to have appendices? Our intestinal systems are long, and geared for the digestion of plant products, thus why meat makes you fatter (it stays in the system longer, letting all the fats go into our system).

  19. @granitehills2t
    Livestock grains were never meant for the body of an animal. COWS EAT GRASS. A lot of the meat goes back into the animals (bones of animals being fed to animals). Pigs eating pigs, chickens eating chicken, that’s just SICK.
    Ever wonder why there’s so much talk of e-coli poisoning? it’s because the cows and pigs are eating corn, their bodies can’t digest it, causing a mass outbreak of e-coli. they’re standing knee deep in their own shit, which in turn, gets pushed into our water

  20. To the dumb vegan Nazi asking stupid questions: Not all livestock grains are going to be magically fit for human consumption. Field corn and Sweet corn are two different things. Sweet corn requires way more water and TLC. Learn geography and climate for this country and you will realize that most areas can’t grow human quality grains or vegetables. You can’t grow bananas in Montana.

  21. @Fraterculae Yet you can’t grow crops in a not so ideal climate. A pro Vegan does not troll Vegan channels disputing the obvious health benefits of a Vegan diet. Hijacking the lifestyle and then saying it doesn’t work. Look, you failed at it, let others try.


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