Gary Yourofsky's Speech Q&A Session

Let's do some Q&A,

we still have about half an hour for Q&A session.

You can ask me to clarify something if it didn't make sense to you,

Something in the video - what was going on, why it was going on, how I got started,

jail stories, whatever you want - I'm here to please.

Somebody popped up back there first.

So like, lets say I did want to become a vegetarian,

the price range for a week amount of food vs. somebody who eats meat,

and goes to Walmart or Target or Kroger, the groceries stores that aren't generally pushed towards vegetarians and vegans

what would be the difference in price?

It's gonna be cheaper.

There's a big myth out there that it's more expensive to be veg...

Let me explain this in a couple of different ways.

Now, first of all, the cheapest things on the market are cruelty-free and vegan.

Rice, beans, lentils, pastas...

Things like that.

Keep in mind, this is why poor people, impoverished people around the world... they're vegetarians.

Eating meat is a luxury.

It's only cheap in America 'cause we subsidized the hell out of it!

And. . I want you to put one thing into the equation and nobody ever wants to put into the equation.

Health.

Pharmaceuticals, hospital visits, doctor visits,

all these pills, all the vitamins,

health care.

That stuff was not created for vegans.

Those are meat eating creations.

I'm about to turn 40 in August,

I have no health care.

I take no vitamins.

I see no doctor.

I don't need to.

I eat properly and I exercise.

So if you put health into the equation,

meat eating is the most expensive diet out there, for sure.

Also keep in mind, if you do buy processed foods,

vegan or non-vegan,

you always pay a little extra.

If you pay Turtle Island Foods to make you a Tofurky,

if you pay Lean Cuisine to make you some kind of meat dish,

it's a little more pricier 'cause somebody did it for you.

So you could also, if you're really good in the kitchen, make this stuff on your own.

Now, I got a recipe section online,

I also have a restaurant section and a grocery section, too,

so you can always look up that stuff,

you can contact me, ask me how do I make this favorite recipe of yours.

I will track it down

My girlfriend, too, is a wonderful chef as well.

So keep all those things into the equation.

Let me say one more, too - If you eat out,

whether you eat meat or you're vegan,

it's always a little more pricier, too.

So don't blame it on: "Uh, I went to this vegan restaurant and it was pricey."

You know, Outback Steakhouse isn't so cheap either,

and Longhorn Steakhouse and all these other places, too.

And if you eat out at restaurants, places like Subway,

their veggie sub, when they're not doing their $5 special,

the veggie sub is always the cheapest thing on their menu,

on Italian bread and it's vegan.

If you go to Taco Bell, get a bean burrito without the cheese,

you wanna talk about dirt-cheap - 99 cents.

And I bring this up, 'cause students try to do this with me all the time:

"Gary, I understand what you're saying but I'm broke,

I'm a college student, only got a dollar, gotta go to McDonald's!"

Well, you can do the same nasty shit at Taco Bell too, okay?

And I say nasty shit, 'cause if you eat at McDonald's,

don't tell me you're eating for taste!

Yes sir.

So how do you get the same meat taste for a vegan meal? Without using meat.

Yeah. .