Low B12? So you'll kill an animal? || Acharya Prashant, in conversation with PETA CEO (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00We had a couple of cases in the foundation, their B12 levels went down and that happens

00:13once every few months, it happens that you get yourself checked and find that B12 is

00:17borderline.

00:18So, we just take organic supplements and they are very easily available and you take the

00:23supplement for a month and you are okay, because of the lockdown even the supplements are not

00:28available.

00:31It didn't even occur to people to consume dairy or anything because supplements are

00:38not available.

00:39They didn't declare it, but that's what they were de facto saying we would rather die than

00:45hurt someone.

00:49They didn't make it dramatic and announce it in so many words.

00:54It remained subtle, but if you look at it, that's what they were practically saying.

01:00Let the B12 levels dip if they have to, we would prefer to go, but we just cannot bear

01:09hurting someone anymore.

01:11That's the magic of spiritual veganism and I think the world will have to come around

01:19to that.

01:20You talked of environmental influences, you talked of climate change.

01:23All these things to me, they go together.

01:28Climate action, protection of species going extinct, antinatalism, minimalism, veganism.

01:41These go together and if the planet is to be saved, there is no option except the bundle

01:50of these five and at the center of these five to me lies spirituality and that's the route

02:02we are taking.

02:05Success has been mixed, it's just that the reach has to greatly increase.

02:13We have been pretty successful in the territory we have been able to cover.

02:19The problem is that we have not been able to cover a huge territory.

02:24First of all, we are limited to India, secondly, even in India, because we are relatively nascent,

02:30so our reach is still limited compared to the work that needs to be done, though I think

02:37per month we are reaching out to less than 40 to 50 million people, but much more needs

02:47to be done, otherwise the very existence of the planet, I do not see how far we are going.

02:52I think everything we do is vital and you never know what's going to work, because everybody

03:01is affected in a different way.

03:03Some people care about one thing, some people don't care about that, but they care about

03:08something else.

03:09So our approach is a scattershot approach, we'll try humor, we'll try seriousness, we'll

03:16try shock, and by shock I mean we show reality.

03:21It's not that we invent this, it's that we show the photographs and the videos of what

03:26actually happens, and that is a shock.

03:29I think one of the US presidents once said, you know, people are attacking me for what

03:37I say.

03:38He said, all I do is I tell the truth, and that is people are so shocked by it that they

03:44attack me.

03:45But I think we have to be vigorous, you know, we have to never be timid, never hold back,

03:54and never think that changing ourselves is enough, and I think that's what the foundation

04:00is so good at, because you say it's not about me, it's not about my family, it's about everybody.

04:11Most of us, and I speak for myself, no matter how vegan we are, we've done so many things

04:19from the time we were born that hurt animals and hurt others, that we can never make up

04:24for it.

04:25I can think back to many things that I'm ashamed of now, and had no idea at the time.

04:33When I was in India, I always said to my mother, I want to ride the Tonga.

04:39I never wanted to take my bicycle, I wanted to have the horse, because I loved horses,

04:45and didn't realize how I was putting that poor animal through this strain for my amusement.

04:52I think we all have this baggage, and so it's not enough for us to stop eating and wearing

05:00and using animals.

05:02We have an obligation to undo some of the bad that we've done, and to go out and share

05:09what we have learned.

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