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Gary Yourofsky ,[1]​ es un activista por los derechos de los animales y conferencista estadounidense.

Yourofsky fue patrocinado por Personas por el Trato Ético de los Animales entre los años 2002-2005, y ha dado muchas conferencias públicas promoviendo el veganismo. En 2010, Yourofsky se popularizó rápidamente en todo el mundo tras el lanzamiento de un vídeo en YouTube[3]​ que lo mostraba dando un discurso en el Instituto de Tecnología de Georgia, ya que el vídeo ganó millones de visitas y se ha traducido en decenas de idiomas diferentes. Yourofsky ha sido admirado[4]​ por muchos y criticado por otros por sus supuestos puntos de vista extremos. Ha sido arrestado trece veces entre los años 1997-2001, y pasó setenta y siete días en una prisión de máxima seguridad canadiense en 1999, después de asaltar una granja de pieles en Canadá, salvando y liberando 1 542 visones en 1997.[5]​[6]​

El 30 de marzo de 2017, Yourofsky escribió en su página de Facebook: «Mi tanque está completamente vacío, por lo que ya no estaré en línea ni activo en ninguna otra función además de ayudar a estudiantes con proyectos sobre derechos de los animales y responder correos electrónicos de personas que comienzan sus viajes veganos.»,[7]​ anunciando el final de su vida como activista. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. agosto 1970
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“If they're not enslaved, then what are they? Free?”

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Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Summer 2010)
Contexto: Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they're not enslaved, then what are they? Free? Can slavery have a victim that is neither a human, nor an animal? Have not the oceans, the forests, the earth itself, become victims of ownership too?

“I want to ask you, to use some empathy right now. And when I say 'empathy', what I'm saying is: place yourself in the position of the animals, and start to view this issue from the animals' point of view. From the victims' point of view. When you examine any form of injustice, whether humans are victims or animals are victims, please remember the victim's point of view. If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when you're not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.”

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Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Summer 2010)

“How about a humane holocaust? In fact, what is your definition of a holocaust? Is it a massacre of human beings, or a massacre of innocent beings?”

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Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology, On the subject of humane slaughter (Summer 2010)
Contexto: Exactly what is your definition of humane? Besides psychological and physical abuse, torture, dismemberment and murder, what else do you think happens to animals inside of a slaughterhouse? Do you think they get belly rubs and tushy slaps? And if you think there is such a thing as humane slaughter. I'm curious, do you also think there is such a thing as humane rape? Humane child molestation? Humane slavery? How about a humane holocaust? In fact, what is your definition of a holocaust? Is it a massacre of human beings, or a massacre of innocent beings?

“That Descartes' Cartesian way of looking at animals, like they're machines… It is outdated, and quite frankly, 100% insane. Because, if we all understand that animals use their eyes to see, ears to hear, noses to smell, mouths to eat, legs to walk, feathers to fly, fins to swim, genitalia to procreate, bowels to defecate.. I'm always perplexed that most people don't believe that they can also use their brains to think, feel, be rational, be aware and be self-aware! Am I supposed to believe, that every body part of an animal functions just like it's supposed to, except the brain?”

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Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology, On animal intelligence (Summer 2010)

“Who taught us to be so mean, and nasty and vicious and hateful, or indifferent towards animals when they used to be our friends? These are innocent beings, who have done nothing wrong to us.”

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Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Summer 2010)
Contexto: My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic, that is been buried and suppressed, intentionally, by our society. And the reason why I say re-connect it's because each and every person in this room used to be a real animal rights person at one time, a true animal lover, and a real friend to the animal kingdom. And it's when we were kids! When we were young... When we were kids! We used to be in awe of animals."They used to make us laugh, and giggle and smile. They made us pretty happy! And there was a time in our lives, when we would do just about anything in the world to make them happy as well. To protect them from cruelty! Or to, at least, acknowledge the cruelty they were receiving. I mean, if somebody was mean to an animal in front of us when we were little, we would have screamed and cried. And that's because we all used to understand right from wrong, when it came to the treatment of animals. Until somebody told us, and taught us differently. You better believe that somebody told us to ignore their suffering! To mock and excuse, their pain, and their misery. To make fun of their very existence. And this is something I want you to focus on - today, tomorrow and beyond... What in the hell happened along the way?! Who taught us to be so mean, and nasty and vicious and hateful, or indifferent towards animals when they used to be our friends? These are innocent beings, who have done nothing wrong to us.

“What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep?”

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Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Summer 2010)
Contexto: Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they're not enslaved, then what are they? Free? Can slavery have a victim that is neither a human, nor an animal? Have not the oceans, the forests, the earth itself, become victims of ownership too?

“Right now, at this very moment, on American highways, there are no less than 5,000 concentration camp trucks. Trucks that we have constructed. Inside these trucks, there are living, terrified innocent beings. Cows and pigs and chickens. These trucks are being driven to concentration camp's slaughterhouses that we carefully constructed all across America. When the trucks arrive, the animals are so frightened that they won't even get off the truck. They're not stupid, they know what's next. So people go on the trucks with electric prods and force them to walk down the chutes to their own deaths. Or if the animals are small enough to man handle, like chickens, we'll just grab them off the trucks and toss them inside. Inside, these innocent, living beings are hanged upside down, fully conscious. In other words, they go in alive, against their will, and come out chopped up, into hundreds of pieces.”

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Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Summer 2010)