Good morning everybody.My name is cuiyanbo,it’s my honor to give you this lecture.Our team’s topic is how to protect wild animal,This topic sounds hypocritical,because,as you know,we all meat eaters,We can’t discuss how to protect wild animals while  eating them.Do you think tiger will discuss how to protect deers or rabbits?Do you think we are talking about food safety?

  Surely we not!

  So,if we want to protect wild animal,I think the first thing we should do is not to eat them.So,my topic today is “To be a vegan”.I know,some of you maybe not understand what’s a vegan,To learn what’s a vegan,you should learn what’s a Vegetarian first.A vegetarian is some people who don’t eat meat.I think to do this is hard for all of you,but if you want to be a vegan,it’s more hard,because in addition to not eating meat,a vegan will not use any kind of products that derived from animal.Like me,i wear a pair of  leather shoes,so,i am not a vegan.

So you may question:”i’m not a monk,why i should not eat meat.”

Actually,people choose to be a vegan just for three reasons,one is for health,the other is for environment,and the last one in the same time the most important one,is for ethical reason.As you know,before the God,all lives are equal,we have no power to kill  and eat other lives.I know you may doubt me,and you may question:”since tiger or wolf can kill and eat other lives,why we human beings can’t?”

Good question.To answer this,i will ask you one question first:why you eat meat?

I summarize four reasons to explain why people eat meat.One is habit,the other is tradition,the third one is for convenience,and the last one is for taste.Please attention,on all these reasons,not one for survival.This is the most important difference between human being and the wolf or tiger,we eat meat not for survival.

And since we eat meat not for survival,why we human beings like eating meat so much?That’s because you have been told that humans are meateaters.From the advertisement,the text book,the daily news and even some expert,you have been brain washed,you trust you are a real meat eater,like the lions,the tiger,or the wolf,you can’t live without meat.

But the truth is:physiologically the human body is 100% herbivorous,Plant eaters!

You know i’m not joking,I have some proof to prove my opinion.

The first proof is human’s intestines is very long,about 7~13 times of our body’s length.But a real meat eater’s intestines is very short,it’s only 3~6 times of their body’s length.So,you can see,we have distinct difference to meat eaters.

The second proof is human and other plant eaters can sweat,but meateaters can’t sweat.You must have listened a chinese idiom”汗牛充栋’,”汗血宝马”,so you know the cow and the horse can sweat,just like our human beings,but a real meat eater like dog,wolf,tiger or lion,they can’t sweat,they need put out their tongues to cool themselves down.

The third proof is our hand.It has no claws.If you have no claws,you can’t tear the meat into pieces.So,we have carbohydrate digestive enzymes in our saliva, only herbivores possess that, meaning we're supposed to be eating tons of carbohydrates like fruits and vegetables.

The fouth proof is our teeth.You can see,human’s teeth is broad,short, blunt, flat,it fit for grind but dosen’t fit for tear.

And if you still can’t belive human is not a real meat eater,I will give you the final test.Please imagine,if you put two things before a two years old baby,one is apple and the other is a live rabbit,which one do you think the baby will eat?The answer is obvious,So,you see,we human beings are born to be planteaters.

We do not need meat to live,we eat meat just for taste.And for this reason,every year in America, without mercy, we murder 10 billion land animals,and 18 billion marine animals.Not for health, survival, sustenance orself-defense.

If you can kill and eat animal,why you can’t kill and eat human?The movie <cloud Atlas> have told us,finally we’ll eat ourselves.