http://www.adaptt.org Here is the full interview with Gary Yourofsky, enjoy. Increase the peace, go vegan. Thank you Gary for the interview. Thank you Coury for filming. As of January 1, 2015 Gary Yourofsky has given 2,660 lectures to more than 60,000 people at 186 schools in 30 states and several Israeli cities/schools, including the U. of Alabama, U. of Florida and Georgia Tech. His lecture has been translated into more than 30 languages for over 10 million YouTube hits. Activists in Israel created the Hebrew website GARY-TV and convinced two major vegan companies to put that site's URL directly on their packages! To view accolades from the Israeli press since 2012, check out the English translation of the site. Lecturing is a softer approach for Yourofsky, who has been arrested numerous times for random acts of kindness and compassion, and banished by five countries from entering their borders. In 1997, Gary liberated more than 1,500 soon-to-be-murdered minks from the Eberts Fur Farm in Blenheim, Ontario. Several attorneys, led by Donald Perkins, Esq., tried to pass a resolution in Michigan in honor of Yourofsky's actions. "We recognize that throughout this nation's history, other individuals, acting from conscience have similarly violated certain laws and ordinances. In our own time, these same principles of nonviolent disobedience to unjust laws have been applied by such individuals as the Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom were—as was Michigan's Gary Yourofsky—sentenced to jail for their actions." Wayne State University journalism professor Jack Lessenberry, who has written for the The NY Times, The Oakland Press (MI), The Metro Times (MI) and The Toledo Blade, once said this about Michigan's most outspoken animal rights activist: "We murder billions of animals each year, and that's what Yourofsky has dedicated his young life to fighting. Actually, he knows he can't do much to stop it but he intends to raise our consciousness. Frankly, when I went to interview Yourofsky, I expected to meet a fanatic. Afterward, not only did I find him frighteningly sane and mostly convincing, I had the rather uneasy feeling that always comes when you realize that you are a hypocrite." Yourofsky's inspirational actions have been covered by every newspaper, radio outlet, and TV station in his native Detroit, and throughout Israel. Author Charlotte Montgomery included a chapter about Yourofsky in the book Blood Relations: Animals, Humans and Politics. Yourofsky's 2004 essay Abolition, Liberation, Freedom. Coming to a Fur Farm Near You appeared in Terrorists or Freedom Fighters, the first-ever book about the Animal Liberation Front, edited by Steve Best and Anthony Nocella. What's Wrong With Hunting appeared in the book Hunting: Opposing Viewpoints, published in 2008 by the Gale Group/Greenhaven Press. In 2009, Westview Press' textbook Essential Criminology (3rd edition), written by professors Mark Lanier (U. of Alabama) and Stuart Henry (SDSU), featured a brief summary of Yourofsky's essays that indict humans as criminal violators of animals. Gary has also written, produced and done several voiceovers for TV ads that aired in Los Angeles and Detroit in the late 90s, and again in 2015 on NBC-Detroit (WDIV), Fox-Orlando (WOFL) and Fox-Philadelphia (WTXF). He also ran radio ads that aired in 2012-14 on WDFN-1130 in Detroit, 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit, KFTX in Corpus Christi, WLS-890 in Chicago, WBBM-780 in Chicago, and Fox News, Fox Talk and ESPN on XM/Sirius. Versions of the print advertisement on the left have appeared in The Detroit Jewish News, The Chicago Jewish News, The Jewish Week-New York, The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix and The Texas Jewish Post in February, April and May of 2013. You can watch the commercials and listen to the radio announcements by visiting The ADAPTT Video and Radio Page. The TV commercials appear after the opening 4-minute slaughterhouse segment of Original Slaughterhouse Video and TV Ads, which you can access through the Other Videos link; the Radio Ads link opens a menu linking to all of Gary's radio ads. In addition, London rapper "I & Ideal" also sampled parts of Gary's lecture in the track titled Not in Our Nature on his 2013 CD Odd One Out, while Asteroide B-612, a band from Chile, paid tribute to him in the song Que La Fe Me Riegue. Emily Moran Barwick, one of Gary's many converts, put together a few educational videos on her Bite Size Vegan channel, Israeli artist Miky Mottes created an adorable illustration of Gary and some animals, while Andy Lally, a streetluge, Grand Am Rolex Series and NASCAR racer, put ADAPTT.org stickers on two of his vehicles in 2010 and 2012. Born on August 19, 1970, Yourofsky holds a B.A. in journalism from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and a radio/broadcasting degree from Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts in Southfield, Michigan.

• published: 10 Apr 2015
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