00:00I really loved reading your book, Is She Just Food to You?
00:05And it really made me think that the book itself was wonderful.
00:09And the title in particular, I thought, that is really the challenge as animal rights activist.
00:14The name of the book, Is She Just Food to You?
00:16This violence that I'm talking of.
00:18I repeatedly point to my readers and to my audiences
00:22that the violence mankind has inflicted on animals and on women
00:27are not two different things.
00:31And that's why it could not have read,
00:34Is the animal just food to you?
00:36Or is it just food to you?
00:38Or is he just food to you?
00:40It deliberately had to be, Is she just food to you?
00:45Because once you turn somebody violent,
00:48anybody who is in a vulnerable position is going to be exploited.
00:54And historically, women have been in a vulnerable position.
00:58So they have been exploited.
00:59The center of exploitation, the hidden face of the exploiter has been the same.
01:04The exploited could be anything, anybody.
01:08It could be a forest, it could be a river, it could be a woman, it could be a cow.
01:11It doesn't matter the name of the exploited being.
01:15The exploiter remains the same.
01:17You see, even among animals,
01:18it is the female animal that is the chosen target, the cow.
01:23That's at PETA why we say you can't be a dairy-drinking feminist.
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