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Speaker: This is Torganic Shorts, where I give a taste of the full interview with selected quotes. This week's episode is featuring the great drummer and animal rights activist, Tom Garrington.
Speaker: The real turning point for me, I was living in New York City, and I watched a video on YouTube called The Greatest Speech You'll Ever Hear. Gary Yourofsky. Gary Yourofsky, who ended up being a friend of mine down the line. He's just an amazing person.
Speaker: and I watched that video and I remember sitting in my room and watching it on my laptop and I had my speakers on. I was just like greatest speech ever. What is this? I had no idea what it was. I wasn't eating healthy at the time. I wasn't doing anything. I just watched this speech and
Speaker: I just remember at the end of the speech, I was just like, appalled. It was like, that's it. I was like, I cannot do this. I'm like you, you mentioned earlier about how the pendulum swings like this. It's like, when I make a decision to do something, it's done. And after I saw this video, I said, okay, now that I know this information, now that I know what's really happening, I can't support that anymore.
Speaker: No more consumption of animal products and not putting my money towards it, most importantly. I just decided that I am powerful as a consumer. You know, you vote with your dollar. After I had cut out animal products from my diet and I felt like the veil was lifted off, you know, like I felt all cloudy and then I just felt amazing.
Speaker: And it was like, so I don't need it for my physical self and I don't need to wear it. I don't need it.
Speaker: bad things happen, you know, things go down. It's like, you can either look at it as like, oh, poor me, poor me. Or you can go, wow, this is, this is a challenging moment. And this is my chance to grow. It's like, you don't go to the weight room to just lift two pound weights all the time. Like growth happens during tension, during resistance, resistance builds strength and that
Speaker: that fundamental notion translates into life too. It's like anytime there's a chance for you to face resistance, that's a chance for you to experience growth if you're willing to do it. We're not giving our best self because we're not feeding our bodies what they need. So like people are suffering, people are dying of heart disease, diabetes, cancer. A lot of these diseases are solvable with diet, preventable, preventable with diet, you know?
Speaker: And people are just getting sick, so we're not putting our best foot forward as a people and as a country. You can just tell, you just bounce back from things so much faster when you're on a plant -based diet. I mean, to me, it's like nine day, you know? So clarity of body, having that, it doesn't get much better than that, especially if you're someone who's training or somebody who's an athlete.
Speaker: People are not entranced by the old guard, the rock and roll lifestyle. They saw what it did to all those musicians. They saw how they aged. They saw how things went.
Speaker: they realized it wasn't sustainable. And I think you're starting to see a lot of musicians now heading towards like taking care of themselves out on the road and really trying to feel good and like try to focus on the positive, like focus on giving your best performance on stage. Cause like you said, that's what it's all about.
Speaker: As I was going vegan, I was like, wow, you know, I thought you needed to eat animal products and you don't. So what else have people been lying to me about? Like, you know, there's just, there's just so many things that you just assume it's one way. And then when you find out it totally isn't, you're just like, wow, what else is out there?
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