Joey Carbstrong: ‘There’s Nothing Wrong With Animal Cruelty’
Experiment proves people know they should be vegan but just can’t be bothered
Joey Carbstrong (real name Joey Armstrong) is a vegan influencer and animal rights advocate well known for his YouTube channel. For the past seven years, he’s appeared in countless videos and TV interviews talking about animals rights issues and urging people to go vegan.
He’s smart, articulate, approachable and always up for friendly debate. A recurring theme on his YouTube channel is the street debate. Typically, he will set up a table in a busy high street and invite people to sit down and debate the issues with him.
Examples of the kind of banners which he tends to have on the front of his tables say:
If you’re not vegan you support animal abuse — prove me wrong.
and
Eating fish is cruelty to animals — prove me wrong.
Members of the public will sit down and discuss with him their justifications for eating meat and other farmed animal products. Time and time again, you see people churning out the same old ‘justifications’ — it’s traditional, they’re ‘just’ animals, we need to eat meat to be healthy, other animals eat meat — you know the excuses. You’ve heard…
