Casey Kasem, 1989.
Casey Kasem
Born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27, 1932. He
is an American radio personality and voice actor. He is best
known for hosting the American Top 40 show and for
voicing Shaggy in the
Scooby-Doo series. He has also done
many voices for Sesame Street and several other shows. In
2009 - after 40 years - he retired from his role of voicing
Shaggy and instead voices Shaggy's father in the TV series
Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated.He is one of the co-founders of the American Top 40 franchise and hosted it from 1970 to 1988 and from 1998 to 2004. Between 1989 and 1998, he was the host of Casey's Top 40, Casey's Hot 20 and Casey's Countdown. He also hosted American Top 20 and American top 10 until 2009. He currently hosts Casey Kasem's American Top 40. |
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Quotes by Casey Kasem:
| "Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet." |
| "When I was about 15 years old in Michigan, ... I remember going to a slaughterhouse where I saw one steer slaughtered before my eyes. And it was really, truly unbelievable what I'd seen and I didn't eat meat for 3 to 6 months. But there's the saying by George Bernard Shaw Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and I customarily went along with everybody else and believed that it was wonderful to eat a juicy cheeseburger. And before long ... I went back to eating meat. But I knew, I knew that one day I would stop." |
| "In the 70s, probably '73 or '74, I remember one day saying to my wife "this is the last time I will ever eat a piece of meat, because there must be a relationship between eating meat and cancer, there just has to be". ... and not only that, I said "I've always wanted to be a vegetarian, I've always felt guilty about eating something that had to be murdered" and so I stopped." |
| "Four or five years ago [interview 2007], I got to talk to Dr. Klaper. And he told me why I should become a vegan. ... And that's the day I became a vegan and have been ever since." |
| "I am doing what I can for the animals, the Earth and my sense of ethics." |
| When asked what some of the more shocking things are that he has discovered in the animal husbandry industry, he answered: |
| "Let's begin with the chickens. Put in those cages that are no bigger than a folded newspaper. Chickens have pride and a pecking order. When you consider that they are in there, some of them without beaks and some of them with beaks. Those that have beaks of course cannibalize the others, because they need room to move, they can't even move their wings. And of course their feet are getting tangled in the wire. And then there is one wire cage set upon another and another and another and another. And the feces fall on top of the heads of these creatures. As they are born and they happen to be born a male chicken, they are thrown into a plastic bag and they suffocate in the bodies of their brothers. And the female chickens, their beaks are put into a metal machine that cuts the beak off. Some of them don't survive that. They are made to create eggs and ultimately become food for animals I guess, if not human beings." |
| "The pigs are stored very often in the same way. In concrete buildings that are warehouse size. And in order to keep the floors of the building clean, they use ammonia. We know that pigs are much more sensitive in smell than humans are. Could you imagine living your entire life smelling ammonia, day in and day out, in a darkened room. Children don't know that those pigs don't get out and play in the mud, that those pigs are just products, treated like inanimate products." |
| "Then you have the calves, in their 2 by 4 prisons. Where they have no opportunity to ever feed on their mother's breast. The animal is immediately taken from the mother and the calf is put into this little stall. Not allowed to suck on anything, but just fed milk, so the price for their bodies can be a lot higher as they sell milk-fed veal to customers at restaurants. The mother, the cow. Never seeing their offspring, but being artificially inseminated, again and again and again, so that their udders will be full, because they are impregnated. And that means more milk for the dairymen. Their udder is so big, that they are literally on the floor. They too, hardly ever see the sun or the grass or graze." |
| "And this goes on and on and on. For all kinds of animals. Not to mention the ones that are being experimented upon. So, this is my priority. I feel that if I do nothing else in life, but can turn a few people around, I can do a lot to help the animals in their tortured lives." |
| "In protest against the animal industry, we have to stand up and let people know why it is that we don't eat cheese and we don't drink milk. Besides from the fact that it's not healthy for you, how very unhealthy it is for those animals who have just become products. They are not beings anymore in the eyes of the people who produce them." |
| "I believe that if in the 4th or 5th grade, children could take a field trip to a slaughterhouse, we wouldn't have to worry about people becoming vegetarians. It would be just automatic. It would happen in a day. Those kids would get such an eyeful and their teachers as well." |
| "I just think that Americans, who unfortunately grow up watching television, motion pictures, day in and day out, where there is so much slaughter of human beings. I would hope that they would recognize, that if we can go back to the very basic thing, that is not to want to bring death to anything, anything that has eyes and can run away from you. And realize that that is basically right and should be just core in our thinking, then that could be the beginning of really a new world order, ultimately. Because as long as we keep killing animals, I have a feeling that we're going to keep killing people. There is certainly a relationship there." |
Quotes are from his 2007 taped interview with Dr. McDougall.
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