#13 — Joey Carbstrong | Why Won't Vegans Just Shut Up?
Within Reason
Alex J O'Connor
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Joey Carbstrong is an Australian animal rights activist and vegan. Formerly a criminal, Joey turned his life around and now campaigns for animals, his views having been widely syndicated across various platforms including national television, radio, and his own highly popular YouTube channel. Joey speaks to Alex about how to advocate for veganism, and whether the forthright methods employed by many activists does more harm than good. Should vegans calm down?
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| 0:08.0 | forward slash cosmic skeptic. Oh, So welcome back to the cosmic skeptic podcast everybody. This is the second time I've tried to record this intro because I messed up the first one. |
| 0:42.0 | Today I'm joined by Joey |
| 0:44.3 | Carve Strong who is a vegan activist and as I said a moment ago it seems that every |
| 0:48.5 | single time I am looking on the television and I see some story about veganism certainly on kind of |
| 0:54.0 | UK news stories and things your face seems to come up all the time on shows like |
| 0:58.0 | Good Morning Britain and this morning and that kind of thing. |
| 1:01.0 | Joey first thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. I'm interested |
| 1:04.4 | in how that side of things got started. I mean I know that you've been a vegan activist for a long time |
| 1:10.4 | but how did how did you kind of because it seemed like once you were on one of these shows on TV you seem to be everywhere all of the sudden |
| 1:16.4 | How did that come about? How did that start? In terms of my public vegan advocacy going on to mainstream media. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.0 | That was a very interesting time in my life. |
| 1:29.0 | I'd come to the UK and planned a tour. |
| 1:32.0 | But I guess one of the things that had changed was my mentality towards making a difference. I really started to believe in my inner self that this really is possible and I started to kind of manifest in my mind what that would look like. |
| 1:49.6 | So that began the 1st of January, I think it was 2018 now, 1st of January 2018, just as a sort of New Year's |
| 1:57.8 | resolution how I'm going to take this to the next level. |
| 2:01.3 | And kind of a couple of weeks into my tour I was approached by lady from the BBC who wanted to do a documentary on the upcoming rise of veganism in the UK and you know she interviewed me and followed us around and made a peaceful Victoria Derbyshire |
| 2:17.8 | aired on Victoria Derbyshire and it ended up being a very controversial piece because at that time some farmers were allegedly receiving |
| 2:26.8 | death threats from activists and a farmer was telling her story, a sheep farmer was telling |
| 2:30.8 | her story. I was speaking in my very candid manner about |
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