Ep 1: How To Go Vegan with Erik Marcus
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2017
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this first official episode of the show Evy, Momo and Tylor get together to mull over the different methods of transitioning to a vegan lifestyle and how each of them made the switch. Momo and Evy interview author, activist, speaker, and all-around badass seasoned vegan, Erik Marcus of vegan.com to get his insights on the best advice and the pitfalls experienced when going vegan.
Also on this episode…
- We talk about our initial perceptions of veganism.
- What to do when you fall off the vegan wagon.
- Is the monk in DaVinci code a vegan stereotype???
- The Pillow Chocolate Problem
- How to handle guilt as a new vegan.
- The best advice we got going vegan.
- We share a few alternative ways to become vegan.
- Is vegetarian enough?
- Erik discusses going vegan in the 80s, pre-google, pre online shopping, and the unappetising wonder of perspiring cheese.
- He shares his brilliant ‘crowding out’ method.
- We are reminded to Take your goddam B12!!!!!!
- Erik shares his evolution as an activist and what he deems effective activism.
- ‘The secret of great activism is to listen more than you talk.’
- Erik tries to convince Evy that dark chocolate is not the devil incarnate. (Update: He wasn’t successful).
- Momo and Erik discuss the ‘think global, act local’ concept.
- Erik’s thoughts on a vegan future.
Links:
Erik's ebook "The Ultimate Vegan Guide"
Social Media:
Twitter: @ChickPeepsPod
Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod
Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast
Momoko Hill: @oh_momoko
Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis
Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr
Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to be |
| 0:10.0 | Your veggies, not your friends, it's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:15.0 | The chickpeeps podcast and welcome to the first episode. |
| 0:21.8 | Hi guys. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm here today with Momo and Tyler. |
| 0:26.2 | Hi, Momo. |
| 0:27.1 | Hi, Tyler. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey-oh. |
| 0:29.6 | This episode is dealing with how to go vegan, which is obviously a question that every |
| 0:35.3 | vegan goes through, every potential pre-vegan has to deal with. |
| 0:41.3 | And I think it can be something that like holds people up before they make that leap because |
| 0:46.8 | they worry about is there a specific way, am I doing it wrong? And the short answer is just do it, figure it out as you go. But the long |
| 0:57.8 | answer, there is a long answer and there are many ways to do it. So yeah, I wanted to talk to you |
| 1:02.6 | guys today about how, what methods you've tried and all that kind of stuff. So I'd like to ask you |
| 1:09.5 | guys today, what was your initial perceptions |
| 1:12.4 | before going vegan |
| 1:13.8 | and why did you hesitate? |
| 1:15.9 | Momo, do you want to take that one? |
| 1:17.7 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:18.4 | I mean, I was already vegetarian. |
| 1:20.7 | So my kind of leap into veganism |
| 1:24.1 | was quite a quick one |
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