Ep 2: How to Explain Veganism to your Peeps with Veganuary

The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast

Evanna Lynch

Chickpeeps, Lynch, Health & Fitness, Animals, Veganism, Vegan, Lovegood, Luna, Harrypotter, Plantbased, Evanna, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This week, Evy, Momo and Robbie get stuck into the topic of talking about being vegan with your curious, skeptical and/or indignant non-vegan peers in a positive, honest way that doesn’t leave you nibbling seitan sadly in a lone cubicle. Robbie and Evy interview the co-founders of Veganuary, Matthew Glover and Jane Land, to learn about what inspired them to found their charity and the extensive experience they have in educating family and friends on your vegan choices.

Also on this episode…

Robbie admits initial resistance to going vegan: ‘I didn’t want to be any weirder’.
Do vegans think they’re ‘better’ than other people??
Why vegan activism annoys the average person. Nobody is making cruel jokes about ‘Save the Children’…
Robbie pledges ‘not to say anything digitally that I wouldn’t in person’.
Family traditions and the role of food as an expression of love.
Happy Turkey Day - more aptly known as ‘Sad Turkey Day’.
How Veganuary was founded
Matthew explains how he and Jane met and opines that kissing vegetarians is not strictly vegan.
Apparently, you can go vegan in months other than January?!?!!!
The First Rule of Vegan Club.
The best ways to attract people to go vegan; ‘explain it to them with monosyllabic words’.
Matthew’s business proposal: a hotel for runaway vegan teenagers
Why do Veganuary.

Links

Veganuary website

Twitter: @WeAreVeganuary

Instagram: @weareveganuary

Facebook: @Veganuary

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	Do, do, do, do do do do do do do do do.
0:10.2	Eat your veggies, not your friends.
0:13.0	It's not hard to be begin.
0:15.7	The chickpeepie.
0:17.9	Hi, everyone.
0:19.0	Welcome to the Chickpeeps podcast.
0:24.9	I'm here with two co-host today, the lovely Momo Hill. Hi everybody. How you doing? Good, good. And we're here also with Robbie, Robbie Jarvis.
0:31.4	Hello. How are you both? Really well. How are you, Mom? Thanks. Yeah, really good. Thank you.
0:36.8	So, guys, today the episode, the topic of the episode is how to talk to non-vegans.
0:42.6	Because this is a query that I get, and I think we all get a lot of the time, people who want
0:48.5	to go vegan, but their parents will say it's unhealthy or expensive or crazy or extreme.
0:56.3	And it's about how do we talk to them not scare them off invite them into the movement and also be kind to them and yeah to convince
1:03.3	them so yeah just today I want to talk about being vegan in a wholly non-vegan society
1:10.2	and we've got some guests who are joining us later.
1:13.3	Who are we having on?
1:14.5	Yes, we're having on the Veganuary founders, Jane and Matthew, who, yeah, obviously
1:20.4	they're experts in this topic on how to go vegan and especially that thing of, yeah,
1:27.0	how do you deal with people who are not
1:28.3	supportive of being for anyone who doesn't know veganry is a charity a charity which helps people
1:33.6	transition just whether it's for one month for month of January or at any other point in the year
1:40.4	exactly but we have a much more detailed interview with them later, which they
1:44.2	talk much more articulately about the cause. So yeah, look out for that or listen out for that,
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