And the Hello everyone and welcome to the second episode of the disclosure podcast. I am your host Ed and I thought on this particular

episode. On the second episode we could discuss communication because veganism and animal rights there's so many different topics to

discuss and we will get through all those different topics and we'll discuss so many

different themes but at the same time I think it's so important that we look at how we basically communicate about

veganism and how we discuss veganism to non-vegans. And when I started my YouTube channel,

which was three years ago now, One of the first things I started

doing was having these discussions with people. Actually one of the first things I ever did on my

YouTube channel was I created a video series called

30 days 30 excuses and I recently remade that well I say recently but it was

January 2018 that I remade that so just over a year ago.

But one of the first things I did was that video series looking at different excuses,

which was really, I found it really beneficial because I learned so much.

And I'll discuss this a bit more throughout the podcast.

But I think one of the reasons I did that video series was because, you know,

after not being, I've been vegan for a little while, not too long, but and really only

started touching upon you know so many of the issues of

veganism and I'd only really started touching upon what it was like to kind of

discuss veganism even just online really it was it was all such new territory for me and I feel like there

so many different excuses that you get bombarded with you know we've all we've

you know for the vegans out that we've all kind of you know we've all really felt

what it's like to be about bombarded of all these excuses and so I kind of at the beginning challenged myself it was kind of a challenge to myself well in many ways the challenge you upload in a video every day but really the

challenge of learning kind of how to respond or learning kind of counter arguments

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