Ep 22: Eggs with Juliet Gellatley
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week Robbie and Evy explore the myriad reasons why eggs are not vegan, and how the commercial egg industry has distorted the natural cycle of egg-laying hens to alarming and brutal proportions. We interview the bold and awe-inspiring founder and director of Viva!, Juliet Gellatley (4.05 mins) who share insights and stories from her work doing undercover investigations inside factory farm scale hen houses. We also address the heavily debated issue of backyard hens and whether it is ethical to consume eggs from free hens, and discuss solutions for how to substitute eggs in baking. Also on this episode…
- Juliet shares her story, from becoming vegan at 13 to campaigning for The Vegetarian Society to founding Viva!.
- Juliet describes the typical life of an egg laying hen in the UK.
- How factory farms selectively breed hens to be more productive.
- Why commercially available eggs are not even suitable for vegetarians.
- ‘No bird is meant to lay 300 eggs a year, she’s meant to lay 20.’
- ‘This whole industry is based on distorting motherhood, a deliberate twisting of motherhood.’
- What’s the difference between ‘enriched cages’ and free-range egg farms.
- ‘What amazes me is that [animals] actually have the capacity to forgive.’
- Do hens need to lay eggs and what do free hens do with their eggs?
- Backyard hens: the oft debated topic of whether or not to eat the eggs of free hens.
- The clever contraceptive methods of hens and the feminist hen soap opera that would ensue.
- How old do hens live in the wild vs in factory farms?
- The nutritional properties of eggs: are they a healthy source of protein and fats, as many believe?
- Some substitutes for eggs in baking!
Links:
Check out Viva!'s website.
Viva's Happy Eggs undercover investigation.
Viva!'s investigation of 'Free-Range' Eggs.
Vegan Egg Replacer Chart.
Viva’s Face-Off with Eggs Campaign.
Follow Viva! on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube.
Social Media
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Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:12.6 | It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:15.3 | Hello, sweet chickpeeps. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to episode 22. |
| 0:18.4 | This week we're going to be discussing eggs. |
| 0:20.6 | Obviously, vegans don't consume eggs. |
| 0:23.2 | And we're going to investigate all the reasons why there is suffering involved in eggs. |
| 0:27.9 | In fact, more suffering than just eating meat. |
| 0:31.3 | Joining me this week to co-host is Robbie Jarvis. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello. |
| 0:35.2 | Hello, Robbie. |
| 0:35.8 | How you feeling? |
| 0:36.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm excited. Did you just say |
| 0:39.9 | excited? I did. Yeah. I've been holding it in. Please don't do this all episode. That's it. Okay, |
| 0:45.5 | alright. That's it. But lovely. I'm glad you're excited. This week we're going to be interviewing |
| 0:49.8 | Julia Galatli. Julia is the director of Viva. She's an amazing activist and she does a lot of undercover investigations. She's been on a lot of egg farms. So she really knows the ins and outs and she speaks really well as well. Yeah. We saw her give a talk at Veg Fest and she just comes across so well. So yeah, I'm really excited. She's so passionate about it and she's so knowledgeable. So yeah, We are going to get stuck into eggs. I mean, did you... Throw a million and one questions at it right. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. really excited. She's so passionate about it and she's so knowledgeable. So yeah, we are going to get |
| 1:11.1 | stuck into eggs. I mean, did you- Throw a million and one questions at her right? Yeah. When you first went vegan, did you find it hard to adjust the idea of no eggs? It was the stuff that eggs were in. That's the real problem. Like the amount of things that, yeah, right, the amount of sweets or desserts or or any kind of baking |
| 1:08.7 | like people include eggs in essentially |
| 1:10.6 | my poor mum loves making birthday cakes and that right no sweets or desserts or or any kind of baking like people include eggs in essentially my |
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