Ep 31: Why Choose Vegan with Erik Marcus

The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast

Evanna Lynch

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

4.8 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For the penultimate episode of season 1, The ChickPeeps have a discussion on how the ethical argument for veganism is the core tenet of the vegan ideology. Erik Marcus, author, blogger and activist, shares his studies on the reasons to be vegan and explains some of the main ideas in animal rights philosophy. Also on this episode...

Erik suggest that the health benefits of following a vegan diet is not the strongest argument to make in favour of veganism.
‘It’s probable that most of the suffering and cruelty tied to the meat, dairy and egg industry arises from how the animals are raised rather than how they are killed.’
Erik talks about the history of factory farming and why the conditions in which animals are raised has steadily worsened.
‘The chances of the hen who laid your egg having her life end in a halfway decent, non violent way are essentially zero.’
What is Speciesism?
How to talk about speciesism in relation to other social justice movements in a non provocative manner.
Why Erik doesn’t like or use the term ‘carnist’.
‘If there’s one thing that we need to avoid at all costs it’s ever coming off like we are judging or insulting the people we are trying to win over.’
The utilitarian argument for veganism.
How to speak to non vegans about veganism with compassion and respect.
‘All I can do is to be respectful, to find common ground and to offer really solid, really accurate information that is in alignment with a high integrity argument.’

Links

Why Choose Vegan by Erik Marcus

An Introduction to Animal Rights and Animal Welfare by Erik Marcus

Follow Erik on Twitter and Facebook.

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 do do do do. Eat your veggies, not your friends. It's not hard to be vegan.
0:15.5	Listen to each week. I am your host, E.V. Lynch, and this is our penultimate episode of season one,
0:22.1	which is very sad, but I'm very happy that we've got to this point. And this one is our final
0:27.0	episode with a guest, but as you may have noticed from the episode title, this episode is
0:31.2	an expiration of the reasons why people go vegan. What is the point of veganism? What are the
0:36.0	benefits? And I know this is quite a peculiar
0:38.5	one to finish a season on. Back when we were planning the season when we started with episode
0:42.3	we decided not to do that as an episode as the reasons to go vegan are so multifaceted, so
0:48.2	vast and also so personal that we thought it would be impossible to cover this topic in a podcast
0:52.7	episode. However, Eric Marcus
0:55.0	disagreed. You may remember my friend Eric from episode one when we explored out to go vegan,
1:00.6	and he talked us through all the different methods. And he emailed me a couple months ago to tell me about
1:05.5	an essay he's been working on for several months that he just completed that he believes ties in
1:10.5	all the major reasons one
1:11.8	goes vegan in one tidy article. And by the way, if you're not familiar with Eric and his work,
1:16.4	he is the author of popular blog Vegan.com as well as the book is vegan, the new ethics of eating,
1:21.5	meat market, animals, ethics and money, and the ultimate vegan guide, compassionate living
1:25.4	without sacrifice. And he has devoted his life to helping people learn how to advocate effectively farmed animals
1:30.8	and inspiring them to take up a variety of activist efforts.
1:34.3	So today we're going to be talking about his essay on why people go vegan.
1:38.8	And today I'm also joined by long-lost co-host Tyler Starr,
1:42.6	who we haven't heard from in a while.
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