Ep 7: Equality for All with Fat Gay Vegan
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Evy and Robbie meet Sean O’Callaghan a.k.a. Fat Gay Vegan and learn about his hugely popular and all-encompassing philosophy on veganism, gender roles and equality in general. Sean is a blogger, author and activist who has just finished his first book and also runs a weekly vegan market at Hackney Downs in London. Sean highlights the importance of language when it comes to activism. Also on this episode…
- Sean explains that you don’t need to love animals in order to be vegan. Evy is shocked that he isn’t immediately in love with Puff!
- We learn about Sean's journey to veganism and activism.
- Be a good advertisement for vegans!
- Sean gives advice to a listener on how to talk about veganism to her non-vegan boyfriend.
- Sean suggests that there are some people who would never go vegan.
- We discuss the importance joining a vegan community.
- Robbie gets a lesson on ‘toxic’ masculinity.
- Evy announces the winner of our Magical Christmas Gift Basket, courtesy of Peta2.
- We also launch a new competition to win five copies of Sean’s brand new book!
Links
Sean's New Book (UK): Fat Gay Vegan; Eat, Drink & Live
Sean's New Book (US): Fat Gay Vegan; Eat, Drink & Live
Fat Gay Vegan Twitter: @FatGayVegan
Fat Gay Vegan Instagram: @FatGayVegan
Fat Gay Vegan Facebook: @FatGayVegan
Pat McAuley's vegan podcast on which Robbie mentions he & Evy were guests this week: Eat Green, Make Green Podcast
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. |
| 0:10.3 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:13.1 | It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:15.5 | The chickpeepies. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello, lovely chippeep listeners. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to episode seven of the chickpeeps. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm your host, Evie Lynch, and I'm here with my friend Robbie Jarvis. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, Robbie. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello. |
| 0:27.5 | And we are excited to do this episode, which took a slightly different format, different journey. |
| 0:33.7 | We planned an episode around a certain topic, as we have been doing for all episodes. |
| 0:38.1 | We have a guest on Sean O'Callaghan, who runs the Fat Gay Vegan blog, who is the Fat Gay Vegan. |
| 0:44.3 | And we'd planned an episode with him. |
| 0:46.7 | And then the interviews ended up taking a million different directions and was really fascinating. |
| 0:51.7 | We went off east. |
| 0:52.8 | And we sort of, on listening back to what we realized, we want to revisit |
| 0:56.8 | the original plan topic at a later date. |
| 0:59.1 | But I think you'll find this interview really fascinating. |
| 1:01.9 | Sean has been a vegan for a long time and has lots of experience and lots of opinions. |
| 1:07.0 | And, yeah, we felt really privileged to share that with him. |
| 1:09.9 | So, listeners, without further ado and chitit chat, we will take it to the interview. |
| 1:14.9 | Hi listeners, we're here with Sean O'Callaghan, Fat Gay Vegan, who many of you may know |
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