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The Disclosure Podcast

Ep 8: Can You Be a Non-Vegan Environmentalist? In Conversation with Jack Harries

The Disclosure Podcast

Ed Winters

Ethics, Politics, Whole Foods, Society & Culture, Education, Animals, Morality, Veganism, Philosophy, Vegan, Plant Based Diet

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Jack Harries is an environmental activist who started his filmmaking career making short films on YouTube on his hugely popular channel JacksGap. He was recently arrested during an act of non-violent civil disobedience and shortly afterwards appeared live on the BBC to defend the environmental movement. I speak to Jack about veganism, environmentalism and the potential hypocrisy within the environmental movement. ✺ To support the show & get access to exclusive monthly podcast epis...

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0:00.0

And the All right, so welcome back everyone to the next episode of the Disclosure

0:20.3

Podcast I am your host Ed and today I'm joined and I should say

0:25.2

joined again actually because this is the second take of of this attempt but I'm

0:29.7

joined by Jack Harris is who many of you may remember from Jack Scap the famous YouTube channel

0:36.8

but for those who don't know him and maybe you know him for more recently his

0:40.0

escapades have been in the environmental movement and so thank you

0:43.7

welcome back Jack nice to have you in the studio again I'm

0:46.7

I like being here I'll come back as many times as you like well that don't hold me to

0:50.4

that one because I'll just turn the game down.

0:53.0

No, but for those of you who aren't aware of your work

0:56.4

and the things that you are involved in,

0:59.0

could you maybe give a little overview of what you do

1:00.9

but also kind of how you got yourself into this environmental

1:03.8

yeah sure I never quite know how to sum it up but I guess I sort of think of myself as a filmmaker

1:08.6

I started making films on YouTube in 2015 when I was like 18 it just seemed like an exciting place to

1:14.8

start sharing short videos I was making at the time they were relatively

1:18.9

silly mundane videos but it was just like I mean it was I'd never had an aim or whatever it was just a sort of a thing for fun and then yeah that carried me

1:26.9

for like four or five years I made films on YouTube and it was an amazing experience

1:32.0

so I felt like the world opened up in this change

1:33.8

when I got to meet all these amazing people

1:35.4

and I was able to travel as well.

1:37.8

And I suppose on that journey, something that sort of really

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