Hello everyone and welcome to this special episode of the Disclosure podcast. I say a special episode

because in today's episode, I'm going to be sharing with you an excerpt from the audiobook version

of my latest book, How to Go and Stay Vegan. The clip that you're going to hear is from chapter six,

which is called How to Be Vegan in a non-Vegan World. I wanted how to go

and stay vegan to be an empowering and confidence-building book and also an empowering and confidence-building

book for us vegans. And chapter 6 discusses some of the emotional complexities that we face

living as vegans in a non-vegan world. So I talk about some of the emotional complexities that we face living as vegans in a non-vegan world.

So I talk about some of the challenges we face with friends and family, especially the challenge

of seeing and being around our loved ones as they participate in these industries that we are

taking a stand against by being vegan.

The emotional complexity of seeing the people you love the most, engaging in behaviors that

you are trying to alter, that you are trying to influence the world to move past and leave

behind, and how hard it can be to see these people you love eating the

flesh or secretions of an exploited and abused animal. So I talk about some of those emotional

complexities. I talk about how as vegans we are consistently reminded of what it is that we're

up against because of advertising, because of the shops that we walk past when we go out and about in the world.

I talk about how that can weigh heavy on us and our mental health at times,

this idea of just trying to exist in a world where we're consistently reminded that the dominant paradigm

is the very thing that we're trying to stop and challenge every single day.

But I use the words empowering and confidence earlier because

the purpose of Chapter 6 isn't just to outline the difficulties. It's not just to sort of lay those

difficulties on the table and then move on. I also discuss how we can deal with those difficulties.

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