Rethinking Veganism
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The word 'vegan' has for the nearly seventy years of its existence - represented a diet and a way of eating that has not captured hearts - or stomachs - beyond a small, dedicated group of people calling themselves vegan.
In this edition of The Food Programme, Sheila Dillon hears from two influential and meat-loving food writers, Mark Bittman and Alex Renton, who have found themselves looking again at a vegan plant-based diet.
Sheila Dillon joins in at a Vegan Potluck and discovers a new chain of German vegan supermarkets and asks if there is a wider shift in attitudes towards veganism underway.
Presenter: Sheila Dillon Producer: Rich Ward.
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| 0:49.0 | And now, enjoy the podcast. There's been quite a revolution, I call it a Vigalution. |
| 0:57.0 | There's a whole range of different tribes of vegans. |
| 1:00.0 | So you have the baketivists, you have the Gleegans who are the gluten-free vegans, |
| 1:04.0 | you have the freegans who like to live cheaply. |
| 1:06.0 | There are so many ways to be a vegan. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm completely convinced that it's the food of tomorrow. |
| 1:12.0 | There's absolutely food of tomorrow. |
| 1:13.0 | There's absolutely no restriction here at all. |
| 1:15.0 | There's no restriction in the vegan diet. |
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