S2, Ep12: Vegan Travel with Brighde Reed
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
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This week we are exploring the topic of traveling abroad as a vegan and the many challenges that presents when away from your familiar local vegan haunts and comforts. Brighde Reed, vegan activist and co-founder of World Vegan Travel, joins Evy this week to discuss her wealth of experience in organising vegan-friendly trips and to share some practical tips in how we can enjoy stress-free, ethically minded adventures all over the world. Also on this episode...
- Aside from food, Brighde discusses some of the common things vegans need to consider and prepare for when planning a trip abroad.
- What to do when a restaurant or hotel is less than accommodating towards veganism.
- Brighde mentions some animal related activities we should avoid when traveling and shares some ethical alternatives.
- Activist travels: how to incorporate vegan and animal rights activism into your travels.
- How does one justify time out as an activist?
- Brighde shares some practical sustainability tips to implement when staying in hotels and eating out.
- What about the global emissions of long-haul flights?
- What is the most-vegan friendly city to visit at the moment?
- The one language that doesn’t have a word for vegan!
- What are the travel essentials vegans should pack for a holiday.
- Momo and Evy answer a listener’s question on whether or not pescatarian is a positive step towards veganism.
Links
Check out Brighde’s tailor-made vegan trips on World Vegan Travel!
Follow World Vegan Travel on Instagram, Facebook and Youtube.
Check out Brighde’s podcast!
Some verifiably ethical elephant sanctuaries in Thailand, as recommended by Brighde: Elephant Nature Park, Phuket Elephant Nature Sanctuary, BLES.
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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 do do do do do do do. Eat your veggies, not your friends. It's not hard to be vegan. The chickpeak Hello, sweet and salty chickpeeps. Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12 on vegan travel. I'm your host, |
| 0:06.6 | E.V. Lynch, and the chickpeeps. Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12 on Vegan Travel. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host, Evie Lynch, and The Chickpeeps is your friendly weekly vegan podcast. |
| 0:26.9 | So this week we're exploring the topic of traveling as a vegan as this is an area where many of us struggle and find it just a level more challenging to seek out those vegan options. |
| 0:36.1 | I personally cannot tell you the amount of times I've been stuck in a long haul flight, forgotten to order the vegan meal and been so hungry and grumpy as a result. I don't forget anymore. But that's just an example of one of the things you have to remember when you're traveling. And it is. It's a lot harder when you're not in your comfort zone where you have your familiar little health shops and you speak the language, it just can be harder. And a lot of you've been reaching out |
| 0:58.3 | to us to ask what to do in situations like going to a hotel that uses down in the pillows or |
| 1:03.0 | going abroad where the culture is just less sympathetic to veganism. So basically you guys |
| 1:09.0 | manifested this episode. And to help elucidate this topic, |
| 1:12.2 | we have the wonderful Bridie Reid, who's one of the co-founders of World Vegan Travel. |
| 1:16.0 | Bridie is a passionate vegan and activist with extensive travel, education, cooking, and tour-leading |
| 1:20.5 | experience. Alongside her partner, Seb, she's mixed all these skills and experience together |
| 1:25.0 | to create a travel company that takes vegans and the vegan curious on incredible tours in specially selected locations around the world. |
| 1:31.4 | Bridie and Seb want travelers to have an unforgettable luxury experience and not to be short |
| 1:35.3 | changed in terms of food and the activities they participate in. They work tirelessly with local |
| 1:39.5 | operators, hotels and restaurants to make sure that the food and experiences that guests have |
| 1:43.7 | are not only |
| 1:44.5 | vegan but unforgettable. |
| 1:46.2 | Oh, sounds dreamy. |
| 1:47.0 | I think we all want to go on one of those holidays. |
| 1:49.2 | And Bridie's just really amazing at doing her outreach and her vegan activism in a way that's |
| 1:54.0 | really positive and she gets people to cater for her vegan guests all around the world. |
| 1:59.7 | And she has so many tips and great advice that she shares about how to do vegan travel |
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