S2, Ep5: Fake News with Robbie Lockie
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
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The ChickPeeps chat to vegan activist, co-founder and director of Plant Based News, Robbie Lockie, who speaks about the importance of preserving integrity and truth in the vegan media. Starting as a youtube channel in 2016, PBN has grown to become a pillar of the global vegan community and in the 3 years since it’s launch has published more than 6,000 articles and shared over 800 videos. Robbie, Robbie and Evy talk about our collective obligation to avoid hype and share responsibly researched vegan stories, and how to clapback at anti-vegan campaigners online with hard, incontrovertible truth. Also on this episode...
- How Plant Based News was founded by Robbie Lockie and Klaus Mitchell.
- What to do when you see people spreading misinformation about veganism online.
- The smear campaigns devised to discredit the work of the animal rights movement.
- Vegan clickbait: yay or nay?
- Robbie L shares some of his trusted online sources for fact-checking your vegan news.
- ‘We are monkeys living on a rock in a bubble in space’.
- Robbie L shares how social networking sites are used as tools of propaganda.
- Compassion fatigue: how do you choose what stories to take in?
- ‘There are more ethical people alive today than there have ever been in the whole of human history.
- Robbie explains why one particularly controversial public figure would hypothetically be the greatest asset for the vegan movement.
- Listener email from a plant based listener who struggles to feel great empathy for animals.
Links:
Check out all the latest vegan news stories at Plant Based News.
Follow Plant Based News on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.
Listen to the PBN podcast.
Follow Robbie Lockie on Instagram.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Social Media
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is the intention of these people? What do they want for me? Do they want me to continue to |
| 0:04.5 | buy into their industry and pay huge amounts of money for substances and food products that we |
| 0:10.7 | know are damaging our bodies and the planet? Or should I listen to people who are trying |
| 0:16.5 | to push an alternative narrative, which isn't really forcing me to eat anything. It's saying to me, |
| 0:20.8 | stop eating things that are damaging our world. |
| 0:23.9 | We know for a fact that agriculture is a leading cause of climate breakdown and deforestation |
| 0:28.7 | and ocean dead zones and species extinction. |
| 0:31.6 | We know that that's a fact. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello, folks. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm your host, Robbie Jarvis, and the voice you just heard was that of Robbie Lockie, and he's going to be our guest on this episode of The Chickpeeps Podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | Do do, do do do do do do do do do 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. |
| 0:56.0 | The chick. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello, friends. I'm here with the marvellous Miss Evie Lynch. |
| 1:01.8 | And yes, today we're talking about fake news. |
| 1:04.2 | And who better to do that with than with veganism's preeminent media mogul, Robbie Lucky. |
| 1:09.7 | Originally from Zimbabwe, Robbie came to London in the year 2000 |
| 1:13.1 | to further his career in design and digital media. You guys know best as the director and founder |
| 1:18.3 | of plant-based news, which was originally a YouTube channel created by Klaus Mitchell. |
| 1:23.1 | Robbie and Klaus founded Plant-Based News as a media organisation in 2016 to act as a global platform for change. |
| 1:29.8 | PBN has become a pillar of the vegan community and in three years since its launch, has published more than 6,000 articles and shared over 800 videos. |
| 1:39.0 | With a monthly reach of more than 29 million people, plant-based news has been credited with helping bring |
| 1:44.4 | veganism to the mainstream and making plant-based diets attractive and accessible. Outside of |
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