The State of the Vegan Movement (And What We Can Do Better)

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The state of the vegan movement is ... As we recorded today's episode, how I completed that sentence began to vary. In my opinion, there's little doubt that veganism is becoming more mainstream and going plant-based gets easier by the day. But does that mean the movement is strong? In today's episode, Matt and I depart from our typical health and nutrition banter to discuss where veganism is right now as a movement. We're not approaching this topic from a place of authority -- neither of us can claim to be anywhere near authorities on the subject -- but instead as two dudes in the middle of it. We rave about all the new vegan options and foods, but also attempt to challenge each other on how we can do better as a community. Oh, and I make a terrible analogy using kale, so there's that too. Here's what we talk about in this episode: The state of the vegan movement is ... Is veganism more popular, or are diets in general more widely accepted? How to talk to someone on the Paleo diet The pros and cons of meat-like meat alternatives What we can do better as a movement

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0:00.0	Hi this is karene
0:02.0	is karene. Hi this is katey from Washington DC and you're left to know me
0:05.8	athlete radio. Matt, the state of the vegan movement is strong.
0:17.0	Well, I think you're right Doug, it is getting stronger.
0:24.0	Yeah, it is. I feel good about it.
0:27.0	I feel happy about where we are going as a movement,
0:30.0	and I look forward to discussing it with you.
0:34.0	Good.
0:35.0	Yeah, that's kind of what we're going to get in today is
0:38.0	Trump gave his first joint sessions
0:41.0	speech last night to both houses of Congress about his
0:46.8	direction for the United States and we thought it would be appropriate to talk
0:50.9	about our our thoughts on the state of the vegan
0:53.9	movement yes without without pretending at all that we are the authority
0:58.4	figures right yeah I guess that yeah that's not what I meant.
1:02.8	Yeah, no, I think, I think, in fact, we're not the authority figures because one of the problems
1:10.2	is I was kind of thinking and formulating ideas here around like, you know, talking about where do we feel good about where this is going and what can be changed, what can be done differently, is it's really, really hard as someone kind of on the inside of the movement to
1:25.4	objectively look at it and say yeah this this seems like we're making great
1:28.8	progress you're like it just it's I have so many things when I when I see that it is growing and I think I see a positive.
1:35.0	I wonder how much of that is because I'm just so involved in this and I see it and like
1:41.0	maybe to someone who is just an observer it's not really apparent that this
1:46.0	movement scrum you know maybe it's just like okay there's vegan over here there's paleo over
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