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From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Veganism, Drama, and Why Shame Will Never Inspire Change

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.75.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a week since Rachel shared the news that she is no longer vegan and let’s just say… a lot of people had opinions about that. After a social media storm, Rachel discusses the fallout, the drama, the bullying, and some legitimate questions that have been raised since sharing her news. Stepping away from veganism hasn’t meant that Rachel is suddenly okay with factory farming or other harmful and unsustainable practices. It has meant learning new things, acknowledging past ignorance, and accepting that the world is not black and white. It’s been a journey. A process. And we all have to walk our own path. Tune in to hear Rachel’s. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On today's episode of the podcast, I talk about the dark side of social media.

0:06.0

After sharing with the world that I am no longer vegan, I ended up having a fairly dramatic week,

0:12.1

where I was on the receiving end of a lot of shame and bullying and hatred.

0:17.6

So I unpack a lot of that. I answer tons of questions about my own non-vegan journey and where I am today.

0:26.2

And I go deeper into the question, can we shame a person into changing their behavior?

0:34.2

Is that the right way to go about anything?

0:41.0

Hello, my darlings, my friends. Welcome back to the show.

0:48.2

Wow.

0:49.2

I just have no other words at the moment than wow.

0:57.2

It's been a really, truly interesting, interesting, it's probably the best word I can use for it.

1:04.2

It's been a very interesting, interesting past week.

1:08.2

If you didn't tune in to last week's show, which I'm kind of thinking that you did,

1:15.2

it's one of the most listened to episodes in a long time.

1:20.2

Thank you for that, everyone, just giving this podcast a super boost.

1:25.2

I so, so appreciated.

1:28.2

If you didn't hear last week's podcast, I shared the big, surprising, shocking world news,

1:35.2

very important, super important news to many, many people, apparently, that I am no longer vegan.

1:43.2

And when I recorded that episode, I shared on that episode too that I was kind of,

1:49.2

I had been thinking for a while about how to share and how should I go about it.

1:54.2

And then last week I just woke up in the morning and I was like, no, you know what?

1:58.2

Like I'm just going to sit down and talk, you know, and speak from the heart and share.

2:03.2

So I did, you know, so I didn't have really, I didn't have any strategy.

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