Young and Vegan
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The number of young people turning vegan is rising. Grace Dent meets some of the people opening vegan eateries and finds out how creatives are using social media to further the "vegangelical" cause.
Grace goes to the Hackney Downs Vegan Market to speak to Jay Brave who argues that adopting a vegan diet is as much about personal autonomy and challenging the status quo as it is an ethical step. He delivers a few bars of 'Vegan Shut Up', his parody of Stormzy's 'Shut Up' released on World Vegan Day, and tells Grace why veganism is becoming big in the London grime scene. She also speaks to Sean O'Callaghan AKA Fat Gay Vegan who set-up the market and has seen its popularity grow, and gives his reaction to the mainstream restaurants who are falling over themselves to come up with vegan menus.
Ian Theasby and Henry Firth from Bosh! create simple and imaginative vegan recipes which are filmed and broadcast to over 1.4m Facebook users. Toby Field visits them at their studio to find out what fuels their idea to create plant-based options and to ask why they keep out of the argument around the ethics of veganism.
Maria Rose has just opened a vegan cafe in Barnstaple and explains how it's slowly creating a more enlightened scene in North Devon.
So is this just a trend that's fine for the hipster herbivores of Camden, or can it gain traction across the country and start a food revolution?
Producer: Toby Field.
Transcript
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| 0:29.4 | Newscast, listen on BBC Sounds. My name is Grace Den. |
| 0:35.0 | This is BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:37.0 | This is the food programme over the next 30 or so minutes. |
| 0:40.0 | I am going to be looking at veganism. |
| 0:42.0 | Hopefully I'm going to be showing you a completely new side that you've never thought about about veganism which in my life at least just seems to be everywhere right now. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm a restaurant critic. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm seeing vegan and plant-based restaurants |
| 0:59.6 | popping up all over the place |
| 1:01.5 | and it's a really young and useful scene. |
| 1:04.1 | Hopefully I'm going to get to the bottom by speaking to people like Jay Brave |
| 1:08.7 | and Fat Gay Vegan and these leading lights in the scene of why so many young people are getting into it |
| 1:14.8 | why the UK Grimman rap scene are getting into it and why supermarkets and high street restaurants are now taking heat and |
| 1:25.0 | putting dishes on their menus. So you know it's probably one of the most exciting |
| 1:29.8 | stories of 2017 and I'm really excited to bring it to you. |
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