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Whether or not Emma Beddington genuinely is primarily vegan for her mental health, her article in the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/why-am-i-a-vegan-i-do-it-for-my-mental-health) released at the start of this year raises a few questions about going vegan for...selfish(?) reasons. Discussing the article and a few other things besides are Paul, Dominic & Shane.
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Introduction to Vegan Talk Podcast
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Hello everybody! Is everyone giving up the fight or is it time for everyone to go vegan for their mental health? I'm Shane and for this episode of Vegan Talk I'm also joined by Dominic and Paul.
00:00:13
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So I think vegans go looking for trouble even when they're not looking for trouble. That's not what butt is used for! Brrr! Roaty! Take your crab-grown meat elsewhere. We're not doing that in the state of Florida.
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Should I call the medium and say, hi, sorry? True education. The younger generation are getting know how brutal these practices are. That leaves a lot of pizza delivery companies in problems of thinking.
00:00:37
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What is this? What kind of movie is this? It's comedy gold, maybe. Any form of social injustice has
00:00:47
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As long as you don't get the wee brunions with the horns you'll be alright. Does veganism give him superpowers?
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cannot fly around the city. I don't have laser vision. Hello everyone, this is Paul. Welcome to everyone listening to this episode of Vegan Talk and thanks for being here. Yes, yes, yes. My name is Dominic.
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I am always happy to be on Enough of the Falafel. This is a Vegan Talk episode as opposed to our Vegan News episode.
Veganism and Mental Health: A Discussion on The Guardian Article
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So whereas we discuss the news... on vegan news vegan talk is where we take one topic and spend a little bit longer getting into the nitty-gritty of what it is all about now you can check out the previous episodes from all the enough of the falafel talks and weeks they're available in your podcast feed So for this episode, Dominic and Paul and I are discussing an article that was published in The Guardian in January of 2026. The author is Emma Beddington, and she argues that her commitment to veganism is driven by mental health, and it's serving as a tool to combat feelings of impotence and despair in a terrifyingly bad world.
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She emphasizes that while the environmental impact of individual action may seem small, the lifestyle choice that she, of veganism provides necessary psychological relief.
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Okay, so Ms. Beddington talks about a shrug and give up attitude towards climate change in the article.
Veganism's Role in Climate Change Action
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Are we starting to see this more widely, for example, in global politics and ethics in general in 2026?
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Okay. I don't know if it's... Are we seeing it? Yes. Is it new? No, i don't think so. Is it on the increase? Yeah, possible. I think there's always been ah group of people, obviously non-vegans, I think, who will...
00:02:44
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look for excuses or reasons to not do something it could be veganism it could be not recycling it could be I don't know it could be a number of things could be voting could be anything and I think people have tend to be very busy or and or lazy and if there's a a nice excuse given to them that's very simple that they they can sometimes say, oh, OK, it's not worth bothering about. So, you know, you might say, well, veganism individually, um I'm not going to make a lot of difference to animals or to the environment. But of course, that's a very simplistic and, I say, pretty lazy argument, because we all know that actually one person will make a lot of difference to the lives of animals in terms of those that they don't consume. But moreover, in terms of and being part of a group of vegans, you can make a massive difference, not only to the animals directly, but also in terms of changing policy, driving the sort of food that supermarkets provide and raising awareness about um
Global Politics, Mental Health, and Veganism: A Complex Intersection
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animals. So, I mean, just speaking as an American, I'd say that, ah you know, our current administration has made no secret that it thinks of climate change as a hoax.
00:03:56
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And ah just in like the last week, it made it impossible for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. So, you know, for me, when I see an entire government reversing really the small gains that we've made, it's it is damaging to mental health. I mean, it feels really i feel really hopeless in that moment. So, I mean, I think it is what you're saying about that as a vegan, you're doing something small. I think for me, that is a comfort. And so, I mean, I definitely see the author's point about linking mental health to veganism. Dominic, do you think that, in your opinion, is the shift to the right in global politics linked to vegan backlash?
Politics and Veganism: Right-Wing Backlash and Left-Wing Hope
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And um let me just define backlash. By backlash, I mean
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a strong negative reaction by a large number of people, especially to social or political development. So is it linked to the vegan backlash or is the vegan backlash simply just a vegan backlash?
00:04:47
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I think it is linked. i try to remain hopeful. The existence of The Guardian itself makes me feel hopeful. The Guardian is British publication, which isn't a stranger to to printing articles like this i really like this article i really like the sense of humor in this article i think that the woman is a little bit um and i use this as a really positive adjective i think she's like gleefully weird gleefully alternative you know it appeals to my particular funny bone and it's not going to be for everybody's taste but she is writing it for guardian readers here in the uk it's a little bit of a punchline to a joke oh i read it in the guardian because the guardian is a paper that's famed for a slightly more left-leaning approach i would argue i wish it was even more left-leaning than it is but it is left-leaning now we're a really interesting time in british politics we currently have a supposed left-wing government in power and yet
00:05:59
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ah The Labour Party, which throughout my life has been the working class party, the the you know the Democratic Party, they're the most central politically that they've ever been. And they've said a lot of stuff about immigration. that's really It's right wing views on on immigration, right wing views on immigrants.
00:06:20
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And they're trying to appeal to this kind of right wing backlash, which I do think includes veganism. That said, here in Manchester, we've got by-elections in our area, Gorton, and the the most popular candidate is a Green Party candidate. So ah Hannah Spencer is a... a woman, I don't know if she is vegan. I know that the leader of the Green Party is openly vegan, Zach Polanski.
00:06:51
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And there is really growing support for for a left-wing party. So, you know real growing support for somebody who is out and proud as vegan. i think that it's not a given that the right wing are always going to win and always going to, you know, I think that when these articles are written, they're always going to be from a ah certain position. But I do see that hope. i I do see that there is hope going back to her sort of thing about ah veganism for mental health. I really connect to what she's saying. I really connect. And I think
Personal Reflections: Pride in Veganism and Mental Health Benefits
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it's a really important message to be saying in a world where the right wing are so loud and in so many places ifs have so much power in the US, have so much power.
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That said, we've got the New York Mayor Mandami, which, you know, again, gives me hope, gives me hope that something else is possible, change is possible, something more progressive and left leaning and kind is possible.
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But yeah, I do not see my own veganism as sacrifice. sacrifice or a limitation or a you know a noble life of going without what I really desire quite the opposite I see it something that makes me feel really proud and I'm careful at how I express that pride because I'm aware that pride could come across as you know being big-headed as being arrogant as thinking that I'm better than someone else so I I I
00:08:25
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attempt to be mindful in how I share that pride, but I am proud. i am proud that I'm making a choice of doing something which I say very strongly is not that difficult to do. It is not difficult to be vegan, you know, ah and It's good to have the good mental health benefits that doing a good thing brings.
00:08:46
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So, yeah, hooray. Hooray for good mental health. Big yes. I love that you talked about her tone in the piece because... It's not going to be for everyone, is it? It's not going to be for everyone. No, I did not understand that it was supposed sort of, I don't know, like... self-deprecating or amusing. I mean, I just read it very straight.
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So, um ah you know, i'm that's interesting that you that you said that. i I needed to read it again and with that that in my head. I was gonna say that I don't know that I ah ah also that I think there's a backlash because I can recall in 2018,
00:09:25
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So that would, I think, I don't know if that would be part of when the right was. So maybe this so it would be a backlash. and Maybe I'm disproving my point before I've even said that. I went to a rally for a candidate named Beto O'Rourke and he was running for Senate against Ted Cruz in Texas here.
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and um, anybody who knows anything about Ted
Veganism in Politics: A Liability?
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Cruz knows that he's pretty much universally disliked everywhere. uh, So Beto was here in Houston and there was some um local people that were also running for office who had come to the rally. And I was wearing a shirt and it said something about veganism or something like that.
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And one of the ah candidates running came up to me and she said, oh, um you know, I'm vegan too. And I'm running for, you know, this office or whatever. And I said, oh, that's so great. You know, she said, yeah, but just keep it kind of quiet. You know, I don't like people to know that.
00:10:14
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And she was elected and she's still in office. And um it's she's it's she's never mentioned it. And so, yeah, I just think that's interesting because even at that point in 2018, she felt like she that was a liability. Being vegan was a liability for her. I guess if you're in ah a public position, it's it's something that can be viewed as very positive or very negative. and Ultimately, it's a kind of attack vector, isn't it, for someone to come in on something that's something that's not normal.
00:10:41
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um sadly it could you it's just something for someone to focus in on oh yeah but she's bloody vegan isn't she so know probably hippie uh lefty type thing so yeah i guess that's probably why sad i think it's sad that people have to do that or whether they feel compelled that they have to do that um I think I also think that um some of the other things that are talked about in the article has backdrop to yeah maybe why veganism is on the back foot a little bit. It's talking about vegan restaurants closing. I mean, all restaurants are closing. It's a challenging environment. so
00:11:13
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ah We hear this all the time. it's a bit So many arguments here like v vegan restaurants are closing. well ah There's more non-vegan restaurants closing because there's more of them. There are, as we talked about on an earlier recording today, there are...
00:11:29
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pushes for particular consumer interest, which I think are more pushed by the manufacturers of foodstuffs to keep people interested in their foodstuffs. So we've talked about, you know, the big focus on ah protein or the big focus on fibre or the big process and ultrapro sorry big focus on ultra-processed foods and all all vegan foods are ultra-processed. And it's kind of very um apparent to me that it's been used as a weapon uh upfs to talk about vegan foods being unhealthy and and yes there are some but it definitely feels to me my experience is it feels heavily weighted as a way of attacking um vegan foods when of course if you have a whole foods vegan diet you ain't gonna beat that for a ultra-processed stuff, it's as clean as you can get. So it's a strange weaponisation of something to perhaps try and put people off. And I guess, of course, obviously you've got the yeah bonkers ah RFK chap who's... he's just kind of, I mean, there's some mad stuff going on from his mouth, isn't there? You know, so, you know, in terms of all sorts of stuff, but I think we talked, or you talked, didn't you, Shane, not long ago about the food, the changing the food pyramid and how that's, we would been aimed by yeah, and sort of the the focus on meat there. So yeah, it's interesting. I think also, i get, again, the um keep it key keeping your sanity and your mental health. I understand that, but I think,
00:12:59
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What I thought from that was more about you being true to yourself. So if you're in all this craziness going on in the world and you think that caring for animals and thinking about animals and how you approach what you eat, it's very important to be able to stay aligned to your beliefs with all this noise going on um and not kind of get dragged into the... maybe slightly easier route of going, oh, yeah, well, yeah, it's just easier to do to do this this
Societal Perceptions: Challenges and 'Woke' Culture
00:13:25
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way. So I get what she's saying about that, trying to um stand up to normality, really. And I think, I can't remember, someone said it a few years ago, but I think yeah being vegan is still one of the sort of last punk things you can do to kind of be and anti-normality. So I generally believe that it's still...
00:13:44
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It's easier, absolutely, but it's still not the norm and it's still rejecting society's treatment of animals and how they're commodified for us. Yeah, for sure. When I spoke about it being easy, being vegan, I wasn't really including like the the social pressures, the peer pressures. And we've done shows in the past story about how to deal with family, how to deal with friends who are particularly accepting of the choices. What i meant by that is there's so much information about food about what we need and where to get it and the ease of access you know with online shopping with food deliveries with increasing amounts of mainstream supermarkets offering stuff you know online recipes you know it's it's a it's a good time to be vegan i would imagine given the percentage of people in the uk and globally who are vegan
00:14:36
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not the majority, that it's not the majority of readers of The Guardian who are vegan. I'll phrase that again in a slightly less confusing way. I think there are loads of people read The Guardian who are not vegan. I think that. However, I think that this is the target audience for this kind of people who read The Guardian are going to be people who are going to be open to this kind of information. I think that this kind of writing is the perfect style of writing for the kind of people likely to read it ends with uh not in the final paragraph but the penultimate kind of paragraph there's three links to three other articles talking about the ecological disaster that is factory farming talking about reports of abuse and cruelty in the meat industry and talking about contribution to cutting carbon emissions by addressing farming and i think that the jokey tone is going to appeal to a lot of guardian readers and they're going to stay with it and then you get those three things that i think guardian readers who aren't vegan that they they're going to be responsive i think there is a brilliant article that that ends with three very powerful reasons for going vegan and
00:15:56
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And we need this. We need this. I'll say it again. I think this article is well written for the kind of people who are most likely to be clicking on a Guardian article who maybe aren't already vegan. i think this could be a really persuasive article. And hooray, hooray for anything that is persuasive in the pro-vegan camp. So what do you say to criticism that of the article where she says, you know, I'm vegan for selfish reasons. It makes me feel better.
00:16:28
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So does that invite people to say, well, it doesn't make me feel better. So I'm not going to go vegan. I think that that's just, I think that she's written that to cause a reaction, to get ah people, ah i own I don't really think she does think that she is selfish. If she did think that, then she wouldn't have those three links to those three very, very important globally changing ah things about addressing carbon emissions, about addressing cruelty. I think that it's potentially funny, you know, and potentially relatable, potentially like, yeah, you know, is
00:17:02
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altruism a thing that even exists you know is any act a true act of kindness is there always a little bit of self-gratification if like we support a charity for people who homeless how much of our uh motivation for doing so is genuinely helping the people who are homeless maybe 100 or maybe some of the percentage is just feeling good about doing a good thing I think it's a relatable thing and I think it removes the sting in the tail of feeling that she's preaching to us. I think she's saying a self-depreciating thing like, oh, well, I'm doing it for selfish reasons, but I don't think she actually does think that about herself. I think she's doing that to make the article more relatable because, as I said before, I think a lot of the people will not be vegan, but will be open to the ideas of veganism. reading this and by having a gentle gentle opening I think that that's a tactic yeah and I mean personally I don't really care why people go vegan and and I don't think the argument goes both ways so if people were to say well I'm not going to go vegan because it doesn't make me feel better but not going vegan is the societal default and there's not really any thought involved or or questioning morality or ethics and just sticking with the status quo and
00:18:18
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So, I mean, that's, it's not really going to make you feel better just to do what you're already doing. And I mean, honestly, I wish more people would feel bad about themselves for eating meat. I think it's quite, I don't think we've kind of alluded to this, but I suppose, like it or not, veganism is part of a menagerie of lots of different things under the woke title. And, you know, so it's very difficult to try and turn the tables in that and say, and actually, this... it's not woke, it's actually normal and what's wrong with compassion kind of argument, but ultimately this the whole thing about being vaguely caring about stuff is woke, according to ah the right wing at least anyway. So I think you know in terms of ah is there a backlash, it's probably part of that backlash that I think is more of that um gin more uncaring nature of society, that we've moved away from caring about people who might be drowning in the sea or people that are starving because we're like, oh, screw them. They're not us. They've got a different color skin. they They've got different beliefs, different religion. They eat different stuff. So, you know, fucking basically. So, yeah, it's sort of, I think that's a position we are in, sadly.
Veganism in an Indifferent Society
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And that's that's reflected in the political worldwide view, isn't it? Because everyone's, ah politics have always been, i would argue, saw the benefit of the individual. You vote for what works for you. but with you know what?
00:19:45
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You know what? i I agree with everything you've said, but I don't think that's the entire no counter argument of anti-vegan. I think lot of people, and these are not my views, these are not my views. Here in Manchester, we had a huge right-wing demonstration yesterday. like It was awful. The police were involved. It was really terrifying. There were counter-protests. And I think a lot of those people...
00:20:11
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in the right wing waving British flags in aggressive way. They do think they're being kind. These are not my views. These are not my views. I think they would argue that that they're caring about Britain by um keeping out, you know, people who are coming in to invade us. And I also think I'm making massive presumptions here, but the lack of awareness of how farm animals are treated, the willful, the willful reconditioning of the the brain, which I myself have been part of. I mean, I don't know how old I was, but I was old when I realised that cows needed to be pregnant to have milk. I think if we went out and did a survey amongst people who were on that right-wing protest yesterday, do cows need to be pregnant to make milk?
00:21:04
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I think they would say no, and I'm not even judging them because I hold my hands up. I did not know that. I thought it was like, you know, I'm growing hair on my chin, growing my beard. It needs to be trimmed or my beard will grow long. I thought the cows just needed to be milk. And I've heard comments like that. And we've all heard comments. Well, where would the animals go if there weren't farms? No awareness of the extensive breeding of animals for me, that lives are being created.
00:21:29
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for our consumption, for our waste, I think that people, that they would they would probably say that they are really caring and they care about British farmers and they they care about British industries and that farming is an excellent you know British business that isn't being taken over by ah by ah you know foreign powers. And I would say, to go back to my earlier point, that if I was to try and engage with those folks and if emma beddington who wrote this article for the guardian was trying to engage with those folks we would use a different tone of voice we would use a different tone of voice my job i am a public speaker i my job i'm i'm a writer and i promote writing in areas where literacy levels are really low i go into very right-wing parts of Britain, where, you know, children are living in poverty, where people are really desperate, where veganism is not a popular option. And um I talk in a different way. I talk in a different way. And I'm very pro-vegan. I'm out and proud as a vegan, but not in a finger-pointing way, just in a, you know, I've already made that connection of um that I'm kind and I listen to people and I do fun things. I make the children laugh. And then, you know, when I start talking about veganism, I think they do often not see it as a woke thing or as an aggressive agenda. So I would argue that, yes, some people, Paul, you're right. Some people don't care. That is true.
00:23:02
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But some people do care. They're just given misinformation about what caring is. Well, I care about treating the cows kindly by making sure they're milked when they've got all this surplus milk. I care about, you know, ah making sure that farmers have a job. And I think that once you get that ah shared ground, there is the real opportunity for for
Effective Messaging for Veganism: Tailoring to Audiences
00:23:24
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dialogue. I am being a bit hippy-dippy myself, but I do believe there's the potential for dialogue with everyone. I really, deeply believe that. And I'll just say one more time that I really do think that Emma Beddington has written the words she's written for a specific target audience, which exactly what I would do if I was going... and doing a public speaking event with the Housewives of Cheshire, a very you know affluent area where doctors' wives come to libraries and hear me say my words, than I would do if I was up in one of the many North England towns whose name begins with the letter B. If you find a town in North England whose name begins with the letter B, the chances are it's a town in poverty and a town with very right-wing views.
00:24:10
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And, you know, both are full of people with whom a good connection can be made. So I was going to say one. of i suppose the line that I didn't really like in this article was around essentially saying, you know, the world's a bad place right now and people need a kind of almost to treat themselves a little bit in the face of that. So, you know, what's wrong with buttering a crumpet up? Now and then, no nothing. And I think... like I get the sentiment, and if you're talking to an audience, again going back to what Don was saying, if you're talking to an audience where people are predominantly vegan or predominantly vegetarian, who are already like that, then, yeah, like i got that washes. But it that almost...
00:24:49
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that undermines the vegan argument because it's it's become flexitarian kind of approach, doesn't it? to see and yeah I've always said oh would any day take someone going flexitarian over not being flexitarian absolutely every day, but that sort of comment from a vegan, I think it doesn't um doesn't hold...
00:25:09
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the line very well sometimes I think so kind again in itself it gives people an excuse to and go oh well yeah I'm not going bother this time I'm just going to have this steak or this lamb chop whatever so yeah it's um I struggle with that a little bit i I it just feels like in the world right now that people just don't even care about other people and I mean and and so to ask them to care about animals i I don't think that like if you had gone out to that rally, Dominic, and you had asked about the cows, I'd probably say like, you know, what who cares? You know, that i don't think they would care. You know, there there was a story recently in the paper here where there is a comedian and he had set up a hotline, like an ice hotline for people to call in and give tips. And it was like a joke.
00:25:57
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So, but people didn't realize, some people didn't realize it was a joke. And there was a kindergarten teacher who called in ah to report on one of her students and their families. I mean, like, this is like Nazi Germany kind of stuff that's going on here. And so it's it's just really hard to to see that that people on the right or, you know, who have that kind of attitude are going to care about other people, ah you know, even if if or care about animals if they don't even care about other people.
00:26:28
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And, um, I mean, I do understand her comments though about, about comfort, you know, that she's looking for, for comfort when the world's falling apart. And, you know, a lot of people look for comfort in food. That seems to be human nature.
00:26:40
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I mean, I think if you're going to seek comfort in food, obviously, you know, it should be vegan food or you're just really adding to the problems. So, mean, that's kind of how i how I took that. It's interesting because of what you say there, it's kind of like really what we're saying is I think that the the way that society has shifted at the moment means it's almost like a not a favourable context to try and promote veganism. It's a lot more difficult at the moment because... People hating on other people. So to try and get them to sort of think about loving animals, it's a very difficult time to do that compared to maybe, I don't know, 15 years ago or something like that. um
00:27:15
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So, yeah, it's ah it's it's ah an aggressive environment for animals to to get any kind of sympathy from animals. people, i think. I was just going to say, I do see glimmers of hope. For example, when Renee Good was shot in and Minneapolis, people were concerned because dog in the car and people, I saw people saying, oh, was the dog okay? When Alex Preddy was shot, um there was news reports that he had a dog and he had he didn't still have the dog when he was killed, but people were saying you we need to go check on his dog, make sure they're okay. So, you know, there are still people who are presumably not vegans who are caring about animals.
00:27:51
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But yeah, I think, Paul, what you're saying is ah is a difficult, i don't know, political atmosphere. is really difficult and to go back to the kindergarten teacher wanting to, you know, report, you know, that's an awful, awful story and I think certainly what we have a problem with in the UK with politics, you when do we be gentle and when do we be hard-hitting? I'm not taking back anything I said before about how I believe that meaningful good connections can be made with anyone. However,
00:28:22
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you know i won't lie i won't lie i won't pretend i'm not vegan i won't say anything that is untrue so i think that in schools there is yeah i do a lot of work in schools and there's this whole concept of be polite to everyone be polite to everyone so be polite to the right wing and it's like Well, actually, no, maybe don't be polite. maybe Maybe don't actually if somebody... So again, I'm not retracting what I said earlier about search for that grounds for communication. But actually, the the the rioting protesters here yesterday, the right wing crowd, you know, that was a really bad thing. And it's not impolite to call a bad thing a bad thing. You know, and I think that we've reached the point where
00:29:08
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If you say a bad thing's a bad thing, sometimes you could be accused of like you know not being tolerant and all. And it's that really hard ground of like when are you gentle, when are you tolerant, when you listening, and when are you drawing the line in the sand and going, but this is a bad thing. And actually, here are the facts about climate change. Here are the facts about animal cruelty, animal abuse, animal pain, animal suffering. you know, it's really hard. But return to that point that, you know, i keep going back to about just trying to find the right level for your target audience and, you know, trying to use the right words for the right people.
00:29:45
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And yeah, i do I do have hope. What you've just said about people caring about the the dogs you know in those instances, that's the starting point for a conversation, isn't it? It's the starting point for talking about further matters of animal lives and animal welfare.
00:30:05
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And maybe there's a place for a gentler article like this one from Emma Beddington and then also a place for being a little bit tougher, a little bit harsher. I think that's probably a good place to end it if nobody else has anything
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
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else to add. All right. So thank you everyone for listening.
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Go on, send us a message today. enough of the falafel at gmail dot com Thank you to Paul and Dominic for joining me today. Listeners, if you like what you heard today and have the means to financially support the show with a small donation, please take a look at our Ko-Fi page. You can join us at any of our three giving levels. Just go ko-fi.com and Nuff of the Falafel.
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And the link is also in the show notes and it's pinned to the top of our Facebook page too so that you can see it there and click on it as well. Yeah, and the next Enough of the Falafel episode coming out will be available on Monday the 30th of March, and that will be our Vegan Week programme, and that will be hosted by Ant with Julie and Mark, and as I say, that will be our usual round-up of vegan and animal rights news. Anyway, that is enough of the Falafel for this episode. Thank you, Paul, and thank you, Shane, for all your contributions. Thank you, everyone, for listening.
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I've been Dominic and you've been listening to Vegan Talk from the Enough of the Falafel Collective.
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And sometimes, if you're lucky, at the end of an episode, you'll hear a poem by Mr Dominic Berry. Thanks all for listening and see you next time.
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