 Hello everyone, welcome to another video. Now this video I'm going to react, respond to a couple of the highlights from the new series Veganville, which I was a contributor to. It's been released on BBC Three, all three episodes, but they actually released the first episode not too long ago on BBC One. And it got 1.1 million views. It was really, for the most part, well received from what I can see. And both the other episodes will be playing periodically week after week. So next week will be episode two, the following week will be episode three. I'm really excited for the next two episodes to come out because they've got a little bit more of the ethics side in there, and I'm really glad that a big platform is going to see that. But for episode one, I'll be just responding to a couple of the highlights, just giving a little bit more context, letting you know what I feel about certain things. So let's get into it. So the episode one is more like an introduction to all the different characters, us meeting, and we go out and do a few things. But let's just have a listen to this introduction here. Social media. Okay. Animal rights activism, vegan activism. Let's go out to positively at first, yeah. Let's not go hardcore. Let's scare them away first, are we? That maybe came across a bit too aggressive, but I'm just being honest. Are you a vegan? Yeah. You are. I like the fact that we're pushing that message out there so people are proud to be vegan, and people know what that means. Ricky and I are very soft in our approach, and I think Danny and Joey are very hard in their approach, so hopefully I can be the voice of reason. The first thing I want to talk about is this approach that gets thrown around throughout this whole series. And it's kind of cute because people who have never been involved in any type of animal rights vegan activism ever in their life have this idea on what the best approach is. And not that I say, oh, your approach is wrong. I just know that there's many different approaches, and if you're going to tell someone why they should be vegan, I think you need to explain that to them why they need to avoid animal products versus just giving them a cupcake and telling them that's vegan. They won't understand why to avoid the abuse, the cruelty, the things that happen in the dairy industry. You have to educate people. And it's interesting people just look at my t-shirt and go, wow, he's aggressive. Defend animals. Too aggressive. And I think the people in the house were more worried about how I'd make them look than caring about being effective activists. So that part there was quite interesting. Oh, no, look at Joey's t-shirt. Oh, no, he's going to make us look bad. He's going to push people away. He's going to create a bit of a stir here. That's what activism is. But if they try and commit to taking one meal, it might be the thing that makes them do a second meal. I don't think that should be the goal, though. The goal would be, like, would you take this on board? Would this be some, an ethical position you'd be looking to take for life sort of thing? And the one meal would be like a consolation. She's changed her mind. I disagree. I think, I think sometimes people, it's better for them to go with baby steps. Yeah. We can actually make the changes that we put into it. Vegans for life. Vegans for life. One thing I fucking hate is that phrase, baby steps. I fucking hate that phrase. This is a whole thing. Like, if you're against animal abuse, animal cruelty, you're either against it or you're not. And this phrase sort of baby steps, like, I can't stand it. I can't stand it. I don't encourage baby steps. Okay? I don't say, hey, just step by step. I say, hey, are you against animal cruelty, animal abuse, the horrors that go on in the dairy industry? If you are, then you should be vegan. Okay? There's no middle ground. Being vegan is the best thing you can do to practically avoid all of those industries. Okay? So, no, I'm not going to say, hey, baby steps. You know, animals are suffering and dying and being murdered. Okay? No baby steps. You either support animal cruelty or you're vegan. It's almost like you're dealing with children too. Like, no, we're dealing with adults. Adult steps. Meaning, hey, stop committing animal cruelty. Go vegan. Adult steps. And vegan meal is a consolation. To do a vegan meal if I give you a recipe. Okay? It's opened my eyes a little bit to how they haven't gone out and cleared what a vegan is. So this is the thing where old Jodie went out to talk to them and just said, hey, would you do a vegan meal? Vegans don't eat dairy products. And she said that people don't have a clue what a vegan is. Now, me personally, even though I think that's fine, she planted a seed. She got them to a degree to a vegan meal. I would have had a conversation about why we avoid dairy. Cows are artificially inseminated, forcibly impregnated, have their children take it away upon birth. If they're born a male, they're bolt gun in their head. Dairy cows are strung up and stabbed in the throat and killed after their milk production declines. That's why we avoid dairy. Boom. You've actually given them more information in that one group of sentences than you have by just saying, hey, have a vegan meal. There's a reason why people don't know what a vegan is. It's because we don't explain it to them because we're afraid of them. You know, I don't know. We're afraid of what they might think about us or something. I don't know. But we have to tell people why they should be vegan. Not, hey, this cake is vegan. We don't have dairy products. Why don't we have dairy products? Explain it to them. Trying to get as many people in this area to go vegan? I don't think it is too many animals getting slaughtered. I used to work in a meat factory in St Mary's and M. Did you used to work in a meat factory? Yeah, they used to go like 4,000 sheep a day, but obviously, like where he was... How did that affect you mentally? I was only in the slaughter room for like two days. Fuck, I couldn't handle it. Did you not? Fuck, no. I'd blend up my face. Obviously, like most people, when they eat meat, now they don't really see the process of coming through like that. They probably took these people up there, seen a cow again, slaughtered, ripped apart, ripped a meat, chopped up in the middle piece and said, cooked it again, said, yeah, eat the burger. They'd be like, fuck that. So this guy here really woke guy. Like that's why you never judge a book by their cover. Like this guy really knew what he was talking about. He worked in a slaughterhouse before. I love this guy. He's a smart, switched on man. And he knows that if people actually had to do his job, which was stabbing animals for other people, they wouldn't want to eat a burger afterwards. And that's exactly what he's explaining as a real dude. This is a real guy with a really good perspective on what slaughtering animals actually entails and how the public are just full of hypocrisy, full of hip, bloody hypocrites, bloody hypocrites. You don't want to stab an animal in the throat yourself, but you want to pay an individual like this poor guy to stab the animal for you so you can enjoy your burger. You know what I mean? So this guy here really loved this part. If you want to watch the whole clip in its entirety, down below, go check it out. I really love this particular conversation. And Dan handled it very well. Good work, Dan. So when you're watching the show, there's a little bit of drama. One of the housemates has a job, a particular job. I don't want to give this part away. You can go in and have a look, go watch the episode and have a look. She has a job and it causes conflict within her. And, you know, I talk about what I think about the ethics of like a vegan working in a non-vegan establishment. You know, is it vegan? And, you know, we talk over all of that. So if you want to check that out, you can check that out. So then I have this debate with Abby. She's quite a well-known dairy farmer now. No, I don't believe that a human is capable of sustaining itself on a plant-based only diet. What if there's a bunch of scientists and nutritionists that have come up with a statement to suggest that you can be healthy on a vegan diet if it's well-planned? Would that sort of change your perspective on that, if that concern? There's equally as many scientists out there that would come up and say that not having meat and dairy in your diet is equally not so good. She's become the spokesman of why everyone should consume meat and dairy. And basically, she's going against the scientific consensus on plant-based diets, which is quite irresponsible of her. We've got the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, which has a peer-reviewed statement backed by 117 studies, credible organization, a non-vegan organization, by the way. It's not a vegan organization. It's been published as their position on vegan diets. And you're trying to tell everyone that this is completely false. You need meat and dairy. Like, no, you can eat full plant-based diets and be completely healthy. I just ran 63 miles as a four-month-long runner, not even a runner. Ran 63 miles, okay? For 12 and a half hours. I've been vegan for six years. You tell me I need meat and dairy. Absolute nonsense. Nonsense alert. You can check out the full debate, the scene there. Pretty cool, but yeah, quite short. We're talking a little bit about heart disease and the mechanism behind it, and yeah. So then there's a part where I actually put my activism method to the test, which I've put it to the test for years now, but everyone's very apprehensive, you know? The girls didn't get involved with that. I was a little bit skeptical as to why they avoided this type of outreach. Maybe they were a bit afraid of it, but, but, you know, there was a bit of drama, so they weren't there. But this lady, she had tears in her eyes when she saw these animals. My gosh, you're bringing tears to my eyes here. How does it make you feel knowing that that these are victims of of human beings, aren't they? Like us, we're doing this to them. Now here I am putting the accountability on this lady. I'm showing her the slaughter of these animals. Now, do you think this is going to leave a bigger impact on her than just giving her a cupcake and telling her the cupcake's vegan? Yeah. She ain't going to forget that. Like you give someone a vegan cupcake, they go, wow, that was a vegan cupcake. Oh, wow, that tastes nice. It's, I don't really, I can't believe it was vegan. You show someone a butchered animal and tell them that that's their fault. They're paying for that slaughterhouse to exist. Which one is going to give you more motivation? I know which one's going to motivate me more. It's great. There's a vegan cupcake. Like I'm not, I'm not knocking vegan cupcakes. Go vegan cupcakes. Give me a vegan cupcake right now. But like you need both. You need the vegan cupcake for them to eat, but they need the motivation, which is what animal rights activism gives them. Hey, you're causing suffering and death to animals. You're against animal cruelty. Here's a vegan cupcake. There you go. So like this thing about approach, don't knock my approach. I'm not knocking yours. Hey, hand out your vegan cakes. All right. Explain to people why they should be vegan. We need, we need, my approach is necessary. Believe me, believe me. It's necessary to propel this movement forward because I'll say the things that people are too afraid to say. You know what? You just need to show people the respect they deserve and tell them straight. No dressing it up. Unapologetically, tell them the truth about what's going on. Okay. Now I'm just going to thought I'd finish with one of the most intense scenes in this whole series. I'm not going to show you the whole scene. I want you to go watch it yourself. But I'm the bean man. This guy absolutely loses it over a conversation about legumes. Let's have a look. Right? Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. This is getting a little bit out of control. Yeah, you're trying to make a bloody clown out of me. And I will have it. Don't touch me. Let me tell you. So anyway, this guy, we had a conversation about ethics. He's like, oh, I'm against animal cruelty. I'm a Christian. Yada, yada, yada. But then when it come to him changing, we were talking about 15 minutes. They did it right down. When it comes to him actually making changes in his life, he's like, I tried to be a vegetarian, but, you know, my doctor said that eating beans causes gout. So therefore I had to start eating meat again. You know? So like when I asked him, I said, well, I'm pretty sure like meat contributes to like this acid load and can affect your gout as well. Like then he fought like beans causes gout. So does meat. Oh my God, like I don't have an excuse here. He started losing it. He started losing it. He raised his hand to me. Now me, um, there's not many people and we're going to lay out or raise their hand at me. If he went to try to hit me, obviously I'm going to defend myself, but he ends up touching me like I'm like, dude, don't touch me. We could have, we talked about ethics. No worries. Animals getting stabbed in home. But then he started to become angry when I started to poke holes in his story about him having to eat meat because beans aggravate gout, you know? But once we got to the bottom of that, the only thing left for him to do was either stop eating animals because he's against animal cruelty. He had no more justification there. Like that's what I'm trying to say. That's why I believe he got angry because I questioned him around it and he felt exposed. But anyways, I'll let you watch that very interesting first episode of the series Veganville up on BBC One. All three are available down below on BBC Three, iPlayer. I'm really, really happy with how this turned out. There are definitely more things we can discuss in the next two episodes, but I'm going to react to them after they are broadcast on BBC One. And yeah, I'll see you guys in the next video. Comment down below. What did you think of the series? If you've seen it, give us your feedback. Much love. I'll see you all in the next video. Peace.