 Make sure we're live on Facebook. All right Here we are We're doing a special Livestream today. Let me know that you can hear me all and We're on we're on Instagram here too, and we're also on Facebook as well So we've got we've got like a three-way live stream here. Hello Instagram. Hello YouTube and hello to the Facebook family too and So it's halfway through the January and I thought it would be nice to sit here with you all And if there are any Long-term ish vegans in here. We're gonna gear the conversation towards like When did you first? Start your journey kind of thing and what were some of the things that you would have liked to have known at the start You know what I mean? So they're the type of questions. I'm going to be Taking and anyone who's not vegan. We hope that you're in here so we can Answer your questions or I can help you out with some of the questions that you have recipes little tips and tricks and things like that so We're gonna start going through and answer those types of questions I know what it's like when you first start, you know, you think oh my god like if I take meat off of my plate and Dairy and eggs out of my life What will I eat? That's what I used to think it used to freak me out. Actually the idea of not eating animal products Back in the days, but obviously it's when you're motivated. I think it's Easy than what you think and once you know you'd go. Oh, wow. It's actually a lot easier than I thought So what I like to say to people who are like really new is that You know Veganize like veganize what you already eat. So like let's just say in the morning you have cereal fruit yogurt with milk you might have eggs and Toast with butter Or you might have I know what's another breakfast treat people have just veganize what you already eat In a ways. All right, so you can scramble tofu instead of eggs and scramble tofu If you're not doing scramble tofu, it is amazing a lot healthier for you than eggs and more ethical obviously and If you don't know about the egg industry, you should look into it because it's in there's many practices of the egg industry that are very cruel and All those egg layer hens get cold killed gassed So yeah veganizing what you already eat If you get eat burgers get a vegan burger still eat your bread a lot of most bread is vegan You know if you like a mayo there's plenty of vegan mayonnaise out there now Especially if you're in the UK, which is like the land of the January in the UK is it is cranking right now if you just you just have to go on the Like I was on the asda website making an order today and they have a like the supermarkets even Tesco they have a Veganuary tab that you can just click on and all of the vegan products are there and even like shower gel and like you know Cosmetic products and bathroom products cleaning products all of those things as well. I would argue that you should first focus on food the food is most animals on earth are being mass bread exploited and killed for food and that's where most of the suffering is happening that's where most of the environmental damage is happening and That's where I think you should direct your attention to first But if you're doing veganuary, then you you know you kind of we want to you want to kind of do everything vegan for Veganuary don't you so you like you want to know about the other cosmetic products and things too? So let's go through anyone got any any questions Here okay here we go Let's have a look so I was eating meat for up 26 years Okay, so I Basically, all I ate was like steak chicken Bacon almost every morning. I'd have a bacon and egg muffin almost every morning I used to go to the butcher and get t-bone steaks and they would saw that so there'd be a whole side of a cow there And I would saw the t-bones off for me right there and so I'd have really big thick T-bone so I was a avid meat eater and I had a realization it was a First it started off with me having Realizing that plants were actually good for you and they made me feel a lot better And I lost a lot of weight eating mostly plants, but then I had a seed planted about Karma and I was like, you know Someone said something once that really stuck with me and he's like, you know When you eat an animal you you sort of take on everything that animal went through their suffering for their entire lives and the fear and adrenaline adrenaline that went through their body when they were killed and I just felt something wrong with eating the body of a Animal that was killed against their will and that was a seed that was planted and later on it flourished and I took action I also didn't like to be a hypocrite. I didn't like to say that I cared about animals While there was a piece of an animal on my plate I used to see people saying like save the whale save the dolphins and they were concerned with orangutans in jungle being harmed, you know, and I was just like I Seen them talk speaking about these animal issues And then I also seen that they were eating animals and I could see the hypocrisy there and I You know, I liked dogs. I really cared for dogs and I was I just started to analyze Why We care for some animals and eat others. It didn't seem consistent to me. It's it seemed Just hypocritical. I didn't like having that hypocrisy in my That feeling of cognitive dissonance. I didn't like it. So I just I had to align my actions With my beliefs so I didn't have that feeling anymore and then I felt better So let's have a look anyone here who is doing the January needing some tips My first my my first tip actually When I was talking about veganizing what you already love So if you love if you like eating burgers find a vegan burger that you like if you like cheese Find some vegan cheese that you like. I wouldn't just try one vegan cheese Because you might not like that type of vegan cheese and everyone's a little bit different Some people like the more milder the more milder cheese I like tasty stronger mature cheese and You can get like different versions of vegan cheese and a lot of them the free from range and Tesco is really tasty That's my the ones that I like Via life have got a good mature cheddar and they've also got more milder Vegan cheeses. So like I would say like don't just try one Vegan product and go oh my god. I don't like it. I'm never gonna like another vegan product ever again I think give it give it a chance and you'll definitely come across some amazing stuff And there's also this thing that happens with your taste buds after a little while Where your taste buds change, you know, you do you you start going? Oh, wow I actually really like this and it takes a little bit of time for your taste buds to Calibrate so give it a little bit of time and find a plant milk that you like because there's so many and some people don't like oat milk, I mean Who doesn't how could you not like oat milk? But also you might be so used to drinking like full-fat dairy milk that when you switch over to oat milk You might be like, oh, that's a bit it's a bit strange But give it a bit of time and you'll you'll just calibrate and then when you go back to Drinking dairy, you'd be like, oh, well, that's that's strange. You know, so give it some time oat milk soil milk There's nuts milks. There's all these different types and you can get them at any budget at any budget So recently I was in Morrison's and they had I think it was like 50p 50p for a liter of soire milk. So that's super cheap. So you can find really good deals Iceland in the UK is especially good. I love the noble burgers. They're super cheap They're like a beyond burger, but a lot cheaper So it's like two pounds for two. Whereas they're beyond burger I think it's five pounds for two, which I'd say is a lot of a little bit on the pricey end and Then you can even get cheaper. So in the freezer section at Tesco, you can get cheaper vegan burgers You know So you can do this at any price range and I would say the cheapest foods in the supermarket are, you know Your rice beans lentils pasta pasta sauce I did a video on my channel and it is called I'll get it up for you right now But I actually went into Tesco's would like 20 quid to do a week's worth of shopping And I'll show it's okay. I'll get the name of it right now For you. I've actually got a playlist on my YouTube channel and it's called how to be vegan at on my YouTube channel how to be vegan at playlist on Joey Carbstrong and it's got how to be vegan at all the supermarkets But just let let you know this was filmed a couple of years ago. So there's much more vegan stuff at the supermarkets now. So The video is called extreme budget Extreme budget weekly vegan food shop and like you can get like a bag of oats 800 grams of oats for like a quid or something like this ridiculous, which is like a week's worth of oats and you can get frozen berries Which are like, you know, if you go into the berries at the supermarket, they're pretty expensive Like you get like 150 grams of blueberries for like, you know, it was like two quid something like that But if you get the frozen berries, they're actually Frozen really ripe. So they're actually tastier and they're cheaper. So you can get more nutrition for less money Let me have a look here what someone's gone someone says chicken is the the easiest flight one of the easiest flavors to Replicate it. There's amazing vegan chickens these day vegan chickens would know the vegan chicken replacements these days and they're actually it's I think it's one of the The vegan meats that are done really well So there's a there's a lot out there and they're all like I rarely find Vegan chicken I don't like I think that they're doing a really good job. Iceland have got a really good one VFC is a fantastic one Tesco have got really really good ones In their plant-based section. I just I just haven't really found one. I didn't particularly like but you might be different, especially when you're when you're transitioning and when you're trying this out for the first time I Would also say That while you're while you're doing this Look at some of these documentaries like, you know, there's some really good documentaries I would recommend this though if you are doing Veganuary or if you are curious about being vegan or if you are a new vegan and you haven't yet seen the film Dominion I would recommend that you either watch watch it if you can't watch it because it's quite graphic at least listen to it listen to what They are saying because it's got really good information on all of the industries. It's very comprehensive So it talks about not only Animals who are used for food. It also goes into other industries to like entertainment pet stores puppy breeding fishing industries, you know, which is food as well, but Hunting it really opens your eyes up to a lot of different things. So I would recommend that Here we go This is a really good question from Cheryl Cheryl says I started following you recently and I've made the decision to go vegan My only worry is getting the correct nutrients to stay healthy any advice Well, I would say this Cheryl. Did you often track your nutrients before you went vegan? If the answer is no then You probably wouldn't know what nutrients You're even lacking in now If your answer is yes, I've been tracking all my nutrients Then all you would have to do is keep tracking your nutrients but plug in go into chronometer Which is a it's an app that tracks nutrients go into Chronometer and plug in vegan foods and then you'd be able to see what nutrients you're getting But I would assume that you haven't been tracking your nutrients as a non-vegan So my question to you would be like as a vegan. What would what nutrients do you think you would be lacking? I Personally think like you'd probably be mostly okay Because vegan food is fortified like vegan milks There's this amazing stuff. It's called nutritional yeast and if you are doing Veganuary or if you're a new vegan and you haven't heard of nutritional yeast then You really should get around it. It is amazing and it actually It's got a spectrum of nutrients in an even zinc Which is one of the tougher ones to get but it's also full of B12 and it's got a cheesy nutty flavor And you can sprinkle it on your pasta and it's super healthy super low in fat high in protein amazing stuff Like longer term vegans will tell you it's very addictive, you know, you it's got very delicious. So I Would say You could be fine without even supplementing but I wouldn't recommend that because that would be irresponsible I would say to supplement. I have a multi vitamin each day, which has a B12 in it It also has vitamin D because I'm in England and there's not much sunshine here So that everyone should be supplementing vitamin D Like they actually add vitamin D as a supplement to dairy milk doesn't just contain vitamin D So like I just think everyone should be supplementing B12 and vitamin D generally the reason that Meat has vitamin B12 in it is because They inject it into the animals they add it to the animals feed so they're supplementing the animals with B12 So that's interesting that if I've been on to farms and I've seen Colbert, it's Colbert Supplements that they give to the animals. So I mean, it doesn't make sense to grow the animals to kill them for the B12 to get out of their blood or to kill them to get the iron out of their blood I mean, you can just get the iron from plants or the B12 from a supplement, you know And it seems a lot more rational How can you be sure you're getting all your nutrients? You can never be sure you could you could intake nutrients You might not be absorbing them properly. I mean that could be a that's that's not a problem related to a whole foods vegan Diet that's a problem that you already have, you know, and you don't know that until you get your blood tested so what people often do which is Interesting, but they they they go vegan. They started in plant-based diet and then they Get a blood test and they're like, well, you know, I got worried Because I've been eating a plant-based diet for a while. So I got my blood tested and then they get the results back And they go, oh my god, I'm deficient in something whatever that is I'm deficient in X whatever X is and then they start saying well, it's because of the Plant-based diet has to be but they didn't get their blood tested before They started eating a plant-based diet. So there's no way to determine whether or not they already had deficiencies and You know when they Got their blood tested later on You could see those deficiencies. So it's not clear whether whether or not it was the plant-based diet causing it So I would always say the only way that you can test if you're deficient is not by how you feel It's by Testing your blood doing a blood test. You can do things that are like insurance policies like eating a wide variety of Whole foods. So make sure you get your greens in even if it's in a smoothie handful of greens I like doing these little juices. So I am Apple carrot lemon ginger some greens in their kale and Like these juices make you feel amazing in the morning and you can get a bunch of different greens and nutrients in in one whack Eat whole grains eat beans legumes Some nuts and seeds like flax seeds good for amigas You can also get a vegan algae supplement. It's a way of getting You know amiga three Directly from where the fish get it from because they get it from the the the sea vegetables So you can actually get it directly from the sea vegetables instead of killing the fish eating the fish getting all the mercury Along with the amiga freeze. So I would say that that's another strange things humans do to get nutrients killing sea animals to get the nutrients out of their bodies when you can just go directly to the source and Get the algae supplement. I personally don't do algae supplement I just though, you know, I eat some chia seeds hemp seeds black seeds things like that greens So basically What to take away from this make sure that you're eating a lot of fruit, you know eating a sensible diet a wide range of whole foods If you're gonna do the vegan junk foods Do them do them, but make sure you have balance there. Don't just start eating like mock meat Vegan meat vegan cheeses vegan the the mick plant burger from McDonald's Soda not going outside or exercising and going. Oh my god. I feel like crap, you know Make sure you're sensible. Have you be 12 supplement, you know, have your vitamin D supplement supplement if you're in a cloudy country like this and You know should be fine And if you've got an issue like here's another thing as well Cheryl before because a lot of people could run into this and Because it's the January and I want to make sure that everyone just thinks of these things When people start eating plant foods They might say they might eat a little bit more salad and a little bit more fruit now And they might just remove meat and not replace the calories from the meat So they've just removed meat. They remove cheese. They start eating more more salad Not enough grains and then they they after a few days They've depleted their energy because they don't have enough calories So be super careful of your calorie intake if you're removing a product like a meat and fatty Fatty meat and fatty cheese You know and then not replacing those calories like say you replace fatty cheese with like Soya yogurt which is like less calories and then all of a sudden you're eating salad. You're eating some fruit You're you know not eating having enough energy and all of a sudden you feel tired you feel hungry You know because you're not eating enough calories and people go well. I'm deficient. I must be deficient. It must be the vegan Lifestyle must be plant-based eating that's causing this, you know, a better stop a better go back to eating meat. So Yeah, that's something that people should be careful of make sure you're eating enough rice or pasta Bread and you know if you like some fatty foods avocados vegan cheese and Nuts and seeds and getting enough energy in you know get enough foods enough vegan foods with energy to replace the calories that you are getting If you're super stressed and worried I personally don't often do this unless I'm like fully in training mode But you can get an app. It's called chronometer and you can plug your foods into chronometer. It's really easy It's free fit my fitness pals another one that's free that you can use and You can just plug your foods in and then you can I like chronometer because it's free and you can see your nutrient spectrum So you can say I had 300 grams of cooked rice You know, I had a Handful of blueberries this and that and it gives you a really good idea of What nutrients you're getting and how many calories you're getting, you know, especially if you're active you should you might want to know those things But yeah, look Don't stress. Don't worry too much It's not a big deal If you weren't tracking your nutrients in a crazy manner before then you could be a little bit relaxed about it But you know be sensible as well so So let's have a look. Let's see what questions we have here. We've got some questions on Instagram. We do So people's are talking about what do I think of lab grown meat Yeah lab grown meat I support it as long as it's done without the exploitation and cruelty to animals You know if they just take a small biopsy a cell from a chicken and it creates an infinite amount of Chicken flesh and it saves a bunch of chickens. Then of course, I support it I would say that it's ethically vegan, but it wouldn't be dietary. It wouldn't be plant-based In dietary terms, but it would be vegan and ethical terms if they did it like that Thank you. Oh my god, there's a big donation here CDN the third. Thank you so much for that. I appreciate it a lot um Any questions for new vegans curious about how to You know some tips some new tips. So like I said, so we've talked about nutrients We talked about we should be what watch dominion if you can if you can't watch it at least Listen to it listen to the entirety of the film so that you're clued up on a lot of what happens to the animals and um Yeah, like we talked about the supermarkets where to find things I've got my how to be vegan at series on playlist and also there's like it's the January right now There's vegan stuff everywhere. I don't know if you will have a problem there Places like Subway McDonald's Burger King KFC they all have a vegan option there Also, you can use an app which I've got to drop this app in here Who's got a pen and paper you got a pen and paper anyone got a pen and paper Happy cow, it's called happy cow Get this app happy cow no matter where you are in the world if you're traveling if you're you know, wherever you are Happy cow is a directory for vegan options. So, you know, you could just type in where you are They've got that you'll be able to find full 100% vegan restaurants or just places that have a vegan option there All right, and happy cow has saved me a bunch of times when I'm looking for places to eat And I might be in some obscure area that I haven't been before and I just whip out the app happy cow You can actually just use the website. It's free but I use the app and It'll you know, it will direct you to amazing vegan options wherever you are happy cow is a top tip Okay, happy cow. We got people in there. I love happy cow Is it happy carb or happy cow? It's happy cow um Yeah, happy cow because the cows are happy if you eat vegan. Let's Let's let's face it. So also I want to talk to the new vegans about the the definition of vegan veganism is we'll just get it up Vegan society so you can check out the vegan society they Know the vegan society coined the term vegan and by Donald Watson 1944 veganism was founded and it was kind of founded off the back of The war at the time, you know as a way of like bringing more peace to the world I think but it's veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude as far as possible and practicable all forms of exploitation of and cruelty to animals for food clothing or any other purpose and By extension promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals humans and the environment in dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all animal products and basically it's it's Food is a lot of it, but it extends to other areas of course as well It's a moral principle that extends to what you do. It's a way of living and I think if you have that moral principle where like, okay I don't want animals to be exploited or treated cruelly or killed How can I live in a way that seeks to exclude that as far as possible and practicable? Then you know, you're on a you're on a good You're on a good wicket there. Wicket is cricket. Let's have a look. Thank you. Gabby. I appreciate that a lot Thank you so much So let's keep going. Let's keep going Um Where's where's some questions here? We got some more in um, we're gonna go we got Instagram rolling as well We've got Facebook and YouTube in the chat, too So even if there's any vegans in here, what what are some things that you wish you knew? When you first, you know, even when you were vegan curious, what would have helped you get over the line? What what because when I tell you when I first went vegan I just went full raw vegan and I was eating like I was doing body building Well, I just weight training and I started eating like hell almonds Like heaps of soaked almonds to get because that's I was like how else am I gonna get protein? but what would have been a a Better decision for me to make would have been like this vegan eyes what I was already eating You know, and that would have helped me out a lot if I just knew that if I knew like, okay I like sandwiches and I was made a vegan sandwich like I like scrambled eggs I just would have made scrape scrambled tofu. I like spaghetti bolognese I would have just made vegan spaghetti bolognese and using lentils or a vegan mints for the mints You know, I like hot dogs. Oh might as well have a vegan hot dog. I like a potato potatoes potatoes already vegan You know vegan butter, you just get margarine or find a vegan butter alternative, you know So those types of things would have really helped me when I started and I really wish I knew a little bit more about the animals When I first started to so I could have Changed some other things I would have known about, you know, so Dominion would have really helped. There wasn't there was earthlings back then There wasn't there wasn't as much So I'm vegan eight years ago. There wasn't as much as there is now like in terms of resources So you're in a very Fortunate time right now. There's so many resources. There's so much help in the January is an amazing An amazing campaign that helps, you know people even if they do it for the month And then they fall off like at least you now you know that you can do it and What would the only thing holding you back would be yourself then because all the everything you need is there and I think if you're motivated enough like if you know what happens to animals and you're against that If you know what's going on to the environment and you're against that and you think oh, wow this is a really beneficial way for me to You know reduce the cruelty that I'm causing to the animals and to leave a lighter footprint and There's a bunch of vegan stuff available to me now like like I was driving home four o'clock the other morning and could go through the Drive-through and get vegan burgers. So that's how accessible vegan food is now and Yeah, it's just amazing it's crazy times like if you told me five years ago that KFC would have a vegan burger I would have just laughed because I Just didn't think it was gonna happen. So Let's have a look. Let's go neuter on everything. Yep. People are saying neuter on everything here in Instagram land. What else we got? Nooch is actually lingo for nutritional yeast Have you have I've tried the McPlant burger. It's very good. They use Beyond Meat in the McPlant burger Let's keep rolling. What else we got anyone got Any other questions So not not really want to talk about activism in this live stream I want I want to talk to the new vegans. This was what this live streams geared towards So I know a lot of people have questions about me about my activism About this and that but we really want to do this live stream for new vegans or vegan curious people who need some help Who want us to point them in the right direction? Of course, you can go on websites like Veganuary and I recommend also challenge 22 for new vegans for people curious But it's veganuary season and veganuary is cranking right now So and there's a lot of people who are actually doing veganuary right now. Here's another here's another amazing tip for you Do you know you can learn to build a house on YouTube? You can learn to build a car on YouTube you can learn to fix your laptop on YouTube So you better be damn straight sure that you can Learn to cook whatever vegan recipe you want also on YouTube So I would utilize YouTube because literally if you just read how to make vegan I don't know. Let's Think of a random recipe right now. What's a random recipe? Vegan Wellington Vegan Wellington Let's have a look. Oh Man, hell vegan Wellington's beyond burger lattice Wellington how to make vegan caramelized onion chestnut and mushroom Wellington You know, what else vegan you name it vegan lasagna. I want to make vegan lasagna tonight guys Oh, I don't know how to make it. I'll do in the January. This is so hard Types it into YouTube. Oh, look here. We got avant-garde vegan my famous Vegan lasagna recipe ultimate vegan lasagna from Bosch cheap lazy vegan vegan lasagna Look, you name it come on So you can even learn to make your own tofu If you're like, I like I don't really want to buy any milk. It's too expensive. I'm just gonna go buy Like a bag of oats and I'm gonna I've got a blender I'm gonna make my own oat milk. You could do that if you want if you've got that time I don't have that Not much time so I'm not making my own oat milk But you can you can make your own soy milk make your own nut milk coconut milk Whatever you want. Oh coconut milk So like let's just say you're looking for a cream replacement and you're making whatever dessert coconut milk although it's a I mean if you're looking to coconut cream if you're looking for something that's not so healthy People who put cream in their food not really that I don't think they really care too much about what's healthy Anyway, so If you use coconut cream to make a creamy pasta sauce say you want to make a vegan Cabanara You could use a little bit of vegan ham or a little bit of a you know Mushrooms and onions and then you can chuck in coconut milk as your creamy substitute But you can use it in desserts. It actually whips up as well coconut cream whips up So you can make amazing desserts with coconut cream coconut cream is delicious calorie dense and Very rich Someone says exotics rea exotics Ria says I love tiramisu. How do I make it vegan? Very good question, and I'm just gonna good Here we go vegan tiram tiramisu All I did was just type it into YouTube How many search results a million? Two million now there's at least so we got the happy pair have a recipe Tasty have a recipe for vegan tiramisu. So just type it in the search bar on YouTube. How's that for a tip top tip? You know what I mean? Aha someone here's got another good tip that yags. What's up that? Indian food choices make it very easy to be vegan shout out to my Indian Folks out there because they have dull Chickpea masala is usually vegan. Just if you go into Indian restaurant, just be careful of ghee because ghee is made from dairy But a lot of Indian restaurants have a bunch of vegan options pop it on a vegan, you know, so Indian food if you like Indian food, then you're gonna find some great options. I love dial myself and I love Indian food Here we go Catherine Catherine green says for people who are newly going vegan. What is your advice for them? Not falling off? So my advice would be If you're This is to do with motivation or to motivations kind of It's it's more about commitment to not wanting to cause Animal suffering and killing, you know, you know that I honestly believe I honestly believe a really for me, but anyway is checking out the film Dominion because if you're about to fall off remind yourself why you started and Then you can see what the animals are going through and you can get all is my 15 minute meal Worth the animals going through that their entire lives or do I do I really want to support those industries that do that to the animals? You know, and that's usually a pretty good Reason for you not to fall off There's a few reasons sometimes people fall off one they might be out with friends and it's might be social pressure So I think being adequately prepared so where you going for dinner tonight with your friends Is there a vegan option there if there's not a vegan option there? I mean, I'd be super surprised especially if it's a UK at the January But you can just call the restaurant ahead of time and say hey Can I'm coming down? Do you have any vegan options? Could you prepare me something? Boom done. You don't have to worry about it being awkward at the restaurant because they already know you're coming and You know, so it's usually something like that. You're not prepared. It might be That you really really want something That's not vegan and you have this weak moment you know, I Would say that's when you got to think of the animals and think okay is it worth it this week moment here I would also say this if you do happen to mess up Like don't just throw it all out the window. Oh my god. I really care about the animals I ate this cake now. I'm just gonna not worry about being vegan, you know, because I ate this cake It's over it's over and done with I'm just gonna go buy a whole pig and kill them And you know, I'm never gonna be vegan ever So I just think like don't you know if you do something like that because like habits are built up over time and sometimes you just You might mess up at the start or whatever when I first went vegan I would like have a sauce or something on something and then I realize oh my god That's actually not vegan. You know, I mean sometimes I would have I remember putting mayonnaise on a sandwich And I was like, oh my god Is that that's got dairy and I looked at it and looked at the back of it And it was actually vegan friendly and I was like, oh my god. Wow, that's vegan. So like you go through like this little Stage at the start when you're sort of like getting to know certain things you're gonna make a few mistakes here and there Also, I would say that people usually If they're restricting their calories tend to binge a lot and when you're in that hungry hungry hungry mindset Like I don't care. Just give it to me. That's when people might fall off So I'd make sure that you're eating enough food like and not just thinking. Oh, yeah, I'm just gonna eat salad Broccoli's vegan. I'm just gonna eat broccoli like broccoli is a side dish You got to make sure you you're filling yourself up and making sure you understand truly the cost of You know these animal products They are the most egregious cruel industries on earth by far the magnitude of the suffering and killing is beyond comprehension and We need more people who are principled to stand up stand up and say like I'm not I'm not supporting those industries I don't want anything to do with them. I'm not putting the dead bodies of those innocent beings in my mouth anymore and I'm just gonna wait. I'm not gonna eat that cake I'm gonna go and happy cow and look for vegan cakes nearby and you'll find them you find them because if there's a 24-hour test Go nearby if you go into any Petrol station nowadays like I should do a video how to be vegan in a petrol station Like you would be so surprised How much vegan stuff is in a petrol station? Even in a I've been in Australia cycling through the desert and I go to a petrol station and I can get cereal with soy milk and sugar and peanut butter and bread and there's little energy bars and There's so much stuff. You would be so surprised French fries this and that so you would be so surprised How easy it is not to fall off if you know what you're doing if you've got happy cows if you've got a good, you know You know, just you're a pragmatic pragmatic and Motivated by what happens to the animals So let's keep going What else we got? What else we got? Who else is leaving me Instagram questions? Okay, so this is an interesting one Someone says how does going vegan help with the environment? Well, I always liked this is a landmark study by Oxford University You can it's by Joseph poor he headed this study and Basically, I'm gonna get it up now. So this is one of the most It's one of the most eye-opening things I've seen so that it did a study a massive study on 20,000 farms in 119 countries, okay, and I'm gonna how do I how do I share my screen so you guys can see this? So let's just go boom boom there How do I add my screen share screen? Share screen here we go boom. How's that? Share here Chrome tab bang You guys see this? Okay, so now we're going. Okay. It's there. It's that's right behind me So it says avoiding meat and dairy is a single biggest way to reduce your impact on on a planet earth The biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock of livestock It provides just 18% of calories, but takes up 83% of farmland Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet So here the new and this new analysis shows that while meat and dairy provide 18% of calories and just 30 37% of protein it uses the vast majority 83% of farmland and produces 60% of agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions So basically you can reduce here. This is what he found If everyone adopted a vegan diet you could reduce the earth's farmland by 75% Because a lot of like people get it sort of back to front They think so you can just find this it's a the guardian Avoiding meat and dairy is a single big biggest way to reduce your impact on earth Super interesting and you can actually find the entire study linked in this If you're like into reading massive studies, you can find the entire study linked in here pretty easy to find So yeah, if everyone on earth adopted a vegan diet You could reduce the earth's farmland by 75% which is huge and that's all to do with like land use water use Which is resource use and if you if we have a population that is increasing Like we need more Plant food to feed us and why we why are we growing using all this land to grow plant foods for animals? and then you know if you think about like Use generating all these plant foods feeding them to our animal to get like this small payback Which is a small morsel of flesh and how many how many resources went into that small morsel of flesh? You know, it's just an inefficient use of plant foods, you know, we're growing all this soya to feed to chickens Cutting down the Amazon making room to grow soya Exporting that soya to from Amazon to the UK to feed to chickens in factory farms, you know What why wouldn't we just be eating the soya? directly Do I mean why wouldn't we just be eating these plant products directly this makes it makes no sense? So, yeah, that's very interesting. So that's how it helps with it. That's one big reason it helps with the environment It's also animal agriculture is leading cause of our ocean dead zones and think about the ocean as well If you if you see in the movie sea spiracy Plot like just what we're doing out there in the oceans is just Horrible sickening. It's just destructive mass murder torture in the oceans fishing vessels don't even have slaughter guidelines So fish are just dragged out and massive trawling nets and just dumped onto a boat deck to suffer and die Really really horrible cruelty and all the bio catch all the animals that are caught up in the necks The nets the sharks the sea turtles the seals dolphins, you know It's just terrible and You know the factory farm runoff runs out into the oceans causes ocean blooms and ocean dead zones toxification it's just Yeah, it's just not good like factory farming You know a grass grass grass grazing animals as well Which is they have to deforest to have those animals out in the grass and they cows need a lot of space So there's heaps of different issues with it and with the population increasing and everyone wants to eat meat It's eight billion people want to eat chickens and cows and fish There's not we're leaving no room for population growth. So it's just bad in so many ways and it's Climate change as well, but I'm not really an expert on climate change. I'm not an expert on environment at all But I know generally That it affects the climate as well Get yourself a nice green juice into you that'll make you feel amazing Amanda you've come to the right place this here is Is it's kind of like the live stream to give you tips so first of all what I would do Buzz you and Amanda you sound like serious You could either you could still sign up to be January if you'd like or there's another resource that I use called challenge 22.com and They basically offer you Mentors and guidance and little challenges to do each day. So the January it is the January time So you can still sign up to be January or challenge 22 once you have like You know a bit of a support network there challenge 22 offer a support network and a Veganuary will email you each day recipes and things like things like this. Then you want to think about focusing first on food because Veganism mostly is Like what you eat, but veganism isn't a diet veganism is like if you think of veganism as like this philosophy that you believe animals Should be treated with respect. They shouldn't be exploited Treated cruelly or killed Okay Then you live a lifestyle that is in alignment with that that principle. So that's what veganism is It's kind of like you say like it's similar to being opposed to racism or opposed to some other injustice You're opposed to animal exploitation cruelty animal abuse Basically veganism is living in alignment with your philosophy against animal abuse But in saying that a lot of it is diet what you eat because most animals that are slaughtered slaughtered for food and Most of the cruelty that happens on us the vast vast vast majority over 90% more happens Because people eat animals So look at your diet. Okay, let's have a look at your diet What I what I would say is vegan eyes what you already eat So if you get up in the morning and you're like I have a bagel with eggs or something No egg bagel you can make scrambled tofu instead of eggs and scrambled tofu if you get this stuff called black salt which you can get from Amazon You can get it from Holland and Barra specialty stores, it's got this eggy sort of taste and you can sprinkle that in your scrambled tofu You don't need to but you can and you can get nutritional yeast, which is like amazing cheesy little Supplement they it's delicious. You could sprinkle that in garlic powder and you can scramble up tofu With some vegan cheese if you wanted to and it tastes delicious and you can have that in the morning so you've just veganized your breakfast basically and Veganizing breakfast is super easy because you got oats and berries and vegan yoghurt, which is like a soya yoghurt or you can get oat yoghurt You can get vegan granola. You can get plant milks choose your plant milk Fruit obviously lots and lots and tons and tons of fruit fruits Vegan smoothies get amazing smoothie with flax seed with blueberries with banana with some green handful of greens in there Soya milk bang there's your breakfast done snacks are easy You know you could get like a sandwich with hummus and with vegetables and with you can get all these amazing vegan Sandwich items as well now What do you have for dinner like dinner like I usually have spaghetti bolognese or have a curry or I have Burrito or so you just veganize those things and then what you do is you just go on YouTube right and you watch people make it like I've got some cooking like some cooking videos on my channel as well But not just me. There's way better vegan cooks than me Just type in what I eat in a day YouTube to get some good ideas or type in the actual recipe like I want to make vegan burritos boom People were so creative with this stuff so good You can look up vegan food on Instagram just go searching through searching through searching through searching through Like right now at your little fingertips. You've got so much to choose from so many resources out there But like YouTube for me It's like the tutorial haven where you can learn anything you could literally make your own vegan chicken Like all you do is you get flour So there's a it's called washed flour Try this if anyone tries it has anyone tried this wash flour So you get flour and they make a dough and then they wash that dough and then what's left is the protein from the flour And then you cook it in you cook it in a stock of each vegetable stock And then you fry it and it's it flakes up like like chicken and it's just the protein from the wheat Check that out on YouTube. So anything you want basically Spag bowl you could just replace the mince the which mince is just it's an animal. He was raised Shot in the head had their head cut off minced up into million pieces It's essentially the dead body of an animal. He wanted to live. So instead of that you get some vegan mince or my number one tip for mince is TVP textured vegetable protein It is super high in protein It's super healthy for you as well because it's got fiber calcium Really healthy TVP you can get TVP from you can I like to order stuff online Because it's super easy for me. So that just comes in the post like you can find all this stuff online TVP and it comes dried and you rehydrate it So you can just like pour some boiling water over it and rehydrate it and then just strain it off a little bit And then put it in your bolognese Or you can just make your bolognese sauce with tomatoes and make it a little bit watery So that's it's got some room to absorb and then you just put it in and it will absorb all the water and I'm telling you right now TVP is Super low-fat super high in protein and so meaty and tasty that you'll just be like what how did I not know about TVP? You know, I mean you freak out. It'll freak you out. I love TVP and It's a it is definitely a top tip. It is a top tip from me to you So that's food Food is should be pretty easy get vegan ice cream. You can get vegan takeaway You can use happy cow the app repeating myself because these are important tips Happy cow is an app that you can find vegan options Wherever you are in the world and it's just it's an interactive map Happy cow. I always use it. I always use it been vegan for eight years I still use it to this day to this day and it's super helpful. So happy cow So that's your food done. All right Now now you want to start looking out What else is my lifestyle is not being like I want to buy a sweater so that sweater looks warm, but Is it made of wool? You know, so you just check the tag go like because I've got a the wool industry They They like to humane wash the industry. It's not humane. It's not they exploit those sheep for their wool, but they they specifically breed them for their wool and a Lot of cruelty happens in that industry. Most of the apparel wool comes from Australia They do something called mules in which is cutting the back end of the sheets behind and down to the Muscle and it's really horribly cruel a lot of our shearing accidents happen And then they live export those animals on ships a lot of them die on the ships and they get killed in Countries without slaughter guidelines. It's horrible industry Anyway, so you just check the tag you go. Is there any animal products? Is it is this cotton polyester? You know, is there is their wool is there, you know, then you sort of like looking at your clothing now You know, is that fur is it is their fur on my clothing? I don't really want an animal to suffer and die so I can look good Vegan makeup, right? You'd be surprised how much vegan makeup there is Tarian. What about vegan makeup? We have a guide. Where's my guide? So my in my guide, we've got a little guide for vegan makeup vegan cosmetics and basically If you go on my website So, so let's go joeycabstrong.com You can even download that you can even download our little vegan guide for us, you know joeycabstrong.com Let's go. Let's go together. Let's go to my we're gonna go together. All right, let's do this We're going to my what's this? We don't want that tab stop scaring. We want to share a different tab now Let's go share screen Here we are look at we go on chrome tab Joeycabstrong boom. Here we are. Why does it share so small? I want it to be bigger Amanda look at that. All right, so Where is activism downloads boom here we go activism downloads Uh-huh, good idea. So we've got the UK and Australian downloads. Sorry for anyone in the US can't help you there We've got one coming for the US. So this has got why how here we go Here we go. So we're on my website now. We've got the how is this scanning. Is this what why isn't it moving? Oh I know I know why Okay, so Luckily luckily I'm very savvy with this live streaming stuff Let's go window. Let's go there. Let's go share Okay, now we're talking. So now you can see You can download this on my website Obviously and it's got the how Little chain little where to shop here we go cosmetics So in the UK you got super drug boots lush the body shop have the large range of big vegan products These places have other vegan options or they are completely vegan and look out for the vegan label Also elf cosmetics. Look at this one elf really good for vegan Super cheap as well. There we go super cheap and affordable But super drug they actually have everything labelled as vegan and same with boots. I think but um So there you go. You got your cosmetics down pat, you know, that's that's pretty good And then you want to start looking out like See this is why I tell people food first because I don't want to overwhelm everyone like and go Oh, like if you don't eradicate Everything from your house right now. That's not vegan. You are just you're so bad. You're so bad That's what I prefer like stick with food first and then like you can start thinking about okay I've got the makeup that I've already got that's that's done But I want to buy some new makeup and I really want to know if Animals have been tested on or if there's animal products in the makeup I want vegan makeup and then you start vegan makeup in the UK. You know what I mean? And then you know, you go wait a second Like I wonder if when I go for use my shower gel is my shower gel even vegan like these are the things that start coming into your mind This is what happened with me so thinking like it's my it's my shower gel vegan like that's an interesting one I wonder if that then I go and look it up and I go no, no, it's not So what I wonder if there's vegan shower gel, so then I found like some really good vegan shower gels What's the one we use? Original sauce that's everywhere you can find it everywhere original sauce and they've got like rhubarb strawberry flavor You know, you and they're cheap as well. They're not like super expensive. I mean, I'm not rich But um, you know, you can get vegan anti dandruff stuff as well from Tesco's Tesco's have got if you look on the back of a lot of Tesco's home products in their cosmetic in there like You know where their shampoos and that are you just turn them around and this is vegan. You know what I mean? So it's Just I hope that helps, you know what I mean And I'm trying to like give you like a little step-by-step little guide like I don't want people go. Oh my god I'm overwhelmed. You're freaking me out. What do you mean shower gel isn't vegan like this is crazy You're crazy veganism is crazy. It's something that sort of like They're natural progressions of you changing your diet and then you go, I don't really want to support You know, there's a reason why I buy a vegan, you know shower gel and like even like if you go in my kitchen We use vegan dishwashing liquid and stuff, you know, I mean and they don't cost all that much different They're cheaper than the same same price or whatever, you know, I mean So like it's things to to think about like for example when I first went vegan I had a pair of shoes, right that I bought when I got out of prison back in the days when I was naughty I got out of prison I bought these shoes then I went vegan a couple months later And I was wearing these shoes for a year or two and I didn't really know much about shoes and a friend said to me Do you know those shoes actually have leather on them? And I was like what they were like air maxes or something So I had them for a couple of years. Obviously I had bought them So I wasn't buying new leather shoes But like I didn't really want to wear them because I well I didn't want to wear them at all because I despise the leather industry. I despise the idea of Wearing the skin that was torn off of an animal like that was more than Likely tortured. I didn't want to wear their skin. So I felt sick and I just Got rid of them But I didn't know You know, I mean so then I knew then I knew like oh god next time I buy shoes I'm gonna make sure there's no leather on them. You know, I mean So this is just something that you kind of You work out so don't like when you go. Oh, like this is too hard or whatever It's actually not it's actually not and I know when you like over pressure yourself because what you're doing now Is like you're asking questions and you're you're thinking about this, which is good thinking about like how can I live without You know, I don't want animals gone to the slaughterhouse on my behalf. I don't want them in a Testing lab. I don't want them getting their skin ripped off of them so I can wear shoes, you know things like this So keep going. Let's keep going. Who else wants some tips these tips helping people? Someone says co-op has reasonably priced vegan ice cream. They do co-op. Actually, I've had it I've had it. It's a great. Oh, it's good That was tasty. What do we got here? We got Kevin. Who's this Kevin Smith Kevin Smith 20 year vegan 20 years Kevin's been vegan now if Kevin can do it Anyone can do it in that right Kevin You've been vegan twice as long as me And I bet you you're twice as handsome There we go So let's let's keep let's keep going What do we got on Instagram? We you know We're providing a service here to new Vegans or vegans who are people are doing veganuary So we've got one on on Instagram here and it basically says Hello Joey, I'm a new vegan and I'm wondering what plant-based food I need that are best for calcium and protein, etc So we're going back to the nutrients thing. So people do worry about nutrients when they go vegan it's it's it's interesting because People don't like when I before I went vegan. I never worried about nutrients I just ate I just ate what I wanted when I wanted sometimes I ate a bit of fruit and I thought oh, yeah That's probably healthy. Sometimes I had like a bit of soggy lettuce and a burger and I thought oh, yeah There's a bit of vegetables in there like I never really thought about nutrients Until I went vegan because all of a sudden I was like, oh my god What if like I'm gonna die of protein deficiency like I was actually scared of not getting protein Which is crazy because all plants contain all nine essential amino acids in varying degrees So like even lettuce has all nine essential amino acids I wouldn't recommend just eating lettuce because you need them and you need enough calories to meet your protein Requirements, but you know like your average Person who's not athletic Probably need about between 50 and 80 grams of protein a day. You know what I mean like but if you stop if you're athletic You might want more But you aren't the question is where do I get those nutrients? well, if you If you really want to know right and if you're really curious to know what what foods have what and you're a bit of a like nutrient Nerd like me sometimes I like to like look into like oh how much protein is that got like a protein? Chronometer the app. Do you want me to just get it up for you guys? You know what why not? It's veganuary. It's like Christmas It's veganuary We've got the whole veganuary crew in And we're gonna give chronometer a shout out not sponsored by chronometer They just paid me two million dollars for this advert. No, they didn't Not sponsored they just gave me two million dollars to say this now they didn't at all Let's go chronometer. Here we go It's free free up So here we go, let's put me in the picture. Let's put me there we go. Look at that looking fresh looking fresh all right, so You know what? I want someone to You know what we're gonna do let's Let's go here Add food. I'm gonna make a whole I'm gonna make a whole breakfast. So let's go frozen So, what do you have for breakfast? I like frozen blueberries. I probably just have a hundred grams of them I might get some like oats oats We're quick try probably have a hundred grams of oats. That's a decent amount really you're probably looking at more like 75 grams of oats. I'm not 750 grams. Yeah now 75 grams boom. So what else we got here? Then you might want like I don't know Uh, let's just let's just get some some ground flaxseed, you know Ground flat or we got ground flax. You just probably want to like 10 grams of that, you know something like that I like I personally like soy milk You know say a hundred and fifty hundred to be 50 grams of soy milk is probably The splash you cook that up. There you go. This is a little breakfast 443 calories here. So then we've got protein 17.8 grams of protein. You might say Joey I'm massive. I'm like I'm getting I'm getting shredded. I'm a bodybuilder, bro. Like that is That's not enough protein for a mouse. I need way more than a mouse. So then you just probably go like, okay, let's go Begin protein powder. That's a good one. I don't know they're all the same to me really um Let's go vegan protein powder. Let's chuck in That's that's it. That's not actually not a good one to be honest with you. What's the one I used to use? Let's go Vivo protein powder Vivo life protein powder. Oh god You want to get a protein powder that's at least 60% protein My protein. No bulk What do we got here? Oh, yeah, this one's about 60. Okay. Here we go So, you know, you chuck in a scoop one ounce. It's about a scoop one ounce bang, look at that Look at the protein gain You know, you might want to do that for breakfast if your bodybuilding or something like that And you're a big guy and you want a bit of protein most bodybuilders people at the gym They do a protein powder anyways my face looking hella big in that Instagram one. So there we go. So so let's let's go to Let's go to the nutrients here. What do we got here? Boom. Look at the omega 3s off the charts, dude Amiga 3 is off the charts What else we got proteins not quite yet there. Yeah, but it's only the first meal. It's only the first relax It's only the first meal relax We've got some b1 in there. We've got this and that So then we're going to go. Okay. What it's lunch time bras. I'm hungry. What do I have for lunch? Sometimes I just have let's get some tofu. I love tofu if you cook it right It's amazing if you don't cook it right it tastes crap Just like if you were to eat raw chicken It wouldn't taste nice or even if steamed chicken breast with no Salt it would be crap. So look here we go. We've got some tofu. I like the firm get the firm tofu raw raw silken Not cooked firm No, that's not drained You know something like firm tofu bang okay let's go 250 grams or not 200 million 250 g 250 g Oh, look at that bang tofu bang you might want like You might want to sizzle that up with some garlic and this and that I'm not going to put everything in I don't usually put everything in But you might want some greens broccoli, let's go broccoli boom I love broccoli. So I usually have like let's go 350 steam it up put some Put some stock powder on there make it epic. You know what I mean? Let's go sweet potato Sweet potato not look how I spelt sweet potato sweet potato boom I usually weigh it raw. So I might just go. Ah, let's go 250 sweet potato bang Boom Check it out. You don't eat it raw. You obviously cook it And uh, you know, you might want to sprinkle a little bit of like Hummus on top. I don't know like hummus. Who doesn't like hummus? So you might just sprinkle like I don't know 80 grams of hummus on top Man, look at that. That's looking good. See look at the protein there 85 grams already. I'm sad um So now we're starting to see a little bit here. Look so now we're starting to see okay So this is the good thing about About chronometer is you you basically start to understand. Okay. What's got carbs protein and fat? Like this isn't something that just vegans should be doing This is something that look I've nearly I've met 99 of my fiber requirements already Uh, 187 percent iron requirements 53 calcium Vitamin a is off the charts just from 250 grams of sweet potato Vitamin c and you start to think okay. What what gave me all that vitamin Vitamin a and you start to see okay. It was the sweet potato a little bit of the broccoli. That's got vitamin a um You know and you go well I need what what's all that vitamin k from and you go okay broccoli's full of vitamin k All right. I know that for next time. Not sure why people would be too concerned about those things but some people are Where am I getting all my protein from tofu so good protein and what else has it got? What else has tofu got? I'll show you what tofu's got Where is it? Where is it? Where am I going to get my calcium from? Broccoli bang tofu bang. Look at that calcium film um So you see what i'm talking about now. Let's go dinner. Let's go dinner. Um, let's go What do we want for dinner? I like having a bit of brown rice. This is like This is healthy. This is this is healthy. I'll get uncooked. Let's go 100 grams bang film might get some um Vegan chicken. Let's go. What do we got? Um What do we got vegan chicken? What what are they called from uh ice land? The ice land um Vegan imitation chicken bites. Oh, that's good enough I suppose Um, we'll do two of them It's a lot of calories boom chuck it in Bang and we might we might want some mixed Veggies half cup boom You know what I'm saying I'm saying we've got 2,000 calories here 120 grams of protein. What's missing? So this is what you do, right? So now you've got 2,000 calories, which is decent. You probably want a bit more if you're energetic and that I mean you could have like we could have like, you know some some make some banana ice cream frozen bananas we can go frozen banana you blend it up with some soy milk um I'm I'm a little bit hungry still. Let's go here frozen frozen veggies frozen fruit. Sorry um Let's get a couple of blend it up in a blender with some uh soy milk Um, you want it fortified you can get fortified soy milk So let's go about about 150 soy milk Bang because you might want to get some extra calcium as well you know what I'm saying Bang blend it up. You can have a little bit of like A name maple syrup boom Don't want that much probably 20 grams bang There you go If you if you start looking here you start going okay. What's got what I'm I'm low on vitamin D Okay, the vitamin D. You should be supplementing anyway vitamin e interesting. So you might want to change your soy milk to almond milk and then you get your vitamin e and there's a lot of uh, vitamin e in something like a pepper a red pepper all right So red pepper you might want 200 grams of red pepper to put in your brown rice with your um, you know, you made a little stir fry before Where's your vitamin e boom 70 70%? I don't know how much of that you really need to get you can If you want to start like micro managing your nutrients Light scenes a little low big deal Like it's it's not like something you have to hit every single day. You want to just look at this zinc oats zinc bang A selenium boom oats oats have got heaps of good minerals in the may so, you know what I'm saying, um And then you can sort of like muck around with it muck around with it If you want less carbs more protein you can muck around with it But this is a super good app to do it b12. You should be supplementing Vitamin D. So let's just go. I'll show you my supplement pollen and barrett vegan I'll spell barrett wrong pollen and barrett Vegan multi multi vitamin right one tablet bang Here we go. Look at that. Do you see see what just happened then? boom boom everything's off the charts now because All I did which I do it every morning anyway is took my multi vitamin if you're worried, do you know what I'm saying? It's got b12 and it's got everything. It's got everything in it. Look at this boom boom boom off the charts um So there we go. I hope that that has helped What's going on here with my little camera? I hope that has helped anyone It's called chronometer this website chrono cronometer I hope that's helped anyone who is a little bit worried about nutrients now. You shouldn't be micro managing your nutrients You should just be eating a decent amount of whole foods each day. Don't be silly You know have some red vegetables have some green vegetables have some beans and have some I don't know nuts and seeds on top of your oats A good way to to kick start getting enough nutrients is With a smoothie Now we're talking about health and I know people get scared of being unhealthy when they go vegan But you a lot of these things people that aren't vegan don't do they don't go out and go oh gotta go on chronometer They're just eating like a sandwich and having a coffee and you know having an ice cream and maybe a bit of fruit here and there But they're not micro managing their their nutrients It's almost like people think that when you go vegan you've got to start micro managing anything I personally think you should look after your health I do I don't get enough sleep sometimes You might see me after being in farms all night just like zombified making a video going Please watch my my premiere is coming out. It's just because I'm tired, right? but in terms of like my my like I'll make one of these Green juices and my my nutrients are off the charts. They're off the charts you know so look As long as you're eating say 70% whole foods good good amount of fruit You know frozen berries greens Good amount of vegetables good amount of whole grains 20% treat yourself treat yourself Um, if you start feeling tired, it's probably you might not be eating enough calories not enough fruit You know too much vegan cheese not enough fruit. You know what I mean? It's just like not enough sleep you know I mean so Yeah, they're my little tips for nutrients for The new peeps the new vegans even long-term vegans if you're starting to feel a bit crap Make yourself a smoothie make yourself a green juice Um, get some more sleep make sure that you have in your multivitam in each day, you know And don't try to diagnose yourself Which I see people doing they're like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna diagnose myself I think I'm tired because I'm iron deficient and I'm like Like Have you got doctors telepathic powers? How do you know you're iron deficient like have you had a blood test? No, then why are you Diagnosing yourself self diagnosing through paranoia. I see it all the time and it's not good um so Vegan food and low fiber, please. I've got an illness again So basically I'm not a registered dietitian either. So I've got to be careful like register my camera keeps being funny I've got to be careful like giving people specific dietary advice, but I can tell you like That chronometer will help you there too because there's a lot of you know, if you need more refined foods You can have like white pasta, you know, white rice. You can have um You might be better with Processing fruit and I don't know what type of fiber as well because there's two types of fiber. There's soluble and insoluble fiber Um soluble fiber is that gelatinous fiber and insoluble fiber is the fiber that is like a brush And it's a lot more harsh So maybe you want to steer away from the harsh fiber and more to the insoluble fiber because You you know fruits and vegetables have fiber and you need fruits and vegetables So you're gonna have to eat fruits and vegetables I don't think any doctor would tell you not to eat fruits and vegetables, but if you do a juice or a smoothie Without too many greens So like if you do a juice you can get the benefits of greens and vegetables without there being too much fiber, okay And but that is a question For a vegan registered dietitian who would be able to help you and there are all you have to do Is maybe vegan you even even have some resources for this but on challenge 22 There's vegan registered dietitians who can help you with all these specific Questions and they're actually qualified to talk about this um But chronometer will help you with low fiber Vegan foods and had little tricks to take the fiber out and still be healthy because you don't want to be like Or i'm just going to eat sugar because that's no fiber and sugar Okay, uh, why did that come back up? Um, let's keep going. Let's keep going. We've got they've got million comments in here Million comments So let's go back to Sorry, if i'm missing if i missed your comment leave it again. Leave it again. We're going to do 15 more minutes so So billy billy jack barton actually made an interesting point His is apart from b12 which we all know everyone should be getting b12 and you should be supplementing it vegan or not um Are there any other vitamins that may be beneficial to me on a vegan diet? um like there is The case for iodine i'm pretty sure Iodine interesting and i'll show you how i get mine Oh, will i get it through my multivitamin because the multivitamin has iodine right, but There's also like if you like these little Where is it? Am i gonna i'm gonna go back into focus focus. There we go. Look at our focus um You're gonna focus on this crispy seaweed Just like seaweed I mean if you like seaweed some people don't But sushi you could make yourself some vegan sushi and you could just use avocado and tofu instead of killing the fish microphones in the way But it's not like I like people get freaked out that i'm a god If i don't get my iodine tomorrow like i'm gonna have iodine deficiency, but just get a multivitamin covers all your bases um It's also iodine and iodized salt and You know my multivitamin has zinc you see my multivitamin you know what I mean just uh My multivitamin just my multivitamin just rocked every anti-vegan's world. Didn't it? I was just like boom boom. Look at that. Look at all those Like does it look at my my chronometer dude? You know what I mean? And uh, the thing is when you're looking at your Your diet, it's about your the totality of your diet. So you can have some bad days. You can have some off days You know, it's about what you did month to month You know not not dated not moment to moment. You don't be like, I don't know my beat 12 in one minute. I'm Gonna die of deficiency. It's like You want to all-round be making sure you're having enough fiber if you're not going to the toilet properly You need to increase your fiber. Okay If you're feeling a bit low, maybe you need to increase your fruit in calories um If you believe you're deficient And you're getting enough iron on chronometer, then you might have an absorption issue So you might need to go to the doctor and it doesn't matter if you're a meat eater or not If you have absorption issues, you can't get your iron. You don't absorb it. Don't absorb it. So um, then you might need To look at some type of supplementing iron infusion. I don't really know what they do for that But they're specific scenarios. Um for your general person Should be good. Should be good. Um Let's have a look here um Someone says our kemp. What's kemp? um Someone says iodine d3 and vitamin e Yeah, I mean, yeah Let's keep rolling. We got a we got another 10 minutes to help out the new vegans and uh, veganary folk I do want to make a pretty clear like Veganism is a philosophy that is At its in its roots it's rooted in animals rights like the concept That animals deserve the right not to be exploited treated crawly and killed. You know what I mean? like that That animals matter inherently Because there is an individual Inside of that animal they look different their species is different But they their their experience matters to them so They deserve to be protected Because when you look around and you experience reality and you see everything with you with your eyes and you're feeling everything with your sentience and You know, you're conscious. You're a conscious being If someone harms you or takes your freedom away from you or threatens to kill you That matters to you now The same applies to like a pig or a chicken You might think oh cares about them. They're insignificant doesn't matter to me what happens to some chicken but when you When you actually look at that chicken and try to put yourself in the position of that chicken It matters a lot to that chicken because that's their only life and they're born into bodies that fail them They grow so fast now like in a month. They're that slaughter weight And their little legs fail them and they're suffering in sheds all around the uk all around the world And then the industry will come out and say like this is humane red tractor approved rspca approved and this you know, they say they they pummel people with images of green grass and pastures and they never show you the images of a slaughterhouse and the animal pleading for their life Getting chopped up into pieces. They don't show you these images. We do We show you these images the people who are selling their body parts Do not want you to stop eating the body parts that they're trying to sell you So they do anything to market this to and they they they want to avoid you feeling bad about it So essentially they tell you what you want to hear and tell you that something humane happens along the way That hey, we raised them really nicely on this green grass before we jammed them into a truck transported into a murder factory and cut their heads off Do you know what I mean or in the case of pigs and birds? Put them into controlled atmosphere stomach stunning units and Lowered them into a dungeon full of co2 gas or they suffocated to death Um, you can imagine how terrifying that would be. So when you think about veganism, don't think of it as a diet think of it as A belief that animals rights matter and they should be respected And the extension of that is that I should live in a way that respects their rights as far as practicable so yeah, so that's what I want you all to know and Yeah, so every if you if you live your life with that principle The forefront of your conscience Everything you do from that point should be in alignment with that and if it's not at all times you might you might go I didn't know I didn't know that that industry was cruel. I didn't know horse racing was bad You'll learn you'll learn along the way Like there's so many things that I didn't know when I first went vegan and then now I do know And um, like I wouldn't feel don't feel bad if you didn't know You just learn you're on a you're on a little like Journey of discovery discovering these things what I will say is that when you find out That about what happens in these industries Then you do know so then You have a responsibility to act And then the natural progression for me for going vegan like, you know, I went vegan I was trying to work everything out like what's vegan. What's not like the natural progression for me was to speak up for the animals And that's a lesson I want everyone to take away because like You probably went vegan because you heard or saw something and someone said something to you was like A group of messages that were Planting seeds and then you decided, you know one day one day you just decided I'm going to give it a go You know, I actually I care about the environment. I care about the animals at it, you know and you decided to give it a go but Now now you're gifted with this knowledge that not many people are aware of you know what I mean, so The natural progression of that point is to do something say something Get involved with doing activism or saying something on your social media or talking to friends and family About it or sharing a documentary with them doing these little pragmatic things. So if we have Thousands of people doing that millions of people doing that like people that I educate have Reach hundreds of millions of people from on the media social media newspapers Uh tv shows things like this reach so many people and all those people after hearing my message Or the message that I have it's not my message. It's the vegan message. Basically. It's a message that They heard from me then they go out and they become Voices for that message too and they go out and speak to A group of people over the course of their lives and then those people go out and speak to a group of people Of course of their lives and um And luckily i'm not the only vegan advocate on earth. There is tons of vegan advocates We all Have different approaches, but we all sing the same tune. We all have the same message and organizations And long-term vegan activists short-term vegan activists social media activists street activists investigators All of us working in in sync and and you can be an activist too Um, you just have to sort of redefine in your mind what you think an activist is it's just being proactive and speaking up and sharing information and waking other people up and um, so if someone woke you up You can be the person to wake Someone else up and nothing feels better than other than going vegan yourself Is that impacting others to do the same and you think to yourself? You know, i decided to go vegan or to do veganuary because i wanted to create an impact um What bigger what what bigger impact you could leave if you Influence one two three ten a hundred people To make that same change you've just magnified your impact, haven't you? So how how much power you have just from the knowledge that you have now? And it feels really good when someone messages you and Emails you and goes you know like i'm vegan because of you and now i'm an activist because of you and now i've turned All these people vegan because of you because it Because and and the thing is like i only heard i heard this message from others too I mean It was a seed was planted and then i started looking into it, you know And there was many educators before me who left their own sort of trail Of vegan advocates, you know, i mean so i mean Just trying to like leave you with a little bit of inspiration as well. So like it's not it doesn't stop end here Although this is start I hope that i see a bunch of people who are doing veganuary this year A bunch of new vegans this year who go on to create a bunch of new vegans for next year And that's how we create Change and that's how we get the snowball effect and it goes on to change the world So we'll take one more question before we leave and uh You know what i'm actually not going to take a question. I'm just going to direct you to some websites. So veganuary amazing website A challenge 22 as well great website Watch the film dominion dominion on youtube to learn about what happens to animals Uh, you can go to my website for um little vegan guides and Uh, which you can print out you can download onto your phone Check out happy cow. It'll be your friend. It'll find all the vegan stuffs for you. Um Just get to learn and get to learning it's a it's a amazing thing to be armed with knowledge and learn as much as you can and Yeah, and uh, you'll be just fine. So I hope everyone enjoyed my Veganuary new vegans vegan curious helpful little live stream um, good luck on your vegan lifestyle Journey and I hope that uh your vegan long into the future and Yes, thank you all for tuning in. Thanks to everyone for your support and So thanks to everyone basically even if you're being nasty. Thank you too for tuning in and for helping the engagement of the live stream and uh, yeah, we'll see you all very soon and uh Take it easy