 That's right everybody's favorite little angsty teenage singer Billy Eilish just snapped on all the non-vegans out there and it's something that we definitely need to talk about. What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I like to do is take a look at what's happening in the YouTube community or pop culture and try to see what lessons we can learn from them so if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and if you're not following me on Instagram and Twitter what are you waiting for at the Rewired Soul and you'll get updates about all the other stuff I'm doing it's not just a YouTube channel so if you need if you need a little bit more Chris make sure you're following me because I'm trying to get more active on my blog and I just posted a new blog post that I'll put in the description below I posted on my community tab but anyways it's something I learned about the importance of bathing every single day in self-care when you're struggling with depression so there's a link to that blog down below as well as my social media so you know when new blog posts go up new podcasts and all that kind of stuff all right but yeah Billy Eilish I saw this on Twitter I think it was retweeted by Anthony Fantano and it was from Billy Eilish's Instagram story and it was a little message to non-vegans all right so here's what it said I keep my mouth shut most of the time about this because I believe everyone should do eat and say whatever they want and I don't feel the need to shove what I believe in in anyone's face but man if you can watch the videos that I just posted and not give a crap that it's you contributing by literally eating the creatures that are being fully tortured just for your pleasure I feel sorry for you I understand that meat tastes good and I know you think you're just one person and it quote unquote won't change anything if you stop but that's ignorant and stupid if you have half a brain you should know one person adds up be smarter all right so I have some things to say about this now how am I qualified in any way shape or form to discuss this topic well little known fact I have actually been a vegetarian for almost two years now right I actually said something on Twitter I retweeted a comment that I got or I tweeted a comment that I got like a lot of people don't think I'm a vegetarian because I'm overweight but just trust me I'm living proof that overweight vegetarians do exist but anyways I wanted to discuss this and what Billy Eilish said as a vegetarian and you know just talking about my experience as well as just some of the things I don't like in the vegetarian slash vegan community now something that I haven't taken the full leap on yet is being vegan all right there is a lot that I eat that is fully vegan and I might discuss that a little bit later in this video but anyways when it comes to Billy Eilish something I want to discuss is it's not it's not the best method to get people to change or make this world a little bit better or different by trying to shame them into this right like I didn't see the videos that she watched like personally I don't watch those like I know they're happening okay and I when I became vegetarian it was mainly for health reasons I had high blood pressure seven years ago when I was getting clean and sober I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure high blood pressure runs in my family so my doctor you know was talking to me about it I said you know what my best friend and my beautiful girlfriend are you know vegetarian or vegan and I'm gonna give it a try so I made a commitment to try for one month just to see what happened my blood pressure went down and I lost 20 pounds all right so it started out as a health thing for me okay but like we know like we know what's happening on these farms right like so I don't watch these these videos that people share like like I know what's happening I'm against it I don't like it but that's that's my thing but a lot of people don't watch it just because they choose not to know where their meat is coming from but here's the thing like I said I don't believe in shaming people into your way of thinking and I feel it makes like vegans and vegetarians look really bad now don't get me wrong Billy Eilish has a massive audience massive audience so like when I look at what she's doing and the amount of influence that she has like don't get me wrong I guarantee I guarantee she has some fans who are going to see her saying these things and they're going to be little Billy Eilish fan girls and be like oh snap Billy Eilish doesn't want me to eat meat so I'm not going to eat meat that's cool by the way if you're about to make the switch talk to a doctor or talk to people who have experience being vegetarian or vegan to make sure you're getting all the other vitamins and everything like that you might just have to take a multivitamin but also one of the myths about being vegetarian and vegan is that like the substitutes do not have all the vitamins and that's not true at all like many of the foods that myself and Tristan eat have all the natural vitamins that you're gonna need all right but in in any case like you could take you know multivitamins and things like that now again I kind of mentioned with like Billy Eilish I don't believe in like this kind of like pushing this agenda and she says she's not but like when you're when you have an influence of millions of people and you're saying like you're dumb and ignorant like you kind of are like like kind of pushing it but anyways let's talk about the ethical side of this this so again like I started out with my vegetarianism because of health reasons but then it turned kind of ethical you know like I have my you know my amazing cat Maya um and things like that but I did start thinking about this and something that I'm really into is like um Buddhist philosophy not the religion but the philosophy and my loving kindness and trying to express like empathy for all beings right and like that that kind of aside from losing weight and my blood pressure going down like it kind of helped me stay off of meat right aside from that there's some bomb meat substitutes out there but anyways I'll never forget this in in Las Vegas a couple years ago right around the time I first became vegetarian like um there was uh this like U-Haul truck that was pulled over if I have a uh a screenshot of the news story I'll put it uh put it up but like the the U-Haul was like filled filled with like Pomeranians all right these little dogs and they were like crammed in these little cages and everything like that and people freaked out and like luckily some animal shelters and veterinarians took all these dogs in and I treated them back to health and there was this huge push to get them adopted and everything like that and I remember just one of my friends here in Las Vegas sharing this on Facebook and saying like you know like why are we so um you know empathetic towards dogs but things like this are happening to farm animals on a daily basis and I was like dang that makes sense and it just it's just something that I had to think about because I was early on in my vegetarianism and didn't know if I was gonna stay on it but it's what they had to think about like why am I so compassionate towards like household pet animals but not other animals out there all right so again I'm not trying to push anything on you but these are just things that I think about so when I look at Billie Eilish and what she put out there and everything and like girl I am part of like some vegan groups on Facebook and the insanity that goes on there like if you want to see pure craziness go get in a vegan Facebook group and watch vegan on vegan hate it will blow your mind so I just want to in this video with some suggestions I have to anybody out there like the first thing that we have to do is just acknowledge like ethically like what's going on a lot of us you know wouldn't wouldn't agree with it if we were there right if we know about it but a lot of us choose ignorance because that's bliss and everything so here's here's my suggestion like one of them if you want to see a great great great video I'll try to put the clip down in the description below but it's between Joe Rogan and Russell Brand Joe Rogan is a hunter all right he hunts his food and eats it you have Russell Brand who is a vegan and Joe Rogan is all about the ethical treatment of animals so he talks about like doing it in a humane way and like certain farms that he will buy eggs from and things like that you know what I mean so there if you're going to keep eating meat like I am of no you know illusion that people are going to watch this and keep eating meat just like try to think about those things in like the ethical way because the other issue that we have to think about is global warming right these factory farms are contributing to global warming which kind of sucks okay so what we all have to realize and like even though I don't agree with how Billy Eilish said it like what we have to realize is that we do make a difference just one by one by one I remember after being vegetarian for a year right I remember just going to the store and just wondering like okay like it's all about supply and demand like the grocery store that I go to buy my house do they order you know less things because I'm not buying as much meat as I was right because when they're looking at their numbers and saying okay we're not selling as much maybe we don't need as much so then the farms aren't going to need to produce as much you see what I mean so like I'm also a realist and something I've been talking about a lot lately when I'm talking about mental health and kind of improving your mental health and everything like that it's baby steps all right like yeah saying like cutting out meat entirely can be overwhelming it can seem crazy and everything like that so something that you might benefit from if it's just something you're even on the fence about or you just want to like help in some way shape or form what I suggest is like pick one day a week two days a week three days a week whatever you think you can do it would be like okay this one day I'm going to be vegetarian all right and listen listen baby like research your city find you a good vegan restaurant or just find a vegan restaurant right like most are vegan and not vegetarian but you will find some amazing amazing meat substitutes by the way while I'm on the topic one of the dumbest things that I ever hear is well if it tastes like meat you might as well just eat meat like what no animal died like for example carl's junior now has the beyond burger tastes phenomenal and I hear more and more fast food places are doing that but anyways just try to do one day where you cut out meat products all right like even a I'm not full-blown vegan okay so that means I still have dairy like milk cheese um I still eat eggs and things like that but I'm trying to do my part as a vegetarian so if you add up all the people if people just did this one day a week like even my son my son's 10 years old been vegetarian for about two years so my son still eats meat when he's at his mom's house but when he comes over here like I do get him some meat products and he better eat it because I don't but anyways um I do make him a lot of vegetarian meals and he absolutely loves it if you guys want me to make a video or like some like uh Instagram post or tweets about like vegetarian meals and things like that that I make and what I buy at the store let me know down in the comments below there's a lot of stuff if you go down to the vegetable aisle at your grocery store you will find some dope vegetarian substitutes whether it's like um beyond meat uh corn um what is it famous star what what's the one the star morning star morning star all right there are some good vegetarian products and just check it out like get a little thing of like chicken nuggets or like um I like their chicken sandwiches too like they're pretty dope but anyways just check it out if you want me to do some videos on that and talk about that more let me know down in the comments below all right so Billy Eilish I appreciate what you're trying to do but just dial it back just dial it back just a few notches all right girl but anyways if you're a vegan or vegetarian and you like made the switch like let me know like how the transition was for you or what what foods you buy or where you go for recipes and all that kind of stuff all right let me know down in the comments below but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and don't forget to follow me on instagram and twitter at the rewired so so you can stay up to date about blogs and everything like that the new blog is down in the description below but make sure you're 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