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You may think being vegan is the right thing
to do, that it’s compassionate and responsible,
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good for the environment, the planet, your
own health and, of course the animals. But
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did you also know that veganism is metal as
f&*%?
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Hi it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome
to another vegan nugget. As some of you know,
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I was recently in Orlando Florida and had
the pleasure of meeting up with two awesome
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vegan YouTubers, Tino from the channels Bananiac
and Symposium Films and Brian the Vegan Black
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Metal Chef.
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Two weeks ago I brought you my interview with
Tino and his corresponding interview with
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me on his channel.
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And today, I’m excited to share with you
my interview with the dark lord of YouTube
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himself, the Vegan Black Metal Chef. You may
be familiar with him in his more “metaly”
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incarnation but today we get to take a look
behind the faux leather and vegan makeup to hear
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from the man behind the Metal Chef.
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Right, so I am here today with Brian,
the Vegan Black Metal Chef who you might know
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from You Tube fame on his channel. We’re
just going to talk a little bit about his
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story. So, thank you so much for coming here.
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Thanks for having me.
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Yeah, so I would like, can you just
talk a little bit like what made you go vegan
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and what the process was like for you starting
out.
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Wow. Sure. I think I have the most
typical ‘why I went vegan story’ in all
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of existence. In high school, late high school
I had a girlfriend at the time that went vegetarian
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and at that time I said, ‘ you know what?
I see that as the right way to go but I’m
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not ready for that yet’ so I didn’t go
vegetarian or vegan or anything. Then, in
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my first year of college, I looked back a
year later and I said ‘well, she didn’t
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die and so well if she didn’t die and I
realized that it’s the right way to go then
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really, what am I so afraid of?’ And I really
recognized that as a fear within myself and
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I couldn’t live with this low level fear.
It wasn’t a fear for my life, it wasn’t
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a fear for anything, it was a fear of not
eating meat and a fear of the social conditioning
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around it so I just kind of faced that fear
and I went vegetarian for about 2 or 3 months
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and I attended an animal rights group at the
University of Florida where I was going at
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the time called “Animal Activists of Alachua”
and saw a few videos and went vegan.
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So, can you talk a little
bit about the development of your channel,
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like how did you come to this idea of ‘Alright,
I’m going to make a cooking show that is
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like a black metal show at the same time.
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Brian: Yeah, absolutely, the time was three
plus years ago, a little more than three years
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ago when the channel first started and I said
‘well, I’ve been vegan for about 14 or
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so years and at that time, I’d been vegan
about eleven or so years, well, I’ve been
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vegan for a decent amount of time I think
my meals taste awesome, they’re not very
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difficult to make and they’re really cheap
and so it’s everything that people think
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veganism isn’t so I said the world needs to
know about this in some way. I thought about
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doing a regular cooking show but they kind
of put me to sleep so I just really combined
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my passions of music and black metal music
in particular with the vegan cooking and made
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the cooking show I wanted to see and luckily
a few other people wanted to see it too.
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So I think it’s an interesting
marriage between vegan cooking and black metal.
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What would you say, it’s kind of a weird
question, what would you say, if veganism
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is metal, and if so, like, I don’t know,
do you feel like they converged really well together?
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Well, I think veganism is as metal
as fuck, but do they really ultimately have
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anything to do with each other? I guess you
can have some sparse connection, ultimately,
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I don't think they necessarily have… especially
the black metal music doesn't necessarily
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have anything to do directly with veganism.
It’s just the music that I like and the
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show I wanted to see. But veganism is as metal
as fuck. That’s good. I‘m glad we got
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that, as noted by many other metal musicians
out there already who are vegan. Really? Can
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you like name some of them? Well actually,
just in Revolver magazine recently, Alissa
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White-Gluz it either Alisha or Alicia, I always
get it wrong, and her boyfriend Doyle from
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The Misfits did a whole section about health
and metal eating and she says that Doyle eats
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mostly vegan when I chatted with her and it’s
really cool to see the both of them, they
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both workout like crazy and Doyle’s like
the biggest dude in existence. Angela Gossow,
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the previous singer of Arch Enemy is also
vegan. There’s a number of others here and
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there from the guys from Creator, the bassist
of Black Sabbath and a few others.
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If someone came to you and they were
just trying to start out on their vegan path,
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what kind of guidance would you give someone
about how to become vegan and to stay that
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way.
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Absolutely, well actually, I wrote
an entire article about this on my website;
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veganblackmetalchef.com - How to be vegan.
It’s just along the little top bar there
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on the website. First off, just start bringing
consciousness to your actions if you're not
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vegan currently, you're eating a non-vegan
meal. Think about where the meal came from.
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A lot of people go endlessly with ever thinking
about these things. And if you want to become
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vegan, there can’t be a struggle with being
vegan. There’s no struggle in my life with
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oh - it’s a restrictive life. It’s not
a restrictive diet, I haven’t even tried
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all the vegan choices yet. There are so many
incredible things to eat. There’s no struggle,
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there’s no cutting out. There’s really
an exploration of what plant-based choices
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you can find and can make. And so really,
just making consciousness to the meal and
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consciousness to your actions will make you
think okay where did this come from or how
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is everything affected by me eating this meal
or really the main key on how to stay vegan
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and how to stay vegan is it has to hurt more
to eat the meal than it would to not.
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Well I want to thank, Brian you so
much for your time. Do you want to tell people
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how to find you?
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Just Google Vegan Black Metal Chef
or veganblackmetalchef.com or Vegan Black
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Metal Chef on You Tube.
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Alright. Thank you very much for your
time.
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Thank you Emily.
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I don’t know why- I felt like the
need to do that.
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Give the video a big thumbs up if you enjoyed
hearing from the most metal vegan ever, and
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please share it around to show how hardcore
veganism really is. Check out the links to
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the Vegan Black Metal Chef in the video description
below and if you missed it, be sure to check
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out my interview with Tino and his corresponding
interview with me on his channel. Again they
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may look like the exact same video, but we
did them at the same time. But they’re two
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different ones. I promise. If you’re new
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