Hi there! If you’re a kid
and you’d rather listen to other kids than boring adults like
me, then this video is for you.
Hi it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome to another vegan nugget. I’m so excited
to be making another video just for you! And I’m even more exited to introduce you to
my friends: some awesome real vegan kids!
If you don’t already know, being “vegan” means you don’t eat animals or anything
that they make. If you want to know why anyone would want to be vegan, check out my videos
for kids so far. We’ve talked about why we don’t drink milk or eat meat, or eggs.
You can find links to those up there and down below if you want to watch them later.
Maybe you want to stop eating animals too. Well, instead of boring you with me talking
the whole time, I thought it would be really fun to talk to kids from all over the world who are vegan.
Because here’s something that a lot of adults seem to forgot: you kids are really smart
and you often say much smarter things than most adults! So now it’s time for me to
be quiet and let these super-smart, incredible vegan kids tell you why they don’t eat animals!
Let’s meet them all first!
There’s Elvis, who’s 3 and a half years old and lives in Hawaii in the United States.
Kevin, who’s 13 and from England and the Philippines, and currently living in Bahrain
Lilah, who’s 8 and Lex who’s 6, both from Massachusetts in the United States.
JoJo, who’s 4 years old, from London, England.
Lexie, who’s 13 from “the South” in the United States.
Ronya, who’s 14 and Oli, who’s 8, both from Waiheke Island in New Zealand.
Dylan, who’s 6.5 from Tel Aviv, Israel.
And Carolina Ali, who’s 13 and from Tennessee in the United States.
Now that you know their names, let’s hear why they don’t eat animals! And just so you
know sometimes it may be hard to hear everyone because we were talking from really far away,
so you can always turn on the captions down there, and I’ll put text up in the really hard parts. If you
can’t read yet, you can ask an adult for help.
I don’t eat animals because it’s bad for my body.
And guys, it's good not to eat animals, but…
How come?
Um, because animals are our friends!
So, I’m vegan for a number of reasons mostly to do with animal rights. Now does
it make much sense to be eating animals or their secretions if you love them?
But of course then there's environmental reasons. Without the earth then not going to
be us. Now they're going to be no humans if we don't have a place to live. So, of course
that’s very important. Of course my health--I've always considered myself a healthy person,
but now that I'm vegan, I am much more healthy. And then probably the last big reason is other
people. You know, going vegan can end world hunger and world thirst. And of course everyone
wants that to end. Going vegan helps not only animals but other people as well.
Main reason is ethical reasons, because I don’t think it’s our right to be, you know doing
these things to other animals just because we think that we have the “better species,” which we’re
really not. I went vegetarian when I was seven because we got chickens, kinda for pets, but
Dad wanted to eat them and get their eggs and stuff. And I didn't mind the eggs because
I didn’t really see what was wrong with that. But I didn't want to eat them because
I fell in love with them and they had names and such, so why would I want to eat them?
And then I sort of made the connection that, you know, just because the other ones don’t have names,
that I know, doesn’t mean they’re any less...special.
I’m vegan because I care about the animals and the environment, and especially my health.
Because we don’t want to kill animals. We want them to live their own lives.
I went vegan mainly because of you. The family wasn’t very supportive, but they’re
getting better. We made it to veganism. We fought the fight and we won.
I watched Gary Yourofsky’s speech and I went vegan overnight. I guess I've always
thought hunting was wrong growing up around hunting, and I never kind of made the connection
that it was kind of the same thing, me eating meat and hunting. So I went vegan overnight
after watching Gary’s speech because I just realized it was the right thing to do and
that was the way that everybody should be vegan--it’s just the only way to live.
Because they just hurt them and just kill them. I want them to play around in
the spring and the summer, and they want to live all lovely in the wild!
Because my family...we believe that animals should have the rights to be happy
like us. I went vegan when I was about maybe two because my family thought we needed eggs
but then we discovered that we just don’t need them and animals are happier when we’re vegan.
Cause I I don't want to kill animals and I and I don't want other people to kill them for me.
I so hope you enjoyed hearing from real vegan kids! If you’re a vegan too, I hope that this helped
you know that you’re not alone. And if you want to be vegan and not eat animals, I hope that this
shows you that kids just like you are able to do it just fine! Stay tuned for more videos
just for kids, including more videos with everyone that we met today!
Most of my guests have their own channels here on YouTube or appear on their parents
channels, so you can check out their links below and head on over to subscribe to them
for more awesome vegan kid content! And a huge thank you from me to each and every one
of my guests and to you for watching!
Now I’d love to hear from you too in the comments! Do you eat animals or are you vegan too?
Do you want to be vegan? Let me know!
If you liked this video, do give it a thumbs up and share it around to help other kids
learn about being vegan. If you’re new here, do hit that big red subscribe button down
there for more awesome vegan content every Monday, Wednesday, and some Fridays, and not to
miss out on the rest of my videos for kids. If you’re an adult and you want
to help support Bite Size Vegan, check out either of the support links in the video description
below or click on the Nugget Army icon, or the link in the sidebar.
Now go live vegan, at any age, anywhere in the world, and I’ll see you soon!
It’s good not to eat animals. Do they eat animals on the screen? Or no?
Um, I’m not sure who is watching it.