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Hi there! If you’re a kid

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and you’d rather
listen to other kids than boring adults like

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me, then this video is for you.

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Hi it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome
to another vegan nugget. I’m so excited

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to be making another video just for you! And
I’m even more exited to introduce you to

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my friends: some awesome real vegan kids!

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If you don’t already know, being “vegan”
means you don’t eat animals or anything

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that they make. If you want to know why anyone
would want to be vegan, check out my videos

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for kids so far. We’ve talked about why
we don’t drink milk or eat meat, or eggs.

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You can find links to those up there and down
below if you want to watch them later.

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Maybe you want to stop eating animals too.
Well, instead of boring you with me talking

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the whole time, I thought it would be really
fun to talk to kids from all over the world who are vegan.

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Because here’s something that a lot of adults
seem to forgot: you kids are really smart

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and you often say much smarter things than
most adults! So now it’s time for me to

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be quiet and let these super-smart, incredible
vegan kids tell you why they don’t eat animals!

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Let’s meet them all first!

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There’s Elvis, who’s 3 and a half years
old and lives in Hawaii in the United States.

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Kevin, who’s 13 and from England and the
Philippines, and currently living in Bahrain

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Lilah, who’s 8 and Lex who’s 6, both from
Massachusetts in the United States.

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JoJo, who’s 4 years old, from London, England.

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Lexie, who’s 13 from “the South” in
the United States.

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Ronya, who’s 14 and Oli, who’s 8, both
from Waiheke Island in New Zealand.

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Dylan, who’s 6.5 from Tel Aviv, Israel.

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And Carolina Ali, who’s 13 and from Tennessee
in the United States.

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Now that you know their names, let’s hear
why they don’t eat animals! And just so you

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know sometimes it may be hard to hear everyone
because we were talking from really far away,

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so you can always turn on the captions down there, and I’ll
put text up in the really hard parts. If you

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can’t read yet, you can ask an adult for help.

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I don’t eat animals because it’s
bad for my body.

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And guys, it's good not to eat animals, but…

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How come?

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Um, because animals are our friends!

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So, I’m vegan for a number of reasons
mostly to do with animal rights. Now does

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it make much sense to be eating animals or
their secretions if you love them?

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But of course then there's environmental reasons. Without the earth then not going to

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be us. Now they're going to be no humans if
we don't have a place to live. So, of course

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that’s very important. Of course my health--I've
always considered myself a healthy person,

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but now that I'm vegan, I am much more healthy.
And then probably the last big reason is other

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people. You know, going vegan can end world
hunger and world thirst. And of course everyone

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wants that to end. Going vegan helps not only
animals but other people as well.

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Main reason is ethical reasons, because
I don’t think it’s our right to be, you know doing

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these things to other animals just because we think
that we have the “better species,” which we’re

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really not. I went vegetarian when I was seven
because we got chickens, kinda for pets, but

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Dad wanted to eat them and get their eggs
and stuff. And I didn't mind the eggs because

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I didn’t really see what was wrong with
that. But I didn't want to eat them because

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I fell in love with them and they had names
and such, so why would I want to eat them?

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And then I sort of made the connection that, you know,
just because the other ones don’t have names,

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that I know, doesn’t mean they’re any
less...special.

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I’m vegan because I care about
the animals and the environment, and especially my health.

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Because we don’t want to kill animals.
We want them to live their own lives.

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I went vegan mainly because of you. The
family wasn’t very supportive, but they’re

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getting better. We made it to veganism. We
fought the fight and we won.

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I watched Gary Yourofsky’s speech
and I went vegan overnight. I guess I've always

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thought hunting was wrong growing up around
hunting, and I never kind of made the connection

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that it was kind of the same thing, me eating
meat and hunting. So I went vegan overnight

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after watching Gary’s speech because I just
realized it was the right thing to do and

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that was the way that everybody should be
vegan--it’s just the only way to live.

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Because they just hurt them and just
kill them. I want them to play around in

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the spring and the summer, and they want to live
all lovely in the wild!

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Because my family...we believe that
animals should have the rights to be happy

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like us. I went vegan when I was about maybe
two because my family thought we needed eggs

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but then we discovered that we just don’t
need them and animals are happier when we’re vegan.

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Cause I I don't want to kill animals
and I and I don't want other people to kill them for me.

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I so hope you enjoyed hearing from real vegan
kids! If you’re a vegan too, I hope that this helped

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you know that you’re not alone. And if you want
to be vegan and not eat animals, I hope that this

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shows you that kids just like you are able
to do it just fine! Stay tuned for more videos

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just for kids, including more videos with
everyone that we met today!

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Most of my guests have their own channels
here on YouTube or appear on their parents

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channels, so you can check out their links below and head on over to subscribe to them

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for more awesome vegan kid content! And a
huge thank you from me to each and every one

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of my guests and to you for watching!

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Now I’d love to hear from you too in the
comments! Do you eat animals or are you vegan too?

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Do you want to be vegan? Let me know!

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If you liked this video, do give it a thumbs
up and share it around to help other kids

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learn about being vegan. If you’re new here,
do hit that big red subscribe button down

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there for more awesome vegan content every
Monday, Wednesday, and some Fridays, and not to

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miss out on the rest of my videos
for kids. If you’re an adult and you want

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to help support Bite Size Vegan, check out
either of the support links in the video description

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below or click on the Nugget Army icon, or
the link in the sidebar.

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Now go live vegan, at any age, anywhere in the world, and I’ll see you soon!

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It’s good not to eat animals. Do they eat
animals on the screen? Or no?

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Um, I’m not sure who is watching it.