WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.460 I think it’s happening. Hi! Hi everyone! How are you guys doing? 00:00:06.880 --> 00:00:13.440 I hope you can hear me and everything. This is... I’ve never done the phone version of YouTube streaming. 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:16.680 Ummmmm.... 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:21.740 I can’t tell… OK, I think you guys can hear me, I hope you guys can hear me, please let 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:31.840 me know if you can hear me, just say hello. Hi from Liverpool! Ummm…ok... 00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:39.680 Oh you guys can hear me? Ok, good! Hi! I just, thanks guys for being here! This is kind of a last-minute 00:00:39.690 --> 00:00:47.840 thing, this is not typically how I operate. But we just went over the 150k mark for the 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:55.270 channel which is pretty crazy, and uh I wanted to celebrate and also just be here to answer 00:00:55.270 --> 00:00:59.800 any questions and also just have some time with you guys that’s a little more casual 00:00:59.800 --> 00:01:10.680 and everything. So, ummm, I have—oh hi! There’s so many people, yay! So just so you guys know, 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.540 I’m on like the new… YouTube just rolled out like a, well I don’t know when they 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:19.610 did it, because they don’t tell anyone anything, but there’s like a live stream on my phone 00:01:19.610 --> 00:01:24.300 now instead of doing it on my computer, so bear with me because I’ve never done it before. 00:01:24.300 --> 00:01:27.961 So it’s gonna look like I’m poking you in the face a bunch. But I’m just trying 00:01:27.961 --> 00:01:34.189 to look at the comments. for anyone who hasn’t already, make sure that you click the little 00:01:34.189 --> 00:01:38.659 bell thingy on the channel to get notifications, because that’s how you’ll know when I 00:01:38.659 --> 00:01:44.200 do these things or if I post videos. Just so you know. OK. Alright. I’m gonna try 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:48.740 to just get to some questions, because I want to make the most of y’all’s time, so let 00:01:48.740 --> 00:01:54.340 me… there’s a lot of stuff happening up in here… ok. Ok. Thanks for letting me know 00:01:54.340 --> 00:02:04.729 that you guys can hear me. I see that, ok. Julian Mack says... Just preemptively, I’m probably 00:02:04.729 --> 00:02:09.319 gonna say everyone’s names incorrectly, just saying that up front. Julian asked: “What 00:02:09.320 --> 00:02:14.450 do you tell non-vegans if they say, ‘Oh you vegans think that you are so much morally better, 00:02:14.450 --> 00:02:19.180 but you kill bugs in crops, and there’s animals in computers and cell phones’?” 00:02:19.660 --> 00:02:26.600 That’s a good question, Julian. And I actually have a video on that called... and once I’m 00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:30.580 done with this Q and A, guys, I’m gonna go in after the fact and put in links that 00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:35.890 are specific. Like videos that are specific to every question, and hopefully eventually 00:02:35.890 --> 00:02:40.220 also have time markers for every single question which is what I’ve done with the previous 00:02:40.220 --> 00:02:43.900 Q and A which you guys can watch, which is super long, but I put time markers so you 00:02:43.900 --> 00:02:48.020 can jump to each question. It’ll take a little bit of time to do that, and to caption it 00:02:48.020 --> 00:02:53.291 uh, but I will do that. So anyway, Julian, your question with... what about, you know, vegans 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:59.000 kill bugs when they...and animals when they harvest the foods and everything. So I do have a video 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:06.100 called “Do Vegans Kill Animals More Than Meat Eaters?” and I go into that because 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.440 there was this one study put out a while back about, 00:03:10.440 --> 00:03:13.540 “Oh, hey, vegans kill more animals than non-vegans 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:19.960 with the harvesting process.” But, if you watch the video, you’ll see... that the way 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:24.120 the study was conducted, there was just a lot of different caveats and flaws and 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:30.080 in the end, when you really think about it, in the most basic and logical manner, 00:03:30.420 --> 00:03:37.080 in order for meat-eaters to… if you’re eating animals, you’re also eating… I mean, you still 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:40.780 have to deal with the fact that they ate all of the plants that they’re eating. So, you know, 00:03:40.780 --> 00:03:44.880 non-vegans tend to consume around like 10 times more plant matter, at the end of the 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:51.780 day than vegans, so you’re kind of compounding… Even if we do slaughter, like, a huge amount 00:03:51.780 --> 00:03:56.800 of animals through harvesting and whatnot, that’s compounded and that’s packaged 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:02.980 into eating animals. And so it’s kind of… it’s kind of a non-starter of an argument. 00:04:03.180 --> 00:04:07.420 And then as far as… I’m gonna try to not do my thing where I spend like 30 minutes 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:12.580 answering one question because that’s what I tend to do… but! You also said what about 00:04:12.580 --> 00:04:20.040 when… I’m totally losing my brain track right now… oh! Like with computers and cellphones, 00:04:20.049 --> 00:04:25.220 that there’s animal parts in that, that’s kind of like the whole “100% vegan” type 00:04:25.220 --> 00:04:29.910 of thing, or being a “perfect vegan,” or like, can you be completely vegan? I have 00:04:29.910 --> 00:04:34.080 an older video with Gary Yourofsky called like “100% Vegan” or “Can You Be 100% 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:42.800 Vegan?” and in that I talk about how being vegan is the striving to eliminate as much 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:47.830 as practical and possible. However- practicable and possible... however, being humans, we like 00:04:47.830 --> 00:04:51.980 to take that word and we like to say, “Well, it’s not practicable for me not to eat... bacon 00:04:51.980 --> 00:04:58.240 every day,” you know so it’s kind of more taking an honest look at ourselves and the fact that 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:05.140 as long as we are alive and on this world we are going to be inadvertently hurting other 00:05:05.140 --> 00:05:13.360 beings, and you know, it's incredibly unfortunate but that doesn't mean that oh because I might 00:05:13.500 --> 00:05:20.920 step on an insect or drive over many of them with a vehicle or the vehicle has animals 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:28.060 in it. It's kind of like the black and white thinking of human logic to say... or illogic to say 00:05:28.070 --> 00:05:32.900 oh because I can’t not squish a bug every once in awhile I might as well slaughter billions 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:39.340 of animals needlessly It just… It doesn't make sense, you know, we would never say: 00:05:39.340 --> 00:05:43.580 ‘I can't stop all murders, so i’m just gonna stab everyone I see everyday.’ 00:05:43.580 --> 00:05:49.140 Because why not? You know. It’s kind of - It’s a way of avoiding - avoiding the issue; and 00:05:49.140 --> 00:05:55.270 avoiding what we actually, umm, you know, ahh... okay yea. 00:05:55.270 --> 00:05:58.990 Maritza says: “ Don’t make the answers so long” - You are SO correct! 00:05:58.990 --> 00:06:01.889 Okay I’m gonna try to - I’m going to try and shorten it up, you guys. It’s hard because 00:06:01.889 --> 00:06:04.729 I don’t want to just give you a just like a sound bite that’s like totally doesn't 00:06:04.729 --> 00:06:08.160 even answer your question - but then I also want to make sure that I answer more than 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:09.460 - more than like three. 00:06:09.460 --> 00:06:14.170 Uhh ‘cause it’s like ridiculous. Okay, and there’s a lot of them. 00:06:14.170 --> 00:06:16.920 Okay, so that’s—I’ll link to that video later. 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.900 Oh my gosh. There’s a lot, so I'm trying you guys to go back up to the top. 00:06:22.200 --> 00:06:28.420 Okay here we go. Hello everyone. Hi. Umm. Now there’s a lot of people telling me that 00:06:28.420 --> 00:06:30.120 you can hear me. Hello? 00:06:30.130 --> 00:06:35.819 Hello Phil? Phil Dieu? from France. That was my attempt at trying to say something french. 00:06:35.819 --> 00:06:42.130 It was not good. Umm. HI from Iceland - HI Tina from Iceland. 00:06:42.130 --> 00:06:45.590 When is it going to start? I think it’s - it’s starting right now. 00:06:45.590 --> 00:06:48.699 Okay here we go. Oh Thank you, Uhh. 00:06:48.700 --> 00:06:54.440 Hi Redneck2Vegan Hello, big Hello. Umm. Okay guys. I’m getting down to some questions... 00:06:54.440 --> 00:06:57.400 Oh The Black Bean Industry says: “Why are you so awesome?” 00:06:57.400 --> 00:07:02.220 Oh man; I don’t know; I don’t know if I even agree with that assessment, but I appreciate it. 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.800 Hello from Scotland. HI Tennessee. Dallas, Texas 00:07:05.960 --> 00:07:11.520 Oh Thank you JV that you - Hello to you and your wife, as well. Thank you. Umm. 00:07:11.700 --> 00:07:14.880 Okay guys. I’m getting down to the two question. Here, it’s gonna happen. There’s like 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:17.550 a lot of ‘hellos’; which is exciting. Umm. Oh. 00:07:17.550 --> 00:07:21.080 Pay The Troll says: "You look great!" Thank you. That’s weird, because it’s 00:07:21.080 --> 00:07:25.770 like a troll saying something nice about my appearance; that’s like the reverse. OK... 00:07:25.770 --> 00:07:34.340 HI Vegan Gains Jr. you get around, sir. Hey Vegan Warrior. I haven't seen you in umpteen 00:07:34.340 --> 00:07:37.599 million years. That is the exact amount of time. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:42.040 oh... Ok… Lets see… Sup… HI Hench Herbivore . 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:46.800 Oh. Thank you for skipping class Poor Piggy but I don’t know if I… Well, I’m not 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.860 going to endorse anyone dropping out of school but thank you. 00:07:49.860 --> 00:07:56.490 OK. Here we go. Trying to get down you guys, to a question. Um… “I think you have a 00:07:56.490 --> 00:08:00.460 video on almost every subject” yes Maritza, there are a lot of them… Yeah. 00:08:00.460 --> 00:08:06.280 Oh my goodness. I am sorry you guys. Like the phone it shows two comments at a time. 00:08:06.280 --> 00:08:11.440 Oh here we go. Pay The Troll asked: “How do you help someone who has relapsed with 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:20.349 eating meat?” So… I guess with that, it depends on what the factor was, you know, 00:08:20.349 --> 00:08:27.129 what it is that… Why they went back to eating meat, you know, if they were feeling ill or 00:08:27.129 --> 00:08:32.640 feeling like if maybe I have a uh nutritional deficiency or I'm feeling, weak. So I’m 00:08:32.640 --> 00:08:39.120 gonna, you know, go back to eating meat. A lot of times, you know, just… Human… It’s 00:08:39.130 --> 00:08:42.960 hard. *sigh* I tend to make generalizations sometimes when I don’t want to but there's 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:49.190 just no better way of doing it for these kinds of answers. But it does seem that we as humans 00:08:49.190 --> 00:08:54.830 tend to kind of jump to conclusions of: Oh I feel weak it must be I went vegan… You 00:08:54.830 --> 00:09:00.480 know. And especially with something like going vegan where there is already kind of this, 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:05.080 uh, predisposition to believing that it’s not gonna...that it's not good for us or that 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:10.540 there is going to be an issue with it. I kind of poked fun at this with my, new year's eve 00:09:10.540 --> 00:09:14.490 “How vegans ruin new year's” is, you know, like as soon as someone goes vegan, like oh 00:09:14.490 --> 00:09:20.620 my god my iron is gone, my B12’s gone. So if it is something nutritional, you know, err... 00:09:20.780 --> 00:09:28.180 It can be kind of like helping ground them a little bit, you know. With… You know… 00:09:28.180 --> 00:09:31.290 If they feel like something is wrong nutritionally go see a doctor, get some blood work done. 00:09:31.290 --> 00:09:39.500 Uh. Us trying to like just assume maybe something is wrong with me can can be difficult...umm... 00:09:39.510 --> 00:09:45.040 A lot of times I think it’s like social pressure or just the, the messages that we get cause, 00:09:45.050 --> 00:09:49.510 you know. Once someone goes vegan maybe they saw Earthlings or maybe they made the connection 00:09:49.510 --> 00:09:55.960 and then. You know… They are back into their environment and 99.999% of the messages that 00:09:55.960 --> 00:10:01.000 we get are that eating animals is normal and regular and good and 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.810 ...you’re weird if you don’t. And so, I think, depending on why that person went 00:10:05.810 --> 00:10:12.780 back to eating meat, would, kind of, determine what approach would be best. 00:10:12.940 --> 00:10:17.160 But I think, kind of, finding out what it is, what fears they might have, what the problem might be. 00:10:17.160 --> 00:10:21.780 And just kind of helping them connect with what it is… why they wanted to go vegan in the first place. 00:10:21.980 --> 00:10:25.180 You know, and, and giving them a sense of community, if it is something 00:10:25.180 --> 00:10:29.120 about, you know, feeling isolated, or feeling like they’re the only person, you know, 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:37.300 or that, you know, their family won’t accept them. So, There’s a lot of... 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:42.060 There’s a lot of ways, to, to go about it, ‘cause it’s hard, not knowing, uh, if you don’t 00:10:42.070 --> 00:10:46.220 know why they went back. But one thing I will say: and i’m going to keep going, you guys, 00:10:46.220 --> 00:10:53.350 and try to knock it out. Is that uh there is a time, sometimes, like especially with 00:10:53.350 --> 00:10:57.550 family, If you kind of, you’re hitting a wall, and if you’re, kind of, you know, 00:10:57.550 --> 00:11:03.170 trying to make someone vegan, it might be time as well to kind of give them space and 00:11:03.170 --> 00:11:07.050 just be the best example that you can be, because we can’t make anyone vegan, and 00:11:07.050 --> 00:11:13.380 sometimes it actually is, like, counterproductive if we try. but helping people make that connection 00:11:13.380 --> 00:11:20.100 for themselves, is how it can really, .. last. because then they’ve come to that conclusion on their own. 00:11:20.300 --> 00:11:21.880 Okay.... 00:11:21.880 --> 00:11:28.020 HI Katy from Oklahoma. I am doing well, Thank you. 00:11:28.020 --> 00:11:33.460 Oh yay! Sophie. That’s so great that your friends are moving on the veg-train there. That’s awesome! 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:37.360 Okay, Theo Vegan I see that your question needs an answer, 00:11:37.420 --> 00:11:40.580 but I can’t find it. ‘Cause I’m sure it’s way ... above, 00:11:40.580 --> 00:11:43.577 where I am right now... ‘cause the comments 00:11:43.580 --> 00:11:46.460 jump up all the time. umm... 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:54.780 "In our country, you can’t find the…. " ...Sorry guys... Oh thank you Meat-free Athlete and thank you Ann-Marie 00:11:54.780 --> 00:11:58.460 for the, for the congratulations. Umm... 00:12:00.420 --> 00:12:04.400 Saw you... saw when you went to Pigs before slaughter. 00:12:04.900 --> 00:12:12.700 HI Hilda Thank you. Yes, That’s - that’s good, sorry guys I’m looking. Okay. ... 00:12:12.940 --> 00:12:21.600 Okay, that’s weird. Okay, Alright. This is, this is a bizarre way to try to find questions. 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:26.660 It’s a bit overwhelming. Okay. Let’s see. Oh. Thank you MJ gal I’m i’m really glad 00:12:26.660 --> 00:12:31.060 that you enjoy details, because I, I, tend to be a bit excessive with them. 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:37.700 Like waste, way much, it is really hard to try to wrap it up. Mmm. 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:44.180 Hench Herbivore I’m hoping that you’re, i’m hoping that you’re joking about: Is it vegan to cut your lawn? 00:12:44.340 --> 00:12:49.820 Yeah, I think, yeah, I think so. You know, I mean you can try to find like, maybe like, manual 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:54.920 mowers, if you want to be less uh, using gas and what not. 00:12:55.880 --> 00:13:00.240 Oh Alley Cat Strikes says: "I saw you at Rowdy Girl, but was too nervous to say hi." 00:13:00.420 --> 00:13:03.160 Just so you guys know, like, if you guys ever just see me in, in, the real life. 00:13:03.160 --> 00:13:05.120 Umm... Definitely don’t feel bad. 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.600 Come up, ‘cause i’m like the most awkward human being in the world; so.. 00:13:08.980 --> 00:13:12.660 i’m probably far more nervous than you are. So just, definitely come up 00:13:12.660 --> 00:13:13.800 and say Hi to me. 00:13:13.800 --> 00:13:17.300 I also will sometimes, be in my own little universe, so it’s never 00:13:17.300 --> 00:13:21.490 that I’m like, not paying attention, I'm just totally...you know... pfft, up in my head, thinking 00:13:21.490 --> 00:13:25.860 about videos and talks and stuff. So, definitely come up and always feel free to say Hi. 00:13:25.860 --> 00:13:31.860 I might feel startled; I might seem startled at first, but then i’ll be alright. okay, 00:13:32.060 --> 00:13:39.500 Here we go, Oh my goodness: Emma-Kat : says look at my question. I don’t know where 00:13:39.500 --> 00:13:43.860 it is... ‘cause there’s so many things; ‘cause I can only see two at a time. Okay. 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:50.220 Ariel says: any suggestion for effective vegan, for vegan, effective vegan activism. 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:57.579 I do have a number of videos about that. I think like, “Just Speak” is a talk that 00:13:57.579 --> 00:14:04.470 I have that I did at... Toronto Pig Save, well, at the Chicken Save, at the slaughterhouse there 00:14:04.470 --> 00:14:11.230 I’ve always just said that the most effective form of activism is really what 00:14:11.230 --> 00:14:16.440 you connect with, and what you’re passionate about because if you try to model yourself 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:20.120 after: oh, this activist, I like what they do, and I’m going to try to be that person, 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:26.180 and do that way. You know, I think people connect with, with, you know, honesty 00:14:26.180 --> 00:14:29.380 in a genuine, when you’re genuinely invested, and people can tell. I think that’s what 00:14:29.380 --> 00:14:33.840 people connect with a lot of the times, so if you find a form that works for you, something 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:37.779 that you’re really passionate about. Then I think that, that’s probably more advantageous, 00:14:37.779 --> 00:14:42.560 than even trying to find, you know, “the best way”, uh, that said, I put a lot of 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:52.320 value in education, I think education is really... a powerful way of advocating, because it proliferates, 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:58.220 it, you know, it moves outwards, and so, if you’re able, if someone gets the knowledge, 00:14:58.220 --> 00:15:03.580 and understands, you know, why to, why, you know, all of the arguments, or like the, the 00:15:03.580 --> 00:15:06.740 reasons, and rationalities and, or, you know, it really connects with them - they have that 00:15:06.740 --> 00:15:12.940 knowledge, they can then help educate others. You know, so, I think education is an incredibly 00:15:13.180 --> 00:15:19.920 powerful tool and...you'll also have... you know.. that's going to help hopefully break the chain 00:15:20.340 --> 00:15:24.120 of parents teaching their children and then children teaching their children about, you 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:30.680 know, ‘it’s okay to eat and kill the animals that we love’. It kind of helps break that down. 00:15:30.680 --> 00:15:38.000 So then also, obviously direct action is really valuable for the animals who are 00:15:38.180 --> 00:15:43.640 rescued in that moment. So that’s also something that’s incredibly powerful. 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:48.640 Because to them, that’s their only life. you know...ummm... 00:15:48.820 --> 00:15:56.940 Ok, So… let’s get up in here... Alright. 00:15:56.940 --> 00:16:01.220 Oh, Jonathan, you said you met me at the march to close all slaughterhouses. YAY! Hi! 00:16:01.940 --> 00:16:04.040 Leikin, I’m sorry that the lag is bad. I don’t know 00:16:04.040 --> 00:16:08.380 if it’s on my end or yours. Ummm... 00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:12.700 Tara Scott, it’s like I keep going back up you guys 00:16:12.880 --> 00:16:18.380 and I’m trying to find your questions and then I find you asking if I’d seen your questions. 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.399 Oh, Rayma says - I have no idea if that’s how you say it - “Have you ever thought about 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:29.000 visiting the Netherlands? There are not a lot of vegans, and awareness is needed”. 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:34.970 I would love to... You guys, I wanna - I have like a massive plan that I would love to do 00:16:34.970 --> 00:16:40.769 for like a giant crazy project that would be astronomical. I have so many of these things 00:16:40.769 --> 00:16:46.839 that I want to do, but one of them is involving kind of what I did for Ireland with going 00:16:46.839 --> 00:16:53.959 really in depth into the government documents and looking at the best standards of that 00:16:53.959 --> 00:16:59.680 country and kind of as a case study of the humane debate as a whole. Because Ireland 00:16:59.680 --> 00:17:08.709 is one of the most idealized places around the world of grass-fed, pasture-raised cows 00:17:08.709 --> 00:17:14.010 and all of these things. And so kind of using that as “let’s look at what the actual 00:17:14.010 --> 00:17:18.100 standards are” because the standards are never actually met and when you actually look 00:17:18.100 --> 00:17:23.550 doing into it - into the standards- they’re pretty horrifying. So I would LOVE - one of 00:17:23.550 --> 00:17:30.620 my long term goals is to be able to kind of do something like that for every country. 00:17:30.620 --> 00:17:35.040 And then build like a giant database as well and all of these things. And that way activists 00:17:35.040 --> 00:17:40.270 and vegans and people learning will be able to access this information and learn more 00:17:40.270 --> 00:17:48.110 about the regulations in their areas and their countries and thus be able to better educate. 00:17:48.110 --> 00:17:54.230 And then on top of that, also learn how to do the research as well themselves and find 00:17:54.230 --> 00:17:59.000 more information. But that’s like a HUGE thing. Like right now I’m still trying to 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:03.770 keep up with the basics. But that’s part of why I’m taking all this time behind the 00:18:03.770 --> 00:18:08.350 scenes to try to build up the structure and sustainability of Bite Size Vegan so that 00:18:08.350 --> 00:18:14.360 eventually I can hopefully expand the resources and be able to provide more for more people. 00:18:14.360 --> 00:18:18.000 So, okay. Let’s get up in here. 00:18:22.620 --> 00:18:24.000 Thank you guys. I see some of you guys are answering 00:18:24.140 --> 00:18:26.700 each other so that’s very helpful too. 00:18:26.700 --> 00:18:28.760 Oh, hI Rachel! She said, “Will you ever come 00:18:28.760 --> 00:18:34.020 back to the UK. Met you in Manchester. Yes I would love to. I would love to. There’s 00:18:34.020 --> 00:18:35.980 so many places I would like to go. 00:18:35.980 --> 00:18:53.220 Ok so let’s see.. (inaudible)...”I eat dogs” Good for you. That’s fantastic. 00:18:53.220 --> 00:19:00.539 Ok..hmmm…(laughing)... Some of these are super offensive, but they’re hilarious in 00:19:00.539 --> 00:19:03.570 their offensiveness that it just makes me giggle. 00:19:03.570 --> 00:19:08.540 Ok. Sorry about that you guys. 00:19:08.560 --> 00:19:16.820 Um… ok...oh, that’s lovely. Thank you. I really like the creative insults. 00:19:17.080 --> 00:19:24.720 Those are the best ones. Ok. JV Marenchello says “What’s the best 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:30.200 advice to help friends cut out honey? The best documentary or resources. Thank you”. 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:42.480 So, I have a video - two videos - on honey. One is pretty old, but it is the main one I think 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:50.440 that people see. I do have a new video - or newer video - on honey that’s for kids. 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:57.299 But it has more updated information. That one I would recommend for getting a kind of 00:19:57.299 --> 00:20:02.470 more comprehensive thing, even though it’s for kids. It also makes it pretty easy to 00:20:02.470 --> 00:20:09.330 access, I guess. The older one - it still has good information. The editing is… somethin’ else 00:20:09.330 --> 00:20:13.570 but, one thing that I’ve been trying to figure out (oh, my goodness. This is like 00:20:13.570 --> 00:20:22.700 on this little mobile thing) With the older honey video, there’s one part that I wanted 00:20:22.700 --> 00:20:31.960 to be able to do a... caveat because I quote T C Fry, I think, who... You know, of course looking 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:40.260 back the longer that I’ve done these videos, the more I’ve gotten more in depth and careful 00:20:40.260 --> 00:20:44.789 about my sources and citations. So if you go to the older videos, a lot of those are 00:20:44.789 --> 00:20:49.760 not cited or I haven’t - I don’t package them in the way that I do now. And that’s 00:20:49.760 --> 00:20:53.970 one of the long term things that I want to go back through - probably need a whole team 00:20:53.970 --> 00:21:00.510 with that to cite all of those. Anyways, that said, check out those videos. There are links 00:21:00.510 --> 00:21:05.000 to other things as well. I think one of the... 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.440 For me, like talking about... there’s a couple of things you can go, 00:21:08.600 --> 00:21:09.800 angles you can go with honey. 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:11.820 Of course there is the “gross out” factor, which there’s 00:21:11.820 --> 00:21:19.100 a lot of controversy over whether thats a good approach to do. But the fact that it's 00:21:19.100 --> 00:21:24.080 more or less “bee vomit”. Of course, they’re putting it in a crop, rather than a stomach. 00:21:24.080 --> 00:21:29.980 But for me, what’s most impactful is that honey is the food that bees make for their 00:21:29.980 --> 00:21:35.919 babies - their family. And for the production of honey for humans, they’re given this 00:21:35.919 --> 00:21:40.280 sugar substitute that’s inadequate for them nutritionally. And [they’re] killed off 00:21:40.280 --> 00:21:47.740 during the winters most of the times. Then you also have the issue of the shipping of 00:21:47.740 --> 00:21:51.270 the bees. They’re shipped in the mail and the queen bees, a lot of the times they’re 00:21:51.270 --> 00:21:56.520 killed off they’re damaged in the shipping and in order to keep the queens in the hive, 00:21:56.520 --> 00:22:02.210 they’ll have their wings ripped off. It’s just like anything else that we do with non-humans 00:22:02.210 --> 00:22:09.180 where we’re controlling every aspect of their lives and for our benefit. 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:13.659 OK, But I would check out those videos and I’ll link them below when I get back up in here. 00:22:13.659 --> 00:22:20.100 Ok. Yeah, and I do need to get some moderators, you guys. I’m sorry. I didn’t have that 00:22:20.100 --> 00:22:27.160 in place cause I’ve never done this thing. It’s brand new to me. And technology... 00:22:27.320 --> 00:22:29.540 Not.. It's very discerning. 00:22:29.560 --> 00:22:36.420 ..hmm..ok. I’m trying to go back up so I don’t just answer the newest ones. 00:22:40.020 --> 00:22:42.500 ...Oh Thank you Arvay, I am going to keep doin’. 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:49.820 oh Mauria... Mauria Marklets, thank you that’s very sweet. 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:57.160 I really, I really appreciate it. Okay, Okay, 00:23:00.220 --> 00:23:02.080 I do have vaccinations on 00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:07.179 my video list, which i’ve had on my list forever, but I am going to, that’ll be on 00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:14.640 there. There’s a lot of things that I still want to get to, I have hundreds of videos 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:19.460 on my list and so, that is one of them is vaccinations is definitely going to be one of them... 00:23:21.220 --> 00:23:25.500 Oh yes, Caleb I would love to do one for Scotland; a video and a speech for 00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:29.190 Scotland. There’s so many, I mean I would love to do one for every country, honestly. 00:23:29.190 --> 00:23:33.420 ‘Cause, you know, I don’t, it doesn’t matter how I deal in…. I know, it’s like: 00:23:33.420 --> 00:23:36.690 it’s not like that here. But if you break it down, it really is like that here. ‘Cause 00:23:36.690 --> 00:23:45.700 there’s no kind way to enslave, and murder animals, there just isn’t so… okay, 00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:53.570 Simon asked: Do you consider crops grown using bone meal as a fertilizer, vegan? 00:23:53.570 --> 00:24:00.860 This is a legal requirement for organic crops in Sweden. And that is, that is definitely 00:24:00.860 --> 00:24:08.240 something that is... an important... or a question that I get a lot. And I have a video called 00:24:08.460 --> 00:24:14.900 “Grow your own food” something like that, where we talk about veganic gardening, and I do 00:24:14.919 --> 00:24:20.320 think that’s, that would ideally be where things eventually shift to is: you know, growing 00:24:20.320 --> 00:24:26.049 our own food, primarily, community gardens, veganic farming. ‘Cause veganic basically 00:24:26.049 --> 00:24:33.650 that just means: that it is not used with; like if you’re doing veganic farming you’re 00:24:33.650 --> 00:24:39.039 not using bone meal, or blood, or any of those kinds of things to - to use as fertilizer, 00:24:39.040 --> 00:24:45.500 so. In countries, like, it sounds like you said that bone meal is required? By law? I 00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:52.630 don’t know if it is also required by... for... I don’t know if it is also required for 00:24:52.630 --> 00:24:59.040 standard crops. Sorry guys, I gotta hit my battery so this, so that the phone doesn’t 00:24:59.059 --> 00:25:04.580 kick it. I think it went on, let’s hope that it’s on. Okay, so if, I mean, obviously, 00:25:04.580 --> 00:25:07.779 you don’t want to go to conventional crops if they don’t have bone meal just because 00:25:07.779 --> 00:25:14.179 then you’ll also have that issue. But, I guess I would say do the best that you can, 00:25:14.179 --> 00:25:19.640 again this is kind of in the in those lines of practical and possible, or practicable 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:27.960 and possible, ideally you can even try to grow your own, grow your own food, as much 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:33.400 as you can, so you know, try to start a garden if you’re able to there’s even a lot of 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:38.020 help with, you can look online, and there’s a lot of help with growing your food even 00:25:38.020 --> 00:25:40.870 if you’re in like a tiny apartment, and you don’t have a yard. And those kinds of 00:25:40.870 --> 00:25:44.309 things in the video that I have on grow your own food, I have a lot of links to resources 00:25:44.309 --> 00:25:52.409 of people who do this and have a lot of wisdom to give and are very open to helping others. 00:25:52.409 --> 00:26:02.700 So that I would really recommend. And then doing the best that you can, outside of that, 00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:05.600 but there are ways to grow like lettuce and stuff like that, you know, in... in like an 00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:11.630 apartment, and other things. But you know, again just do - do what you can: if it’s 00:26:11.630 --> 00:26:16.950 between, like not eating, you know, and having, getting some organic produce that’s grown 00:26:16.950 --> 00:26:23.040 in an unideal manner, then, you know, make sure that you - you feed yourself. Okay. Sorry 00:26:24.340 --> 00:26:30.520 Alright guys, I’m gonna go back up, there’s a lot of random stuff happening up in here. 00:26:30.520 --> 00:26:38.020 It’s like, I have to do like this, it’s like two - two comments at a time; 00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:39.370 it’s ridiculous. Oh okay 00:26:39.370 --> 00:26:44.580 Abdallah Correy asked: Can you please do a video on Animal Liberation Front, and do you 00:26:44.580 --> 00:26:53.320 support this kind of activism? Yeah, I could definitely a video on them. 00:26:53.520 --> 00:26:59.120 . It’s hard, you know the ALF, the Animal Liberation Front, is not any set, it’s not like a set membership 00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:04.260 or anything it’s, I mean the whole aspect of it is that there are no, there is like 00:27:04.260 --> 00:27:10.320 no set membership, or structure or anything, and so commenting on, kind of, you know, “what 00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:15.960 they do” is a bit, it’s a bit difficult to do that, since it’s, it’s kind of, 00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:20.580 you know, people will take out actions, you know, carry out actions, and then credit the 00:27:20.580 --> 00:27:29.020 ALF with it. So it’s more of a loose, unorganized, organization type thing, you knowthere’s 00:27:29.020 --> 00:27:37.260 Wow a lot of stuff happening. Oh okay. Emma, oh wait, yeah, 00:27:37.260 --> 00:27:43.590 Emma De Cat asked: what do you think of home raised livestock, like cows, pigs, goats, 00:27:43.590 --> 00:27:48.559 I know you don’t eat meat, just want to know your opinion? I don’t know if you mean, 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:55.980 like, raised at home in order to be eaten... But yeah guys, i’m sorry guys. Rayma I do 00:27:55.980 --> 00:27:59.560 see that; I would love to delete the spammers, I just, uh, with the amount that are going 00:27:59.560 --> 00:28:07.580 by, I would just be like, doing this and poking this the entire time. I don’t want to spend 00:28:07.580 --> 00:28:10.170 the entire time sitting here trying to moderate the comments, next time, i’ll have to do 00:28:10.170 --> 00:28:16.860 a better job, you guys, of getting some moderators in place, so that I could see the questions 00:28:16.860 --> 00:28:25.919 and not poking this the entire time. But anyways, oh so... having like raising animals in your 00:28:25.919 --> 00:28:33.740 home type of thing, so I mean, even if - even if like, I think it’s almost just more disturbing 00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:40.590 in some ways that, you know a lot of times we want to go to like the humane - the - the, 00:28:40.590 --> 00:28:45.170 I know the farmer and they have a small farm and it’s like you know, they love their 00:28:45.170 --> 00:28:50.810 pigs they love their chickens, they love, you know, these, and I mean I feel like that 00:28:50.810 --> 00:28:56.260 is almost like a bigger betrayal to the animals. I mean, could you imagine, like - like, trusting 00:28:56.260 --> 00:29:02.100 your caregiver and you know, knowing them and them being kind to you, and then at the 00:29:02.100 --> 00:29:07.770 very last minute they’re slicing your throat. I mean, I feel like from the animal’s perspective, 00:29:07.770 --> 00:29:14.559 that’s kind of, that’s kind of rough. But, I mean, I think one of the ways to kind 00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:18.880 of put it into perspective, at least for those of us in, you know, the cultural mindset of, 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:23.320 you know, dogs being companion animals, and family members, and all the other - other 00:29:23.320 --> 00:29:28.890 animals animals being “consumable food” animals is: you know, would we use that justification 00:29:28.890 --> 00:29:38.210 for our dogs? If I went next door to my neighbor and killed their dog, and I said oh well, 00:29:38.210 --> 00:29:43.049 he had a great life, and he was loved and I didn’t, he didn’t, he didn’t know 00:29:43.049 --> 00:29:47.290 it was going to happen, it was very peaceful, it doesn’t make it, it doesn’t make it 00:29:47.290 --> 00:29:54.309 okay. You know, it’s - it’s still cutting a life short, so, That is kind of, I guess, 00:29:54.309 --> 00:29:58.440 where I would go with that. Oh my goodness, these are going crazy, with the comments, 00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:04.100 okay. I’m going to try to hit a couple more you guys. Oh 00:30:04.340 --> 00:30:07.480 Okay. Oh my goodness, I’m not going to say this right: 00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:11.560 Udwalls Channel, I appreciate your boldness at the way you presented the video named: 00:30:11.560 --> 00:30:15.980 the blurred lines of bestiality. Presenting that with proper research in an organized 00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:20.850 way must have taken a lot of work. Thank you, yes, that was a very difficult video, and 00:30:20.850 --> 00:30:28.520 it was like two days late, you guys didn’t notice, which I know lately I’ve been, not 00:30:28.520 --> 00:30:32.460 been on my hard and fast schedule, that I've kept for the last three years ‘cause there’s 00:30:32.620 --> 00:30:37.160 a whole lot of stuff going on that i’m working on, for the channel, but, yeah, the bestiality 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:44.380 video was very intense to make and it was heartbreaking to research, as I’m sure you 00:30:44.380 --> 00:30:50.440 can imagine. And then also trying to present a topic like that in a - in a, structured 00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:59.540 and effective manner and also be... be cognizant of the - of the very huge taboo, and like, 00:30:59.549 --> 00:31:03.980 the issues around it, ‘cause it is not something that is comfortable for anyone to talk about, 00:31:03.990 --> 00:31:07.860 or hear about. But I feel like that’s, a lot of times that’s exactly why we need 00:31:07.860 --> 00:31:13.130 to talk about these kinds of things, you know, the very things that we try to you know, hide 00:31:13.130 --> 00:31:18.080 and put behind closed doors are the things that need the most attention, from us, so 00:31:18.080 --> 00:31:23.980 I em... I won’t ever hesitate to - to address difficult topics, you know, it just - it is 00:31:23.980 --> 00:31:31.340 a whole, it is - it’s quite an undertaking, and I, I think I was, like, at least, the 00:31:31.340 --> 00:31:36.120 three days prior to that didn’t even sleep, just going through trying to get that video done. 00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:47.380 Okay. Okay. what are your thoughts on….wow there’s a lot of stuff. 00:31:47.380 --> 00:31:52.460 Alcohol and veganism for health; how do you reconcile these or are you alcohol free? It’s 00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:58.840 a struggle for me. That’s from Darren Burton. So, Darren, thank you for your question, and 00:31:58.850 --> 00:32:01.990 I do… I don’t think this is what you’re asking about at all, but i’ll just let everyone 00:32:01.990 --> 00:32:05.830 know, that I do have a video called: “Is Alcohol Vegan?” and in that video, I do 00:32:05.830 --> 00:32:11.510 have links and information about finding out what alcohols are vegan and what is not, so 00:32:11.510 --> 00:32:18.570 there are vegan alcohol - alcohols, but, you know, beer, liquor and different things. However, 00:32:18.570 --> 00:32:25.190 if you are hoping to, I mean, if you’re going vegan for health and part of that is 00:32:25.190 --> 00:32:31.620 you don’t want to - you want to stop drinking as well, then obviously that’s a whole different, 00:32:31.620 --> 00:32:39.860 you know, issue, but as far as “vegan-ness” of alcohol is that there are a lot of - there 00:32:39.860 --> 00:32:47.500 are a lot, yeah, Ankaiser, definitely hit - hit the nose on the head, nope, nail on 00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:52.760 the head, there we go. At - In that video that I have of: “Is Alcohol Vegan?” I 00:32:52.760 --> 00:32:57.650 do link to Barnivore.com, so that is a really great resource. If you go to their website 00:32:57.650 --> 00:33:03.900 they, kind of, have a really fantastic catalogue of, you know, alcohol that has been - that 00:33:03.900 --> 00:33:11.980 is vegan, and has been, you know, verified, versus, you know, others, and... oops, sorry, 00:33:11.980 --> 00:33:17.591 and then oops, good lords, good - good lord, i’m gonna drop this thing. So then in the 00:33:17.591 --> 00:33:20.190 video, I go through more of like “why” and everything, but that is a really great 00:33:20.190 --> 00:33:28.200 website as well. okay… I’m gonna try to answer a couple more, you guys. 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:33.800 There's a lot of stuff. 00:33:33.809 --> 00:33:38.760 If you had to get rid of one species, not humans, or micro-organa - micro-organisms, 00:33:38.760 --> 00:33:44.040 what would you get rid of? That’s from Mike. I don’t think I would. I mean, I know that’s 00:33:44.040 --> 00:33:51.140 like a that defeats the question, but I don’t know if I could really say that really. Uh 00:33:52.260 --> 00:34:00.040 Okay, that was a that was a worst answer ever. Okay ch-ch-ch. Oh thank you Leslie. 00:34:00.040 --> 00:34:03.260 That’s really sweet. Oh 00:34:03.260 --> 00:34:10.020 A Thrifty Vegan asked: what do you think about killing bugs, like mosquitos and others, which 00:34:10.040 --> 00:34:17.040 could be potentially deadly? I actually just answered this. I just had a... like a two hour 00:34:17.040 --> 00:34:23.730 q live Q&A with my Patrons the other day, ooh legs falling asleep. And they asked, someone 00:34:23.730 --> 00:34:29.280 asked, one of my patrons asked about the uh about dealing with insect’s invasions, and 00:34:29.520 --> 00:34:36.920 you know and the home, what not, and I think it does come down to, I do - I do intend to 00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:41.460 make a separate video about this, and have for quite some time, is i’m going to have 00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:47.750 one video on how to deal with insect invasions, like in your home, and other 00:34:47.750 --> 00:34:53.840 places, and also I’m going to do a video on invasive species.o those will be two separate ones. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:35:02.040 But for just like kind of a quick quickish answer, is you know, with - with insects, you know, 00:35:02.050 --> 00:35:09.349 there are times when if, you know, if, when I lived in India, for a while, I - I did take, 00:35:09.349 --> 00:35:14.829 a malaria medication, you know, and so there - there are times where, depending on where 00:35:14.829 --> 00:35:20.589 you are, and the circumstances, like a life or death type of thing. It’s, you know, 00:35:20.589 --> 00:35:27.020 it comes down to an element of self defense, but again we, just as humans, our tendency 00:35:27.020 --> 00:35:32.250 is to try to exploit that and say well it was self defense for me to do x, y, or z, 00:35:32.250 --> 00:35:35.010 you know, i’ve even heard people say, if you don’t kill the pigs; the pigs are going 00:35:35.010 --> 00:35:40.510 to kill you type of thing, so but, kind of taking it on situation by situation there 00:35:40.510 --> 00:35:47.030 are also a lot of ways to naturally prevent, you know, insects from coming into your home 00:35:47.030 --> 00:35:54.040 or things like this. I also have a, like I have a natural bug spray, that I use, that’s 00:35:54.040 --> 00:35:58.040 based on I think it’s like essential oils and things, and it’s actually made here 00:35:58.040 --> 00:36:02.850 in Iowa. And it’s - it’s fantastic, it works really well, and it’s non toxic, it 00:36:02.850 --> 00:36:06.980 doesn’t kill, you know, the insects, it just they just don’t like it and it smells 00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:11.021 nice. ‘Cause I think most bug sprays, to me at least, make me feel sick as well. So 00:36:11.021 --> 00:36:22.030 that’s a way to potentially do that without it being toxic or harmful. You know, awesome. 00:36:22.030 --> 00:36:27.940 So but also around, this area of the country we have a brown recluse spiders, if any of 00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:33.720 you know anything about them. If you get a bite by a brown recluse you start - your flesh 00:36:33.720 --> 00:36:40.380 can start to rot, you know, it’s kind of an intense reaction, so maybe, if I had a 00:36:40.380 --> 00:36:46.790 brown recluse about to bite me probably flick him or her off of my body, you know, and do 00:36:46.790 --> 00:36:54.960 the best that I can, so okay. Alright, I’m gonna. Ooh it’s already 36 minutes, alright, 00:36:55.040 --> 00:37:00.460 i’m gonna try to do I guess like two more, I guess you guys. Try to do my best here. 00:37:08.180 --> 00:37:12.560 Sorry guys, I know need to do, i’ll definitely try to be more prepared for comments 00:37:12.560 --> 00:37:16.020 with moderation and everything. 00:37:16.020 --> 00:37:21.520 Instant Remix asked: What do you think about fake meat? Is it okay to eat every few days? 00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:29.220 Well, the fake - fake meat, I guess, it depends on, like, what you’re concern might be. 00:37:29.220 --> 00:37:35.730 So if it is a concern of health, then, you know, I mean it depends on the level of it 00:37:35.730 --> 00:37:39.190 being processed and everything, but, you know, it’s gonna be better than eating animal 00:37:39.190 --> 00:37:45.200 products. As far as, I mean, if it doesn’t have anything, I mean, if you’re not, like, 00:37:45.200 --> 00:37:50.030 concerned about, like, the additives, or anything in the different fake meat. I’m a huge fan 00:37:50.030 --> 00:37:55.691 of fake meat, and, you know, they even have the veggie burgers that like bleed now, which 00:37:55.691 --> 00:37:59.310 is to me, that’s, like, creepy. I don’t - I don’t want, personally, I don’t want 00:37:59.310 --> 00:38:05.540 any part of that; however, i’m really glad that that exists, because it’s the more, 00:38:05.540 --> 00:38:09.560 you know, like, there are people who... they want that. They want to have the same, you 00:38:09.570 --> 00:38:14.440 know, taste, the same texture, the same experience, but they might not wanna, you know, they don’t 00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:17.590 want to kill animals anymore. But at least this way they can still have the same taste 00:38:17.590 --> 00:38:22.660 experience, so I am a huge fan of, you know, of all of the vegan alternatives, and having 00:38:22.660 --> 00:38:29.970 them as realistic as - as we can make them. Because the more, you know, the more, like 00:38:29.970 --> 00:38:35.470 there are direct analogues, the more easily people will be able to transition, and more 00:38:35.470 --> 00:38:41.840 willing to transition, because you’re not really making a huge change even so. Okay, 00:38:42.120 --> 00:38:44.780 Ariel Rayes asked: Is vegan dog food healthy for dogs? 00:38:44.780 --> 00:38:48.790 I’m just gonna, i’ll answer another one after this, but I just wanna say: I have a 00:38:48.790 --> 00:38:54.869 number of videos on that, and if you go to “Can Pets Be Vegan?” if you google that, 00:38:54.869 --> 00:39:01.730 not google. If you search: “Can Pets Be Vegan?” on either my channel, or on bitesizevegan.com, 00:39:01.730 --> 00:39:05.450 you will find the post for that, and if you… 00:39:05.450 --> 00:39:10.599 On the website, like bitesizevegan.com, if you - if you search, “Can Pets Be Vegan?” 00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:15.980 at the bottom of that, I have a bunch more links, as well, I do intend to do follow up 00:39:15.980 --> 00:39:22.930 videos on that because, I have , ‘cause the old, that video is very old, and I also 00:39:22.930 --> 00:39:27.580 want to do, an additional video that’s just about cats, because I get the cat question 00:39:27.580 --> 00:39:32.040 a whole lot, so that is something I intend to do. Hopefully soonish, i’ve been meaning 00:39:32.040 --> 00:39:38.500 to do it for quite some time, so… Oh, thank you Maritzah. I really appreciate it, 00:39:38.700 --> 00:39:48.060 OK, guys, let me find, see if I can find, like, one or two more. Bye Joe Blush going to sleep. 00:39:48.060 --> 00:39:54.600 That’s awesome. Okay oh my goodness... 00:39:58.500 --> 00:40:01.800 How do you...wait? Okay uh, , how do you...(trails off) 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:06.100 Ok... Emm... 00:40:09.680 --> 00:40:11.480 Oh, thank you Leigh-M. That’s really sweet. 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:19.560 Oh wow. That was a - that was interesting one. hmm. , 00:40:19.820 --> 00:40:28.840 Okay so... Mid My Brew asked: How do you avoid hidden, non-vegan ingredients? 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:36.540 So with the non-vegan ingredients, you know, sometimes they are, sometimes you really don’t 00:40:36.540 --> 00:40:41.010 know, you know, there are different guides that you can find, like there’s an A-Z guide 00:40:41.010 --> 00:40:46.680 of the animal ingredients, so there are, you know, different time, like, there’s ways 00:40:46.680 --> 00:40:53.240 to kind of, search and learn a little bit more about them, but I think, when it comes 00:40:53.240 --> 00:40:57.630 down to, especially when you’re new, and also when you’re talking to people who are 00:40:57.630 --> 00:41:05.500 wanting to go vegan, it gets to a place of like ... Ooo ooh nope, okay, look, you know, 00:41:05.500 --> 00:41:12.640 working on what working on the big stuff it pretty you know: eggs, dairy, meat, honey, 00:41:12.650 --> 00:41:16.750 these things, doing the best that you can, being as prepared as you can. You can always 00:41:16.750 --> 00:41:22.230 look on the back of, if it’s a prepared food, you can, you know, look in the ingredients, 00:41:22.230 --> 00:41:24.839 and at least in America, a lot of times it will have like allergens, and they have to 00:41:24.839 --> 00:41:29.150 list dairy as one of them. So that’s kind of, like, a way to look, but there are a lot 00:41:29.150 --> 00:41:35.089 of like sneaky type ingredients. And it’s kind of a thing I do have a couple videos 00:41:35.089 --> 00:41:39.850 that talk about some of the weird additives, especially my older - my older video of 00:41:39.850 --> 00:41:41.200 “What i s REALLY In Your Food?” 00:41:41.200 --> 00:41:46.290 ‘Cause there’s all sorts of bizarre stuff that’s in there, so you know do the best 00:41:46.290 --> 00:41:51.880 that you can, be as vigilant as you can, and , as you learn, you’ll, you know, be able 00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:57.079 to better know and adapt in these kinds of things, of course, when you go out to eat, 00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:01.589 it’s always a little bit of a - of a gamble, because you could try to explain it as best 00:42:01.589 --> 00:42:05.760 as you can to people but you’re never gonna really know exactly how someone has prepared 00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:12.720 food but on your end of course the easiest way to avoid them is to, you know, have non 00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:19.869 processed food that is, you know, , fruits and vegetables and things of course you can 00:42:19.869 --> 00:42:24.890 run into the fact that sometimes beeswax or shellac is used on fruits to make them shiny 00:42:24.890 --> 00:42:30.430 and stuff. So, again, it goes back to the whole “100% vegan” “perfect vegan” 00:42:30.430 --> 00:42:37.410 these - that kind of thing when you know it’s really about doing the very best that you 00:42:37.410 --> 00:42:44.440 can and being honest with yourself about that. Not using that as an excuse, to say: ‘Oh 00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:51.810 well, I can’t do, you know, I can’t not eat, meat everyday so that’s my best.’ 00:42:51.810 --> 00:42:57.100 So just kinda, it kinda just takes like this constant evaluation of ourselves, and that’s 00:42:57.100 --> 00:43:01.150 kind of what I really went into depth in that with the “A Wake Up Call For Vegans“ speech 00:43:01.150 --> 00:43:07.310 that I did that’s kind of talking about how even as vegans; being vegan isn’t like the 00:43:07.310 --> 00:43:15.010 end. We’re done. Yay, i’m vegan i’m perfect I don’t have to ever analyze or look at 00:43:15.010 --> 00:43:22.190 myself again, like, it is important for us to stay vigilant, as well. And continue to 00:43:22.190 --> 00:43:32.080 be honest with ourselves about what we might still be contributing to. Okay. . Yeah, sorry 00:43:32.080 --> 00:43:37.900 guys, I know the chat’s a mess. I feel really bad about that, and I will hopefully do a 00:43:37.900 --> 00:43:44.370 better job about that next time. . okay, i’m going to answer one more, because I have to 00:43:44.370 --> 00:43:50.920 get, gotta go to a super-fun business appointment. 00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:54.780 Oh Sophie H For the art supplies, that one is coming very soon. 00:43:54.780 --> 00:43:59.750 I’m actually in the process of doing a video on art and art supplies, so stay tuned. I 00:43:59.750 --> 00:44:06.960 apologize that it is taking forever, but that will be happening. Hm-mm-hm-hmm. I’m going 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:18.340 to find one more, it’s gonna happen. This is very intense. . 00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:22.060 Oh my goodness, guys, I’m so sorry, 00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:31.660 This is like super boring dead air-time. Good Lord. There’s a lot to - there’s 00:44:31.660 --> 00:44:36.940 a lot to scroll through. . 00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:40.000 Ayn Kaiser I’m sorry that this is such a short stream, it’s 00:44:40.180 --> 00:44:48.460 just ‘cause I have this other appointment coming up, but I wanted to - to do this okay 00:44:48.860 --> 00:44:49.740 Ooh... 00:44:52.120 --> 00:44:58.820 Nope okay oh and the coconut thing I do I have been having that on my list forever 00:44:58.829 --> 00:45:05.310 too, as well as, to do a video on the monkey - monkey slave use, in the coconut industry. 00:45:05.310 --> 00:45:10.920 Which is really heart-breaking and rather prolific as well. So it is something that 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:11.620 I also want to do. 00:45:13.040 --> 00:45:14.760 Ummm... OK 00:45:16.220 --> 00:45:22.240 Ich liebe Deine Arbeit (I love your work) - oh Danke (thanks), Five vegan dankies 00:45:22.240 --> 00:45:24.400 Vielen Dank (many thanks) 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:25.400 okay guys. 00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:32.240 I swear to goodness… I am going to find one... "I love eating horsemeat", OK. 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:40.260 That's fantastic (sarcasm). Oh my goodness, you guys. I am gonna find one more question. 00:45:40.260 --> 00:45:50.060 It’s kind of intense. I think I am in the dead zone of lots of weird stuff flying up. 00:45:51.360 --> 00:46:00.800 Mm, ok I am gonna scroll down and see if any good ones. It’s kind of gotten ridiculous. 00:46:08.080 --> 00:46:15.680 Ok sooo, oh one, where is it? Marnie Travels asks: How to deal with cravings for 00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:20.660 non-vegan foods? I actually have a Q&A, an older Q&A, where that’s one of the questions. So if 00:46:20.670 --> 00:46:24.450 you go to my Q&A playlists list it will actually say like in the title, it is one of the ones 00:46:24.450 --> 00:46:29.200 in the title, it is like dealing with non-vegan temptations . So check out that Q&A. 00:46:29.200 --> 00:46:36.660 I do have right now like all of the Q&A playlist linked in this description. And I’ll be 00:46:36.660 --> 00:46:41.260 going back down in there later and do more specific links. 00:46:41.260 --> 00:46:43.260 Sooo... ummm... 00:46:48.220 --> 00:46:52.740 Oh wow, oh this is really sweet. So Chris Elam asks is there anything I can do to 00:46:52.750 --> 00:46:57.220 help your work directly. I just think you’re doing amazing work and it’s been so effective 00:46:57.220 --> 00:47:01.710 when I show my friends and family and I just want to know if there is anything specific? 00:47:01.710 --> 00:47:07.570 So, thank you for that, that’s very kind of you. I am, you know, currently, one of 00:47:07.570 --> 00:47:11.140 the biggest things that I am doing right now behind the scenes is trying to build up the 00:47:11.140 --> 00:47:18.260 foundation and the structure and everything to be able to bring, actually bring on like 00:47:18.260 --> 00:47:25.210 a full volunteer team. You know if anyone coming in, people to help, you know, do different 00:47:25.210 --> 00:47:32.451 tasks, if people want to volunteer and things, then that would be, you know, like a huge 00:47:32.451 --> 00:47:39.220 help to be able to keep things functional. Because there is like, the workload has kind 00:47:39.220 --> 00:47:46.440 of gone far beyond me, a long time ago and so then I am kind of falling behind on a lot 00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:55.160 of different areas. So, I will, as like once that’s, the foundation is kind of there, 00:47:55.160 --> 00:47:58.450 I’ll do like an announcement video on the channel. 00:47:58.450 --> 00:48:08.300 But anyways, right now, you know, one thing, I do see people say, sometimes I have comments 00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:14.330 of people saying: I am sorry that I can’t support you on Patreon - Patreon is the website 00:48:14.330 --> 00:48:21.960 where I have crowdfunding to make this even possible to the level that it is currently. 00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:25.349 And I do have people saying : I am sorry I can’t support you there financially. And 00:48:25.349 --> 00:48:31.980 I want everyone to know: Never feel bad about that, because I always reply that, you know, 00:48:31.980 --> 00:48:36.319 watching the videos, commenting and liking, and then especially sharing. The more you 00:48:36.319 --> 00:48:41.609 can share the content on different platforms with different influencers, that’s incredible 00:48:41.609 --> 00:48:48.480 helpful. Because I don’t have the time to even really try to promote or share things 00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:52.380 enough, and I am also awful at it. 00:48:52.380 --> 00:48:58.470 So all of that, I don’t want anyone to undervalue the effect of that and how much I appreciate it 00:48:58.470 --> 00:49:04.900 and how much your support just from watching, commenting, sharing is incredible. 00:49:04.900 --> 00:49:10.119 I love having people over on Patreon and the nugget army. And I do, I know I share a whole 00:49:10.120 --> 00:49:17.520 lot with my Patreons that I don’t put on the channel. But I don’t want there anyone 00:49:17.520 --> 00:49:23.130 to think that not being on there, and that just being a viewer is not appreciated; 00:49:23.130 --> 00:49:30.120 because it is huge, it’s huge. You know I couldn’t, the channel wouldn’t be what it is if it 00:49:30.120 --> 00:49:35.000 wasn’t for you guys. And I don’t forget that for a second. Which is why I also feel 00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:39.540 awful that I have been falling behind so much recently and really awful with trying to get 00:49:39.540 --> 00:49:48.079 to all the comments and questions and everything. So I do appreciate every single one of you. 00:49:48.080 --> 00:49:52.470 I know that sounds probably super corny, but it’s true. 00:49:52.470 --> 00:49:57.380 Ok, all right, I guess, ooh, ooh 00:49:59.240 --> 00:50:01.780 I saw someone say something about eggs. I do have a video 00:50:01.940 --> 00:50:07.720 called “Can vegans eat eggs from backyard chickens?”. So check that out. 00:50:07.720 --> 00:50:15.670 Alright guys, let’s see, I think that’s gonna be it, cause I gotta, I am gonna be 00:50:15.670 --> 00:50:20.040 late for this appointment. Thank you guys so much for being here. I am sorry for the 00:50:20.040 --> 00:50:26.790 kind of like super last minute, hey it’s happening. But I really appreciate. And I 00:50:26.790 --> 00:50:31.450 definitely next time I’m gonna try to a better job of getting some moderators ahead 00:50:31.450 --> 00:50:34.440 of time so that the chat can be something. 00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:38.130 And I do have service dogs on my list as well, you guys, So sorry, there is so many topics 00:50:38.130 --> 00:50:43.160 and I wanna do everything. Thank you, thank you, thank you, I will also get in and fix 00:50:43.160 --> 00:50:47.820 this video as soon as I can with links and captions and everything, so really appreciate it. 00:50:47.820 --> 00:50:52.330 Thank you for watching and everything. Definitely click the bell and I haven’t 00:50:52.330 --> 00:50:58.210 said that enough … HI VeganGeezer, way to show up. Nah, loving it Martin. Alright guys, 00:50:58.210 --> 00:51:01.940 definitely check out Martin, he is awesome, guys, the VeganGeezer - he has an incredible 00:51:01.940 --> 00:51:07.560 child called Jo-Jo who is like the coolest kid in the world. Just saying. Just saying. 00:51:07.560 --> 00:51:13.000 Alright, I love you guys. Thank you for your support, for your patience. And please just 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:17.309 stick with me, I know that I am not; I am bit of a hotter mess than I normally am, right 00:51:17.309 --> 00:51:24.000 now, which is saying a lot. I am gonna go do this business stuff, as if I know what 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:30.029 I am doing, as business person. I don’t. Bye guys. I love you. Thank you so much.