Vegan Food & Euphemisms At The Farmers Market

Hi it's Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome
to another vegan nugget.

Since I’m boarding a plane to Ireland the
day after tomorrow to deliver a speech in

Dublin, I am in serious crunch time mode.

Evidenced by the near ghost town of my social
media platforms.

Actually it’s not much of a change for my
Twitter, really.

Anyways, I thought I’d show you around my
local Farmers Market, since I rarely do the

vlog-ish style of videos outside of my Patreon
page.

And, it seems, speech-induced crunch time.

This market has some really beautiful local
produce and, like most markets and community

agriculture movements, some wholesome homegrown
local cruelty.

So, let’s look around.

This farm always has a wide selection and
this week they even had melons.

One of my long-term goals is to grow all of
my own food.

Taking our food back into our own hands has
power on so many levels, not just financially.

It can profoundly lower our environmental
impact, increase the nutrient content of our

produce, and help us reconnect with our food.

These are local-grown apples that they’ll
juice them right on the spot.

So this is pretty cool.

This gentleman makes soap with the mushrooms
he grows.

It’s totally vegan and the sign was so fantastic
that I had to get a bar.

And some tasty tomatoes.

I love just eating these like snack food.

Well, they are snack food.

This stall always has vegan options.

They have chocolate vegan cookies too, but
I was not about to violate people’s

personal space with my vlogging.

Is that like vlogssault?

A vlogilation?

Anyways.

This booth has made-to-order pizzas and I’d
never really given it a look before but they

have fully vegan options with daiya cheese
and even vegan pesto.

So I figured I’d see what its like.

While we’re waiting this is my order from
the co-op today.

A big box of grapes.

You can check out my car-free grocery haul
to see more of how I make things work with

a bike and buy produce in bulk to save money.

And no farmers market is complete without
some delightfully charming euphemisms.

This is the second town I’ve lived in that
has a relatively strong interest in where

their food comes from and making sustainable,
responsible choices.

Unfortunately, by and large, I find that in
undertaking this journey—which is commendable—most

people stall out after entering the warm embrace
of the humane myth.

These concepts of pasture raised, grass-fed,
local, organic, happy animals provide us

the perfect solution to any unrest about our
actions.

It’s the holy grail of human hypocrisy:
we get to keep eating exactly what and whom

we want without the guilt—possibly even
with some pride in our

conscientious, ethical, earth-friendly choices.

I’m not trying to be the vegan wet blanket.

Which I kind of am.

But if we really want to be responsible with
our choices, we have to fully inform ourselves.

And it is much harder understanding the exploitation inherent in these friendly booths

than in an undercover video from a factory farm.

Which is why it’s so vital to educate about
the humane myth.

I’ve included some videos in the description
to get you started, but let’s pull out of

the vegan buzz kill spiral and check out some
pizza!

If you didn’t already leave, that is…

Oh! And I took the opportunity to drop back by
for a vegan cookie shot.

There you go.

So we’ve got Daiya cheese, onion, sweet
corn, marinara and pesto!

I think I just won vlogging.

Alright, well I’m going to get back to some
serious speech work.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments
and thank you for your patience with my near

total retreat from society during this push.

I always want to be as effective as I
can with my speeches, especially when I’m

given such incredible opportunities to educate.

You can check out the rest of my speeches
so far linked in the sidebar and below.

By the way, the Extremism speech - both the censored version and the repost -

have made it over 100,000 views. Thank you so much to all of you who have watched and shared

to get that information out.

If you like this kind of informalness you can always
join us in the Nugget Army

to help support ongoing free education.

And see the description for video resources
about the humane myth, growing your own food,

and help finding fresh produce in your area.

Thank you so much for watching, and for all of
your support through this journey.

Please keep sharing the videos around to help
others find free vegan info!

Now go live vegan and I’ll see you in Dublin.

Or England.

Or here on YouTube.

And maybe.

One day.

Twitter.