The Simply Vegan podcast is your weekly dose of plant-based food, news and topical chat with Vegan Food & Living's Holly Johnson and Molly Pickering.

This week, we're exploring what it means to be a 'healthy' vegan. Is vegan meat ruining our diets? Or does it actually offer health benefits? And who better to join in the conversation than The Vegan Butcher AKA Zacchary Bird!

Zacchary joins us from Australia to discuss his view of what it means to be 'healthy', how he deals with online trolls who can't cope with seeing vegans turn vegetables into 'meat' and his take on the so-called vegan bubble bursting. He also shares his love of travel and discovering new street food, and tells us about his new book, The Vegan Baker.

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Notes from today's episode:

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