Hi Plant Friends and welcome to another episode of the PBN Podcast. I am your host Robbie Lockie. On this weeks episode we meet the bubbly and colourful vegan Jasmin Singer.

At the age of twenty-four, Jasmin Singer turned to veganism after watching a film about factory farming. Learning about the horrors of the dairy and egg production led her to incorporate animal rights into her LGBTQ+ and feminist activism. Jasmin then began volunteering at PETA's headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and began steering her career toward animal rights activism.

As well as being a leading expert, Jasmin Singer is now a hugely visible presence within the vegan community. She is a coveted speaker on topics including radical body positivity, personal narrative as a means of social justice, and how to change the world for animals. She is also the author of The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan and Always Too Much and Never Enough: A Memoir.

Along with her co-host Mariann Sullivan, Jasmin and her team continue to “change the world for animals” on the long-running, award-winning podcast, Our Hen House. I was fortunate to feature on one of their episodes, I will link it down in the show notes.

Jasmin’s incredible contribution to animal rights does not stop there. She is the former Senior Editor for VegNews Magazine and the longtime love columnist and celebrity interviewer. In 2020, Jasmin had the enviable job of interviewing actor Joaquin Phoenix, who had used his prominence to not only effectively veganize the menu at the Academy Awards, but also treat his acceptance speech as a way of sharing his concerns for animal rights issues.

You may well have seen Jasmin appearing in various documentaries such as The Ghosts In Our Machine and Vegucated. She has also contributed to many anthologies such as Running Eating Thinking; Defiant Daughters; Voices for Animal Liberation; Queer & Trans Voices; and Circles of Compassion.

As an actor, Jasmin starred in the film The Bra Mitzvah and has appeared in television commercials. She holds a BFA in Acting from Pace University, and is a certified holistic health counsellor. Jasmin is a long-time activist across many realms, including animal activism, LGBTQ activism, and antiracism.

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Find out more about Jasmin here https://jasminsinger.com

The PBN Podcast is produced by Robbie Lockie & edited by Phil Marriott

* The Show Notes *

00:03:38 The vegan journey - how it all started

00:10:29 Noticing changes in the vegan shift

00:11:34 The vegan movement challenged by capitalism

00:17:41 Experiencing classism

00:20:26 Racial identity

00:26:19 Compassion and respect for humans

00:28:55 Balancing family culture and heritage with a vegan lifestyle

00:32:22 Ted Talk

00:38:47 Are human beings born with compassion? Or do we have to learn it?

00:40:11 Does bullying make you a stronger person?

00:43:35 Dealing with the problems of bullying

00:45:30 Working for Veg News

00:47:59 The first Veg News book: The Veg News Guide To Being A Fabulous Vegan

00:58:13 The Kinder Beauty Box

01:01:04 Stranded on a desert island