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More questions answered - I start off grumpy at some dipshit questions - but then everyone comes back and I chat to Hannah Chloe... her youtube channel is here.

https://www.youtube.com/user/hannahlobb26/videos

The Swan - by Roald Dahl

A reading of this short from the collection "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and six more"

The Swan tells the story of two young boys who enjoy killing animals for fun - and a third who gets caught up in their frustrated hooliganism.

Immy and I answer your questions on Veganism, ranging from insect instincts, the acknowledged button, freegan buddhists, letting the Vegan way decide for you, population stats and chocolate flavoured poop.

Chiang Mai, December 2015.

Currently staying with Immy (aka That Vegan Thai Girl) in a place full of Vegans.

Immy, Griselda, Toni-Anne, Michael and I discussed the effects of not eating enough carbs to fuel the body in a sustainable way - from body building, self starvation, competitive bikini shows and not shitting for days at a time while following Sarah Wilson's "I Quit Sugar" diet plan - each have their own share of experiences in being undercarbed to an extreme.

Check out Tony-Anne on Tap here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os4g-j07rx8

Paris, December 2015 - the COP21

(the twenty first Conference of Parties - an international annual event that focuses around tackling climate change)

Having managed to get access to the after party in the Stade de France, Kip Anderson (Co-creator of documentary Cowspiracy) and Ali Tabrizi (The Friendly Activist) take in the hypocrisy of the event which avoids the leading human cause of climate change - non-Veganism.

Some small signs of positive change appear - whether it be Ben & Jerry's creating marketing guy talking about 4 Vegan ice cream products coming in the new year, the people who approach Kip to say they have changed since watching Cowspiracy and the news that Ali will be making a feature doc in 2016 called Seaspiracy exposing the very real impending human destruction of our planet's ocean.

Podcasting out in the London Climate Change March (Nov 29th 2015) asking the non-Vegan environmentalists why they aren't Vegan... The most common reason seems to be cheese.

Neil Gaiman's short story 'Babycakes'

You can read along here:

Babycakes

A few years back all the animals went away.

We woke up one morning, and they just weren’t there anymore. They didn’t even leave us a note, or say goodbye. We never figured out quite where they’d gone.

We missed them.

Some of us thought that the world had ended, but it hadn’t. There just weren’t any more animals. No cats or rabbits, no dogs or whales, no fish in the seas, no birds in the skies.

We were all alone.

We didn’t know what to do.

We wandered around lost, for a time, and then someone pointed out that just because we didn’t have animals anymore, that was no reason to change our lives. No reason to change our diets or to cease testing products that might cause us harm.

After all, there were still babies.

Babies can’t talk. They can hardly move. A baby is not a rational, thinking creature.

We made babies.

And we used them.

Some of them we ate. Baby flesh is tender and succulent.

We flayed their skin and decorated ourselves in it. Baby leather is soft and comfortable.

Some of them we tested.

We taped open their eyes, dripped detergents and shampoos in, a drop at a time.

We scarred them and scalded them. We burnt them. We clamped them and planted electrodes into their brains. We grafted, and we froze, and we irradiated.

The babies breathed our smoke, and the babies’ veins flowed with our medicines and drugs, until they stopped breathing or until their blood ceased to flow.

It was hard, of course, but it was necessary.

No one could deny that.

With the animals gone, what else could we do?

Some people complained, of course. But then, they always do.

And everything went back to normal.

Only…

Yesterday, all the babies were gone.

We don’t know where they went. We didn’t even see them go.

We don’t know what we’re going to do without them.

But we’ll think of something. Humans are smart. It’s what makes us superior to the animals and the babies.

We’ll figure something out.

Georgia, Pow, Miriam & I develop a new method to give Vegans an upper-hand over non-Vegans on social media.

Check out Banana Drama's new channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7eDmmFlkO8

Miriam - aka Vegan Mental Health

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoJBjlZJ2Zw

Powsimian - aka Matt Blunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1og9xvbxQs

The patreon link - for any listeners who want to help a fellow Vegan vagabond beatnik broke ass nomadic deadbeat like myself - check out the lack of rewards here

https://www.patreon.com/theVeganRevolution?ty=h

Now got a patreon if you cheapskate freeloading listeners care to share:

(thanks to those who already have:)

https://www.patreon.com/theVeganRevolution?ty=h

Back to the ask.fm format after a long hiatus from answering questions - some of which include:

A supernatural hypothetical set-up with no actual dilemma

Eating with non-Vegans?

If everyone was Vegan, would I be bored?

Vegan graffiti stencils

Earthlings and Unity and Shaun Monson

Other Vegan podcasts

@SarahAllspaw & now on iTunes

The difference between condescending and patronising me

Quitting your job to become a blindfolded trapeze artist

Atheism with a divine purpose

Unnatural Vegan the judas of the Vegan movement?

Giving blood

non-Vegan jobs

"Fake" Meats

Are oils healthy?

Being a scatterbrain

Interview with my Mum and her Mum aka my Nan.

We discuss the differences in cultural perspectives that divide our ethics across 3 generations and the evolution of our choices from Nana animal eater, Mum dairy consumer and little old Vegan me.