JD and Suzy talk with the Vigilante Vegan, Stewart Mitchell. Stewart is an advocate for human and animal rights. His journey began when he started to trust his instincts and questioned the business of practices with food companies. This journey led him on this quest. His book, Kayla the Vegan has hit a societal nerve.

What You Will Hear:

Taking care of your family and responsibility to family.

Fatherhood and Stewart’s father

Removing the stigma of mental health

Stewart’s mental health journey and the motivation and impact of his book

Depression and therapy

Becoming vegan

Feeling vulnerable

Hatred and fear

The direct effect of the corporate food system on disenfranchised communities

Stewart’s self published books

Seeing animal as people

Quotes:

“Most vegans and most animal rights activists, they come from pretty damaging backgrounds. They see the innocence in animals.”

“One thing I have a problem with is people that say black lives matter, but they are transphobic. How can you be one and not the other.”

“With a little bit of kindness we can help people make the connections between themselves, animals and nature.”

“We become so advanced in life that we become a detriment to ourselves when now we discriminate against people who don’t look like us. We treat people differently that don’t do the things that we do.”

‘If we could see the personhood in animals it would help us reconnect to who we are in conjunction with animals and the planet.”

Mentioned:

IG @Vigilante_vegan

@theres.beauty.in.the.darkness

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1773137522851312/ (Voice for Change)

https://www.amazon.com/Kayla-Vegan-second-Stewart-Mitchell/dp/172450648X (Kayla the Vegan)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46263457-liberation-summer (Liberation Summer)