Are Militant Vegans Going Too Far? | This Morning

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The number of vegans in Britain has risen by 360 percent in the last decade, that's 3.5 million people choosing a plant-based diet. There has been an increase in activists targeting farmers, slaughterhouses and butchers to persuade people to give up meat. Are these activists justified or has it gone too far? We're joined by Ed Winters, an animal rights activist who believes peaceful protests are key to reducing our meat consumption and therefore saving the planet, and Journalist Julie Bindel argues that veganism has become a ‘cult’.
Broadcast on: 06/11/18
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[@RC-gh7os]

Everything that Phillip Schofield says further validates Ed's arguments. Well done Ed, showing everyone how its done and out classing everyone here by a country mile ❤

[@Andy__0]

The cost argument from Julie is a non-argument. Things like beans, lentils, peanuts, chickpeas, garden peas and soya milk (50p per litre now), along with a big range of vegetables, grains and fruits that we are used to eating in the UK, are far cheaper than animal products. As to the issue of time taken for food preparation, many of these can be bought in a form with little preparation needed, e.g. microwaving some kidney beans from a can for 3 mins. As Ed says, the biggest issue with this whole situation is education, including on cooking. We should do more to educate people on what a good diet looks like, how to prepare it and how much different foods cost. Also, if we had a food subsidy system valuing production rather than just land ownership (animal ag uses 85% of UK farmland but produces just 32% of calories and 49% of protein for human consumption), then the price difference would be even greater between plants and animal products.

[@goblin53gan]

Unfortunately, many people like Julie who demand that vegans better educate others and make plant based food more affordable/accessible are also the people unwilling to listen/do their own research. If Julie took a minute to Google the cost difference between a plant based diet and an omnivorous/carnivorous one, she would have found everything you just explained. They just don't want to accept the facts.

[@Iris-vo5gd]

Dude, can you super please help me with ideas for lazy people's meals that are vegan and can replace protein? I need a community or something

[@Andy__0]

@@Iris-vo5gd r/veganrecipes, r/EatCheapAndVegan, r/veganfitness.

[@Iris-vo5gd]

@@Andy__0 thank you!

[@MercyForTheInnocent]

its cheaper to be vegan in most cases. depends what u buy.

[@iketyke7324]

“If you frighten me that much, I will eat a sausage”. This aged well.

[@lanav2478]

Sorry but how did the conversation go from facts about veganism to how much of a victim that woman was. Her getting death threats has nothing to do with veganism. Suvha pointless arguement. Ed on the other hand jyst spoke facts from an objective standpoint which is the whole point in a debate

[@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811]

I don't think so. Animals deserve rights and liberation!

[@delfineslibres9471]

Im a vegan and a feminist. Big fan of Julie and Ed. This is such a pointless boring waste of a non debate. Its just trying to create division.

[@dimitrisskar4174]

ummm how is feminism different from veganism? genuine question.

[@pirds102010]

yeah and the new feminism creates division as well :D Feminists should wake up instead of calling themselves woke

[@Angela_Clark]

Ed has inspired me to make moves in the most compassionate. Way. Possible. Starting now.

[@notadoppler9590]

Terrible from Schofield here

[@MercyForTheInnocent]

gotta love Ed

[@WalkWithWallace]

Nicely handed Ed, doesn’t matter what the subject is you get militants on both sides.

[@dawn8542]

And you are paying for it with your health, Julie. Karma.

[@miaowmail]

what schofield says at 07:08

[@keensley91]

Quite worrying considering the news that's come out recently 😂

[@Johndoe-wm3ns]

Makes sense now hahq

[@benaubrey2410]

As a militant vegan, we're sorry. Guess we scared him too much.

[@ericlondon2663]

YES they are. I had a vegan attack me for lighting a BBQ in my back yard. I beat the crap out of him and when the cops arrived they tazed him, beat him for resisting, and then arrested him. Irony here was we lit the grill for corn on the cob. 100% serious.

[@cameron148002]

You sound like such a hard man.

[@miaowmail]

YAWN. Sounds so true. NOT

[@urban_video5949]

me when i lie

[@Pakinov]

Source: trust me

[@EricLewandowski-vn7ky]

Cool story

[@UTubeGoNSoft687]

Enjoying a beautiful seasoned tomahawk steak while watching 😋

[@Rasheed9]

😂 🥩

[@Maddie5b]

Since you don't seem to realize: Your comment just screams "I'm insecure and feel guilty about eating meat so I'm going to comment something mean to hurt others in a desperate attempt to deviate my attention away from my own feelings which I cannot handle". Hope it helps x

[@UTubeGoNSoft687]

@@Maddie5b Nah 🤣

[@MercyForTheInnocent]

Vegan for the animals!

[@goblin53gan]

Julie just doesn't get it, does she? She doesn't

[@mariatanya3533]

Yes you're not gonna shove your beliefs on her. She's a grown woman who can make her own dietary choices.

[@goblin53gan]

@@mariatanya3533 She's a grown woman who can make her own totally uninformed* dietary choices ;)

[@dawn8542]

Carnists are the equivalent of lung cancer patients making fun of people who don't smoke.

[@Lozwave]

This woman is frustrating

[@mariatanya3533]

No you are

[@snoopredictions]

@@mariatanya3533 Cry harder

[@Lozwave]

This woman is frustrating

[@mariatanya3533]

Like you

[@snoopredictions]

@@mariatanya3533 Cry harder

[@kaleighandrews7538]

I would like to see these receipts or screenshots. Rather of these said Bretz this woman received because it’s one thing to stay you receive those threats. It’s another person to produce them vegans don’t threaten people like that and if they are doing that, and claiming to be a vegan there, no vegan friends of true vegan vegans are nonviolent we’re pretty much the equivalent to like a monk a Buddhist we don’t believe in violence, which is why we’re fighting against violence to animals.

[@mariatanya3533]

They do and it's freaking ironic. You claim to be against killing yet you threaten people with death. Make it make sense.

[@kaleighandrews7538]

@@mariatanya3533 never makes sense and that’s why we vegans don’t promote any kind of violence, to animals or non human animals. Just crazy how people can’t grasp that and then threaten us. Your answer is as good as mine

[@renegadelaw9303]

This woman is feminist fighting to protect women from voilence but won't extend compassion to animals.

[@JoshuaRead-ip5ng]

We should be willing to do whatever necessary to save animals from genocide.

[@JungleIsMassiv]

The TV networks, every time, give the non-vegan the last word. It's so frustrating, as that's what the audience will remember from the conversation.