hi there! if you're a kid... ...and you want to go vegan,then this video is for you! going vegan can be hard sometimes. when you’rea kid in a non-vegan family and your parents or guardians are unsupportive of your decisionto not eat animals anymore, it can feel downright impossible. but don’t lose hope. today i’vebrought together 24 of the top experts in
healthy diet 14 year old vegetarian, this field to share their best advice. who are these most wise souls? real vegan kids, of course! hi it’s emily from bite size vegan and welcometo another vegan nugget. i’m excited to be making another video for you with my friends,some awesome vegan kids from around the world.
in just a little bit we’re going to hearfrom them on how to go vegan if your family is not supportive. if you don’t already know, being vegan meansyou don’t eat animals or anything that comes out of them, like milk, yogurt, eggs, andcheese. i’ve made some videos just for you all about meat, milk, eggs, and more, includingmore interviews with real vegan kids! if you want to check out any of those videos,they will be linked right there and down below so you can watch them next. i’ve also donea couple videos on how to talk to your parents or how to deal with being the onlyvegan in a family. those will be linked below as well.
let me introduce you to who you’ll hearfrom today! there’s elvis, who’s 3 and a half years old, and lives inhawaii in the united states. kevin, who’s 13 and from england and thephilippines, and currently living in bahrain. lilah, who’s 8 and lex who’s 6, both frommassachusetts in the united states. jojo, who’s 4 years old, from london, england. lexie, who’s 13 from “the south†inthe united states. ronya, who’s 14 and oli, who’s 8, bothfrom waiheke island in new zealand. dylan, who’s 6 and a half from tel aviv, israel. carolina ali, who’s 13 and from tennesseein the united states.
ryan, who’s 4 and james, who’s 11, bothfrom rawtenstall, england. and new this time, we have haile thomas, who’s 14 from arizona in the united states. gala, who’s 9, jude, who’s 11, and amina, who's 10 from brisbane, australia. jesse jace, who’s 4 from new york city in the united states. alejandro, who’s 7 and jordan, who’s 13, from california in the us and guam. madi, who’s 12, from mendon, massachusetts in the united states. taylor, who’s 13, from ontario, canada. thomas ponce, who’s 14 from florida in theunited states. georgia, who’s 16, from yorkshire, in theunited kingdom.
and, isaiah, who's 7, from boston, main the united states. before we hear how to go vegan with unsupportive parents, let’s get a reminder from the youngerkids about why being vegan is important. alejandro: we're vegan because, we don'twant to eat any animals because we love them. dylan: i want kids to be healthy and strong!i don't get sick a lot. jojo: i love kids being vegan. yeah, it'spretty easy not to eat animals. jesse jace: because i love the animalsand i save the planet. elvis: i love my fruits and veggies.you don't need to eat animals like us. you just eat fruits and vegetables. izzy: because our bodies shouldn't be a graveyard for dead animals.
they should be filled with a bunchof food like falafel... everything vegan. ryan: ‘cause we save animals. lex: animals are so great. i think we shouldall try to treat them how they want to be treated. and now some great tips for going vegan whenyou don’t have your family’s support: haile: just introduce it slowly into yourhousehold. go to your parents and be like "maybe on thursdays we can have a vegan night?"and just slowly introduce it and eventually your parents or your relatives, or whoever,will start to realize how good and delicious the food is and that can really help, as well.but also the education part. you know, if you sit down with your family and you talkabout the benefits of the lifestyle. how not only it
can improve your own health but alsothe health of the environment and the animals, then it kind of puts a different perspectiveon things. james: i think, for one, they should watchyour videos. if they're trying to go vegan then they should watch lots of videos and try and findstuff in the supermarkets when they're going around and when you're downtown and goingshopping. just look for foods that are vegan. thomas: if you are in that situation definitely research information about being vegan andit's all about letting people know. if you present your parents or your guardians witha logical statement and with factual information and you're calm then you will definitely beable to change their mind about it. and if
you show them that you're truly passionateabout it and if you show them that you truly want to be vegan then they will say yes, andthey will have a change of mind and possibly a change of heart. kevin: number one thing is to do your research. 'cause when you have facts and the sourcesto those facts and you can show them to other people and confidently say "here's where iget my protein." 'cause i guarantee you're going to need that. i guarantee you're goingto need where you get your iron, your b12, your vitamin d. all that stuff. 'cause normallythe reason they don't want you to be vegan or they have concerns it's because they careabout you. you know, if it's your parents.
it's not because they want you to kill animals,it's because they think that you're gonna be deficient in something or there’s gonnabe problems that could negatively affect you. but when you can prove to them being veganhas no negative impacts on you or anything else, then they will be more accepting of it. carolina: i would go grocery shopping withyour parents. and sometimes it is boring for some kids but for me it's not boring becausemy dad let's me buy food, my vegan food. processed foods, they're usually more expensive thanwhole foods, like in bulk. so you could talk to your parents and be like "oh apples arereally healthy. can we just buy a bag of those instead of that bag of cheez-its or like somecheesy potato chips. and then just try to
do like small changes and maybe your parentswould let you like eat more apples instead instead of like cheesy junk food, or something. ronya: one thing i found for me was that if you don't want to stand up to your parents, which i didn't, 'cause i found that very difficult, is just try to take charge of your own cookingand your own things. so i would cook, like almost all of my dinners, and i would alwaysmake myself lunch for school anyway. and then i would make breakfast. so only like onceor twice a week when dad cooked would i have a non-vegan dinner, because i was alreadyvegetarian, and often, so i already cooked for myself food when he was cooking meat. so when hewas cooking meat every night i would just
cook myself vegan instead of vegetarian. andthe other advice would probably be just think as much as you can about those who are sufferingfor, you know, the choice. and sort of think about them when you're trying to talk to yourparents, but also don't try to sound crazy and just start yelling at them because thatjust doesn't really get anywhere and then they just get very frustrated and think you'retoo young to do it. lexie: like anybody you're gonna have peoplethat don't agree with you. and the most important thing is just to don't agree with them backand just stand up for what you believe in. jude: well maybe say about the slaughterhouses.gala: or maybe if we do an envelope and we're just writing inside and it says "go vegan"and a picture of what happens to the animals
in the slaughterhouses. when they open itthey see some writing that says, 'this is what happens to the animals.’amina: well maybe they can see if they have any friends that can help them convince their parents to go vegan and then they can go to animal sanctuaries and see how happy the animals are. emily: okay, awesome! madi: if your parents are like super aggressivelynot wanting you to go vegan than i would just say, if you really, really are dedicated to it just try toavoid those items as much as possible. show them the footage if you need to. show themwhat they're kind of, dedicating their money to. georgia: the best thing is to just realize that your parents are going to love you no matter what,
and it can cause arguments and stuff, but at the end of the day, what i remembered personally is that... it might be different for other people but for me, it's not about me, it's more about the animals.i can cope with going through a rough stage, like, with my parents,if it means that in the long run it's better for the animals. but i can understand thatit is really difficult. i've had to buy my own food and stuff before. not that my parentsdon't buy me food, 'cause obviously they do, but there isn't enough of what i caneat in the house. it does get better though. like, the first month can be tricky but onceeveryone knows, your family will just have to get used to it, is what i would say.
jordan: they should reason with their parents and... because, in the beginning my mom, shewould tell us a whole bunch of statistics and everything, like "oh yeah, this is actuallyhealthier for you than meat is" and she'll pull up a whole bunch of articles about howit's more beneficial than what regular people eat. so i think they should do that insteadof like, "yeah i don't want to eat meat anymore because 'meat is murder' and then their parentswill be all freaked out. taylor: well, you could show them videos, or give them facts. or just ask them if you could start slowly, just cutting out red meat, and then white meat, and then ice cream and things with so much dairy. and then, you could see if you could start out slow and that might work. that probably would.
lilah: one tip is just do what you believein. i hope you found this video helpful! theytook the words right out of my mouth. just remember to educate yourself, come to your family withsolid information and remember that they’re concerned because they love you. if you wantto connect with the awesome kids you met today, check out their links below. and a huge thankyou from me to each and every one of my guests and to you for watching. now i’d love to hear from you too in thecomments! are you trying to go vegan? are you already vegan and have sometips of your own to share? if you liked this video, do give it a big thumbs up andshare it around to help other kids go vegan.
if you’re new here, do hit that big red subscribebutton down there for more awesome vegan content every monday, wednesday, and somefridays and to not miss out the on the rest of my videos for kids. if you’re an adult and you want tohelp support bite size vegan, check out either of the support links in the video descriptionbelow or click on the nugget army icon there or the link in the sidebar. now go live vegan,help educate your family, and i'll see you soon! emily: um, do you have a favorite food, jesse? jesse jace: um, mangoes, kiwis, and grapes….and rice and broccoli and pizza!! subtitles by the amara.org community
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