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In this programme, Neil and Catherine discuss why more and more people are becoming vegan. They also teach you six items of useful vocabulary.

This week's question:

Which of these celebrities is vegan?
a) Brad Pitt
b) Jennifer Lopez
c) Miley Cyrus

Listen to the programme to find out the answer.

Vocabulary

in this day and age
these days

ethical
moral

veganism
the vegan diet

arid
dry; too dry to support crops

livestock
farm animals

Transcript

Note: This is not a word for word transcript

Neil
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English - the programme where we bring you an interesting topic and six items of vocabulary. I'm Neil.

Catherine
And I'm Catherine.

Neil
Now, if you want to fight climate change - what can you do?

Catherine
Well, you can use less electricity...

Neil
Or stop driving...

Catherine
But scientists believe there's another behaviour which has an even bigger impact on the planet, and that is what you eat.

And if you eat no meat or animal products you're what we call 'vegan'. More and more people around the world are going vegan. And today's question: which of these celebrities is vegan? Is it...
a) Brad Pitt,
b) Jennifer Lopez or
c) Miley Cyrus?

Catherine
And I'm going to go for...c) Miley Cyrus.

Neil
Well, we'll find out at the end of the programme. Now, before we go much further, why don't we find out a bit more about exactly what it means to be vegan?

Catherine
Here's Tom Kuehnel from the Vegan Society in the UK.

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Tom Kuehnel, Vegan Society
Veganism is a way of living which excludes, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation and cruelty to animals. So that's for food, clothing or any other purpose. So we just don't want to use or abuse animals. And we feel like there, you know, there are plenty of alternatives in this day and age. It's never been easier to be vegan.

Neil
Of course, he says that avoiding cruelty to animals is what it's all about, but that doesn't just mean food. If you're a true vegan, then clothing from animals is also out - no more leather shoes!

Neil
Yes. It means 'these days', or 'in the present time' - and is often used to highlight a contrast with a previous time.

Others go vegan because of environmental considerations, as we looked at earlier. Rearing livestock - that means animals like cows and pigs - produces a lot of harmful methane gas. Now, let's just say the animals themselves produce a lot of it from their bodies. The other major reason to choose veganism ...

Neil
... is because they believe it is healthier.

Catherine
In the research from Oxford University we mentioned earlier, scientists found that 8 million deaths per year could be avoided if the world went vegan.

Neil
Now, that's human deaths. They claim that half of this figure would be because we no longer eat red meat, and the other half would be due to eating more healthy fruit and vegetables - as well as fewer people being overweight.

Catherine
And they say that this would have an economic impact too. They suggest that up to $1,000bn a year would be saved due to reduced healthcare costs and increased productivity at work - because fewer people would get sick.

Neil
So, if it's all so simple - why don't we all go vegan tomorrow?

Catherine
Well, meat-eating is an important part of most cultures - not everyone wants to change.

So these jobs would disappear. Now, with up to a third of the planet estimated to be arid - which means dry and unable to support crops - people living in these regions rely on livestock, so people for example like the Berbers in the Sahara region.

Neil
Without animal farming they would be forced to abandon traditional nomadic lifestyles - that's where they move from place to place - and settle in cities.

We asked you about well-known vegans: which of these is vegan?
a) Brad Pitt,
b) Jennifer Lopez or
c) Miley Cyrus?

Catherine
And I said it was Miley Cyrus.

Neil
Well, you're kind of half right, Catherine. In fact, both Brad Pitt and Miley Cyrus are vegan. Jennifer Lopez used to be, but has since started eating meat again, apparently.

Catherine
Now, why don't we wrap up by looking at today's vocabulary one more time?

Well - we started with emissions: gases produced by something or an activity such as digestion. Livestock emissions for example - are gases produced by animals.

Catherine
I still can't believe you still don't have a smartphone in this day and age, Neil.

Catherine
So you have for moral reasons to smartphones?

Neil
Yeah, for me it's important to understand the conditions of the workers in the factory where the smartphone is made.

Neil
Bye for now.

Catherine
Bye!

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BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Could you go vegan?

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In this programme, Neil and Catherine discuss why more and more people are becoming vegan. They also teach you six items of useful vocabulary. Which of these celebrities is vegan?a) Brad Pittb) Jennifer Lopezc) Miley Cyrus Listen to the programme to find out the answer.

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In the future, my diet will be based on healthy foods

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Super Lazy Vegan Snack Ideas! { healthy + easy }

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*Reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases
*Decrease the risk of hypertension
*Reduce the rate of diabetes since they consume less simple carbohydrates and are replaced by complex carbohydrates such as cereals, legumes and nuts
*Improve premenstrual syndrome after eliminating dairy products
*Increase energy levels thanks to the energy contribution of fruits, vegetables, legumes and cereals.
*Decrease the likelihood of obesity as fat intake is lower, consume fewer calories and increase the amount of fiber (satiating element) through vegetables.

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-SEAFOOD
-DAIRIES AND EGGS
-MEAT
-CHOCOLATE

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Fruits: apples, bananas, pears, strawberries, grapes, melons, cherries, peaches, etc. Leaf vegetables: spinach, lamb's lettuce, Swiss chard, lettuce, cabbage, etc. Vegetable fruits: peppers, tomatoes, aubergines, courgettes, etc. Legumes: lentils, peas, chickpeas, beans, beans, etc. Cereals: rice, corn, barley, oats, wheat, etc. Tubers: potatoes, sweet potatoes or yams, yams, etc. Nuts: nuts, peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, chestnuts, pistachios, dates, etc. Mushrooms and mushrooms: mushrooms, mushrooms, ... Sprouts: soy, lentils, rye, sesame, etc. Flowers or inflorescences: artichokes, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. Roots: turnip, carrot, etc. Bulbs: garlic, onion, fennel, beet, etc. Stems: leeks, celery, asparagus, etc. Seeds: pumpkin, flax, sunflower, etc.

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How to Create a Vegan World? – Tobias Leenaert  [IARC2017]

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https://www.vegansociety.com/get-involved/campaigns/plate-planet/spread-word
https://www.youtube.com/user/VeganBreak

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Vegan people have many reasons to lead this kind of life:

1. Vegans dietary, their diet is based on veganism because they do not feel that meat helps their metabolism, cares about their health, their body

2. vegetarian environmentalists, they do not eat products of animal origin because they care about the environment, since mass production damages the planet

3. Ethical Vegans they do not consume products of animal origin since they have a great respect towards animal

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The word vegetarian sprouted up in 1839. Fruitarian ("a person who lives on fruit") ripened by 1893. In 1944, vegetarians who consume no animal or dairy products began calling themselves vegans. Then, in 1993, those who eat fish but no other meat chose pesce, the Italian word for "fish," to create the designation pescatarian. In that same year, meatatarian was served up as a word for those whose diet largely includes meat; that word is rare, however, and is usually used in informal and humorous ways, making it the type of fare not included in our dictionaries. Another fairly recent dietary word is flexitarian, a person who follows a mostly vegetarian diet but occasionally eats meat or fish.

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In this project we are going to talk about the vegan world its branches, its origin and how it carries out its life and its reasons to carry it out