Passing Through A Vegan Door

A Story of Animal Rights: Food Chain Misinformation w/ The Animal Law Foundation In this episode, Ilinca from The Animal Law Foundation shares their findings from the 'Food Chain Mis information' programme. We talk about the reality of animal agriculture, misinformation in the food chain and consumer protection laws, greenwashing, the horse meat scandal as well as philosophical and psychol...

A Story Of Animal Rights: Placing animals on the political stage w/ Sasha In this episode I sit down with Sasha who is an animal rights activist. We focus on the importance of animal rights in politics and discuss his time campaigning as a Member of Parliament on behalf of The Animal Welfare Party. We also talk about how to be an activist, problems we face in politics and the solutions found in ab...

A Story Of Animal Rights: The moral dilemma of a veterinarian w/ Alja, Matilde, Anni, Giulia Alja and Matilde currently work in practice in the Netherlands, while Anni and Giulia are in their second years at vet school in Germany and Switzerland respectively. They are all either vegetarian or vegan and together we discuss some of the ethical dilemmas they face on a daily basis while working at the...

A Story Of Animal Rights: The Pet Crisis w/ Polly  The second episode in this series is with Polly who is currently a journalist and editor for Plant Based News. She is also an animal rights activist and presents talks on the UK pet crisis. In this episode we talk about the benefits of vegan jobs, the pet crisis in the UK, as well as how to navigate these difficult conversations.  @pollyforeman @p...

A Story Of Animal Rights: Bargaining for a pig's life w/ Calvin The first episode in this series is with Calvin who is an activist that, rather than shy away from the harsh reality of animal suffering, takes things into his own hands to demonstrate how change is possible. We talk about how his focus on animal rights has shaped his career, his experience occupying a gas chamber and trying to bargai...

Passing Through A Vegan Door Season III A Story Of Animal Rights First episode 13.01.25

At the start of season II, Brad was pretty new to veganism, and the idea didn't seem to resonate with him. Since then, it seems that episode was his slap in the face: a moment of realisation. In this episode, Brad, Giulia and myself talk about: upsetting your family; how veganism is the next political movement; how considerate animal welfare is; and how you can still be big and strong without meat...

V-Label is an internationally recognised, registered seal for labelling vegan and vegetarian products and services. V-Label is also the first company that reached out to me and asked to be a part of Passing Through A Vegan Door. I recently sat down with Charlotte, the business development manager at V-Label, to talk about finding vegan products on the shelves, not missing the taste of a Kit Kat, a...

On the 15th April 2023 the Grand National, an annual horse racing event, took place at Aintree Racecourse in the UK. Animal Rising attracted a lot of media attention for storming the tracks to prevent these races from happening. I recently spoke with Dan, the cofounder of Animal Rising, to find out why he thinks this is the most important thing to be doing with his time, why a British tradition sh...

It’s been over half a year since me and Callum sat down and talked about our future plans of living together. He recently came to visit the Netherlands, so here’s cohabitation pt.2. We talk about living with people who share different moral values to each other, or maybe are at different stages in their relationship with food, trying different foods and why people see the world differently. “We sh...

This is the first time I've taken the time to reflect on the podcast, even if it's only for a few minutes. We recently surpassed 1000 downloads, so I thought it would be appropriate. Veganism is a political movement. Once we leave the idea of veganism being just a diet behind, I think we will start to see real change. Veganism is the answer to so many global issues from starvation to environment d...

It’s easy to become overwhelmed when you start to see how we are treating the world. It’s even easier to do nothing about it. But the systems we have in place today are not working in our best interest, and the interest of the ground we stand on. Being vegan is a pretty big step, but taking a few small steps is better than taking no steps at all. In this episode we talk about starting to give up e...

Did God give us authority over animals? Does the betterment of animal welfare justify their death? Does sustainably really matter? Is ignorance good enough? Would you save a child or a lamb? Can you offset immorality? Does masculinity affect morality? Maybe looking into how masculinity affects how a person treats animals isn’t top of the list of world priorities. But if half the population are les...

Something I learned from season I is that meeting new people, and learning about how they see the world, can help you understand how you see the world yourself. Meeting people with similar values, even only for a short time, can make you feel less crazy in a pretty crazy world. I’ve recently moved from Ireland to the Netherlands for my next work placement at another seal rescue. In the first episo...

I first met Jesh 3 months ago at Seal Rescue Ireland. He is currently the Habitat Restoration Manager. We talked in his car while on our way to build some fences to help protect trees that he had planted. I finally managed to get him on the podcast, and I hope this hour long conversation can provide as much enjoyment for you as it did for me. I asked Jesh 3 questions: Why doesn't he eat meat? How...

In episode nine I start to talk about the environment, and how we as a species are causing harm to the world we live on. The 'environment' is a long and boring word and we can lose all meaning of it. The environment is everything. It's where our houses are, to how we grow our food, to the air we breathe. The way we breed animals for food is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. Future...

This week I sat down with Ciara to talk about vegetarianism. I always saw being vegetarian as a stepping stone. A way to achieve veganism without the big leap from being a regular meat consumer. For some people vegetarianism is their final destination as opposed to a temporary way of living. Is there a strict differentiation between veganism and vegetarianism or do they overlap? By learning more a...

Everyone is unique. Everyone has experienced the world through different eyes. Because of this, everyone has their own opinions and their own moral compass. This week I talk with Ben and Victor about veganism and why they don’t really care about it as much as me. We are currently working every day to save as many seals as we can here in Ireland, so it interested me why Ben would then eat another a...

I started this podcast to cope with the day to day strain the world can have on you, but to also meet and talk to people who have both similar and dissimilar thoughts and moral values in a hope that I can learn more about the world as well as myself. This episode reminded me of this. I recently moved to Ireland for a little bit to help out some seals. I’ve met some super cool people while I've bee...

Living with other people can be difficult. Maybe you have different ideas on cleanliness or different opinions on what to watch on the telly. What if your moral judgment on the things you put in the oven differs? Can you still live together? Can you be considerate towards your roommates views? Can you grit your teeth as you watch them use your spatula to flip a chicken? I’ve been living on my own...

Isn't it weird how we all love animals but we eat them? I only really started to think about that in my early 20's and when I started I couldn't stop. Putting a face to your food is a good starting point when learning about veganism. This episode continues to talk about our other favourite farm yard animals we’ve created and seem to love and hate at the same time. I’ll talk about why we use them a...

This week's episode is a little bit different. Me and my friend Michael were both big meat eaters not so long ago. I thought it would be fun for us to talk about how vegan meat alternatives helped us transition to a vegan friendly diet. We are still able to enjoy the same types of foods we always have, without the exploitation of animals, the environmental destruction, and health issues that come...

This week I went to a pride event and thought about how amazing it is that our views on sexuality have changed in such a way that my nephew can grow up in a world where we treat everyone fairly. I hope that as a society we can move towards a general consensus that other animals that look and act and think a little bit different to us deserve to be treated as we would want to be treated. We exploit...

Welcome to my podcast! This is an introduction into what I'll be talking about in future episodes, as well as an insight into my thoughts and experiences of veganism so far. How does someone who lived off double cheeseburgers and coco pops end up making a podcast opposing the production and consumption of these products? Why should you care about new vegan meatballs at subway? Should you criticise...

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