Why aren’t I a Vegan? I get asked this question all the time, and in this solo episode I break down the core reasons why I think we need to reexamine the Vegan approach. I consider myself to be a conscious omnivore and promote a Four Kingdoms approach to diet (eating from the animal, plant, fungal and bacterial kingdoms). In my personal quest for the most natural diet, I was a vegan for about 10 years. In this show, I’ll tell you a bit about my experience as a vegan, why I started eating animal foods again and why long-term veganism is an experiment and maybe not an appropriate diet for a healthy, robust human ape. In the end, I give a strategy for those who still want to see the world go vegan, and explain how they could best achieve that!

EPISODE BREAKDOWN:

• The issue with “isms"
• My personal search for the most natural diet
• The two types of veganism
• Chimps, bonobos & 3.6 million years of archaeology
• The hand-raising experiment
• Anthropomorphic cartoon animals and charismatic megafauna
• Factory farmed animals
• Nutrient deficiencies in vegan diets
• Kids and veganism
• Social isolation
• Our hunting lineage
• How a misanthropic world view takes humans out of the ecosystem
• Conscious omnivory — the Four Kingdoms of Food
• The vegan experiment