Show notes:

Links mentioned in today’s episode and future episodes on the animals

- Our online course The Roadmap, an online course to help you go vegan or make more vegan choices, as part of our online vegan cooking school.

- The film that made me go vegan: Vegucated (contains sensitive imagery but with a trigger warning beforehand, also contains fantastic information on how to go vegan, the benefits to our health, the environment and much more).

- The film that made Carlos go vegan: Earthlings (strong movie with sensitive imagery throughout).

- Watch the film Seaspiracy available on Netflix

- Sensitive material on the egg industry (Free From Harm).

- More resources on the dairy industry (The Vegan Society) .

- Summary and additional research on animal agriculture (The Vegan Society).

- Article in The Guardian on fishing operations "Farmed Fish Could Bring us Cheaper Food but is it Ethical".

- Research on the consequences of fishing practices.

- “This is Vegan Propaganda: and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You” by Ed Winters

- The book Slaughterhouse by Gail Eisnitz

- The book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

- The book Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully

- The book Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer

- The book Why we Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism by Dr. Melanie Joy and Yuval Noah Harari

We’re back with another podcast episode of our “Why Vegan” series, newly revamped and updated, exploring the reasons why making more vegan choices, and of course going vegan, can have such a positive impact in the world we live in. In this series on the benefits of eating a vegan diet we've covered the impact on our health, the environment and finally we've reached the reason I made this change over a decade ago, the animals.

In our last installment we talked about meat, and how our food choices impact the animals raised for its production. In today’s episode which is again all about the animals used for food, we’ll talk about fish and other sea animals.

It’s such a common question, “why don’t vegans eat fish, or prawns, shellfish or other seafood?”. Today I do my best to answer this question, specifically in regards to the animals.

We have this image of fish living in freedom until they’re caught, then going through a quick and less painful death than other animals killed for their meat. For other people, it’s also hard to see fish as they do mammals, or even birds. Today we’ll talk about fish, and I’ll share the research and information that helped me make up my mind when I went vegan, when I also had these prior beliefs, deciding that I would finally leave fish and other sea animals out of my plate.

If you’re ready to learn a bit more about this topic, hit that play button above, or listen through Apple podcasts or your favorite podcast app.