Hi there! If you’re a kid,
[ding noise]
then you have the power to save the world.
I guess I should...explain that...a little.
Hi it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome to another vegan nugget. I’m so excited
to be making another video just for you! So far we’ve talked about why we don’t drink
milk, or eat meat or eggs, and I introduced you to some awesome vegan kids from around
the world--and we will hear more from them soon. You can find links to all of those videos up
there and down below if you want to watch them later.
Today we’re going to talk about how you can save the world! And you don’t even have
to be able to fly or have x-ray vision, or super-human strength, though if you do have
any of those, that is totally awesome.
But anyways, you have the power to save the world with two things you already have: your
choices and your actions. What I mean by that is you can change the world with the decisions
you make and the actions you take.
Now here is something adults may not tell you, but we’ve really messed things up.
You see we adults like to say that “the children are our future.” But honestly, with the
mess that we’ve made of the world, that’s kind of like saying it’s your job to fix our
mistakes, which isn’t really fair to you. So with everything I talk about today,
these are things that we adults can do too rather than sitting on our butts and expecting
you to clean up after us.
So we talked about this in the video “5 reasons we don’t eat meat,” but our planet
is in trouble. The way we have been treating the environment is destroying our earth, which
is a pretty important place.
You may hear adults talk about saving the environment by recycling, or taking shorter
showers, or not driving so much, but the truth is, the one thing hurting our planet more
than anything else is the way we eat.
Eating animals and their milk and eggs, uses so much water and energy, and creates a LOT
of garbage and pollution. Eating animals makes more gas pollution than all the cars, planes,
trains, busses, ships, jets, motorcycles, minivans, jetskis, mopeds, and any other form
of transportation you can think of in the entire world! A lot more actually.
If you really want to hear all the numbers and details, I’ll link to a video of mine
that goes into all of this a lot more right up there and down below as well.
But here’s the good news. While trying to get everyone in the world to stop driving,
flying, boating, motorcycling, jestkiing, minivanning, mopedding, or whatever, would
be really hard, and trying to save water by never showering wouldn’t really help enough
(and would be pretty smelly!) you can make a HUGE difference for the planet right now
with how you eat!
When you choose to not eat animals, you’re saving a ton of water, land and energy. And
you’re creating a LOT less pollution. Every time you chose to eat vegan food, meaning
any food that doesn’t come from an animal, you’re a superhero for the planet! That
may sound a bit silly, but it’s true. What you choose to eat can literally save the world!
That’s pretty awesome, right?
And here’s another amazing thing you do when you choose to eat vegan. You help feed
other kids who don’t have enough food to eat. You see, when we eat animals, we have
to first raise and grow those animals, which takes a lot of food—I mean have you ever
seen how big a cow is? They need a lot of food to grow that big! So what ends up happening
is that about half of our food, which could go to hungry kids, goes to the animals that we then eat.
You see, we are already make enough food to feed all the people in the world, but because
we keep eating animals, there’s not enough left for everyone. So not only are you being
a superhero for the planet when you choose to not eat animals, but you’re a superhero
for the people too!
And that’s not all! When you choose to eat vegan food, you become perhaps the greatest
superhero ever to the animals. When you sit down to breakfast, lunch, or dinner, you get
to decide to let the animals live free and happy lives with their families rather than
scared and sad lives in cages before they're killed for food. Now if that’s not a
superpower, I don’t know what is!
So now you know that you have the power to save the world and be a superhero to the planet,
the people, and the animals, all with the choices that you make and the actions that you take.
By not eating animals, you can change the world and make sure that when you grow up,
the next generation of kids has a planet to live on, food to eat, and animals to love.
That kids can be free from hunger (and from cleaning up after adults) and animals can
be free from cages, fear, and death.
And like I said, we adults need to do our part too. This is a decision everyone can make and an action
everyone can take, no matter what age. But something tells me, you kids are going to lead the way because
aside from being superheroes, you’re also super smart. So let’s strap on our capes
and save the world!
Ooby! There’s a world in need out there! Let’s go!
I hope this video was helpful. Be sure to check out the blog post for this video for
tasty vegan meal ideas for kids and stay tuned to the next vegan kids interviews for more
on what vegan kids eat! The blog is linked up there and down below.
Now, I’d love to hear from you in the comments below! Let me know what you thought of the
video and if you have other things you’d like me to cover! If you liked this video,
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Now go live vegan, be a superhero, and I’ll see you soon!