British Newscasters Can't Handle Veganuary | Reaction 

If I wasn't eating such a healthy WFPB diet, I'd be worried this video could give me high blood pressure.

I am so disturbed by people who eat others, and speak of others as if they are a stack of books. I am tired of these supposedly "fun" bits. I'm supposed to be used to it because I grew up with it. The older I get and I'm getting there, the more disgusting it is to see EVERYWHERE, images of dead animals on plates, images of happy pigs on a flesh delivery truck, the smell of it everywhere.

Vegan for the animals here. Just adding context (apologies if someone already has). When Richard Tice says “landlords”, he means pub landlords. Most pubs in the UK are gastro pubs (or at least sell some meals) now and they were hit financially during the pandemic. He’s not talking about landlords of people’s homes. Great vid as always, thank you 🙏🏻

This is not mainstream British TV. ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’ is a show screened on Talk TV in the UK, Fox Nation in the US and Sky TV in Australia. Talk TV is Rupert Murdoch’s television offering in the UK. It is streaming only, I think. It launched in 2022 and hardly has any viewers. The guy is Richard Tice, a right-wing businessman who helped found the Brexit Party (which was actually a company). It changed its name to the Reform UK party and Tice became leader when Nigel Farage resigned. Tice became a Brexit Party MEP. The woman in pink is Tice’s partner, Isabel Oakeshott, a political journalist. She has apparently written a book called Farmageddon about the true cost of cheap meat but you wouldn’t guess that from this programme, The woman in the cream outfit was introduced as a former Brexit Party MEP. Paula Rhone-Adrien is also a Talk TV contributor who’s obviously just there to give the appearance of a balanced discussion. Richard Tice is an extreme right-wing nationalist and these are his buddies - don’t expect anything sensible or factual to emanate from these programmes.

The “pro vegan” woman is buddy buddy with Piers, definitely not trustworthy and I don’t think she’s even vegetarian. She works as a contributor for the show 2 days a week

Where did she think those cow parts were "processed"? Not a factory? Slaughterhouses are the most industrialized part of the industry. Also let's not forget all the blood and feces, and the fact that those parts were from a dead and disassembled animal corpse. But oh no, scary mycelium molded into a shape!

As a science journalist and media historian and an ethical vegan since NYD 1993 (who is compiling and curating the Vegan Videos Web site) I love your engaging witty style and meticulous detailed research as a fellow vegan science journalist! EP Sonya McKay in NSW Australia and I would love to interview you sometime for Fridays 4 Future Online monthly programs! Hope we can connect soon.

Of course they would get a spokesperson for a vegan diet that isn't vegan themselves. Maybe she doesn't claim to be vegan herself, but the idea they push in this is that she is and they can conveniently add in the "eating bugs" thing for the gross factor. People will continue associating eating bugs with veganism.

"Is Veganuary A Mis-Steak?" Just the title of that clip really baffled and cracked me up. But hey, those correspondents can have their fun mocking non-dairy and faux meat products while eating their meat. Yeah, let them savor that moment until all the freshwater is depleted and plants lose all moisture and hydration. 🥴 Nice work on the reaction vid, Mic! ✌🏾

These same presenters would have eaten plenty of vegan ingredients on their Christmas dinners, I'd wonder if they reacted the same to the roast potatoes.

Do those newscasters never heard of veggies & fruits? That was how i made the switch. I never like the taste of fake meat but i love the taste of cooked veggies.

Poor landlords and animal farmers, society's heroes are having a rough time!

Fungus and bacteria, did she say? So they don’t eat mushrooms, or know how real cheese is made? Hypocrites.

This is kinda infuriating, the way they set that whole segment up, so deceitful, even the “vegan” person was giving them material. They made it look as if you’re vegan, you’re sacrificing for the planet and have no enjoyment in your food, you end up eating bugs. It’s ridiculous, and as we well know not true, I love the food I eat, I’m eating better than ever before. I have a hard time watching these videos, even if you debunk em, I can’t take the dishonesty.

Great video, its just so frustrating to watch them be so manipulative of the viewers, and how damaging that kind of reporting can be for all of us. Really useful to watch it as you comment though, keeps those feelings of helpless irritation at a more moderate level. Thanks Mic. Your 'alpacanot' jersey is very nice. Looks comfortable. As a vegan knitter, would like to have some details about the makers of it in your description if you'd be so kind.

Great reaction. I stumbled across a channel of a conservative Christian and "carnivore" yesterday, which was a pretty infuriating experience but I had to keep watching her videos out of morbid fascination. The channel is "Melonie Mac Go Boom" and she has a video called "Veganism is a scam" in which she just reads and expands on statements from someone else's Twitter thread. It would be interesting to see you respond to this video if you are interested.

All this resistance will fall one day. Young generations will bring the change for the animals and the planet.

Would they rather blend veggies and put it in the shape of a patty, or dismember a cow on live TV? 🤔🥩🍖

LOVE the way you always back your videos up with such insightful research!

These types of news programs are so frustrating to watch. The news people, for the most part, are very close-minded and uninformed. Those against veganism always seem to be the loudest, stating wild “facts” with no basis in truth. If only they knew about all the benefits of a whole food, plant-based diet.

Ridiculous couple of toffs. Thanks for calling this out Mike .

Hey Mic, I just wanna say I love you and everything you stand for and thanks for continuing to make these videos all these years. I started watching when I was 18 and trying to decide the best path to take my diet and your super informative videos helped me wade through all the disinformation out there and land with a strong conviction that a vegan diet is not only the best way, but the only way. I became a vegan overnight after I just turned 19 and I’m about to turn 25 in a couple of months. I don’t watch every single one of your videos (though I used to) because I’m not always nose deep in vegan content anymore, but I love the homely sense I get every time I come back to your channel. Whether you’re doing a skit or a reaction or just shoving some science down my throat, your channel is a safe place I can always count on for some content I relate with. I’m still not the healthiest I could be because I’ve been eating a shitload of gluten throughout the years and I only recently realized how terribly allergic to it I am. It’s (I assume) been making my body swollen, bloated, sluggish, and I think it even started manifesting in small, white/red, itchy bumps sparsely scattered all over my skin. I stopped eating it completely about a week ago and I’m starting to feel better already. It’s weird because, I’m hardly eating right now but I feel out of my mind FULL. My body will hardly let me get a bite of food down-but it will accept smoothies and soups lol. As well as some kimchi and sometimes olives. I even accidentally had put a sauce I didn’t realize used wheat gluten in it on my food the other day and started feeling sick, VERY sick, after just a couple of bites. It’s crazy how intelligent the body is-it feels like it knows I’m listening now so it’s making the cues louder and more obvious. I’m pretty sure you had some videos on gluten so I’m gonna go refresh my memory on them. I know it won’t be the same for everybody-I just can’t believe how outlandishly allergic I am to the stuff without even having realized. I used to eat it day and night, for almost every meal, and now I don’t even feel like myself if I ingest any at all. Cool stuff. Sorry for the essay. Love you, bye!

He loved the vegan cheese. He seemed quite delighted by it!

I hate when the "fun" police say you need to have consent before having sex with a women. Losers.

I remember a tv program back in the late 80's early 90's called Food and Drink. One year the person who did the cooking and food part of the show was pretty much talking mainly about vegetarian meals and foods - which was one of the reasons why I watched the show, without mentioning either vegetarianism or meat in any great way. The following year, he was actively promoting meat products and dairy products, so what occurred to me is that the program was perhaps told they were not allowed to promote non-meat food because it would be bad for the meat and dairy industries. So, the people on this tv show may well all be quite happy with the vegan alternatives but are perhaps encouraged to promote meat and dairy and discourage anything that would be a danger to those industries.

It’s great to see your take on this Mic. I’ve seen it before and it was shocking that these people thought this was what veganism was about. It really is shocking.

I've read that Japanese rice farmers collect grasshoppers, off the rice paddies, by dropping them into jars of pickling juice so they can eat them later. It's their traditional way of keeping their rice crops safe from being devoured by the locusts (grasshoppers). So, I guess it saves them some healthy grain & gives them an extra food source at the same time. 🤷🏻‍♀️💜🌱🍙🌱💜🤷🏻‍♂️

Supporting butchers during the cost of living crisis is the last thing I want to do. I would rather support the vegan plant based companies because I think the animal based products industries are responsible for the crisis because I think the crisis would still exist even without the Ukraine war, brexit because it is the cost of animal based foods that are increasing the most( so if you are eating a non vegan diet you can't be struggling with the cost because if you were you would be vegan). Love 🥰the video and thanks for debunking this anti vegan video.

What is this strange food I see? I'm going in ... It's plastic! Gee, maybe try a different strange vegan food ... maybe a potato ... or an apple ... or a carrot ... or ... ^_^

Some people will never try something new, it’s all about fear. So many people resisted that newfangled thing called electricity, telephone and the locomotive trains! I remember when in vitro fertilization was touted as the work of the devil, and would spawn a devil child! It’s a wonder we make any advances

Yep, our media is as crazy as yours Mic lol

So easy to put veganism in the fad/trend box. How can they be so uniformed of the science in this day and age 🤦🏻‍♀️ The willingness to dissociate is shocking. Hard to watch 🙈

Love how they cut her off when she was about to talk about type 2 diabetes. Not like that’s a huge problem in the world.

That was disgusting etiquette by that woman and the man wrapping the show at the end.

The hosts: Neither of them are remotely close to what one might call *healthy in appearance*

I really don't care what's more sustainable. I'm going vegan first for animal ethics and second health. Animal ethics is by far number one for me.

really liking these reaction videos

Not really surprised by the direction the UK media are moving tbf; it’s in line with the rise of far right rhetoric, where anything that challenges the paradigm is strongly delegitimised

Great video. Love that they will eat bugs before vegetables.Beans or bugs? Hmmm...

I'd like to know what you really think about Dr. Rao's position paper on animal agriculture. I noticed you never cite his statistics. Maybe you do another video about it where you examine his claims.

Thanks. Really that tv programme was loaded, negatively from beginning to end: a foregone conclusion, obviously they set out with an agenda to play to the huge gallery of veganism scoffers, having decided that logic, fairness and common sense would be tossed out whenever needed to prop up their 'veganism is silly, funny, absurd, not doable' or some such mindset. Yet some gesture must be made, some effort put although it seems a well nigh hopeless task, to point out the flawed reasoning: if that fluffy airy agenda driven discussion could be called reasoning. So thanks for the video. I saw Happy Healthy Vegan's video on the same tv programme, which expectedly seemed to be on similar lines as this video. More power to, Ryan and to Mic.

I myself don't understand why eating shrimp is considered normal, but a grasshopper is "exotic"

We don’t really use the word newscasters in uk. Bell ends would be a more appropriate way to describe them.

Hello [disclaimer vegan here in support of your channel], just wanted to make a correction on something you said about the Amazon being 80% deforested for cattle production... I studied cattle pasture land use change in the Amazon for my PhD. The total deforestation rate is actually estimated around 20%, with cattle pasture conversion accounting for ~68% of that. As a result of fragmentation, the cumulative ecological effects (increased fire risk, habitat fragmentation, species loss, diminished evapotranspiration, etc) are somewhat higher, but it's important to report these numbers correctly, because the negative effects observed- particularly to the hydrologic cycle of eastern Brazil- have resulted from ~20% deforestation 9(i.e., where will we be as deforestation inevitably progresses?)

Just to add that when the presenter said landlords he was referring to pub landlords ie bar owners, who are presumably impacted by Dry January but… they make far more profit from food and soft drinks and Veganuary is a great marketing plan for them selling vegan food

I am vegan for 3years now (i just had my v-birthday) but i still fart quite more with beans and broccoli... I had the unlucky gene lottery *I am eating a whole food plant based diet so don't come at me about eating more WF

The vegan representative was certainly not very knowledgeable or skilled. The whole thing was a set up. The basic television shows are required to be very supportive of the traditional and recent historical farming practices. The position upfront is that they should always paint the farmers as the sweet loyal defenders of culture. Farmers need to see the light and when they do there should be help for them to transition to making a profit with their land in a different way.

The "fun police…" [facepalm] What is "fun" about eating a cold, congealed, bloody steak? Or drinking a glass of pus, with hormones and glue?

Non-vegans are in serious crisis 😳 🤣 😂

It's not the worst idea for the large vegan food sellers/manufactures/preparers to offer training for butchers in alternative food careers. The publicity alone would make it a good advertising campaign, and it might help fix the perception that vegans are people who "love animals and hate people."

Great video as always, Mic. Crazy how they cut her off when she was giving a very valid point. Btw, your headphones are cool, but they look too big on you 😅

thanks for the great video mic.

“What is a monster?”

I don’t know if you’ve done a reaction video to the What I’ve Learned channel’s video on why “Eating less meat won’t save the planet,” but I would love to hear your thoughts on that one Mic.

They didn't have a decent vegan person to comment on the conversation. So biased 🤬

Happy Healthy Vegan also responded to this. Every big vegan RU-vidr should... the TV snippet is absolutely irresponsible and disgraceful.

Thanks for sharing, you are terrific. Imagine the logging industry!. They need to be supported by cutting down every rainforest that is sill standing from decimation to grow soybeans to feed cattle.

5:02 Actually, most cheeses are made with cow’s mammary-gland secretions (a kind of excrements) and bacteria, not fungi.

I'm mostly numbed to the silliness of those who are biased against veganism. People are plain old silly. Adults are simply older children who take themselves too seriously, and blind themselves to their silliness out of pride and fear... It is of course unfortunate the consequences to this delusional silliness...

Cool veaction! You have so much ready facts & knowledge! Paula Rhone-Adrien is not a vegan activist. Strange that she is talking about eating insects that most omnivores find gross, and that she suggests this vegan junk food that is easy to criticize, instead of offering some nice, tasty vegan food.

these reactions are so entertaining lol

It's Sky News. Of course they are tooootally unbiased

thanks for covering this topic Mic . theyre closed minded people who lack critical thinking . also they dont care about freedom and animals rights

I’m in the uk and the coverage is always appalling, totally bias, they always chose the worst vegan food, mainly the unhealthy stuff to compare and ‘debunk’!

They should have had the Cathedral City vegan cheese. I think anyone would be hard pushed to tell the difference. Channel 4's food unwrapped show featured This isn't bacon brand, and showed how it was made. Safe to say there was no nasty chemicals like some people keep saying are in mock meats!

"Veganism is a cult" I just moved to Canada over here I’m getting dairy ads. Literally just advertising cheese or milk, not even a specific product. That’s so weird and manipulative.

I'm glad they had at least one reasonable one there.

It's hard enough to hear Americans trash a vegan diet but to hear the same things in a British accent sounds more condescending. Also, they always go to sausage rolls. Few things are more processed than sausage.

Hey Mike. You should consider adjusting that headset you got on. One side is longer than the other pushing the whole thing out of "round".

One thing I've noticed about all of the vegan cheeses I've tried - *none* of them taste that good when *cold* . They all taste a lot better once they've been melted onto some bread, or onto a veggie burger. That always seems kind of weird to me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Even as a meat eater previously I'd rather eat more beans and legumes than bugs. Come on people!

That is a very nice looking sweater-jacket, Mic! Do you happen to have another channel, maybe, where you do music videos? I think a fair number of us would like to hear you playing some of those instruments sometime. Or, are those your wife's? 😯❓🎸🤷🏻‍♀️🎻❓😯

They offended

Omg I'm the first one!!!

Insulin producers gotta get those bags, amirite?

Best discussion with Piers Morgan yet; I. E none.

my brain hurts with these people ... also, why don't these people invite you to one of these shows? they afraid you're gonna dismantle all of their BS? why is lecithin weird? we used to take lecithin supplements recurrently when we were young since it supposedly boosts brain health to help us learn faster more at school. dunno how true that was but nonetheless its not a new extract.

Omni’s like this make me cringe soooooo much 🙈 My family have tried vegan meat alternatives and they praise it and think it’s really tasty. I’m sure a lot of meat eaters reaction to trying vegan meat is satire 😂

That’s not a mainstream news channel just so you know.

As a London renter, I say 😤

So I eat 99% vegan. My girlfriend is the real vegan. I occasionally sneak a cube of cheese at a party wondering if I’m missing out. The truth is the boutique vegan cheese we have access to here in Texas from Rebel Cheese is is much better then the “real cheese” I find at parties. The high end vegan cheeses are crazy good and everyone vegan it not enjoys them at a potluck. Real cheese to me now that I almost never eat it is no better then cheap vegan cheese, it all just tastes like oil to me. If you are in Austin treat yourself to some Vegan Rebel Cheese and I promise your mind will be blown, you will be having it shipped across the country to enjoy it.

It’s not a mistake but it may not be the 100% optimal diet for health. The fact humans in nature would never rely on a vegan diet provides sufficient evidence that we likely depend on at least some animal food for certain nutrients and more bio available amino acids. Sure with things like tofu and b12 taurine omega algi supplements etc we can fill in the blanks but the optimal diet for most probably is 75%-90% whole foods plants

It seems liver disease is a requirement of employment in the UK, kinda like Japan I guess. 5:00 Thx for your courage, Mic. Can't watch any longer. Plant based being made from weird swill and fungus? Has that woman every caught a whiff of bile from any mammals digestive system? WTF? Blood and bile turn my appetite in an instant, somethings wrong with you, Luv.

these morning show segments are to propagandise the average viewer who is usually a clueless consumer.

Hey I've got a question, I've started tracking my meals on chronometer and found I'm consuming over the recommended intake of folate. I was wondering what happens if you consume an excess of folate?

Eating bugs may cause less sentient suffering than more complex animals. Hopefully. But it definitely causes massively more individual death.

Love the we're all animals art:)

great ve-action!

Carnists are so fragile on this subject. I've had many tell me they are 2 steaks last night to make up for me. They have no response when I reiterate "you made up for the harm I didn't cause by causing more yourself?"

Wow, they invited that guest onto the show and she couldn’t even get a full sentence in the entire interview. Pathetic journalism.

I eat a more varied diet as a plant based eater than I ever did as a meat eater. My peers who eat the sad diet are all on medications for lifestyle illnesses and complain of arthritis pain quite often. I have been able to maintain my weight with this diet . Best of all I no longer support the dismal factory farming business with my dollars.

Did you guys take your vitamin B12?

Wow mic the vegan has been here for forever and he looks healthy still!! I gave up when my health went to crap

Not Piers - a replacement I think temporarily.

I disagree on turkeys being "beautiful animals", I think they look horrid.

The fun police? Wtf kind of whining is going on in the UK?

What is vegan alpaca?

Why can't they have a nice pea soup with some cut fruit? They always find the worst type of foods.

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Couldn't believe he mentioned Landlords. Oh the poor landlords overcharging people ridiculous rent prices and putting people into debt. Never mind the people that have to pay the rent. Also the Vegan Fart myth is exactly that. I fart way less than when I ate meat