Ep158. Is vegan meat healthy? With The Vegan Butcher
The Simply Vegan podcast is your weekly dose of plant-based food, news and topical chat with Vegan Food & Living's Holly Johnson and Molly Pickering.This week, we're exploring what it means to be a 'healthy' vegan. Is vegan meat ruining our diets? Or does it actually offer health benefits? And who better to join in the conversation than The Vegan Butcher AKA Zacchary Bird!Zacchary joins us from Australia to discuss his view of what it means to be 'healthy', how he deals with online trolls who can't cope with seeing vegans turn vegetables into 'meat' and his take on the so-called vegan bubble bursting. He also shares his love of travel and discovering new street food, and tells us about his new book, The Vegan Baker.NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! We have launched a new weekly show called Something For The Weekend – a short and sweet episode packed with cooking inspiration for your weekend meals. Tune in every Friday morning for this extra, bonus episode of your favourite plant-based podcast.Notes from today's episode:• Follow Zacchary Bird at https://www.instagram.com/zaccharybird/• Zacchary's new book, The Vegan Baker, can be purchased at https://amzn.to/43HqyL1• Order The Vegan Butcher now at https://amzn.to/44dPolK• Become a patron at patreon.com/simplyvegan and access exclusive episodes, video content, live chats and free downloads!• Tag us in your social posts, @veganfoodandliving and @simplyveganpodcast• Share this episode with a friend• Try an issue of Vegan Food and Living magazine for just 99p at veganfoodandliving.com/podcastVegan Food & Living may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only ever share brands that we love and trust. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.