Name: Harry Potter actor Evanna Lynch is supporting the Plate Up for the Planet challenge
Uploaded: 2019-01-29T07:35:54.000Z
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Well, I went vegan a few years ago after being vegetarian for years -

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and I was vegetarian because of animals; because I didn't agree with killing animals or exploiting them -

and I didn't understand veganism, I thought they were all nuts

and I thought it was too restrictive of a lifestyle

that's really what my perception of it was.

And then a few years ago I started meeting more vegans and activists

and gained more interest in that side of things

and I was always asked: "why are you not vegan?" and I started to research that and learn about those things

and the more I read, the more horrified I was by what was going on

and the more I realised, that isn't me, I need to be vegan -

[laughing] so, yeah I transitioned to veganism

yeah! For me, veganism is just about equality,

it's about recognising that just because something is different

doesn't mean you should exploit it or use it

and it's not, it doesn't mean that you have more right to life than an animal does

I think humans were threatened by diversity

people of different faith and people of different colours

we get, we feel threatened and we want to kind of crush it or

and I think, you know - humans are protective

we have laws in place for that and all humans

look human - but animals are just a little bit too different

and I think that's the only reason why people think it's okay to exploit them

but I think personally don't believe diversity is a

and I think they can teach us about ourselves and

and that yeah,  as I say - their lives aren't worth less

than us, like I mean I might value my mum's life

more than a cow but that doesn't mean that

the cow's life is worth less, and it doesn't mean

I mean fortunately I don't have to choose between

them!  They can both coexist and I think to me, veganism

And I also think that, people often say to me

"why do you care so much about animals, why can't you care more about people?"

this is for people as well, you don't even have to be an animal lover

veganism, it benefits the planet so much -

we have all the facts that the animal agriculture industry

is destroying the planet, it has the greatest

as an individual, you can have the greatest impact on

on reducing climate change and reducing global warming

I would say, I think it's a people thing as well

it's, there's simple steps you can take, so

yeah, I encourage everyone to try The Vegan Society

plate it up for the planet and do it with your friends, you know

get people involved and really dive in and learn about it and

the threat of climate change is very real, all the facts are there

and it's like - people act like it's a myth just because it's

a few years in the future, you know, we don't really like to -

we like to worry but we don't like to actually

it makes them feel small when they think about that, whereas actually

very small changes that we make to our lifestyles, to our diet

and I actually wrote down a quote from my friend

who wrote about this, you know and a few weeks ago there was all this

furore about the Paris Treaty and people saying

criticising, pointing fingers at everyone else

for not doing enough for the environment and my friend he wrote:

"why is it so much easier to wave our moral fingers

while overlooking the villainous behaviour that lurks within us all?"

there are little things that we can do such as, you know, eating a plant based diet or

even when you go to the grocery store and you're

buying your vegetables - don't take the plastic bags and

we need to channel all that energy into action and doing things

changing, making changes in our lifestyle

to reflect that anger [laughs] and that frustration

because yeah, as I say, it isn't a myth - it's happening

and I think we don't want to look back in a few years and say

"oh we had all the information, I wish we'd done something" -

we want to be with a healthy happy Earth and saying "we did everything we could"

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