a bas le ciel – Playlists

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Table of Contents

Nutrition & Health

• Diet
• Weight
• Exercise
• Supplementing
• Lifestyle vs Medication

Lifestyle

• Domestication (A Vegan Perspective AGAINST Pet Ownership, etc.)
• Minimalism
• Pest Control
• Recreational Drugs
• Vegan living around the world
• Family, Friends & Partners
• Children

Advocacy, approaches and critique

• “On Community” (a Vegan Manifesto) in Many Languages
• On community building
• Veganism as a political movement
• Veganism: the Wildlife Management Paradigm
• Brass Tacks (Vegan Political Organization NOW)
• Book Reviews (Politics / Vegan Politics)
• Social Justice: Veganism is NOT a Social Justice Movement.
• Anarchism
• Communism
• DxE: Critique of Direct Action Everywhere (Activism in Theory & Practice)
• A Critique of the Permanent Vacation Philosophy: Ted Carr.
• Gary Yourofsky
• Gary Francione
• Celebrities
• Ex-Vegans
• Idiocy! Vegans Can Be Idiots, Too.
• Advice nobody wants to hear.

Activism

• Vegan Storybook (For Children), “Even Earthworms Want to See the Sky”
• Interviews with journalists / press / media
• Vegan Mind Tricks: Talking to Meat Eaters.
• Running a YouTube Channel

Ethics

• Historical Nihilism, 历史虚无主义, “My Own” Philosophy.
• Buddhism (A Pali Scholar’s Perspective)
• Utilitarianism
• Consequentialism
• Virtue Ethics
• Deontology

Ethical issues

• Economics
• Guilt
• Human Rights
• Ecology
• Vivisection
• Leather
• Fur
• Culture/ Tradition

Other

• Autobiographical (Eisel Mazard / à-bas-le-ciel)
• Learning Languages
• Learning Chinese (Written Language + Spoken Language)
• ASOIAF (“A Song of Ice and Fire” & “Game of Thrones”)
• Stop Treating Women Like Infants
• Music
• Atheism
• International Politics

Conversations

• Vegan Gains
• Vegan Cheetah
• Unnatural Vegan controversy (on critique, consequentialism and pet domestication)
• Durianrider controversy (on defamation lawsuit, permanent vacation philosophy and diet pseudoscience)
• Nina-and-Randa: Most Offensive Playlist Ever?
• Mod Vegan
• Joe Vegan
• Dumb Vegan
• Vegan Lass
• Ask Yourself
• Vegan Revolution
• Dexter Deveau (formerly Lance Carbstrong)
• American Unicorn (formerly PlantBasedHippy)
• Reg Flowers
• Tofu Godess
• Kiwi Banana
• Zahria
• Conradical Vegan
• Vegan Minimalist Mark
• Lea P
• Anonymous
• Viewer Questions

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Nutrition & Health

Diet

• What I Eat in a Day (Lately), Vegan in Kunming, China.
• $1 Vegan Cuisine: Keeping it Real in Kunming.
• The only vegan options at Kunming’s train station (Yunnan, China).

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Weight

• Vegans over 200 pounds, represent (Vegan weight “loss”).
• Vegans: Anorexia, Bulimia, Body Image and the Movement.
• Weight Loss with Wengie! Lies, Lies, Lies!

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Exercise

• Workout/Weight-lifting: Vegan Parent & Teacher & Student.
• Vegan Diet and Exercise: Not an Athlete, Not on Vacation.

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Supplementing

• Feeling Like Garbage on a Vegan Diet.

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Lifestyle vs Medication

• Anti-Depressants: Euphoria, Sorrow & Science.

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Lifestyle

Domestication (A Vegan Perspective AGAINST Pet Ownership, etc.)

• Vegans don’t own pets: domestication and evil.
• Pet Ownership as SLAVERY (vegan / vegans / veganism)
• Domestication vs. “the Wild”: Vegans & the A.R. Paradigm

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Minimalism

• Minimalism is rubbish, innit? (Philosophy & Politics, I.M.H.O.)
• Animism, Not Minimalism: Marie Kondo Book Review.
• (Anti-)Minimalism discussion… book review of Marie Kondo coming soon.

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Pest Control

• Vegans Kill Cockroaches (Vivisection, Agriculture & Activism)
• Vegans Kill Rats. REAL TALK.

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Recreational Drugs

• Cannabis Causes Brain Damage (Controversy from My Vegan Blog, etc.).
• Alcohol & Caffeine: Unnatural Vegan is WRONG
• Cocaine & the Philosophy of Science

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Vegan living around the world

• Being Vegan in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand & China [純素的生活瑣事02]
• Vegan life in small-town China & small-town Canada (a conversation)
• FRANCE IS HELL (FOR VEGANS)

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Family, Friends & Partners

• The Girlfriend: how much of our relationship is ABOUT veganism?
• Vegan Politics: “HOW TO GET ASS!” critique & comedy.
• Dating Chinese Women, Dating Meat Eaters, Dating Vegans.

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Children

• Vegan Dad, Meat Eating Child. (Patreon Supporter’s Question)
• Goodbye, My Daughter
• Vegan Birth/Baby Story (how my daughter was born) [Vegan Parenting]

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Advocacy, Approaches & Critique

“On Community” (a Vegan Manifesto) in Many Languages

• On Community (vs. Unnatural Vegan)
• 素食主义运动（西方政治学相关 / 社群 / 纯素主义）
• Veganismi: yhteisö ja politiikka (Finnish) (vegan / vegans / veganism)

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On community building

• The Future of the Community (Brainstorming for a Better Vegan Movement)
• Vegans Can Never Win: The Struggle Never Ends.
• A Diet is Not a Movement. A Protest is Not a Community.

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Veganism as a political movement

• Vegan Politics (Real Talk)
• Veganism as Cultural Imperialism, Neocolonialism, etc.
• Why (Left-Wing) Feminists Hate Vegans / Veganism

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Veganism: the Wildlife Management Paradigm

• Autonomy vs Dignity, Wildlife in Veganism and Ecology in the 21st century
• Domestication vs. “the Wild”: Vegans & the A.R. Paradigm
• Nature vs. Culture vs. Nutrition

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Brass Tacks (Vegan Political Organization NOW)

• Veganism and Ecology in Party Politics: How to Build the Movement, Step by Step.
• Vegan Lobbying: A Voice for the Voiceless, or “Corporate Shills”?
• Brass Tacks: Beyond Pamphlets, Protests, & Prison.

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Book Reviews (Politics / Vegan Politics)

• Veganism: what if our leaders are idiots? (No, seriously…)
• Book Review: Half Earth by Edward O. Wilson.
• Vegans: Beyond Abolitionism (Beyond PETA & Peter Singer, too)

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Social Justice: Veganism is NOT a Social Justice Movement.

• Veganism is NOT a Social Justice Movement.
• Critique of Earthling Ed: Vegans can’t offer “Social Justice” for animals.
• Veganism: Motivational Methods for Vegan Advocacy, by Casey T. Taft, Book Review.

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Anarchism

• Anti-Capitalism is the Stupidest Ideology Ever.
• Veganism: Neither Anti-Capitalist Nor “A Privilege”
• Veganism vs. “Anti-Capitalism” (vs. The Vegan Anarchist)

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Communism

• Marxism within Veganism; Socratic Method is Dead.
• On Communism (Reply to a Patreon Question)
• Communism, Mass Starvation and Agriculture.

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DxE: Critique of Direct Action Everywhere (Activism in Theory & Practice)

• Activism & Ambition: Advice Nobody Wants to Hear [Ep. 002]
• Activism & Outcomes: Unnatural Vegan vs. DxE (Direct Action Everywhere)
• Vegan Critique of DxE: Direct Action Everywhere

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A Critique of the Permanent Vacation Philosophy: Ted Carr.

• Money: Ted Carr is lying to you. Vegans selling the “digital nomad” dream are lying to you.
• Don’t Drop Out of University (to move to Thailand… because you’re vegan)
• Don’t Move to Thailand.

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Gary Yourofsky

• Veganism is NOT an excuse, Gary Yourofsky & the question of pluralism
• Against Violence: Against Gary Yourofsky. (vegan / vegans / veganism)
• Martyrs Make Lousy Leaders: Beyond Gary Yourofsky.

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Gary Francione

• Gary Francione is Wrong (Vegan / Vegans / Veganism)
• A Vegan Critique of “Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach”, by Gary Francione.
• The Vegan vs. Vegan Thing: Gary Francione vs. Melanie Joy.

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Celebrities

• Styles P is Vegan (Elon Musk is NOT, Sam Harris is NOT, Richard Dawkins is NOT)
• Jordan Peterson says Veganism is a Religion without a Philosophy.
• Sam Harris is Wrong: Theravada Buddhism

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Ex-Vegans

• Ex-vegans & pedophiles: don’t make excuses for people who make excuses.
• Tori Sterling: Chasing a Feeling.
• Passion vs. Reason (Vegans & Ex-Vegans)

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Idiocy! Vegans Can Be Idiots, Too.

• Vegans can be idiots, too: Barbara4u2c, “Vegan community is fu*ked up!”
• Vegans can be idiots, too. Activism is fake, stupidity is real.
• USE SOAP, YOU IDIOTS: Why I Hate Vegans.

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Advice nobody wants to hear.

• Morality without Ambition is Meaningless. ADVICE NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR [Ep. 008]
• University: should ANYONE study Political Science? (vegan / vegans / veganism)
• You can’t read this stuff in a book: “recommended reading” is hard to do.

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Activism

Vegan Storybook (For Children), “Even Earthworms Want to See the Sky”

• Storybook for my Daughter; Veganism for Kids, etc.
• The (Ongoing) Vegan Storybook Project & Reflections on University (in China & Canada).
• [Veganes Kinderbuch:] Sogar Regenwürmer Wollen Den Himmel Sehen.

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Interviews with journalists / press / media

• Talking to a mainstream journalist (vegan / vegans / veganism).
• [Interview:] Real Veganism vs. the Chiang Mai Permanent Vacation Mentality.
• [Interview:] The Ecological and Ethical Core of Veganism (vs. Freelee, etc.)

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Vegan Mind Tricks: Talking to Meat Eaters.

• Vegan Mind Tricks: Debating “Intrinsic” and “Inherent” Evil.
• Excuses for Eating Meat, Excuses for Being a Good Person: Debating Veganism, Face-to-Face.
• Vegan Cake: “Converting” People in Casual Conversations.

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Running a YouTube Channel

• Vegan Cheetah is Wrong: What Patreon Means to Me & the Vegan Movement.
• Getting the “Thumbs Down” (On Youtube) Is Actually A Wonderful Thing.
• Vegans: I don’t respect my audience, I don’t respect your questions, and I don’t respect you.

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Ethics

Historical Nihilism, 历史虚无主义, “My Own” Philosophy.

• On Historical Nihilism (历史虚无主义) and “Having a Philosophy” in General.
• The Nihilistic Approach to Humanitarian & Political Engagement.
• Nietzsche’s “Slave Morality” (& Vegan Gains): Is Philosophy a Science or Showbusiness?

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Buddhism (A Pali Scholar’s Perspective)

• Buddhism, Apotheosis and the History of Religion
• Buddhism, Scholar vs Practitioner
• Brand New Ancient Buddhist Philosophy, Part 3

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Utilitarianism

• Utilitarianism is rubbish, innit? (Philosophy & Politics, I.M.H.O.)
• Vegans: Beyond Abolitionism (Beyond PETA & Peter Singer, too)
• Vegan Activism I.R.L., Beyond Peter Singer & Potluck Dinners.

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Consequentialism

• “Effective Altruism” is Rubbish, Innit? (Veganism / Ecology / Animal Rights)
• Unnatural Vegan vs. Ethical Vegans; Insanity vs. Sanity.
• Measuring “Effective Activism”? (Brainstorming for a Better Vegan Movement)

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Virtue ethics

• Plutarch vs. Jordan Peterson (vegans have philosophers, too)
• You can’t read this stuff in a book: “recommended reading” is hard to do.
• On Reading Philosophy: How & Why?

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Deontology

• Gary Francione is Wrong (Vegan / Vegans / Veganism)
• A Vegan Critique of “Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach”, by Gary Francione.
• Critique of Earthling Ed: Vegans can’t offer “Social Justice” for animals.

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Ethical issues

Economics

• Are Milk & Cheese Prices Fixed by a Conspiracy? Well… Sort Of.
• The TPP is Good for Vegans (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
• The Profit Motive, Vegans vs. McDonald’s, etc.

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Guilt

• The Curious Case of White Guilt.
• Water Scarcity, White Guilt & You (Vegans)
• Venus Angelic: When Nice People Do Evil Things.

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Human Rights

• Human Rights: A Nihilist’s Perspective.
• Why We All Hate the Humane Society: Veganism and the Human Rights Paradigm.
• Veganism vs. Human Rights (the Politics of Putting Humanitarianism “First”)

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Ecology

• Arbitrary “Lines” in Ecology, Ethics, and Animal Rights. (Vegan)
• Ecology: Pragmatism & Local Activism (vegan / vegans / veganism)
• The U.N. on Meat, Ecology and Veganism

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Vivisection

• Vivisection: the next 10 years (vegan / vegans / veganism)
• [40 min version:] Vivisection, an Insider’s Perspective.
• Vivisection, an insider’s perspective (vegan / vegans / veganism)

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Leather

• Kat Napiorkowska is against “vegan terrorists” & “black-and-white” morality.

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Fur

• Floppy Foxes Invented by the Fur Industry.
• Wearing Fur in a Vegan Restaurant: Outreach vs. Exclusivity.
• Vegan Gains is WRONG about “Canada Goose”.

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Culture/Tradition

• Veganism as Cultural Imperialism, Neocolonialism, etc.
• Nature vs. Culture vs. Nutrition

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Other

Autobiographical (Eisel Mazard / à-bas-le-ciel)

• How I lost my virginity (teenage philosophy & politics)
• My nom-de-guerre.
• Love & Ambition: low expectations are no defense against disappointment.

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Learning Chinese (Written Language + Spoken Language)

• [關於康熙部首06] Chinese Etymology: 世/枼/葉/叶.
• 筆ペン, Learning Japanese (or Chinese) with “Paintbrush-Pens”.
• How I learned Chinese (Review of Keats Language School)

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ASOIAF (“A Song of Ice and Fire” & “Game of Thrones”)

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• [ASOIAF:] Season 5 (Book vs. Show)… will it get any worse?
• [ASOIAF:] Book vs. Show: Great Literature vs. Pop Art.
• Episode 7.2 was AWFUL! (Game of Thrones) (ASOIAF)

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Stop Treating Women Like Infants

• Stop Treating Women Like Infants: Wengie is 30, Ivanka Trump is 35.
• Ryan, Stop Treating Women Like Infants (Happy Healthy Vegan, HHV)
• V is for Vegan, B IS FOR BIMBO.

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Music

• On Culture: Rap Music (Hip Hop) in My Life.
• Rap vs. My Professors (being a white, intellectual hip-hop fan)
• First, rappers supported Trump, then “Grab Them By The Pussy” became a slogan and a song.

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Atheism

• Thunderf00t vs Richard Carrier (Devil’s Advocate Amongst Atheists?)
• Atheism as an ideology (agnostic vs. nihilist)
• The Solar System vs. the Bible vs. Skepticism

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International Politics

• Refugee policy should provide refuge (not assimilation).
• BLM: The Precise Problem with Black Lives Matter.
• Why I Am Not Left Wing.

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Conversations

Vegan Gains

• Vegan Gains: Toronto Pig Save, the Police, Army and Prison.
• Body Image: Vegan Gains joins the Permanent Vacation Podcast.
• Vegan Gains: a Conversation from Kunming to Antwerp, Alaska to Attawapiskat.

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Vegan Cheetah

• Honesty, Integrity, Fact-Checking: Vegan Cheetah = Garbage Content.
• Matters of Principle: Vegan Cheetah PWNS à-bas-le-ciel on Younow.
• Vegan Cheetah vs. Durianrider: FINAL JUDGEMENT.

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Unnatural Vegan controversy (on critique, consequentialism and pet domestication)

• On Critique Itself (vs. Unnatural Vegan)
• Captive Animals ARE NOT Companion Animals (Unnatural Vegan is NOT Vegan)
• Unnatural Vegan Hates Me, I Guess. (Vegan Civil War?)

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Durianrider controversy (on defamation lawsuit, permanent vacation philosophy and diet pseudoscience)

• The stack of evidence presented in court (will Durianrider go to jail?)
• The People vs. Durianrider: The Deeper Significance of the Case. (vegan / vegans / veganism)
• Either Durianrider Goes to Jail, or I Do.

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Nina-and-Randa: Most Offensive Playlist Ever?

• NinaAndRanda: Veganism Needs Ugly People, Not Idiots.
• Ryan, Stop Treating Women Like Infants (Happy Healthy Vegan, HHV)
• Vegan Idiots United: Nina and Randa are Not Beautiful, Vegan Cheetah is Not Tall.

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ModVegan

• The Nature of Nature: Mod Vegan in Conversation with Eisel Mazard.
• Vegans: Beyond Abolitionism (Beyond PETA & Peter Singer, too)
• “Community and Discord”, an open-ended discussion.

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Dumb Vegan

• Why Did You Start a Youtube Channel? (The Dumb Vegan Experience)
• Don’t Mention Durianrider: The Dumb Vegan Experience.
• It’s realer than flip flop: “Dumb Vegan” is what we deserve.

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Vegan Lass

• Vegan Lass is Wrong: Deforestation, Palm Oil & Progress.
• (1hr+) The Vegan Lass on The Permanent Vacation Podcast.
• THE VEGAN LASS vs. à-bas-le-ciel, the podcast nobody asked for! 😉

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Ask Yourself

• #namethetrait conflict resolved (Ft. à-bas-le-ciel).
• à-bas-le-ciel doesn’t like my reasoning.
• Debating the “I Don’t Care” Mentality (Vegan Gains vs. Bearing)

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Vegan Revolution

• An interview “for the future of the vegan movement”.
• It’s About the Movement: Holocaust-Denial from “Vegan Revolution”.

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Dexter Deveau (formerly Lance Carbstrong)

• An Hour With Lance Carbstrong: On Substance and Scandal, Friendship and Politics via YouTube.
• Reckless Optimism (About the Future of the Vegan Movement) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 

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AmericanUnicorn (formerly PlantBasedHippy)

• The Vegan Demimonde: Sex, Slander, Politics & Potential.

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Reg Flowers

• Reg Flowers: À-Bas-Le-Flowers / Reg-Le-Ciel.
• Tea Time with Eisel Mazard (à-bas-le-ciel)
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Tofu Godess

• Why Vegans Hate the Green Party (with Tofu Goddess), etc.
• The Cult of à-Bas-le-Ciel (& The Tofu Goddess, PART THREE)
• Not a Game: Veganism in Practice. PART TWO: The Tofu Goddess.

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Kiwi Banana

• Vegans, Alone in the Crowd: A Conversation With KiwiBanana.
• How to Get Yourself Killed in Laos.

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Zahria

• The Agony of Activism: Zahria 269 (vegan / vegans / veganism)
• Veganism: Compassion, Contempt and Loathing.

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Steven Feit

• Organizing Youtube Vegans Into Real-World Activists.
• [Patreon Exclusive] Brainstorming for a Better Vegan Movement
• The Future of the Community (Brainstorming for a Better Vegan Movement)
• Measuring “Effective Activism”? (Brainstorming for a Better Vegan Movement)

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Conradical Vegan

• Friends, strangers, activists (w. Conradical Vegan)

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Vegan Minimalist Mark

• Bullfighting, animal individuality and human civilization. (vegan / vegans / veganism)

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Lea P

• Gaining Weight: Freelee’s Diet Delusion. (vegan / vegans / veganism)

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Anonymous

• Chiang Mai: Paradise for Some?

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Viewer Questions

• Q&A about my “Core Message”, Domestication vs. the Wild, etc., with Alejandro.
• Veganism vs. Cultural Anthropology: Reply to a Patreon Supporter.
• On Communism (Reply to a Patreon Question)

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