In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about whether or not they think it's ethical for people to eat meat. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey, A to Z English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase. 00:00:17 Jack And if you. 00:00:18 Jack Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to. 00:00:22 Jack Talk with social. 00:00:23 Jack And we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app. 00:00:49 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. 00:00:54 Jack And today we're doing another topic talk and today's question is, should humans switch to a plant based diet to protect animal rights? 00:01:06 Jack What do you think, social? 00:01:08 Xochitl Should humans switch your plan beside? Well, I have been vegan in the past, Jack, and I've also been vegetarian in the. 00:01:16 Xochitl So I had. 00:01:18 Xochitl The even the plant based diet on multiple occasions, but I never judge anyone who didn't because it's a very hard switch because the world is kind of built around assuming that you have a normal diet and now vegan food is way more accessible. Back. When I was vegan in high school. 00:01:36 Xochitl Uh, it was very hard to be vegan. You couldn't go out to eat anywhere. You couldn't buy any like ready made vegan food at the store and there weren't any products like, there weren't any good veggie burgers or vegan. 00:01:45 Jack Yeah. 00:01:49 Jack No impossible burgers or anything like that. 00:01:52 Xochitl No. So it really sucked. And then? 00:01:56 Xochitl I yeah. So I don't know. And then there. 00:01:59 Xochitl Are there were there? 00:02:00 Xochitl Was a phase where I would eat plant. 00:02:01 Xochitl Based like uh? 00:02:04 Xochitl Two weeks out of the month and then the other two weeks, I just see normal, but that was more. That was like, yeah, I mean, yeah, it was kind of a whole thing, not in the ways you might you might expect but but. 00:02:11 Jack For health. 00:02:22 Xochitl Yeah, so, so I don't know, this is a tricky 1 because to me now I like me, I enjoy me and I enjoy having food freedom and getting to eat whatever I want and. 00:02:37 Xochitl I think that as people, us being vegan is like far less or us consuming meat or choosing not to consume meat or choosing to eat plant based or not plant based whatever it may be is far less damaging to the environment or has far less of an impact overall than these giant greedy. 00:02:57 Xochitl Corporations and industries that are. 00:03:00 Xochitl Choosing practices that are they know, have been harmful for years, like the fracking industry and. And so I think ultimately, yes, it's just like our little drop in a bucket or drop in the ocean and we can choose to do it or not to do it. I don't think it really necessarily makes you better. 00:03:20 Xochitl Or not, or neither do I I I just think it's so much more impactful for a corporation to. 00:03:28 Xochitl And the government to put in regulations than it is for people to just go like Meatless Mondays or something. 00:03:35 Jack Yeah, my my problem with with eating meat and. 00:03:41 Jack It's the factory farming is I have a real problem with that because I know that there are definitely animal abuses that are happening. And yet, even though I know that intellect. 00:03:51 Xochitl Yeah. 00:03:55 Jack Really, it's really hard for me to make the switch to vegan or vegetarian or be vegan or vegetarian, even though I know that it's probably morally the right thing to do until farming practices become more ethical. 00:04:15 Jack And you know, because I think that like. 00:04:18 Jack You know the the way that they, you know, pack chickens into tin