They drink oat, spelt, rice or almond milk, spread margarine on their breakfast rolls, refine their pumpkin soup with soy or oat cream, eat tofu, seitan, lentils, nuts and lots of fruit and vegetables. And that’s not all – vegans don’t wear leather shoes or wool sweaters. They do not sleep in down comforters, do not wrap themselves in silk and do not use cosmetics and cleaning products with animal ingredients. Is that extreme?

“Vegans are not extreme. At most, they are extremely consistent. They draw attention to the abuses in our treatment of farm animals. They make us think. They provoke with a clear stance. They are the thorn in our flesh – and it should hurt a little.” Helen Arnet

Helen Arnet
(*1966) has worked exclusively for “DOK” and “Reporter” since 2010. She studied Folklore Studies (European Ethnology) and German Studies at the University of Zurich. After completing her studies, she worked as a video journalist for Aargau regional television station TeleM1. In 1998, she moved to Swiss television as an editor and input for “Schweiz aktuell”. In addition, she made contributions for “Fernweh” and “Reporter”.

Read the full interview with Helen Arnet “
Why vegans provoke omnivores”
can be found
here.

And here is the full DOC movie Vegan – of humans and other animals

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If there are hard facts, little confidence and hardly any hope, then let’s at least use them. Nebenrolle Natur is convinced that we are facing major upheavals that we cannot prevent, but that we can influence. The simplest and quickest change we can achieve is to reduce our consumption and become much more conscious, and above all to adopt a plant-based diet.