I Tried Being Vegan in a Food Desert...

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[Natalie.Fulton]

Just to clarify: I do not like the veggie delight from Subway so I didn’t want to order it.

[wyomii]

I've been an impoverished vegan for more than 20 years and I grew up in Colorado. This video hits so hard.
End the corn subsidy, start subsidizing nuts, peas and oats for HUMAN consumption.

[RealJonzuk]

big props to you and everyone else working to get slaughterhouse shutdown in Denver, doing so much for the animals its amazing and inspirational

[jamesbyrne]

The fact about food subsidies is crazy.
There are people who can’t afford to eat regular meals and the government is paying to fatten farm animals.

[KerriEverlasting]

Those poor lambs. Please vote YES to end this horrible cruelty. Great job Natalie ❤❤❤

[falsificationism]

6:50 this was going to be my comment from the jump. The US basically forces us to drive cars. Nothing is walkable...not even areas that were walkable less than 100 years ago.

I imagine a future that funnels the other 96% of food subsidies toward food for humans to be sold in clean, accessible places. Walkable farmers' markets for all are really not too much to ask. We deserve clean air, water, and food within walking distance. That's far from a utopian vision. It's the bare minimum.

[leviahimsa]

925 million humans (1 in 9) suffer from hunger, yet 80 billion unnaturally bred animals on farms are given enough human edible food that could support 4 billion humans directly. -University of Minnesota

Plant based diets are 33-40% less expensive than those that contain meat and dairy. - Lancet Health and Veganuary

[hclyrics]

I'm lucky not to live in a food desert, but I've had experience being poor and trying to feed myself and two children on less than $10/day. It's difficult when you're both financially poor and time poor. Low income neighborhoods are often ironically car-centric and make it difficult and/or dangerous to get to grocery stores. Full time job + long walks or public transit rides to get food + no partner + no money for childcare makes living really difficult. That being said, I was always able to stay vegan. That part's not hard, people just make excuses. Amazing video, Natalie. So much respect for everything you do. 💚

[thebowandbullet]

Seems the issue isn't finding vegan food, but just being able to go to a grocery store. Looks like a really sad place to live. 😔

[francescograssi]

Watching this as an italian really hit me. Here every inhabitated place has some kind of little store or even supermarkets where you can find every vegan staple like pasta, legumes and produce. But the worst thing is the non-walkability of most american cities...

[rogermaioli]

These videos deserve a much greater audience, and I hope the channel will grow to bring them the attention they deserve. I applaud your open-mindedness here: you are duly acknowledging the problem of food deserts but also showing that they should not be construed into objections to a better food system: instead, they are in themselves issues that must be addressed along the way as part of the endeavor to replace animal products.

[SergioA]

If you call that a food desert, you wouldn't want to live where I live (the poorest province of an underdeveloped country).

If I can do it, anyone can.

[EvanBoyar]

Reminds me of my travels in Appalachia. When I exclaimed at a dollar store in the mountains (the only grocery-type store for more than 10 miles) that there were no beans of any kind, the check-out clerk gave me a very detailed economic analysis of the store's expansionist tactics and the logistical challenges of keeping certain items in stock. It was kind of surreal and felt like a moment from a book hearing her go into detail like that. It looks like you lucked out and weren't in a true food desert

[alexwood]

The biggest message I got from this (and what you said too) was the way that car-heavy infrastructure creates this inherent inequity in access- like literally just having a more walkable neighbourhood would make this a non-issue. Even in the roughest, poorest neighbourhoods in the European cities I've lived in people had almost the same access to supermarkets as people in the fancy neighbourhoods (if anything, better access because rent was cheaper so often bigger, cheaper supermarkets would be in poorer areas) because it was so easy to get to any supermarket you wanted to go to. I also think time-poverty is a big factor for the working-poor (and/or those with kids) and might have been fun to introduce to the experiment- although the tiredness mimiced a bit of that. I really love that you put the effort into actually going to a 'food desert, ' also staying in a motel simulating unstable housing and the limited kitchen that comes with. I also wanted to note about the slaughter house- it also has a mental health impact on workers (along with all the other impacts on the wider community).

[hardcoreherbivore]

I live in a rural community in northern Canada, but still have plant based milks, tofu, tempeh and an entire produce section. Indian restaurants are my choice for eating out.

[DebugYourBrain]

Amazing concept, I think this is your best video to date.

[leviahimsa]

$2 for those fries?! Geez, got to buy 5 sweet potatoes and bake them yourself! 😂

[askajk]

Dry beans, rice, dry noodles, gas station sauce packets or salt and pepper. Homemade tofu by cooking soy beans down, press and make tofu. Frozen vegetables of any kind and a few fresh to add into them for more flavor. You get creative when you need to be.

[robsengahay]

I wonder how many of those locals having to endure the stench of that slaughter house could ever afford lamb anyway. If slaughter houses had to be in rich neighborhoods then things would change.

[NoInjusticeLastsForever]

Hope Denver chooses the right thing, if not for the animals' best interests, at least their own best interest.