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The Food Programme: Rethinking Veganism

Rethinking Veganism

21/07/2013

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Rethinking Veganism

How a new generation is rethinking and embracing a meat and dairy free diet.

The word 'vegan' has for the nearly seventy years of its existence - represented a diet and a way of eating that has not captured hearts - or stomachs - beyond a small, dedicated group of people calling themselves vegan.

In this edition of The Food Programme, Sheila Dillon hears from two influential and meat-loving food writers, Mark Bittman and Alex Renton, who have found themselves looking again at a vegan plant-based diet. 

Sheila Dillon joins in at a Vegan Potluck and discovers a new chain of German vegan supermarkets and asks if there is a wider shift in attitudes towards veganism underway.

Presenter: Sheila Dillon
Producer: Rich Ward.

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