My name is Tobias Leenaert,
I am an animal activist, vegan, effective altruist
and I try to make the world a better place through my blog 'The Vegan Strategist'
and by giving readings around the world.
I've been vegan for 17 years so I don't eat animal products.
Most of the time I cook by myself, I really like to cook.
Around the corner there is a Bioshop where I find most of my ingredients.
I can also go to the super market.
Personally, I don't think that vegan cooking and eating is very difficult.
It's an adjustment in the beginning, I needed a few attempts to become a vegan,
but after a while it felt very natural.
A lot of people think you limit yourself too much when you go vegan in the amount of ingredients you can use.
But in reality there's a lot more diversity in what you eat
because you discover ingredients you've never used before.
So you enter a bioshop and discover a lot of products you never knew existed.
I co-founded an organisation called EVA, ethical vegetarian alternative.
One of the things we did, maybe the most well-known with the public, is the campaign Thursday VeggieDay.
It tries to persuade people to eat vegetarian once a week, as a step towards more.
After 15 years, around 2014, I had some kind of leadership burnout.
I didn't want to lead people anymore.
So I stayed home for a while and starting working for myself.
I started a blog called 'Vegan Strategist'.
As a Vegan Strategist I give advice to animal activists about what does and doesn't work.
So I try to give vegetarian communication advice to people.
