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I am 51 years old and by watching your YouTube videos I became vegan on June 11th 2015. I thank you. I cry a lot because I wish I had the knowledge of this when I was much younger.

I have many health issues, diabetes and obesity are the major ones but even though my health has improved dramatically.

I tell people I became vegan for the sake of the animals. My partner of 15 years is supportive of my transition to becoming a vegan, but she has no intention on becoming a vegan at this point. So including my partner, I live with 5 other meat eaters in our household. :( . It gets lonely at times but I’m never going back.

Once again, thank you and keep sending out the knowledge that you do. You changed my life for the best.

Your work has had such a profound impact on so many human and nonhuman beings around the world. I mean, simply getting the opportunity to express our gratitude was sort of a huge moment for us! We’ll cherish it everyday as we work toward our mutual goal to spread compassion to a world blinded by the blood in it’s eyes.

While there were many great minds and compassionate hearts that were instrumental in our awakening, both from omnivore to vegans and from vegans to activists, your work in particular was among the most powerful, for us.

As we laughed and cried with you from week to week while we’d watch your videos, it became clear to us that we couldn’t just stand by anymore, we had to act. Once we had the truth we knew we began trying to figure out how to make the animals and activism the focus of our lives. I don’t think either of us though[t] we’d grow up to be full time activists, but here we are, happily rearranging our lives to make that happen! All because we woke up… and that’s greatly thanks to your dedication to using your awesome human voice to create change.

Emily, thank you for helping us find truth and the inspiration to really live it. Thank you for helping so many people find their compassion every single day. And thank you for being such a rad, down to earth human being! Never doubt the impact or importance of your work… Du bist ein Held!

My 5 year-old and I just enjoyed watching this. You have a great ability to speak on a child’s level w/o being condescending. :)

Thank you again, Emily, for your wonderful work. This video and the title led to me watching your speech, and our little family becoming vegans immediately. (referencing The Extremism Of Veganism | Exposing The Greatest Lie)

Since then, we have continued to spread the word. I’m so very grateful for your dedication and professionalism, and the passion with which you use LOGIC to dismantle the ridiculous conditioning of our minds to accept using animal products. You are my hero.

I know you must get a lot of messages saying that you have helped turn people vegan, but you have done something for me that I couldn’t do for myself. Your videos got through to my husband.

With me, you are (to quote you!) a vegan talking to a vegan about veganism. My better half has always supported my choices but remained resolutely carnist. No matter how many times I showed him what was happening in the meat and dairy industry, he shut his eyes. He buried his head in the sand over the egg industry and refused to even entertain conversation about honey.

But, you got through to him… I asked him to watch your “Open Your Eyes” video. He was shell shocked when it was finished. I then put on “My Final Breakdown and he was more than visibly moved. After that we watched “Europe’s Dark Secret.” Then he had the temerity to shout at me for not telling him about what was going on!!

I am 100% sure that the shouting was at himself for ignoring it for so long. He has accepted my veganism and all that comes with it for a very long time, but I think he had become complacent… When that was finished, he just left the room. I heard a LOT of banging going on in the kitchen and then he darted out of the house. He had, as we all like to say, “made the connection” finally. The animal products were gone. He put them in the bin as he didn’t want anyone else to be consuming the violence and death either.

My journey began nearly three years ago with one of Bite Size Vegan’s Youtube videos. I loved her approach to educating her audience and this long-awaited video provides an understanding of Effective Vegan Activism. (Referencing The Speech How To Speak Non-Vegan | Effective Activism) I, myself, struggled with speaking up for animals without being militant, argumentative, or ineffective at helping others understand my POV.

Emily Moran Barwick has reassured me that the best approach will always be to educate based on facts, as any human will have their guards up in defense, verses their minds open to insight. This speech is a must-watch if you feel you’re not getting through to others.

My eyes have been wider than wide from your activism work and others of like minds. This video (referencing the speech How To Speak Non-Vegan | Effective Activism), gives an excellent frame work on key approaches to getting the point across to those who are sitting on the fence or are just not clear on what it really means to go or be vegan. Thanks for your dedication and being a voice for such a great and important cause. The animals, if they could communicate to us where we would truly understand, would embrace you and express their gratitude.

Hi there! I’m a vegan Muslim. I appreciate the objectivity maintained throughout your video without jumping to attack religion. (referencing Humane Halal & Kosher Kind | Mercy In Slaughter). I often wondered to myself why veganism wasn’t simply the default law in Islam, seeing how abhorrently animals for slaughter and dairy are treated.

Anyway, I love all your videos and really respect the amount of research you dedicate to producing this highly important topic. I have hope for veganism to enter into the mainstream. Thanks for everything you do!

Hi Emily, I just wanted to share with you how much you changed my life. About 7 months ago, I came across your Extremism of Veganism speech, which taught me so much.

I had been a vegetarian for 8 years before for ethical reasons, but no one had ever shared the information you did with me and I simply didn’t know any better. Being vegan has been the best thing I have ever done by far—but it has also been the hardest thing to endure. Not because I had to give up pizza or anything. That was super easy. The hard part is living in a world of non-vegans and being surrounded by cruelty constantly.

I still struggle a lot with dealing with this sort of thing. Your other videos about being vegan around non-vegans have been very helpful with that. Anyways, I just needed to thank you for opening my eyes. You have truly changed me for the better.

After school today, Mack watched Bite Size Vegan’s videos for kids. We started with the milk one, which led to the meat one, which led to all of them. I don’t know the exact moment that she decided she wants to try being vegan, but it was somewhere between baby cows being taken away from their mamas and ending world hunger with plants.

I didn’t think [my daughter] would go vegan…there wasn’t a grand plan – it just happened. However, she had questions and wanted answers. I needed to find someone else to explain it so that if she didn’t connect she would not feel like she was rejecting me and my choices – or feel pressured into joining me.

Emily from Bite Size Vegan came to the rescue with her age-appropriate kids’ videos, explaining why vegans abstain from meat, milk and eggs. She also explains things like the cruelty of wool, fishing and honey.

I sat her down to watch a nine-minute clip about milk . Her response was one of profound sadness for the Mum cows and babies being separated, and her own journey to veganism began. She too made the connection between the animal and the product. As I realised we were going to do this together, I cannot describe the pride I felt at the natural compassion she showed.