Emilia A. Leese is an author, re-wilder, podcast host, public speaker, and magazine editor.
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Eating animal products is analogous to the oppressive and unjust actions by powerful humans upon other humans.
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Emilia A. Leese is an author, re-wilder, podcast host, public speaker, and magazine editor. She has also developed life skills and ethics workshops for underserved youth and has been a corporate finance lawyer for over twenty years. She and her husband Roger, who is also vegan, live in London and the Highlands. Her “Think Like a Vegan” podcast is streaming on all platforms. Follow her work at Emi Is Good Eating.
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Closure of an Ancient Meat Market
Think Like a Vegan | November | 2024
Emilia Leese argues that the closure of Smithfield and Billingsgate markets in London is nothing more than the contemporary age catching up.
Think Like a Vegan | September | 2024
Imagine your life or freedom depended on someone advocating for you or those like you. Who would you want on your side? 1: someone who is unequivocal about your right to be alive and free. 2: someone who makes exceptions to your right to be alive and free in favour of those who want to continue to deny you that right?
A Focus on Rights Over Welfare
Vegan Australia | September | 2024
The author responds to an episode of the Think Like a Vegan podcast, “Whatʼs the Difference Between Animal Rights and Welfare”, in which Emilia Leese explains why when she talks about animal ethics, she centers her words around rights instead of welfare or compassion and kindness.
Co-authors: Eva Charalambides | writing.ie | May | 2021
The authors discuss the special challenges of writing on a topic (in this case veganism) that is emotionally charged and often personal. They compare inviting a reader to share their worldview with the metaphor of inviting a guest into oneʼs home.
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A New Perspective on Vegan Ethics
Co-authors: Eva J. Charalambides | Unbound | May | 2021
Think Like a Vegan invites you to set aside your preconceived notions about veganism, and enter into an invigorating conversation about your daily ethical decisions
This book is not just for vegans. It’s for anyone who is curious about veganism, its principles and what even non-vegans can learn from its practice.
From basic fairness to politics, economics, love and other aspects of being human, society’s systemic injustices are intimately interconnected, including the fight for racial justice, feminism, and ethical production, as are the threats we face together, from environmental collapse to global pandemics. Seeking a fair world for animals means we must also seek to reject and redress the injustices perpetrated against each other. These are not mutually exclusive goals, or mutually exclusive ideas
Seeking to challenge, educate and illuminate, Think Like a Vegan draws threads between essential points of philosophical thought to help answer the fundamental ethical question: How should we act, and why?Media by this author
Interview | June | 2024
As a society we are eating less meat. Data from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs showed that in 2023, meat consumption had fallen to its lowest level since records began in the 1970s. The cost of living crisis is leading many to choose cheaper vegetarian options, yet only one percent of the population are ethical vegans and there is talk of the vegan bubble having burst. A panel of women at the heart of the vegan movement discuss these issues and looked at the future of vegan and plant-based diets.
Interview | May | 2024
Sentientist Conversations focuses on two key questions: “Whatʼs real?” and “Who matters?” Sentientism can be defined as “evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings.” Emilia Leese talks about her background, her worldview, and the fundamental right of being free from exploitation.
Interview | March | 2024
A guide to all seasons and episodes of the Think Like a Vegan podcast. Each episode is a mini talk about one topic which might not be the focus of an everyday conversation. These short talks and guests will inspire and educate, expanding the conversation around veganism. And all is premised on veganism being part of basic fairness.
Interview | October | 2023
Kerryn Vaughan interviews Emilia Leese, co-author of Think Like a Vegan: What Everyone Can Learn From Vegan Ethics. Emi is also the host of the podcast, “Think Like a Vegan”. She writes essays on life, travel and veganism for a variety of online publications and is closely involved in a long-term forest rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands.
Events with this author
Marx in the Anthropocene: Capital, Nature, Ecology, Environment (March 11-14, 2025) is a conference that aims to present a Marxist-oriented critical rereading of what is preventing effective action to address the fundamental need of humanity: a radical socio-ecological transformation. Emilia Leese will present a paper titled “Beyond the Plate: The Political Left, Marxism, and the Overlooked Role of Veganism in the Anthropocene.”
V-COP20: Vegan Convergence of the Peoples #20 (January 25-26, 2025) was a conference whose goal was to create a lasting transition from a world of normalized violence to a world that is just, kind, compassionate, and respectful of all of Nature. Emilia Leese will present a paper titled “Vegan Rewilding in the Scottish Highlands.”
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