Elena Fernades has taken Animal Equality’s 21 days plant-powered challenge. Watch her give her opinion on various scrumptious plant-based dishes she tried with us.

We thank her for speaking in defense of the millions of animals exploited for meat, eggs, and dairy. Are you ready to take the 21-day plant-powered challenge yourself?

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foreign hi my name is Elena Fernandes I
am a model and actor however I'm very
passionate about my Animal Welfare work
I am here today as I will be taking part
in animal equality India's 21-day plant
power Challenge and in this challenge I
will be on a plant-based diet for the
next 21 days
I think there are so many reasons that
one should go plant-based my reasons are
from an animal perspective that I do so
much for Animal Welfare that I just feel
that eating them is just not necessary
and I think a lot of science has shown
that having a plant-based diet is so
much healthier for you you have so much
more energy there's a lot of
misconceptions that you need meat in
order to have like the iron whereas in
fact it's eating your greens and
plant-based food that actually make you
healthier and I think also from an
environmental perspective
if people did more of a plant-based kind
of food diet I feel it would be a lot
more better for the environment in terms
of reduction of carbon emissions and
things like that and to kick start this
challenge animal equality India have
provided me with different samples which
are plant-based for me to really get
into this 21 day challenge
so I'll now be tasting what has been
brought to me and I will be giving my
feedback to you guys and hopefully we'll
all come on board as well
hi so I am very excited to try these
plant-based options the first one we are
going to go with is ghee which is
coconut oil based and I love coconuts
I'm not gonna like love coconuts
so light
yeah and the thing is it actually tastes
like butter
there's this butter in the UK I'm not
going to say the name but it actually
tastes like that
that's very very nice that's really nice
key okay next we are going to try the
actual plant-based butter version let's
see this
this would be really nice on my toast
actually
that's actually really really nice
you would actually not be able to tell
the difference the only thing that you
can taste the difference off is that it
actually feels healthier if that makes
sense so
um I really like that
and now we're moving on to the next one
mozzarella cheese which is made from
cashew nuts let's try
um
this is really really nice
this will go really well on a bagel or a
Graco or just eating it
I like that so now we're moving on to
shriken which is a Casey and laishi
flavor so let's see
oh
it's got a little bit of sweetness in it
oh you can taste it actually tastes like
sort of like petals
which is really good I think I might
just stop here and just carry on eating
this
but now we're moving on to my next one
the ice cream which obviously being
plant-based it's dairy free
so let's see
yeah this is my favorite
okay we have a winner they're all
winners this is the ultimate winner
I need more ice cream
all of it just I can't explain it you
know when you have stuff which is not
plant-based you immediately feel bloated
or you feel heavy and you feel puffy
this makes me feel goddamn good that I
feel like I can eat all of this
repeatedly and I'm going to say slim and
drum and also I'm doing good for the
environment and for animal welfare and
for my health but now for the final
thing to wash everything down we have
the plant-based milk and to be honest I
don't have milk in general
in my diet because it's just never
agreed with me and it's just not
something from an animal animal
perspective that I advocate so
yeah
I think everything here is a winner
[Music]
I absolutely literally love everything I
know I must look like a bit of a pig but
um all of it is really nice I'm gonna go
back to finishing what I've left
[Music]
it's literally so so good
so I hope you have really enjoyed
watching me doing my tasting and giving
my review and I really hope that you
look closely at yourself your health and
the environment around you as well as
the animals and really think about
taking this lifestyle change and taking
this challenge