Richard Burgess (born 1991) better known by his sobriquet Vegan Gains, is a Canadian vegan natural bodybuilder, animal rights activist and internet personality; notable for his controversial, brash style and confrontational videos on his Youtube channel Vegan Gains. According to Burgess, he turned to a vegan diet, in 2011, after watching a video presentation of animal activist and vegan Gary Yourofsky, and reading the works of biochemist T. Colin Campbell and physician Caldwell Esselstyn. On December 2014 he launched Vegan Gains channel on YouTube, with the moto "Vegan health, fitness, and showing everyone that vegans can in fact make gains".
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