So why don’t politicians talk about meat consumption and animal agriculture? Is meat a “vote losing” topic and are governments and the elite actually “pushing veganism” on us?

Or can animal ethics become a political issue too, and if so, what framing will work best at the political level?

In today’s episode I speak with Sparsha Saha at Harvard university about her research studying meat politics from an empirical perspective!

Sparsha Saha is a Lecturer at the Department of Government at Harvard University. She is the only (empirical) political scientist who studies meat politics. Her research is broadly situated in the field of political behavior. She uses experiments to understand how voters respond to political attention on meat, animal rights, and related issue areas. Her work has been or will be featured in Political Behavior, Journal of Social and Political Psychology (forthcoming), and Frontiers in Nutrition (accepted). She has been covered by New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, Harvard Gazette, among others. She was honored as Harvard’s South Asian Woman of the Year in 2022

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Have you wondered if it’s actually possible to reverse chronic and autoimmune illnesses without drugs? Can diet and lifestyle really help people heal from their symptoms?

If so, what diet and lifestyle? In today’s episode I speak with chiropractor and author Benjamin Benulis, about his personal experience healing himself, as well as what exactly “disease reversal” even means and how it works.

Dr. Ben is a chiropractor and author of the book Create Health: Reverse Autoimmune Disease Without Drugs or their Side Effects, and has personal experience reclaiming his health from chronic illness using diet and lifestyle, and currently helps others do the same. If you or someone you know is struggling with a chronic illness, or just frustrated by the lack of help you’ve received from the medical establishment, this episode is a must listen.

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Have you heard about effective altruism? Do you know what it is and how it’s applied in animal advocacy of the plant-based foods movements? 

In today’s episode the founder of the Plant Based Foods Association Michele Simon JD, MPH, and I get raw sharing our feelings about issues like discrimination, sexism, and the Effective Altruism ideology that is so present in many animal advocacy and “alternative protein” spaces. 

If you like nuance and hearing some real honest thoughts on where our movement’s go wrong and how we can do better and be more effective, don’t miss this episode!

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