111: Paul Shapiro on how to practice compassion and respect for animals

Food Heals

Allison Melody

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Paul Shapiro is the vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States, which is the world's largest animal protection organization. Paul directs an effort to convince retailers, food service providers, and universities to end their use of eggs from battery-caged birds, pork from gestation-stalled pigs, and to expand their plant-based options. Paul has played an integral role in numerous successful legislative and corporate campaigns to improve the plight of farm animals. In his role overseeing efforts to pass state laws and corporate policies, he works with lawmakers and major food retailers alike to implement animal welfare reforms in the agricultural industry. Paul founded Compassion Over Killing in 1995 as a club while he was still a high school student and served as its campaigns director until January 2005. While there, he worked as a farm animal cruelty investigator and led initiatives to end misleading advertising on factory farm products. In 2008, Paul was inducted into the "U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame." Being hailed as "Sex and the City for Food," The Food Heals Podcast brings together experts in the field of nutrition, health and healing to teach you the best-kept natural secrets to being a hotter, healthier, happier YOU! The Food Heals Podcast is hosted by Allison Melody and Suzy Hardy – two self-proclaimed natural chicks who will rock your world and change your beliefs about health! This sexy, savvy duo provides eco-friendly advice on a variety of issues including the healing power of nutrition, living authentically, turning your passion into your career, choosing the best natural health and beauty products, the benefits of a plant-based diet and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Food Heels Podcast, episode 111.
0:03.7	Groups like the Humane Society of the United States have been conducting undercover exposés at factory farms and slaughter plants.
0:11.0	And the cruelty that we're exposing has been hideous leading to meat recalls, slaughter plants shutdowns, criminal animal cruelty convictions and more.
0:18.4	Hell yeah.
0:18.9	Hell yes.
0:21.6	Holistic Voice presents the Food Heels podcast with your hosts, Alison Melody and Susie Hardy.
0:28.2	Join the Food Heels Nation and learn the secrets to go from feeling unwell to healing yourself.
0:34.3	Warning, side effects of this podcast may include increased health and vitality,
0:40.8	thoughts of living longer, an increase in sexual activity, feelings of joy, cravings for kale and chemo, and a spike in Tinder matches. In rare cases, people have experienced a strong
0:44.7	desire to actually start using their 3999 a month gym membership. If you experience any of these
0:48.8	symptoms, Snapchat your trainer immediately. All right, welcome Food Heels Nation. Thanks for joining
0:54.0	us. I'm Allison Melody. And I'm
0:55.8	Susie Hardy. Today's guest is Paul Shapiro. Paul is the vice president of Farm Animal Protection
1:02.5	for the Humane Society of the United States, which is the world's largest animal protection
1:08.4	organization. And one of our favorite organizations, these guys do
1:13.2	amazing work. I had the honor of meeting Paul at this fabulous event in L.A. And I highly
1:19.9	recommend everyone follow Humane Society so you can go to these gala where I got to meet
1:24.4	Aerosmith. Okay. Like you have unprecedented access to amazing, amazing people.
1:32.3	Paul directs one of the Humane Society's biggest advocacy teams,
1:36.3	spearheading legislative initiatives to prevent farm animal abuse
1:40.3	and engaging with major food corporations to help end the cruelest agribusiness practices
1:45.6	from their supply chains. He also leads a nationwide campaign to increase demand for plant-based
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