(2016/05/17) The human impact of animal agriculture (Food Choices)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 May 2016
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1014
Today we take a look at the issue of animal agriculture minus the animals: the effects of our meat consumption on human rights, human health and climate change
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: An interview with the co-directors of Cowspiracy Part 1 - Rich Roll - Air Date 9-14-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Solid Ground - Dougie Maclean
Ch. 4: Act 2: Something You Really Need To Know About The Meat You're Eating - @RedactedTonight w/ @LeeCamp - Air Date: 2-27-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Happy Meal - The Cardigans
Ch. 6: Act 3: An interview with the co-directors of Cowspiracy Part 2 - Rich Roll - Air Date 9-14-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Land of Confusion - Genesis
Ch. 8: Act 4: VEGAN 2015 - The Film - PLANT BASED NEWS - Air Date 12-1-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: Here's to Your Health - River Zydeco Band & Henk Mutsaers
Ch. 10: Act 5: Vegan For Human Rights - Mic. the Vegan - Air Date: 3-18-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Human Rights - Brother Mudada
Ch. 12: Act 6: What do chickens and our constitutional rights have in common? - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 2-12-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Free and Equal Speech - Chris Priest
Ch. 14: Act 7: Fight Anti-Whistleblower Ag-Gag Laws via @ALDF - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: Right to Complain - Trombone Shorty & Marc Broussard
Ch. 16: Act 8: Richard Oppenlander's pre-Cowspiracy screening presentation to the EU Parliament (Part 2 of 7) - Climate Vegan - Air Date: 12-20-15
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Raising taxes lowers the cost of hiring new employees - Jim from Detroit
Ch. 18: The Marxist idea of causing pain to spark the revolution - Alex from Montreal
Ch. 19: Planning ahead from 2016 to 2020 - Brian from Arizona
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on the dangers of Republican governance and moral culpability vs. mathematical reality
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
TAKE ACTION
Write to legislators and governors in states with Ag-Gag laws via Animal Legal Defense Fund's “Take Action to Stop Ag Gag” and demand they be repealed.
Other Actions
Sign the Last Chance for Animal's Change.org petition to fight Missouri's Ag-Gag Law
Sign the Food Integrity Campaign's petition to fight Ag-Gag Laws
Sources/Further Reading:
No More Exposés in North Carolina (via NYTimes.com)
In the Belly of the Beast (via RollingStone.com) (WARNING: THIS IS IMPORTANT, BUT GRAPHIC)
Ag-Gag Legislation by State (via ASPCA.org)
Undercovered: 'Ag-Gag' Laws - How Big Agra Tries to Muzzle Journalists (via Mediate.com)
Big Agriculture Bullies and Lobbies to Keep Americans In the Dark (via Forbes.com)
Groups Sue Over North Carolina's Ag Gag Law, Saying it Violates The Constitution (via ThinkProgress.org)
Ag Boards Think They Should be Exempt From the Freedom of Information Act (via MFAblog.org)
Mercy for Animals Legal Advocacy (via MercyforAnimals.org)
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | Let's not even talk about how the animals are treated. |
| 0:01.8 | Let's just ignore that. |
| 0:02.6 | Let's assume all farm animals are treated amazing, |
| 0:05.6 | like they're treated like a celebrity backstage |
| 0:07.8 | at the Oscars. |
| 0:09.4 | This program is made possible by the members and donors |
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| 0:16.6 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of Left podcast |
| 0:19.1 | with Cook Today from the Rich Roll podcast, |
| 0:21.7 | redacted tonight with Lee Camp, plant-based news, |
| 0:24.8 | Mike the Vegan, Jim Hightower, and Climate Vegan on YouTube. |
| 0:30.0 | I thought I was doing everything I could to make a difference |
| 0:33.9 | in this life, writing my bike, doing all the environmental things, |
| 0:37.8 | taking short showers, doing this and that. |
| 0:40.2 | And then I found out good environmentalists. |
| 0:42.0 | Being a good environmentalist. |
| 0:43.2 | I think about half of it was just saying that. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm an environmentalist, and that was half of it. |
| 0:47.0 | You have a bumper sticker. |
| 0:48.0 | Showing up to a green piece of that. |
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