292: Stacey Shumacher—When Animal Lovers Eat Their Own

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Dirty Jobber Stacey Schumacher, co-owner of Schumacher Cattle (a ranch with a "pasture to plate program") and founder and executive director of the Texas Coalition for Animal Protection, a non-profit organization that spayed and neutered over 68,000 cats and dogs last year, has a unique perspective on animal rights and animal husbandry and why they are both so crucial.

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0:00.0	Chuck?
0:06.3	Yes. I'm only going to say this once. Are you ready? Yes. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Mike. I knew you were going to say that.
0:14.0	I just don't think it's appropriate much beyond the third to say this. So if you're listening to this on the fourth or the fifth or the 10th or the 20th,
0:21.6	I apologize. But in real time, it's the third of January. Chuck and I are looking at a brand
0:27.2	new year of the way I heard it and eager to kick it off with episode number 292, which we have
0:32.8	entitled, when animal lovers eat their own. Yes, because sometimes they do.
0:39.4	You can love animals and still find them delicious.
0:42.2	You know what? We all eat our own in some way, shape, or form.
0:46.0	And today's guest makes that point far more eloquently than I could.
0:50.1	It's Stacey Shoemaker.
0:52.5	Or is it Shoemaker?
0:53.8	Well, she says in Texas, they say Shoemaker, but if you're German, itacey Shoemaker. Where's it Shoemaker? Well, she says in Texas they say Shoemaker, but if you're German, it's Schumacher.
0:59.2	And I believe it's a German name.
1:01.2	Yeah, it's difficult to know when to lean into the accent of a thing, you know, especially when it's a person's name.
1:08.3	Well, when I was in Nicaragua, we always found it best to...
1:14.6	Don't you love that one?
1:16.2	Oh, my God.
1:17.0	Well, look, that very thing ended one of my longest relationships.
1:21.9	I won't use her name because I think she might listen to the podcast, but things were going
1:27.4	great for a couple of years.
1:28.9	And then we found ourselves in a restaurant down in Little Italy in Baltimore.
1:33.4	I think it was Danitties, maybe Sabatinos.
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