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is not guaranteed. Jonathan Safranfore is an outspoken vegetarian and celebrated author with

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eating animals, and as latest, we are the weather. It's an honor to have him here on the show today.

Jonathan, welcome. I'm a huge fan of your work, so it's great to finally have you here.

Thank you, really. Happy to be here and happy to be here at this particular moment in the

industry. It is an exciting time in history. And so over the time, we're going to talk a lot

about food and nutrition in the connection to the environment. And I imagine your approach to

everyday eating changed pretty drastically. So can you walk through what catalyzed your mental

and the dietary shift? Well, you know, it's interesting. Like, I don't know if I would say that

my thinking changed drastically. It's been, well, maybe I would put it this way. My thinking has

changed drastically many times. And I first became a vegetarian when I was nine because of a babysitter

that we had who was not at all a proselytizer or an advocate, even of any kind. She was just

a quiet vegetarian. And I learned that when I asked why she wasn't eating fried chicken with my

older brother and me. And she said, I don't want to hurt animals unless it's necessary. And it's

such a, it sounds almost like a child, but it sounds like a childlike thought if not a childish

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