Amplifying Impact: Effective Altruism for a Vegan Lifestyle with Robert Cheeke

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Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, the host discusses effective altruism and impactful veganism with Robert Cheeke, an expert in plant-based nutrition.

They delve into Robert's newest book, The Impactful Vegan, which explores how individuals can reduce animal suffering significantly by adopting plant-based habits and making strategic donations to effective animal charities.

Listeners are introduced to the concept of having an 'impact bucket' to donate a percentage of their income to amplify their impact. Robert also emphasizes the importance of small changes in lifestyle and contributions to repel animal cruelty, simplifies the misconceptions around veganism, and shares the stories and impactful strategies from his book.

The conversation underscores that impactful altruism is accessible to everyone, not just committed vegans, aiming to inspire listeners to extend their compassionate actions beyond personal health benefits to wider global and environmental implications.

00:00 Introduction

02:31 Effective Altruism and Animal Welfare

05:25 Robert Cheek's New Book: The Impactful Vegan

09:45 The Philosophy of Effective Altruism

25:55 Challenges in Changing Eating Habits

30:03 Personal Struggles and Veganism

36:31 Global Perspective on Altruism

38:45 Overcoming Personal Biases

42:30 Maximizing Impact with Donations

48:22 The Power of Data-Driven Decisions

53:18 Conclusion and Book Information

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0:00.0	And so what I encourage people to do is have this impact bucket.
0:04.1	You know, if you have savings for other things or you put your money in different places
0:08.6	and there's graphs and pie charts in the book and all of that with our fixed expenses like
0:12.8	mortgage or rent or utilities or food or fuel, entertainment and all of that, but we should
0:18.7	have an impact bucket too.
0:21.9	We can donate a percentage of our annual income to the most effective animal charities. That is meaningful.
0:37.2	Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.
0:46.8	We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based
0:56.6	research in the mastering diabetes program.
0:59.8	Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and how to simplify
1:06.5	your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine.
1:13.3	We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in one million people. We're glad to have
1:19.2	you joining us. Welcome, my friends, to another episode of the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience.
1:29.2	In this interview, I am very excited to introduce the idea of being an impactful vegan.
1:38.1	I'm going to be talking with Robert Cheek, who is a good friend of mine, an influencer and an expert in the world of plant-based nutrition.
1:48.3	And I had the awesome opportunity to be able to spend some time with him on the holistic holiday
1:52.6	at sea cruise back in March of 2024.
1:56.9	For those of you who have never heard about this cruise, it's a week-long adventure with a whole
2:01.5	collection of other vegan-friendly or aspiring vegan individuals who want to come and learn from
2:08.6	many experts in the world of plant-based nutrition. Robert was one of the experts on this
2:14.6	boat. I was invited to be on this boat by the Holistic Holiday
2:18.5	at sea organizers. And a good friend of mine, Nathan Crane was also on this boat, as was Ocean
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