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Tai Asks Why

Can we keep eating meat without destroying the planet?

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

To Tai, nothing beats cutting into a perfectly cooked steak or wolfing down a big, juicy cheeseburger. But lately he’s been paying more attention to the buzz around going meatless in the fight against climate change. “Plant-based” foods like beefless burgers and chickenless nuggets have made their way into grocery aisles and fast food chains. But are those actually better for the environment? What exactly is our appetite for meat doing to the planet? Tai investigates. In this episode Tai talks to: - Brent Kim, researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Jody Puglisi, professor of structural biology at Stanford University For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/tai-asks-why-transcripts-listen-1.6747759

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a CBC podcast.

0:04.0

I love meat.

0:06.0

Fried chicken, burgers, steaks, ribs, roast beef, meatlovers pizza.

0:12.0

You name it?

0:13.0

I'll devour it.

0:16.0

It's just meat brings a fullness to a meal.

0:20.0

I'll always eat the meat first and everything else is kind of just an afterthought.

0:26.0

I mean, you could call me the king of meat, self-proclaimed meat connoisseur, if you will.

0:33.0

Because to me, there's nothing better than devouring a big juicy hamburger patty,

0:39.0

or cutting into a perfectly rare steak.

0:43.0

But I don't get to eat beef as much as I'd like to, because my little brother can?

0:49.0

It hasn't eaten it for years.

0:53.0

We were on a trip to India, at least I want to say three years ago.

0:57.0

And there was a lot of cows where we went, or just all over.

1:04.0

Because I'd see cows in the road, or just cows roaming.

1:07.0

And just over the course of the time that we were there, the cows started growing on me,

1:12.0

because they were like pretty cute, and sometimes it's like pet number or something, or give them a hug.

1:17.0

And I just kind of developed a liking of cows, because I saw that they were like,

1:21.0

they were just these big, peaceful creatures that just stand around.

1:26.0

So I decided, I'm not going to eat beef for like a little bit.

1:30.0

And then I decided, this is fine, how about I just don't do this?

1:34.0

So I just kind of stopped.

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