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Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Creating the Market for Plant Based Foods with Rachel Dreskin

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Dreskin, CEO of the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA), joins the podcast this week to discuss why it is so vital for vegan foods to have a trade association. Rachel tells us how the organization, which advocates at both the  federal and state levels, is working to even the playing field to help plant-based brands compete against animal-based products and…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer. And this is Mary Ann Sullivan. And on this week's show, Rachel Dreskin of the Plant-Based Food Association will be joining us to examine how the plant-based food industry

0:21.4

is a dynamically growing industry that needs to use all the tools that other industries use

0:27.7

to support their companies and up their game and how that is going to happen. I'm so excited about that.

0:35.2

I want to hear what's going on with the Plant-Based Food Association.

0:39.0

I was actually at an event of theirs in-person a few months back and was really, really impressed

0:45.8

with all of the things coming down the pipeline. Oh, yeah, that is exciting to hear about new foods.

0:52.9

And yeah, this is a good interview.

0:55.6

And something that I think we really all need to stay on top of.

0:58.9

I mean, like, we are, what they're really trying to do is reach people who aren't us,

1:05.0

but we are the core.

1:07.1

And, you know, finding those new products and supporting them is really important.

1:10.7

And it's nice that that's

1:11.7

part of helping animals, because it's one of the nicer parts of helping animals. So on the flock bonus

1:17.7

segment, I'll be continuing that conversation with Rachel. And if you're a flock member,

1:21.6

you'll get a link to that bonus segment in your email. On the Tuesday after this podcast episode goes up,

1:29.1

you can also always find it on the flock Facebook group. And if you're not a member of the flock and you can afford it,

1:32.9

you can join for $10 a month at our henhouse.org slash donate. Or you could also join for $100 a year

1:39.2

and save $20. Think of all you can do with that $20. That's what we're trying to do. We're trying to

1:44.1

help you save money. If you are a flock member, please join us for our flock first Friday Zoom calls, which are once a month on the first Friday of the month at 4 p.m. Eastern, where we have some really inspiring guests. They were previously on the podcast. And we also have some really cool conversations about activism and life

2:02.8

in general. That's coming up because first flock Friday for March is coming up. So if you are a

2:08.2

member of the flock, check out that flock Facebook group for updates or write to us at info at

2:13.1

our henhouse.org. You can also sign up for one-on-one meetings with me by emailing info at our henhouse.org,

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