David Meyer is Removing Animals from Our Food System (and he's a Nine Time World Champion of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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"We're the first species that has enough mixture of intelligence and capabilities to actually screw it all up. That is our distinction. You know, there's a lot of species on the planet who are now looking to us to say, 'Well, okay, you're the first to be there. Do you screw it up for everybody or do you figure out how to transcend this?'" David Meyer
David Meyer is co-founder of Food System Innovations, and co-founder and CEO of Humane America Animal Foundation. He has worked in animal advocacy since the '90s. He founded and ran Adopt-a-pet.com for over two decades. He eventually sold it so that he could focus on Food System Innovations, where the mission is to remove animals from our food system.
He has been a vegan for decades and has won NINE world championships in Brazilian jiu jitsu, all on a plant-based diet.
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| 0:00.0 | Species. |
| 0:07.0 | Species. |
| 0:09.0 | You night, unite. We're the first species that has enough mixture of intelligence and capabilities to |
| 0:19.6 | actually screw it all up. That is our distinction, you know, there's a lot of species on the planet |
| 0:25.9 | who are now looking to us to say, well, okay, you're the first to be there, do you screw |
| 0:30.0 | it up for everybody or do you figure out how to transcend this? |
| 0:33.0 | Hi I'm Elizabeth Novograt's. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's |
| 0:48.0 | episode and you have a spare minute. Could you please rate and review Species Unite on Apple Podcasts or wherever you |
| 0:55.9 | listen to podcasts? It really helps people to find the show. This conversation is with David Meyer. |
| 1:07.0 | David has worked in animal advocacy since the 90s. |
| 1:13.2 | He founded and ran Adopt a Pet.com for over two decades |
| 1:17.1 | and then he sold it to focus on food systems innovations, |
| 1:21.0 | FSI, where their mission is to replace animals in the food system. |
| 1:26.2 | He is the CEO and co-founder of FSI and the CEO of Humane America Animal Foundation, and he is a nine-time world champion |
| 1:35.2 | of Brazilian Chigetsu. Well, David, I am so happy to have you heard, |
| 1:44.0 | thank you. Well, David, I am so happy to have you here. |
| 1:54.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:55.0 | Thank you so much for having me, Beth. |
| 1:56.9 | You have a really incredible story, and I want to get to your current life and your |
| 2:01.9 | current world, but I want to work up to it because I want to talk |
| 2:06.4 | about all the things you've done before this, especially how you started in animal |
| 2:11.4 | welfare and how you started your life. |
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