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

Episode 548: Liz Marshall on her new film, Meat the Future

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

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

-This episode is brought to you in part by the Barnard Medical Center. To set up a telehealth appointment today call 202-527-7500 or on pcrm.org. -In the intro to the show, Jasmin and Mariann debate the idea of a vegan company hiring non-vegan employees, and a recent "article" from Safeway in the Washington Times about plant-based foods. We also continue our Supporting Vegan Businesses program by shouting out Sam & Gertie's Vegan Jewish Deli and Uptown Veg. Later in the episode, Mariann brings us Rising Anxieties!Later in the episode, Mariann brings us Rising Anxieties! -Mariann talks to filmmaker Liz Marshall about her new film Meat the Future, a documentary about the "cultivated meat" revolution in food production. Liz talks about the making of the film, the impact she hopes it will have, and trying to market a film during a global pandemic. (24:55) -Mariann brings us the latest Rising Anxieties from the industrial animal ag world. (1:06:45)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer.

0:10.1

And this is Marianne Sullivan.

0:11.7

And we're very happy you're joining us this week because Marianne will be speaking once again with filmmaker Liz Marshall.

0:18.2

Liz. I love Liz. I know. Don't you just love her? I love Liz. She's just the loveliest person. And her latest movie, Meet the Future, which is receiving critical acclaim, is about the movement to recreate meat without using animals. And it focuses on the work of Dr. Uma Valletti of Memphis Meets. We have been lucky enough. He has been on the past cast. That's right. Yeah, he has.

0:38.2

And we also were lucky enough to not only have him on the podcast in the past, but also to

0:42.9

screen the documentary that you're going to be chatting with Liz about, meet the future.

0:48.0

And I will tell you, this is a movie that is going to help change the world.

0:52.1

Absolutely.

0:53.1

Can you imagine how happy she was when she thought of that title? I'm sure. Yeah, it's a good title. It's a good title. Yeah, it's a great title. So this week on the bonus segment, we'll be hearing a little bit more of my conversation with Liz. And once you hear the first part, you're definitely going to want to hear the second part. And so if you're a flock member, you'll get that link to the bonus segment in your email on the Tuesday after the podcast goes up. You can always find it if you miss that email. And if you're like me and you miss millions of emails because they just keep coming and coming and coming and coming and coming. Okay, come down right all right come down but anyway

1:28.9

you can always just go to the flock Facebook group and you don't need to go through your emails

1:32.7

so if you're not a member of the flock and you can afford it you can join for ten dollars a month

1:38.4

at our handhouse.org slash donate also as a special thank you to our flock and our community

1:43.9

we're doing these flock Friday zoom calls every week at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific, where we discuss some of the topics we're struggling with or want to know more about. We have experts come in to shed light on certain aspects of animal advocacy, and it's a lot of fun. And then sometimes, sometimes you and I just shoot the shit.

2:17.4

Sometimes we just shoot the shit. Shoot the shit. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. All right. So if you remember of the flock, check out the flock Facebook group for updates or write to us at info at our henhouse.org. But before we get to the interview. I've been so impressed with how incredibly international those calls have been. They have been. Have I mentioned that before?

2:18.7

Yeah, it's just really crazy.

2:20.3

I know.

2:20.7

It's really cool. How incredibly international those calls have been. They have been. Have I mentioned that before?

2:18.7

Yeah, it's just really crazy.

2:20.3

I know.

2:20.7

It's really cool.

2:21.5

I love it.

2:22.0

And we're all going through the same thing.

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