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

Episode 580: Pediatricians and Plant-Based Diets ft. Dr. Reshma Shah and Dr. Yami Cazorla-Lancaster

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

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week, plant-based pediatricians Dr. Reshma Shah and Dr. Yami Cazorla-Lancaster join Jasmin to share their thoughts on how both adults and children can best transition from a standard diet to a plant-based diet, and discuss how they each made that change themselves during their medical careers. Dr. Yami shares how she got lost in a plant-based rabbit hole on her…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Marianne Sullivan, and this is Jasmine Singer. And today,

0:12.0

Jasmine will be chatting with two vegan pediatricians. And she's going to be talking with them

0:17.4

about all of those thorny questions that parents face when they are passionate

0:22.4

vegans and they're not really in the mood to be stuffing dead animals down their children's

0:26.3

faces.

0:28.6

They're a little more delicate in their turn of phrase than you are.

0:31.8

Well, you know, call it what it is.

0:35.3

So whether you are in that position yourself or you know someone who has young children and is curious about beating them a vegan diet or you just care about the future of veganism because let's face it, the children are our future.

0:48.5

I believe the children are the future.

0:51.4

So these are pretty crucial questions.

0:54.1

And as a result, we're so happy to be welcoming Dr. Reshma Shah and Dr. Yami Kazorla Lancaster to help us answer them.

1:02.9

Teach them well and let them lead the way.

1:06.3

You're in very good voice today.

1:08.0

Thank you.

1:08.5

It did sound kind of nice.

1:09.6

Should I just keep singing?

1:11.4

Anyway, I got a lot out of this conversation with Dr. Shah and Dr. Yami. I know that that's funny

1:18.5

because Dr. Shah is her last name and Yami is her first name, but that is what Dr. Yami prefers to be

1:23.5

called. So these are two really smart women. I actually forgot that I was doing the interview

1:28.7

and felt like I was just having a chat with them. I have to say it made me a little emotional

1:33.2

later. I was thinking about the interview after I did it. And I was thinking about what terrible,

1:39.1

terrible experiences I had as a child going to the pediatrician. And something about how kind these two

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