Galina Hale: The Most Rational Vegan

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

“…people say, okay, recycle, and then somebody sees you throwing out a little candy wrapper. Nobody's going to point at you say, ‘Huh, I saw you threw away a recyclable piece” Right? But if I say I'm vegan and then I eat a slice of halal and halal is made with eggs, somebody will say, ‘Oh, it has eggs, you're not really vegan.’ And so that's just kind of weird. – Galina Hale

Galina is a professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz. She's also the co-founder and Chief Research Officer of FSI— Food System Innovations, where her husband, David, is CEO. David was on the podcast a couple of weeks ago.

Galina served as a Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and as an assistant professor of economics at Yale University. Galina’s current research interests focus on attracting mainstream finance to climate solutions, the sustainability of the global food system, and international financial stability, especially with respect to climate risks. Galina has published over 30 articles in leading economics and finance peer-reviewed journals. She serves on multiple editorial boards and presents her work regularly at scholarly and policy meetings worldwide.

Galina is also a long-distance athlete. She's completed multiple marathons, triathlons and the Ironman.

Links:

Speciesunite.com

FSI - https://fsi.org/

Galina Hale - https://sites.google.com/view/galinahale/

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0:00.0	You know if people say, I recycle and then somebody sees you throwing out a little candy wrapper.
0:20.8	Nobody is going to point it to you say, ha ha ha, I saw. And the And then I eat a slice of hala and hala is made with eggs.
0:36.0	Somebody will say, a huhoo, it has eggs, not really vegan.
0:41.0	And so that's just kind of weird. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's
0:58.8	episode and you have a spare minute. Could you please rate and review Species Unite on Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to
1:07.3	podcasts? It really helps people to find the show.
1:18.8	This conversation is with Galena Hale.
1:21.4	Galena is a professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz and she's also the
1:25.4	co-founder and chief research officer of FSI food system innovations where
1:31.0	her husband David is CEO David was on the podcast a couple of weeks ago.
1:35.1	Galena is also a long-distance athlete. She's completed multiple marathons,
1:39.8	triathons, and the Iron Man. How you doing?
2:00.0	do it do it? Good, it's good to see it.
2:01.0	So many people that have come on here went vegan because they had an animal thing. Can we start talking about that and you know just how and why you went vegetarian and vegan?
2:12.4	Absolutely. We're talking now about 15 years. why you went vegetarian and vegan?
2:12.8	Absolutely.
2:13.4	We're talking now about 15 years ago.
2:16.0	I did not even think about my diet that much.
2:19.6	You know, I tried to eat healthy, you know, was somewhat athletic and my boss at the time was vegetarian.
2:32.4	And I asked him, why are you vegetarian and he said well I'm
2:35.6	vegetarian for economic reasons because it takes so many resources to produce
2:41.1	you know animal-based meal compared to, like 20 times compared to the plant-based meal.
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