In Defense of Butchers: A Semantic Justification
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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🗓️ 27 June 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The weight of a word doesn’t simply lie in its dictionary definition. Words don’t simply have denotations — they also have connotations: a number of associations and attributes that stretch beyond the literal meaning. The word “butcher” has always been associated with the killing and preparing of animals for human consumption, but a new contingency of vegetarian and vegan butchers — who cleave plant fibers rather than animal bones — have claimed this name for themselves.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food for Thought is brought to you by the listeners of this podcast and that means you. |
| 0:04.8 | Thank you for valuing this podcast and keeping it going by supporting it at patreon.com slash |
| 0:11.2 | Colleen Patrick Goodreau. |
| 0:13.4 | Today's topic is in defense of butchers. Welcome to Food for Thought, The Place to Explore, Celebrate and Manifest, a life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal wellness. My name is Colleen Patrick. and of compassion and wellness. You can learn more about who I am and what I do by |
| 0:45.6 | visiting my website colline Patrick goodro dot com where you can find all of my books |
| 0:50.9 | past episodes of this podcast, and your free Joyful Vegan |
| 0:54.9 | Starter Guide when you join the mailing list and lots of other goodies as well. |
| 0:58.8 | Joyful vegan.com. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 1:02.4 | I hope you're doing fabulously well. I'm hoping to see some of you in Los Angeles |
| 1:07.1 | Well next month next week it seems it's coming close for the Animal Rights Conference in July. |
| 1:13.0 | I'll be presenting a talk called Ten Habits of Highly Effective Advocates |
| 1:17.8 | and I am part of a panel on the power of language, |
| 1:20.9 | which is appropriate for today's |
| 1:23.0 | episode today's topic so check out the schedule on the conference |
| 1:27.1 | website or at my website |
| 1:28.6 | joyful vegan.com. I want to talk to you today about this phenomenon happening really all around the world and that is |
| 1:36.4 | the emergence of vegan butchers. From what I can tell and there might be more that I'm not aware of. |
| 1:43.0 | Herbivorous Butcher was the first of its kind to open in the US in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
| 1:49.0 | And we also have the Butcher's son in Berkeley, California, right here in my backyard, which is pretty cool for a number of reasons. |
| 1:56.0 | The brother and sister team who owns it, actually there's a brother and sister team who owns, |
| 2:00.1 | herbivorous butcher as well in Minneapolis, is interesting but the brother and sister team who own it here in Berkeley |
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