Katie Cantrell: Greener by Default
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
"If you saw a celiac bowl on a menu, you would never order that unless you have celiac disease and you're gluten free. But if you see a Thai peanut rice noodle bowl, that sounds delicious. You're not even thinking about the fact that it's gluten free. It's the same thing with vegan for a lot of people. They think, "oh, that is only for vegans, if I'm not a vegan, that's not for me.'" - Katie Cantrell
Katie Cantrell is the Director of Corporate Outreach for the Better Food Foundation and Co-Director of Greener by Default.
Greener by Default makes plant-based food the default option in businesses, universities, conferences, and many other places where people eat, while it still gives people the choice to opt into meat or dairy. It's seriously one of the smartest projects that I've ever heard of.
Katie also founded the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition where she spent a decade leading food policy workshops at universities, government agencies, and Fortune 500 corporations.
If you want Greener by Default to come to your business, contact Katie: katie@betterfoodfoundation.org
Greener by Default: www.greenerbydefault.com
Better Food Foundation: https://www.betterfoodfoundation.org/
Factory Farming Awareness Coalition https://ffacoalition.org/
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| 0:00.0 | Species, unite not unite. If you saw a celiac bowl on a menu, you would never order that unless you have celiac's disease, you're gluten-free. |
| 0:21.0 | But if you see like a Thai peanut rice noodle bowl that sounds |
| 0:24.4 | delicious you're not even thinking about the fact that it's gluten free and that's the |
| 0:27.6 | same thing with vegan for a lot of people they think oh that is only for |
| 0:30.8 | vegans if I'm not a vegan that's not for me. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like |
| 0:48.3 | today's episode and you have a spare minute. Could you please rate and review Species Unite on Apple |
| 0:54.9 | Podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts? It really helps people to find the show. This conversation is with Katie Cantrell. |
| 1:07.0 | Katie's the director of corporate Outreach for the Better Food Foundation and the co-director of greener by default. |
| 1:18.0 | Greener by default makes plant-based food the default option. |
| 1:22.0 | In Businesses, Universities, Conferences, based food the default option in businesses universities conferences |
| 1:25.0 | restaurants while it still gives people the choice to opt in to meet or |
| 1:29.9 | dairy it's seriously one of the smartest projects that I've ever heard of. Katie, hi, thank you so much for coming and being here in person. It is so nice to meet you. |
| 1:54.1 | Likewise, my pleasure, thanks for having me. |
| 1:56.1 | Will you just talk about who you are, what you do? I am the founder and board |
| 2:00.6 | chair of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition and I am the director of Corporate Outreach for the Better Food Foundation. |
| 2:06.0 | Very cool. |
| 2:07.0 | So I've had Monica on the show who is now the Executive Director of Factory |
| 2:11.3 | Farming Awareness Coalition, |
| 2:12.6 | and she's awesome. |
| 2:13.5 | Yes, she is. |
| 2:14.0 | But you started this whole thing, |
| 2:15.2 | so let's start with that. |
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