Lethal Gifts of Livestock (REBROADCAST)
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Being animals ourselves, it makes sense that we share many of the same diseases as our non-human cousins. We aren’t – after all – plants. We aren’t at risk for catching aphids or sooty mold or downy mildew.
In fact, many of the major killer pandemics we’ve been plagued with were acquired from non-human animals.
Here are just a few: we got tuberculosis from cattle, influenza from pigs and birds, whooping cough from pigs and dogs, smallpox from cattle, and of course cowpox from cows.
Even HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is believed to have been first transmitted to humans through the butchering and consumption of infected chimpanzees.
It is our very consumption of animals and their products that has bestowed upon us what Guns, Germs, and Steel author Jared Diamond calls the “lethal gifts of livestock.” Our abuse of nature comes full-circle and at a heavy price for both the consumer and the consumed.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudreau. You can find me at |
| 0:19.8 | Joyful vegan.com. You can also find me on social media and you can subscribe to Food for Thought wherever |
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| 0:54.3 | patreon dot com slash Colleen Patrick Gudro you can also go to joyful vegan |
| 0:59.2 | com and just find it there as I continue to put out content on Instagram, I'm working on my |
| 1:05.9 | seventh book which I'm very excited to share with you. It's actually available |
| 1:09.8 | already for pre-order on Amazon. It's called The Joyful Vegan, Staying Vegan in a World |
| 1:15.1 | that wants you to eat meat dairy and eggs. And its official release date is November 2019. |
| 1:19.8 | But you can go pre-order today. So I've got a number of podcast episodes up my sleeve, |
| 1:25.6 | but while I work on the book and while I produce a lot of content online, |
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| 1:42.4 | so I'm excited to share all of my content. answer the most commonly ask questions about veganism. |
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