Masculinity and Meat: Re-Defining What Makes a “Real Man”
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
There is a prevailing myth in our culture, played out in our language and in marketing, that meat is masculine and plant foods are for wimps. Meat is a metaphor for strength, virility, and manliness, while vegetarianism/veganism is feminine, effeminate, and even emasculating. "Real Men Eat Meat" and "Tofu is Gay Meat" are just two examples of advertisements that perpetuate this myth and secure it in our consciousness. Studies show it's working. Join me for a meaty episode that will shake you out of your vegetative state. If you don't want to be a fruit, learn how you can be a beefcake.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought, the place to explore, celebrate and manifest a life motivated and defined by unconditional |
| 0:15.3 | compassion and optimal wellness. |
| 0:17.6 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I'm your host. |
| 0:20.7 | My work is dedicated to empowering people to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness. |
| 0:26.0 | You can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website Joyful vegan.com |
| 0:32.0 | and you can join thousands of people whose lives have been |
| 0:35.0 | changed by the 30-day vegan challenge. Get yourself on board with the award-winning |
| 0:39.6 | book or the multimedia online program or both at 30-day vegan challenge.com. |
| 0:46.0 | Today's topic is masculinity and meat. |
| 0:50.0 | First, a movie recommendation I will talk more about, possibly in its own episode. |
| 0:56.0 | It's a film called White God, and I believe it was made last year, maybe two years ago, but it made its rounds in the festival circuits. |
| 1:06.0 | It won a number of different awards at different film festivals. |
| 1:09.0 | It's a Hungarian film, and it was just released in limited release in some theaters, a short |
| 1:16.4 | theatrical release I should say and luckily there was a theater near me playing |
| 1:21.0 | it and I went to see it in the theater and it was quite |
| 1:24.2 | phenomenal if you saw in like Amore's Perros and 28 days later it's got the same kind of |
| 1:30.3 | feel I'll talk more about why I think that's the case and why I kept thinking |
| 1:34.2 | of these films when I saw it and it has some common themes as well so enough said |
| 1:38.3 | on that but go find white God if you can and I'll talk more about it later. Also I'm offering a very special |
| 1:44.3 | price for the holiday weekend for the 30-day vegan challenge for just a short |
| 1:48.8 | time just until the end of the weekend including through Monday it's a |
| 1:52.3 | memorial day weekend so go to |
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