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The Outlier Health Podcast

Serving Over 8 Billion Plant-Based Meals, How Paul Rodney Turner Helps Feed the World

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Few people can say they've had a larger impact on the world than Paul Rodney Turner, a former monk turned founder of Food for Life Global. Food for Life has served over 8 billion plant-based meals around the world, and the number grows by the day. In today's episode, Matt Tullman speaks with Paul about his outlook on the world, and why he's chosen to focus on vegan food as a way of helping people in need.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Hope. This is Karine.

0:02.2

Hi, this is Katie from Washington DC and you're listening to me.

0:05.8

FD. Radio.

0:14.8

Man, I was hoping that I could start this off with like a Thanksgiving song or

0:20.1

some noises or like jingle bells or something, you know, but there's really nothing

0:23.6

Thanksgiving for me to do here. You know, there's the Adam Sandler Thanksgiving song.

0:28.7

Oh, yeah. Turkey for me. Turkey for you. It's a classic song actually.

0:34.8

I might need to play that when we're off of this.

0:39.0

I think it might have a little bit of a, might have some PG-13 language in it.

0:42.6

Oh, just, just, just heads up.

0:47.5

Well, it is, it is, I guess that you could call this our Thanksgiving episode because it is

0:51.9

coming out right before Thanksgiving and Black Friday and all that fun stuff.

0:55.6

Yeah, yeah, I would say so.

0:57.5

Yeah, but it's going to be another interview.

1:01.2

Yep, and one that's related to our Black Friday thing, right?

1:04.6

That's right. Yeah, we, I guess we can just talk about that real quick.

1:09.8

We are, we're, we're interviewing the founder of Food for Life, which is a international

1:16.1

nonprofit. His name is Paul Rodney Turner and he is a 14 year monk and been vegan for, I

1:25.3

don't know, since 1998 and vegetarian long before that. But what is cool is Food for Life is,

1:31.4

is this international nonprofit that their mission is to serve plant-based meals to people who

1:35.6

need it. So kids, mostly kids, but also, I see they're working in Ukraine right now and they,

1:40.0

all of their meals, all of their food that they're donating or that they're providing for people

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