SPECIAL EPISODE -- The Semantics of Meat (with Paul Shapiro)

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Easing you into the new ANIMALOGY podcast, enjoy this SPECIAL episode, and be sure to subscribe to ANIMALOGY today on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Semantics play a significant role in shaping public perception about animals and animal welfare. The meat, dairy, and egg industries go to great lengths to remove harsh terminology and replace it with euphemisms that conceal the truth and sanitize violence. In today’s episode, I talk to someone who knows this all too well: Paul Shapiro, Vice President of Policy at The Humane Society of the United States. Join us as we discuss euphemisms and doublespeak used by animal agriculture and the best terms for plant-based and cultured meat.

Please subscribe to Animalogy on iTunes and Stitcher, download the episodes, and leave a review. Thank you for helping change the way we talk — and think — about animals.

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0:16.7	Hi everyone Colleen Patrick Gudro here. I just want you to know that I'm thinking about you all the time I'm creating content in so many different mediums right now trying to create quality content around the language we use related to animals and how that affects and reflects our relationship with and our perception of them.
0:20.5	This interview with Paul Shapiro from the Humane Society of the United States is a favorite of mine as you know I
0:27.6	Have never done an interview on food for thought in the 11 years this podcast has been running but it's one of the
0:33.8	things I'm doing in the Animology Podcast interspersing my regular episodes with
0:40.0	interviews with colleagues where language and animal activism and
0:47.2	vegetarianism, veganism, converge.
0:49.8	So this one is with Paul Shapiro and I think you'll enjoy it so I wanted to share it with you but please make
0:56.0	sure you go over to Animology Podcast and subscribe there because it's only once in a while that I'm bringing
1:03.1	animosity content over here to food for thought and I don't want you to miss
1:07.4	anything so please don't think I'm not thinking about you
1:10.3	even though the content I'm creating just happens to be over on a different platform, just a different
1:16.4	podcast, but it's all quality content meant to inspire and empower and get us thinking and acting on behalf of animals.
1:27.0	So listen to this interview, enjoy it, go subscribe to Animology on iTunes,
1:31.0	Stitcher, Google Play, wherever you listen to podcasts, and you'll find
1:35.2	some other episodes over there as well that you may have missed. So thank you so much for the animals. This
1:40.1	is Colleen Patrick Gudrow. Thank you for listening. Welcome to Animology, a podcast about language, the animal-related words and
1:55.3	expressions we use every day and how they affect and reflect our relationship
2:00.5	with animals. My name is Colleen Patrick Godrow. You can find me at
2:04.4	Colleen Patrick Godrow.com and this podcast at Animology Podcast.com and of
2:09.8	course be sure to subscribe to Animology at iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play, and thank you for sharing and
2:15.8	leaving ratings and reviews. I appreciate it so much. Word of mouth is really the best way to share,
2:20.8	and supporting it is the best way to keep it going so please help support
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