Veganism and Social Justice | Omowale Adewale and Kimatni Rawlins
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Your diet could be part of a social justice movement whether you meant for it to be or not. Every bite you take makes a profound statement.
On this episode of The Exam Room™ , Omowale Adewale, founder of Black VegFest, and Kimatni Rawlins, founder of Fit Fathers, join "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to discuss food, identity, health and how it pertains to our society which are the topics of Omowale's book, Brotha Vegan.
Brotha Vegan, edited by Adewale, unpacks the lived experience of Black men on veganism, fatherhood, politics, sexuality, gender, health, popular culture, spirituality, food, animal advocacy, the environment, and the many ways that veganism is lived and expressed within the Black community in the United States.
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Brotha Vegan
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Heart Health Immersion
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Omowale Adewale
IG: @omowaleadewale
Web: https://omowale.org
Patreon: http://bit.ly/3lDuffA
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Kimatni Rawlins
IG: @K22Raw
Web: http://www.fitfathers.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FitFather
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Chuck Carroll
IG: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Twitter: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Barnard Medical Center Telemedicine
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Physicians Committee
Twitter: @PCRM
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/PCRMFacebook
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| 0:00.0 | And there were a lot of folks who were vegan in the black community who wouldn't want |
| 0:03.0 | to say anything. |
| 0:04.0 | You know, I was registering, I didn't want to say anything, less someone come and say, |
| 0:08.5 | hey, you know, you're trying to force me into this lifestyle. |
| 0:11.9 | You know, meanwhile, FFC, Burger King, Billboard, to like everywhere McDonald's, Arches, |
| 0:17.3 | all over the places. |
| 0:18.3 | And the only about last time I saw was maybe $2 million coming from the USDA in terms |
| 0:24.1 | of marketing and promoting fruits and vegetables and the gooms and, you know, grains. |
| 0:29.2 | That's nothing but McDonald's by itself, you're talking about $1 billion in advertising |
| 0:33.3 | costs. |
| 0:34.3 | This is what my community has seen. |
| 0:35.3 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:51.2 | Thank you so very much for giving this show a listen or a view or a download, wherever |
| 0:56.8 | it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:59.0 | We appreciate you raising your Health IQ with us. |
| 1:04.8 | On the program today, we will be speaking with two men of many talents. |
| 1:11.4 | The first is a friend of the show. |
| 1:13.4 | He is the founder of Fit Fathers, Komatni Rollins. |
| 1:18.8 | Always get excited when he's on the show. |
| 1:21.6 | And then making his debut today here on the Exam Room, joining Komatni is a former bodybuilder, |
| 1:28.1 | a boxing coach, a man who was certified in plant-based nutrition, who also happens to be |
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