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A Carnivore's Crisis with Rachel Khoo

By: Rachel Khoo, Nicola Harvey
Narrated by: Rachel Khoo
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  • Summary

  • Wrestling with your conscience when you have a burger? Concerned that you should switch to almond milk lattes? Rachel Khoo is worried too. The chef and broadcaster trained in French cuisine and her career has been built on the motto: “Butter makes everything better.” But all this talk about veganism has started getting to her. Should she change her cooking, her eating and her lifestyle to stop global warming?

    Khoo meets farmers, activists, chefs and academics to ask whether beef and dairy really need to die in order for the planet to live, and whether she needs to go vegan to do her bit for the planet. She marches through the battle lines – vegan versus meat eater; plants versus cows; farmers versus the world – to sift truth from propaganda. Khoo sees big corporations pulling the strings in our global food system, which makes her wonder how responsibility for this problem has ended up in the kitchen of time-and-cash-strapped families.

    Join this carnivore in crisis as she journeys through the facts and fury of the vegan debate.

    This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. 

    ©2020 Pipi Films Ltd (P)2020 Audible Australia Pty Ltd
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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: Battlelines
    Jul 26 2020

    Cook and author Rachel Khoo’s motto is butter makes everything better. So the news that cows are destroying the planet has come as quite an affront. Rachel cares as much about a healthy environment as she does a delicious croissant. Yet suddenly she’s being asked to choose: plants or cows. To find out if a switch to veganism can really slow global warming, Rachel meets the devoted animal campaigners fueling the fight... Will they convince her to go vegan to help save the planet?

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    26 mins
  • Ep. 2: A Tale of Two Tables
    Jul 26 2020

    Contemplating a switch to veganism Rachel Khoo asks what we risk losing if we start to reject food for the planet’s sake. What if veganism destroys more than it saves? In the Tale of Two Tables, Rachel meets a dairy farmer, a burger cook, and a Michelin-starred vegan chef who are prioritising the environment above all else.

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    33 mins
  • Ep. 3: The Hunt
    Jul 26 2020

    Chef and author Rachel Khoo remains unconvinced that embracing a vegan diet is the only way to help save the planet. So she considers the merits of sourcing one’s own meat... from the wild.

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    28 mins

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Complete waste of time

This podcast completely misrepresents the vegan v meat eater debate. Obviously there are ways of producing food that comes from plants or animals in ways that are more or less harmful to the environment. As she stated, we do not need to eat animals to be healthy. How can you justify taking the life of a sentient being out of absolutely no necessity? How can you then claim that killing an animal is ethical or moral?

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Excellent food for thought!

In the past five years, I've been vegetarian, vegan(ish), and a meat-eater. At every junction, I've tried my best to process the complicated feelings I have about the way I—and the rest of the world—consume meat and dairy, and all the things that influence our choices. This podcast interrogates every one of these influences from culture, to sustainability, to health and nutrition, to animal cruelty in a thoughtful, practical, and judgement-free way. I appreciate the care and research that went into every episode and though I still haven't decided where I land within the meat-eating debate, this podcast has reminded me why it's such a personal and incredibly complex decision. Highly recommend!

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Brilliant!

This podcast is a must for anyone that eats!! A well balanced look at meat consumption, veganism, sustainability, health and its implications for our society.

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I was expecting different

I was so excited to listen to this podcast hoping it would share some unbias science of the vegan debate, but it was a lot of people's opinions. the performance was fine, it dragged a bit sometimes, and often it would pause for that but too long where you check your phone to see if the app is even working still. Not my favourite, but I finished hoping it would give me some deeper insights, but really just kind of covered off all the opinions and things you'd know already if you were interested in this topic. Might be interesting for people who are new to the debate. Just for me, personally, I was wishing for a little more to chew on.

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Loved This!!

Absolutely enjoyed this! It was so informative and it really gave a fair all round view of the issue. I liked that it explored all sides of the argument. I learnt alot and have started applying some of what I learnt from this, in my own life. I'd love to hear a second season expanding even further!

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Essential listening.

An intelligent, thought-provoking and comprehensively researched podcast which prompts us to start a conversation about not only our food choices, but how food is produced. In an unbiased way, it reminds us that land stewardship is our collective responsibility and that all life forms have a role to play in order for our ecosystems to thrive. It is informative, challenging and objective - essential listening.

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Balanced exploration of a tough topic

A really great Beginning to more targeted research. Trying to find balance can be hard but as usual there are no absolute truths.

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A current dilemma discussed from both sides

A really engaging topic, with no easy answers and no judgement, although all agree people can change big corporations by voting with their wallets. recommend.

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Omnivorous

Very easy to listen to. Really made me think about where I stand on this issue.

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very informative

very informative, however its up to you to make the decision that is right for you and your family and then follow through with passion for the sake of the planet .

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