001: What a Sanctuary Really Means for Animals and for Humans with Miyoko Schinner

Essential Ingredients Podcast

English - August 02, 2022 13:00 - 19 minutes - 15.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 127 ratings
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Series: Mindful Eating Film and Food Festival

Episode Description:

"The animals need you… They want you-we need help! -Miyoko Schinner

Going plant-based is something that can make a massive impact on the world, and it's also something that we can do today. We don't have to wait for some significant change to happen—it's happening right now!

The Mindful Eating Film and Food Festival is one of the largest gatherings of people exploring the truth behind our food and animal agriculture systems. This fundraiser brings together changemakers, celebrities—and every one of us!

This event is produced by Rancho Compasión, Marin County’s only non-profit urban animal sanctuary, which was founded by Miyoko Schinner. Rancho Compasión’s Mindful Eating Film and Food Festival provides solid evidence of how to work together to create an informed world filled with compassion for animals and work together as a community to create a better world through our food choices. Learn the deepest secrets of the animal industry through thought-provoking documentaries, connect with like-minded changemakers, and be a part of humane programs geared to providing quality care to rescue animals. And all this is just scratching the surface!

In this episode, Justine and Miyoko talk about what to expect during the 3rd Annual Mindful Eating Film and Food Festival, what a sanctuary really means for both animals and humans, how animals connect with us, and how we may be indirectly contributing to the inhumane treatment of animals in factory farms. Miyoko also talks about her two passions— Rancho Compasión and Miyoko’s Creamery, the home of plant-based dairy alternatives she founded.

Meet Miyoko:

Miyoko Schinner is the fearless CEO/Founder of Miyoko’s, a food brand combining culinary traditions with food technology to revolutionize dairy by making cheese and butter without cows. Through an innovative proprietary process that merges food science with old-world creamery methods, Schinner has successfully scaled the production of fermented cheese and cultured butter made from plants. Under Schinner’s visionary leadership, Miyoko’s has replaced animal-dairy products on the shelves of more than 15,000 retailers nationwide and in Canada including Target, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Kroger, and Safeway. The pioneer of the plant-based cheese revolution, Schinner is a passionate culinarian, former restaurateur, best-selling cookbook author, co-host of the national public television cooking show Vegan Mashup, and a founding board member of the Plant Based Foods Association. Schinner also co-founded Rancho Compasión, a farmed animal sanctuary in California that provides a home to over 70 farm animals. She lives with her husband and has 3 grown children, 2 dogs, and 4 cats.

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