25. Why I Am a Proud Meat Eater: Confessions of a Former Vegetarian with Sam Sycamore

Good Life Revival: Permaculture, Rewilding, Homesteading

English - November 10, 2017 15:37 - 41.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
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Previous Episode: 24. Naked and Loved by Mother Earth with Luke McLaughlin of Holistic Survival School

Next Episode: 26. Building a Home Naturally with Michael Beck and Joana Amorim

In this episode of the Good Life Revival Podcast (#25), I explore the complicated and often frustrating question of whether humans should eat meat. Is it good for our health? Is it bad for the environment? Are some forms of agriculture more sustainable than others, and to what degree?

This leads to deeper discussion about our connection with the natural cycle of life and death, engaging in reciprocal relationships with wild and domesticated animals, and what it means to revere the animals -- and plants! -- that we must kill, so that we may go on living.

In this episode, we'll cover:

My personal history as a stubborn childhood vegetarian-turned-chicken slaughterer

Why meat is not "murder", but more like compassion and reverence

Why questions of the "ideal human diet" don't make much sense

Why we shouldn't give up on raising livestock just because of the horrors of factory farming

How we can take ownership of our role as apex predators on the landscape

How consuming animals can bring us closer to the universal life force that animates us all