Thursday, May 1, 2014

Food Revolution Summit

  Neither Dr. Ornish nor Foer disappointed in their interviews.  Today is the last day to listen to either of them and I highly recommend both.  The interviews are about 45 minutes long and well worth it.  Probably my favorite part of the Foer interview is at right around 20:30 where he says:


“There are certain kinds of decency that matter to all of us.  You just don’t find the person in mainstream society... the sort of non deranged person who is completely indifferent to animal suffering.  That person doesn’t exist. Which is to say, everybody cares.  We can care in different ways and we can care in different amounts… we can get into the splitting hairs and that can be really productive and interesting but if we took as the beginning that we all care.  Lets help each other care and lets respect the differences between, the degrees to which we care and our abilities to care and our methods of caring if we could just do that.  I think nothing makes the meat industry happier than seeing all kinds of posters that say ‘Meat is Murder.’  You know, PETA has been enormously successful.  One of the most successful advocacy groups in American history and they’ve done so by winning over about 2 out of 10 people that they approach.  but if we’re serious about these problems we can’t lose the other 8 out of 10… as opposed to saying ‘you’re somebody like me who cares about animals, you’re somebody like me who cares about the environment, here’s what the meat industry is doing.  what are some different approaches we can have that would limit that harm?’”

Yes!!! Dr. Ornish was incredibly interesting, I'd never read anything that gave his personality. I think his best line was that being depressed is like "seeing the world through shit colored glasses." That is the only swear word he uses, but he uses it very effectively. He talks about telomeres a lot and it was very interesting. He also addresses the difference between changing your diet/lifestyle and taking statins - of particular interest to me was that his team saw 85-90% of people on the Ornish program stay with it while after 6 months only 30-40% were still taking statins. The reasoning? Statins are preventative, but don't actually make you feel better. The Ornish program improves your life as a whole.

So quick, before they're gone, go listen! http://foodrevolutionsummit.org/broadcasts/

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