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00:01:50.400Because the discipline, grace, and grit you build out there on the pavement, that's what helps you show up as your best self everywhere else.
00:01:57.820I just love to say I never know who's watching.
00:01:59.800So you want to make sure you you through and through and you just stay true to who you are.
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00:02:10.720You've said it twice now that humans look at animals as lesser than them.
00:02:16.280Like, yo, when I see a squirrel outside, I'm sorry.
00:12:29.160So I think a lot of times we bring guests on the show that are radically right or left or radically vegan or not vegan.
00:12:36.820And I try to remain somewhat in the middle.
00:12:40.600And so my question, I guess one of my questions to you is, is there a step we can take as a society before we try to take this large leap of turning people vegan or getting people to live this plant based diet?
00:12:54.340I, for one, believe there's large steps we can take in the humane slaughter practice.
00:13:01.680okay and i think we're we're not doing enough and i and i you know i i hope it gets better but i've
00:13:06.940seen some horror stories coming out of slaughterhouses in america just absolutely terrible
00:13:10.640and um do you think that there's more like there's more credibility or warrant in a movement to kind
00:13:20.020of change that than to get people to start eating plants only because it's such a leap it seems like
00:13:24.800such a leap and i totally understand that because for 26 years of my life i was eating just as much0.99
00:13:29.140meet as anybody you sick fuck i'm a fucking monster man i know i know but um i think that0.99
00:13:37.300what you're asking for is something that can't exist a humane way to enslave a humane holocaust1.00
00:13:43.780a humane murder i don't think those things exist so i don't think you can use the word humane which
00:13:48.760means to show compassion when we're talking about taking the lives of sentient beings who do not want
00:13:55.940to die. So I don't think that's a good way to do it. Is that an approach? Is that a step we can
00:14:01.120take to reduce their suffering on the way to abolishing animal slavery? Potentially, yes,
00:14:08.540just purely in terms of strategy. And that could be one route to take. It seems like a very big
00:14:14.480deal for people to go vegan overnight. Okay, so why don't you try taking this step and going
00:14:18.720vegetarian first? Or maybe in the meantime, we can make bigger cages or kill them in a way that0.99
00:14:25.040they don't feel it as much but a lesser of two evils is still evil man and there's we shouldn't0.96
00:14:30.500be looking for the right way to do the wrong thing so i think that although that's a possibility0.93
00:14:35.100something we could work towards ultimately the goal should be let's end the holocaust let's end
00:14:40.280the animal holocaust let's end all animal slavery i don't think we should be doing this thing like i
00:14:45.380said it comes back to necessity when we know that we can get every single essential nutrient we need0.72
00:14:50.020from a plant-based diet and a b12 supplement and that's all we need to get it all you think that's
00:14:55.020realistic i do man i think it's actually the only realistic way to go because currently we're
00:15:00.520wasting 16 times more um more land 13 times more water 11 times more oil we're producing 50 times
00:15:10.180more gas emission greenhouse gas emissions we uh we are killing ourselves you know one in four
00:15:16.320people die in a heart disease the number one killer the only diet proven to reverse heart
00:15:20.740disease in the majority of patients is a plant-based diet people are getting diabetes they're getting
00:15:25.320different cancers all these things where where it's the only way forward i believe and you know
00:15:30.960i'm not just that's just not just me saying that that's united nations that's some of the largest
00:15:35.460environmental protection organizations on the planet so i think that if we want to move forward
00:15:40.520this is going to be the way to do it do i think everybody's going to go vegan overnight nah i
00:15:44.840didn't even do that most vegans were vegetarian first or did something or took some steps but we
00:15:49.380can all take some steps and we have an obligation a moral obligation to do better once we know better
00:15:55.820most people don't know better they think they need to eat animals to survive they think that
00:15:59.700they're not going to be able to enjoy vegan food they have no idea what to cook they think they
00:16:03.700can't afford it but all of those things you know there's there's a way and it's cheaper and healthier
00:16:08.500and easier and the millions of recipes at our fingertips so i think cheaper and easier were
00:16:13.900two that stuck out to me that could not be more of a fault to us and i mean you can you could lead
00:16:20.640this one i'm sure i'm just saying like it's not cheaper well no definitely no let me explain what
00:16:25.720i mean let me explain what i mean okay so aside from the fact that you're probably going to be
00:16:30.420able to do more days at work and have less sick days you're probably going to not have to be on
00:16:33.900the table getting your your chest cut open and have surgeries and pay for all these medical bills
00:16:38.600because you're reducing your chances of getting many diseases but aside from that but aside from
00:16:42.820that. That's totally aside from that. I see what you're doing.
00:19:55.240I'm, you know, that's the smartest place to be.0.99
00:19:57.900I didn't learn all this shit and go, okay, that must be solid.0.99
00:20:00.660It's a different argument to what I've heard before.0.99
00:20:03.060So of course I'm going to straight away listen to it.
00:20:04.800Nah, you know, I didn't, I didn't pay attention to what I'd heard.
00:20:08.160I watched documentaries and that as well, isn't something you just take for face value, but you don't need to be, you don't need a lot of papers and studies to look around and see.
00:20:17.040what's going on in our society our society of meat dairy and egg eaters people are dying all
00:20:21.780over the place man and it's an epidemic what's happening and things are getting worse what we
00:20:26.800have in terms of studies is the blue zone studies which have been going for a very long time the
00:20:31.720largest study ever conducted on the relationship between nutrition and disease which is the china
00:20:36.040study which spanned for decades which included thousands and thousands of participants the
00:20:40.720bottom line of that study was that the optimal amount of animal products in the human diet is
00:20:44.600zero and the optimal diet for human health is whole foods plant-based diet a vegan diet
00:20:49.600in terms of inconvenience at times it can be inconvenient there's no doubt about it we're
00:20:54.820trying to eat a plant-based diet in a world where every single country is you know making food off
00:21:00.180the backs of animals but it can definitely be done I travel all over the world doing it you know
00:21:04.980yesterday I scored a really good meal it was big basic quinoa veggies and some rocket lettuce it
00:21:12.280wasn't the perfect meal in terms of um you know what i would have enjoyed to cook but for an
00:21:16.760airport it was good when you go to mexican places any mexican place instead of getting
00:21:22.180meat you get beans instead of getting sour cream and cheese get guacamole plantains there's all
00:21:28.420that all that you know any any thai place just switch the meat for tofu switch the coat the
00:21:33.220dairy for coconut milk and you're still having stuff right you're still having curries indian
00:21:38.280is super easy because most of them are vegetarians anyway um and in terms of eating a whole lot of
00:21:43.200food you definitely want to make sure you are eating a lot of food um but you know it doesn't
00:21:48.020have to be a crazy amount if you're trying to put on size we still got pea protein we've got rice
00:21:52.100protein we've got different protein powders that have just as much protein as what you used to
00:21:56.540except we don't have that the whey we don't have the whey in there which you know is um it comes
00:22:02.600with the casomorphins it comes with the animal protein and the you know the things basically that
00:22:07.300we're trying to avoid in animal products we have cholesterol we have the much higher rates of
00:22:11.720saturated fat about 95 more saturated fat we have both these things that lead to some of the biggest
00:22:18.000diseases we're faced with we can avoid all that by just eating a plant-based diet and um you know
00:22:22.740at times yeah when it is convenient when it's inconvenient it sucks but i guess for me i just
00:22:29.280got to a point where there was times where i was still eating animal products i'm like oh it's0.91
00:22:32.640going to get thrown away anyway fuck it i'm just going to have it but then i got to a point where0.91
00:22:35.960I was like, you know, I don't want to condone this in any way.0.99
00:22:38.000This is so far out of alignment with who I am.
00:22:41.720I would never go around stabbing animals, man, or anybody.
00:22:44.480And when I started seeing animals as somebodies, as individuals,
00:22:47.800with their own experience, very, very similar to ours,
00:30:36.200Yeah, you know, so that could have something to do with it.
00:30:39.140But the thing I always revert back to is, like, when we went into the nutritionist, they never said any of your levels were like, yo, you're unhealthy.
00:30:46.460like they you checked as a perfectly healthy he checked me out he said i had every level was
00:30:51.140correct but also like so i think it's something like it it could be that switch like what i what
00:30:57.380what you were saying because it is very well known that in order to process meats like we need
00:31:04.200certain parasites in our body and uh different things to break them down so when you go vegan
00:31:09.160those things have to flush out and those things aren't uh they're not getting the same nutrients
01:23:30.900One was that I had my first acid trip after four days of having mushrooms sporadically throughout the days, which I hadn't had much of at that time.
01:23:38.300And then I also was reading this very spiritual book, the first spiritual book I'd ever read called A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.
01:31:07.820What I do know is that if you don't need to keep animals in an enclosure like a zoo and, you know, you're just basically imprisoning them and they've done nothing wrong, I'm against that.
01:31:18.240I'm against exploiting animals and, you know, manipulating their situations or whatever to be entertaining for humans.0.99
01:40:34.460On the Hurdle with Emily Abadi podcast, I sit down with elite athletes, record holders, coaches, and everyday runners to unpack the mindset behind pushing through when things get tough.
01:40:44.080because the discipline, grace, and grit you build out there on the pavement,
01:40:48.200that's what helps you show up as your best self everywhere else.
01:40:51.720I just love to say I never know who's watching.
01:40:53.740So you want to make sure you you through and through
01:40:56.160and you just stay true to who you are.
01:40:58.340Listen to Hurdle with Emily Abadi on the iHeartRadio app,
01:41:01.040Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.