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A Carnivore's Crisis with Rachel Khoo

By: Rachel Khoo, Nicola Harvey
Narrated by: Rachel Khoo
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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.

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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: Battlelines

    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
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  • Ep. 2: A Tale of Two Tables

    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
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  • Ep. 3: The Hunt

    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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they missed out palm oil in vegan food, but pritty much got the rest. people love a good side to be on. I'm always being told to get off the fence, (or better still, up a tree in a lush wide hedge; full of native wildlife) but from up here i can see both sides really well, and neither of you are completly right or completly wrong. so now we're going to be working together. lets start campigning to get meat labeling to say how the animal is raised in what farm system. so those of us with the privalage to be able to aford the choice, can make it.

finaly a full opinion, not half extremes.

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interesting to hear the different views from all sides. Personally I think we need to simplify our existence on this planet on the whole. Money rules the world unfortunately and it wont be easy. We are just one animal out of billions of organisms on this planet, yet we are the most destructive of all. Something makes me think we are deluded calling others vermin or plagues when we ourselves should have those titles. Nature works in cycles and one day she will get us back epicly, that is excluding the natural disasters etc she's thrown at us so far.

Thought provoking

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As an omnivorous family on a budget, I've learned loads! Thought provoking, balanced, fair -thankyou

Not what you expect at all! Loved it

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As a Vegan I thought I had all the answers but Rachel raises a number of alternative answers to the eco-disaster that is the meal and dairy industry. Whether you are vegan, vegetarian, omni or just plain carnivorous, you'll benefit from listening to this thought provoking blog.

Very Thought Provoking

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nothing too deep, n plenty of interesting info... m Rachel's voice is definitely easy on the ear...

light easy listen...

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Really interesting, non judgy and well balanced look at our eating habits. Definitely worth a listen!

loved it!

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Thoroughly enjoyed this from start to finish. we have become so used to be being food shamed (meat = murder) and it was refreshing to hear food being discussed in a open, non judgemental way. It has given me lots to look up and think about, and it has given me the confidence to start dialogues around what my friends eat, without judgement.

A balanced dive into the world of food....

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Open-minded, well researched, so interesting, so much more to think about than we hear from the loudest voices. As a doctor I have seen too many unwell vegans, but as someone who has cared about the environment for 50 years(yes there are many of us older people who have!) I am very concerned about animal husbandry and food miles, the latter being a big issue even for virtuous vegans. Rachel Khoo is very personable, a great interviewer and presenter, able to voice certainly my dilemmas on this subject, and I was also influenced by a wonderful grandma! I especially loved the Maori farmer.

so worth hearing

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It was good to finally see this subject tackled by someone who actually likes food and knows how to cook. There are so many different areas of the discussion taken into consideration here, far more than I have seen before.

If you are looking for confirmation bias on either side of the argument, you will not find it here. Neither will you find extremist health advice (we all should be eating fruits and vegetables whether we eat meat or not, we all know this).

Our susceptibility to the media induced 'battle' between plant-based and meat consuming diets is merely a symptom of the larger issue at hand; our disconnect with food and our environment. The varied discussion with vegans, farmers, older generations and different cultures further highlights the fact that we all must work together in order to bring meaningful change to our future.

An honest investigation into a complex subject

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I loved listening to this series, I listened to them all in quick succession.
Rachel has the perfect voice for audio and is pleasant to listen to.
A carnivores crisis is thought provoking whilst being informative on all sides of the debate. I will recommend.

thought provoking

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