TS Radio: Voices Carry for Animals #97: HSUS- 3 Guests

Hosted by Debbie Dahmer

Guests will be: Alli Clute- Food Policy Outreach & Events Manager, Amy Webster- Food Policy Outreach Coordinator (Pacific NW), & Wanda White- Chief Instructor for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)

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The HSUS is the nation's largest and most effective animal welfare organization. We work in the United States and abroad to protect all animals. We celebrate the human-animal bond, and fight animal cruelty and abuse in all its forms. Celebrating animals. Confronting cruelty. Giving farm animals a voice.

With billions of animals in the U.S. suffering on factory farms, The HSUS advocates for a “Three Rs” approach to compassionate eating: “reducing” or “replacing” the consumption of animal products and “refining” diets by choosing products from sources that adhere to higher animal welfare standards. 

As Clute points out also: “As a nation, we suffer from a lot of chronic diseases, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes—most of which can be prevented. And Meatless Monday, and eating more plant-based foods in general, is a way to help prevent these chronic diseases from occurring in the first place.”

The goal of these events is to reach institutional decision makers—food service directors, dietitians and marketing managers—and teach them more about how and why to incorporate plant-based dishes at their K-12 schools, universities, hospitals and health organizations.