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Episode #22
- In this episode AJ and I chat with Marie about:
- Feminism and the gender gap
- The Too Hard Vice documentary series
- How Marie is building a cob house
- Living on Vancouver Island in Canada
- Environmentalism
- The Little Things Movie
- Protect Our Winters
- David Suzuki Foundation
- Pat Bridges’ contribution to The Little Things
- The movie Cowspiracy and the environmental impacts of the animal agriculture industry.
“The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encounttering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves? That prospect intimidated me once, and I can only wonder now what I was frightened of. It’s hard to imagine, now that I’m a hundred thirty pounds lighter, infinitely healthier, more full of life and energy, much happier. Now that I have vegetarian friends wherever I go, and feel part of a movement that is not so much political as it is a march of the human heart. Now that I understand how much is at stake. Now that I’ve come to relish shaking people up. I would love to see the meat industry and the pesticide industry shaken up, too. I would love to see feedlots close and factory farming end. I would love to see more families return to the land, grow crops for our own species, and raise them organically. I would love to see farm communities revive. I would love to know that I’ve wandered into my nation’s heartland by the sweet smell of grain and not the forbidding smell of excrement. When you can’t take it with you, all that really matters is what you leave behind.”* Howard F. Lyman, LL.D President & Founder, Voice for a Viable Future & ex-Montana Cattle Rancher
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Some of my favorite quotes:
“… and then I kinda became a feminist – even though it sounds like a bad word, it shouldn’t be.”
“When you get pushed over in the corner for so long you develop some kind of aggressive attitude – because you have to.”
“The influences we get growing up as a girl as opposed to a guy – the odds that you’re going to end up as a professional athlete as a woman are way smaller, that’s just not what is promoted.”
“I believe a lot of it is fear, based on injures – girls have the potential to do doubles….”
“You don’t have a mortgage and you build it yourself – it’s so magical cause you did it from your own two hands.”
“I love to be able to have a garden and work on the house and go surfing – like twice a day, sometimes three times.”
“You can pretty much surf year round because theres so many beaches pointing in each direction”
“We have a lot of wolves and cougars… Cougars attack people all of the time – babies are being attacked.”
“It’s the most women surfers per capita… maybe I made that up, but there’s lots of girls and they’re all hot.”
“I didn’t feel like I could call myself an environmentalist even though I studied it in school… because I was too guilty.”
“I didn’t even want to talk about the environment during my whole snowboarding career, because I felt that I was not credible enough and people have been so critical towards people who do speak up.”
“We can’t leave this issue to a handful of people that are sacrificing everything for it – they need everybody’s help.”
“I felt like I had to quit snowboarding. I developed guilt for promoting consumption of product through my sponsors and traveling so much.”
“If you use a car or even the bus, you’re part of the system too. We’re all a bit guilty – some more than others, but at the end of the day it’s time to stop pointing fingers and focus on solutions.”
“I don’t want to make anyone feel bad – guilt is a very negative energy and it’s not bringing us towards a solution.”
“Just turning vegetarian is probably the most eco-friendly thing you can do.”
“We’re the next generation of designers and CEOs – if we’re aware then we can make a really huge difference down the line.”
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