46: "The root of all evil is thinking some suffering doesn't matter" - Jane Velez-Mitchell Unchained - Sentientist Conversation
Jane (https://twitter.com/JVM) is a TV broadcaster, author, journalist & now CEO of the animal rights non-profit Jane Unchained (https://janeunchained.com/). She has written four books, two of which were NY Times bestsellers.
In these Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on the Sentientism YouTube.
We discuss:
- Jane's career in media & journalism & now running a non-profit
- Countdown to Year Zero & making the world vegan by 2026
- Near death experiences
- Growing up in "showbiz" New York with Puerto Rican/Irish parents
- Jane's mother gave up meat early
- Thinking the family was vegetarian but eating pescetarian
- Going to different churches as an adventure, but when things got serious, going back to Catholicism
- Dabbling rather than strong religiosity
- "Let your conscience be your guide"
- We all know what's wrong and right. The role of guilt, shame & remorse
- Recovering from alcoholism. 26 years sober!
- Praying every morning "Turn it over - seek guidance". Making the bed every day
- "We don't need to have a definition of a higher power - it's just not me"
- Ego & self-centredness is the source of so many wrongs
- Societal forces claiming that "some suffering doesn't count" are behind most evils. Human & animal
- ...And much more. Full show notes at Sentientism.info
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