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Paul Shapiro

Paul is the author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World. He is the CEO and co-founder of The Better Meat Co. and the host of the Business for Good Podcast. Prior to publishing Clean Meat, he was known for being an animal protection advocate, both as the founder of Animal Outlook (formerly Compassion Over Killing) and a Vice President at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). In 2008, Paul was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame. He is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

Paul’s Sentientist Conversation with Jamie is here on our YouTube and is also on our Sentientism Podcast.

Paul’s four Ted Talks
Paul on Wikipedia
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@PaulHShapiro

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Joan Slonczewski is a microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer. A Sentientism worldview conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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Sentientism Meet-Up 25 Oct 2025 (and some other updates)

An invitation to the second ever Sentientism meetup and some updates about our education work and a potential book!
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