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What would happen if everyone stopped eating meat tomorrow? - Carolyn Beans

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Imagine if a wizard of meatless dining suddenly appeared on Earth and with one wave of a wand wiped away all meat from our shelves— along with any desire to eat it. Farm animals destined for food vanish, whisked away to another planet. What happens in the following days, years, and even millennia? Carolyn Beans explores what a vegetarian world could look like.

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Meet The Creators

Lesson Plan created by
Cheney Munson
Educator
Carolyn Beans
Director
Mitchelle Tamariz
Narrator
Pen-Pen Chen
Music
Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
Sound Designer
Nirana Singh, cAMP Studio
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Producer
Sazia Afrin
Editorial Director
Alex Rosenthal
Editorial Producer
Shannon Odell
Expert Consultant
Marco Springmann

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