{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Flanigan's Eco-Logic","title":"Claire Smith -- Vegan Entrepreneur and Fund Manager","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1906,"description":"Claire Smith, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is the CEO of Beyond Investing and Chief Innovative Officer for Beyond Impact. These two ventures work in concert, one providing impact investing, the other advancing startups for plant-based and cruelty-free businesses. \nClaire describes her journey... how she melded two major aspects of her life: her vegan path with her 30-year career in conventional finance. Bringing them together brought coherence and consistency to her personal and professional life and how she invested her money.  The ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) that she and her colleagues created can be traded through the day with prices moving like stocks. The fund has ~$180 million in traded assets.\nAfter years of being a vegetarian, her experience as a mother amplified her empathy for animals, particularly females taken from their offspring. Cows are deprived of their calves so humans can drink their milk. She wanted to stop harming animals -- the worst of which is killing them for their meat. She realized how embedded these patterns are in society while, without question, the health benefits of eating more fruits and veggies are universally known. Beyond our personal health, at a global scale, the production of animal products is major source of greenhouse gases.\nOnly 1-2% of the world's population is vegan, with early roots in ancient India where some strict vegetarians do not eat some root vegetables such as potatoes because of the disturbance of soil and harm to insects that live there. Bees are also discussed and Claire expresses her sentiment that when we harvest honey, we are taking away their winter sustenance. \"Let the bees eat their honey!\"\nTed asks Claire about her diet and its diversity: She says she eats with an \"Asian slant,\" things like tofu and vegetables. She eats whole foods versus \"junk food vegan.\" She loves dark chocolate, but notes that there are vegan milk chocolate products as well as vegan ice cream. Her company is an investor in a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7kUbICrzk0aEuZffrVBGprBuBqZJlmqp9h-fda_2pHg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM1MTQ0LzE3MTE1/NjgzMTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}