RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY: THE ENGELHART AWAKENING
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Ryland and Mollie Engelhart sit down with Del to share the hard lessons learned as their celebrated plant-based restaurant empire ran headlong into the realities of today’s food system. From Café Gratitude’s rise to their unexpected shift into regenerative farming, they reveal how bureaucracy, restrictive policies, and cultural pressures forced them to rethink what sustainability truly means. Their journey exposes the real challenges small farmers face—and why soil health and community resilience matter far more than marketing claims.
AIR DATE: December 11, 2025
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I’m not going to watch this segment because It disgusts me that someone could be plant based and then switch to killing animals. I mean how do you make that leap in your head. You know in your heart that killing animals is wrong and not needed so you do the right thing in which case nothing will sway you from that route. Or you jump on the plant based band wagon because it was hip for a while and you thought you could cash in. I take it you must be the second option. Well my heart goes out to the animals.
How narrow minded of you.
Let’s honor everyone’s journey. We don’t know what’s best for someone else’s life, we can only focus on our own.
How brutally absurd! Organic Vegan Regenerative Farming has absolutely no dependancy or requirement on slaughtering, eating or composting animals. Your well deserved shame was apparent when your end of show clips showed many plants but no fond shots of slaughterhouse horrors! Your family’s Awakening was starting and running your Vegan Restaurants, this is your Deadening… Body & Soul. I wish you all the animal suffering and Horror Karma you are now causing!