Shushana and Jack Castle

Shushana and Jack Castle

Shushana Castle

Shushana Castle does not seem to be afraid of a challenge. After experiencing the health benefits of following a whole food plant based (WFPB) diet, she decided to end her successful career as a bond trader and switch to a career that would allow her to fulfill her passion to improve the health of her fellow humans and the health of the environment in which they live. One of her particular areas of focus is on the health of employees working for Fortune 500 companies. Her mission on her web page reads:

“Lead businesses to optimize employee health by igniting their workforce to rethink food and its revolutionary impact on productivity, brain focus, peak performance and sustaining excellent health.”

Shushana is also an author and film producer. She produced the popular film “What The Health”, so she has earned her chops as an advocate for a WFPB lifestyle. In fact, her ability as a health advocate is evidenced by how her work impacted the life of one particular person – her husband Jack Castle.

Jack Castle

Any woman who is able to convince her meat-eating husband to completely give up meat has accomplished something rare. But Shushana’s accomplishment is even rarer, because Jack Castle not only was a meat eater, he is a former hunter and Texas cattle rancher. Beginning at age 1, Jack began attending hunting trips with his dad. But he has become such an advocate of healthy plant-based eating, he no longer hunts, and he refuses to pass down the family hunting tradition to his three sons.

Will More Hunters Follow Jack’s Lead?

Hunters with the right personality profile, and who are exposed to films like “What The Health” and “Forks Over Knives”, have a good chance of being convinced to ditch meat along with highly processed foods. Jack is doing his part by challenging other hunters to go plant-based by inviting them to dinners at his home. He calls these dinners “Hunters Dine Vegan” dinners which are six-course vegan meals. Jack also throws in some education on how plant-based eating positively affects human health and the environment.

Any hunter-diners who have doubts about the information Jack shares will not likely doubt his commitment to the WFPB cause. Jack has put his 900 acres of beautiful, lush Colorado property into conservation. They will be forever wild, never to be developed. He did this simply for the benefit of wildlife and their ecosystems.

A Lesson From the Castles’ Story

If you are like me, you may have tried to reach people with your WFPB message only to conclude that most people can’t be reached. Jack Castle’s experience should remind us that the next reachable person may be someone whom we least expect would be open to our message.

So, to those of you who are inclined to share the WFPB message – keep fighting the good fight.