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Everybody knows that the future is vegan, but it can also be a grand adventure right now. On the Main Street Vegan Podcast, bestselling author and vegan OG Victoria Moran invites you to be in on conversations with the best and brightest in this space. You'll hear from physicians, philosophers, activists, athletes, chefs and celebrities on eating and living for optimum health, while protecting the planet and saving the lives and ending the suffering of animals. Whether you're a longtime vegan or just taking a look, Main Street Vegan will help you live with purpose, eat with joy, and craft a life that makes a difference.
Barbara Butcher spent 23 years in the New York City Chief Medical Examiner's Office, investigating more than 5500 deaths and working disasters including the 2004 tsunami and 9/11. In this fascinating interview, she shares What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator (her new book), how she landed the job newly sober, and how non-traditional but deeply held spiritual principles carried her through. Her website is https://BarbaraButcherAuthor.com, or follow her on Facebook and Instagram. Big announcement from Victoria: This is last "Meetings With Remarkable Women" podcast. By popular demand, she'll return to the Main Street Vegan Podcast on September when her guest will be Colleen Patrick Goudreau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fans of Heartwood: The Art of Living With the End in Mind include Gloria Steinem and Katie Couric. The author of this memoir joins us today to discuss living fully with fully knowledge that this life will end –– for our loved ones, and for us. Barbara weaves fascinating tales into this interview. Among them: finding a photo in her father's wallet of his deceased first wife, an unseen family member whose presence helped shaped her childhood. Becker, an Interfaith minister, shares how her studies of Buddhism, indigenous traditions, and other wisdom teachings, as well as her work with hospice patients, has helped her develop a positive attitude towards death that makes life all the more precious. Amazon link to purchase Heartwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Noted scholar of the history of religions, Elaine Pagels describes her own spiritual life as one of music, nature, friendship, and love. The author of books including The Gnostic Gospels, The Gospel of Thomas, and the memoir Why Religion? shares about her life -- why she took up the study of religion as an academic discipline, how she navigated the death of her six-year-old and her beloved husband within a single year, and how she sees life and faith today. Some tidbits: "Bach and Aretha Franklin came out of the church ... What matters to me is not what you believe, but how you relate to reality ... That openness to something unexpected is what transforms people." Website: https://www.elaine-pagels.com. Amazon author page: https://tinyurl.com/pagelsamazon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Unity and Interfaith minister Carol Saunders, whose podcast-based ministry, The Spiritual Forum, serves a diverse audience of spiritual seekers, hosted the first Whole Planet Spirituality Forum & Retreat at Unity's heavenly headquarters outside Kansas City, Missouri, in 2021. This year's edition, Peace Begins With Me, will happen October 19-22, 2023, and feature spiritual practice, yoga, labyrinth and trail walking, and presentations including those from keynote speaker Renee King-Sonnen, the longtime yoga practitioner who turned her husband's Texas cattle ranch into Rowdy Girl, a sanctuary for rescued farm animals. In today's episode, Rev. Carol delves into peacemaking in our times, and the call to do this not only among nations, but within ourselves, with one another, other-than-human beings, and nature itself. See: https://www.thespiritualforum.org/retreat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When Kristel de Groot's husband, then boyfriend, Michael Kuech, was diagnosed with cancer in his 20s, she stepped up to buoy his conventional treatments with superfood blends containing ingredients shown to bolster immunity and retard the progression of some malignancies. Michael recovered beautifully and together they started Your Super, a company that shares these high-octane edibles with the rest of us. They're also the authors of a new cookbook and lifestyle guide, Your Super Life. Website: https://yoursuper.com. IG: https://www.instagram.com/yoursuperfoods/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Arielle Ford is a gifted writer and the author of twelve books including the international bestseller, The Soulmate Secret: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction, and her debut novel, The Love Thief, a a roller-coaster ride of love, betrayal, and unexpected transformation with a juicy revenge sub-plot and a surprise ending. One reviewer said: "The Love Thief is an emotional journey where you’ll finish so completely satisfied, you’ll want a hypothetical cigarette.” Called “The Cupid of Consciousness” and “The Fairy Godmother of Love,” Arielle lives in La Jolla, California, with her husband and soulmate, Brian Hilliard, and their feline friends. Her websites are https://arielleford.com and https://thelovethief.com. Find her on Facebook @https://facebook.com/soulmatesecret and on Instagram @arielleford44. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mariquita Solis inspires clients around the world, with a special focus on Vegan Empowerment Coaching, the name of her company. Gratitude is central to Mariquita's way of healing lives and manifesting success. Whether it's self-acceptance, overcoming grief, outgrowing childhood trauma, or dealing with the angst Vegans sometimes feel that they "get it" about animal suffering and other people––really good people––simply don't, Solis infuses growth with gratitude. First step: be grateful for the miracle of life the way it is. Next step: pray and envision and work with determination, grateful every day for the progress you've made. Note: this episode is part of a special series of gratitude programming at MindBodySpirit.FM to celebrate the debut of the documentary Gratitude Revealed: Catch the Wave, from the director of the acclaimed Fantastic Fungi. For a special link to watch the film for free, please see the Show Notes by clicking "Podcast" at VictoriaMoran.com.
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Muneeza, the Intuitive Medicine Woman®, is a healer who was once a patient. Chronic fatigue syndrome and intractable eczema pushed her to find answers beyond what traditional medicine had to offer. She studied nutrition, changed her own diet, became a certified holistic health coach, and ultimately discovered Anthony William, the Medical Medium®, who brought her recovery full-circle and recognized her innate healing gifts. Today, Muneeza counsels private and group clients in the Medical Medium protocols which use foods (the Holy Four: fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and wild foods), supplements, and a spiritual connection to get to the root of various ills. During this hour, we discuss pathogens that may be behind autoimmune or other "mystery" illnesses, the Unforgiving Four (disease promoters), brain health, how celery juice got so sexy, and juxtaposing science with a way of seeing health and disease that comes from a very different place.Muneeza's links: Website: https://www.muneezaahmed.comInstagram: @muneezamedicalintuitive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Health.With.Muneeza Books mentioned in this episode: Medical Medium (revised and expanded edition), by Anthony WilliamMedical Medium Life-Changing Foods, by Anthony WilliamMedical Medium Celery Juice by Anthony WilliamMedical Medium Cleanse to Heal, by Anthony William Medical Medium Brain Saver by Anthony WilliamMedical Medium Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses and Recipes, by Anthony William Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oscar buzz started for the romance/horror film based on the eponymous book by today's guest when it premiered to a standing ovation and rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival. Brimming with star power -- Taylor Russell, Timothee Chalamet, Mark Rylance -- this tale of an improbably likable teenage cannibal means much more to DeAngelis. A committed Vegan, she conceived the Bones and All concept after seeing that, in an antique Scottish cookbook, the meat section was called "Flesh." Flesh is universal in the animal kingdom, human animals included. Thus emerged a well-meaning cannibal: she doesn't eat a lot of people and she would cut back, but it's hard. We discuss the film's subtle Vegan message, being part of a major studio motion picture, putting her book into the hands of a screenwriter, her writer's life, before and after, and our 2014 meeting when Camille attended my Main Street Vegan Academy and became a certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator. Camille DeAngelis website - https://www.cometparty.com Instagram - @cometparty YouTube Trailer #1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM1JjlD2EMA Trailer #2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9bxJN16nE Get the book Bones and All by Camille DeAngelis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With her unshakeable confidence and a voice like Lauren Bacall's, the Lauren featured on this episode belies her chronological age: eighty-two. Rev. Lauren McLaughlin is a Unity minister, spiritual teacher, and author whose work centers on gratitude, the shifts we experience in every decade of adulthood, and the necessity of slowing down to genuinely experience life. Among the nuggets she shares are: · "Being an American is running up an elevator." · "We want more and more and more, so we do more and more and more." · "Slowing down opens us up to wonder." · "Whatever we appreciate appreciates: it gets better." · "Gratitude is realizing how well cared for we are." · "If you're not afraid, you can do almost anything in this world." · "People ask what's the meaning of life. What's the meaning of your life?"
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Jacqueline Whitmore didn't come from the upper crust, but she learned early that courtesy and caring opened doors and created opportunity. After paying some dues to corporate America, she set out to found the Protocol School of Palm, offering etiquette training not a Downton Abbey-style class system, but a contemporary refiguring of etiquette that seeks to incorporate "classy" into one's work life and personal dealings. Jacqueline's definition of etiquette is "the art of knowing how to treat other people," and in this episode she shows us how to do this with confidence and ease. Are the rules changing at a dizzying pace? They are. Is it common to feel, especially post-pandemic, that we're just not sure what's acceptable, online and off? Very common. But even so, says Jacqueline, we would all do well to follow this advice from one of her mentors: "Always take the high road, because the low road is really crowded."
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They're such buzzwords: inflammation, anti-inflammatory...and yet few lay people know what they mean, even the millions suffering from arthritis, colitis, gingivitis, gastritis, and the numerous other conditions of obvious inflammation, not to mention the pathologies attributed to hidden inflammation, including heart disease, cancer, and abdominal obesity. Gastroenterologist and Columbia University Medical School instructor Shilpa Ravella, MD, seeks to change that with her new book The Silent Fire. A gifted storyteller, Ravella takes us on the journey that began for her when a healthy young friend was quickly rendered profoundly disabled by an autoimmune disease, all of which are believed to be inflammatory in origin. She then introduces us to the brilliant, often quirky, characters who first came to understand the confounding role inflammation plays in health -- for which it's vital -- and disease -- which it can incite or exacerbate. And she leaves us with delicious bits of information to take away and use today about food choices (there is a science-based anti-inflammatory diet, not necessarily the one we might find in a Google search), exercise (think more)
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Egli Colon Stephens is both a professor with a doctorate and a professional lifestyle model. She is also the author with her daughter Natalia Harris of Unbroken: A Mother-Daughter Journey of Resilience, Faith and Courage, detailing Natalia's battle with bone cancer as a teenager. Natalia survived -- sur-thrived as she called it -- and went on to fulfill her dreams of becoming a model, with gigs including NYC Fashion Week, Project Runway, and landing the December 2019 cover of Vogue Knitting. But just over two years ago, at the age of 24, Natalia passed away from a rare kidney cancer. Her mother, Egli, is now living for two, and doing that brilliantly. She is navigating life's greatest grief with a strong faith, a conviction to sharing Natalia's gifts with the world, and mourning in bright colors, rediscovering her childhood passion for roller-skating ("I call it roller-grieving"), using fashion as a distraction and a means of self-expression, and becoming an Instagram inspirer-influencer @iamnataliasmom. Unbroken: A Mother-Daughter Journey of Resilience, Faith and Courage - get the book Victoria Moran - author, founder of Main Street Vegan Academy, podcast host Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Finding the miraculous in the ordinary, dealing bravely (and realistically) with down times, growing older brilliantly, marking the Autumn Equinox, and other milestones of the wheel of the year, and creating simple rituals for daily life are the delicious ingredients of this week's episode. The guest is transformational vision coach, spiritual teacher, and motivational speaker Barbara Biziou. A fixture in the New York City spirituality space since the early 1990s, and known around the world, Biziou is committed to inspiring growth and positive change. She specializes in ancient rituals, readings, energy clearing, spiritual realignment, igniting intuition, manifesting purpose, and -- Renaissance woman that she is -- corporate wellness. And this is a delightfully personal conversation: Barbara and Victoria are longtime friends who invite you in for some highly spirited girl talk with lots of golden nuggets to take away.
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Ganesha, the elephant-headed god in the Hindu pantheon, is revered as the removal of obstacles, but in many Ganesha temples in India, particularly in the state of Kerala, birthplace of Sangita Iyer, live elephants are held, shackled as prisoners. In other instances, elephants are kept by entertainment entrepreneurs to perform in numerous festivals. To Iyer, this is enslavement of beings who really are godlike in their majesty, patience, and intelligence. Listen in to hear how "elephant people" inspired this former TV news reporter to found Voice for Asian Elephants Society, make the award-winning documentary, Gods in Shackles, and write the book Gods in Shackles, a recent number 1 bestseller on Amazon. You'll also learn what elephants are doing to stem climate change, and why the World Bank says that every elephant in the wild makes a $1.75 million lifetime contribution to planetary integrity through their role in carbon sequestration. Voice for Asian Elephants Society find out Sangita Iyer and how you can help Asian Elephants Gods in Shackles by Sangita Iyer
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Does your dog or cat meditate with you? Interfaith minister and animal chaplain Sarah Bowen contends that other-than-human beings do this naturally and have spiritual lives every bit as rich as ours. Meet this fascinating woman, author of Spiritual Rebel and Sacred Sendoffs, as we discuss these ideas, along with Sarah's early life as a preacher's kid (she brought a mouse to church and quoted Bible verses as grounds for keeping him there), and her current outreach via the Compassion Consortium (spiritual center for animal advocates), the Compassion Consortium Animal Chaplaincy Training Program, and as a contributing writer for Spirituality and Health. Find out about Sarah Bowen, award winning spirituality author and animal chaplain Victoria Moran and Main Street Vegan Academy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meditating gets you coolness points; praying, hmm, not so much. Agapi Stassinopoulos reinvents prayer for those who may question or avoid religion. And Agapi, author of Speaking With Spirit and workshop leader for Thrive Global, founded by her sister Arianna Huffington, is a total charmer. Find out more about Victoria Moran and Main Street Vegan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Scott Stoll, M.D., and heart attack survivor/thriver Dan Purjes discuss their new anthology, Disease Reversal Hope! And Peter Goldstein of wedidit.health shares how to reach those closest to us.
David Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., of the University of Toronto invented the “eco-Atkins diet,” a way to make plant-exclusive dining work for those with low-carb sensibilities.
Love Over Fear author Monk Coleman believes the universe is working in our favor and that raising the collective vibration on earth will benefit all beings.
Gentle World has promoted vegan living and peace on earth for half a century. Its cofounder, Light, uncle of Joaquin Phoenix, has eaten a peaceful diet all this time and is a great champion of compassion for all beings.
There’s conjecture that a healthy diet has provided a layer of protection during the pandemic, but only now has a widespread survey, headed by Jiviniti’s Nivi Jaswal and Erin Sinnaeve, D.N.P., sought solid answers.
Champion bodybuilders (and compassionate trainers) Giacomo Marchese and Dani Taylor talk vegan fitness, and Vanita Rahman, M.D., of the Barnard Medical Center, introduces her new, fabulous cookbook, Simply Plant Based.
Vegan wildlife ecologist Craig Downer, Ph.D., shares the wonders (and trials) of wild horses and burros in the American West and the Andean tapir—and how these species can help save the planet.
Cruelty Free International’s Monica Engebretson discusses the bill to outlaw animal testing of cosmetics in the U.S., and Abbie Nelson, a Ph.D. candidate in social work, shares her research in holistic healing for vegan survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV).
Houston’s holistic cardiologist Baxter Montgomery, who is profoundly plant-based, gives us his prescription for having a healthy heart for many valentine seasons to come.
Shape magazine-rated top trainer Ella Magers finds her heart at Hogs & Kisses Farm Sanctuary and hosts Solutionary Vegan’s Level-Up podcast to celebrate the ethical and health wonders of going vegan.
The Vegan Athlete’s Cookbook author Anita Bean opens the show, and bodybuilder Will Tucker takes the second segment with first-class tips on healthy living and a winner’s spirit.
Accessible Yoga founder Jivana Heyman wants yogis to build a practice of courage and compassion, and chemical engineer Karthik Sekar, Ph.D., looks at the future of food and the world “after meat.”
Steven Shalowitz, host of The One Way Ticket Show, went vegan in Saudi Arabia, went further in Israel, and helped a friend escape Kabul. And Sunny Satva spends most of her time in Kenya as director of the Vegan Africa Fund.
Carleigh Bodrug of PlantYou.com now has a cookbook that makes the dietary straight and narrow delicious; and Brooke Ali and Patricia Thomson, Ph.D., of Wellness20 and the Food as Medicine Summit share about healing thyroid disorders.
Matthew Glover made starting the year vegan a popular resolution; now he’s in the faux-chicken biz. And Annick Ireland has a fashion sense just about as pure as her lofty vegan ethics.
Rev. Shad Groverland, a vegan, heads Unity Worldwide Ministries, the contemporary legacy of the spiritual tradition founded in the 1880s by ethical vegetarians and which is part of the network that presents this program.
Howard Jacobson defies convention and says we can indeed influence others, and Jennifer Stojkovic follows with major, vegan, businesswoman power.
Filmmakers John Lewis and Keegan Kuhn discuss their thought-provoking documentary about the dangers highly processed foods pose to minority communities.
Bianca and Michael Alexander host Conscious Living on PBS/Amazon Prime and will share their insights on vegan travel, fitness, and comfort food.
Vegan swami Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Ph.D., started her life with Beverly Hills privilege. All that changed at the Ganges River 25 years ago.
The conversation with Moby is powerful and motivating, following an equally heartfelt chat with legendary activist Simone Reyes, who is now making waves as a country singer. Bonus: we hear one of her songs!
Your home can be vegan, too, says designer Aline Duerr, and Claire Smith of Beyond Animal returns with her call to the UN for an 18th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to include nonhuman beings.
The Harry Potter star and animal rights activist shares her new memoir of growing up, overcoming, and choosing creativity over fear.
Overnight successes Anne Redinger of Louisville, Kentucky, and Dan Sherman of New York City tell us how they cut out animal products (and some other bad habits) in an instant.
The editor, publisher, and two contributors (including host Victoria Moran) dish on a jazzy new anthology showcasing vegan writers worldwide.
Speech pathologist Karen Ranzi takes an alternative view in her new book, Heal and Prevent Autism. T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., wrote her foreword and joins the conversation.
Aryenish Birdie works on equality for all beings, and Lucas Spiegel traversed the globe volunteering at animal sanctuaries.
Bree is the rooster who changed Camille Licate’s life, and Mother Pigeon is a New York City performance artist inspired by pigeons and other underappreciated urban animals.
Yogini Cortney Ostrosky helps us know ourselves better with the art of human design, and Stephanie Moram, the Good Girl Gone Green, helps us be fashionably eco-friendly.
Sanctuary proprietor Shaleen Shah fills us in on the animal rescue life and the religion of Jainism, the primary tenet of which is ahimsa, dynamic compassion.
Attorney David Blatte, author of The Vegan Imperative, and Lani Muelrath, whose latest title is Mindfulness, share about The Great Compassion.
Body on Fire coauthor Jyothi Rao, M.D., joins us to demystify the inflammation at the root of many diseases and tell us what we can do about it.
We open with Zach Schleien helping vegans find love through a chat app, and then we hear from Neal Barnard, M.D., on food choices for women who would just like the heat turned down.
The Vegan Spirituality Forum & Retreat is set for October at Unity Village, Missouri. Rev. Carol Saunders joins us with details plus a fascinating look at the vegetarian roots of Unity.
Bodybuilder Robert Cheeke and runner Matt Frazier dish in The Plant-Based Athlete how to stay at the top of your game.
Rishi Chidananda was deeply into the movers-and-shakers life in finance until he had a spiritual awakening, found his guru, and went vegan in a flash.
Discover Ayurvedic dietary and lifestyle wisdom with Sarah Kucera, D.C., C.A.P., for the season we’re in, the seasons of life, and even the times of day to impart inner and outer vitality.
Rowdy Girl Sanctuary was a cattle ranch until Renee King-Sonnen went vegan and converted her husband. She now helps ranchers who want to go animal-free.
Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., has shown us how amazing animals and fish are. We’ll talk about his new book, Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects.
The name says it all: T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., is the preeminent nutritional biochemist on earth, and his latest book, The Future of Nutrition, tells us what we can look forward to.
Ted Barnett, M.D., is determined to get Whole-Food, Plant-Based (WFPB) benefits to you, wherever you live and whether or not there’s a doctor in your area who’s familiar with it.
Prescribing meditation and practicing good medicine, from plant-based eating to soul-based living, New York radiologist Sumeet Bahl, M.D., wants to heal you, body and spirit.
Energize your Instagram, make your Facebook fabulous, and create tantalizing tweets with practical info from social media wunderkind (and animal advocate) John Oberg.
Kathy Freston gives 72 reasons to be vegan, and Frances Gonzalez of Vegan Wines helps us become connoisseurs of the right wines to serve with vegan foods.
Molly Patrick of CleanFoodDirtyGirl.com encourages eating more plants without perfection paralysis; and Plant Trainers Podcast cohost Shoshana Chaim shares I Am a Peaceful Goldfish.
Plant-based Ayurvedic coach Kartikeya Talreja joins the show. Plus, an encore visit from spiritual powerhouse and Vegans of LA founder Gwenna Hunter.
This vegan, modern, orthodox rabbi who donated a kidney to a stranger says, “It’s fine to be spiritual and not religious, as long as your spirituality has rigor.”
Gopal Patel, co-chair of the UN Multi-faith Advisory Council and founder of the Bhumi Global. shares ahimsa and the culture of its birth.
Sleep well with Deirdra Barr, and Meat the Future with Liz Marshall’s new documentary on cell-based or “cultivated” meats.
Compassion Consortium is an interfaith, online spiritual center launching this month. Guests are two of the cofounders, Rev. Sarah Bowen and Rev. Erika Allison.
Milton Mills, MD, and Kevin Jenkins, DMin, two contributors to this new anthology, meet with its editor, Omowale Adewale, to share what Black vegan men have to say now.
Dianne Waltner takes us though her rural Kansas upbringing to her vegan awakening with Evolving Into Wholeness, and Gretchen Primack shares Kind, her book of compassion-awakening poetry and art.
Ayurvedic physician Sarah Kucera, D.C., C.A.P., returns to keep us all healthy and vibrant through the late winter and springtime.
Integral Yoga’s Chandra/Jo Sgammato and Holly Skodis of Yoga Is Vegan join the show to discuss the yoga/vegan controversy, the nature of ahimsa, and the March 20, 2021, Yoga Goes Vegan retreat.
Wheelchair-bound with MS, Melissa Guzman recovered sufficiently to run The Caribe Vegan food truck in Miami. And vegan Tabay Atkins was certified as a yoga teacher at 15. We talk with him and his mom.
Nelson Campbell, director of the film PlantPure Nation, updates us on the work of PlantPure Communities' local pods; then we hear from Lianna Levine Reisner, who heads the most populous pod, Plant Powered Metro New York.
Filmmaker Justin Connor—vegan, yogi, singer-songwriter—riffs on the film The Golden Age, his spiritual life, and his alter ego, the superstar who wasn’t, Maya O’Malley.
Shark Tank alum Jenny Goldfarb shares her deli destiny, and Marisa Miller Wolfson cooks up healthy, kid-pleasing fare in The Vegucated Family Table (yes, she made the Vegucated movie).
Transforming corner stores with Erick Castro of How to Be Vegan in the Hood and serious but simple ways to protect the planet with Tracey West of The Word Forest Organisation.
Jarrod Bailey, Ph.D., gives scientific backing on the unreliability of vivisection, and Patricia Maroday offers data-driven hacks for keeping vegans in the fold.
Nava Atlas shows how to prep plant meat like a pro, and Emmy Award-winning actor and director Kiko Ellsworth shares the new masculinity.
Chuck Carroll, host of PCRM’s The Exam Room podcast, who lost more than 100 pounds, opens the show. He’s followed by Esther Lebeck Loveridge and Phil Dejean, vegans who have lost more than 100 pounds each.
Jasmin Singer and VegNews publisher Colleen Holland launch their new book with a gala podcast party with other best-selling vegan authors, and you’re invited!
Researcher, New York Times best-selling author of The China Study, and the person credited with naming the Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet, T. Colin Campbell is still innovating at 86.
PETA’s legendary founder Ingrid Newkirk is fascinating, humble, hands-on, and more committed to changing things for animals than, arguably, anyone who’s ever lived.
Abandoning what he thought was his life’s work and appearing in Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, Harold Brown shatters the “humane myth.”
End exploitative fundraising with Jessica Janson of Animal Place sanctuary, and learn about food choices as a justice issue with Gwenna Hunter of Vegans for BLM.
Peter Brandt is an animal rights lawyer, and Representative Jeremy Gray is working to legalize yoga in Alabama schools.
Brenda Davis, R.D., and Reshma Shah, M.D., M.P.H., authors of Nourish, discuss plant-based family nutrition and making this work in the real world.
Sarah Kucera, D.C., C.A.P., author of The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook, shares physical and mental healing secrets of this ancient Indian tradition.
Discover the inside scoop on getting visual evidence of animal abuse with Tracks Investigations’ Gem de Silva, and then hear from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams about his new book Healthy at Last.
Vegan entrepreneurs Elizabeth Raymond (NoBull) and Jim Richards (Milkadamia) discuss how plant-based foods are changing the world and the place of small—for now—companies in this space.
Kristi Funk, M.D., New York Times best-selling author and breast surgeon for celebs, including Angelina Jolie and Sheryl Crow, shares the plant-based connection to breast health.
Brenda Davis, RD, returns to address your knottiest nutrition concerns, and Sherene Chou, M.S., RDN, shares what you or your kid need to know about getting the RD credential and practicing as a vegan.
WFPB icon Chef AJ shares her story and her food philosophy (unprocessed!) before we're joined by author Glen Merzer, whose brand-new book features recipes Chef AJ created.
Bead & Reel's Sica Schmitz discusses connecting brands, bloggers, and shoppers to create a more compassionate world; and Cindy Thompson, VLCE, wastes not and lives really well.
Raw food chef and author Cherie Soria completed a 73-kilometer trail run for her 73rd birthday, and host Victoria Moran was just certified as a yoga instructor at age 70. Get inspired!
If you've had to pivot lately, you'll relate to Ben Davis, producer of convention-center-sized plant-based expos. He's followed by Treeline founder Michael Schwarz (whose cheese is so good you could feed it to French people).
Hong Kong-based food scientist Dalal AlGhawas, Ph.D., shows us the world of plant-based venture capital, and Joel Kahn, M.D., fills us in on lipoprotein(a) and our hearts.
Jacque Salomon experienced spiritual and physical healing and transformed it into activism, and Cyrus Khambatta, Ph.D., of the Mastering Diabetes team, helps diabetics thrive with whole-plant nutrition.
Dr. Milton Mills returns with more medical good sense, and author Judy Carman shares the hopeful concept of kindness as an evolutionary imperative.
Learn about They're Trying to Kill Us, a new film on dietary racism, with John Lewis; and hear from Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., on the mid-August holiday calling for compassion for all animals.
Learn business savvy for aspiring and established entrepreneurs, and discover tips for taking these stressful times in stride as we care more for ourselves and others and move vegan commerce forward.
Yale's David Katz, M.D., noted preventive medicine and public health specialist, discusses health in the time of COVID-19, and journalist Avery Kamila explores vegetarian American history.
Environmentalist Sofia Pineda Ochoa, M.D., previews her new documentary, and CHIP founder Hans Diehl, D.H.S., shares proven tips from the stellar health tradition of Seventh-day Adventists.
Comic Eddie Brill and New York City restaurateur Vlad Grinberg, hosts of the video podcast OG Talk, join the show; and Growing Young author Marta Zaraska shows how friendship, optimism, and kindness extend life.
We remember Regan Russell, who lost her life in an accident at an Animal Save Movement vigil, and then explore natural ways to combat pain with Dr. Lillie Rosenthal.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine founder Dr. Neal Barnard makes a house call, and the No Meat Athlete Matt Frazier shows how sports success is spelled v-e-g-a-n.
Jane Velez-Mitchell and Joe Enriquez Henry stand up for slaughterhouse workers and animals; then Michael Greger, M.D., discusses how to survive a pandemic.
Jivamukti Yoga cofounder Sharon Gannon finds vegan principles in every yoga teaching and elaborates them in her new book, Yoga and Veganism.
Discover culinary gems from Lukas Schanderl of the online cooking school Veecoco, and find graduation inspiration for vegan activists from martial artist and vegan food impresario Tammy Fry.
A millennial with an MBA and a passion for plants, Mayo Clinic health coach Nivi Jaswal shares her powerful healing story and a vision for applying what she learned in the corporate world to veganizing the whole world.
Rapper Doc G, Fred Beasley II, is a Renaissance man and the force behind New York Hip Hop Is Green. He discusses African-American issues, the power of the music industry, and the promise of youth.
Five fab vegans—John Pierre (The Pillars of Health), Rev. Carol Saunders, and vegan coaches Sha-Hanna Soaper, Rachel Borkowski, and Heather Von Darling—drop by for nourishing conversation
Horse racing is deromanticized with Patrick Battuello, and Michael Klaper, M.D., discusses science and sanity during COVID-19.
Animal Hero Award winner Rich Hardy and Scott Stoll, M.D., cofounder of The Plantrician Project, are guests.
Earth-friendly (and vegan) designer Deborah DiMare helps clean our homes in good health, and environmental author J. Morris Hicks shares his new book, Outcry.
TV star and vegan entrepreneur Daniella Monet fills us in on life in the fast lane currently slowed. Then Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H., explains in lay terms how the use and abuse of animals correlates with viral outbreaks.
Humane investments advisor Brenda Morris, CFP, helps us navigate financial uncertainties, and Paul Rodney Turner, the food yogi, shares on feeding the hungry through all seasons.
Complementary health care researcher Jayney Goddard opens with insights from alternative medicine, and psychologist Angela Crawford, Ph.D, helps us nurture ourselves through isolation and fear.
Stay healthy through the pandemic with Brooke Goldner, M.D., and be inspired by Josh LaJaunie, who went from 420 pounds to Good Morning America, People magazine, and Today.
Philip Anthony Mangan traded a destructive lifestyle for purpose, meaning, and real-world fitness. He’ll share how we can all have that.
Milton Mills, M.D., offers tips for building immunity during this time when we all want to protect ourselves from the flu and Coronavirus.
Urban slaughterhouses breed illness and cruelty says activist and vegan lifestyle coach Heather Greenhouse, VLCE. Vegan Buddha Bowls author Cara Carin Cifelli traded an eating disorder for plant-powered peace and a fresh take on vegan business.
Material Girl, Mystical World author and spiritual it girl Ruby Warrington discusses being vegan in the worlds of tarot, astrology, media, and fashion.
Ernie Ward, D.V.M., celeb veterinarian and coauthor of The Clean Pet Food Revolution, returns to the show along with health coach Dianne Wenz, author of The Truly Healthy Vegan Cookbook.
Interfaith minister and a gal with some tough stories, Rev. Sarah Bowen riffs on being a vegan (and a rebel) in the world of faith.
Ingrid Newkirk has arguably done more for animals than anyone who's ever lived. She discusses her newest book Animalkind and PETA's plans for the decade.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine founder Dr. Neal Barnard shares groundbreaking information from his new book, Your Body in Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health.
Nitu Bejakal, M.D., in London, and Debra Shapiro, M.D., in San Francisco, bring women's health into the new decade with plant-based nutrition and woman-to-woman wisdom.
Joel Kahn, M.D., is a cardiologist on a mission to impart whole-food, plant-based nutrition and other positive practices for a healthy heart and a healthy life.
Saray Stancic, M.D., embodies the phrase "doctor, heal thyself" in her dramatic turnaround of crippling MS, chronicled in her film Code Blue.
Yogini Seane Corn and Joyful Vegan Colleen Patrick-Goudreau share holiday magic and two new books.
Dr. Michael Greger and psychic medium Lisa Williams join the show. Dr. Greger discusses his book How Not to Diet, and Lisa Williams juxtaposes her mystical gifts and vegan lifestyle.
9-year-old speaker, activist and influencer VeganEvan and his mom, Shannon Blair, join the show to discuss their commitment to changing the world.
Jane Velez-Mitchell discusses her new film Countdown to Year Zero, and novelist Camille DeAngelis explores the vegan/creativity connection.
Legendary physician Joel Fuhrman joins the show to discuss osteoporosis, neurological disorders, dietary supplements, the healthiest way to eat as a vegan, and more.
Elysabeth Alfano and Nava Atlas join the show. Elysabeth is an award-winning media personality, radio host, and web/TV host, and Nava is a culinary legend, established artist, and literary maven.
Brighde Reed of World Vegan Travel and Deborah DiMare, designer of compassionate and health-promoting interiors, join the show.
Witchcraft is a misunderstood religion, and we'll explore this with practitioner Kris Gurky. We will then turn to dessert craft with Hannah Kaminsky and discuss her new book, Sweet Vegan Treats.
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Dr. Joy returns to discuss ideas in her latest book, Powerarchy: Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation.
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Claire Smith, founder of the first vegan Exchange Traded Fund, and Steven Smith, Ph.D., founder of Fort Lauderdale's all-vegan supermarket, will discuss the vegan fine foods market.
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Vegan veterinarian Jonas Watson, 2019 winner of the World Veterinary Association Welfare Award, and veterinary nurse Brittany Semeniuk ask, "Who's the patient here?"
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The legendary Alex Hershaft, Ph.D.—Warsaw Ghetto survivor, animal rights pioneer, and founder of FARM and the National Animal Rights Conference—discusses the animal holocaust.
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Pam Popper, N.D., Ph.D., gets serious about looking out for our own health, and Mercy for Animals' Leah Garces looks for allies inside the chicken industry.
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The legendary cardiologist weighs in on telomeres, heart health, prostate cancer, yoga, meditation, and lifestyle medicine.
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Filmmaker Shaun Monson (Earthlings) and LA SAVE founder Amy Jean Davis inspire our activism and resolve.
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Seth Goldman of Honest Tea and Beyond Meat, and Miyoko Schinner of Miyoko's Kitchen show that vegan means business.
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Lisa Kemmerer, Ph.D., outlines the ethical matrix of animal rights; Isaac Thomas of VeganNation moves the vegan economy forward.
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Aysha Ahktar, M.D. (Our Symphony with Animals), believes that a connection to animals can help us heal, and Sailesh Rao, Ph.D., sheds lights on healing the earth.
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Olivia Fox Cabane, chair of the International Alliance for Alternative Protein, gives us the facts on future meats, and Alexis Fox, founder of Lighter Nutrition, helps physicians get plant-based food information to their patients.
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Richard Miron's documentary For the Birds focuses on a woman who loves her numerous poultry pets but can't adequately care for them. We then meet Rachel Borkowski of animalconnection.info, which takes groups to farm animal sanctuaries.
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Karen Calabrese, who did a swimsuit shoot with 20-something models to mark her 70th birthday, shares her secrets. We're then joined by Sande Nosonowitz, author of the new memoir, Oblivious, exploring the vegan journey of a true empath.
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Game of Thrones' Jerome Flynn and actress Elaine Hendrix (The Parent Trap, What the Bleep?) bring their influence to bear on animal rights and environmentalism.
Kathy Stevens of Catskill Animal Sanctuary (and the yummy new cookbook, Compassionate Cuisine) opens, followed by Amy Rebecca Wilde, who founded Vegans of IG and the Los Angeles clothing boutique, Vegan Scene.
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Dr. Scott Stoll on plant-based living from his perspective as both a medical doctor and an evangelical Christian.
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Special episode, recorded live in London: a sit-down conversation with two vegan megastars—Earthling Ed, who's been called "the Jesus of veganism," and Robbie Lockie, founder and publisher of Plant Based News.
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Cell biologist Frank Sabatino, D.C., Ph.D., enlightens us on food and mood. Jayney Goddard, author of Rewind Your Body Clock, shares ways to grow younger.
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Cindy Negron, VLCE, used vegan food to help neighbors through Puerto Rico's devastating hurricane and now she's veganizing the island big time. Toni Okamoto puts "Vegan costs a lot" to rest with Plant-Based on a Budget.
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You're vegan. Your partner (or mom or boss or best friend) is not. Vegan Mos bloggers Michael Suchman, VLCE, and Ethan Ciment, DPM, share how to make peace and promote understanding without compromise.
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Kitten the Juice Pirate went from morbid obesity to radiant health via juicing and vegan living, and Elizabeth Young of Palomacy Pigeon and Dove Rescue helps us fall in love with these amazing birds.
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Body positivity says we'll cool at every size and Chelsea Lincoln fills us in. Then natural health care practitioner LeAnn Fritz, Ph.D., puts stress in its place for vegans and other humans.
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Photographer Isa Leshko with her glorious book, Allowed to Grow Old, and then Ben Davis, organizer of the world's biggest plant-based expo ever.
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Among the first American medical doctors to actively espouse veganism, Dr. Klaper has a unique wealth of nutrition and health knowledge that he's now sharing with medical students in his exciting Moving Medicine Forward initiative.
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Dr. Ernie Ward, "America's Pet Advocate," shares dog health tips, and Amanda Rolat of the new startup fresh vegan dog food company, Tails Up.
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Zero-waste chef and online celeb Max La Manna opens, and then we explore the vegan food truck business with Matt Korsky of Green Street Food Truck on Long Island, New York.
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Born Free director Angela Grimes discusses a cruel nonsport, and Michelle Carrera of Chilis on Wheels shares about vegan outreach to the hungry and homeless.
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Animal Hero Kids' founder Susan Hargreaves and Holly Roberts, M.D., author of Your Vegetarian Pregnancy and Vegetarian Christian Saints.
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Elon Hochberg seeks to build an "Amazon for vegans" and Karine Charbonneau has come up with speed-dating for plant-eaters.
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BevVeg is the authenticity seal developed by today's guest, TV lawyer Carissa Kranz, so we can know for sure that what we're drinking (and eating) is vegan.
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Featured in Vogue and GQ, Joshua Katcher is changing the face of fashion with his upscale menswear line, the classes he teaches in sustainable fashion at Parsons School of Design, and his long-awaited new book, Fashion Animal.
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Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D., is a 40-year cancer survivor and one of the world’s 10 fittest women; Genesis Butler is the 12-year-old superstar trying to get the Pope to go vegan.
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Two stars of the new film A Prayer for Compassion join us for a look into their traditions: Linda G. Fisher of the Ojibwe Nation and Jeffrey Cohan, executive director of Jewish Veg.
Observing silence for a full year in solidarity with the animals, James Aspey has been called the conscience of the animal rights movement; and Laura Callan is the founder and publisher of the hottest new publication in the United Kingdom, Bright Zine.
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In The Cow With Ear Tag #1389, Kathryn Gillespie translates the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms. And in Striking at the Roots, renowned animal activist Mark Hawthorne gives a practical guide to animal activism, new techniques, and new technology.
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Two of the forward-thinking women behind today’s hottest vegan magazine for moms and dads, Emily and Clare will riff on what it’s like to raise little vegans in 2019.
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Cookbook author and food photographer Jackie Sobon is the upbeat voice of the popular blog veganyackattack.com, and Robin Asbell makes Midwestern comfort food vibrantly vegan in her many best-selling cookbooks.
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Wife of Titanic director James Cameron and a force in her own right, Suzy is at the helm of the One Meal a Day campaign, to help save the planet. And Harry Potter's Evanna Lynch, fresh from Dancing With the Stars, shares a star-studded international campaign launching today—you'll hear it here first!
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A new book from Dr. Barnard is always something to celebrate, and this one is a quick-read keeper: The Vegan Starter Kit. Barnard answered questions from listeners.
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It’s very possible, say today’s guests, all who have terrific new books on how to accomplish this amazing feat: Chef Mark Reinfeld and his wife Ashley Boudet, N.D., authors of The Ultimate Age-Defying Plan; and journalist and champion race walker Karen Asp, whose delightful and practical new book is Anti-Aging Hacks.
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When Medical Medium Anthony William refers people to someone with the gift of healing, Muneeza Ahmed is at the top of his list. We’ll veer this week from the science-based health experts we often feature to someone whose healing gifts are less conventional and whose recommendations are all vegan.
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Dr. Frank Sabatino of Balance for Life and Dr. Alan Goldhamer of True North Health show the route from the "pleasure trap" to high level health.
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Hip Hop Is Green founder Keith Tucker opens and Dominick Thompson brings his powerful story of life transformation and vegan entrepreneurship.
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Ocean Robbins, grandson of Baskin-Robbins cofounder Irvine Robbins, shares his new healthy-living book, and JL Fields introduces her latest cookbook and riffs on "favorite things" for holiday giving.
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Chef Chad Sarno, coauthor of Wicked Healthy, knows raw food, whole food, and fabulous food; and Andrew Taylor lost more than 100 pounds eating only potatoes.
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Poaching meets its match in former Australian military sniper Damien Mander; and author Jennifer Skiff follows her best-selling The Divinity of Dogs with: Rescuing Ladybugs: Inspirational Encounters With Animals That Changed the World.
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Animal Liberation, Singer's 1975 classic, introduced the term "animal rights," and this Australian moral philosopher has continued to influence contemporary thought about animals and effective altruism.
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Chef AJ creates dazzling dishes that don't stray from the straight and narrow (no sugar, oil, salt) while Marty's V-Burger creator Marty Krutolow makes burgers reminiscent of arches of gold.
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Ginny Messina, R.D., shares the social justice message of her new book coauthored with Carol J. Adams, and Jayee Reese explores how scientists, entrepreneurs, and activists are building an animal-free food system.
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Yoga gets the world peace treatment when World Peace Diet author Dr. Will Tuttle teams with yogi Anna Ferguson for the book, and the movement, World Peace Yoga.
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Cowspiracy and What the Health put documentarian Keegan Kuhn on the A-list in his genre, and he's back with the heartening story of inspiring ultra-marathoner and U.K. Sanctuary founder Fiona Oakes.
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Eric Adams overcame diabetes and partial blindness with a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Rev. Carol Saunders is a Unity minister dedicated to reinstating Unity early teachings about compassionate eating and animal rights.
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Wildlife should matter to vegans, says U.S. parks ranger and certified vegan lifestyle coach Greg Lawson. In our second segment, we hear the dramatic reversal of autoimmune disease in Brooke Golner, M.D., after adopting a whole-foods, plant-based diet.
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Two ethical vegans who have a health message too: We open with Amie Hamlin of New York Coalition for Healthy School Food and in our second segment, we learn about the work of Vegan Outreach and the latest in nutritional research.
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Tracye McQuirter, coauthor of Ageless Vegan, returns, and filmmaker Thomas Jackson shares about his new documentary, A Prayer for Compassion.
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Shoshana Chaim was expecting their first child when husband Adam was diagnosed with a large kidney tumor and badly blocked arteries. Adding a whole-food plant-based diet to his already active life reversed his maladies, and now both Shoshana and Adam have a healthy mission.
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Former president of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Williams tells why "There are two kinds of cardiologists: vegans, and those who don't know the science." And novelist Camille DeAngelis posits that vegans have an edge on accessing the creative flow.
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GI doctor Will Busiewicz, M.D., gets our digestion in order just after troubadour Michael Harren shares on "The Animal Show," his touring tribute to nonhuman beings.
Anita Krajnc went to trial for giving water to a slaughter-bound pig. She shares her courage and commitment. Victoria talks with Animal Legal Defense Fund attorney Tyler Lobdell about what kids will eat this school year.
The End of Meat, from our guest Marc Pierschel, looks at the world after animal agriculture. Then: Generation Zapped, as we discuss electromagnetic field radiation with filmmaker Sabine El-Gemayel.
Seventh-Day Adventists are taught to refrain from meat; Rev. Dr. Kevin Jenkins tells why and weighs in on being a dapper vegan podcaster in New York City, after longtime Integral Yoga practitioner Carole Baral shares about yogic vegan practices.
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Primates rescued from labs and given up on as pets find refuge at Jungle Friends. Victoria chats with founder Kari Bagnall, after an upbeat opener with lifestyle guide Ashlee Piper, author of Give a Sh*t: Do Good, Live Better, Save the Planet.
"It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken" blogger Sam Turnbull puts our culinary lives on Easy Street, and Australian psychologist Clare Mann shares healing insights on vystopia, vegan angst in an omnivorous world.
Tracye McQuirter and her truly ageless mom and coauthor Mary McQuirter share secrets from their 30 years of veganism—each!—and their new book, Ageless Vegan.
Yogini and vegan author Tatiana Forero Puerta talks to Victoria about deep soul healing, and Happy Cow takes us traveling deliciously.
Cardiologist Dr. Joel Kahn wows with life-saving information and Shawn Stratton shares about the first Vegan Film Festival, happening in Ottawa this fall.
Join Victoria and find out about Eco-eats and why this is important with Eat for the Planet: Save the World One Bite at a Time coauthor Nil Zacharias, determined environmentalist, cofounder and editor in chief of One Green Planet. Listen in for some lively conversation!
Does keeping bees disqualify you as a vegan? Honey has long been a controversial subject among the vegan community. Victoria chats with vegan beekeeper Paul Cronshaw to get the scoop. First, Victoria talks with cookbook author the "Jazzy Vegetarian," Laura Theodore.
Bodybuilding's most prestigious magazine chose vegan Nimai Delgado for its current cover. We'll chat with him after Jivamukti Yoga founder Sharon Gannon shares with us The Magic 10 techniques from her personal practice.
Plant-based long before it was cool, the National Health Association carries a proud history, as its president Mark Huberman will share. Then Steve Prussack, famed juice guru, shares about juicing, raw food, and health.
Evanna Lynch made her name playing Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter movies, and the young actress is as committed to the animals as she is to any role. Through her Chickpeeps podcast and nonstop activism, Lynch is spreading ethical veganism beyond her native Ireland and London where she currently lives to embrace the world in compassion.
Vodka Is Vegan is the first book from online celebs Matt Letten and Phil Letten whose brash, in-your-face, colorfully worded videos have attracted international acclaim—and controversy. The Bros. will get the full hour of today's show so we can learn what they're really about, and that behind the shirtless photos and media bravado, their goal is to "raise up an army of fit, sexy vegan soldiers to spread the delicious, cruelty-free gospel of peace and compassion to a lost and dying world."
Whole food plant-based eating may play a powerful adjunctive role in recovery from cancer and prevention of recurrences, and Beyond Cancer author Sally Lipsky tells us all about that, after we learn about the Vanilla Bean Vegan Dining App, meant to revolutionize your eating out and travel experiences as a vegan.
Tranquility du Jour's Kimberly Wilson, and Rescue Chocolate and USA VegCorp founder Sarah Gross Feoli, are vegan Wonder Women indeed. Ex-ballerina Sarah and her biz partner Nira Paliwoda put on massive vegan events around the country, including the upcoming New York City Vegetarian Food Festival; and Kimberly is a Renaissance goddess: yoga studio owner, fashion designer, psychotherapist, blogger, podcaster, certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator, animal rights advocate, and inimitable arbiter of vegan style.
Eat Vegan With Me author Mary Lawrence reached guru status for host Victoria Moran when Lawrence said, "Tell people you're plant-based if you want them to know you changed your diet; tell them you're vegan if you want them to know you intend to change the system." Ellen Debenport gets her guru card by being a genuine spiritual teacher, Unity minister, vegan, and author of The Five Principles: A Guide to Practical Spirituality.
Veterinarian Dr. Richard Pitcairn was a million-selling author long before he and his wife, artist and recipe creator Susan Pitcairn, discovered veganism. Now they're convinced that this is the way to go for humans and dogs, and possibly cats when done very carefully. Returning as our opening guest: psychologist Julie Simon, with her new book: When Food Is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating.
Yoga is vegan, according to our first guest, Holly Skodis, VLCE, and after we learn about that, we’ll talk with New York Times best-selling author Sophie Uliano, who brought the world the concept of being gorgeously green.
Planet-saving interviews with Matthew Prescott, author of the much-buzzed-about new book, Food Is the Solution: What to Eat to Save the World, and with Masa and Michael Ofei, the Minimalist Vegans (not to be confused with the Minimalist Baker—she was on in this episode), discussing their book, Minimalist Vegan, on the richness of living with less.
Oprah's staff went vegan for a month, thanks to Kathy Freston, former model and now vegan powerhouse and best-selling author. We'll open with Leslie Crawford, author of the enchanting Sprig the Rescue Pig, for children of all ages.
Dr. Doug Graham, athletic coach and developer of the 80/10/10 raw food diet joins us, as well as Melissa Vanderhorst, founder of Vegan Kids Magazine.
“No dairy,” say half a dozen Olympians in the Switch4good campaign whose PSA closed this year’s Winter Olympics in major U.S. markets. Campaign founder Dotsie Bausch, Olympic silver medalist in cycling, joins us, right after Alycia Corpiel of Space Coast Animal Rights shares why rabbits make terrible Easter gifts.
Filmmaker Santino Panico of From the Ground Up joins us with two of the film’s elite athletes, champion bodybuilder Torre Washington and professional soccer defender Toni Pressley.
Shark Tank-featured Bee Free Honee founders share how they turned a recipe failure into a profitable (and ethical) business. And we open with Don Anthony, communications director of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida.
Jenne Claiborne is one hot vegan author right now, just coming off appearances on Today and Wendy Williams with her new cookbook, Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul; and opening today’s show, the good folks of PEAK, Indiana’s only farmed animal sanctuary, ready to grow bigger and rescue more animals.
Carnism coiner Melanie Joy, Ph.D., shares her latest book, after a fascinating opener about the low-histamine diet, credited by many for relief of pesky symptoms, and veganized by our guest, beautifullybohemian.com blogger Randi Tisdall.
Call in with questions—or email them ahead of time to mainstreetvegan@unityonlineradio.com—for veteran dietitian Vesanto Melina, coauthor of books including Becoming Vegan and Becoming Raw. We open with a trip to Hawaii and the Leilani Farm Sanctuary via a chat with founder Laurelee Blanchard.
Vegan Health and Fitness magazine editor Brenda Carey opens the show with hot fitness news, especially for those 40 or older. Then Adrienne Borgersen of La Fashionista Compassionista joins us with spring fashion trends and how organizing one's space is part of the new chic. Plus a pop-in from fashion designer Joshua Katcher and a glimpse of his upcoming industry-shifting book, Fashion Animals.
Pelush is upscale vegan fur that could drive a cruel industry to extinction, and its founder Anna Tagliabue is our opening guest. Laughlin Artz, a vegan with an approach to the climate issue that also incorporates innovative ways to stem carbon emissions, believes we have to stem climate change quickly—by 2020.
Bruce Friedrich discusses the future of protein, and internist Dr. Michelle McMacken from What the Health? answers your questions.
Paul Shapiro opens with his new book, Clean Meat; then workout inspiration from longtime bodybuilder and vegan gym owner, Ed Bauer.
The China Study’s Dr. Campbell and Plant Pure Nation’s Nelson Campbell join us as they embark on their Healing America Tour, and we chat with U.K. musician/songwriter Rob Mills, of "Vegan Girlz," bits of which comprise the new music for our show.
Cookbook launch, giveaways, and fun with host Victoria Moran and coauthor J.L. Fields + call-ins from half a dozen contributors to the book, all Main Street Vegan Street Academy-certified vegan lifestyle coaches and educators.
Fordham University professor and author of For the Love of Animals, Charles Camosy, and Tami Kowal, "Catholic Vegan Mom," discuss veganism and Catholicism.
Myq Kaplan won Last Comic Standing and riffs on veganism and humor, and Jackie Day offers an uplifting 21-day journey to joyful vegan living.
Musical legend Moby guests with information on the Circle V Music Festival, and then Andrew Knight, DVM, joins us from New Zealand to discuss vegan diets for companion animals and the dearth of vegans in the veterinary profession.
Susan Prolman of Activism for Animals has worked effectively for animals in the nonprofit sector for decades, but is now focusing on the power of individuals. And we're joined by such an individual: Jay Shooster, attorney, activist, and rescuer.
Jami Delaney, M.D., discusses the frustrations of a plant-based cardiologist and answers your health questions, after we fantasize our next vegan vacation with travel expert Hayden Hamilton.
Ian McDonald, podcaster and blogger at The Vegan Option, traces the fascinating and character-filled history of the vegetarian/vegan movements.
Tobias Leenaert, "the Vegan Strategist," joins us from Brussels, and Balance Foods' Audrey Sanchez shares about vegan foods for schools, hospitals, and so on.
The China Study authors, nutritional biochemist Dr. T. Colin Campbell and his son, internist Thomas M. Campbell, M.D., on whole foods, terminology, and why we still haven't convinced the nutritional/medical/governmental powers that be.
Songs for our movement from Australian troubadour Vegan Smythe + Tim Barford of VegFestUK.
Lani Muelrath, author of The Mindful Vegan, + Q&A with Victoria on protein, iron, and vegan heroes.
Mercy for Animals' founder (at age 15!) Nathan Runkle talks about his new book, Mercy for Animals: One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion, after we explore flavor and food with Vegan Richa and her new cookbook, Vegan Richa's Everyday Kitchen.
Suzy Welch is known for her business books, her regular spot on the Today show, and her husband, Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO. She's also a vegan and an evangelical Christian, and daughter Eve Wetlaufer, recent grad of New York University's animal studies program, brings the millennial point of view.
WWE champ Austin Aries returns with his memoir, Food Fight, and Dr. Ostfeld tells us about a not-to-miss conference coming up in New York City.
Ballet shoes for vegans with Cynthia King and raising vegan kids with Tianna McCormick from the largest plant-based families' page on Facebook, Vegan Pregnancy and Parenting.
Cam Awesome, champion boxer, follows Professor Spira, who has brought the teachings of Professor Arnold Ehret and his "mucusless diet healing system" into the 21st century.
The minority vegan experience is explored in the new documentary The Invisible Vegan from Jasmine Leyva, who opens the program. Eric Lindstrom, author of the new best-seller, The Skeptical Vegan, joins us to discuss his book and how he got to be so darned funny.
Ahimsa, dynamic harmlessness, is the essence of veganism and the great need of our time. Victoria Moran talks with Nathaniel Altman, author of The Nonviolent Revolution, followed by a fun and lively chat with Wendy Werneth, "The Nomadic Vegan," discussing vegan travel and her new book Veggie Planet.
Catch What the Health, from Conspiracy filmmakers Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn, on Netflix, and tune in for my interview with Kip. Our first guest is LCWS April Lang, author of Animal Persuasion: A Guide for Ethical Vegans and Animal Advocates in Managing Life’s Emotional Challenges.
First up is nutrition and fitness with Toronto RD Fergussson. Then meet Brian Kateman, founder of the Reducetarian movement, which seeks to reach people who are unwilling to go vegan right away, but can be convinced to cut back on animal products, often from an environmental perspective.
Chef Del Sroufe, author of The Forks Over Knives Cookbook, returns with a new best-seller-to-be, The China Study Family Cookbook. We then meet Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, from the research team that identified the first Alzheimer’s disease gene and several subsequent ones.
Laura-Jane (the Rawtarian) opens the program with yummy raw treats for cooling off your summer and revving up your vitality. We then welcome Wayne Hsiung, founder of the sometimes controversial but always for-the-animals AR group, Direct Action Everywhere.
Athlete, author, former firefighter, and plant-strong diet advocate with his own line of food products at Whole Foods Market, Rip Esselstyn joins us to share why plants rock, oil doesn't, and real food is the real deal. Grand opener: Julie Piatt, author of This Cheese Is Nuts! It's a wonderful (easy!) vegan cheese cookbook. Julie's husband is Rich Roll, so this is the cheese that fuels the marathons.
Lisa Everett is a pharmacist, nutritionist, expert on hormonal health, and vegan. She joins us, with her husband Arden Anderson, D.O., who cares about the health of plants and soil the same way he cares about the health of his patients. Join us for a fascinating conversation on this vital but often overlooked topic.
The Starch Solution author was such a listener hit that he's returning to answer your questions (and mine). Expect straight answers and solid information.
The Relationship Fix author (and vegan) Dr. Jenn Mann talks with us about her life and work, and Boston University School of Medicine psychiatry professor and Vegan Publishers' cofounder Dr. Casey Taft shares about his book, Motivational Methods for Vegan Advocacy.
Ginny Messina, R.D., and Patti Breitman, two of the authors of Even Vegans Die, come to share why this is a great way to eat and, no, we won't live forever—all the more reason to live today fully and create a legacy of compassion and goodwill after we're gone.
Star power with the joyful vegan, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, discussing how the words we choose can help or harm our animal friends; and opening guest and cohost for the program, JL Fields, VLCE, whose latest cookbook is The Vegan Air Fryer, whose latest venture is the Colorado Spring Vegan Cooking Academy.
Mindy Collette is a beacon for vegan fitness and proves that even girly girls can have muscle if they want it; and we'll open with Carol Cox, speaking expert, back for the second part of her conversation with us to encourage you to get out and speak for the cause.
Alan Cumming likes this new book so much he wrote the foreword, and you'll see why when you hear from Michael Suchman, VLCE, and Dr. Ethan Ciment, award-winning bloggers at theveganmos.com, as they wax poetic on cooking vegan, living vegan, how animal rights and gay rights intersect, and about the glorious plant-sourced food in the Big Apple.
Barbara J. King, anthropologist and author of Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat, regales us with true tales of animal sentience and wit, after opening the program with Michael Webermann and his new venture, Better Eating International, a way to meet prevegans where they are and accelerate their vegan transition.
Timaree Hagenburger, R.D., author of The Foodie Bar Way, opens the program with her delightful take on making healthy eating fun, followed by Cheri Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary in Massachusetts, recipient of the Peace Abbey Foundation Award, an honor she shares with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa.
Vegan Love is Maya Gottfried's enchanting new book; and professional speaker Carol Cox shares on how we can speak in groups to enhance activism or vegan business.
The most influential nutritional mind in the plant-based movement, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., returns with his son and coauthor of The China Study, Thomas M. Campbell, M.D., to discuss their New York Times best-seller's new edition, cutting-edge developments since that groundbreaking study, and what we need to know about food now.
Chicago is home to the new National Vegetarian Museum, and we talk with its founder and curator, Kay Stepkin. Then we turn the conversation to the cuisine of Mexico with Eddie Garza, senior manager of food and nutrition for HSUS, and author of Salud! Vegan Mexican Cookbook, a wonderful vegan take on traditional Mexican delicacies and some Tex-Mex thrown in too.
The Teacher Appears is Brian Leaf's enchanting interactive book about everyday yoga and spiritual growth; Institute for Humane Education founder and prolific author Zoe Weil shares why education without respect for all life is missing a valuable component.
At the helm of the largest animal protection organization in America, Wayne Pacelle is the first vegan director and the person who brought farmed animals into the HSUS purview; and Julie Feliz Bruek's Libby Finds Vegan Sanctuary tells the real story of a rescued turkey for youngest readers.
Filmmakers for Eating You Alive, the latest documentary promoting a whole-foods plant-based diet, plus opening interview with Deborah Shouse, on making the connection with relatives and friends who experience dementia.
PlantPure Nation's Kim Campbell shares culinary tips and tricks from her new cookbook; and longtime vegan homeopath Deborah Vidal, of the Vidal Speaks podcast, shares ways we can use this alternative healing system.
Longtime vegan Anne Sullivan shares her breast cancer story and why vegans must not feel ashamed if they get sick; and Christopher Sebastian McJetters, an articulate and passionate spokesperson of the intersectionality movement, discusses animal rights, human rights, and justice.
Robert Grillo spent 20 years in the food industry and shares its workings firsthand in Farm to Fable: The Fictions of Our Animal-Consuming Culture; and Bren McClain has written a poignant novel set against the backdrop of 4-H and a mother cow who mentors a mother human.
My Conscience, My Choice app developer Dory Kurowski opens; then we welcome Neal Barnard, M.D., of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, whose new book, The Cheese Trap, explains why everybody's favorite snack is so darned addictive—and what to do about it.
Vegan novelist Camille DeAngelis with her first nonfiction book, Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People, followed by Dr. Joel Kahn, America's holistic heart doctor, and my fellow "Sexiest Vegan Over 50" for 2016 and 2017.
A. Breeze Harper, Ph.D, author of Sistah Vegan and 2016 Humane Party vice presidential candidate, discusses feminism and being an African-American vegan; also, Sugandh Agrawal, designer and founder of Gunas, stunning vegan handbags.
Vegan psychologist Dr. Glenn Livingston has crafted a program to end binge eating forever; and celebrity vegan trainer John Pierre returns with tips and motivation for getting fit in the real world, and loving yourself all the while.
Legendary internist and author John McDougall, M.D., joins me with his no-nonsense take on what's killing people and the planet and what to do about it. We open with the charming Sunny Subramanian, vegan beauty expert behind the Vegan Beauty Review blog and coauthor of The Compassionate Chicken's Guide to DIY Beauty.
Our opening special guest is Allyson Kramer, sharing Catch calorie-cropped recipes and fit-forever tips from her award-winning book Naturally Lean. Then get your health on with Dr. Frank Sabatino from Ocean Jade Health Retreat, one of our most popular guests because his health information is spot-on and his phone-side manner is as understanding as it is knowledgeable.
... Is soy a great food or a scourge disguised as a bean? Author and TV personality Marie Oser has the answers. And we'll look at feeding those in need this holiday season with vegan food pantry proprietor Katherine Green.
Great Chefs Cook Vegan author Linda Long shares the experience of teaching vegan cooking classes in Kuwait as the invitation of the royal family there; and Allison Rivers Samson and Michelle Cehn of thedairydetox.com share the joys of "dairy freedom," why we need to care about this, and how to make it easy.
Peace to All Beings author Judy Carman discusses the inner side of vegan living and how it relates to both spiritual growth and world peace, after a joy-filled intro segment with children's author Robin Raven, whose first book is Santa's First Vegan Christmas.
Screenwriter for the upcoming feature film A Dog's Life, W. Bruce Cameron shares about the movie, dogs, and the writer's life. Opener is David Benzaquen, creator of tomato sushi—the cool, vegan, better-than-bluefin, entering the marketplace now.
Among Newsweek's "Top 50 Rabbis in America," Shmuly Yanklowitz joins us today along with Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., of JewishVeg for an inspiring hour on why veganism is a Jewish value and a human value.
The documentary Food Choices draws from 28 experts to present the ethical, health, and environmental foundation of vegan eating and living; and Emily Moran Barwick, Bitesize Vegan, delves into her megasuccessful YouTube presence and being an animal liberation activist in Iowa.
The Gentle Barn sanctuaries where rescued animals help needy children are discussed first with special guest Ellie Laks, followed by New York Times best-selling author Kathy Freston with her new book for teens and 20-somethings, The Book of Veganish.
Pramoda Chitrabhanu is one of the foremost Jain teachers alive today. She is an author, a vegan, and a powerful soul. You'll be blessed to hear her.
Riverdel Cheese founder Michaela Grob opens with her entrepreneurial story, and Aysha Akhtar, M.D., neurologist and public health specialist with the U.S. FDA, speaks brilliantly about why she believes that the way we treat animals is intrinsically linked to public health.
Pregnancy, birth, and self-care are celebrity doula Latham Thomas's forte, preceded by serious fitness (and vegan on a budget) with trainer Darlene Adamusik.
Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) founder Alex Hershaft, a Holocaust survivor and true hero, on the occasion of FARM’s 40th anniversary; and Thomas Campbell, M.D., youngest son of T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D, coauthor with his father of The China Study, and author in his own right of The China Study Solution, with real-world ideas for healthy living.
Pilates guru Irene Rizzo, and her book, The Mountain of Youth; Chef Mark Reinfeld with his new book Healing the Vegan Way, celebrity trainer, women's and children's advocate, and self-defense expert John Pierre with Smart, Savvy, Safe: Empowering Tools for Self-Protection and Vibrant Health.
Ellen Jaffe Jones, champion sprinter and marathoner, was once a couch spud with health issues who knows how to get anybody fit with her new book Vegan Fitness for Mortals. But first up is Eric Day, the filmmaker whose Vegan Everyday Stories is making this lifestyle "normal" for thousands of viewers.
Cable network FYI airs the weekly Plant-Based by Nafsika program (check local listings), so vegans finally have a talk show! Nafsika Antypas, the show's creator and host, joins us, followed by Los Angeles dietitian and No Meat Athlete coauthor, Matt Ruscigno, R.D., discussing, among other things, why it might not be such a great idea to oversell veganism's health benefits.
Kimberly Snyder, CN, whose new book, Radical Beauty, is coauthored by Dr. Deepak Chopra, joins us first, followed by Sailesh Rao, Ph.D, of climateHealers.org. Rao, executive producer of Cowspiracy and The Compassion Project, will share about his work to bring food choices into the climate conversation. His latest book is Carbon Yoga: The Vegan Metamorphosis.
PlantPure Nation filmmaker Nelson Campbell opens with PlantPure Summit 2016, an online event featuring 50 top experts (sign up at bit.ly/summitvmoran). On the main stage: Georges Laraque, long known as one of the National Hockey League's most aggressive players, is also an ethical vegan, humanitarian, and the owner of vegan and raw restaurants in Montreal.
The scoop on gluten with author Joann Farb (she contends that many ex-vegans left the fold because of gluten-sensitivity issues) and a chat with Andy Ramage, vegan founder of the United Kingdom-based One Year/No Beer initiative, a plan to encourage folks to cut out alcohol for a period of time to improve health, clarity, and productivity.
Two giant billboards in midtown Manhattan are encouraging viewers to "Be Fair, Be Vegan." We'll talk with this mega-project's spokesperson, Angel Flinn, and then bring on Heather Lounsbury, L.Ac., author of Fix Your Mood With Food, that rare practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine who is vegan herself and encourages plant-based eating for her patients.
Clifton Roberts is in the 2016 United States' presidential race on the Humane Party ticket, and Sangita Iyer has made the haunting and important documentary, Gods in Shackles, to help save the elephants enslaved in India for ceremonial purposes.
Pint-size animal advocate Genesis Butler, featured in the documentary Vegan Everyday Stories, opens for celebrity chef Jason Wrobel with his new cookbook, Eaternity.
We’ll welcome August with our “seasonal sanctuary stroll” featuring the French sanctuary, Barefoot Vegan, and its eponymous magazine, and then introduce Christine Loughead, the Canadian woman who received a huge amount of press earlier this summer when she did what we’ve all wanted to do: save a lobster from a supermarket tank and return him (her?) to the sea.
“Ask the Dietitian” is one of our show’s most popular offerings, especially when said dietitian is the brilliant and delightful Brenda Davis, RD. She returns today to answer your questions and offer helpful insights on healthy eating. We start the program with Robin Lamont, the novelist behind The Kinship Series of animal rights thrillers. The two available to read now and The Chain and The Trap.
Sherry Colb, J.D., returns to the program with her husband, Michael C. Dorf, J.D., both Cornell law professors, with their important and controversial new book, Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animals Rights. Show opener: Brian L. Patton, “The Sexy Vegan,” cookbook author, podcaster, and vegan foodie and entertainer par excellence.
Stephanie Redcross of veganmainstream.com brings us up to speed on vegan business, outreach, social media, branding, and buzzing, but first we enter the rarified world of The Illuminati Ball, a surreal experience created by vegan and animal rights proponent Cynthia von Buhler, a magical “immersive excursion” just outside New York City—and the glam dinner is vegan.
Filmmaker Thomas Jackson on his film to interest people of faith in veganism + Bleating Hearts author Mark Hawthorne with his new book on intersectionality, The Vegan Ethic.
Basketball legend John Salley shares his take on health, sport, veganism for a guy’s guy, and the Hip Hop Is Green movement. We’ll also be joined by James Lucas of grapecat.com about what it takes to run an online vegan store and vend at vegfests all over the United States.
Ruby Roth, who made media waves with her children’s book, Vegan Is Love, is back with a charming and exquisitely illustrated cookbook for little vegans, The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids. And Lorena Mucke's Ethical Choices Program takes veganism, animal rights, and sustainable living into middle- and high-school classrooms across America.
Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., returns today with his new book, What a Fish Knows, a fascinating look at the cognitive abilities and self-awareness of our cousins who live in the water. Show opener: Amish Shah, who made his first $1 million by age 25 and subsequently partied himself into ill health before discovering the wisdom of Ayurveda, “knowledge of life,” from his ancestral land of India. He’s now made the film, Ancient Health Care, exploring this 5,000-year-old healing tradition.
Harris Polls commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group have been counting vegans, vegetarians, and the veg-leaning since 1994, and the latest results are just out. VRG cofounder Charles Stahler joins us to share the findings: what are our numbers in the United States? How do we stack up geographically, ethnically, and racially? Why are people going in this direction? And why aren't more doing it? Tune in for answers.
Legal personhood for chimpanzees has been a 30-year effort for attorney Steven Wise of the Nonhuman Rights Project, work that is explored in the groundbreaking documentary Unlocking the Cage.
Vegan travel expert Caitlin Galer-Unti of theveganword.com gives us the skinny on eating across the globe and the hottest vegan travel destinations. Then: octogenarian runner, swimmer, cyclist, and three-decade breast cancer survivor Ruth Heidrich. Prepare to be inspired for the long haul!
We chat with celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Matthew Kenney, weighing in on his latest culinary projects and his commitment to plant-based living. Then we meet Sarah Woodcock, a devout abolitionist vegan who explains this philosophy and her organization, The Advocacy of Veganism Society (TAVS).
Power-blogger Dana Shultz, with her new cookbook, Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking; then, Imam Sohaib Sultan, a Princeton professor and author of The Koran for Dummies with a Muslim view on veganism and animal rights.
We’ll learn the fine points of slow cooking with author/blogger Kathy Hester, and then discuss the fascinating new book, Meathooked—why on earth are humans so addicted to animal flesh?—with its author Marta Zaraska.
Abstaining from food has a long history in many religions and a fascinating history in health and healing, as well. Esosa E. of rawgirltoxicworld.com shares about fasting as part of her Christian faith, and Frank Sabatino, D.C., Ph.D, of Ocean Jade Health Retreat in South Florida discusses the role water-only fasting can play in health maintenance and restoration.
We open with our Seasonal Sanctuary Stroll, featuring Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary in Maryland and cofounder Terry Cummings, and then we meet award-winning health, sexuality, and body image expert August McLaughlin, author of Embraceable and a committed vegan.
Garth Davis, M.D., Houston bariatric surgeon and author of Proteinaholic, returns to the program to debate Connecticut bariatric surgeon, Neil Floch, M.D., a colleague who, like the vast majority of physicians in this specialty, recommends a "high-protein, low-carb, good-fats" diet. This should be an incredible opportunity to hear, respectfully, from the "other side" about why plant-based eating is not their choice, and what solid facts are on "our side."
Los Angeles yogini Kathleen Kastner shares the ancient tradition's gentle techniques for shedding pounds and loving your body, and then noted designer Shannon Scott takes living vegan and eco-friendly from the kitchen and the closet out into the entire house.
Shape magazine named Ella Magers one of the nation's 50 Sexiest Trainers—she's also an animal-loving vegan and as kind as she is fit. Before meeting Ella, we'll open the show with Dustin Harder of the acclaimed Web-TV series, The Vegan Roadie, in which Dustin discovers and shares great vegan food across America.
The brilliant M.D. behind nutritionfacts.org and the New York Times best-seller How Not to Die returns to answer your questions and give us more insights into living long and well by adding delicious foods to our diets. The show opener is Marla Rose of Vegan Street, and there's a pop-in call from Thomas Campbell, M.D., coauthor of The China Study.
Always Too Much and Never Enough is the fabulous memoir of ourhenhouse.org‘s Jasmin Singer who turned childhood bullying into a way to understand the suffering of animals. She's since released 100 pounds through healthy vegan eating and lots of juicing. Opening the show is Dr. Luke Wilson, half of the twozestybananas.com team, a pair of New Zealand doctors who’ve developed a very hip and inviting site to interest younger folks in the plant-based life.
Photographer McArthur, subject of the documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine, documents through stunning images both the beauty and the exploitation of animals. Also, our fun first segment celebrates cooking from scratch with Lisa Pitman and Nicole Axworthy, of the cookbook DIY Vegan.
Cash Cow author, Quebecer Elise Desaulniers, discusses myths of the dairy industry, and Brenda and Aaron Beener, mom-and-son owners of Seasoned Vegan, Harlem's hot and healthy soul cafe, talk about soul food, great food, and the restaurant biz.
Fascinating information on vegan foods in the 20th century and a brilliant discourse on "meat from plants" with Mr. Tibbot + a fun musical parody of the John Denver classic with motivational speaker and podcaster Madow.
If you went vegan in the 1990s, chances are you did so because you read Diet for a New America by the man who left a Baskin-Robbins' inheritance to chart new territory for humans, animals, and the planet. The opening segment is Austin Health Hoopla's Megan E. Shakley to share about the scene in America's vegan hot spot and about the unprecedented two-day seminar happening there in April.
Meg and Komie Vora of the upscale vegan fashion line Delikate Rayne open the program, followed by Michael Stura of Skylands Animal Sanctuary where "Freddie," the brave bovine who escaped a New York City slaughterhouse this past week and made headlines around the globe, now resides.
Former Mayor Ed Smith of Marshall, Texas, and his dynamic other half Amanda Smith, are the nonstop energy behind the annual Healthfest (coming in April) and the impetus for the upcoming documentary film The Marshall Plan, highlighting how this First Couple's adoption of a plant-based diet has transformed the health and food choices of their East Texas city. Then we welcome Paul K. Chappell, West Point graduate, Iraq War veteran, peace leadership director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, who sees that war and animal oppression have the same root, and we can wage peace.
Two beautiful women, Esosa E., aka "Raw Girl in a Toxic World," author, blogger, and star of the hot international TV show An African City (think Sex and the City transplanted to Ghana); and Kimberly Wilson, VLCE, a wildly popular blogger whose fans appreciate her style (Shabby Chic meets Parisian chic!), her yogic prowess (she owns the Washington, D.C., yoga studio called Tranquil Space), and her ability to live brilliantly and beautifully.
This special holiday show features the Cowie family from South Africa: 11- and 13-year-old daughters, image consultant mum, and lovely grandmother who took the vegan plunge at 68. We're also joined by children's book author Marian Hailey-Moss, author of Nala the Little Elephant. And we discuss our inside scoop on the rumor that Santa Claus has gone plant-based ...
UK-founded Veganuary has put a new and exciting spin on the proverbial New Year's resolution, and we chat today with cofounder Jane Land about the project and how we can participate. Then we're joined by Michael Greger, M.D., of nutritionfacts.org, and his brand-new—spectacular—book, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease.
"The 300-Pound Vegan" David Carter weighs in on health, strength, sport, and being a guy's guy. My opening guest is Berlin-based Dana Roberts of Plant-Based Traveler.
Former Citibank Australia Vice President Philip Wollen, known for his viral "Let's Get Meat off the Menu" 2012 debate presentation, is an inspiring philanthropist and orator. Hope Bohanec of United Poultry Concerns is the author of The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?
Two of the most beautiful women in our movement, inside and out: Crazy Sexy Cancer’s Kris Carr with her new book Crazy Sexy Juice, and Rae Sikora of Plant Peace Daily, someone whose gentle power heals those she touches while she changes the world for animals.
We'll discuss these issues and what it's like to be a full-time animal rights activist with Donny Moss, filmmaker of the award-winning documentary Blinders, about the New York City carriage horses and editor of theirturn.net, an online animal rights magazine.
Just about everybody works and most of us want out professional lives and our ethical lives to line up. On today's show, we'll be talking with Bob Comis who was, until recently, a pig farmer. Then he realized that even though he wasn't engaged in "factory farming," he was engaged in taking life, so he turned it all around and became a veganic vegetable farmer, all documented in the upcoming film The Last Pig. Then we'll chat with Liz Dee, co-owner and executive vice president of Smarties Candies. When a customer emailed to let her know that Smarties were vegan, Liz did the research that led her to go vegan and become an animal rights proponent.
Lindsay Nixon is a major culinary celeb and she joins us to discuss her latest book and trends in vegan cuisine. Our starter: David Klein, who overcame his own digestive disorders and, as a lay practitioner, has guided thousands to leave behind colitis and Crohn's disease.
PBS show host Laura Theodore regales us with vegan culinary tips, best foods for autumn, and how she became a TV personality (maybe you can too); opening act: Kat Mendenhall, whose custom-made vegan cowboy boots prove that every one of us is at least a little bit Texan.
Aussie biz wiz Katrina Fox on starting and growing your vegan business, plus a vegan business success story, Beyond Skin, dazzling, eco-friendly footwear with cofounder Natalie Dean.
Alley Cat Allies' founder Becky Robinson discusses feral cats, the problem, and the solutions, after our tantalizing chat with Pramoda Chitrabhanu, author of Foods of Earth, Tastes of Heaven.
Garth Davis, M.D., Houston bariatric surgeon and author of Proteinaholic, with opener featuring Danielle Legg, VLCE, on how she rescued two chickens from a slaughterhouse—by asking.
Citizen Radio host and standup comic Jamie Kilstein + artist Jack Gescheidt, founder of the TreeSpirit Project.
Tim Barford on October's VegFestUK, and legendary vegan bodybuilder, Jim Morris, an inspiration for civil rights, gay rights, and compassionate athleticism.
Lani Muelrath, author of The Plant-Based Journey (preface by Colin Campbell, Ph.D, foreword by Neal Barnard, M.D.), and Elizabeth Lyman on her translation of The Green and the Red, a veg/omnivore love story, by Armand Chauvel.
Dreena Burton discusses her new book Plant-Powered Families, and nutritionist Lauren Krohn addresses working in the health field while dealing with her own disability.
Milton Mills, M.D., discusses the real Paleo diet and African-American health concerns, and Amy Rebecca introduces us to Vegan Scene, "a vegan Studio 54—with more quinoa," in Venice, California.
Lifelong Jain Saraubh Dalal, and Buddhist Bob Isaacson of Dharma Voices for Animals, discuss their ahimsa-based religions, compassion, and veganism, from a historical and present-day perspective.
Letters to a New Vegan and 4Leaf Guide to Vibrant Health are featured, with Letters' coeditor Justin Van Kleeck and 4Leaf's authors J. Morris Hicks and Kerry Graff, M.D.
Earthlings director Shaun Monson has a new film, Unity, about living from love for all beings. Our opening guest is Carol Cymerint, R.N., VLCE, author of The Answer Is Vegan.
Definition Fitness Magazine founder, bodybuilder, and cookbook author Christy Morgan is our headliner, following a helpful segment about healing from the loss of a companion animal with grief expert Joy Davy.
The magazine's editor/publisher Colleen Holland joins Christopher Locke, author of the animal rights novel Persimmon Takes on Humanity.
Filmmakers Nelson Campbell and Kim Campbell on the new documentary PlantPure Nation, plus Lisa Levinson of Vegan Spirituality.
Called 'the conscience of the animal rights movement,' Bruce Friedrich is with Farm Sanctuary and has a background in human rights; Lois Eastlund creates handmade yet affordable dresses to send any vegan fashion forward.
Noted food critics and journalists Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, authors of The Vegetarian Flavor Bible, talk fine dining with a vegan twist; opening special guest is Sonia Faruqi of Project Animal Farm.
Celebrating the Main Street Vegan show's third birthday, Victoria welcomes animal rights icon Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA, and The Meaty Truth's coauthor Amy-Lee Goodman.
Designers John Bartlett and Joshua Katcher discuss fashion, aesthetics, animal use and alternatives, menswear, and the rise of the new male, aka Katcher's blog, The Discerning Brute.
Jennifer Cornbleet's book Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People is the most often used cook (well, cookless ...) book in my kitchen and Jenny will share her secrets. Also: Rowdy Girl Renee King Sonnen, turning her husband's cattle ranch into an animal sanctuary.
Marty Davey, M.S., R.D., aka "La Diva," is back with her new multimedia e-book, I'm Not Dead Yet: Vegan Nutrition for the Over-50 Crowd, and to answer dietary questions from every age group. Opening act: Nora Kramer, director of YEA Camps for teens with a mission.
Recipe creator Doris Fin and "Good Karma Story" providers Kayle Martin, Deirdre Gaffke, and Marissa Podany join Victoria to discuss their parts in the book wellness activist Kris Carr calls "kitchen table karma, the sweetest and simplest kind."
Esther, the earth's most famous pig, represented by her dads Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter, + Sarah Webster, music supervisor for Pitch Perfect 2 and the AR classic, Earthlings.
"Mad Cowboy" Howard Lyman—cattle rancher turned vegan, famously sued with Oprah by Texas cattlemen in the 1990s—and actress Alexandra Paul, onetime Baywatch star and now vegan activist.
Brenda Davis, R.D., vegan, diabetes expert, and wealth of nutritional knowledge, returns to answer listeners' questions on all aspects of healthy eating.
Ultramarathoner Rich Roll teams with his musician-wife Julie Piatt to create The Plantpower Way, a glorious cookbook and lifestyle guide. Carmella Lanni-Giardina is half of @TheFoodDuo, hosts of the popular #VeganFoodChat.
Chefs Jay Astafa and Angela Lowe open deliciously for Gene Baur, Farm Sanctuary director and coauthor of Living the Farm Sanctuary Life. Cohost: Londoner Hannah Phoebe Bowen, VLCE.
Matt Rice of Mercy for Animals takes us inside the world of undercover investigations. Appetizer guest: actor Stan Krajewski, a new vegan with great health results.
Powerlifter Pat Reeves is a cancer survivor, grandmother, and champion on a raw vegan diet. We'll also meet Lisa Viger, whose blog is Raw on $10 (or Less!) a Day.
Frank Ferrante, subject of the transformational documentary May I Be Frank? headlines, and Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza of New York City's Candle restaurants share delicacies for Easter and Passover.
We honor Passover by hearing from Rabbi Steven Fuchs and Richard Schwartz, Ph.D, Skyping in from Israel. Also, Michael Webermann of FARM on the annual March 20 MeatOut, now a global event.
United Methodist clergyman Rev. Frank L. Hoffman goes chapter and verse in stating that the Bible supports a meat-free diet. Appetizer segment: Dustin Harder, The Vegan Roadie, and Howard Ketelsten, Ph.D., developer of Arty (artichoke!) Water, take on healthy libations and traveling vegan.
June Stoyer, host of The Organic View, is a vegan who'll eat honey and she’ll tell us why.
Miyoko returns to talk cheese, vegan business, and what it took to do a Tough Mudder race + cohost Camille DeAngelis, VLCE, whose latest novel is Bones and All.
Running, Eating, Thinking editor Martin Rowe and two of the book's essayists, Vegan Pressure Cooking author JL Fields, VLCE, and operatic soprano Lisette Oropesa, in a lively conversation touching on food, body image, baseball—even gym teachers!
Patrice Jones, codirector of VINE Sanctuary in Vermont, on the psychology of activism and the art of being vegan, “the next evolution.” And a pop-in from Tara Khando, author of Zen Sage, Cat Body.
Mark Rifkin, R.D., M.S., LDN, has a mission to scour the scientific literature and unearth information we can use NOW. And pop-in from animal behaviorist Marc Bekoff on Rewilding Our Hearts.
Celeb trainer Marco Borges talks fitness and food + vegan chef and Living Candida-Free author Ricki Heller.
Neal Barnard, M.D., founder and president of PCRM, on preventing Alzheimer's and the new PCRM medical clinic, + a visit from 90-year-old yoga instructor Stella Cherfas.
American Vegan Society cofounder Freya Dinshah and her daughter Anne Dinshah, author of Powerful Vegan Messages, plus vegan and diet-free coach Mags Baker of the Desserts and Miniskirts program.
Rip and his sister, Jane Esselstyn, coauthor of The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook, talk food, family, health, and legacy.
Filmmakers Keegan Kuhn and Kip Andersen discuss their eye-opening documentary, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, + pop-in from Julieanna Hever, M.S., R.D., CPT, with her new book The Vegiterranean Diet.
Former pro-Ironman and author of The Thrive Energy Cookbook, Brendan Brazier; ultra-marathoner Matt Frazier, author No Meat Athlete; and veteran raw foodist and actor, Joel Brody.
Veteran TV broadcaster Jane Velez-Mitchell, author of Addict Nation, + drop-in from John Lewis, CEO of BadAss Vegan power cookies and message wear.
Caryn Hartglass, founder of REAL (Responsible Eating and Living), radio host, and ovarian cancer survivor; pop-in visit from Julia Corbett, author of Raw Cookies.
Russell Simmons, hip-hop mogul and author of Success Through Stillness, and his yoga teacher, Jivamukti cofounder Sharon Gannon, author of Simple Recipes for Joy.
Dr. Richard Oppenlander, author of Comfortably Unaware, and a pop-in from Bart Potenza and Joy Pierson, of New York City's Candle restaurants, with new book Vegan Holiday Cooking From Candle Cafe.
Memoirist Teresa J. Rhyne (The Dogs Were Rescued and So Was I), and author and filmmaker Michael Lanfield (The Interconnectedness of Life) join The World Peace Diet's Dr. Tuttle. Cohost: Chrissy Benson, www.mindbodyspiritgroove.com.
81-year-old Carl Helvie, RN, M.P.H., outwitted cancer naturally 37 years ago, and 13-year-old Rose McCoy is a lifelong vegan and animal activist arrested at 12 for protesting SeaWorld.
The enchanting Talia Fuhrman, nutritionist, author of Love Your Body, and daughter of Joel Fuhrman, M.D., plus Adrienne Borgersen, coeditor of La Fashionista Compassionista magazine.
Robert Ostfeld, M.D., director of the Cardiac Wellness Program (all vegan!) at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, with pop-in visit from Miyoko Schinner, author of Artisan Vegan Cheeses and founder of Miyoko’s Kitchen gourmet vegan cheeses.
Fiona Oakes, world champion marathoner and the heart and hands behind the UK farmed animal sanctuary, Tower Hill Stables. And Kim Stallwood, author of Growl: Life Lessons, Hard Truth and Bold Strategies From an Animal Advocate.
The prolific author and ghost writer behind half a dozen of your favorite plant-based health books, to discuss his fascinating new work of fiction, The Awakening (what would happen if the animals developed human consciousness? ...), plus pop-in from Esther Oakley, VLCE, creator of kale doughnuts.
Nava Atlas, prolific vegan recipe creator and cookbook author, with her new book Plant Power: Transform Your Kitchen, Plate, and Life With Over 150 Fresh and Flavorful Vegan Recipes.
Lead singer of the Cro-Mags, Ironman, author, and tough-guy-turned-spiritual warrior weighs in on vegan living and spirituality for guys (tough guys included), and John Schlimm talks beer pairings and vegan bar grub. .
Vegan bodybuilder, runner, and author of the new book, Shred It: Burning Fat and Building Muscle on a Plant-Based Diet, plus pop-in all about the London VegFest coming in September.
Terry Hope Romero, coauthor of Veganomicon, with her new book, Salad Samurai, and Marty Krutolow, “vegan pilot Marty,” on green vs. greasy, travel, food prep, dining out, and whether it’s a good or bad thing to be a junk food vegan.
Gena Hamshaw, the culinary genius and health educator behind choosingraw.com, joins us to discuss her sensational new book, Choosing Raw: Making Raw Foods Part of the Way You Eat.
Legendary nutritionist and a raw-food vegan for more than 50 years—Dr. Bisci will be joining us live and in person in New York City during a session of Main Street Vegan Academy.
Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., M.D., President Clinton's physician, and his wife Ann and daughter Jane, authors of The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook. Pop-in from Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics in New York City, the world's first and only 100% certified organic restaurant.
“America’s Holistic Heart Doc” and Reader's Digest columnist, plus appetizer visit from Laura Theodore, “the jazzy vegetarian,” speaking about The China Study All-Star Collection.
Main Street Vegan coauthor Adair Moran and Cathy Wolfe, both NYS licensed wildlife rehabilitators, on cohabiting with wild beings in urban and suburban settings, and introducing Urban Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitation, New York City's first rehab program dedicated to wild mammals. Special guest in the appetizer segment: Caryn Hartglass of ResponsibleEatingandLiving.org.
HappyCow.net's Eric Brent of the international veg restaurant site pops in before talking with Mark Sutton of Heart Healthy Pizza and Jill Nussinow, MS, RD, author of The New Fast Food (pressure-cooking!).
The Lost Religion of Jesus author Keith Akers says yes. My guest host is Charles Chen of RawYouth.org.
Colleen drops in at the top of the hour and then we meet Kathy Landry, an animal communicator and a vegan.
VivaLaVegan.net's Leigh-Chantelle, ND, from Australia, and Paul Rodney Turner, who heads up food relief efforts for ISKCON, are guests, + a pop-in from Robin Asbell, author of Juice It!
Robert Cohen, the "not milkman," joins Victoria and guest cohost Greg Lawson of NPR's Animal Concerns of Texas (ACT) show for a spirited discussion of the dark side of dairy.
Vegan Paleo authors Ellen Jaffe Jones and Chef Alan Roettinger, plus a pop-in from Brenda Carey of Vegan Health and Fitness magazine.
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead's Joe Cross ("Joe the Juicer") on juicing and detox; pop-in from Jenne Claiborne, sweetpotatosoul.com.
Chickens count, with Karen Davis, Ph.D, of United Poultry Concerns, and cohost Chrissy Benson, JD, VLCE.
If you're wanting to look great at the gym—or maybe start your own vegan company—get the facts on both from David Toro, founder of Athletica V sports apparel, "100% Performance, 0% Cruelty"; and then meet Jeff Golfman, author of The Cool Vegetarian, to find out why eating plants is a trend that's not stopping.
Humane Society of the U.S. is America's largest animal protection organization and has enlarged its scope in recent years to include farmed animals. Learn of successes—half a billion fewer animals killed now than 2007—and challenges from Humane Society of the U.S. Vice President for Farmed Animals Paul Shapiro. Plus pop-ins from Young's Pop-Up Restaurant (youngsnyc.com) and Animals Asia U.S. director Paula Burton (animalsasia.org).
Austin Aries is known by Impact Wrestling fans worldwide for his feats in the ring, but the inside scoop is that this wrestler is a vegan, who'll share with us his views on sportsmanship, showmanship, eating for power, and living with compassion.
Cruelty-free cosmetics experts Melisser Elliot is our first guest, sharing the latest in natural cosmetics, followed by Jessica Geier of Raw Generation, who'll give us the skinny on juicing and looking gorgeous from the inside out.
From 1880 to 1970, scientific journals were reporting on findings about heart disease, cancer, vegetarian diets, fasting, and detoxing—but that was before the Internet. So that this valuable information would not be lost, Alan Immerman, DC, spent 25 years compiling this data in the fascinating "Immerman Files" and shares his fascinating finds on today's show.
600MillionDogs.org founder Alex Pacheco and ethologist Marc Beckoff, author of Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed, will share, in turn, how to end overpopulation of the world's domestic dogs through birth control, and what makes nonhuman animals who they are.
The End of Dieting is the latest contribution to health and vitality by Nutritiarian guru and PBS star Joel Fuhrman, M.D., who is also the author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller Eat to Live.
J. Morris Hicks, author of Health Eating, Healthy Planet, is vegan for every reason, but primarily to save our fragile ecosystem. Meet the man who's working with film director James Cameron, and attempting to bring on board tycoon Ted Turner, to help save the planet in a big way—forks first!
Special guests today are Rev. Brendalyn Batchelor of the Unity Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Russell Elleven, Ph.D., a U.U. clergyman from Fort Worth, Texas, and Chicago. Dr. Elleven is also a Main Street Vegan Academy-certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator.
Scholar and lecturer, Richard Schwartz, of Jewish Vegetarians of North America, discusses the dietary design presented in the Torah, and how vegetarianism/veganism can be seen as the purest expression of Jewish values.
BodyMind nutritionist and certified personal trainer Gary Gibson, HHC, AADP, VLCE, of TheVeganEffect.com discusses the spiritual side of food and what it has to do with your health, athletic performance, and peace of mind.
Never Too Late to Go Vegan coauthor Patti Breitman blesses all boomers with terrific information on mid-and-late-life veg conversion—and she'll help you get your mom and dad and grandparents onboard. Patti went vegan after editing the 1980 mega-hit Fit for Life, and she's the retired literary agent of major vegan authors including John Robbins, Howard Lyman, Ingrid Newkirk, Dr. Neal Barnard, Melanie Joy, and Victoria Moran.
Vegan fashion, beauty, and image expert Ginger Burr of TotalImageConsultants.com weighs in on looking well and living well.
Carol Adams is coauthor of Never Too Late to Go Vegan as well as author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, Living Among Meat Eaters, and The Inner Art of Vegetarianism.
Today's guests are Nick Cooney and Brad Gruno. Nick Cooney is founder of the Humane League and author of Veganomics, a fascinating look at the science and stats behind what makes vegetarians tick. Brad Gruno is founder and president of Brad's Raw Kale Chips and tells us about business and health and how he's helped turned a once forgotten vegetable into America's favorite green.
Dr. Colin Campbell is widely regarded as the preeminent nutrition researcher alive today. He was lead researcher on The China Study, cited by The New York Times as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" and yielding the surprising information that a whole-foods, plant-based diet leads to maximum disease prevention.
Today's guests are 12-year-old radio host Kevin Storm and Karen Dawn, autor of Thanking the Monkey.
Ethologist Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., a returning guest, and Mary Finelli, founder and director of FishFeel.org, will astound you with their fascinating conversation about what humans have very recently learned about the lives and sophistication of beings who live in the water.
Jack Norris, RD, is a brilliant nutritionist, registered dietician, scrupulous researcher, and coauthor with Virginia Messina, RD, of the essential guide to plant-exclusive nutrition, Vegan for Life.
Trayce Lynn McQuirter, MPH, is a food policy expert and author of By Any Greens Necessary: A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat.
Legendary actor and health reformer Marilu Henner joins us today, along with Liz Marshall, director of the stunning animal rights film The Ghosts in Our Machine.
Mimi Kirk won Peta's "Sexiest Vegetarian Over 50" contest when she was 70. She's 73 now and still a beautiful and vibrant raw-food vegan, author of Live Raw.
Vegan troubadour Daniel Redwood shares his music and Meatonomics author David Simon lets us in on the economic impact of the meat and dairy industries. Guest cohost: Danielle Legg
Author of the glorious and definitive new book Vegan Chocolate, Chef Fran waxes poetic on sweets, secrets of successful vegan baking, health, looking amazing at, ahem, a certain age, and—oh, yes—chocolate.
John Pierre is one of the kindest and wisest men I know, and it’s an honor to showcase his first book, The Pillars of Health. Do what he says and that’ll be enough.
Prolific author John Schlimm (The Tipsy Vegan, Grilling Vegan Style) returns to discuss cheese in every fabulous vegan form (lots you can concoct easily in your own kitchen) and his other new book, geared to teenage world-changers.
Audience favorite Mark Mathew Braunstein is back, focusing this time on how raising tiny greens indoors can be the key to super health.
Beautiful inside and out, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is a vegan author, baker, recipe creator, legendary podcaster, and highly effective spokesperson for compassion for all creatures. She talks about her small but powerful collection of essays, On Being Vegan.
Brilliant—and at times renegade—dietician Ginny Messina and blogger (JL Goes Vegan), Main Street Vegan lifestyle coach, and educator JL Fields riff on their good-sense/good-read new book, Vegan for Her.
The noted Melanie Joy, Ph.D., discusses her keynote thesis, carnism, why cultures determine that it’s okay to think of some animals as friends and others as dinner—and how to dismantle this notion.
Today we speak with nutritionist Caroline Dupont, author of The New Enlightened Eating, and Ruby Roth, whose new book is V Is for Vegan: The ABCs of Being Kind for 3-to-6-year-olds.
Laura Theodore discusses her life and work as “the jazzy vegetarian,” and filmmaker Mark Devries discusses his groundbreaking documentary, Speciesism: The Movie.
Lisa Everett, B.Sc. Pharm., FACA, CCN, talks about hormones in all phases of life and the bioidentical hormone replacement controversy, and what it takes to live vibrantly forever after.
A conversation in person in New York City during a Main St. Vegan Academy course with Catskill Animal Sanctuary founder Kathy Stevens, author of Where the Blind Horse Sings and Animal Camp.
We’ll talk with longtime raw food expert, chef, and mom Jinjee Talifero; then Sid Garza-Hillman discusses his philosophy of health and his new book: Approaching the Natural: A Health Manifesto.
Champion vegan bodybuilder-turned-endurance-athlete and author of Vegan Body Building and Fitness talks about reaching goals, going for the gold, mega-fitness on a vegan diet, and carrying the message.
Radio superstar Erin Red Grayson joins me in hosting an in-person party with Sherry Colb, whose new book is about answering all those pesky questions …
Bodybuilder Giacome Marchese, personal trainer Dani Taylor, and figure competitor Stephanie Rice on how to sculpt the perfect form with veggies and gym time.
Sprinter and distance runner Ellen Jaffe Jones on the sporting life and her new book for those in blended (dietary) families: Kitchen Divided. And Jay Astafa, the new chef in town, on what it’s like to be NYC foodies’ hot ticket at 20.
Today we’re going to shake things up. Some visible vegans have in recent months gone back to eating animal foods. Today we’ll discuss this anomaly with the ever-committed vegan mom and fashionista Chloe Davis of GirlieGirlArmy.com.
Dr. Neal Barnard, founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and author of Power Foods for the Brain, weighs in on ending Alzheimer’s in our lifetime—a not-to-miss program.
Join the Webby-winning podcasters and founders of OurHenHouse.org to learn what we can do to make a difference for animals.
The ancient Indian health care system of ayurveda promises long life and health. Vegetarian in its roots, The Ayurvedic Vegan Kitchen author Talya Lutzker makes it vegan—and it can change your life.
Spend an enchanted hour with the inimitable Kris Carr, cancer survivor and game-changer for health in America.
Join Karen Ranzi, author of Creating Healthy Children and a speech therapist who works with autistic students, as we discuss healthy kids and benefits of a largely raw food diet for people of all ages.
You think you know what a vegan looks like? We’re as unique as can be, and our guests today, über-tattooed wrestler Big Bald Mike and the ever-elegant Honey LaBronx of YouTube fame, will discuss being vegan and being yourself.
Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and What to Eat for Dinner - A Satisfying Diet for Unsatisfying Times is a spiritual and culinary look at food as celebration and sacrament.
We’ll discuss companion animal welfare, ethical issues in veterinary medicine, risks and benefits of a vegan diet for dogs and cats, and the spiritual basis of Dr. May’s veganism in her Zoroastrian faith.
David Benzaquen, CEO of Plant Based Solutions, discusses new vegan foods on the market, Annie Shannon talks about the hot new cookbook Betty Goes Vegan, and Rory Freedman of Skinny Bitch fame calls in to introduce her new book Beg.
Get fit in the time you've got with Lani Muelrath, author of Fit Quickies: 5-Minute, Targeted Body-Shaping Workouts. Mary Clifton, M.D., joins us too.
You saw this raw food expert and mega-weight-loser on The Doctors—the young man who lost 250 pounds on a raw vegan diet and has kept it off for more than six years.
I am joined by Julie Simon, MA, author of The Emotional Eater's Repair Manual: A Practical Mind-Body-Spirit Guide for Putting an End to Overeating and Dieting.
Alex Hershaft, founder of the Great American Meatout, and Michelle Simon, J.D., author of Appetite for Profit.
I am joined by American Vegan Society founder Freya Dinshah, and Linda Long, author of Virgin Vegan and Great Chefs Cook Vegan.
Ask the Dietician: Marty Davey, RD, La Diva Dietician: plant-based dietitian on vegan nutrition for the life cycle.
Ryan Andrews, MS/MA, RD, nutrition coach, and author of Drop the Fat Act and Live Lean (Fascinating fact: Ryan won a brand-new car from Oprah and gave it away!)
Join us today as guest vegan dietician Ginny Messina, M.S., R.D., discusses good-sense/good-health eating for the real-world vegan.
James McWilliams, associate professor of history at Texas State University, environmentalist, vegan, and author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly.
Glamour and Allure beauty expert Tashina Combs, who writes the popular vegan beauty and lifestyle blog, Logical Harmony; and chef and recipe creator Christy Morgan, author of Blissful Bites: Vegan Meals That Nourish Mind, Body, and Planet.
Dustin Rudolph, longevity guru and Registered Pharmacist, will help us to a 2013 with more health and fewer pharmacies!
Rich Roll, vegan ultramarathoner and author of Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself.
Annette Larkins is the amazing "ageless woman" of YouTube fame. Annette is a 70-something Floridian who largely attributes her youthfulness and beauty to her raw vegan diet.
Jill Pyle, co-owner of VeganCuts.com (discount shopping for plant-based people); and Eleanor Feldman-Barbera, Ph.D., author of The Savvy Resident's Guide: Everything You Wanted to Know About Your Nursing Home Stay But Were Afraid to Askand founder of My Better Nursing Home, discusses aging, compassion, and being "struck vegan."
Ayurvedic expert Brian Leaf, author of Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi; and Lauren Ornelas, founder and director of the vegan food justice organization, the Food Empowerment Project.
Anne Dinshah, co-author of kids' cookbook Apples, Bean Dip, & Carrot Cake: Kids! Teach Yourself to Cook and author of Dating Vegans; and Jenny Brown, co-director of the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary and author of The Lucky Ones.
Brian and Anna Maria discuss their books 7 Keys to Lifelong Sexual Vitality and Killer Fish.
Guest co-host Erin Red Grayson of Erin Red Radio joins Main Street Vegan for a discussion with Marty Davey, MS, RD, "La Diva Dietician," on the basics of plant-based eating.
Happy Halloween! But we won’t be scaring anybody with today’s program: Instead, we’ll be inviting “Ooohs” and “Ahhhs” with our delightful guest, animal behaviorist Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., author of Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (Macsci). Dr. Balcombe will regale us with incredible stories of the self-awareness, the personalities and the altruism of creatures from fish to rats to birds and all the rest. It’s no wonder God looked at what He’d made and pronounced it all good—we’ll learn this Halloween that these creatures are good—and smart and fascinating and valuable in their own right. You’ll love this show.
A pair of incredible women will join us today: from Minnesota, Robin Asbell, author of cookbooks including Big Vegan: More than 350 Recipes, No Meat/No Dairy All Delicious and the new Sweet and Easy Vegan: Treats Made With Whole Grains and Natural Sweeteners (c’mon, who doesn’t love dessert?); and from North Carolina, Rachel Weaver, the young mother of three who was healed of debilitating ulcerative colitis through fasting, juicing, a simple vegan diet, and an unshakeable belief in the healing power of God.
Get ready to get healthy for keeps with today’s wise and wonderful guests, Michael Klaper, M.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C., both of the True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. (Dr. Goldhamer is also co-author of The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force That Undermines Health and Happiness, one of the best books out there on why we eat the way we do and how to make positive changes.) These men have a combined 60 years’ experience in helping people heal through lifestyle choices and drawing on the healing life God planted into each and every body. Tune in for information that morphs into the inspiration you need to make the changes you want to make today.
A few years back, Victoria Beckham was photographed with a copy of a book called Skinny Bitch, and it went on to achieve phenomenon-status success around the world. And, well, it ought to: This is the book that showed the world that looking fabulous is about living fabulously—with caring for others as well as ourselves. We’re honored to have Skinny Bitch co-author, Rory Freedman, live with us in NYC, to talk about her spiritual path, her dietary path, her ethical convictions, and life after mega-success.
Michael Greger, M.D., may just know more about human nutrition than anyone alive on the planet. He scours every nutrition journal published in the English language and reports his findings on his remarkable site, www.nutritionfacts.org.
Diet and exercise work hand in hand, along with a positive attitude, to create good health. Helping us all to eat better (and quicker) is “the veggie queen,” Jill Nussinow, R.D., whose latest book is The New Fast Food: The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less Than 30 Minutes(this is not your mother’s pressure cooker); and vegan personal trainer and erstwhile nationally ranked swimming champion, Wendy Siskin.
This is the show that scones built: We tasted the incredible, totally vegan scones of Chef Mark Reinfeld, and knew that we wanted to introduce the author of The 30-Minute Vegan: Over 175 Quick, Delicious, and Healthy Recipes for Everyday Cooking and the upcoming The 30-Minute Vegan’s Taste of Europe: 150 Plant-Based Makeovers of Classics From France, Italy, Spain ... and Beyond to our listeners.
Veering from our focus on chefs this month, our show features two amazing guests who care for rescued animals. Katie Vandergrift of Colorado’s Wild Animal Sanctuary is “den mother” to large cats and other wild creatures rescued from abuse situations. We’ll also have Ron Allison, M.D., board president of PIGS, a Sanctuary, in West Virginia, providing homes for potbellied pigs, farmed pigs and other farmed animals rescued from abuse/neglect and living happy, happy lives.
We’re focusing on food this month, and our first September guest is the gifted Chef AJ, author of Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight. She’ll talk about her own health and weight loss transformation and how she makes dishes that are animal-free, oil-free, salt-free, and refined-sugar-free, and still super-yummy every time.
Today we’ll go fashion forward with two style-savvy vegan women, Leann Mai-ly Hilgart, founder and designer of Vaute Couture (www.vautecouture.com), exquisite, eco-friendly, animal-product-free, made-in-America coats and jackets for women and men; and Michelle Schwegmann of the Herbivore Clothing Company (www.herbivoreclothing.com), an online vegan department store with a brick and mortar location in Portland, Oregon.
A special full hour show with Frank Sabatino, D.C., Ph.D. Adair will be traveling in Africa, and Victoria will host solo this week, doing an in-depth interview with her own health mentor. Dr. Sabatino has a doctorate in cell biology and neuroimmunology from Emory University Medical School, and yet he’s gifted at talking to regular people about transforming their health in the real world.
Two guests who know about good food: Ellen Jaffe-Jones, author of Eat Vegan on $4 a Day, and Patti Breitman, co-author of How to Eat Like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One: More Than 250 Shortcuts, Strategies, and Simple Solutions (Patti is also co-founder of Dharma Voices for Animals, a group that honors nonhuman beings based on teachings from the Buddhist tradition).
Mark Braunstein, author of Radical Vegetarianism, expert on sprouting and micro-greens, also has an inspiring story of defying the odds and learning to walk with crutches after the accident that severed his spinal cord.
Ruby Roth, author and illustrator of the thought-provoking children’s book, Vegan Is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action, talks about kids, animals, and the response she got to her no-holds-barred book.
Let's get Vegucated ... with the fun and fabulous film by that name from radiant auteur Marisa Miller-Wolfson, our guest today on Main Street Vegan. Marisa's delightful documentary follows the adventures (and misadventures) of three meat-and-cheese-loving New Yorkers (she found them on Craigslist!) who agree to go vegan—no animal products at all—for 90 days. As warm and funny and accepting as her film, Marisa wants to talk with YOU about all things veg.
It's the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer as the song says, and thoughts turn to firing up the grill. Vegans can cook out with the best of them, and our guest today, John Schlimm, author of Grilling Vegan Style: 125 Fired-Up Recipes to Turn Every Bite into a Backyard BBQ , will help you become a veg-on-the-barbie expert. Call in with your questions for John or to chat about all things vegan-ish.
You may have heard him speak (and magnificently play piano) at your church, or you've read his groundbreaking book, World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony. If his work has touched you at all, you'll need no urging to tune in today to spend time in the healing presence of Will Tuttle, Ph.D., a former Zen monk and a gentle voice of sanity in the world. Dr. Tuttle will share with us how to gain more inner peace—and possibly world peace too—starting at the grocery store. We'll take your calls.
This week on Main Street Vegan: Victoria is en route to Vegetarian Summerfest and prerecorded a fun and fascinating show with the founders of Our Hen House: Jasmin Singer (fresh from her appearance on Dr. Oz) and Mariann Sullivan, J.D., professor of animal law at Cordozo and Brooklyn Law Schools. Email your questions about animals and animal rights to victoria@mainstreetvegan.net.
Welcome to the intro program of Main Street Vegan! Victoria and Adair will lay out the format of this lively and life-giving hour, answer questions that have come in online, and interview two fascinating guests: blogger JL Fields of JLGoesVegan.com (she went veg after 40, became a triathlete, and encourages us to "Stop Chasing Skinny!"); and Gary Gibson, HHC, AADP, CPT, health educator, fitness coach and creator of The Vegan Effect.