Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano

Can one app change the world? CEO Vikas Garg of ABillionVeg joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss how, through reviews, the direct feedback from customers to restaurants about their vegan options allows restaurants to do more and better vegan dishes, thus growing the market. ABillionVeg app also donates $1 per review to animal sanctuaries and allows consumers the chance for their voi...

Founder of Tofurky , Seth Tibbott, dishes with me on the The Plantbased Business Hour on Meat and Dairy bailouts, Tofurky's booming plantbased business, their new factory strategy during #Covid-19, the delay of the Moocho cheese launch and his book, In Search of the Wild Tofurky.  Plus, Felipe Alvalos of Big Love Catering joins us to talk feeding first responders vegan meals from the kindness of h...

Rebecca Mink, Founder/Designer of Mink Shoes shares how she crafts her vegan luxury shoes in Italy, the passion behind the craft and how the Florence leather market is opening to vegan leather! Rebecca makes vegan shoes for the stars and, in a step ahead of the markets, she is takng her luxury shoes direct to consumers with her custom boutique.   Get your shoe fetish on! It's Mink Shoes on the Pla...

Happy Earth Day! Rock Star Richard Marx and Model/Business Woman Daisy Fuentes, a couple totally aligned and uncensored, give tips for couples going vegan together and pitfalls and tricks they learned along the way.  Completely unfiltered, Daisy and Richard also talk about the traumatic indivdual circumstances that lead them both to stop eating fish.  The two also share what they have learned abou...

Slaughterhouse shutdowns, Burger King law suits, Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine takes on U.S. Wet Markets, The Mile High Vegan Network and the So Flo Vegan Summit. With coverage from JaneUnChained News Network and Vegconomist , I break down the vegan news w/ Courtney Garza VegWorld Magazine on THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR.  Visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com  and http://VegWorldMag.com...

Awesome Vegans Influencer Series: Incredible candor from world renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine about how she has been vegetarian since birth and largely lactose intolerant. When she researched veganism while pregnant, she cut out dairy in-full and raised her daughter vegan for both of their health and stamina. The two play an incredible duet, around 40:00. NOT TO BE MISSED! Check out http://...

THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR: Who is eating the most plant-based jerky around the country? It isn't cowboys! CEO and Founder of It's Jerky Y'all, Brett Christoffel, shares the pitfalls for entrepreneurs and power of being mission driven.  Get your Texan on, It's Jerky Y'All !! For more information, visit ItsJerkyYall.com and ElysabethAlfano.com

AWESOME VEGANS is back! Dr. Joel Kahn, America's Healthy Dr and founder of the Kahn Longevity Center, gives his Top 5 Tips for Boosting Your Immune System. We discuss the progressing Coronavirus across the U.S. and what the medical community has learned, if anything, from Covid-19. Most importantly, will there be another epidemic? For more information, visit DrJoelKahn.com and ElysabethAlfano.com

The Plantbased Business Hour: 2020 is the year of Vegan Chicken! Mechanical Engineer and CEO or Rebellyous Foods, Christie Lagally, explains how she takes on the largest sector of the meat industry (Chicken) by creating a delicious chicken nugget that can scale up in volume and scale down in price to truly replace chicken production. She talks food and engineering the machinery for large scale pro...

THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR: A NASA research gig turns into a discovery of a lifetime....will microbes feed the world? CEO of Nature's Fynd, Thomas Jonas explains how all protein comes from plants and microbes and that microbes will become our efficient, nutritious, and prolific food supply of the future. For more information, visit http://Naturesfynd.com and http://ElysabethAlfano.com

Co-CEO and Co-Founder of GoodDot (India ), Abhishek Sinha joins me on the PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR to discuss veganism in India, the cultural pros and cons to embracing same and GoodDot's exploding business beyond Asia.  For more information, visit here.

Is it enough to buy plant-based items when your tax dollars support meat and dairy subsidies? If meat and dairy is propped up by subsidie giving them unfair competitivie advantage, are we really a capitalist economy? Connie Spence of Agriculture Fairness Alliance and the Vegan Justice League Explains. For more information visit Http://ElysabethAlfano.com and click on Awesome Vegans tab.   

Jeffrey Harris, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Plant Power Fast Food joins me on the PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR to talk about sales during Coronavirus, the beauty of a dedicated, loyal customer base and what he does in the face of fear. For a dose of inspiration and motivation, listen in!  For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com  and   http://PowerPlantFastFood.com

THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR: Lisa Feria of Stray Dog Capital joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss plantbased bacon, vegan foods tasting better than their counterparts and the most important skill for an entrepreneur. Listen in and for more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com and click the Awesome Vegans tab.

THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR: Miyoko Schinner of Miyoko's Creamery joins me to discuss health and cruelty issues with dairy and the struggling dairy industry.  In addition, we discuss Miyoko's NEW CHEDDAR, how she got her start in veganism and what prompted her to start a cheese dynasty! To inform, the USDA that you do not want dairy to be recommended as a health food on its nutritions 2020-2025...

THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR (A New Awesome Vegans Interview Series): Ryan Bethencourt, Founder of Wild Earth Pet Foods and Co-Author of The Clean Pet Food Revolution: How Better Pet Food Will Change the World , joins me to discuss how our pet food industry props up factory farming and how much of the pet food consists of dead, diseased, disabled and dying animals contributing to the spread of dis...

April 1 PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR, an Awesome Vegans Series: What's the next Big (Plantbased) Idea? Andrew Ive, General Partner and Founder of Big Idea Ventures shares the secret, but here's a hint: it isn't food. Watch and listen in to find out! For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com

THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR, March 31: Lou Cooperhouse, CEO and President of BlueNalu, joins me to discuss the impending reality of cellular aquaculture, changing consumer habits and demands, the waste, inefficiency, cruelty and environmental biproduct of fishing and fish farms and the worldwide rising demand for fish. This is the future! Listen in. For more information visit, http://ElysabethAlf...

Back by popular demand! From Althea Restaurant in Chicago, my favorite nutrition nerd of Nutrition Facts.org , Dr. Greger talks Coronavirus, How Not to Diet and his 21 tweaks for staing strong and healthy.  This is a not to be missed episode - CLASSIC Dr. Greger. For more information, visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com  

How are vegan restaurants surviving during the COVID-19 crisis?  Andrew Kalish of Sam & Gertie's and Kalish and Jennie Plasterer of Kitchen 17 are two of very few Chicago vegan restaurants which are still open...in fact they have reinvented themselves, forging ahead with new business models to keep vegan food, their businesses and hope alive.  Tune in to listen to these two business leaders who ar...

On The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano (A Special Awesome Vegans Series) , Dr. Dean Ornish, Father of Lifestyle Medicine and author of UnDo It explains how hospitals are coping with Coronavirus, how to boost your immune system with a plant-based diet and if we can change the healthcare system to be in the business of promoting health, rather than sickness. Turn to http://Ornish.com...

The Plantbased Business Hour, along with my radio The Elysabeth Alfano show - the only radio show in the nation, is now part of the Awesome Vegans Podcast! PBH airs weekdays at 1p PT during Shelter at Home, Live on Facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell. Tune in! Grammy Award Winning Baritone Lucas Meachem is back on  on surviving as a performer when all performances are cancelled. Plus, he compares Coron...

IMPOSSIBLE FOODS is CHANGING THE WORLD! Firecracker and Smart Lady, Rachel Konrad joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour, a special series within Awesome Vegans. From Impossible Pork, to our public health, to the environmental call and the horrible feeling we all share from eating animals...Rachel gets into it all. Stay informed and listen in as this truly insightful interview! For more informat...

Claire Smith of Beyond Investing and Beyond Animal joins me to discuss the hurdle of not enough bank loans for plantbased businesses, their reliance on private equity and being at the mercy of private equity's need for liquidity. We also discuss a shifting market place towards plantbased.  The Plantbased Business Hour airs weekdays during 'home stay' on Facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell .  It is arch...

The Coronavirus came from eating animals.  No one is talking about this.  So I have started a Special Series Running on Awesome Vegans (in addition to same) during 'Safer at Home' Coronavirus times: The Plantbased Business Hour.  This series talks about the solution to pandemic viruses (Corona, SARS, Ebola, Mad Cow, Swine Fever, Asian Bird Flu, etc.), which is plant-based meat alternatives.  I wil...