Main Street Vegan

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more abo...

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

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. Learn more about you...

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pint-size animal advocate Genesis Butler, featured in the documentary Vegan Everyday Stories, opens for celebrity chef Jason Wrobel with his new cookbook, Eaternity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

“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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices....

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

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 n...

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 d...

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices