Main Street Vegan

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

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. Learn more about your ad choices...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 invi...

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

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

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

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 A...

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

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, W...

T​wo ​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 Tranq...

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 ...Learn more about your ad...

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. Learn more about...

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

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

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

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

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 document...

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

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

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