Vegan Cats & Dogs with Jed Gillen, Author of Obligate Carnivore
Please note that some customers have reported their cats having problems after being fed the Evolution vegan cat food. Please refer to a recent discussion we had on this on March 21, 2006. This week on Animal Voices we’ll be speaking with Jed Gillen, author of the controversial book Obligate Carnivore, which tackles the touchy topic of...
Jeffrey Moussaeiff Masson Tells Us About Animal Fathers
Please join us for a very special Father’s Day edition of Animal Voices featuring bestselling author, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Recently, we were able to speak with Jeff about fatherhood and the lessons we can learn from examining animal fathers in the wild. Insightful, candid, and always entertaining, Jeff discusses how writing the book, The Emperor’s Embrace: Reflections...
Activist and educator Pattrice Le-Muire Jones on the state of the animal liberation movement
Interview with inspiring activist and educator Pattrice Le-Muire Jones of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary & Education Center and the Global Hunger Alliance. We’ll be addressing some difficult challenges currently facing the animal liberation movement. For example, how do we make sense of the lack of diversity within the movement? What does coalition-building actually mean and what does...
VeganEssentials, vegan bodybuilding, and The Organic Buddha Café
Guest co-host Laura Armstrong will let us in on what it was like opening up her vegetarian restaurant in the middle of Toronto’s Greek district, how it’s going one year later and how her activism has triggered a meeting place where the interests of Toronto’s veg community can connect and grow. We’ll also be speaking...
Richard Kahn talks about GetVegan.com, ecological consciousness, and saving the planet
Interview with Richard Kahn, publisher of the Vegan Blog. Richard will join us to talk about GetVegan.com, a “collective based in Southern California that aims to promote ecological consciousness, sustainable living practices, and animal rights to a burgeoning global culture that is interested in what it can do to help save the planet!” GetVegan.com provides a wide range...
The Veg Resource Group & cookbooks galore!
This week on Animal Voices we’ll be speaking with Debra Wasserman, co-coordinator of the Baltimore-based Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) and prolific cookbook author. The VRG is a “non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on vegetarianism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, ecology, ethics, and world hunger. In addition to publishing the Vegetarian Journal, VRG produces...
Jonah Sachs of Free Range Graphics (creators of The Meatrix) and Paul Shapiro of Compassion Over Killing
Today, Animal Voices will be speaking with Jonah Sachs, co-founder of Free Range Graphics and visionary behind The Meatrix, the incredibly popular Flash animation about factory farming. Jonah will tell us all about alternative and activist-orientated graphic designing as well as give us the inside scoop on The Meatrix. In the last half hour, we’ll hear from...
Avoiding activist burnout with poet James Strecker and Miyun Park of Compassion Over Killing
Today’s show will be about activist burnout, both within activism in general and animal rights activism in particular. Burnout seems to plague our movement and other social justice movements. It can be alienating and depressing to continually confront the horrors of the world, with little opportunity to witness immediate change. Sometimes activists don’t take the...
Wolves Ontario!, Food Fight!, and Two Blueberry Farmers
This week’s Animal Voices is packed! We’ll kick it all off with a news report, followed by an interview with Earthroots‘ dedicated wilderness campaigner, Melissa Tkachyk. Melissa will give us an update about the Wolves Ontario! initiative, and let us know what is still left to be done to help Ontario wolves. Then we’ll wake up Chad...
Jennifer Conrad, DVM, on declawing
Jennifer Conrad, DVM, founder and director of The Paw Project, talks about feline declawing. She answers a few common questions like: Is laser surgery a safer method of declawing? What are the complications that can arise from this operation? What are the alternatives? Isn’t declawing a cat and giving her a home better than leaving her...
Jennifer Wolch, Professor of Geography, on the convergences between racism, immigration, and the exploitation of animals
This week on Animal Voices, we’ll be speaking with Professor of Geography (University of Southern California), Jennifer Wolch, about her views and research on the convergences between ‘race’, immigration, and the exploitation of animals. We’ll look at how racist discourses influence the way animal abuse is represented in the media and general public. Part of our...
Vegan Baking
This week on Animal Voices, we’ll be diving deep into the decadent and delicious world of vegan baking. Kirsten Rosenberg will be joining us to talk about co-founding the fabulous Sticky Fingers Bakery, based in Washington D.C. We’ll discuss some of the tricks of the trade, and pointers for those new to vegan baking. Also, Amanda...
