Rising Above Expectations: An Interview with Vegan Bakery Owner, Kyle Paton
This week’s show is a special treat for everyone with a sweet tooth and an appetite for ethically sourced food. We are joined by Kyle Paton, the owner and operator of Rise Above Bakery and Catering, in St. Catharines, Ontario. Becoming something of a hub for local music and activism, Rise Above is making a big impact...
Mainstreaming Veganism (With Humour): 10,000 Tastes, 10 Billion Reasons
This week we cover a recent Toronto event aptly named “10,000 Tastes, 10 Billion Reasons“. The event, held at both Young and Dundas Square (Canada’s busiest pedestrian intersection) and CIUT’s home at The University of Toronto’s Hart House, combined free vegan hot dogs with music, vegan celebrity appearances (including Farm Sanctuary co-founder Gene Baur and...
Operation Crush Captivity!: Dylan Powell of Marineland Animal Defense
We were joined very briefly last week by grassroots, DIY activist and co-founder of The Vegan Police, Dylan Powell. Dylan discussed the news that Seaworld has won a lawsuit against Marineland over the custody and care of Ikaika, an 8 year old Orka. Dylan is back today to tell us more about the Marineland Animal Defense (MAD), whose stated goals...
CRAVE: Cultivating Radical Activism, Vitality and Education; a Feature with Kevin Tillman of the Vegan Hip Hop Movement
Animal Voices is proud to present a special feature with Kevin Tillman of the Vegan Hop Hop Movement. Kevin has been working with youth as part of the CRAVE (Cultivating Radical Activism, Vitality and Education) community. Click below to learn more about CRAVE and to hear two fresh tracks recently recorded at the “ComUNITY Art...
Unmasking Repression: An Interview with “Green is the New Red” author Will Potter
The Animal Voices team is offering up a jam packed show this week! First, we’re joined by Dylan Powell from Marineland Animal Defense (MAD) to discuss breaking news that Seaworld has won a lawsuit against Marineland over the custody and care of Ikaika, an 8 year old Orka. Read the story here. Stay tuned for an...
Animal Rights Repression in Spain: Arrested Activist Sharon Núñez Gough Speaks Out
This week we present a special interview with Sharon Núñez Gough, co-founder of Igualdad Animal / Animal Equality. She is one of the 12 animal activists (including members of Equanimal) arrested in Spain last Tuesday, June 22nd, 2011. She and 8 others have since been released with charges, while three others remain imprisoned. In this interview we hear...
“What Pushed Me over the Edge Was a Deer Hunter”: A Talk with Christopher Hirschler about Being Vegan in North America
We are joined by Christopher Hirschler, assistant professor of Health Studies at Monmouth University. Hirschler tells us about his paper “What Pushed Me over the Edge Was a Deer Hunter”: Being Vegan in North America, which asks questions about why people become began, how they stay vegan, and the impact of veganism on their relationships. Listen right...
APieCalypse Now!
Vegan baker extraordinaire and self proclaimed dessert-enthusiast, Jenny Bundock, joins us to talk about her small vegan bakery that’s making a big impact on the Distillery District and U of T’s Farmer’s Market. APieCalypse Now! serves up delectable treats that are unabashedly Vegan, organic, and fair-trade because, as the APieCalypse Now! Facebook page says, “people are animals too, and vegan...
“Read is the New Green”: Josh Harper on Conflict Gypsy
Guest host Dylan Powell talks to Josh Harper about his new project, Conflict Gypsy, an attempt to catalogue and digitally distribute decades of animal liberation literature. He hopes to preserve the movement’s history and help activists learn from and build on the successes and failures of the past.
Food Empowerment Project has an Appetite for Justice: An Interview with lauren Ornelas
We talk with lauren Ornelas, founder and volunteer executive director of the Food Empowerment Project. Ornelas tells us about the Food Empowerment Project’s most recent study on how easy it is for communities of color and low-income communities to have access to healthy fruits and vegetables as well as alternatives to meat and dairy products....
Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper
The Animal Voices team is thrilled to bring you this talk with Keri Cronin, assistant professor of Art History at Brock University about her book, Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper. By examining ways that Jasper National Park and its inhabitants are pictured through tourist postcards, advertisements, illustrated brochures and tourist snapshots, Cronin shares...
Hidden Cameras, Exposed Truths: Mercy for Animals’ Undercover Investigation of E6 Cattle Co., Texas
We talk with Nathan Runkle, executive director of Chicago-based Mercy for Animals about their undercover investigation of E6 Cattle Co., Texas. Mercy for Animals writes “Undercover footage from this factory farm – which raises over 10,000 calves for use on dairy farms – documented workers bludgeoning calves with pickaxes and hammers, burning out their horns without painkillers, standing...
