Kinks and Grooves: The Valentine’s Day Show
Martinis, sex toys, and chocolate… these are just a few of the topics we dive into on our Valentine’s Day show. First up, we reach Steve Fish, proprietor of Left Feet, which sells vegan fair trade shoes and other goodies. Steve tells us how Toronto folks can get their groove on every Saturday with Manatee Nights at...
Toronto’s Vegetarian Food Fair: The Largest Veggie Festival in North America
From Sept 8 – Sept 10, an estimated 15,000 people will pass through the expansive grounds at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre for the 22nd Annual Vegetarian Food Fair. Over 100 exhibitors will share their knowledge and products with vegetarians and the veg-curious. Those interested in health, animal advocacy, and environmental issues will also enjoy a host of...
Vegan Pet Food: A Discussion
Few issues within the animal movements garner as much controversy as vegan cats and dogs. For some, feeding animals a vegan diet is a natural extension of their guardians’ ethics: in an attempt to live cruelty-free, refusing to throw money at the meat industry just makes sense. Supported by companies that claim that vegan cats...
Puppy Mills & Vegan Shopping
It can be tempting to give a puppy for Christmas, patronize the local pet store or buy an animal online; it’s easy to get lost in that adorable face and not ask questions about where the animal was bred. Too often, such animals have been born into cramped and unsanitary conditions where they suffer incredibly...
Healing ourselves, healing the planet through The Blossoming Lotus
This week, Animal Voices travels to paradise to explore the philosophy of the Kaua’i vegan restaurant, The Blossoming Lotus and its award-winning cookbook, Vegan World Fusion Cuisine. More than just a cookbook, Dr. Jane Goodall writes in her foreword that it “serves as a manual for sustainable, nonviolent living, painting a picture of a world without boundaries,...
Live from the Ice / Animal & People Friendly Shoes
Got a hankering for a pair of snazzy sneakers? Looking for some combat boots to wage your own vegan revolution? Or maybe you’re just searching for a well-made, stylish shoe that isn’t made in a sweatshop and isn’t made of cow. In this edition, we speak with Steve Fish, proprietor of Left Feet, the recently-opened veg...
The Seal Hunt / Cheap Vegan Eats
From muffins to megaphones, this show offers a hearty helping of local and national-based activism. First we’ll hear from Rebecca Aldworth, Humane Society of the United States‘ Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues, who will provide an overview of the Canadian seal hunt and explain HSUS’ controversial campaign, “Boycott Canadian Seafood,” which they hope will curb the...
John Mackey (on Whole Foods Market) & Josh Harper (on Anarchism and AR)
At the beginning of the show, Josh Harper, who was recently arrested under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, will share his views on the relevance of anarchism to animal liberation. We’ll learn about the foundations of anarchism and his perspective on what many have called the “extremist” and “terrorist” aspects of the current animal movements....
Music to Make You Giggle & Tasty Summer Fare
Please join us for a conversation and live performance with Hamilton-based TURKEY Rhubarb, a musical group geared towards children. We’ll hear about why they sing music for kids, as well as find out more about their multi-lingual singing abilities. According to the group, they “sing in English, French and Spanish; and perform traditional children’s songs from...
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...
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...
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...
