7/15/2012 Episode #99: A listener who recently went vegan wants her child to eat vegan too. I give some helpful tips on how to feed kids vegan. I also recommend a couple of books by Ruby Roth for children to learn about why some people don’t eat animals. I gave some thoughts on people keeping…
Ask A Vegan
Breathing, Milk, Fall Gardens, Big Food, Apple Peels
7/8/2012 Episode #98: In this program I discuss Mark Bittman’s recent blog, Got Milk You Don’t Need It, the Public Library of Science, PLoS, Medicine Series on Big Food, Planning Your Fall Garden, a new study on Ursolic Acid in Apple peels for weight loss, and another reminder about the importance of breathing, breathing correctly…
Healthy Eating While Traveling; Corn; New JAMA Weight-loss study
7/1/2012 Episode #97: After spending a week traveling in Cape Cod I share how I ate and what simple dishes I created. I cover some news items, including corn: more corn planted than ever before, heat and droughts may damage crops, GMO corn and summer corn for eating; and a new study from the Journal…
Cape Cod, Lobsters, Hot Dogs, The Vegan Imperative!
6/24/2012 Episode #96: This week’s show is broadcast live from Cape Cod. I’m talking about animal exploitation and the vegan imperative followed by summer, Coney Island, Nathan’s hot dogs and superior vegan alternatives, ratatouille, and while here on the coast, the plight of lobsters and other sea life.
Broccoli, Food Stamps, Tuna, Seeds, Bees
6/17/2012, Episode #95: Under or over the Linden Tree by my terrace, now in bloom and so fragrant I talk about the Supreme Court’s twist on broccoli; food stamps and corporations; mercury in tuna; collecting kale seeds, the benefits of chia seeds: The Seed Experience; honey, beeswax and bee pollen; and the wonders of garbanzo…
Animal Sanctuaries, Egg Replacers, Silken Tofu, Banana Bread
6/10/2012, Episode #94: In this show, Caryn Hartglass and Gary De Mattei cover a lot of ground. They talk about attending two Catskill Animal Sanctuary events this week – the 11th Annual Shindig at the Sanctuary and the Barn Raiser Event in NYC, and they go into the purpose of animal sanctuaries. They discuss the…
Manhattan’s Veggie Pride Parade, Mayor Bloomberg’s Newest Ban, Rice Paper, Hibiscus Flowers.
June 6, 2012: In this hour I reviewed last week’s wonderful Veggie Pride Parade in Manhattan. I discussed how the attitude towards cigarette smoking has changed in the last 50 years and compared what is needed to be done with diet. I gave my spin on Mayor Bloomberg’s new ban on sugary drinks and offered…
Gary De Mattei Interviews ASK A VEGAN host, Caryn Hartglass
5/20/2012: Responsible Eating And Living Creative Director interviews the host of the Ask A Vegan show, Caryn Hartglass. Caryn talks about her journey from vegetarian to vegan. They discuss transition foods, farmers markets, CSA’s, locally grown food, grilling and vegan cheese.
Eating Trends Reflect Marketing Trends; Breathing; Mothering (nurturing) Our Own Bodies
5/13/2012: Happy Mother’s Day. We are all mothers, in a way, creating all the time, especially the cells within our bodies. Let’s celebrate! I continued to talk about the subjects from the two panels I participated in yesterday: Corporate Power, Diet and Animal Agriculture, and Women, Feminism, and the Use of Animals for Food at…
Walking the Walk, Farm Life in Costa Rica
May 6, 2012: I spoke with my friend Beth Corwin who moved to Costa Rica with her family nine years ago from the U. S. She shares her reasons for leaving the U.S. and choosing Costa Rica, her joys and challenges with living in Central America. For more on Beth Corwin and her family visit…
Broadcast from Costa Rica
4/29/2012: I recorded this show while visiting a farm in very rural area of Costa Rica. Enjoy the background music by the birds and bugs!
Going Vegan, Is It Really That Big A Deal?
I reviewed the recent New York Times blog post, The Challenge of Going Vegan, especially the over 1000 responses (and counting) to it. I debunked popular myths and covered the most popular topics including vegans being “preachy”, the connection behind rainforest destruction and soy beans, needing a chef, requiring scientific knowledge to eat vegan and,…
Reflections on Passover and Easter, Earth Day, Starbucks, VegWeek, and Slavery
I shared my thoughts on the meaning of the current holidays, Passover and Easter, and of course, the food involved in the celebrations. I always connect the story of slavery and redemption in the Passover story to the unfortunate exploitation of people and animals today. I shared the recipe for my first vegan, gluten-free matzah…
Remembering Marti Kheel, Illness as a Vegan, Food and Culture, Organic Farming, Sunflowers
Caryn discusses her brief meeting and conversations with vegan, ecofeminist, activist, scholar and founder of Feminists for Animal Rights, Marti Kheel before she passed in November 2011. Caryn talks about the health expectations involved in eating a healthy vegan diet and, why and what to do when those expectations aren’t achieved, i.e. we are diagnosed…
Pink Slime, Pink Salmon, Methyl Iodide and Rhubarb
Listen to the REAL voice of reason on pink slime (lean finely textured beef and ammonium hydroxide); hot dogs; methyl iodide, methyl bromide and strawberries; maple syrup; fish and sodium tripolyphosphate; salmon and canthaxanthin; and deforestation in Paraguay for beef production. The REAL food to try for the week: Rhubarb!
Red Meat; Sleep; Mood Improvements; Fennel and Daikon
March 18, 2012: I reviewed the recent study from Harvard School of Public Health on “Red Meat Consumption and Mortality”, talked about sleep and sleeping pills, improving your mood with veggies; Broccoli Sprouts, Broccoli Juice; and what to do with Fennel and Daikon. I discussed questions recently posed including: What about men and soy? Is…
Online Shopping, Dairy Farming, Ensure, Ligans, Ginger and Shallots
3/11/2012 – Join me on my second live broadcast from REAL Worldwide Radio where I give time saving tips with online shopping, talk about the economics of dairy farming, where to get your healthy lignans and delicious things to do with ginger and shallots.
Glutamate, GE Corn, Sugar and Bioplastics
March 4, 2012: Responsible Eating And Living presents it’s first live broadcast featuring the ASK A VEGAN show. In response to a listener’s question regarding nutritional yeast being an excitotoxin, I talked about glutamate and glutamic acid including MSG, Monosodium Glutamate and other foods with glutamate, whether or not they are healthy or not? Next…