Category: It’s All About Food 2014

Anthony Nocella and Mark Hawthorne

 Listen at 4pm ET by going to PRN, The Progressive Radio Network. Part I: Anthony Nocella, Institute For Critical Animal Studies Anthony J. Nocella II, earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University, Maxwell School. Nocella a professor and an intersectional scholar-community organizer, has published more than 50 scholarly articles or book chapters. He is the editor…

Angel Flinn, Gentle World

Angel Flinn, Gentle World Angel Flinn is Director of Outreach for Gentle World – a non-profit educational organization whose core purpose is to help build a more peaceful society, by educating the public about the reasons for being vegan, the benefits of vegan living, and how to go about making the transition. TRANSCRIPTION PART II:…

lauren Ornelas & Keith McHenry

lauren Ornelas & Keith McHenry Listen at 4pm ET by going to PRN, The Progressive Radio Network.   Part I: lauren Ornelas, Food Empowerment Project lauren Ornelas is the founder/director of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit seeking to create a more just world by helping consumers recognize the power of their food…

Sailesh Krishna Rao, Keegan Kuhn & Kip Andersen

Part I: Sailesh Krishna Rao, Climate Healers Sailesh Rao is the Executive Director of the non-profit, Climate Healers. An electrical engineer by training with a Ph.D. from Stanford University, Sailesh’s technology career includes service with AT&T Bell Labs and Intel. Moved to action to address the global climate challenge, Sailesh founded Climate Healers (www.climatehealers.org) in…

Robert Grillo, Free From Harm

Robert Grillo, Free From Harm Robert Grillo is the founder and director of Free from Harm, a non profit animal rescue, education and advocacy organization. Free from Harm excels at online activism: building an online community, publishing content that serves activists as well as the general public on its 700-plus page web site, and syndicating…

Karen Davis, Alan Roettinger & Ellen Jaffe Jones

PART I: Karen Davis, International Respect for Chickens Day Karen Davis, PhD is the President and Founder of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization that addresses the treatment of domestic fowl in food production, science, education, entertainment, and human companionship situations. She is the author of several books including Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside…

Shushana Castle & Amy-Lee Goodman

Part I: It’s Earth Day and host, Caryn’s birthday. Caryn covers a few current topics: News on Glyphosate in Breast Milk BRCA 1 gene and Breast Cancer risk reduction with nutrition: (Breast cancer risk in relation to the joint effect of BRCA mutations and diet diversity, Diet quality and BRCA-associated breast cancer risk). The Food…

Lisa Suriano, Brendan Brazier & Jaya Bhumitra

Part I: Lisa Suriano, Veggiecation Lisa Suriano is a certified nutritionist holding a Master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Science and specializing in school food service as the Director of Operations for J.C.Food, a premier school food service consulting company for independent schools in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Lisa founded the evidence-based nutrition…

Elizabeth Brandon, Bilal Qizilbash and Richard Schwartz

Part I: Elizabeth Brandon, Bilal Qizilbash, Kale Studies Elizabeth Brandon a Mississippian and she grew up mostly in Brandon, but she lived in Brookhaven, Oxford, Cleveland, and Clarksdale. She received her B.S. in Biology from Delta State University in 1999 (Go Fighting Okra!) and her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of Alabama at…