Category: It’s All ABout Food 2019

Elana Kirshenbaum, New Leaf Vegan Mentor Program

Elana Kirshenbaum, New Leaf Vegan Mentor Program As a young child, Elana Kirshenbaum relished any chance to connect with animals, fed her school lunch daily to a stray dog, and wrote about wanting to grow up and teach people how to protect animals at a beautiful rescue with rolling, green hills. When she learned about…

Lana Dee Povitz, Stirrings, How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice and Bettina Elias Siegel, Kid Food, The Challenge of Feeding Children in a Highly Processed World

Part I: Lana Dee Povitz, Stirrings, How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a…

Josh Berson, The Meat Question and Abioseh Cole, I Am Not Food

Part I: Josh Berson, The Meat Question Josh Berson is an independent social scientist. He has held research appointments at the Berggruen Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, among other places. He is the author of Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche.   Read REAL co-founder…

Glenn Saks and Liora Raphael, Happy Animals

Glenn Saks and Liora Raphael, Happy Animals     Liora Raphael and Glenn Saks are lawyers and long-time friends. Over lunch at a favorite vegan restaurant, Liora relayed her frustration in finding an age-appropriate book for her daughter to assist in answering the question “Why don’t we eat animals?” and Glenn, never one to turn…

Gary De Mattei, Vegan vs Plant-Based

Responsible Eating And Living co-founder, Gary De Mattei, joins IT’S ALL ABOUT FOOD host, Caryn Hartglass, to talk about the terms “plant-based” and “vegan,” industrial plant-based foods and more.

Joel Fuhrman, MD, Eat to Live Retreat

Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, six-time New York Times best-selling author and internationally recognized expert on nutrition and natural healing, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional methods. He is the President of the Nutritional Research Foundation and on the faculty of Northern Arizona University, Health Sciences division. Dr. Fuhrman…

Joyce Friedman and David Karopkin, Voters for Animal Rights

  David Karopkin, Esq., Wildlife Advisor David is a lifelong Brooklynite and a dedicated advocate for animals and co-existence with wildlife. Among other pursuits, David founded GooseWatch NYC in 2011 and during the past 7 years he has been involved with numerous efforts to protect threatened wildlife living in NYC through activism, legislation and policy.…