Category: It’s All About Food

Gary De Mattei, REAL Vegan in 2020

Gary De Mattei, REAL Vegan in 2020 Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by going vegan. Tune in today to hear IT’S ALL ABOUT FOOD host, Caryn Hartglass and featured guest, Gary De Mattei talk about all things REAL vegan in 2020.    

Jami Dulaney MD, Plant Based Wellness

Jami Dulaney MD, Plant Based Wellness Dr. Dulaney practices Cardiology and Primary Care in her Wellness Practice in Port Charlotte, Florida. Members of her practice have the opportunity of attending three different nutrition class per week. Through plant based nutrition education, she has had remarkable success in reversing lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes,…

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…

Zen Honeycutt, Moms Across America and Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, The Joyful Vegan

Part I: Zen Honeycutt, Moms Across America Zen L. Honeycutt is—first and foremost—a mom. She is also an activist, speaker, author, founding executive director of Moms Across America, and co-creator of Mothers Across the World with Dr. Vandana Shiva. While heading Moms Across America, Zen initiated the first testing for glyphosate in tap water, breast…