Category: It’s All About Food

Jeffrey Cohan & Steven M. Wise

Part I: Jeffrey Cohan is the Executive Director of Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA), an international organization which encourages and helps Jews to embrace plant-based diets as an expression of the Jewish values of compassion for animals, concern for health, and care for the environment. He is also the author of The Beet-Eating Heeb,…

Charles Horn, Meat Logic

  Part I: Charles Horn, Meat Logic. Charles Horn is the author of Meat Logic: Why Do We Eat Animals?  Charles is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer with credits including Fugget About It, Robot Chicken, and Robot Chicken: Star Wars. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and holds five degrees in engineering…

Steve Kaufman & Gary De Mattei

  PART I: Steve Kaufman, Christian Vegetarian Association  Steve Kaufman is the chair of the Christian Vegetarian Association and the co-chair of the Medical Research Modernization Committee. He coauthored (with Nathan Braun) Good News for All Creation and is the author of Guided by the Faith of Christ: Seeking to Stop Violence and Scapegoating. Professionally,…

Anteneh Roba, International Fund For Africa

Anteneh Roba, International Fund For AfricaAnteneh Roba, International Fund For Africa  Anteneh Roba is a physician in private practice in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr Roba is also President and Co-founder of International Fund for Africa (IFA), a Houston-based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and a registered International Non Governmental Organization in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia dedicated to helping both…

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…