Main Street Vegan
Summary: Main Street Vegan is a lively hour devoted to your health, well-being, and ways to live lightly and lovingly on planet Earth. Host Victoria Moran will entertain you each week with the latest on the vegan life-it's not just for celebrities and moguls, but for the guy and gal on Main Street who want to look and feel amazing, eat extraordinary food, help animals, and create a physical body perfectly attuned to spiritual growth. Their guests will range from Unity ministers to vegan authors, activists, physicians, chefs-and even some of those glittery celebs. There'll be recipes, ideas, ways to go vegan (or "veganward") at your own pace, and tips for making a difference for animals and the planet at every meal. Watch the book trailer for Main Street Vegan. The ideas and opinions expressed on this program do not necessarily reflect the teachings of Unity.
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Podcasts:
Filmmaker Thomas Jackson on his film to interest people of faith in veganism + Bleating Hearts author Mark Hawthorne with his new book on intersectionality, The Vegan Ethic.
Basketball legend John Salley shares his take on health, sport, veganism for a guy's guy, and the Hip Hop Is Green movement. We'll also be joined by James Lucas of grapecat.com about what it takes to run an online vegan store and vend at vegfests all over the United States.
Ruby Roth, who made media waves with her children's book, Vegan Is Love, is back with a charming and exquisitely illustrated cookbook for little vegans, The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids. And Lorena Mucke's Ethical Choices Program takes veganism, animal rights, and sustainable living into middle- and high-school classrooms across America.
Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., returns today with his new book, What a Fish Knows, a fascinating look at the cognitive abilities and self-awareness of our cousins who live in the water. Show opener: Amish Shah, who made his first $1 million by age 25 and subsequently partied himself into ill health before discovering the wisdom of Ayurveda, "knowledge of life," from his ancestral land of India. He's now made the film, Ancient Health Care, exploring this 5,000-year-old healing tradition.
Harris Polls commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group have been counting vegans, vegetarians, and the veg-leaning since 1994, and the latest results are just out. VRG cofounder Charles Stahler joins us to share the findings: what are our numbers in the United States? How do we stack up geographically, ethnically, and racially? Why are people going in this direction? And why aren't more doing it? Tune in for answers.
Legal personhood for chimpanzees has been a 30-year effort for attorney Steven Wise of the Nonhuman Rights Project, work that is explored in the groundbreaking documentary Unlocking the Cage.
Vegan travel expert Caitlin Galer-Unti of theveganword.com gives us the skinny on eating across the globe and the hottest vegan travel destinations. Then: octogenarian runner, swimmer, cyclist, and three-decade breast cancer survivor Ruth Heidrich. Prepare to be inspired for the long haul!
We chat with celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Matthew Kenney, weighing in on his latest culinary projects and his commitment to plant-based living. Then we meet Sarah Woodcock, a devout abolitionist vegan who explains this philosophy and her organization, The Advocacy of Veganism Society (TAVS).
Power-blogger Dana Shultz, with her new cookbook, Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking; then, Imam Sohaib Sultan, a Princeton professor and author of The Koran for Dummies with a Muslim view on veganism and animal rights.
We'll learn the fine points of slow cooking with author/blogger Kathy Hester, and then discuss the fascinating new book, Meathooked-why on earth are humans so addicted to animal flesh?-with its author Marta Zaraska.
Abstaining from food has a long history in many religions and a fascinating history in health and healing, as well. Esosa E. of rawgirltoxicworld.com shares about fasting as part of her Christian faith, and Frank Sabatino, D.C., Ph.D, of Ocean Jade Health Retreat in South Florida discusses the role water-only fasting can play in health maintenance and restoration.
We open with our Seasonal Sanctuary Stroll, featuring Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary in Maryland and cofounder Terry Cummings, and then we meet award-winning health, sexuality, and body image expert August McLaughlin, author of Embraceable and a committed vegan.
Garth Davis, M.D., Houston bariatric surgeon and author of Proteinaholic, returns to the program to debate Connecticut bariatric surgeon, Neil Floch, M.D., a colleague who, like the vast majority of physicians in this specialty, recommends a "high-protein, low-carb, good-fats" diet. This should be an incredible opportunity to hear, respectfully, from the "other side" about why plant-based eating is not their choice, and what solid facts are on "our side."
Los Angeles yogini Kathleen Kastner shares the ancient tradition's gentle techniques for shedding pounds and loving your body, and then noted designer Shannon Scott takes living vegan and eco-friendly from the kitchen and the closet out into the entire house.
Shape magazine named Ella Magers one of the nation's 50 Sexiest Trainers-she's also an animal-loving vegan and as kind as she is fit. Before meeting Ella, we'll open the show with Dustin Harder of the acclaimed Web-TV series, The Vegan Roadie, in which Dustin discovers and shares great vegan food across America.
