Paul Shapiro—Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)—recounts his formative years as an animal lover and advocate, including launching Compassion Over Killing and how that organization’s undercover video...
As part of an ongoing effort to continue experimenting with different approaches to presenting guests and information on “Talking Animals”–and a parallel desire to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and leaders–we returned to a format we try to...
Marisa Miller Wolfson--the writer-director of "Vegucated," the award-winning documentary tracking three dyed-in-the-wool meat and cheese eating New Yorkers who accept a challenge to go vegan for six weeks (WMNF presented the film's Tampa Bay area...
Roberto Martin--author of the new cookbook "Vegan Cooking For Carnivores: Over 125 Recipes So Tasty You Won't Miss The Meat" and who serves as personal chef for Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi--discusses his history as a cook in Southern California at such...
Ellen Jaffe Jones--a personal trainer, running coach, cooking instructor (including a stint for The Cancer Project) and author of "Eat Vegan On $4 A Day: A Gameplan For The Budget Conscious Cook," a guide and cookbook--discusses how a medical scare (a colon...
Isabelle Tassi-- chief organizer of the second annual Tampa Bay Veg Fest, the Tampa area's only vegetarian/vegan festival - discusses her educational background and evolution as an animal activist, and describes the main mission and other aspects of Florida Voices...
Vegan Black Metal Chef--the YouTube culinary sensation who offers online instructional cooking videos, specializing in vegan dishes, delivering the lessons over a soundtrack of black metal, wearing body armor and full make-up, adding a huge dollop of...
Dr. Michael Greger--physican, author and internationally-noted expert on nutrition and public health issues--reviews some of the notable and positive developments he discussed a few weeks prior in a panel entitled "Advances In Farm Animal Protection" at the Taking...
Brian Wendel - the creator and executive producer of "Forks Over Knives," a powerful, acclaimed new documentary that presents an array of scientific and anecdotal evidence that most degenerative diseases (heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes, some cancers) can be...
Shaking up our customary guest format, we held a roundtable discussion, featuring a small cross-section of of people who were set to be participants in the then-forthcoming Talking Animals Festival--the idea being that this would represent a more universal...
