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Kimberly Carroll, Toronto-based animal activist, leader, and consultant

Duncan — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:00:14 +0000

Kimberly Carroll— a veteran Toronto-based animal activist, leader, and consultant—recalls growing up in Manitoba, a sensitive child with a precocious connection to animals, yet like her family members and most fellow Manitobans, she was also an enthusiastic meat eater. Carroll recounts that falling for twin calves during a calving season—while pondering what fate befell most […]

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Ted Leo, singer-songwriter-guitarist, veteran vegan

Duncan — Wed, 09 May 2018 04:00:43 +0000

Ted Leo—the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, front man of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and veteran vegan—recounts his path to vegetarianism, in 1988, then after further reading, research, and contemplation, going vegan in 1998. That journey was shaped less by direct experience with animals than many who travel a similar path—he grew up without pets, though […]

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Rachel McCrystal, executive director of Woodstock Farm Santuary

Duncan — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:00:08 +0000

Rachel McCrystal—executive director of Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, which rescues farmed animals and provides refuge for them, now housing around 400 animals—recalls a childhood marked by a houseful of animals, featuring a preponderance of rattlesnakes and other reptiles (her biologist dad was a herpetologist). McCrystal points to two pivotal moments in those formative years that presaged […]

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Steve Jenkins, co-author of “Esther The Wonder Pig: Changing The World One Heart At A Time”

Duncan — Wed, 25 May 2016 04:00:10 +0000

Steve Jenkins—co-author, with Derek Walter and Caprice Crane, of “Esther The Wonder Pig: Changing The World One Heart At A Time”—discusses how Esther entered his and Walter’s world: He got duped into adopting her when she was a baby, having been told she was a micro-pig. This “micro-pig” grew to 650 pounds. Jenkins recalls some of the […]

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Ellen Jaffe Jones, vegan author and speaker

Duncan — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 05:00:30 +0000

In an unusual edition of “Talking Animals,” Ellen Jaffe Jones—the running coach, speaker and author of such books as the bestselling “Eat Vegan on $4 A Day” and “Kitchen Divided: Vegan Dishes For Semi-Vegan Households”—discusses her own kitchen divided and the ensuing unraveling of her marriage, chiefly tied to growing philosophical differences around her husband […]

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Dan Piraro, “Bizarro” cartoonist

Duncan — Wed, 27 May 2015 04:00:26 +0000

Dan Piraro—who, for 30 years, has drawn the highly-acclaimed, widely-syndicated comic “Bizarro”—discusses his recently announced plans, over the next two to three years, for retiring “Bizarro,” and how that announcement was initially misunderstood by some, and triggered an uproar in others. He elaborates on the reasons behind those plans, including devoting much more time to […]

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Vegan Black Metal Chef, Not Your Grandmother’s Online Cooking Teacher

Duncan — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:00:26 +0000

Vegan Black Metal Chef— the YouTube culinary sensation who offers instructional cooking videos, specializing in vegan dishes, delivering the lessons over a soundtrack of black metal while wearing body armor and KISS-like make-up, and laced with no shortage of humor (“Hail Seitan!” and so on)—provides an update on his career since he appeared on “Talking […]

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Ellen Jaffe Jones, author of “Kitchen Divided”

Duncan — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 05:00:13 +0000

Ellen Jaffe Jones—the running coach, cooking instructor and author of the enormously popular book, “Eat Vegan On $4 A Day”—discusses her new book, “Kitchen Divided: Vegan Dishes For Semi-Vegan Households.” She begins the conversation by reviewing a bit about “Eat Vegan On $4 A Day” (which we’d discussed in her previous appearance on the […]

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Marisa Miller Wolfson, writer-director of the documentary “Vegucated”

Duncan — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:00:46 +0000

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 premiere)—discusses her pre-“Vegucated” life, including her formative years devoted to animals and later years as an animal activist and vegan […]

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Roberto Martin, Author “Vegan Cooking For Carnivores”

Duncan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:00:56 +0000

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 chain restaurants as Acapulco’s and Mimi’s, before heading off to be trained […]

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Ellen Jaffe Jones, author, “Eat Vegan On $4 A Day”

Duncan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:00:41 +0000

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 blockage), and carefully considering all the breast cancer and heart disease that several […]

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Isabelle Tassi, chief organizer of Tampa Bay Veg Fest

Duncan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:00:15 +0000

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 For Animals, under whose auspices Tampa Bay Veg Fest is presented. She also places […]

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Internationally-noted nutrition expert Dr. Michael Greger

Duncan — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:31:57 +0000

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 Action For Animals conference in Washington, DC. Dr. Greger, who also serves as The […]

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A roundtable discussion, featuring a small cross-section of people who’ll participate in the forthcoming Talking Animals Festival

Duncan — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:00:58 +0000

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 cross-section well outside the confines of the Festival. The roundtable included: Ronny Elliott…Tampa-based animal advocate […]

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Dr. Armaiti May, a vegan veterinarian based in the Los Angeles area

Duncan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:00:42 +0000

Dr. Armaiti May–a vegan veterinarian based in the West Los Angeles area, and whose practice involves making house calls–discusses her formative years as a kid drawn to animals and looking after injured or sick ones, as well as being raised a vegetarian. She also traces her path from there to embracing a […]

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Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D.–founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Duncan — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:00:31 +0000

Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D.–who in 1985 founded the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit organization that promotes, among other things, a plant-based diet, preventative medicine, higher standards of ethics and effectiveness in research (and, overlapping that objective, ending animal research)–discusses the impact of President Clinton talking enthusiastically in national interviews […]

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Jonathan Safran Foer- “Eating Animals” Author

Duncan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:26:59 +0000

Jonathan Safran Foer–the 32-year-old author acclaimed for his novels “Everything Is Illuminated” and “Extremely Loud,” he’s now penned a non-fiction book, “Eating Animals,” which just in its first week out has already generated tremendous attention, discussion and coverage across all forms of media and the blogosphere–discusses the struggle with ambivalence for much of his life […]

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Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders

Duncan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:00:16 +0000

Chrissie Hynde–The Pretenders singer-songwriter-guitarist (currently touring the U.S. behind the acclaimed new Pretenders album, “Break Up The Concrete”) and longtime animal advocate–discusses the enormous and somewhat surprising (to her, at least) success of VegiTerranean, the vegan restaurant she opened in 2007 in her native Akron, Ohio; the encouraging conclusions she’s drawn from the VegiTerranean success, […]

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