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

By | November 23, 2011 | Authors, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

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 family members had contended with, served as a catalyst to drastically change her diet 30 years ago, toggling between vegetarian & vegan for most of those years, locking in to strictly vegan about seven years ago; she also notes that then and now, virtually no one in her family followed suit with the dietary change. Read more…

Isabelle Tassi, chief organizer of Tampa Bay Veg Fest

By | October 5, 2011 | Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

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. Read more…

Joan Jett–singer-songwriter-guitarist

By | April 7, 2010 | Musicians | No comments

Joan Jett–the singer-songwriter-guitarist who’s portrayed by Kristen Stewart in the new feature bio-pic “The Runaways,” for which Joan also served as an executive producer; there’s also a pictorial-based bio by Todd Oldham now available, “Joan Jett”–discusses being a lifelong animal advocate and the confluence of factors that led her some twenty years ago to become a vegetarian; Read more…