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123 Episoden
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Our 32nd podcast features an interview with Dr. John McDougall, in which the well known physician, author and nutrition expert tells vegetarians to get off their butts and spread the word. The McDougall web site offers key scientific info to factcheck the statements of your friends as well as yourself. This is followed by a song about making soup, a Science Fact about fighting breast cancer, and a short diatribe about the clueless treatment of meat recalls by the media.
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Our 31st podcast features the cartooning mastermind behind the daily comic Bizarro, Dan Piraro, who was recently in Philadelphia for the Veggie Cabaret. Vance and Dan discuss cartooning and vegetarianism, and how difficult it can be to derive humor from a grim, depressing situation. Jim Harris, who helmed the pit band for the Veggie Cabaret, sings a song with his band Saint Mad, and there is a Science Fact about the power of a plant based diet to ward off prostate cancer.
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Our 30th podcast features an interview with Brenda Davis, minutes after her surprise induction into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame by the North American Vegetarian Society in July. Brenda Davis talks about her latest field work in which she and fellow researchers are combatting and reversing a diabetes epidemic in the Marshall Islands. The new Green Beings single, Where Do You Get Your Protein, is also featured, and there is a Science Fact about flaxseed and its power to fight the hot flashes of menopause.
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Our 29th podcast is our 2007 edition of Sounds of Summerfest, focusing on what attendees take away from the annual experience in Johnstown, PA, and what we can do with it back in our local communities. Ted Barnett, Joann Farb and Howard Lyman offer their perspectives among other sound clips. Kyle Vincent performs Petals of Peace in front of the Living Learning Center as our musical selection, and there is a Science Fact about an excess of naturally occurring growth hormones in commercially produced milk.
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Our 28th podcast closes out, for now, our obsessive coverage of the livestock connection to global warming and the Al Gore movement with a visit to Live Earth from July 7. Then there is a song, Sierra, from Kyle Vincent and a Science Fact featuring yet another study showing that forgoing meat is a more powerful way to fight global warming than changing your driving habits or light bulbs.
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Our 27th podcast looks at the factor of livestock in global warming from an insider perspective. Kyle Vincent, who was personally trained by Al Gore, along with hundreds of others, to deliver the presentation seen in An Inconvenient Truth, relates how Gore reacted when he raised the livestock question. We also hear a new Green Beings song and have a science fact about two diametrically opposed ways to keep weight off.
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Our 26th podcast features an interview with Pamela Rice of the Viva Vegie Society, who talks about her influential pamphlet 101 Reasons Im a Vegetarian as well as her latest video campaign focusing on Al Gore and the unspoken facts about global warming. The Science Fact for this episode reveals that dogs are capable of reasoning and inference, in yet another study showing animals doing something that previously, supposedly, separated us from the animals.
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Our 25th podcast looks at the nexus of our government, our media and the food industry, with an interview with Mindy Kursban of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, who spearheaded the FTC petition that resulted in the dairy industry dropping bogus weight loss claims from their milk mustache ads. There is also music from Beloved Binge and a Science Fact about the toxic chemicals generated by frying, broiling or grilling animal products.
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Our 24th podcast focuses on local activism, as we chat with Jodi Chemes of Florida Voices for Animals, who has had success int he Tampa Bay area both with vegan leafleting and getting a resolution against battery cages passed in her home town. There is also music from Moby and an interesting science fact about how smoking is not the only danger to lung health.
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Our 23rd podcast spotlights the inimitable, irrepresible Arnold Kauffman, founder and proprieter of Arnolds Way, late of Manayunk, now of Lansdale, PA. Arnold talks about his enthusiasm for raw foods and his business credo, and we hear a track from his band, the Cant Sing Cant Rhyme band. There is also a science fact about how beefeating by mothers can lead to infertility in males.
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Our 22nd podcast looks at East Coast Great American MeatOut events with a special emphasis on the Animal Aid Concert in Baltimore. We chat with Bob Pyle, the founder and organizer of the event, and hear music from some of the artists. There is also a science fact on the discovery of metacognition in rats.
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Our 21st podcast is a Valentines Day edition, focusing in chocolate and the difference between dark and milk chocolate. First there is the science showing dark chocolate to have health benefits that are wiped out by the addition of milk, then a different angle on the disadvantages of milk chocolate as presented by Garrison Keillor. Rounding out the podcast is a feature interview with Allison Rivers Samson of Allisons Gourmet and some music from Moby.
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Our 20th podcast looks at the role of the media in covering vegetarianism, and a possible bias therein. First Vance examines the UN report detailing how the biggest human contribution to global warming is from livestock and finds a discrepancy between the problem and proposed solutions. Then we have an interview with longtime vegan activist and media critic Mickey Z, focusing on reviews of The Bloodless Revolution. Plus some instrumental music and a Science Fact about the dangers of raw meat.
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Our 19th podcast is almost completely given over to an extra long interview with one of the founding fathers of the animal rights movement, Gary Francione, who has just started blogging. We find out what he thinks about the prospects for meaningful change in 2007. Before that comes a truncated Science Facts segment about the healthfulness, or lack thereof, of cows milk.
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On our 18th podcast, we have a somewhat twisted Thanksgiving with a feature interview of Dr. Michael Greger, who has just released his latest book, Bird Flu, A Disease of Our Own Hatching. He explains what has been going on while the potential pandemic has dropped from the headlines. Then there is the podcast debut of David Cantor as a singer songwriter, and a Science Fact about a fourfold increase in salmonella among broiler chickens. Bon appetit...
