Is Your Garden Fertilizer an Animal Graveyard? Erin Riley on PYP 568
Erin Riley shares why we need to avoid commercial fertilizer – even most “organic” brands – if we aim to nurture an earth- and people- and animal-friendly home garden.
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Practical Ethics for Our Time: Peter Singer on PYP 555
Peter Singer pretty much launched the animal rights and animal welfare movements in 1975 with the publication of Animal Liberation. Forty-eight years later, he’s got a revised edition coming out: Animal Liberation Now.
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Meat without Animals: Paul Shapiro on PYP 523
Humans will not stop eating and mistreating animals until animal-free meat is as delicious, convenient, and inexpensive as animal products. Today’s guest explains how that’s going to happen.
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The Business of Compassion: Miyoko Schinner on PYP 481
Miyoko Schinner is founder and CEO of Miyoko’s, one of the most successful plant-based dairy alternative ventures of the past decade. We talk about her journey – ups and downs – and lessons learned.
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Why You Should Care About Sharks: James Sulikowski on PYP 478
Are sharks vicious, erratic human-eating predators? Are they keystone species crucial for the health of marine ecosystems? Or are they just the subject of annoyingly catchy children’s songs?
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The Making of “Meat Me Halfway”: Brian Kateman on PYP 476
Is veganism the only way to stop climate change, reduce animal suffering, and improve human health? Or can we get there through just eating less meat?
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Learning to Listen: A Guide to Ethical Mindfulness: Lani Muelrath on PYP 472
My dear friend Lani returns to the podcast to talk about her latest book, Mindfulness, published under the Conscious Care Guides imprint.
We had our usual freewheeling conversation, with some tears and lots of laughter.
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How to Be a Contented Vegan: Peggy Brusseau on PYP 458
Peggy Brusseau has cast a spell of peacefulness, calmness, joy, connection, and well, contentedness in her cookbook The Contented Vegan.
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Becoming a Joyful Vegan with Colleen Patrick Goudreau: PYP 370
Colleen Patrick Goudreau is author, most recently, of The Joyful Vegan.
It’s a book about joy, yes, but joy as a strategic imperative in a world that is relentless in trying to undermine our resolve about living compassionate and brave lives.
While steadfastness and willpower and outrage can provide bursts of energy for our journey, Goudreau asserts, it’s joy that gives us the long-burning, clean fuel that allows us to come from love and compassion and understanding in all our interactions.
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Changing Hearts and Minds Through Laughter with Myq Kaplan: PYP 360
Myq Kaplan is a stand-up comedian who also happens to be vegan (or is it the other way around?)
He’s performed on the Tonight Show, Conan, the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Late Late Show with James Corden, in his own half-hour Comedy Central Presents special, and in his own one-hour special on Netflix and Amazon, Small, Dork, and Handsome.
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