Food Justice

How Palm Oil, Colonialism, and Greed Have Endangered the World: Jocelyn Zuckerman on PYP 543

December 6, 2022

In terms of human suffering and environmental destruction, there’s little that can compare to the global trade in palm oil. Today’s guest takes us on a hard yet vital journey of discovery and understanding.

Cooking and Eating for a Connected World: Lois Ellen Frank on PYP 462

May 4, 2021

What can the world learn about food from the Native American tradition? How can those of us who no longer live on our ancestral land-base reclaim our cuisine, culture, and connection to the whole?

Outlasting Broken and Unjust Systems: Meryl Fury on Plant Yourself 429

September 22, 2020

Meryl Fury is a registered nurse and CEO of the Plant-based Nutrition Movement. And she’s a fierce advocate for justice and sanity in a world lacking both. Emblematic of her approach to life is the story of how she went vegetarian at the age of 15, to help her family make ends meet during the… Read More

Creating a Platform for Black Plant-Based Health Experts:
Judy Brangman, MD, on PYP 426

September 4, 2020

Judy Brangman, MD, aka The Plant-Based MD, visits the podcast to talk about her labor of love, the Reclaim Your Health Summit. The summit is the first one featuring exclusively people of color in the plant-based healthcare space. Eighteen doctors, a dietitian, and a fitness expert all share their wisdom and action plans with Dr… Read More

Dr Milton Mills testimony USDA Food Guidelines

Healing Racism in the Vegan / Plant-based Community with Milton Mills, MD: PYP 357

December 24, 2019

In June, 2019, Dr Milton Mills gave testimony before the USDA Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee about their persistent recommendation to include dairy in our diets. Dr Mills short presentation was not what I was expecting to hear. Instead of just repeating the overwhelming body of evidence showing that cow’s milk is not a healthy or… Read More

Getting Healthy and Giving Back with Brittany Sade: PYP 350

November 19, 2019

Brittany Sade is a vegan entrepreneur and health coach. Her company, Prosperiteez Clothing, devotes part of its profits to combatting food insecurity in impoverished communities. Brittany wasn’t always a paragon of healthy living. Thanks to meat three times a day, along with a serious cheese addiction, she suffered from skin problems, arterial blockages, and overweight. … Read More

Pleasure Activism with adrienne maree brown: PYP 333

August 1, 2019

adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. brown has been facilitating professionally for over fifteen… Read More

Charles Eisenstein on Climate Reductionism and True Planetary Healing: PYP 309

February 12, 2019

Charles Eisenstein has been challenging my thinking for about 15 years now, but never more so than with his latest book, Climate: A New Story. Basically, Eisenstein argues that focusing all our environmental activism on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming is a bad idea. As a card-carrying member of the enlightened, scientifically-literate,… Read More

“People Are Ready to Heal” with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams: PYP 297

November 20, 2018

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2016. Unwilling to surrender his health destiny to the medical profession, Adams did some research, adopted a plant-based diet, lost 30 pounds, and reversed his condition. And he didn’t stop there. Instead, he committed to making Brooklyn into Ground Zero for healthy living. Read More