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Food Justice

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

Feminism, Veganism, and Activism with Carol Adams: PYP 296

November 13, 2018
Carol J. Adams is the author most recently of Burger and Protest Kitchen, and a self-described “feminist-vegan.” Read More

Community Innovation and Global Solutions: PYP 294

October 30, 2018
This past Saturday, I set up my portable recording studio in Cary, North Carolina, to live-podcast the PCRM Kickstart Your Health NC Triangle event. I chatted with Neal Barnard, MD (not pictured, because he moves too fast to photograph ;), Eric O’Grey (PCRM donor coordinator and elegant man-about-town in a fashionable sweater and gold tie),… Read More

A Community Effort: PCRM Comes to the North Carolina Triangle: PYP 293

October 23, 2018
This weekend, the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is bringing its big guns to my neck of the woods, the Triangle region of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill). Neal Barnard, Suzie Amis Cameron, Eric O’Grey, and others will be bringing their messages of hope and inspiration and information to my community. But PCRM… Read More

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