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Show 88: Revitalive Raw Retreat

Our 88th show was originally recorded on December 3rd, 2009. In this show we feature an interview with Kristen Overlock and Anna Forkan from the Revitalive Health and Wellness Center in the historic seaport town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Revitalive is a full service raw and living foods education and wellness center that also includes the Revitalive Cafe. Their wellness programs are designed to cleanse, restore, balance, and maintain health and vitality. We probe the benefits of colon ...

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Show 86 was recorded on October 15th of 2009. Scott is late so Derek and Megan kick it off without him. The show was broadcast concurrent to the media frenzy over Natalie Portman going vegan after reading Jonathan Saffron Foer's soon-to-be bestselling book Eating Animals, so there is some speculation about the book. Scott enters the show in time to relate the latest news stories, including a vegetarian spider, Iceland's plans for whalemeat trade, eating fish increasing risk for diabetes, an ...

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Show 87 was recorded on November 5th of 2009. Our feature interview is with Michael Balducci of The Veggie Brothers. We originally met at the Veggie Pride Parade. The Veggie Brothers mails delicious vegan meals made by an award-winning vegan chef all over the US and Canada, packaged in frozen vacuum-sealed bags that you can boil and serve. Michael came to veganism due to health issues and after healing himself decided he wanted to help others. His one caveat with veganism was with the bland ...

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The Non-Enhanced Version of Show 84, for those of you who can't listen to mp4 files on your audio software...

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Our 85th show features an interview with Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns. Karen is an expert on everything having to do with chickens, turkeys and other birds that people eat. Karen runs a sanctuary in Maryland where she houses hundreds of rescued birds, and also has recently come out with a revised edition of her classic book on the subject Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry. Karen gives us some insight into birds and the agribusiness that ...

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On Halloween day Derek, Megan and Scott along with several other activists took The Vegan Bus from Northampton to the 14th annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival. Derek conducted a series of interviews that are featured on this special enhanced podcast. He talks to Dr Michael Greger about the latest in vegan nutrition and also the swine flu epdemic. Helen from the Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition (MARC) talks about local activism and getting the vegan message into the classroom. Local ...

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Show 83 features an interview with Eric Prescott, a Boston-based animal rights activist who is working on a variety of interesting projects, including a kiosk named OVED, a documentary series called 'I'm Vegan', the Boston Vegan Association, and his blog An Animal Friendly Life. Eric is an abolitionist who subscribes to the philosophy of Gary Francione. Eric explains the difference between abolitionist and welfarist approaches to animal activism, and is a living example of how to put aboli ...

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After a long hiatus we are back with our 81st show featuring raw food chef and 'uncookbook' author Ani Phyo. Ani describes for us some delectable recipes that will make your mouth water from her new book Ani's Raw Food Desserts: 85 Easy, Delectable Sweets and Treats. We also discuss her recent food demo for Google in their vegan-friendly lunchroom, her journey to raw foodism from her Korean roots, how to eat raw without hours in the kitchen, and of course cyborgs. Also featuring listener fe ...

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Megan Shackelford returns from India to co-host our 82nd show. Author of the children's book 'That's Why We Don't Eat Animals' Ruby Roth is our featured guest, in a post-recorded interview. Because of technical difficulties on at the radio station we couldn't get her patched through on the phone, and so the interview with Ruby is recorded later by Derek and spliced in for this podcast. The show was quite interesting even without her, and the banter between Megan, Derek and Scott is enlighte ...

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Our 80th show features Beloved Binge on tour and in the studio with us for an interview and further shenanigans. The Binge are one of our favorite bands, and great vegan activists to boot. They created a documentary called Seeing Through the Fence that "explores the role of food in modern society and our connection, or lack of connection, with both the processes and animals from which our food originates". They also hand out Vegan Outreach literature at college campuses in the towns they pl ...

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Our 79th show is a podcast-only special edition, featuring two pre-recorded interviews. The first is Derek interviewing Billy Hulting, who helps put on the Worldfest in Encino, California. Worldfest is a solar-powered celebration of music, the environment, animals and humanity, with a strong emphasis on veganism. Billy talks about the festival, his vegan activism, and Zappa Plays Zappa, Dweezil Zappa's tribute to the music of his father Frank Zappa. Billy tours with the band as a percussion ...

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Our 78th show comes in the midst of a Swine Flu outbreak in which the disease has jumped species and is now being transmitted from human to human. The World Health Organization has called it a Phase 5 Outbreak, indicating a pandemic is imminent. We report some of the current news and views and add our own two cents. Our featured interview is with Ed Coffin, vegan "activist extraordinaire" who is building a vegan empire in Philadelphia. Ed tells us about the uber successful Vegan Drinks Phil ...

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Seventy-seven shows into it and the technology is still kicking our ass, but we get some interesting radio out of it just the same. We are psyched to have a chance to talk to vegan triathlete Brendan Brazier. The radio station equipment goes a little haywire and we lose Brendan early on, which gives Jilian a chance to give us a lesson on iron absorption. Once we get Brendon back we talk about his Thrive diet, the vegan sports nutrtion company he founded called Vega, his take on protein and ...

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On our 76th show Scott is absent and Jilian and Derek have in-studio guest Chrissy Costigan, who lives near us in Westfield Massachusetts and was a runner up in Peta's Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door 2009 contest. Chrissy entered the contest and became a vegan because of what she learned while competing. We discuss wether Peta's sensationalist, sexual, and sometimes sexist tactics are justifiable. We also talk about the challenges of being a new vegan in a non-vegan world. Later in the show De ...

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On our 75th show (we can't believe it either!) we feature an interview with Mark LaPolla who is the creator of Life By Chocolate, which has a line of amazing vegan chocolates. Mark takes us through the trials and tribulations of making pure vegan chocolate and his dedication to the process. You will learn a lot about chocolate, just be sure to have a pile of vegan chocolate nearby while you listen because you know you'll be jonesin for some chocolate by the end of the show! In the news we c ...

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Our 74th show features an interview with Kevin Gianni of The Renegade Health Show. Kevin is preparing to go out on tour in his RV and takes some time to tell us about his show and his recent activities. We talk about raw food, the Vitamix, fitness, bags under the eyes, yoga and attention deficit disorder, coffee, cacao-induced rashes, and all kinds of other wacky stuff. We also feature new bumpers with Dan Piraro, Emily Deschanel, and Danielle from Vegan Treats. We feature an especially int ...

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Our 73rd show features an interview with Carolyn Scott, who travels around the world and tries vegan food out at omnivorous restaurants. She makes videos and blogs about the experiences. We met Carolyn at Burning Man 2007 when she came to visit The Vegan Bus. She gives us her insights and favorite places to eat. We also read a review of Temple Grandin's new book written by Jeffrey Masson and Jeff Nelson, with some commentary by us. We round out the show with music from the Brilliant Sins an ...

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On our 72nd show we introduce a new co-host, Jilian Oder. Jilian is an ovo-lacto vegetarian who wants to go vegan. Derek and Scott hope to help her make the change. This show marks her first day as a vegan, and over the course of the next few episodes we will follow her progress, trials and tribulations. Jilian takes over the show as we interview the author of The Joy of Vegan Baking, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. Colleen talks to us about her book and the nuances of vegan baking. As usual we g ...

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Megan is leaving for India to find her true self and Derek and Scott take over the show. When scheduled guest and spiritual vegan Will Tuttle fails to call in the hosts go into their own metaphysical rants and views on reality. We debut new bumpers of Persia White talking about Earthlings and Skinny Bitch author Rory Freedman giving us props. In the news we cover Murder King's meat scented cologne.

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Our 70th show is going to be Megan's last appearance for 6 months while she visits India, and we say our good-byes. We feature an interview with Ruthann Russo who is the author of 'The Raw Food Diet Myth'. Ruthann and her daughter Emmalea went raw 2 years ago when Emmalea was diagnosed with epilepsy. Since then there have been no seizures and Ruthann has been on a journey of discovery with the raw food diet. In her book she explains all of the different branches of the raw foods movement as ...

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