Vegan Radio
Vegan Radio
News, InterMusic, and Vegan Culture. Vegan Radio features co-hosts Megan Shackelford, Derek Goodwin, and Scott Lahteine who inject entertaining banter and irreverence into the serious subject matter that is dealt with in this show. The shows typically feature the latest news in the vegan movement, ...
Show 83: Eric the Abolitionist
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 ...
Show 82: Vegan Propaganda for Kids
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 ...
Show 81: Ani Phyo
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 ...
Show 80: The Beloved Vegan Bake Sale Binge
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 ...
Show 79: Sarah Kramer and Worldfest's Billy Hulting
Our 79th show is a podcast-only special edition, featuring two pre-recorded inter. 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, ...
Show 78: Ed Coffin
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 ...
Show 77: Brendan Brazier
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 ...
Show 76: Sexy New Vegans
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 ...
Show 75: Vegan Chocolate 101
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 ...
Show 74: The Renegade Vegan Show
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 ...
Show 73: The Healthy Voyager
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 ...
Show 72: The Joy of Vegan Baking
On our 72nd show we introduce a new co-host, Jillian Oder. Jillian 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 ...
Show 72: The Joy of Vegan Baking
On our 72nd show we introduce a new co-host, Jillian Oder. Jillian 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 ...
Show 71: Metaphysical Vegan New Year
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 andon reality. We debut new bumpers of Persia ...
Show 70: The Raw Food Diet Myth
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 ...
Show 69: Strategic Action and Thanksgiving tips
Our 69th show features and interview with Melanie Joy, author of the book Strategic Action for Animals. Melanie talks about the most effective ways of building a movement. We also ask her about the abolitionist vs welfarist divide in the modern animal ...
Show 68: Christine Waltermyer and Election Results
Our 68th show falls two days after the epic 2008 presidential elections in the U.S., which also featured some victories for animals. We talk about our local election results banning Greyhound Racing in Massachusetts as well as the passing of Proposition ...
Show 67: Boston Vegetarian Foodfest 2008
On our 67th show we feature interMegan and Derek conducted at the 2008 Boston Vegetarian Food Festival. Interinclude: Jae Steele author of vegan cookbook Get It Ripe - A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking and Living; Our friend Molly Wadzeck helping Karen Dawn ...
Show 66: Captain Paul Watson
Our 66th show is bound to go down in obscure history books as "The Vegan Paul Show". We feature an interview with one of our heroes in the movement, Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The interview was conducted by Derek at the ...