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1. Compassionate Gift Guide
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Today?s episode is a special one. With the holidays coming up, I wanted to highlight a few of my favorite things to provide inspiration for compassionate gift-giving during the holidays - and anytime. If you?re seeing this episode after the ?holidays? have already passed, please don?t tune it out. T
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public date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:56:00 -0600 - (50 MB Type: MPEG)
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2. Food for the Road: Packed Lunches and PIcnics
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Whether you?re packing lunches for your children for school or your partner for work or for yourself to take to the office; whether you're a teenager packing your own lunch or a college student looking for quick and easy meals; whether you're someone who works outside - as a gardener or landscaper,
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public date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:19:33 -0500 - (55 MB Type: MPEG)
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3. Little Boy Pig: A Genetically Modified Tale
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At Animal Pharm, an anomaly is born. Whether a piglet with the hands and feet of a human baby or a human baby with the head and tail of a piglet, Ziggy only wants to find what we all seek. It is my pleasure to read this moving tale by the talented Shad Clark.
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public date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:23:47 -0500 - (51 MB Type: MPEG)
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4. The Shearing of Sheep
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Though sheep play a huge role in the consciousness of our culture (through nursery rhymes, children's stories, fables, and religion), our primary relationship to them is through our exploitation of them. Whether it's their wool we're shearing, their skin we're wearing, their flesh we're eating, or t
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public date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:00:57 -0500 - (55 MB Type: MPEG)
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5. The Secret Goldfish: A Short Story by David Means
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With sensitivity, humor, and keen insight, David Means tells the story of a goldfish who witnesses the dissolution of a family. I think Means beautifully captures the way the animals in our lives can become pawns in our greater human dramas ? whether we?re aware of it or not. I think it?s really won
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public date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:17:44 -0500 - (42 MB Type: MPEG)
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6. Drawing the Line: How Vegan is Vegan?
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What if I had my own hens and ate her eggs? What if I had my own cow or goat and drank her milk? What about honey? Is it considered "vegan"? These are some of the questions people ask as they begin to consider the ethical issues of consuming animal products. Though I don't pretend to have the one de
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public date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:44:55 -0500 - (46 MB Type: MPEG)
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7. Blood: A Short Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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For the last 35 years of his life, Isaac Bashevis Singer was a proud and vocal vegetarian, and he often included the themes of vegetarianism and animal suffering in his works. Affected deeply by early memories of an animal market in Poland, where animals were brought to be slaughtered, Singer began
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public date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:22:57 -0500 - (53 MB Type: MPEG)
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8. Conversations with Strangers (on Land and in the Air)
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Though I love talking about all things vegetarian with like-minded friends, my favorite people to engage with are strangers, whether on land or in the air (on planes). The more time we invest in conversations about vegetarianism and animal rights, the better advocates we will be and the more seeds w
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public date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:22:28 -0500 - (49 MB Type: MPEG)
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9. Watch the Animals
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After being diagnosed with lung cancer, Diana Frick, the main character in "Watch the Animals" focuses more on who will take care of her menagerie of animals after she dies than on her own fatal illness. Told from the point of view of her fellow wealthy neighbor, who doesn't quite understand Diana's
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public date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:57:18 -0500 - (34 MB Type: MPEG)
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10. Greening Your Life
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Calorie for calorie, dark green leafy vegetables are perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food. There are over one thousand species of plants with edible leaves, including Arugula, Beet Greens, Bok Choy, Brussels Sprouts, Collard greens, Cabbage, Chard, Chicory, Dandelion Greens,
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public date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:37:10 -0500 - (37 MB Type: MPEG)
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11. How Does Your Garden Grow? (Without Animal Products!)
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Just as humans need the nutrients from plants to thrive and grow, so do the plants need the nutrients from the soil - such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, calcium, iron, and magnanese. In this much-requested episode, learn how organic matter from plants (i.e. compost) enriches the soil, how
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public date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:42:07 -0500 - (40 MB Type: MPEG)
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12. The Boy Who Talked With Animals
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Another story by well-known writer Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), "The Boy Who Talked With Animals" is a very touching tale that illustrates the power of intervening on behalf of those who have no voice. In the presence of compassion, transfor
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public date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:51:04 -0500 - (40 MB Type: MPEG)
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13. Leather: Not an Innocent By-Product
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When confronted by the ethical considerations of leather, many people exclaim that it is a mere by-product of the meat industry and is thus absolved of culpability. The truth is quite different. Far from the altruistic industry this perception implies, the leather industry is inherently linked with
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public date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:51:08 -0500 - (48 MB Type: MPEG)
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14. Beyond Lies the Wub
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This short story by writer Philip K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, Total Recall) takes a look at how humans relate to other creatures. More than that, it asks the reader to grapple with the definition of "human." What does it mean to be "human"? Are others - non-human beings - capable of pos
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public date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:51:12 -0500 - (25 MB Type: MPEG)
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15. The Safety of Supplements
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Though I lament the fact that so many people look for easy solutions to their health problems and think that the answer lies in a pharmaceuticals, I also worry that people look to vitamin and mineral supplements as a shortcut to health. Though supplements may be essential when there is a true defici
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public date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:21:27 -0500 - (42 MB Type: MPEG)
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16. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
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Best known for his novels, such as The Picture of Dorian Gray; his plays, such as "The Importance of Being Earnest," "An Ideal Husband," and "Salome"; his poetry, such as "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"; and his 50,000-word letter, called "De Profundis," Oscar Wilde is not widely acclaimed for his chil
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public date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:54:16 -0500 - (26 MB Type: MPEG)
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17. Five Favorite Foods: Carrots, Dates, Walnuts, Oats, Brussels Sprouts
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My main criteria for my "favorite foods" are things that I consume practically every day and love to prepare, and though my list may seem pedestrian, one thing I've discovered in the many years I?ve been doing this work is that even the most basic foods are still foreign to people. So, today I talk
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public date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:42:58 -0500 - (56 MB Type: MPEG)
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18. "Pig": A Short Story by Roald Dahl
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Though he?s most well-known for his children's stories (James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Roald Dahl was also a prolific writer of short stories for adults, many of which are a bit on the macabre side. Today's story, "Pig" is one of these darker stories but
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public date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:09:50 -0500 - (45 MB Type: MPEG)
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19. Are You Serious? Strategies for Good Communication
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Vegetarians learn pretty quickly that when they "come out" - when they declare their vegetarianism publicly - they become the recipient of some statements or questions that are, let?s say, not very well thought out, such as "If everyone went vegetarian, the world would be overrun with farm animals!"
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public date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:05:32 -0500 - (35 MB Type: MPEG)
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20. Two-Year Anniversary Show: A Veritable Lovefest
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In celebration of the two-year anniversary of our podcast, I feature the letters of listeners who have been informed and inspired by "Food for Thought." The stories are as diverse as the listeners and reflect varied ages and backgrounds, but they all share common threads of hope and transformation.
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public date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:21:53 -0600 - (60 MB Type: MPEG)
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