Easy Vegan with JL Fields
Summary: Easy Vegan is produced and hosted by author and cooking coach JL Fields. Each week JL interviews local, national, and international activists, authors, chefs and plant-based leaders. Learn simple strategies – from the kitchen and beyond – that are good for your health, the environment, and the animals. Why “Easy Vegan”? Because it’s not that complicated. Theme song Talking Vegan Blues graciously donated by Daniel Redwood.
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Where do you get your protein? How much do you need? Your questions answered! You've heard the question. You've asked the question. "Where do you get your protein?" Registered Holistic Nutritionist Heather Nicholds has the answers, and delicious protein-rich recipes, in her new book Protein from Plants. A full nutritional guide to vegan protein + recipes, quick-grab snacks and meal plans.
Eric C. Lindstrom went from notorious meat-eater to vegan overnight. In his funny and informative new book The Skeptical Vegan - which he considers a vegan "survival guide" - he shares what he's learned.
“Clean meat”, anyone? The Good Food Institute is disrupting the food market by investing in, and incubating, healthy, humane and sustainable food entrepreneurs. GFI’s senior communications specialist Emily Byrd joins me to explain how the organization works and what innovations we might be seeing sooner rather than later.
Chef Del Sroufe, author of The China Study Family Cookbook, shares personal health transformation, how to become an explorer of food, how to get your kids involved in plant-based cooking, and much more.
Vegan parents, this show is for you! Guest Julia Feliz Brueck talks about her new book The Baby and Toddler Vegan Feeding Guide. Learn how to provide your babies and toddlers proper vegan nutrition!
Kat Mendenhall returns to the show to share how her dream of making vegan cowboy boots has expanded to a boutique. She shares how she mentors others who want to turn their passion to profit.
Over one weekend neary 12,000 people in Ontario will share vegan experiences through food, talks, cooking demonstrations and entertainment. Ottawa Veg Fest and Niagara Veg Fest organizers share what to expect and how the veg festivals have expanded veganism in their communities.
Leah Duncan is on the show to discuss her volunteer and business activism. Through GreenHeart: Products of Peace she uses her expertise to market and promote vegan food, lifestyle and activism. The vegan outreach director for the Humane Society of Louisiana, Leah produces the NOLA Veggie Fest and the Bayou Veg Fest. Her Vegan Village concept will soon be packaged up as a toolkit so that you, too, can promote veganism at non-vegan and vegan events in your own community!
Vegan Street Fairs are popping up in LA and NYC and more events are coming. Plus, hemp farming is now legal in the U.S.! Guests Jessica Schoech and Travis Cosgriff join me to talk about both!
Michael Suchman and Ethan Ciment - the duo behind the blog VeganMos.com - have created the new cookbook NYC Vegan. Take a foodie walk through the boroughs of New York City!
Ginny Messina is back on the show with her latest book, Even Vegans Die: A Practical Guide to Caregiving, Acceptance, and Protecting Your Legacy of Compassion. Co-authored with Carol J. Adams and Patti Breitman, Messina joins me to talk about disease shaming, body weight stigma, and how we can all be better advocates for vegans facing illness and death.
Award winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on her We Animals Archive - a free resource for activists to share hauntingly beautiful images of animals from around the world.
Vegans dating non-vegans, vegans seeking vegans, married couples who may or may not be on the same vegan journey, this show is for you! Maya Gottfried, author of Vegan Love: Dating and Partnering for the Cruelty-Free Gal, shares practical dating, relationship and vegan wedding tips!
Filmmaker Kip Andersen’s newest documentary “What the Health?” is the follow-up film to the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy. The film "exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick." Kip talks with JL about the new film, health transformations, and how you can bring the documentary to your own community.
JL and Dave are back for part 2 of JL's 7th Vegan Anniversary radio special. JL’s husband Dave Burgess joins her to talk about their vegan transition and how they make it work and offer resource suggestions and a little advice for new vegans. (Part 2 of 2)
