Lucy McKinna is a Vet with over 15 years experience treating animals initially within the world of animal agriculture before turning her attention to supporting companion animals. Within the last year Lucy has founded an incredible new Vegan dog food company called Noochy Poochy. She has worked tirelessly to create a nutritionally complete product that not only meets the nutritional needs of dogs but also (& importantly) satisfies their palettes too. In this episode Lucy and Jim discuss Lucy...
Apr 07, 2022•50 min
Lori Amos is the co-founder of Watson’s Seasoning Blends. Watson’s Seasoning Blends is a family-owned artisanal food company based in Los Angeles. Watson’s was founded to make it easier for people to eat fresh and healthy home-cooked food, including more plant-based options, by providing interesting and sophisticated spice blends to enhance flavor. Often times people want to eat healthier but don’t know how to season food so their dishes taste great: This is where Watson’s Seasoning Blends comes...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Zero Waste Path, based out of Cambridge in the UK was founded by Bianca and Giulio. They manufacture and sell 100% biodegradable, zero waste, Vegan, Palm Oil free hair and skin products. You can find out more about Zero Waste Path at https://www.zerowastepath.co.uk You can find your local Zero Waste Path stockist at https://www.zerowastepath.co.uk/pages/stockists This episode is brought to you by VEG 1. VEG 1 is the nutritional vitamin and mineral supplement designed for vegans, by vegans. Launc...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 11 min
This week singer, songwriter & vegan activist Vegan Queen V returns to The Bloody Vegans Podcast to chat about her forthcoming debut album recorded on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides up in Scotland. The debut album is being crowdfunded with a variety of fantastic reward levels in return for your support. You can support Vegan Queen V via the link below. https://veganqueenv.com/crowdfunding/ You can find out more about Vegan Queen V at https://veganqueenv.com/about/ Stay tuned to the ...
Mar 18, 2022•48 min
Gentle World are an all-volunteer team that provides online and in-person education to those interested in the vegan way of life. Their founders incorporated Gentle World as a non-profit organization over 40 years ago, and they themselves became vegan more than 50 years ago, before they even knew there was a word for it. The Gentle World organization has shared countless hours of vegan education, as well as publishing hundreds of enticing vegan recipes, and establishing educational centers in bo...
Mar 13, 2022•47 min
Annick Ireland became vegan in 2016 after adopting a greyhound from the Retired Greyhound Trust and making the connection between the pets we love and all other animals. Wanting to also wear her values, she searched far and wide for stylish, high quality vegan fashion that was sustainable too – and struggled! However, after many hours, days and months spent on the internet and Instagram, she discovered that a wealth of beautiful vegan fashion brands were out there, but they were hard to find. So...
Mar 03, 2022•59 min
Raydel Hernandez is the author of "It's delicious, it's Vegan, it's Cuban", the new book aiming to introduce folks to traditional Cuban cooking reimagined through a plant based lens. In the book Raydel draws upon family recipes passed down through generations of his family with the twist of replacing animal products with plant based alternatives. You can find out more about Raydel at his website vegancubano.com You can pick up a copy of the book on Amazon or preferably from your local independen...
Feb 26, 2022•56 min
Kayleigh is co-founder of Kakadu Creative, a full-service vegan creative agency. In 2018, after over a decade working in the consumer media industry, Kayleigh launched Kakadu Creative with her partner, Lee. The couple are on a mission use their skills and expertise to help vegan and purpose-led businesses launch, scale and grow with impactful and effective branding and design. Outside of Kakadu Creative, Kayleigh is an environmental activist, an active member of her town council’s Climate Action...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Anthony Cotter’s health-conscious mother and party-friendly father raised him and his older brother in Queens, New York. She taught her boys yoga, meditation and raised Anthony vegetarian from birth. His mother and father divorced when Anthony was five, and he and brother lived with an abusive stepfather for the next few years. After his mother’s passing on Christmas Eve, Anthony and his brother moved in with their drug-addicted father. His brother would wind-up in Rikers Island, later diagnosed...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Midge Raymond is the author of the novel My Last Continent and the award-winning short-story collection Forgetting English. Her writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and many other publications. Midge worked in publishing in New York before moving to Boston, where she taught communication writing at Boston University for six years. She has taught creative writing at Bosto...
Feb 04, 2022•58 min
Ericka Durgahee is a Marketing Manager with The Vegan Society supporting over countless companies to take the necessary steps to veganism their products and obtain the coveted Vegan Society Trademark. Currently there are 58,000 products registered with The Vegan Society and counting. In this episode we discuss Ericka's personal journey from taking on a Veganuary challenge to where she stands now as a proud Vegan advocate working for the world's oldest Vegan organisation. This episode is brought ...
Jan 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Jules Fourey-Jones is a former Veganuary participant who credits the organisation with helping her make the switch to veganism. In this episode of The Bloody Vegans Podcast Jules shares her story from self confessed Steak & Sushi fan to graduate of Chef Day Radley's seminal Vegan Cooking and Nutrition diplomas. You can find out more about Jules and her vegan journey here You can find out more about Veganuary here You can find out more about The Bloody Vegans Podcast here Get bonus content on...
Jan 21, 2022•46 min
Kate White credits her switch to veganism in January 2021 as a pivotal period in altering the course of her life for the positive. She also credits Veganuary with providing her with the support and resources to help her make those first few critical steps in to at first plant based nutrition and then into more of the ethical aspects of veganism. You can here Kate's story in this episode of The Bloody Vegans Podcast. You can find out more about Kate at the link here You can find out more about Ve...
Jan 13, 2022•44 min
Christina Mather is the founder of Southport based family run non profit dog rehoming sanctuary Little Legs Dogs Rehoming. Christina is a passionate ethical vegan who credits Veganuary for providing her with support in her shift to veganism in the forms of accountability, a community and practical advise. In this episodes Christina shares her vegan journey, her advice for those new to veganism or thinking of trying Veganuary and she also shares the story of how she founded Little Legs Dogs Rehom...
Jan 07, 2022•57 min
In this week's episode of The Bloody Vegans Podcast we take a look back at September's Reading Vegan Festival & listen to a talk given by Dora Hargitai, a rebel working with organisations such as Animal Rebellion & Extinction Rebellion. In light of the undoubtable impact & resonance of the new film 'Don't Look Up', bringing this talk to you seemed worthwhile. In this talk Dora discusses climate breakdown and the actions we can take by working collectively. Dora Hargitai is an activis...
Dec 31, 2021•29 min
In this week's episode of The Bloody Vegans Podcast we take a look back at September's Reading Vegan Festival & listen to a talk given by Tim Thorpe, The Vegan Society's Senior Campaigns and Policy Officer. In this talk Tim discusses The Vegan Society's recently launched landmark report: Planting Value in the Food System in conjunction with the Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at The University of Sunderland & former guest on the podcast, Dr. Alex ...
Dec 24, 2021•26 min
Chef Day Radley is the founder of THE VEGAN CHEF SCHOOL, created to provide the vegan movement with progressive learning and innovation. As a newbie vegan chef, in 2010, Chef Day Radley expected to dive into a world where her fellow chefs adored their work; creating dishes with love, pushing back the boundaries of cruelty free food.....sadly this wan't to be the case.It was 2010 and Chef Radley was working in her first pro-chef job. The kitchen was a maelstrom of grumpy, tetchy chefs, barking at...
Dec 17, 2021•55 min
Mark Hawthorne has fostered numerous house rabbits, including seven he adopted. He has rescued abandoned rabbits, volunteered with rabbit rescue groups, and educated people about rabbits through his published writing and public outreach. In addition to The Way of the Rabbit, he is the author of A Vegan Ethic: Embracing a Life of Compassion Toward All, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering, and Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (all from Changemakers Book...
Dec 10, 2021•53 min
Jamal Le Doux is a former pro boxer & musician who after turning vegan just a few short years ago hasn't taken a backward step when it comes to incorporating his ethics in to his work. Jamal has also recently been featured in The Vegan Society's 'Vegan & Thriving' campaign which put a spotlight on a whole host of vegan athletes thriving in their fields. You can read the feature at this link You can find out more about Jamal & hear his music at the links below: Facebook: /ledouumusic ...
Dec 03, 2021•53 min
Dana Burton is the founder of Vegan Kids UK... As Dana explains over on www.vegan-kids.org "When we asked people why they wanted a community like ours – these quotes were their answers. I knew I wasn’t alone! As a Vegan parent, I felt my kids were somehow missing out on things and it just wasn’t fair. I wanted them to feel empowered and to know they are part of something much bigger and then the idea for the Vegan Kids festival began. After a farmer and villagers put a stop to our first year, it...
Nov 26, 2021•59 min
Monk Coleman is the author of Love over Fear – A Guide to Peace and Purpose. A guide to letting go of belief systems and connecting to a higher state of being. Monk is a graduate of the University of Holistic Theology. He is a Transformational Coach, Public Speaker, Personal Trainer and a 3x Pro Natural Physique Bodybuilder. His coaching services can be found on social media platforms (twitter, Instagram, facebook, youtube). He based his coaching program on his own experience with dealing and he...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min
A groundbreaking new documentary, They’re Trying to Kill Us , features notable leaders and influencers from the fields of Hip Hop, medicine, sports, entertainment, policy, and politics weighing in on the singular most deadly threat to American society. ABOUT THE FILM Co-directors John Lewis and Keegan Kuhn have teamed up to tell the untold story of the intersections of diet, disease, poverty, institutional racism, food deserts, government corruption and collusion with Big Food and the pharmaceut...
Nov 11, 2021•41 min
After becoming a vegan, Angela merged her love for a Holistic Lifestyle and Pop Culture creating Vegan Pop Eats. Vegan Pop Eats is a brand inviting people wanting to be plant-based/vegan without feeling overwhelmed. The Vegan Pop Eats purpose is about educating, showcasing the hottest vegan spaces, trends and allowing people to tell their journey to veganism. Angela’s love story with the media began after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke with a double BS in Public Rel...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Jack Berry™, are an ethical company supplying healthy Gluten-Free, Organic and Vegan Flours. The company was borne out of a strong desire to promote good health and well-being for all, whilst encouraging individuals to make good nutritional choices based on the latest medical advice and evidence available.Jack Berry have worked closely with the Vegan Society UK and Coeliac UK, who fully endorse their Vegan & Coeliac products. In this episode Jim chats with Jack Bieniek, founder of Jack Berry...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr
In this week's episode Jim chats with the festival's founder & director, ultra marathon runner, father & leadership coach Shawn Stratton. The International Vegan Film Festival (formerly the Ottawa International Vegan Film Festival) is a trailblazing event dedicated to celebrating the vegan ideal: a healthier, more compassionate, environmentally friendly lifestyle that can be achieved through the consumption of plants and animal-free alternatives. If you are a film maker & would like ...
Oct 29, 2021•55 min
Dreena Burton is the OG vegan cookbook author, publishing her first title in 2001. She began her plant-kind life over 25 years ago, and has raised three daughters from birth on a plant-based diet. When you open one of Dreena’s books, you will find recipes that you can trust. Recipes that are well-tested, very wholesome, and delicious. Dreena also shares her passion and care in her recipes. Every one of Dreena’s recipes includes notes to help guide the home cook, to become more familiar with plan...
Oct 22, 2021•58 min
Aline Dürr is an award-winning interior architect, thought leader and author. She has a corporate background and moved from Berlin to Sydney in 2011 to change her career to where her passion lies. Well versed and highly experienced in building biology and healthy home design, Aline has been an interior design professional in the commercial sector for many years. She is also active in animal rescue, a dedicated foster parent to countless ex-battery hens and mother of two young children and many r...
Oct 22, 2021•58 min
Content / trigger warning : This discussion centres round themes relating to depression, addiction, suicide & other mental health themes that some listeners may wish to avoid. Nikki Cowell isa personal trainer, body builder & Sale FC & Green Gazelles rugby player. In this episode Nikki shares her personal journey into veganism, as well as her thoughts on mental health support in modern society & the contrast between the support on offer relating to optimising physical health. Fin...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Rebecca Gade Sawicki created Veggies Abroad, to help people not only find great things to do and ways around cities around the globe but also find the best vegan food. It was borne from Rebecca's love of travel and the question she gets asked after every trip, “What in the world did you eat?!” Aside from being vegan, Rebecca is gluten free and sensitive to a slew of things, so people assume once she leaves the house, starvation must occur. Rebecca wants to show people all the amazing vegan food ...
Oct 08, 2021•58 min
Support the show via Patreon at the link here . Singer & Actor Martin Callaghan was born and bred in Manchester & has since travelled the world delighting audiences with his prodigious singing talent. He has appeared in countless musical theatre productions working with some of the biggest names in show business & most recently he made it all the way through to the finals of Got Talent Portugal. In the past year he has transitioned from Vegetarianism to Veganism & this episode sh...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min
