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Vegan Posse
by Chrissy Benson
As a vegan, do you ever feel like you're living in a parallel universe? If so, you're not alone! We interview vegans from around the globe who, like you, are living lives of integrity and compassion, with an eye toward justice. Through their personal stories, you'll come to that you're not an outlier; in fact, you're part of an entire posse of individuals who aren't just keeping the peace, they're creating it through their food choices and beyond. You won't be saddling up, but you're in for the ride of your life! Welcome to the Vegan Posse.
Episodes
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VP#149: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Addiction, Dating, and Lit from Within
Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group forvegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m....
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VP#148: Humane Farming Association Investigator Gail Eisnitz on decades of exposing animal lsuffering and new memoir, Into the Light
Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m....
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VP#147: Jamie Jones on Flora + Fauna and everything in between!
Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, andconnect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m....
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VP#146: Good Food Institute Founder & Longtime Activist Bruce Friedrich Gets to the Meat of the Matter with His New Book: Meat!
Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m....
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June Vegan Peace - Navigating Dating and Relationships as a Vegan! Tuesday, September 8, 2026, 5:30 p.m. Central
Join us for Vegan Peace, the monthly live call Vegan Posse members. This month's topic: dating and relationships! Vegan Peace! Find Your Peace, Speak Your Piece, and Connect Time: Sep 8, 2026 05:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747 Add to your...
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VP#145: Human Good and Evil, Internal & External, with Susan Goldsholl, Author of Animal Rights Fantasy Triology "Everything's Better with Bacon, and You Can Never Have Enough Butter (But Then...)"
Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m....
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VP#144: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Food, Truth, and the Wild Wonders of Womanhood - Will You Heed the Call?
Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:...
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VP#143: Humor Writer Sadie Freely on Putting Pleasure, Positivity, and FUNNY into Vegan Activism
Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:...
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VP#142: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Roadkill, the Movement of the Movement, the Vegan Bubble, & More
Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:...
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VP#141: The Magic of Music and Maybe with Emmy-Award Winning Pianist and Composer Peter Manning Robinson
Join us beginning in June for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connectt - and yes, vegan venting welcome :) Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central WHERE:...
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Announcing the June 2026 launch of weekly online support group Vegan Peace! Find Your Peace, Speak Your Peace, and Connect
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Beginning on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. Central, the Vegan Posse will be bringing you a weekly online support group, Vegan Peace - a place for you to find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. No registration necessary - join us via Zoom. Questions? Email…
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VP#140: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! The Animal Companion Conundrum Continued, the Vegan "Signal," and the Self-Love Revolution Needed NOW
Do you value the Vegan Posse? Support us through a one-time or monthly donation - even $5/month goes a long way! https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse Stay tuned for Vegan Peace, the special weekly online group to support you on your vegan path. It’s a place for you to find your peace, speak your...
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VP#139: Dr. Michael Klaper Is Moving Medicine Forward - and Helping Address that Vitamin "L" deficiency!
Make vegan novel Marrying Myself an international bestseller and help normalize veganism through the arts! https://christinemelaniebenson.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/ Seeking coaching and/or vegan support? Contact Chrissy directly at...
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VP#138: Saving Darling, the Beagle! Activist Amanda Olejarz tells the story of the Ridlgan Rescue & more.
Announcements: Stay tuned for Posse Time, a group to educate, cheerlead, support you on the vegan path. It’s a time for us to come together, ask questions of me and/or the group regarding nutrition and vegan living, and anything else no your mind. Iam a certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach and…
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VP#137: Posse Talk wtih Jen Howk! Vegan recidivism, the animal companion condundrum, and oh, humans!
Resources:Make Marrying Myself an international bestseller! https://christinemelaniebenson.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/ Looking for clarity, continuity, and support? Contact Chrissy for personal coaching: [email protected]
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VP#136: Laser-focused from age 12! Chef/Restaurateur Tara Punzone, founder of vegan Italian restaurant Pura Vita, with bestselling author Gene Stone on their FAB new cookbook Vegana Italiana
Help make vegan novel Marrying Myself an Amazon bestseller! https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/ Chrissy Benson's author website: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/ For coaching - email [email protected] Tara Punzone: Vegana Italiana:...
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VP#135: No More Dopey Things! Ultra-Endurance Athlete and "Living Intentionally" Author Joe Gagnon on the Bold and Humble Path to Vegan Impact
This week, the Vegan Posse welcomes ultra-endurance athlete, six-time CEO, and author Joe Gagnon! Who is this "regular guy " from the Bronx? In his own words... Joe Gagnon sees his life as shaped by pivotal moments, from growing up in the Bronx to burning out in my thirties, then rebuilding…
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VP#134: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! New "Food" Pyramid, the State of the Movement, Our Impossible Task, & More!
Posse Talk with Jen Howk! is the monthly episode where Chrissy Benson and Dr. Jen Howk shoot the breeze about veganism, life, love, world events, and anything else on their minds! Looking for personal coaching or counseling? Email Chrissy directly at [email protected] Got show…
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VP#133: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Wrapping Up the Present Year, the Movement of the Movement, and on the Horizon for the Posse
Wrapping up the year with a final 2025 episode of Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Looking for personal coaching or counseling? Email Chrissy directly at [email protected] Got show topics, guest suggestions questions for our monthly series Posse Talk with Jen Howk, or anything else on your...
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VP#132: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Mildred the Groundhog, Virtue-Signaling, Myers-Briggs, and More
Vegan Posse will be taking a summertime hiatus! In the meantime, you can support the work that we do bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere via PayPal or Venmo : @veganposse Resources: The Superior Human?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqT82oGeax0&t=39s Chrissy Benson website:...
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VP#131: Danny O'Malley, Founder of Before the Butcher, the Meat You Want to Meet!
General Announcements: Make the vegan women's fiction classic Marrying Myself an international bestseller! Get your copies now: https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/ https://christinemelaniebenson.com/ Join Chrissy at Vegan Summerfest July 9-13, 2025, in...
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VP#130: Leandro "Nachie" Graga, Founder of Geomancer Permaculture with the Marxist Take on Growth, the "Cacaphony of Trauma," and the Healing Power of Vegan
This week's episode with Leandro "Nachie" Braga: Leandro "Nachie" Braga is an ecologist interested in how the complex patterns and processes of the nonhuman world can be applied towards resilience in our own society. As a permaculture designer, he works with visionary clients to implement…
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VP#129: Shouting the Vegan Message from the Mountaintops! Jan Brandenburg, Author of The Modern Mountain Cookbook
General announcements: Got show topics, guest suggestions questions for our monthly series Posse Talk with Jen Howk, or anything else on your mind? Email [email protected] We loveto hear form you! Come see Chrissy Benson speak at Vegan Summerfest – Let them know you’re with the Vegan...
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VP#128: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! A Window into the Howk in the Garden
Looking for personal coaching or counseling? Email Chrissyat [email protected] Got show topics, guest suggestions questions for our monthly series Posse Talk with Jen Howk, or anything else on your mind? Email [email protected] We love to hear form you! Come see Chrissy Benson...
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VP#127: Raw Food/Fasting Guru Loren Lockman on Being a Stranger in a Strange (Unhealthy) Land, Helping People Heal by NOT Practicing Medicine & the Tangled Web of Tanglewood Wellness Center's Downfall
Got topic ideas, guest suggestions, or questions for Chrissy and/or Dr. Jen Howk in our monthly Posse talk series? Send them to [email protected] Come to Vegan Summerfest, July 9-13, 2025, in Johnstown, PA! When you register, make sure to mention that you’re a friend of Chrissy Benson…
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VP#126: April 2025 Vegan Posse Soiree! Meet (some of) your Posse.
A fabulous time was had by all the first-ever Posse Soiree! You can vicariously experience it here. Got show topics, guest suggestions questions for our monthly series Posse Talk with Jen Howk, or anything else on your mind? Email [email protected] We loveto hear form you! Come see…
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VP#125: Dr. Angela Crawford, Author of The Vegan Transformation - "A weight lifted that I didn't even know was there."
Come to the Vegan Posse Soiree! Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 11 a.m. ET, 10 a.m. CT, 8 a.m. PTvia Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84904559136 Contribute to the Vegan Posse through PayPal or Venmo:@veganposse Buy Chrissy a virtual coffee ($5), chip in for recordingexpenses ($15), or even make it a...
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VP#124: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Therapy, Victimhood, Veganism and Mental Health, and MORE
Support the Vegan Posse through PayPal and/or Venmo.Consider becoming a monthly supporter! PayPal: @VeganPosse Venmo: @VeganPosse https://www.venmo.com/u/veganposse Announcements: Interested in personal coaching? Contact Chrissy at [email protected] Questions, comments, or guest...
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VP#123: Everything You Could Possibly Crave! Vegan Wholesome Author Brandi Doming: Going Vegan for Then-Husband’s Gout, Staying Vegan for HER (and the Animals), Raising a Vegan Daughter, and More
General Announcements: Got show topics, guest suggestions questions for our monthly series Posse Talk with Jen Howk, or anything else on your mind? Email [email protected] We loveto hear from you! Come to Vegan Summerfest – and make et them know you’re part of the Vegan Posse with…
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VP#122: Swedish Music Pro Ulf Blomberg and the Black Metal Edge of Vegan!
Got show topics, guest suggestions questions for our monthly series Posse Talk with Jen Howk, or anything else on your mind? Email [email protected] We loveto hear form you! Come see Chrissy Benson speak at Vegan Summerfest – and make sure to let them know you’re part of the Vegan Posse...
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VP#121: Join us for the very first Vegan Posse Soiree! Wednesday, April 16 , 2025, at 10:0 a.m. Central via Zoom
Thank you for being part of the Vegan Posse, bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere. This week, we've got two exciting announcements to share... Announcements: Support the Vegan Posse via PayPal or Venmo - buy me a virtual coffee ($5) or chip in for recording expenses ($15). Even...
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VP#120: Beyond Bro Science! Conscious Muscle Founder Jordan Dranes on Building What Matters – and Muscles Too
This week, the Vegan Posse welcomes bodybuilder and Conscious Muscle founder Jordan Dranes! Jordan loved powerlifting and bodybuilding more than anything in the world – and then veganism came along! Now, Jordan’s muscles are massive, and so is Instagram following, but most massive of all is his...
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VP#119: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Taboo Subjects, Dancing with Dogma, and Multi-Level Unleashing
Welcome to Posse Talk with Jen Howk, the monthly series where Dr. Jen Howk and I shoot the breeze about veganism, life, love, and anything else on our minds! Share your questions, thoughts, ideas, and opinions! Email: [email protected] If you value the work we do bringing vegans together...
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VP#118: Aging like a (Gorgeous) Yogi! Victoria Moran on Her New Book, Unexpected Life Turns, Pitfalls of Ego and COVID Jab, and Embracing “Radical”
The Vegan Posse podcast has been coming to you WITHOUT FAIL every week since October 2022. Do you love bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere? Consider supporting the Vegan Posse financially via PayPal or Venmo: Buy Chrissy a coffee or chip in for expenses - every amount helps! And...
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VP#117: Valerie Martin, Founder of The Gaia Center for Embodied Healing, on the Vegan "Soul Allergy," Therapizing Vegans, and Just Doing It
Do you value what we do in bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere? Support the Vegan Posse! Buy me a coffee! $5 Help w/ recording cost! $10 Montly support - thank you! $25 Or any amount you choose - we appreciate you!...
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VP#116: Putting The Sweet Back in Soul! Vegan Vibing with Jenné Claiborne, Author of Cookbook Sweet Potato Soul Vegan Vibes
Atlanta native and founder of the beloved food blog Sweet Potato Soul, Jenné Claiborne is obsessed with plants. As a picky eater turned certified health coach, Jenné has been enjoying the vibrant health, energy, and joy from eating whole foods for more than a decade without sacrificing her taste...
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VP#115: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Vegan Message in Third-World Countries, the Medicalization of EVERYTHING, and Making America Nuanced Again
It's time for our monthly Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Longtime Vegan Posse friend Dr. Jen Howk and I don't puport to solve many problems, at least in a utliitarian sense, but we cover a lot of ground. Enjoy :) Resources: Got questions for Posse Talk with Jen Howk? Email [email protected]...
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VP#114: TN Vegans Rock! Getting Real with Down-Home, Ultra-Glamorous Nashville Native Hayden Blane: Her Heart Cracked Open for Animals and There’s Been No Looking Back
Hayden Blane is a native Nashvillian, a wife, a mother, and an actor. She lived in LA for almost a decade, and her heart called her home to Nashville in 2014. She’s been vegan since 2007, when she read a book that opened her heart and changed her life. She’s a runner, 43 years around the sun, she...
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VP#113: Wicked Curious! Spiritual Mentor Karen Kenney on the Brutal Murder that Changed Everything, Connecting the Dots to Animal Suffering, and the Choice to Live in Love
As they say, we can't choose what happens to us; we can only choose how we respond. Often it comes down to a choice between victimhood and empowerment - and Karen Kenney chose the latter. After her mother's brutal murder, Karen would have had every justification in the world for considering…
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VP#112: Is It Demented to Think Alzheimer's Can Be Reversed? Dr. Josh Helman Doesn't Think So!
Dr. Joshua Helman MD is a Harvard-trained physician licensed in fourteen states. He has two degrees in Biochemistry, he is double Board Certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. His medical degree is from Harvard Medical School and MIT. He is...
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VP#111: Ringing in the New Year with Chef AJ and Special Friend! Her Cancer Diagnosis, Fear of Betraying the Vegan Community, Feeling Betrayed, Forgiveness, and MORE
Why was longtime vegan celebrity Chef AJ so reluctant to go public with her diagnosis of lung cancer? How is she doing now? We get into that and LOTS more in this intimate, vulnerable, and FUN interview that you won't want to miss! Among other things, you'll hear Chef AJ talk about the benefits...
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VP#1110: BONUS EPISODE! Angela Fischetti's Self-Love Total Body Workout for Bone and Muscle Strength with Supersets
How can we stay strong in 2025? Angela Fischetti can help! Angela Fischetti: A virtual physical fitness and yoga instructor and on-site licensed massage therapist specializing in fitness and wellness for older adults. Angela Fischetti is a virtual physical fitness and yoga instructor and on-site...
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VP#109: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! How Good Can You Stand It? Expanding Our Capacity for the Joy and Richness of Life - Bring It, 2025!
Welcome to the Christmas 2024 edition of Posse Talk with Jen Howk! A longtime friend of the Vegan Posse, Dr. Jen Howk is an author, researcher, and interdisciplinary social scientist. She earned her B.A. with honors from the University of Washington, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard…
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VP#108: Going Deep with ASAP Founder Dr. Faraz Harsini! Life, Liberty, & Abandonment of the Pursuit of Happiness?
As we close out the year, it's a great time to reflect on values, priorities, and purpose. If you've been feeling uncertain or lost about the importance of your vegan activism, I hope that you find this week's episode with Dr. Faraz Harsini, founder of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection…
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VP#107: A Vegan World by 2026? Dr. Sailesh Rao Is Doing His Job to Make It Happen!
First and foremost, help make the vegan novel Marrying Myself an Amazon bestseller! Buy copies for all your family and friends and leave a STELLAR review ***** - it's our best way of normalizing veganism through the arts! Buy Marrying Myself on Amazon:...
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VP#106: Lightning, Love, and Not Getting Over It with Helga Tacreiter, Founder of The Cow Sanctuary and Author of Children's Book “Harvey and the Lightning Herd"
In this one-of-a-kind episode, the Vegan Posse returns to its podcast roots with a special audio only episode. If you think you’ve heard some incredible stories about the lengths that people will go to help animals, trust me, you haven’t heard a story like this! With an uncanny ability to make...
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VP#105: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! The Holiday Hot Mess, the Pet Problem, and Tips for for Getting through with Grace (or at Least Not Totally Losing It)
It's coming up on that special time of year - good-special in some ways, frustrating-special in others, especially if you're a vegan. We're releasing this month's Posse Talk with Jen Howk a few days early, to give you that extra-special vegan boost going into Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's,...
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VP#104: The Secret Sauce of Vegan Activism with Veganuary U.S. Director Sandra Hungate
Who doesn’t love a challenge – and what better than a VEGAN challenge? Veganuary is a month-long challenge that encourages people to go plant-based for the month of January, and in this episode, I chatted with the U.S. Director of Veganuary, Sandra Hungate, who now lives in Portland, OR, but…
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VP#103: Landmark Pre-Thanksgiving Episode! Convention vs. Compassion with Animal Rights Hero and “World’s Most Influential Living Philosopher” Peter Singer, Author of New Book "Consider the Turkey"
Welcome to this landmark pre-Thanksgiving episode with Peter Singer! Peter Singer has been called the world’s most influential living philosopher. He’s been credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, and his work was certainly integral in my own vegan education. This month, he was...
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VP#102: Climate Influence Producer Andrea Learned on the Plant-Powered Planetary Solution, the MOMENT, the Unicorn Search, and the Joy of Vegan!
We all have our unique vegan path. Andrea Learned found that path through her environmental and sustainability work. Andrea is a self-proclaimed climate influence producer and host of the Living Change climate leadership podcast. She’s now in the development stage of her second podcast, Climate...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
As a vegan, do you ever feel like you're living in a parallel universe? If so, you're not alone! We interview vegans from around the globe who, like you, are living lives of integrity and compassion, with an eye toward justice. Through their personal stories, you'll come to that you're not an outlier; in fact, you're part of an entire posse of individuals who aren't just keeping the peace, they're creating it through their food choices and beyond. You won't be saddling up, but you're in for the ride of your life! Welcome to the Vegan Posse.
HOSTED BY
Chrissy Benson
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Vegan Posse currently has 145 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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As a vegan, do you ever feel like you're living in a parallel universe? If so, you're not alone! We interview vegans from around the globe who, like you, are living lives of integrity and compassion, with an eye toward justice. Through their personal stories, you'll come to that you're not an...
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Vegan Posse is created and hosted by Chrissy Benson.
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