Episode 60: Interview with Dr. Will Tuttle about veganism, questioning mainstream narratives, and the Boomerang Effect

This week, I am pleased to present my interview with Dr. Will Tuttle, the author of the best-selling book The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony.

Will Tuttle has given many thousands of speeches on veganism over the past 40 years, having presented in over 50 countries and in all 50 states of America. He is a former Zen Buddhist monk, and he has a PhD from the University of Berkeley in California. In addition to having written The World Peace Diet, he is the author of Your Inner Islands: The Keys to Intuitive Living and the editor of Circles of Compassion: Essays Connecting Issues of Justice and Buddhism and Veganism: Essays Connecting Spiritual Awakening and Animal Liberation. He has taught college courses about philosophy, religion, creativity, and humanities, and he is a composer and concert pianist.

In this interview, Will speaks about the Boomerang Effect, which describes how when humans harm nonhuman animals, this harm rebounds upon humanity and causes social, environmental, health-related, and spiritual disharmony amongst the human population. Then we discuss why we need to challenge the mainstream narratives regarding animal agriculture, public health, and COVID-19, and Will highlights what we can do to speak up for justice, peace, and the truth. Will also tells me his story of becoming vegan and describes the blessings that we receive when we become vegan.

Dr. Tuttle is such an inspiring and insightful person, and everyone needs to hear his words!

At the end of the episode we'll listen to Will's piano song, "The Call".

I hope you'll also consider reading two of Will's online essays, "Spooks: The Herding of Humanity" and "The Vacca-cination of Humanity".

How to listen to this episode 

• You can listen to or download the podcast from Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/afar-august-25-2021.

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Go vegan, stay vegan, and let's remember to stand up and speak up for animal rights today and every day. Thanks for listening to the show!

Episode 59: Interview with Inge and Thomas, abolitionist vegan advocates in the Netherlands

This week, I am delighted to share my interview with the abolitionist vegan advocates Inge and Thomas, who do street outreach to educate the public about veganism in the Netherlands. Thomas is also the author of a website about veganism and animal rights in the Dutch language, called WaaromVeganisme.nl.

In this interview, Thomas and Inge tell me about what led them to become vegans and start doing abolitionist vegan advocacy. They also speak about their approach to vegan education, the current state of veganism and vegan advocacy in the Netherlands, and how nonhuman animal issues are portrayed in the Dutch mainstream media. Then they share their advice for vegans who would like to get involved in animal rights advocacy, and they tell me how being vegan has changed their lives and what their plans are for the future.

It was really inspiring to speak with Inge and Thomas and learn about the work they are doing to spread the abolitionist vegan message.

How to listen to this episode

There are two ways you can listen to this episode.

1. Listen to the episode on CKCU FM's website at https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/553/53171.html.
   
2. Listen to or download the podcast from Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/afar-august-18-2021.
   

You can also find Always for Animal Rights on Facebook and Instagram. If you'd like to receive an e-mail every time there is a new post on the AFAR blog, feel free to enter your e-mail address into the appropriate box in the right-hand sidebar of this site.

Go vegan, stay vegan, and let's remember to stand up and speak up for animal rights today and every day. Thanks for listening to the show!

Episode 58: The Peppa Pig Paradox and speciesism in children's television with Lynda Korimboccus

This week, I am pleased to present my interview with Lynda Korimboccus, who lives in Scotland. Lynda will soon be starting her PhD in vegan Sociology, having completed a Master’s degree in Anthrozoology in 2019. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the upcoming Student Journal of Vegan Sociology, and she works as a social sciences lecturer in Scottish Further Education. Her PhD will focus on the experiences of vegan children living in a non-vegan world.

In this interview, we discuss how children are socialized into accepting and participating in animal exploitation in society, with a focus on Lynda’s research into how nonhuman animals are represented on children’s television shows in the UK. Lynda explains why she coined the term "the Peppa Pig Paradox", referring to the phenomenon in which people claim to love animals or animal characters (such as Peppa Pig) even while they eat real animals of the same species. She also tells me about her story of becoming vegan and her plans for her PhD research, and we discuss the importance of vegan education in order to achieve our goal of the abolition of animal exploitation.

If you'd like to watch some of the Peppa Pig episodes that I studied prior to speaking with Lynda, you can find them on YouTube. Each episode is about 5 minutes long.

How to listen to this episode

There are two ways you can listen to this episode.

1. Listen to the episode on CKCU FM's website at https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/553/53100.html.
   
2. Listen to or download the podcast from Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/afar-august-11-2021.
   

You can also find Always for Animal Rights on Facebook and Instagram. If you'd like to receive an e-mail every time there is a new post on the AFAR blog, feel free to enter your e-mail address into the appropriate box in the right-hand sidebar of this site.

Go vegan, stay vegan, and let's remember to stand up and speak up for animal rights today and every day. Thanks for listening to the show!