Episode 68: Singer-songwriter Vegan Queen V speaks about her vegan Christmas music and her upcoming animal rights album

This week, I am pleased to present my second interview with the vegan singer-songwriter Vegan Queen V, also known as Jen Armstrong. The first time I interviewed Queen V was in 2019, for Episode 10 of my show. Queen V, who lives in the UK, creates songs that advocate for veganism and against animal exploitation.

In this interview, Queen V and I discuss her vegan Christmas songs, “Cruel World” and “Have Yourself a Merry Vegan Christmas”, as well as a song about ethics titled “Who Made You God”. Queen V also tells me about her upcoming animal rights music album and how being vegan has changed her life.

We'll hear all of the aforementioned songs on this episode, and we'll close the show with the song "Just Like Us".

It was fantastic to speak with Queen V again on the show!

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/553/54399.html.
   
2.  Listen to or download the podcast from Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/afar-december-1-2021.
   

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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!

Vegan Business Spotlight: Interview with Stéphanie, owner of the vegan bakery Pastel x Coco

Raw brownies from Pastel & Coco.

This week, I am publishing a bonus episode that features an interview with Stéphanie Gervais, who is the owner of a gluten-free vegan bakery and café called Pastel & Coco based in Gatineau, Quebec.

In this interview, Stéphanie tells me about her bakery and some of the products she sells. She also explains what led her to start her business and how the local community has responded to her café's vegan baked goods and other vegan foods. This interview was originally recorded in November 2020.

Pastel & Coco's menu, including their current holiday menu, can be found at https://www.pastelxcoco.com/. You can also find Pastel & Coco on Instagram, Facebook, and Uber Eats. Christmas logs and other holiday-themed items are available for pre-order until December 20th. Please note that Pastel & Coco is open for takeout only at this time.

Thanks to Stéphanie for being a guest on the show!

How to listen to this episode

1. You can find this bonus episode on Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/afar-vegan-business-spotlight.

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 13: Interview with Dawn Moncrief, founder of A Well-Fed World

This week on Always for Animal Rights, I interviewed Dawn Moncrief, the founder of a non-profit organization called A Well-Fed World (AWFW).
 
Dawn founded AWFW to address two forms of suffering in the world: the suffering of non-human animals who are exploited by the food system, and the suffering of humans who do not have enough food to eat. AWFW's flagship program, Plants-4-Hunger, provides funding to plant-based school lunch programs in Ethiopia and Nepal as well as programs that plant fruit trees, provide seeds, and run veganic community food gardens. In addition, AWFW has a grants program that supports animal rescue and vegan advocacy initiatives around the world.

In our interview, Dawn told me about what AWFW does and why she founded the organization. We also discussed the following topics:

• some of the reasons why it's harmful to send farmed animals overseas as "gifts" to impoverished human families;
• how animal agriculture is connected to world hunger; and
• what she hopes to accomplish in the future.

This week's episode also includes two animal rights songs: Queen V's poignant Christmas song "Cruel World" and Dr. Aryan Tavakkoli's hard-hitting animal rights song "Sixth Commandment".

How to listen to this episode

There are two ways to listen to the episode.

1. Listen to the episode on CKCU FM's website at https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/553/46074.html.
2.  Listen to the episode on Archive.org or download the MP3 file at https://archive.org/details/afardecember182019.

You can also find Always for Animal Rights on Facebook and Instagram!

Normally the show is broadcast once every two weeks, but we'll be skipping an extra week just this once. The next episode of Always for Animal Rights will be broadcast on CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa on Wednesday, January 8th, 2019-- and, of course, it will be available to listen to afterwards, as well.