Podcasts about Food Empowerment Project

Today's show is a replay of an earlier episode with the amazing lauren Ornelas, founder of Food Empowerment Project. Food Empowerment Project is a vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, works to bring attention to the rights of farm workers, highlights the lack of access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities, and raise awareness about the worst forms of slavery, including child labor, in the chocolate industry. Lauren has been deeply involved in animal rights activism since 1987 and was the director of VivaUSA before founding Food Empowerment Project.Lauren and Hope talk about the connections between food, veganism, and human rights with issues like child and slave labor chocolate production, food deserts and access to produce and healthy food, and Food Empowerment Project's Fight for the Oceans campaign highlighting the struggles of the ocean and her sea creatures. Lauren will be speaking at Compassionate Living's upcoming Eugene VeganFest on May 4, 2025. Resources:Food Empowerment ProjectLauren's TEDx Talk: The Power of our Food ChoicesAbout child labor and slavery in chocolate production and the FEP's recommended chocolate listEugene VeganFest, 5/4/25

 Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P) is a volunteer-based non-profit organization focused on veganism and food justice.  F.E.P's mission to to create a more just and sustainable world by recognising the power of one's food choices. They encourage healthy good choices that reflect a more compassionate sociert by spotlightin the abuse of animals on farms, the depletion of natural resources, unfair working conditions for produce workers, and the lack of availability of healthy foods in low-income areas. Please see the links below for further details on their work and impact for food justice. We also spoke about Plant the Land Team Gaza, a vegan food justice and community projects volunteer team based in Gaza, co-founded by Anas Arafat, a Gazan humanitarian aid activist, and Laura Schleifer, a USAmerican vegan, Free Palestine solidarity activist and Total Liberation Campaign Director at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. Plant the Land Team buys and distributes vegan food, plants food forests, and provides Gazan farmers with seeds and planting tools. Previous fundraising projects have also included providing plant-based insulin to children with diabetes, providing medical treatment, providing warm winter coats and blankets made from plant-based materials, and our yearly vegan food fundraiser for Ramadan. You can follow Plant the Land Team Gaza on Facebook here; https://www.facebook.com/PlantTheLandTeamGaza/ Right now people are facing extreme harship and starvation in Gaza, and donations are desperately needed. Follow co-founder Anas Arafat here for updates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008448283358  Please donate via either of the links below:   Food, water and essential items via GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mutual-aid-in-gaza?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet_ai&utm_content=amp1v3&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=whatsapp Winter appeal via Muslim Giving https://www.muslimgiving.org/G4zawinter?fbclid=IwY2xjawGU-99leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHREx6DqnNsKbUbSzjYKQr_isJpYDLXBpczroGEz9fzctnNUAY6fY6jfhfA_aem_HR9L6c5ldKu8NrDnu_Mclw  Links:   Food Empowerment Project: https://foodispower.org/  F.E.P's core work across veganism, access to healthy food, chocolate and farm workers' rights: https://foodispower.org/our-work/  F.E.P's anti-dairy campaign, One Glass at a Time https://gotcolonization.org/  Human slavery and child slavery in the chocolate industry: https://foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/slavery-chocolate/  F.E.P's chocolate list: https://foodispower.org/chocolate-list/  F.E.P's collective organisational model https://foodispower.org/our-collective-model/  Lauren Ornelas interview with Monica Sanders on medium: How Food Empowerment Project is helping to promote sustainability and climate justice https://medium.com/authority-magazine/how-lauren-ornelas-of-food-empowerment-project-is-helping-to-promote-sustainability-and-climate-6308b4c989e1  Lauren's TEdX talk: The Power of Our Food Choices: Lauren Ornelas at TEDxGoldenGatePark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blfVA0a-CBc Music:  We featured music from Leila Hegazy and the benefit compilation album, We are the Resistance. We played three songs: War Machine, Catastrophe and Stay (cover). The We are the Resistance benefit compilation album is available on Bandcamp. All proceeds go to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF). https://leilahegazy.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-the-resistance  Feedback: please contact the Freedom of Species team with any feedback via email: freedomofspecies@gmail.com Thank you for listening and supporting 3CR Community Radio. 

Julia, Lottie, Trev and Nick discuss effective altruism – donating to organisations that do the greatest good. We cover animals being sidelined in some EA resources and we evaluate the evaluations of the most effective animal charities.  Links: Animal Charity Evaluators: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/recommended-charity-fund-update-july-2024/ Effective Altruism Australia: https://effectivealtruism.org.au/best-charities/ The Life You Can Save: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org.au/ Give Well - https://www.givewell.org/ Giving What We Can - https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does – Critical Essays on Effective Altruism: https://academic.oup.com/book/45591 Plant The Land: https://www.planttheland.org/ Food Empowerment Project: https://foodispower.org/ A previous Freedom of Species show ‘Zane McNeill on animal rights advocacy and addressing anti-carceral veganism' covered relevant themes of corporate/foundation funding of non-profits: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/zane-mcneill-animal-rights-advocacy-and-addressing-anti-carceral-veganism Nick's blog post summarising his PhD research on the financial aspects of social movements: https://faunalytics.org/little-effort-paradigm-asking-people-less-sustainably/  Music: Animal liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ Under the Garden by No Use For A Name: https://open.spotify.com/track/3H4YgNUdGSKFBCWnJYhwMP?si=8b0dc3b39c454b5a Invasion by Chumbawamba: https://open.spotify.com/track/4MkmrBfnm96reUnT0nJtnr?si=4e5f3f6909f44b80 How To Get Your Band On TV by Chumbawamba: https://open.spotify.com/track/28krH5U2ijrNVffWSuVIzY?si=9a7b9f0b5225485d 

Today, we are thrilled to be chatting with food justice activist, and plant-powered content creator Destiny DeJesus! Destiny chats about her motivation behind going plant-based and the eventual connection with the ethics of veganism. We discuss the importance of building a welcoming and safe community, why food justice is a critical component in vegan advocacy, the need to elevate the voices of BIPOC activists in the collective liberation movement, and more!Inspired by the work of organizations like APEX Advocacy, the Food Empowerment Project, Veggie Mijas, AfroVegan Society, and Black Veg Society, Destiny brings her skills and expertise to make nourishing, plant-based options available in underserved, predominantly BIPOC communities in Texas through her project, Texas Eats Green.We hope you enjoy this enlightening conversation with the wonderful Destiny DeJesus!Follow Destiny on:InstagramTikTokLearn more about Texas Eats Green by visiting their website:https://www.texaseatsgreen.com/ AAM Linktree (follow us, donate, bookshop, merch store, future events, and more):linktr.ee/animalactivismmentorshipTo support our work monthly: Patreon.com/AnimalActivismMentorshipTo keep up with the podcast, follow @AnimalActivismMentorship on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.Join the conversation in the Animal Activism Mentorship Community facebook group.Want to get active for the animals but don't know where to start?Sign up for a free mentor at AnimalActivismMentorship.comPlease remember to rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast!

Discover the transformative journey of our inspiring guest, Lauren Ornelas, who has been an unwavering advocate for veganism and social justice since childhood. Growing up in Texas, their initial empathy for cows sparked a lifelong commitment to vegetarianism, eventually evolving into full veganism after a life-changing speech by an ex-vivisector. Lauren's deep-rooted involvement in social justice movements, such as the anti-apartheid initiative, set the stage for the creation of the Food Empowerment Project, an organization dedicated to tackling the interlinked issues of human rights, animal rights, and environmental sustainability. Throughout this episode, we unpack the founding and mission of the Food Empowerment Project, exploring how it champions animal rights, farmworker justice, and the fight against child labor in the chocolate industry. Our guest shares candid reflections on the hurdles faced within the vegan movement, particularly the initial resistance to a more comprehensive focus. However, there's a silver lining as younger generations progressively grasp these interconnected issues. We also delve into the guest's early activism in high school and college, where they encountered both support and challenges, and highlight the pivotal role of Viva USA in shaping their advocacy journey. As the conversation unfolds, we confront common misconceptions about veganism and discuss how ethical eating supports collective liberation. Our guest recalls the grassroots beginnings of the Food Empowerment Project, emphasizing the critical input from communities and the development of resources like a chocolate list and app to aid ethical consumption. Moreover, we touch on the essential practice of self-care in activism, underscoring the importance of balance and support systems in sustaining long-term advocacy efforts. Join us for an episode rich with stories of resilience, interconnected activism, and actionable insights for living a compassionate life. Guest Bio: Lauren Ornelas has been a deeply involved animal rights activist since 1987 and is the founder and General Programs Collective Member of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, champions the rights of farm workers, highlights the lack of access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities, and raise awareness about the worst forms of slavery, including child labor, in the chocolate industry. Watch Lauren's TEDx talk on The Power of Our Food Choices. Learn more about F.E.P.'s work at www.foodispower.org.  Thanks for listening to another episode. Follow, review, and share to help Consciously Clueless grow! Connect with me: https://www.consciouslycarly.com/ Join the Consciously Clueless community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/consciouslycarly Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/consciously.carly/ Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/consciously.carly.blog Music by Matthew Baxley

Send us a Text Message.Hey Pickles!This week's episode is jam packed! We'll tell you about some vegan food we found, and Christine will tell you about a Food Empowerment Project webinar that she attended, The Embodiment of Injustice - The Dairy IndustryHere's a link to the webinar replay: https://youtu.be/LL2fo4tqF0M?si=qALFLuFPkL6Z62SQWe have a recipe for our Vegan Cookbook Challenge from Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking!You can get the book here *paid link https://amzn.to/3XLfQTCIn our Noteworthy segment, we'll tell you about some vegan butcher shops, and how you can get their products.Our Main Topic is Am I The Ass Hat Vegan Edition. We'll share several scenarios, and decide who is the ass hat! Let us know if you agree with our decisions!We spotlight a vegan restaurant in our Restaurant SOS series. We have a new Vegan Org of the Week, and a new Listener Shout Out!Enjoy the show & thanks so much for listening!Love, Sam & ChristineSupport the Show.Join Our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CompassionandcucumbersSign Up For Our Newsletterhttps://www.compassionandcucumbers.comOur YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@compassioncucumbersveganpod/videos72 Reasons To Be Vegan *paid link https://amzn.to/3W8ZwsUVisit Our Website https://www.compassionandcucumbers.comSam's Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/CucumberCraftworksJoin the AFA Vegan Voter Hub https://agriculturefairnessalliance.org/vegan-voter-hub/

Send us a Text Message.Hey Pickles!We hope this finds you well.This week's show is jam packed! Our Noteworthy segment answers the question, "Why aren't people happy about Tattooed Chef returning to stores?".In our Main Topic, we decide who is & who is not a vegan ass hat as we explore some posts on Vegan Redditt. Let us know if you agree with our assessments!We're featuring a new restaurant in our Restaurant SOS segment. We'll tell you about Burger Patch, a vegan burger joint in Sacramento, CA! Please support them if you're in the area!Our Vegan Org of the Week is Food Empowerment Project. You may have heard us talk about FEP in the past, but they are restructuring their organization, and we wanted to let you know about their work!You can find our more about FEP here:   https://foodispower.orgWe also have a new Listener Shout Out! Is it you? Don't forget, if you would like a shout out, or want to contact us for any reason, use the link above that says " Send us a text message"!Thanks so much for spending time with us!Love, Sam & ChristineSupport the Show.Join Our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CompassionandcucumbersSign Up For Our Newsletterhttps://www.compassionandcucumbers.comOur YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@compassioncucumbersveganpod/videos72 Reasons To Be Vegan *paid link https://amzn.to/3W8ZwsUVisit Our Website https://www.compassionandcucumbers.comSam's Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/CucumberCraftworksJoin the AFA Vegan Voter Hub https://agriculturefairnessalliance.org/vegan-voter-hub/

Join host Fred Munroe as he speaks with guests from the Food Empowerment Project, lauren Ornelas, Founder of Food Empowerment Project, Lee Gitter, Administrator and Programs Assistant, and Kennedy Little, Youth Advocacy Coordinator. They will discuss their work to raise awareness about how our food choices can change the world.You are invited to listen, learn, and participate in the conversation, between 1-2 pm. Call in and be part of the discussion at (805) 549-8855.Broadcast date: 2/8/24Central Coast Voices is sponsored by ACTION for Healthy Communities in collaboration with KCBX.

Chicas Politicas welcome their first guest! lauren Ornelas (she, her, hers). lauren is Food Empowerment Project founder and president. lauren has been active in the animal rights movement for more than 30 years. She is the former executive director of Viva! USA, a national nonprofit vegan advocacy organization.For more info, check out: foodispower.org

Soul food has its roots in the culinary traditions of Black Americans and African diaspora communities in the southern United States, and it plays a crucial role in preserving Black history. But given the impact of racism and colonialism in the US food system on Black people, what should soul food look like today? In this week's episode, Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter joins Melanie and Evanna to talk about his book The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, & Food Justice, which unpacks the connections between food injustice and racial injustice. They discuss how decolonizing soul food offers a way to reclaim culinary history and human dignity for Black communities; the importance of advocating for a more equitable food system and future while upholding the values of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity for the marginalized; and what a movement toward Black food sovereignty might look like. Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter's research, teaching, and activist interests are in Black, womanist, and environmental ethics, with a particular focus on race, food, and nonhuman animals. His publications include The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, & Food Justice; “Blood in the Soil: The Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism,” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature; and the coedited volume The Future of Meat without Animals. In them, he explores the intersectional oppressions experienced by BIPOC, nonhuman nature, and animals. He's an Associate Professor of Theology at the University of San Diego and Lead Pastor of The Loft at Westwood United Methodist Church. He's also on the board of directors of Farm Forward, an anti-factory farming nonprofit. Evanna mentions The Food Empowerment Project's Chocolate List. Christopher mentions the book Afroism by Aph and Syl Ko. Visit Christopher's website and check out his book "The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, & Food Justice". Follow Christopher on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). Check out Melanie's new book, "How to End Injustice Everywhere". Check out Evanna's book, "The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting". This season of Just Beings is brought to you by our friends at LeafSide and Vivo Life! Learn more about LeafSide by visiting GoLeafSide.com. Learn more about Vivo Life by visiting VivoLife.com. Stay up to date with Just Beings on social media by following @JustBeingsPod. This episode was edited by Andrew Sims.

Happy Easter! In honor of spring, today we are featuring rabbits and welcome Mark Hawthorne to the podcast. Mark is the author of numerous books on animal rights and social justice, including: A Vegan Ethic: Embracing A Life Of Compassion Toward All and the bestselling Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism. His most recent book is called The Way of the Rabbit which is a joyful celebration of rabbits, both wild and domestic. Mark is a longtime rabbit lover who has fostered and rescued many bunnies over the years, eight of whom he adopted. He also volunteers with the vegan food justice group Food Empowerment Project, that was founded by his partner Lauren Ornelas. Mark tells us some stories of the rabbit in history and myth, shares interesting insights about rabbits, talks about the rise in popularity of using rabbits for meat in the US, and also talks about his other book Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering. Resources:Book Launch Party for The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs edited by Hope Bohanec. Register Today!Some of Mark's Books: The Way of the RabbitBleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal SufferingStriking at the RootsIPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report: “Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”

 International Women's Day is recognised each year on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence against women. 3CR Radical Radio has a long history of supporting IWD by hosting 24 hour broadcasting by women and non-binary people. On this show we discuss some inspirational women who are animal rights advocates and strive for collective liberation. We also discuss some other animal-related news. We acknowledge the work of Brenda Sanders who founded the Afro-Vegan Society and works tirelessly in food justice and sharing knowledge about healthy vegan living. Here's Brenda's profile with the Unbound Project: https://unboundproject.org/brenda-sanders/        Learn more about the Afro-Vegan Society here: https://www.afrovegansociety.org/ We discussed Lauren Ornelas and The Food Empowerment Project which seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one's food choices. https://foodispower.org/    The FEP Ethical Chocolate list is a really handy resource for sourcing ethical vegan chocolate that is free of child and slave labour through it's production and supply chain.  https://foodispower.org/chocolate-list/We recognise the work of animal photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur and We Animals Media https://weanimalsmedia.orgWe discuss the work of Kristy Alger, writer and activist. Kristy writes under Writing Liberation and her first book is Five Essays For Freedom. Follow Kristy's work here: https://www.instagram.com/writing_liberation/?hl=en SeaWeek (March 4-12, 2023) is Australia's major national public awareness campaign to focus community awareness, provide information and encourage an appreciation of the sea. https://www.aaee.org.au/seaweek/ UN member nations have signed a treaty to protect marine life and the agreement is considered crucial to the goal of protexting 30% of land and sea by 2030. https://apnews.com/article/un-oceans-biodiversity-treaty-0b024fa07e8c1947236d8b8491ebf92c  A new study reveleaed that plastic pollution doubles every six years https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281596  We discussed the death of Kiska, the last orca held in captivity in Canada. Tragically Kiska had been living in captivity since the 1970s at Marineland. https://plantbasednews.org/culture/law-and-politics/kiska-captive-orca-died-marineland-canada/ A new study revelas that fish are self-aware and recognised themselves in a mirror test https://plantbasednews.org/news/science/self-aware-fish-research/ The documentary Seaspiracy is available on Netflix https://www.seaspiracy.org/ In dairy news, consumption of plant based milk is on the rise in Australia. Researchers delve into why this is and what motivates people to make the switch away from consuming dairy. https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2022/07/why-plant-based--milks--are-rising-to-the-top Puma ditches kangaroo leather for their soccer boot range and releases a vegan leather substitute called K-BETTER. https://plantbasednews.org/culture/sport/puma-vegan-leather-football-boots/Events coming up: Emma Hakansson, author of How Veganism can Save Us will be in conversation with Pam Ahern, Founder of Edgar's Mission at the Castlemaine Festival on Tuesday April 4. https://castlemainefestival.com.au/events/how-veganism-can-save-us/ Five years after the release of the Dominion documentary, Farm Transparency Project are hosting a week of action across April 2-8 and an Animal Rights March. Details here: https://www.farmtransparency.org/dominion-march  Music Played: Alice Skye 'Everything Is Great' - https://open.spotify.com/track/5o7idEY12ht7TrTHu5e4fG Caisha Sprout 'Seasick' - https://open.spotify.com/track/6BcO1IkqIuJroU2mI88Msi Dear Stalker '6pm In The City' - https://open.spotify.com/track/2VlRFa3tMFGjoHTlYjUiEC

  In our first show back for 2023 we talk about some popular Go Vegan campaigns such as Veganuary that encourage people to try adopting a vegan diet for 30 days and provide email support resources and cookbooks. We discuss whether these campaigns can frame veganism as a diet through the focus on food and miss the broader ethical considerations of animal liberation, or are they a critical first step for vegan curious people who are searching for information and the support that will help them make the transition. For further information on the campaigns and organisations we discussed, please see:  Veganuary https://veganuary.com/en-au/ Vegan Easy (Animal Liberation Victoria) https://www.veganeasy.org/ Vegan4Life (Animal Liberation Queensland) https://www.vegan4life.org.au/ World Plant Milk Day https://www.worldplantmilkday.com/ Food Empowerment Project https://foodispower.org/ Project Fresh Start holds community lunches at the Uniting Church, High St Frankston, Victoria on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month from 12pm.  https://www.facebook.com/projectfreshstart21/  Music we played on the show: Stray by The Teethers https://open.spotify.com/track/795sHubR0hPX90dETXYgPI?si=964ca12697f344ee Everything is great by Alice Skye https://open.spotify.com/track/5o7idEY12ht7TrTHu5e4fG?si=fa7506754c8f43a8 Shouting Out by Motor Vehicle Rundown   If you have any feedback about the show or the campaigns we discussed, we'd love to hear from you. Please email us at freedomofspecies@gmail.com   Thank you for listening. 

 We speak with Jolene who founded Project Fresh Start about veganism, food insecurity and minimising food waste. Jolene started PFS in 2021 in the southeast suburbs of Melbourne/Narrm as a way to contribute to community, provide fresh and healthy meals to people in need and reduce the food waste that she'd observed over her career in the hospitality industry.   About Project Fresh Start Inc. Our purpose is to understand the issues that affect our local community and respond in a manner that doesn't compromise our values. We believe that everyone has the right to live a happy and healthy life and we focus on helping to remove the barriers that people face in achieving these outcomes. Our focus is on providing free, healthy fresh plant-based food and education around healthy eating and living in a way that sustains the individual, the community, the animals, and the planet. Donations are gratefully received, as is contact if anyone is keen to volunteer or start something up in your own area. PFS's contact and bank account details are located on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/projectfreshstart21 Links Foodbank Hunger Report 2022 examines the extent and severity of experience with food insecurity among Australian households: https://www.foodbank.org.au/foodbank-hunger-report-2022/?state=vic Food waste in Australia: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/waste/food-waste Food Empowerment Project https://foodispower.org/ and their ethical chocolate list https://foodispower.org/chocolate-list/ World Plant Milk Day https://www.worldplantmilkday.com/ Food Not Bombs https://www.foodnotbombs.net/australia.html Music we played Talkin' Bout a Revolution by Tracey Chapman https://open.spotify.com/track/0YMFcrMtBowDdD5bPz0cgy?si=8a186be46b2e4c8f Idioteque by Radiohead https://open.spotify.com/track/1W5XugQJGhnSATMI5n002M?si=c001e8215eb6449f Better in Blak by Thelma Plum https://open.spotify.com/track/1c5iUY7Zg1SxtROg1yr5ad?si=2c4a229569b14ce6  

Sam and Emma host writer Jacob Silverman to discuss his recent piece in the New Republic "The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley's Prophet of Urban Doom". Then they are joined by Lauren Ornelas, founder and president of the Food Empowerment Project, to discuss the recent union busting tactics and worker mistreatment that's been occurring at Amy's Kitchen. Emma and Sam first run through updates on recent midterm debates, diving deep into yesterday's Senatorial Debate between Oz and Fetterman, exploring Fetterman's success in getting his message out there despite lingering effects from his stroke, and Dr. Oz's insistence on letting him and other local representatives into your check-ups at the doctor. Jacob Silverman then joins as he dives right into the story of David Sacks, beginning with his time getting to know Peter Thiel at Stanford and co-writing “The Diversity Myth,” a generally bigoted work on 1990s culture wars, before moving alongside Thiel to become COO of Paypal, a core member of the original “Paypal Mafia.” After touching on the reactionary nature of the Diversity Myth and the general ideology of the Paypal crew, Emma, Sam, and Jacob walk through Sacks' post-Paypal conquest of the tech- and culture worlds, and how it led him to the founding of Callin podcasting platform, putting him at the top of a cultural organization that centers reactionary thinking. Then, Lauren Ornelas joins as she walks through the story of her work with Amy's Kitchen from the consumption side, and how this corporation leaving behind its cooperative roots diminished the relationships that had supported its work to this point. They wrap up by parsing through the Food Empowerment Project's response to Amy's continued union-busting, and exploring what the MR audience can do to both help the organizers behind the effort and to push Amy's towards decent workplace treatment. And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma express their pessimism at the coming midterms, Celeste from Portland dives into Joe Kent's recent fiasco over claiming to be paid by companies that simply don't exist. They also watch Alito prepare to undermine repercussions for the Dobbs leak, Blake Masters and Trump call out Peter Thiel, and the crew dives into the incredible success of Houston's homelessness policy. They also tackle the parallels between the development of islamophobia in the US and the conservative movement towards transphobia, before talking with some PA voters and narrowly avoiding a libertarian debate, plus, your calls and IMs!   Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join   Check out Jacob's piece here: https://newrepublic.com/article/168125/david-sacks-elon-musk-peter-thiel   Check out the Food Empowerment Project here: https://foodispower.org/our-team/   Check out the In These Times reporting on Amy's Kitchen here: https://inthesetimes.com/article/amys-kitchen-freezes-union-organizing Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Check out today's sponsors: IAC Laser Engraving: IAC Laser Engraving is a Leftist-owned Worker Collective started by long time listener Ryan Lubin in September of 2021. They use sustainably sourced materials  coupled with extremely energy efficient laser technology to bring you unique products that you won't find anywhere else! Visit https://www.iaclasers.com/ to order yours today and  enter in Coupon Code: "MAJORITY10" at purchase to receive a 10% discount on their AMAZING products." Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

Hey Pickles!We had a great weekend. We hope you did too! We roadtripped a little to Trader Joe's & Target to do some shopping and to scope out vegan products. We went to Cheesecake Factory to have lunch, and we'll tell you what we found to eat on their menu!We continue our Vegan Cookbook Challenge with a cool summertime grilling recipe from the book, Totally Vegetarian by Toni Fiore. This is a great book with mostly vegan recipes, and the vegetarian recipes tell you how to veganize them!We spotlight one of our favorite vegan organizations, Food Empowerment Project, and tell you how you can join them in helping farmworkers and their families.Thank you so much for listening!!Here are the links: Toni Fiore's website    https://www.tonifiore.comGet the cookbook *paid link   https://amzn.to/3PlufyAFood Empowerment Project.   https://foodispower.orgFEP Chocolate List.   https://foodispower.org/chocolate-list/FEP School Supply Drive    https://foodispower.org/school-supply-drive/The Vegan Center - Project Vegan 716    https://projectvegan716.com/the-vegan-centerSupport the show

In this episode of Vegan Boss Radio, Shawna interviews lauren Ornelas about how she started the Food Empowerment Project; how she got into veganism, animal rights, environmental rights, and social justice issues 30 years ago; and some of the main areas that the Food Empowerment Project works within. lauren Ornelas is the founder and president of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, fights for workers, and works on lack of access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities. She has been an animal activist for three decades, during which she has launched numerous groups, investigated factory farms, run consumer campaigns, and helped stop the construction of an industrial dairy in California. Watch lauren's TEDx talk on The Power of Our Food Choices. Learn more about F.E.P.'s work at www.foodispower.org, and our sister sites www.veganmexicanfood.com, www.veganfilipinofood.com and www.veganlaofood.com.   Connect with the Food Empowerment Project: IG: @foodempowermentproject Website: www.foodispower.org   Vegan Boss Hosts: Shawna Barker, Synergy Nutrition IG: @synergy_nutrition Megan Barker, Megan Media Design IG: @meganmediadesign

Books:Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection Between Coffee and Faith -- From Dancing Goats to Satan's Drink (2019) by Tim SchenckBrewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (2014) by Daniel JaffeeUncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World (2012) by Mark PendergrastFair Trade: A Beginner's Guide (2007) by Jaqueline DeCarlo Online:Episcopal Relief and Development's Fair Trade Project Outlines the Fair Trade Project and gives participants access to fairly traded coffee, tea, and chocolate.Fairtrade and Coffee (2012) by the Fair Trade Foundation. Overview of coffee farming and the need for fair trade practices with coffee farmers.Bitter Brew: The Stirring Reality of Coffee on the Food Empowerment Project's webpage. A shorter article summarizing the negative impacts of traditional approaches to coffee farming.15 Fair Trade Coffee Brands Worth Waking Up For on The Good Trade's webpage. This article recommends 15 brands of coffee that use strong fair trade practices. The Good Trade website as a whole is well worth investigating. Other ChurchNext courses of interest:Introducing Benedictine Spirituality with Laurel DahillEveryday Spiritual Practices with Keith AndrewsWater and Justice with Fletcher HarperSpirituality and Racial Justice with Michael CurryCreating Common Good 1: Economic Inequality with Bp. Julio Murra

Kathryn Gillespie PhD (kathrynagillespie.com) is a writer, multispecies ethnographer, & feminist geographer. She is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Geography & the Applied Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program. Her research & teaching interests focus on: ethnography & qualitative methods; feminist & multi-species theory & methods; food & agriculture; political economy; critical animal studies; human-environment relations. She is the author of The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. She has also published in numerous scholarly journals & has co-edited three books: Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field; Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World; and Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life & Grievable Death. Kathryn has volunteered with Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, Food Empowerment Project and Pigs Peace Sanctuary. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube. We discuss: 00:00 Welcome 01:15 Kathryn's Intro - Understanding the harms animals experience under capitalist & settler colonial regimes, particularly in food systems - "Bringing individual animals into the frame" - Field work in farms & auction yards "spaces of exploitation" - Sanctuaries: Seeing the lasting harms of exploitation but also "places to imagine flourishing" & rehabilitation - Multi-species auto-ethnography. Everyday violence & care - Living w/chickens "turned us vegan" & lab-rescued beagles - Academia & activism 07:52 What's Real? - Raised somewhat in the Episcopal church - "That just did not resonate with me" - Visiting Baptist churches "that was incredible... a joyful explosion of faith" - A Buddhist grandmother & "Living Buddha, Living Christ" by Thich Nhat Hanh - Practising Tibetan Buddhism as a teenager - Buddhist compassion & Episcopalian blessing of animals on St. Francis' day - Supernatural vs. naturalistic Buddhism "The supernatural stuff never appealed to me" - Envying the pure, comforting faith of a fundamentalist Christian best friend - Compassion for the other or because god tells you? - Pagan & Wiccan practics - People re-connecting with nature during COVID - The etymology of "real" in Latin/Sanksrit from "wealth"... the capitalisation/commodification of life - Emotional, embodied, lived experiences re: meaning, connection & knowledge making. Another form of evidence 32:10 What Matters? ...and much more. Full show notes at Sentientism.info. Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook. Come join us there! Thanks Graham.

Hey Pickles!In this week's episode, we continue our cookbook challenge, discuss Sam's latest projects, and talk about some not so great news in the world of vegan food producers. There is some really shady stuff going on in the vegan world, and it challenges our ability to shop ethically.  We talk about how to navigate it all while remaining sane!Thanks so much for listening and for all of your support! We appreciate you!Here are some links to what we talked about!Girl Scout Cookies and Palm Oil:          https://apnews.com/article/palm-oil-forests-indonesia-scouts-83b01f2789e9489569960da63b2741c4Beyond Foods partnering with Pepsico:       https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2021/1/27/22252414/beyond-meat-pepsiAmy's Kitchen:     https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/amys-kitchen-employee-calls-for-immediate-action-from-cal-osha-at-santa/Confessions of an Animal Rights Terrorist:     https://www.audible.com/pd/Confessions-of-an-Animal-Rights-Terrorist-Audiobook/B09RCXMDL2Food Empowerment Project:     https://foodispower.orgRicky Gervais Reveals That He's Vegan:      https://plantbasednews.org/news/celebrities/ricky-gervais-vegan/Support the show

This week on the show, we talk about scones and Wholly Veggie Cheddar Style Jalapeño Sticks and try Trupo Treats vegan Mylk Chocolate Bars.Notes:This is the tour of the Disneyland-themed Animal Crossing island that we talked about.The sodas that Dave loves are Avec Blood Orange Jalapeño and their Grapefruit & Pomelo.Here's the spicy gin gimlet recipe that Dave was talking about.This week's news item was about Cinnaholic opening 25 new locations.Want to make those maple scones? You know you do!Here's the homemade ranch that I like to dip the Jalapeño Sticks into.You can learn more about The Food Empowerment Project here. Learn more about Trupo Treats right here. Thank you so much for listening. We record these episodes for you, and we'd love to hear from you. Got a favorite vegan treat that you think we should cover on the podcast? Send your suggestions to talkintofupod@gmail.com!

In this episode "Are Vegan Products Always Ethical? (Part 2)" Jade joins Davita And Trev to talk about different business models used for some vegan products. We discuss MLM (Multi Level Marketing) schemes: What are they? How do they work? What are some of the criticisms that have been raised? Links: Are Vegan Products Always Ethical? (Part 1): https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202102071300/are-vegan-products-always-ethical Food Empowerment Project: https://foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/slavery-chocolate/ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MwGeOm8iI Music Played: Architects ‘Animals' - https://architects.bandcamp.com/album/for-those-that-wish-to-exist Moby 'Everloving' - https://open.spotify.com/album/1xB1tmm50ZhXwrNs89u7Jx Kee'ahn 'Man On The Moon' - https://open.spotify.com/album/3HbD4RrguyiwyqVPo8ZfMY

Lauren Ornelas -is the founder and the executive director of the Food Empowerment Project, a nonprofit food justice organization that spotlights the abuse of animals on farms, unfair working conditions for produce workers, and the unavailability of healthy foods in communities of color and low-income areas.Lauren has spent her entire life on the front lines fighting for human and animal rights. She went vegan and became an activist in the 80s, later she founded and ran the animal right’s organizationDr Natalia Szablewska -is a law expert at Auckland University of Technology. She is a Modern Slavery Law expert and Humanitarian advocate. Dr Szablewska said sometimes people may not even know they are a victim of Modern Slavery or what's happening to them is illegal.She says traffickers tend to have a good way of building bonds with their victims, and making them appear like a perceived protector.Serrata Martin-The tea industry particularly in India has a long history of indentured slavery . The Organic India' Ayurvedic Tea Company is trying to change these practices. Jodee speaks to Serrata Martin about the tea industry and how we consume and purchase tea products.

This season of The ChickPeeps is brought to you by our friends at Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at vivolife.com. Our guest this week is the founder and president of Food Empowerment Project, lauren Ornelas. An animal rights activist of over 30 years, we talk to lauren about F.E.P.'s mission to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one's food choices. In addition, lauren takes us through her beginnings as an activist, why she founded F.E.P. and why her activism doesn't stop at veganism. Also in this episode… lauren talks about the culinary trials and tribulations of going vegan in the 1980s. Seriously folks, we don't realise how good we've got it! “I find college [activism] organisations to be some of the most impactful organisations that are out there” - lauren tells us about her earliest experiences as an activist in high school and college. lauren shares her experiences as an undercover activist working with the animal rights charity Viva! USA. lauren talks about her frustration with the animal rights movement not working diligently enough on human rights issues that led her to founding Food Empowerment Project. “We need to make sure we're not acting self-righteous when our food might be coming from unjust systems as well.” lauren discusses the brutal working conditions in the cacao industry and why, in her opinion, many vegan chocolate companies are not truly vegan. lauren explains F.E.P.'s thorough process for ensuring vegan chocolate companies are not using slave labour. Is veganism a privilege or a moral obligation? “Veganism has given me every purpose I've ever had in my life” Tylor is shocked to learn about a company that is enforcing a food apartheid in a community he knows very well. lauren gives us an example of a vegan phrase that should be retired and tells us why. Links: F.E.P.'s all-important Chocolate List. lauren's Tedx talk, The Power of Food our Food Choices. Food Empowerment Project website. Food Empowerment Project Instagram and Twitter and Youtube. F.E.P. ‘Eating on a Budget'. Get In Touch: Bonus Content: ChickPeeps Patreon Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast

New FoS presenters Davita and Trev discuss the Valentine’s Day Outreach they will be taking part in with Melbourne Cow Save. This action raises awareness about both the animal ethics and human rights issues behind the many common chocolate products typically purchased for Valentine’s Day. Links: For more information about Melbourne Cow Save events including the upcoming Valentine’s Day event, join the Melbourne Cow Save activist group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/151521708967534 Check out the chocolate listed on The Food Empowerment Project's website for vegan options that are free of child slave labour. This list is also available in their handy mobile app: https://foodispower.org/chocolate-list/ The article discussed on the show that covered Joe the pigeon: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/15/joe-the-pigeons-life-may-be-spared-after-fake-leg-tag-suggests-hes-not-from-the-us Veguary is a FREE month-long pledge campaign by the Afro Vegan Society ‘encouraging people to commit to vegan living during the month of February. This campaign is purposefully situated in the month of February - Black History Month in the United States - to highlight the contributions of Black trailblazers, and the many benefits of vegan living in our communities’: https://www.afrovegansociety.org/veguary Music Played: Charm ‘Postcode’: https://charm.bandcamp.com/ Chokeules ‘40 year vegan’: https://handsolorecords.bandcamp.com/album/stay-up Goldfinger ‘Open Your Eyes’: https://www.goldfingermusic.com/

The founder of Food Empowerment Project, lauren Ornelas, talks to Harriet about the human impact of our food choices and her journey into activism. lauren believes we need to look beyond veganism, highlighting the exploitation of farm workers, including children, for products we all enjoy on a regular basis. She gives advice on how to make more empowered food choices that consider animals, the environment and humans. lauren has been an animal rights advocate for most of her life, previously launching and heading up the USA branch of the vegan campaigning charity Viva! where she conducted numerous factory farm investigations. ------------------------- Food Empowerment Project: https://foodispower.org/ (https://foodispower.org/) lauren's TedX Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blfVA0a-CBc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blfVA0a-CBc) The Dark Side of Chocolate film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15dJwA-xaVA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15dJwA-xaVA) Shady Chocolate film: http://www.madeincopenhagen.dk/en/shady-chocolate (http://www.madeincopenhagen.dk/en/shady-chocolate) Wannabe Greener: https://instagram.com/wannabe.greener (https://instagram.com/wannabe.greene)r

The B-Crew takes a ride down the Freeway with Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland!We’re facing off against this Big Bad Wolf of a movie as we kill our way along to Grandmothers House on the FREEWAY!! The name of the movie is FREEWAY…and there’s some Little Red Riding Hood analogy throughout…we don’t know why, but we’ll get into that….In this twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", Vanessa played by REESE WITHERSPOON plays a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run to grandmother’s house. She runs into a social worker, Bob Wolverton played by (KEIFER SUTHERLAND) who also happens to a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile. (The character not Kiefer). In her travels she ends up in jail, goes to trial for shooting Bob Wolverton (See, his name is Wolverton, so he’s the big bad wolf…anyway) and finally, Vanessa escapes jail to go to Grandma’s House for the big climatic finish to this…this..um…movie?This month, we’re supporting the Food Empowerment Project whose mission includes among other things, food availability and access in communities of color and low-income areas. You can find more information and donate at FoodIsPower.orgIntro and outro music: https://www.purple-planet.com “Silver Sparkles”

Today, I have the pleasure of sharing a conversation with someone I really admire, lauren Ornelas, Founder and President of the Food Empowerment Project, an organization that works to prevent injustices against animals, people, and the environment by educating and advocating for healthy and ethical food choices. Today, we are going to dig deep into the subjects of Veganism, environmental racism, and food apartheids. I am looking forward to sharing all that Lauren has to offer. Alright, let's hop to it! Watch lauren's TEDx talk on The Power of Our Food Choices IG: https://www.instagram.com/foodempowermentproject/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foodempowermentproject Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoodIsPower LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/7788096/admin/ Website: www.foodispower.org, www.veganmexicanfood.com, www.veganfilipinofood.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/newmoonwellbeing/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/newmoonwellbeing/support

It's a holiday feast as the Cast & Director joins the B-Crew to talk indie filmmaking, super-food-heros and the shelf life of a bag of spaghetti!Joining us for this Craptaculus meal is Benjamin Crutcher (Clark / Spaghettiman), Joe LoCicero (Keto), Leigh Wulff (Katie) and Mark Potts (Director).Clark, an apathetic man becomes a superhero with the power of spaghetti after his microwave malfunctions. Masking his identity with a brown paper bag over his head, he sets off to fight crime as long as he is paid for his heroics. But his comic-book loving, cop want-to-be roommate, Dale, desperately desires Clark to become an altruistic super-hero and will stop at nothing to see Spaghettiman become the hero Los Angeles needs.This month, we’re supporting the Food Empowerment Project whose mission includes among other things, food availability and access in communities of color and low-income areas. You can find more information and donate at FoodIsPower.orgIntro and outro music: https://www.purple-planet.com “Silver Sparkles”

Star Wars superfan couple Jennifer Chapman-Gallego and Ryan Gallego join the Expanded Universe geeks this holiday season to gab about the power of Star Wars and Disney’s big Investor Day news! Celebrate the end of 2020 with the Expanded Universe! We’re spending the holidays with the two of the biggest Star Wars fans this side of the Outer Rim. Superfan couple Jennifer Chapman-Gallego and Ryan Gallego join the John, Doc, and Smoore to tackle the enduring power of Star Wars and to dive into Disney’s big Investor Day news which gave us an overflowing stocking of Star Wars projects to celebrate this holiday season! This month, we’re supporting the Food Empowerment Project whose mission includes among other things, food availability and access in communities of color and low-income areas. You can find more information and donate at FoodIsPower.orgIntro and outro music “Star Monster” by Duncan Neilson, engineered by Drew Canulette

Cinema Craptaculus Presents Terror Tunnel 04: "Killer Klowns From Outer Space"Former Cinema Craptaculus co-host Craig Shannon piles into the clown car with us to take a gander at KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE! The Terror Tunnel Crew deals with even more clowns than usual for this time of year as we put up the big top for KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE!“Terror Tunnel Theme Song” Intro and outro music composed & performed by Gregory BromfieldThis month, we’re supporting the Food Empowerment Project whose mission includes among other things, food availability and access in communities of color and low-income areas. You can find more information and donate at FoodIsPower.org

On Episode 294 of the Mama Bear Dares Podcast, Tesi and Leslie revisit their conversation with Lauren Ornelas, the founder of the Food Empowerment Project, an organization that seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one’s food choices. The women discuss farm worker rights, veganism, chocolate slavery, the lack of access to healthy foods, and how we can all make more informed choices that can ultimately prevent injustice against animals, people, and the environment. Now, more than ever, is a great time to learn about the importance of—and treatment of—farm and factory workers in America and Lauren is a phenomenal resource and impressive activist. For complete Show Notes, visit the Mama Bear Dares website.  

I am in conversation with Lauren Ornelas the founder and director of Food Empowerment Project a food justice nonprofit working at the intersection of veganism, farm and produce worker rights and accessibility, nutrition and health. COVID19 has simultaneously caused disruptions to the food system and brought to fore the labour force that is truly essential to our economies in addition to medical practitioners. Farmers, producers, growers, grocery store owners and assistants, food delivery people and many more in the supply chains are working day and night for meagre returns and virtually no safety net. How do we acknowledge their labour in a way that goes beyond applause on our windows at a premeditated time? Then there’s the issue of what we eat. On the other hand though awareness of plant-based diets is increasing year on year many are still not able to extend their empathy for nonhuman animals to human beings who are for instance migrant workers from BIPOC communities experiencing issues such as wage theft in the US or farmers in India protesting against the new agricultural reforms to maintain the minimum support price system amongst other historic issues of debt and financial stress. So how do we go beyond focusing on individual behaviour of swapping our meat for micro greens and rallying for food justice and equity holistically? Please do listen, learn and support FEP's work over at https://foodispower.org. Subscribe to our podcast via your provider, follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/amplifypodcast/ and give us a shoutout whenever you can. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/amplifypodcast/message

This week, JJ & Big Daddy break down the politics of ghost kitchens, Wiz Khalifa's burnt ends, Tyga's tots, a stunning new report on food insecurity, and Subway shenanigans. Heard on the Show: Portillos: https://www.portillos.com/index.html Food Empowerment Project: https://foodispower.org/access-health/food-deserts/ Hotbox by Wiz: https://hotboxbywiz.com/ Tyga Bites: https://www.tygabites.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gourmetgoober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gourmetgoober/support

On this Hope for the Animals Podcast, we have another installment of Glimmers of Hope. In this recurring segment, Hope shares positive stories about animals from around the globe. The Glimmers of Hope segment features good news for animals that you might have missed with so many other news stories dominating 2020. We can use a little good news in these challenging times so we hope you enjoy Glimmers of Hope! Next we have an informative interview with Food Empowerment Project’s lauren Ornelas. lauren talks about her three decades of dedicated activism for animals. She founded the Food Empowerment Project in 2006 to bridge food justice issues by exposing injustices in our food system for humans and nonhuman animals. In this podcast, we hear about her undercover investigations of animal agriculture in the 1990s and her more recent work exposing food deserts in vulnerable communities. Hope and lauren also discuss vegan food accessibility, child slave labor in the chocolate industry, and much more. Join us for this informative and important interview with one of the most powerful voices in the animal rights movement today. Resources:www.FoodIsPower.orgwww.VeganMexicanFood.comwww.VeganFilipinoFood.comlauren’s TED Talk

For this first episode of Radicalize the Roots, my dear friend Poli and I discuss how exclusion, as well as misogyny and other oppressive behaviours, are rampant in the mainstream animal rights movement, specifically in the big orgs. Super specifically, one organization in particular... A quick content warning- sexual harrassment & rape is brought up, also the threat of those and murder as a result of doing activism... Poli Sotomayor is a pro-intersectional activist and nomad living in Mexico. She has been doing activism for 20 years now, starting with environmentalism, then 5 years into that, adding feminism to her roster and most recently, 6 years ago, bringing anti-speciesist activism to the mix. She has a masters in communications & politics and a PHD in social sciences. She is a force to be reckoned with and has the absolute biggest heart. Poli: instagram - @polifaceticaenelista | website - www.polifaceticaenlaweb.com | youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxx579qjyj7CAnpZu0kUY_Q Poli's video- original (in Spanish) - Ser mujer y hacer lo que hacemos - Polifacética & Animal Save Movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r18kJySBxtU&t=38s Poli's video- edited - We need to fight for TOTAL liberation | Misogyny is a MONSTER- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8jCPSVAjVc&t=9s Food Empowerment Project - https://foodispower.org lauren Ornelas from Food Empowerment Project talks about "Giving power back to the grassroots movement to restore passion, creativity and community for animals" at the Animal Rights National Conference 2019. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1adQt7UPr8I

lauren Ornelas has been active in the animal rights movement for over 30 years, creating the Food Empowerment Project in 2007. FEP's mission is to create a more just and sustainable world for everyone, by recognizing the power of our food choices. But lauren and her colleagues also realize that it's not so easy for everyone to simply choose healthy vegan products, depending on things like how much money we earn, and where we live. lauren talks about the ways oppression and injustice affects all beings, and why vegans must extend our circle of compassion to understand the challenges that some of our neighbours might be faced with when they make their food choices. Food Empowerment Project Website ****************************** With gratitude for the opportunity to live, work, and create on the unceded traditional lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. ****************************** Visit Plant Powered Radio - on Instagram on Patreon on YouTube

Ebony Bailey speaks with Lauren Ornelas. Lauren is the Founder and President of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, fights for workers, and works on lack of access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities and low-income areas. She has been an animal activist for three decades, during…

Ebony Bailey speaks with lauren Ornelas. lauren is the Founder and President of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, fights for workers, and works on lack of access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities and low-income areas. She has been an animal activist for three decades, during…

Lauren Ornelas Lauren is the Founder and President of Food Empowerment Project, a vegan food justice nonprofit that seeks to create a more just world by helping consumers recognize the power of their food choices. Food Empowerment Project works in solidarity with farm workers, advocates for chocolate not sourced from the worst forms of child labor, and focuses on access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities and low-income areas. Support the show (https://www.familiasenaccion.org/donate/)

Food justice activist lauren Ornelas explains how to combat environmental racism and other human rights violations in factory farms, slaughterhouses, and plant-crop farm systems that often mistreat and exploit farm workers, many of them immigrants and people of color. Ornelas founded and runs the Food Empowerment Project. Their website www.foodispower.org outlines so many food injustice issues facing humans as well as farmed animals and how consumers can help agricultural workers (including advocating for a living wage and fighting slave labor conditions) and eat ethically (including vegan foods, fair trade, organic, and local). This 22 minute interview was conducted in July 2020 by host Carrie Freeman of In Tune to Nature.Carrie and co-host Sonia Swartz have been hosting the In Tune to Nature program weekly for 10 years to advocate for eco and animal friendly values and practices. https://www.facebook.com/InTunetoNature/This radio show airs on July 22, 2020 on 89.3FM-Atlanta and on wrfg.org. Consider supporting this progressive, independent radio station: Radio Free Georgia. Thank you.

Lauren Ornelas is the resident and founder of the Food Empowerment Project. Lauren is an animal and human rights activist and on this episode she discusses the different projects FEP is working on to improve the world. This episode we talk about environmental and social racism, how your food choices matter, and what you can do to make a difference. -Learn more at The Food Empowerment Project website: https://foodispower.org-Listen to Lauren's TEDtalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blfVA0a-CBc&t=1s-Follow their journey @foodempowermentproject-Download the app and check out the list at https://foodispower.org/chocolate-list/Follow

Lauren Ornelas is the founder and the executive director of the Food Empowerment Project, a nonprofit food justice organization that spotlights the abuse of animals on farms, unfair working conditions for produce workers, and the unavailability of healthy foods in communities of color and low-income areas. She and I spoke earlier in the pandemic. She had just written an article on Medium called, We Are All Connected. It was written back in April, but it could not be more relevant now, with the demonstrations in our streets calling out systemic racism. “As many of us know, COVID-19 has just proven what we know: that racism and inequalities that exist for Black, Indigenous, and Brown people in this country are a barrier to success and living healthy lives. Our communities have been losing lives due to police violence, lack of health care, lack of healthy food, lack of clean drinking water, environmental racism, lack of living wages, and the list goes on; however, what makes COVID-19 even more dangerous is that these problems still exist and in some ways are exacerbated.”  – Lauren Ornelas, We Are All Connected Lauren has spent her entire life on the front lines fighting for human and animal rights. She went vegan and became an activist in the 80s, later she founded and ran the animal right’s organization, Viva USA, and in 2007, she started The Food Empowerment Project, an organization that operates from the understanding that we are indeed all connected, humans, animals, and the planet and thus, it only makes sense to fight for the whole package. Later, in that same Medium piece, she writes, “…but I am more determined than ever that we must truly fight the systems that have a role in how we got here.” And that is exactly what Lauren and the Food Empowerment Project are doing.

On Episode 267 of the Mama Bear Dares Podcast, Tesi and Leslie sit down with Lauren Ornelas, the founder of the Food Empowerment Project, an organization that seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one’s food choices. The women discuss farm worker rights, veganism, chocolate slavery, the lack of access to healthy foods, and how we can all make more informed choices that can ultimately prevent injustice against animals, people, and the environment. Now, more than ever, is a great time to learn about the importance of—and treatment of—farm and factory workers in America and Lauren is a phenomenal resource and impressive activist. For full Show Notes visit the Mama Bear Dares website.

Season 1, Episode 17. In this episode, we hear from lauren, from the Food Empowerment Project. lauren explains how food justice is central to FEP’s advocacy for social justice for both human and nonhuman animals. We hear about some of the initiatives taking place, including the chocolate list – and how a plantbased diet doesn’t necessarily equal an ethical one. We also hear from lauren about the importance of a decolonial approach to understanding diets and how chapter-based activist groups can be damaging to the grassroots movement. LINKSFood Empowerment Project website: https://foodispower.orgThe music used in Beyond Species for the intro and outro is a track called "Cosmo" by Johto

Let’s Rage Together Podcast — In this episode we review two recent documentaries, The Invisible Vegan and The Animal People, as well as discussing some listener feedback about a range of topics; from Fiona Oakes not being included in The Game Changers documentary, to what we think of the vegan flag, to the fires in Australia, to activist communities, and a few other things. The Invisible Vegan and The Animal People reviews: 01:00 All music, editing and recording by us. letsragetogether.co.za mail@letsragetogether.co.za Don’t talk to cops Fiona Oakes Facebook Status · Tower Hill Stables Farm Sanctuary · Fiona Oakes Patreon · The Lonely Vegans · Anti-Speciesist Arts Collective · Help Cobargo Wildlife · Dimmocks Retreat Wildlife · Southern Cross Wildlife Care · Port Macquarie Koala Hospital · WIRES · Animal Voices Podcast - Aph Ko on Speciesism as an Extension of White Supremacy · The Invisible Vegan · Soilful City · Food Empowerment Project · The Animal People Documentary

MEET HOL GUEST: SHARON DARAPHONHDETHIn episode 19 of HOL, Sharon joins Rita for a conversation about her upbringing as a Lao kid in San Diego with a large Lao community and her dad as her best friend. Later, she dives deep into her work as an environmental justice and sustainability activist, which has landed her in current role as the Director of the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) at UC Berkeley. Sharon also explores healing from personal issues of mental health and what it means for her to grieve with community, especially when it’s with student leaders and youth. In addition to her directorship, Sharon is also working with the Food Empowerment Project (a vegan food justice organization) to create more access to vegan Lao food! ---------CONTENT WARNING: There are mentions of sensitive topics such as depression, suicide, self-harm, and sexual assault. Please take care of yourself before deciding to listen, fam! Majority of these topics are covered around the 34 minute mark and resources are listed below for your needs. SUICIDE HOTLINE: 1-800-273-8255DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/SEXUAL ASSAULT HOTLINES: (1-800-656-HOPE/4673), and also the RAINN organization has chat services: https://hotline.rainn.org/online---------TAKE THE LISTENER SURVEY! (10 min) ---------As a brand new podcast, HOL needs your support!!! Please subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and a leave us a positive review to help us continue. KOP JAIII LAI DERRR P'NONG!!! (THANK YOU VERY MUCH, FAM!)CONNECT WITH SHARON:@yesvegan on Instagram Sharon on LinkedInREFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: lauren OrnelasFood Empowerment Project SERC UC Berkeley Scorpio RisingHoward Zinn’s A People's History of the United StatesJanelle Monae QuoteSUPPORT HOL:1. Please subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and leave a positive review on the Apple Podcast app and/or iTunes to help us continue!2. Become a monthly sustainer at patreon.com/healingoutlaod3. Make a one-time donation via this link. JOIN THE COMMUNITY:Follow @healingoutlaod on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.HUGE SHOUT OUTS TO:Laos Angeles Roots Members Andrew David Vilaythong for mixing/producing the beats for HOL and "mystery person" @LaosSupply for the beautiful logo design!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16105981)

lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project is very concerned about food: where it comes from, who is working to bring it to us, and what we can do to end animal cruelty. That is pretty amazing from someone who doesn’t really think about what she’s going to eat! She talks about animal and farmworkers' rights, crunchy peanut butter, and how she dislikes pico de gallo.

In this episode Rachel McCrystal and I sit down in the grass pasture with the turkeys at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. Rachel introduces the beautiful turkeys and tells us that Beatrice is nine years old, which is very uncommon for turkeys to live this long. Beatrice…

This episode features an interview with lauren Ornelas, founder and executive director of the Food Empowerment Project. We discuss what FEP is all about, colonization in regard to food, gentrification and the importance of vegan restaurants being part of the community, helping communities with a lack of access to healthy foods, farm worker-led boycotts, the problem with organizations like PETA having the spotlight, and more. Here are links to some of the specifics mentioned: Reclaiming Our Grassroots Colonization, Food, and the Practice of Eating Vegan Mexican Food Vegan Filipino Food Blindspotting Subscribe to and rate this podcast on Apple Podcasts (though also available on Spotify, Google Play and Podcast Addict); send feedback, questions, or ideas to includinganimals@gmail.com.

Let’s Rage Together Podcast — In this episode we answer some listener questions, do our regular "The Bad and the Rad" segment and then break down how we feel about the idea of supporting any animal rights activists, even if they are problematic, just because it's "for the animals". Main discussion: 31:06 All recording, music and editing by us. Email us on: letsragetogetherpodcast@gmail.com. Visit our website at http://letsragetogether.co.za. #truthofcube video · #truthofcube response video · Carol J. Adams Statement About DxE · Gary Yourofsky: Is The Backlash Warranted? · The Dangers Of Hero Worship In An Activist Movement · Our Website · Colin O-Brady Antarctica Crossing · Vegan Ekasi · ARWIA’s Statement On Gary Yourofsky · Aphro-ism · Food Empowerment Project · A. Breeze Harper · Christopher Sebastian

lauren Ornelas is founder and executive director of Food Empowerment Project, an organization that aims to create a more just and sustainable world by questioning our food choices. lauren has been active in the animal rights movement for more than 30 years and shares her knowledge about how to start educating yourself about the impact of your food choices as well as how to face the overwhelming truth of how our food affects humans and animals alike. She also shares about the issues: environmental racism, child labor, slavery, and poor conditions for produce and factory farm workers. Check out all of FEP’s resources, get involved, and donate if inspired. Please share, subscribe, rate, and review if you found this episode helpful!MORE ABOUT FOOD EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: https://foodispower.org https://foodispower.org/chocolate-list/ https://www.veganmexicanfood.comSIGN UP FOR WORTHY WAITLIST: https://www.melissamoffet.com/worthyICELAND RETREAT: https://www.adzentureretreatsyoga.com/luminousicelandSHOP MY RESOURCES: www.melissamoffet.com/shopUse the code PODCAST10 for 10% off your order of Air & Earth Guided Meditations & Guide or The Growth Guide.MELISSA’S INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/melissa.moffetAIR & EARTH PODCAST INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/air.and.earthTODAY’S SHOW NOTES: www.melissamoffet.com/podcast/15

Let’s Rage Together Podcast — In this episode we talk about white privilege, and why it’s so important to recognise, acknowledge, and dismantle it. In our ‘The Rad and the Bad’ segment, we talk about vegans supporting the Beauty Pass app, lonely elephants, running, and the new documentary Everything Must Fall. We end the episode with a song by local political hip hop act Soundz of the South. Main discussion: 24:55 Outro song: They Feed On It - Soundz of the South All other recording, music and editing by us The last Knysna elephant has a message for people · Environmentalists, City officials can't agree on lonely Joburg Zoo elephant's fate · Zeb Luhabe · Me and White Supremacy Workbook · Peggy Mcintosh: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack · What Is White Privilege, Really? · White Privilege As Seen By Someone Who Isn’t White · Why Are White People So Bad at Talking About Race? · Aphro-ism · Christopher Sebastian · A. Breeze Harper · Food Empowerment Project · Vegan Hip Hop Movement · Soundz of the South · Everything Must Fall Documentary

Trigger Warning: Disordered Eating Topic We are back from a mid-season break! Expect episodes weekly going forward! Today’s guest is Gloria Lucas, founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride! We talk today about what Nalgona Positivity Pride is, why it started, disordered eating, the diet culture, what body positivity means, historical trauma with disordered eating,  the history of native foods along with the colonization and shame of those foods, techniques for loving your body and much more!  Gloria Lucas talks to us about some points! She is a Xicana womxn from California and founded Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP) in 2014  after years of dealing with the lack of women of color representation in the eating disorder awareness community. Like the womxn of color that came before, she creates spaces for marginalized folks to support each other and heal from the trauma of colonialism, eurocentric beauty ideals, and disordered eating in communities of color. NPP lectures, hosts events, offers business consultation, hosts support groups, and creates social media content as a way to reach out to and empowers the individuals whose bodies are systematically at the margins of white/ mainstream ‘body positivity’ movements. Follow NPP on social media @NalgonaPositivityPride and check out their website for more info:  https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/ Sponsor for today’s show: ChilOso Gummy Bears. www.chilosogummybear.com Find them on Instagram & Facebook! The directory on Latinx Therapy is up! If you are a mental health professional in private practice and looking to get enrolled in our directory, email me at info@latinxtherapy.com to sign up!  Resource: If you or someone you know is struggling with disordred eating, you can contact the National Eating Disorders Association Helpline at no cost: 1-800-931-2237 . You can also text  741741 and a trained volunteer will get in touch with you. https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org Readings Suggested from Nalgona Positivity Pride: A Flood of Tears and Blood by Eduardo Galeano (found on pg. 38) http://www.uky.edu/~tmute2/nature-society/password-protect/nature-society-pdfs/eduardo-galeano-open-veins-excerpts.pdf Colonization, Food, and the Practice of Eating by Dr. Linda Alvarez for Food Empowerment Project http://www.foodispower.org/colonization-food-and-the-practice-of-eating/

Let’s Rage Together Podcast — This episode is part two of “Defining Veganism”, where we discuss veganism and its definition, and whether or not we should narrow it to include things like The Liberation Pledge, not consuming palm oil, coffee and chocolate, not using plastic, anti capitalism, and whether or not you also need to be an activist to consider yourself vegan. Outro song: Making a Killing - Jedi Mind Tricks All other recording, songs and editing by us. Topics: Veganism Fascism Anarchism Intersectionality Animal rights Animal Liberation Feminism Anti Racism Anti Capitalism Liberation Pledge Plastic Anti Plastic Coffee Chocolate Food Empowerment Project Activism Liberation Pledge · Food Empowerment Project · Palm Oil · Plant Based News - New definition of veganism · Jedi Mind Tricks

Episode 26: International Director of Corporate Outreach for Animal Equality, Jaya BhumitraHello and welcome back to the Woke Stutters Podcast. I am your host AJ Garcia. For episode 26, I am joined by the fabulous Jaya Bhumitra. Jaya has more than 15 years of campaigns, public affairs, and public relations experience in both the private and nonprofit sectors. She earned bachelor's degrees in international business and marketing from Georgetown University and a master's degree in psychology from Pepperdine University. She currently serves as International Director of Corporate Outreach for Animal Equality, an Animal Charity Evaluators Top Charity, leading teams in Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Spain, India, Germany, the UK, and the U.S. working to effect policy changes that reduce the suffering of animals raised and killed for food. Jaya also serves on the advisory council of Encompass  and she serves on the board of Food Empowerment Project, I had both Aryenish and Lauren on the podcast a couple of months back so make sure to check those episodes out to learn about those two amazing organizations. Finally, Jaya is the editor of The Enlightenment Adventures, a series of animal-protection-themed novels by Christopher Locke, her partner in life and advocacy.

Episode 14 Lauren Ornelas - Founder and Executive Director of the Food Empowerment Project Lauren has been active in the animal rights movement for more than 30 years. She is the former executive director of Viva!USA, a national nonprofit vegan advocacy organization that Viva!UK asked her to start in 1999. While lauren was the director of Viva!USA, she investigated factory farms and ran consumer campaigns. In cooperation with activists across the country, she persuaded Trader Joe's to stop selling all duck meat and achieved corporate changes within Whole Foods Market, Pier 1 Imports, and others, and she helped halt the construction of an industrial dairy operation in California. lauren was also the spark that got the founder of Whole Foods Market to become a vegan. In addition, she served as campaign director with the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition for six years. Watch Source : Food Empowerment Project - Our Team Found out more Lauren and her work @  Food Empowerment Project Facebook Twitter YouTube Blog Support The Food Empowerment Project : Donate Lauren's TEDx Talk: Watch on YouTube Links to other things mentioned in the Podcast: F.E.P.'s Chocolate List app Vallejo: City of Opportunity Lacks Access to Healthy Food Bringing Community Voices to the Table; Food Access in San José Data Analysis  Book Recommendations:  Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism: New Tactics, New Technology Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering A Vegan Ethic: Embracing a Life of Compassion Toward All Author Recommendations:  Carol Adams  Practice Jones Tracye McQuarter Dr. Breeze Harper Aph Ko Mark Hawthorne Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Sandra Cisneros

Tweet LIVE this Sunday, June 24rd at 635pm Small Bites on Wildfire Radio is going VEGAN. Small Bites Radio's resident Vegan Chef Christina Martin of Cooking To Nourish will be in studio for some fun and food talk hosting the show since Derek is away on vacation. We all know eating Vegan is good for your health, but did you know that it can look good on your body as well. To talk more about how, we are thrilled to welcome Michelle Schwegmann the Co-Founder of The Herbivore Clothing Company. Michelle Schwegmann and Josh Hooten founded The Herbivore Clothing Company in 2002 with hopes of spreading a positive message about animal rights and environmentalism. They have travelled to events all over the country tabling, speaking, and giving cooking demos to promote kinder and more sustainable lifestyles. At home in Portland their store in southeast is a hub for vegans, and the vegan-curious as well as travelers from all over the planet visiting the world's only vegan mini-mall. They use Herbivore as a way to help fundraise and promote countless organizations by donating their products, time, and design work. In 2015 they wrote Eat Like You Give A Damn, a cookbook and vegan how-to guide to help those just starting out navigate their new cruelty-free life. They have 2 rescued dogs and one vegan-since-birth daughter, Ruby. So how do you make Vegan food tasty so darn tasty? We will also be joined by Chef AJ of EatUnprocessed.com and host of TV show Healthy Living with Chef AJ on FoodyTV to chat about this. Chef AJ has been devoted to a plant-exclusive diet for over 40 years. With her comedy background, she has made appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman and more. A chef, culinary instructor and professional speaker, she is author of the popular book Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight, which chronicles her journey from an obese junk-food vegan faced with a diagnosis of pre-cancerous polyps, to learning how to create foods that nourish and heal the body.  Her latest bestselling book The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss: A Revolutionary Approach to Conquer Cravings, Overcome Food Addiction and Lose Weight Without Going Hungry has received glowing endorsement by many luminaries in the plant based movement. Based in Los Angeles, Chef AJ teaches a monthly sold-out seminar featuring cooking instruction, nutritional science and song parodies, all delivered with comedic panache. Never content to leave her audience with mere “just do it” advice, she teaches how to create meals to transform their health, how to deal with cravings and food addiction and addresses the emotional side of eating. She is the creator of the Ultimate Weight Loss Program, which has helped hundreds of people achieve the health and the body that they deserve. Chef AJ was the Executive Pastry Chef at Santé Restaurant in Los Angeles where she was famous for her sugar, oil, salt and gluten free desserts which use the fruit, the whole fruit and nothing but the whole fruit. Chef AJ is also creator of Healthy Taste of LA and the YouTube cooking show The Chef and the Dietitian,. Chef AJ holds a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from eCornell University and is proud to say that her IQ is higher than her cholesterol.' So you know where to buy fancy Vegan clothes and eat Vegan food, so now where should you go to hang with other likeminded people and have lots of fun? Well we have Kendra Arnold and Marisa Sweeney to talk about New Jersey VegFest. Kendra has been vegan for 15 years and vegetarian for even longer. Living a healthy, happy lifestyle and bringing people together is a huge motivator for her and she is a founder of Bike & Walk Morristown and is a dedicated lover of delicious vegan food and drink as well as host of Vegan Booster Club: a podcast featuring our vendors and their growing vegan businesses and organizer for New Jersey VegFest & Sprout Everywhere Events. Marisa is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist in New Jersey and Pennsylvania since 2009. Owner and Creator of the New Jersey VegFest, The Garden State's Official Vegan Food Festival and Owner of Be Well a wellness center in Morristown that houses a team of integrative health and wellness practitioners that was established in 2012 growing the vegan movement one community at a time. The New Jersey VegFest and Atlantic City Vegan Food Festival will feature 200 vendors, inspiring speakers, a 10k & 5k on the boardwalk, live music, cooking demos and much more, all right on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. On July 13th there will be a vegan food truck festival at the Showboat Hotel. Then July 14th at Showboat Atlantic City they have Robert F. Diggs aka The RZA of the world-renowned Wu-Tang Clan, Scott Jurek an Ultrarunner, Lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project, author Bryant Terry, Erika Boyd of Detroit Vegan Soul, and Party with Honey Labronx. Over 200 food and product vendors will be on the former casino floor of the Showboat Atlantic City. There will be food, fashion, products, and non-profits. There will be plenty of seating so you can relax and enjoy your food, along with live music, chef demos and more. This is festival you can spend the day at or you can eat, head out to the boardwalk and beach and come back and hang out with us again. For more info go to: https://njvegfest.com/atlantic-city-vegan-food-festival/ Small Bites Radio correspondent Actor John DiRenzo is out and about with his valuable insight and experience in the culinary world so be sure to catch him on QVC selling the high quality Copper Chef products and getting ready for his new show Regional Eats. You say you STILL NEED MORE!!! Don't forget we still have our regular weekly segments from Courier-Post nightlife correspondent and The New York Times recognized John Howard-Fusco for his news of the week and please remember that John's book “A Culinary History of Cape May: Salt Oysters, Beach Plums & Cabernet Franc” from Arcadia Publishing The History Press is now available to buy, Chef Barbie Marshall who is a Chef Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen Season 10 finalist and appeared on Season 17 of FOX Hell's Kitchen #AllStars, and Chef Barbie was named Pennsylvania's most influential chef by Cooking Light will delight us with her tip of the week, and a joke of the week from legendary joke teller Jackie Martling of The Howard Stern Show fame and Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling with his autobiography “The Joke Man: Bow to Stern” from Post Hill Press with foreword by Artie Lange available to order on Amazon.com. Fat Jack's BBQ and Bluejeanfood.com hope you will use the TuneIn app to listen worldwide or also catch Small Bites Radio syndicated LIVE Sundays on KGTK 920AM, KITZ 1400AM, KSBN 1230AM, KBNP 1410AM, distributed by satellite through the Salem Radio Network, ScyNet Radio, Stitcher Radio, PodOmatic, and TryThisDish Radio which is the only independently owned and operated international chef-driven foodie and lifestyle radio network in the world! Also repeats of our shows are available to be listened to daily on the above platforms 5:30pm-6:30pm and on Mondays at 10am on Wildfire Radio, and as usual the newest episodes are available the following day on iTunes and PlayerFM. https://wildfireradio.com/small-bites/ Some vendors at New Jersey VegFest, Atlantic City include but is not limited to: VENDORS ABSOLUTE GREEN Animal Protection League of New Jersey (APL) Aya's Natural Treasures, LLC. (Natural Bath & Body Products) Bunny Treats Chocolate Calling Compassion Company Cooking To Nourish CornKrush, LLC Creature Comforts Stationery Eat Nice Foods The Fanciful Fox Filfil Foods Freakin' Vegan Gelotti Ice Cream Ghost Vegan Gone Pie Vegan Bakery Grape Cat Vegan Clothing and Accessories Green Moustache USA Gypsy Pops Holi Aioli VENDORS Homemade Betty Los Amigos Restaurant (Atlantic City-based business) natájam&co. (Atlantic City-based business) Nature Has Flavor NaturallySweet Desserts NITRO Beverage Co. Rockaway Gypsea Screamer's Pizzeria Sea Me Glow (Atlantic City based business) Sea Shepherd Conservation Society SELF Love Sloppiest Joe Tamerlane Farm Animal Sanctuary Teeminder V Marks the Shop Vegan Book Corner Vital Eats Warmth Soy Candle Co. Young Living Essential Oils Last but certainly not least, our ad was brought you by National Credit Card Repair and be sure to stay tuned all the way till the end of the to listen to one of greatest guest spots ever from Derek Timm Jr. The post Small Bites – Episode 86 appeared first on Wildfire Radio.

Can veganism be a form of self care? Is a cruelty-free lifestyle a right or a privilege? On this episode, we’ll unpack these issues with lauren Ornelas, Founder and Executive Director of “Food Empowerment Project,” an organization on a mission to make vegan food more accessible in low-income areas and communities of color. But cruelty-free eating doesn’t stop with animals. The organization also has a focus on fair conditions for produce workers both here and abroad. In this way, lauren posits, respecting the planet and the workers that produce our food is a form a self-care. lauren helps us dismantle some common misconceptions regarding vegan living and white privilege. She also explains how her organization aims to combat the oppressive systems impacting food accessibility. You can connect with Food Empowerment Project on their Website, on Facebook and on Twitter. As always, you can find this episode and much more on our social media @SelfCareSundays. The transcription for this episode can be found here. 

Often vegans refer to their diet and lifestyle as "compassionate" or "cruelty-free"...but is it really? We sit down with Lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project to discuss the often overlooked ways that food can be produced with cruelty, even when it doesn't contain animal products [...] The post 094 Is a Vegan Diet Actually Cruelty-Free? A Conversation with Lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project appeared first on Vegan Warrior Princesses Attack!.

Episode 4 features Lauren Ornelas, who has been active in the animal rights movement for more than 20 years. She is the founder and director of Food Empowerment Project, a vegan food justice nonprofit which seeks to create a more just world by helping consumers recognize the power of their food choices. Food Empowerment Project works in solidarity with farm workers, advocates for chocolate not

Lauren Ornelas is the founder/director ofFood Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit seeking to create a more just world by helping consumers recognize the power of their food choices. F.E.P. works in solidarity with farm workers, advocates for chocolate not sourced from the worst forms of child labor, and focuses on access to healthy foods in communities of color and low-income communities. While lauren was the director of Viva!USA, she investigated factory farms and ran consumer campaigns. In cooperation with activists across the country, she persuaded Trader Joe’s to stop selling all duck meat and was the spark that got the founder of Whole Foods Market to become a vegan. She also helped halt the construction of an industrial dairy operation in California.  She served as campaign director with the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition for six years. Watch her TEDx talk on The Power of Our Food Choices. Learn more about F.E.P.’s work at www.foodispower.org and www.veganmexicanfood.com.

Ayurvedic expert Brian Leaf, author of Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi; and Lauren Ornelas, founder and director of the vegan food justice organization, the Food Empowerment Project.