On this week’s episode, Paul and Andy make a few exciting announcements concerning live events, discuss a way to provide relief to Hurricane Harvey victims, go over a couple news items, and conclude with a lengthy discussion on how to combat the backfire effect in our vegan advocacy.

Food:
Sweet Charlie’s (Philadelphia)

Articles Discussed:

A Well Fed World

Hurricane Harvey Donation Site (donors MUST SPECIFY “Houston Food Not Bombs” in the comment box on the donation page)

Brazil Takes $300 Million Hit Post-Rotten Meat Scandal

New Group Is Dedicated to Liberating Lobsters

The Backfire Effect Description

How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail

This week Paul and Andy review the new So Delicious Cheese Shreds as well as the brand new Upton’s Boxed Mac N Cheese before discussing the news, including their first impressions of the trailer for Dominion before moving on to ask the question, what does Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods mean for animals? With many vegans jubilant over the slashing of avocado prices, the duo questions if the slashing of prices on so called humane meat might be a net negative.

Food:
So Delicious Cheese Shreds
Upton’s Naturals boxed Bacon Mac
PS&Co (Philadelphia, PA)

Articles and Videos:

Dominion Trailer

Abused Dogs and Cats Now Have a (Human) Voice in Connecticut Courts

Vegan Mythbusting #1: Are Wild Animals Killed When Grain is Harvested for Vegans?

Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day

Amazon Buyout Slashes Avocado Prices at Whole Foods

Amazon’s Whole Foods buyout: What farmers are saying

The Impact of Food Prices on Consumption: A Systematic Review of Research on the Price Elasticity of Demand for Food

Number of Animals Killed to Produce One Million Calories in Eight Food Categories

This week Paul and Andy wrap up their food adventures in DC before moving on into a series of follow ups and news stories including the latest from the Impossible Foods animal testing news as well as the unfortunate revelation that Hampton Creek tested on rats in the development of their new Just Scramble. The episode concludes with a brief discussion of white supremacy within the animal rights movement, specifically regarding the news that the founder of No Kill Nation was at the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA.

Restaurants visited:

Shouk (Washington DC)
Wiz Kid (Philadelphia, PA)

Articles discussed:

All Slaughterhouses in England Must Now Install Cameras

Impossible Foods – The Agonizing Dilemma of Animal Testing

Can engineered ‘meat’ replace hamburgers? Interview with Pat Brown

Hampton Creek tests on animals!

Hampton Creek’s Clean Meat video

Hampton Creek founder Tetrick pledges his “clean meat” will be vegan

The one thing vegans are NOT doing and need to start doing. Today.

Simple Happy Kitchen

What was No Kill Nation founder Debi Day doing in Charlottesville?

Vice video on Charlottesville

Episode 93: Impossible Foods Tests On Animals

This week we have a jam packed episode starting with vegan food adventures in Philly and Baltimore and a news section dealing with the ever growing pile of news regarding Hampton Creek as well as the breaking news that Impossible Foods tested on animals in the development of their much loved Impossible Burger. We compare and contrast this news to that of Daiya’s recent acquisition by an animal testing pharmaceutical company and then move on into our review of the 2017 Animal Rights National Conference. Drawing criticism, including the hashtag #ARTooWhite, in recent years, we see if the conference has made any meaningful change in that arena and examine many other aspects. The episode concludes with an interview with Aryenish Birdie, the founder of Encompass, a new organization working to foster diversity, equity and inclusion in the mainstream animal rights movement.

Restaurants Visited:

Triangle Tavern (Philadelphia, PA)
Land Of Kush (Baltimore, MD)

Articles Discussed:
Fraud Uncovered in Target’s Removal of Hampton Creek

Hampton Creek Ready to Debut “Just Scramble”

Impossible Burger’s ‘Secret Sauce’ Highlights Challenges of Food Tech

Powerpoint from Impossible Foods

Response from IF about New York Times article

Interview: Aryenish Birdie

This week, Paul and Andy talk some food, bring up some interesting news articles circulating the vegan web, and then conclude with a lengthy discussion on one of the current hottest topics in the vegan community: Daiya being acquired by the debatably “unvegan” company Otsuka.

Announcements:

2017 Veggie Awards

Restaurants Visited:

FuD (Kansas City)

Articles Discussed:

Egg Company Reports $74M Loss Due to Vegan Alternatives

Angleton’s Rowdy Girl “Vegan” Animal Sanctuary Fined for Suing Critics

Berkeley butcher shop puts up animal rights sign after protests

Vegan Cheese Brand Daiya Acquired for $325 Million

Keep Daiya Vegan! Reject the Otsuka Acquisition – 5507 supporters

This week Paul and Andy talk about their vegan food adventures in New Haven and Philly because discussing all the latest news and then asking the question “do we need a vegan flag?” Is it a great way to unify vegans or is it likely to be create a gated vegan community? The episode concludes with an interview with Wendy Werneth, The Nomadic Vegan in which she talks about her experience finding vegan food while traveling to 100 different countries.

Restaurants Visited:

Ninth Square Caribbean Market (New Haven, CT)
Nature Has Flavor (Bloomfield, NJ)
Triangle Tavern (Philadelphia, PA)
Blackbird Pizzeria (Philadelphia, PA)

Articles discussed:

‘Humane milk is a myth’: veganism advert cleared by standards body

Vegan campaigner gets thumbs up to call milk production ‘inhumane’

Vegan Ice Cream Industry to Reach $1 Billion in 2017

Food Empowerment Project Chocolate List

KFC ‘THE WHOLE CHICKEN’ ADVERT CAUSES OUTRAGE

Interview with Gad Hakimi

The Nomadic Vegan

Veggie Planet Book

Episode 90: Mailbag: Resurrection

In this week’s episode, Paul and Andy dive deep into the mail bag to answer listener questions, comments and concerns. Ranging from the trivial to the serious, they cover topics such as why they only follow one person on Instagram, should we feel bad about listening to “non-vegan music”, is it okay to live in a town whose main economy is a product of animal exploitation and much much more!

Restaurants Visited:
The Cinnamon Snail (New York, NY)
Disney World (Orlando, FL)

Articles discussed:

Progress! Canada’s New Draft Food Guide Favors Plant-Based Protein And Eliminates Dairy As A Food Group

This week, Paul and Andy are light on food recommendations but talk about what they’ve been reading before diving into the news to talk about stories ranging from the Utah’s Ag Gag laws to PETA’s latest stunt capitalizing on the misfortune of others. The episode concludes by asking the question, should we promote imperfect activism? The discussion focuses on the public response to Okja and What The Health, two films that we had strong critiques for but are seemingly driving people to veganism (or at least, plant based eating) in droves. If they’re effective, should we promote them despite our misgivings regarding certain messages presented by the films?

Restaurants Visited:
Vegan Treats (Bethlehem, PA)

Books recommended:
Just Food by James McWilliams
Even Vegans Die by Ginny Messina, Carol Adams and Patty Kreitman
Aphro-ism by Aph Ko and Syl Ko

Articles discussed:

Argentinian President Institutes Vegan Mondays

Judge Overturns Utah’s ‘Ag-Gag’ Ban On Undercover Filming At Farms

Animal rights campaigners offer to help save Tywyn toilets

PETA to Detroit: Go Vegan for a Month, We’ll Pay Your Water Bill

Does this ‘leaked’ list show Gwynedd toilets the council wants to close?

‘Okja’ Just Might Convince You to Go Vegetarian

Okja is making people go vegan (no, seriously)

‘OKJA’ MADE MY CARNIVORE GIRLFRIEND GO VEGETARIAN

This week, Paul and Andy rave about vegan food adventures in CT, NYC and Boston before taking a deep look at the vegan world’s most trending news stories including a celeb chef that decided to drop the vegan label, a new strategy for helping carriage horses in NYC and a device that can be used to detect dairy in food at restaurants.

Restaurants Visited:
G-Zen (Branford, CT)
Urban Vegan Kitchen (New York, NY)
The Vegan Roadie

Articles discussed:

Vegan Cafe Patrons Creeped Out By Naked Babies Running Wild

A baby’s bottom, an angry diner and a defiant restaurant owner: Just the latest in Yelp review clashes.

Here’s Some Weird Drama Involving a Vegan Restaurant and a Toddler’s Butthole

Taco Bell’s rice is vegan again!

Vegan Pregnancy And Parenting Facebook Group

Mothers Against Dairy

Little Harvest

New Tech Gadget Detects Milk and Meat in Food

NYCLASS RELEASES FIRST TV AD IN RENEWED HORSE CARRIAGE CAMPAIGN

Horse Carriage Opponents Releasing New TV Ad

This week Paul and Andy talk about some delicious eats, tackle the Lone Star Tick outbreak, try to parse through what in god’s green vegan goodness is going on with Hampton Creek, and then dive into their review of the new Netflix original movie, Okja. Hailed as the next great vegan film, we’ll find out if it lives up to the hype!

Restaurants visited:

Go Go Vegan Go (Richmond)
Vita Vegan Paradise (New York, NY)
Living on the Veg (Long Beach Island, NJ)
Kitchen Cafe (Westwood, NJ)

Articles discussed:
This Is What We Know About How The Lone Star Tick Causes Meat Allergies

Fears of tick spreading among humans whose bite makes you allergic to meat

Target Begins Removing Hampton Creek’s Products From Stores

Statement from Hampton Creek

Hampton Creek is now growing its own meat in labs—and it says it will get to stores first

Eat Just

Hampton Creek CEO Fires Top Execs After Fundraising Struggles

OKJA
Interview with BJH at AVClub
Bong Joon Ho Interview at The Independant

‘Okja’: How One Visit to a Slaughterhouse Turned Bong Joon Ho Into a Vegan

Interview with the writer, Jon Ronson at Newsweek: