It’s All About Food

It's All About Food - Janet Kalish, Freeganism and Food Waste

Janet Kalish, Freeganism and Food WasteJanet Kalish is an animal lover, retired Spanish high school teacher, vegan and freegan. She is an active member of the NYC freegan.info group in which she gives trash tours, helps organize film nights and discussions, Really Really Free Markets and DIY events, all with the purpose of educating and encouraging people to be less wasteful and to realize how our current system is abusing our planet and its inhabitants. By sharing, repurposing, salvaging and reusing, by living with a heightened sensitivity to the barrage of advertising and a will to resist it, we may stave off the horrifying trends that are dramatically altering our world.

It's All About Food - Nadja Pinnavaia; Dr. Dean Ornish & Anne Ornish

Part I: Nadja Pinnavaia, EUPHEBE HEALTHCARE
Nadja has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from King’s College, London, and a Ph.D. in Quantum Chemistry from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Prior to founding Euphebe, Nadja was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in London, and subsequently founded WhiteCap, working with a number of large consumer goods companies, reviving under-performing brands. She is a board member of the Institute of Responsible Nutrition and holds the Certificate in Culinary Nutrition from the Natural Gourmet Institute. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
 
Part II: Dean Ornish, MD and Anne Ornish, Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases
Dean Ornish, MDDr. Dean Ornish is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the author of six books, all national bestsellers. He has received numerous honors, including the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, Austin, and the National Public Health Hero Award from the University of California, Berkeley.
Anne OrnishAnne Ornish is vice president of program development at the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute. She is the creator of the Ornish Lifestyle Medicine digital platform, including Ornish.com and Empower, a turnkey learning management system that trains healthcare professionals and participants throughout the country. Anne Ornish has more than twenty-five years of advanced training in yoga and meditation and was featured on the cover of Yoga Journal.

It's All About Food - Jovita Oruwari, MD & Robert Ostfeld, MD, Lifestyle Medicine

Part I: Jovita Oruwari, MD
Jovita Oruwari, MD, joined Mercy Clinic as a surgical oncologist. She is board-certified by the American Board of Surgery. She attended New Jersey Medical School, had residency at University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey and a fellowship at Hasbro Hospital. Mercy Clinic is a multi-specialty, physician-led group affiliated with Mercy hospitals in St. Louis, Washington, Mo., and Crystal City, Mo.     
Part II: Robert Ostfeld, MD
Robert Ostfeld, M.D., MSc., a cardiologist, is the founder and director of the Cardiac Wellness Program at Montefiore, an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Cardiology Fellowship at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Ostfeld earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa; his MD from Yale University School of Medicine; and his Masters of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Ostfeld completed his medical internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and his cardiology fellowship and research fellowship in Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital – both teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School. His professional interests include cardiovascular disease prevention, medical education and clinical research. He earned the Outstanding Full Time Attending of the Year award at Montefiore for excellence in teaching medical residents; the Program Director’s Award for dedicated service on behalf of the Montefiore-Einstein Cardiology Fellowship; and was elected to the Leo M. Davidoff Society at Einstein for outstanding achievement in the teaching of medical students.

It's All About Food - Hope Bohanec and Justin Van Kleeck, Humane Hoax Online Summit

Hope Bohanec and Justin Van Kleeck, Humane Hoax Online SummitAs we successfully expose the animal agriculture industry for its cruelty and environmental impact, the clever industry marketers keep reacting with more “humane” labels, more small-scale tall tales, and more feel-good falsehoods. It has never been more important to educate on the truth behind the industry lies. Bringing together a knowledgeable panel of experts on this issue, we hope to expose animal agriculture’s humane-washing with fresh insight into the humane hoax. Please join us in January for this exciting free event!
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Hope BohanecHope Bohanec has been active in animal protection and environmental activism for over 25 years and published the book The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat? She is a nationally recognized leader and speaker in the animal protection movement, and serves as Projects Manager for United Poultry Concerns. Hope is also the Executive Director of Compassionate Living, a Sonoma County, California based vegan advocacy organization. Before this, Hope offered her organizational talents as the Campaigns Director at In Defense of Animals. Hope is the primary organizer for UPC’s annual Conscious Eating Conference at UC Berkeley as well as the Sonoma County VegFest and the Berkeley Earth Day.
Justin Van KleeckJustin Van Kleeck has a Ph.D. in English and is a freelance writer, educator, and community organizer. Justin spends most of his time working at the Triangle Chicken Advocates microsanctuary, which he and his wife founded in 2014, and which inspired them to start The Microsanctuary Movement later that year. He also founded and contributes to the radical vegan blog Striving with Systems. Justin currently serves as the Sanctuary & Microsanctuary Advisor for A Well-Fed World.

It's All About Food - Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn and Kathryn Gillespie

Part I: Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, What the Health: The Startling Truth Behind the Foods We Eat.
Kip Andersen’s awakening as a filmmaker came as a result of An Inconvenient Truth. After seeing the film, he dramatically changed his lifestyle and believed he was doing everything he could to help the planet. But his life took a different direction when he found out animal agriculture is the leading cause of environmental destruction. Together with Keegan Kuhn he co-produced his first film, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, which became an overnight viral success and ignited the environmental movement. Following this success, he was invited to speak in front of the European Parliament and a new cut, executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, was exclusively released on Netflix in September 2015. In 2017, Kip and Keegan released their follow up film What the Health, an investigative documentary exposing the link between chronic debilitating disease and diet, sparking an international viral response yet again with its Netflix release, executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix. Andersen is the founder of A.U.M. Films and Media, a 501c3 nonprofit focused on creating films and media that promote thriveability, compassion, and harmony for all life. He is also a serial entrepreneur, as well as a certified Jivamukti and Kundalini yoga teacher. Andersen is a graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo school of business and has called San Francisco home for more than a decade.
 
Keegan Kuhn is the award-winning co-director of the highly acclaimed documentary film Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, executive produced for Netflix by Leonardo DiCaprio, and What the Heath, executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix. Kuhn is the owner and operator of First Spark Media, a digital film production company tailored to creating films for social justice. Kuhn’s skills as a director, producer, cinematographer, editor, animator and composer have been utilized in film subjects as diverse as modern Alaskan homesteading, gender inequality, animal rescues, Buddhism, endurance sports and environmental destruction. He is motivated by a deep desire to shed light on untold stories of the most downtrodden in our society, and to raise awareness through greater visibility of social justice issues. Kuhn is the owner of the camera accessory company First Spark Gear and creator of the educational music project True Nature. He lives with his partner Shani in the East Bay of San Francisco, California.
 Part II: Kathryn Gillespie, The Cow with Ear Tag #1389Kathryn (Katie) Gillespie earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Washington in 2014. Her research and teaching interests focus on: feminist theory and methods; critical animal studies; critical race theory; postcolonial studies; incarceration/prison studies; gender and sexuality; human-environment relations; and food and agriculture. Her current research sits at the nexus of black feminist theory, postcolonial studies, and critical animal studies, focusing on human-animal relations and racialized histories of coloniality at the Louisiana State Penitentiary farm and rodeo. Her dissertation research examined the gendered commodification of the lives and bodies of animals in the dairy industry in the Pacific Northwestern United States. This work was published as a book, The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. She has published in numerous scholarly journals and has co-edited two books: Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World [Routledge, 2015, co-edited with Rosemary-Claire Collard] and Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death [Routledge, 2015, co-edited with Patricia J. Lopez]. Katie volunteers with Books to Prisoners (a Seattle organization that receives and fills book requests from prisoners throughout the United States), Food Empowerment Project (a food justice organization in Cotati, CA), and Pigs Peace Sanctuary (a sanctuary for pigs in Stanwood, WA).

It's All About Food - Jacy Reese, The End of Animal Farming

Jacy Reese, The End of Animal Farming, How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food SystemJacy Reese is the research director and cofounder of Sentience Institute, a nonprofit think tank researching the most effective strategies for expanding humanity’s moral circle. He previously served as board chair and a researcher at Animal Charity Evaluators. Reese’s writing has appeared in Vox, Salon, and the Huffington Post, and he has presented his research to academic and nonprofit audiences in fifteen countries

It's All About Food - Timothy Pakron, Mississippi Vegan

Timothy Parkon is a passionate cook, artist, and photographer, and the creator of the blog Mississippi Vegan. Before devoting himself to the culinary arts he spent time as a fine artist in Charleston, South Carolina, and New York City. He currently lives and works in New Orleans.

It's All About Food - Gary De Mattei, Cashews, Colonoscopies, Theatre and Thanksgiving

Part I: Caryn Hartglass, Cashews, Colonoscopies
In the first part of the program Caryn talks about attending the Werkit 2018 Women’s Podcast Festival. She’ll discuss her recent experience having a colonoscopy and share the dark side of harvesting the cashew nut.      Part II: Gary De Mattei, Theatre and ThanksgivingGary, the co-founder of Responsible Eating and Living joins Caryn to talk about the play, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui. They’ll talk about what’s on their Thanksgiving menu this year with recipes you can access at ResponsibleEatingAndLiving.com

It's All About Food - Caryn Hartglass, Hospitals, Hotels and Holidays

Caryn Hartglass, Hospitals, Hotels and HolidaysCaryn covers her time this week in Houston visiting with a hospital patient. She talks about ways to prepare healthy meals in hotels and shares some thoughts and tips for Thanksgiving.

It's All About Food - Caryn Hartglass, One Activist’s Rejuvenation

Caryn Hartglass, One Activist’s RejuvenationCaryn talks about her recent trip to Mendocino, CA and her stay at The Stanford Inn by the Sea, a vegan bed & breakfast. She also covers other destinations during her travel and the importance of taking care of ourselves, to recharge and rejuvenate, when dedicating one’s life to a cause.