VeganWorldRadio.org :: episode # 41 : 27 April 2009


Living Among Meat Eaters      
      The toll meat eating takes on humans, animals and the planet
Today feminist-vegetarian theorist and author, Carol J. Adams guides us in dealing with the issues that arise when  vegetarian and meat eating worlds collide and she will also comment on interlocking oppressions.  Alfredo Kuba, the first ever recipient of the PETA "Cesar Chavez Si Se Puede" Award, explains how our corporate diet of death exploits both humans and animals.  May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people.  Slaughterhouse workers are the most exploited and have the most dangerous and horrible jobs in the world. 
Why we should all care and what we can do.
Today's show hosted by Shirley Wilkes-Johnson
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Action Links:
http://www.triroc.com/caroladams/

http://www.triroc.com/caroladams/interview2.html
http://www.petaenespanol.com/feat/chavez/alfredo.html

 

  Today's Guests

   Carol J. Adams
Carol J. Adams is the author of the landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and The Pornography of Meat. Besides advancing scholarship and developing theory in the area of interlocking oppressions, Carol has created a series of books that address the vegetarian/vegan experience: Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian Survival Guide, Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! and The Inner Art of Vegetarianism and Meditations on the Inner Art of Vegetarianism.
How to Eat like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One
         More than 250 Shortcuts, Strategies, and Simple Solutions
Carol lives outside Dallas, Texas.

Meat Eaters postpone becoming vegetarians because they think change is hard. Not changing is even harder.  They just haven't discovered this yet. 
~Carol Adams

Living Among Meat Eaters, is a survival guide for vegetarians. People who haven't restored the absent referent (i.e., people who still eat dead animals) must deal with many feelings when they are reminded of what they are doing. Carol proposes that vegetarians and vegans should view meat eaters as blocked vegetarians. Just by being a vegetarian you remind meat eaters that they are blocked.  Living Among Meat Eaters provides suggestions for talking, eating, living with and cooking for meat eaters.
Michael Gregor M.D., in a review for Vegan Outreach wrote, "Ten years in the making, Living among Meat Eaters is a truly monumental work....Our movement sadly lacks theorists. Carol Adams is one of our brilliant exceptions....Living among Meat Eaters is frankly entertaining - in some parts literally laugh-out-loud funny. This is the book we've been waiting for to finally make sense of all the hostility."
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Alfredo Kuba
PETA "Cesar Chavez Si Se Puede Award" Recipient
Alfredo Kuba, was born in Guatemala in 1957, came to the United States in 1978 and settled down in the Bay of San Francisco. His activism in animal rights began in 1995 when he attended a conference in the University of Berkeley, in California, of Dr. Michael Klaper on the occasion of Earth Day. That day he became vegan after learning of the suffering of animals. 

Racism, sexism, speciesism, they are all the same! MAKE THE CONNECTION!
~Alfredo Kuba

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Illnesses, injuries and even deaths at slaughterhouses are shockingly routine. What’s even more shocking? If you eat meat, you are funding the daily exploitation of these workers....Even if you aren’t sympathetic to the plight of workers or animals, consider this: The same uncaring system that allows workers to be exposed to a toxic mist of animals’ brains and animals to be scalded alive also allows carcasses contaminated with feces and vomit, tapeworms and abscesses, to be sent down the line. The meat industry is not going to change, but we can: It’s time to leave the broken bodies of animals off our plates and go vegetarian.

  ~Lindsay Rajt the assistant manager of vegan campaigns for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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Patrick Walbridge as sound engineer
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Houston Health Association/Natural Hygiene Network Monthly Meeting
Join members of the Houston Health Association/Natural Hygiene Network for their monthly dinner meeting. The group meets on the first Monday of the month at 6:30 PM at A Moveable Feast Cafe in Houston, where several vegetarian & vegan options are available. A short presentation follows the meal at 7:00 PM.
Society of PEACE member Dr. Mamiko Matsuda is the organizer of this group. Please visit  Houston Health Association to learn more, or call Mamiko at 713-622-6051.
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Saturday May 9th 1-3pm : "Smooth Creations" 

Raw Vegan Food Prep Classes brought to you from The Raw Food Pot-Luck People!

                      Joe Fougere will be teaching us the simplicity of nutrition by preparing Smoothies and Soups.  Breakfast Smoothies; V8 Smoothie; Green Smoothies; "Seafood" Chowder and more.  This class will also show how you can take smoothie basics to create soups, pates and sauces.  This class shows how quick and easy, delicious and ultra nutritious it is to be Raw.  Come alive with living foods!

Classes will be held at 2115 Taft St. In the building on the south side of the patio.

Each class is priced at $35.00 at the door.  

We need a 10 person registration for each class , to hold these classes. 

To pre-register Call Tambra @ (281)530-6736 , or Nancy @ (713)478-2233 

or send an e-mail to PSAI2004@aol.com  (Make Subject on e-mail, RAW CLASSES)
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 : "Farm to Table: Making Vegan Food Delicious" 

 LLU Cooking Class with vegan chef Staci Davis

                       Leisure Learning Unlimited presents "Farm to Table: Making Vegan Food Delicious", featuring vegan personal chef and radio personality Staci Davis. The class is Sunday, May 17, 2009 from 3:00 - 7:00 PM in Sharpstown area (SW Frwy at Fondren) in Houston. Staci will teach you how to cook fresh, local cuisine grown in and around the Houston area. Discuss local farms, farmer's markets, and what grows well in Houston. Then make five meals from the harvest.

The cost of the class is $52 and includes the meal. For more information and to register, CLICK HERE

 

 .  Participants must register in advance through Leisure Learning, as class size is limited! Or phone (713) 529-4414

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