It’s sad to report that the original vegan podcast, Erik’s Diner, is going on hiatus for an undetermined length of time.
Erik has reported that he’s moving on to other projects, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that he’ll be back soon.
He mentioned in his final episode about possibly producing shorter bi-monthly presentations specifically for animal rights activists, rather than having a general vegan news/food slant – so I’m excited about this as this is the main focus of our show.
Update: I spoke too soon – Erik is already back podcasting with an all news show. Not a big difference to the original diner – just shorter.
We are looking for help with one of the new segments on the show — “Vegan on the Spot”.
This is a quick one minute interview with vegans from all over the world, where we ask them to share a perspective about being vegan. Like, what’s your snappy response to a common question, like:
Why are you vegan?
What do you eat?
Where do you get your protein?
Or maybe dealing with a common vegan experience – being the only vegan at family holidays or work outings.
Or the most awkard situation that you’ve been in because you’re vegan, and how you successfully (or unsuccessfully) handled it.
The purpose is to share a perspective about being vegan with other vegans and aspiring vegans. If you’re an aspiring vegan, maybe you have a question to pose and want advice from us or from our listeners.
Anyways, that’s the general idea .. the end of our episode 10 contained our very first Vegan On the Spot interview with George.
If you have a snappy comeback or other vegan perspective to share with our listeners, please let us know. We’ll also be recording stuff at various events we’ll be attending.
You can submit something via a few ways -
1) sending us an MP3 of the recording (easily done on many computers these days)
2) via a voicemail message to (415) 57-VEG-57 (578-3457)
3) Skype voicemail
Segment should be short and to the point and start with at least your first name and the city you’re from.
In this show we present a talk by Virginia Handley – “Use the Law, Help the Animals“. This was a Compassionate Living presentation sponsored by Bay Area Vegetarians that happened earlier this month in San Francisco.
Due to its length, this entire episode is focused on Virginia’s presentation. We will return with our regular format next time.
Virginia has been a lobbyist working for the animals for over 30 years. She’s on the board of directors for PawPAC (California Political Action Committee for Animals) and Animal Switchboard in San Francisco, and formally the local representative for Fund for Animals and HSUS.
Much of the talk is California centric, but a fascinating insight on how the legislative process works, strategies on how to introduce your own bills, how you can support bills, and how you can basically use the law to help animals.
The highly anticipated sequel to the Meatrix has finally been released today.
For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last few years, The Meatrix is an online animation parodying the Matrix movies, but at the same time telling the story of the horrific things that go on in factory farms.
I just got done watching the sequel, and I was disappointed to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, the graphics and story are cute, informative etc. But this time around there’s more emphasis on “Free Range”, family farms, and how people should buy hormone free or grass fed meat and dairy. Yuck!
Having said that, it is produced by Free Range Studio and not PeTA – so what can you expect.
Maybe someone can create a vegan edit of the cartoon.
We’ve had a busy couple of weeks and wanted to share. While recording, the show really turned into a serious vegan rant. We try not to take ourselves too seriously but we just needed to share some of this before we burst! Yes, the Angry Vegan Rants .. and some Raves, too.
Rants and Raves/Angry Vegans Unite! Cafe Gratitude – I am Pretentious / Veganism in big business
Pepparoni Pizza Delivery / Vegan & AR Apparel
Short Sighted or Blind
Strange emails and requests we get
“So you eat squirrel, don’t you?”
The Good and Bad points of working with national groups – what works / what does not
Activism Spot
Earth Day Ideas
Five things You Can Do to Help the Animals by Dino
Vegan on the Spot
George from San Francisco
Send us your Vegan on the Spot recordings by email (MP3) or on our vmail 415 57 VEG 57 (578-3457).
Music by David Serotkin. David is a vegetarian musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. The track Freeline is from his debut album None But This Time.
I was raised a Welsh Baptist, but I don’t remember a whole lot about it. Today I would call myself an Atheist. What I do remember from my childhood was the large number of chapels and churches in my tiny home town. You couldn’t go a street or two without hitting one.
In recent years, it looks like they’re struggling to find ministers to preach to the dwindling congregations.
Not only are they outsourcing high tech jobs and call centers, they’re now outsourcing religion.
As religion’s role declines in Wales, ministers from India come to defence of ‘Mother Church’
A century ago, Welsh missionaries with the reforming zeal of the British Empire converted his ancestors to Christianity. Now a minister from India is spreading the gospel in Wales in an effort to bring spirituality back to the community.
Rev. Hmar Sangkhuma, from Mizoram, a state in northeast India, is helping to fill the shortage of ministers and evangelizing in deprived, rural communities in South Wales.
Picture right is Tabor Chapel in Maesteg (or Capel in Welsh). It’s not very far from where I was born. Incidentally, the Welsh National Anthem was first official performance in the original Maesteg Tabor Chapel in 1856.
Scientists use as many as 25 million mice for experiments each year.
A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That’ll run you about $250. And for your own custom mouse, with the genetic modification of your choosing, expect to pay as much as $100,000.
It’s sad to report that the original vegan podcast, Erik’s Diner, is going on hiatus for an undetermined length of time. 
I was raised a Welsh Baptist, but I don’t remember a whole lot about it. Today I would call myself an Atheist. What I do remember from my childhood was the large number of chapels and churches in my tiny home town. You couldn’t go a street or two without hitting one.