Generation Vegan :: Podcast

A bit about the gap
New Book - Vegetarian Bay Area: The Ultimate Guide
Santa Cruz Trip Report
Outreach update - Tips from Gay Pride and other summer events
Five things You can do with a "Why Vegan"
Vegan on the Spot
Contest Submission (Question in show)
Music by Dana Lyons - Cows With Guns

GenV - Show #12

Duration: 43:07 mins [20MB]

Notes

San Francisco Pride Photos
Why Vegan [PDF Version]
Vegetarian Bay Area: The Ultimate Guide
Santa Cruz Vegetarian Restaurants
Photos from Santa Cruz Trip

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It's been awhile since we've done a podcast or blogged much .. We've had some events happen in our personal lives that have temporarily derailed our GenV advocacy plans. We're still very busy with Bay Area Vegetarians which takes priority over our personal podcast.

And, of course, our regular fulltime jobs trump our advocacy efforts at this point in our lives. Gotta bring home the tofu and cat kibble, y'know...

But we want to get back to our podcast, and hope to do so on a more regular basis. Stay tuned! Or, better yet, drop us an email or send us your comments - maybe it'll help us kick start the show again

So please stay tuned. Hope to be back soon.

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.

GenV - Show #11

Duration: 52:43 mins [24MB]

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.

Handout

The Life Cycle of Legislation

Links
PawPAC
Animal Switchboard

[Apologies for the background noise and music - we were in a shared space and it was hard to control the environment.]

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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.

GenV - Show #10

Duration: 51:05 mins [20MB]

This episode includes:

Week in review
Compassionate Living column debuts in the Pacifica Tribune + offer to help others get started with something similar
Bay Area Veg Guide on your iPod
Earth Day Planning
Travelling vegan
Do One Activist Activity every month
PETA's Top Veg Cities
Vegan Retirement home / 97 year old vegetarian has trouble getting a decent hospital meal
Bill may allow dogs at Florida restaurants
Quick peel potatos
Free AR Movies

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.

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In this episode we talk about our vegan bubble world, some childhood memories about farm animals, Tesco's from the UK is coming to the USA and why it's important, Tammy's new newspaper column, more meat-out ideas, corrections/updates to the last show on Bay Area restaurants. We also briefly talk about how we started Bay Area Vegetarians. Toward the end of the show we introduce a new segment called "Five Things". The first suggest five ways to help animals without picking up a leaflet or a sign. We end the show with a song from Maria Daines.

GenV - Show #9

Duration: 35:22 mins [16MB]

Music by Maria Daines - I Am The Owner Of This Coat

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In this episode we provide an overview of our favorite places to eat vegan in San Francisco and the surrounding SF Bay Area.

With a strong vegetarian and animal rights community, nearly 90 vegetarian restaurants in the region (which includes over 30 vegan restaurants), vegetarian and animal rights events happening every weekend, moderate weather, beautiful natural scenery, progressive and relatively pro-veg climate, the SF Bay Area is the best place to live as a vegetarian. PETA says "The Bay Area is the capital of America's vegetarian and vegan revolution!"

We hope folks visiting SF for pleasure or business, as well as those new to the area or vegetarianism, will find this a useful guide to eating with compassion in the SF Bay Area.

GenerationV - Show #8

Duration: 34:45 mins [16MB]

Here are direct links to the restaurants listed in our show:

Bay Area Vegetarians Ultimate Guide

San Francisco Restaurants

Herbivore I and II
Shangri-La
Bok Choy Garden
Medicine New-Shojin Eatstation
Golden Era
MaggieMudd
Panhandle Pizza
Millennium
Cafe Gratitude

East Bay (Oakland and Berkeley)
Golden Lotus
Cha-Ya
Manzanita
New World Vegetarian
Fellini
Lanesplitter
Pizza Plaza

Peninsula/South Bay/Silicon Valley
Vegetarian Gourmet - San Mateo
BayLeaf Cafe - Palo Alto
Kokila's Kitchen - Cupertino
Good Karma - San Jose
Tofoo Com Chay - San Jose
Vegetarian House - San Jose

Santa Cruz
Asian Rose Cafe
Malabar Cafe
Black China Bakery and Cafe
Dharma's Natural Foods

Misc
Greens Restaurant San Francisco ("world class" vegetarian restaurant but not very vegan friendly)
Zante's Pizza & Indian Food San Francisco (check ingredients in "Vegan" pizza, specifically the crust)
New Ganges - San Francisco (overly attentive staff)

Local Bay Area Veg Events

Music by The Egerton Boyz

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This episode contains a presentation by Alex Bury on using food as an advocacy tool. Alex is a vegan chef, a full time PETA staffer and an instructor for McDougall. She also writes the Heart Smart Cooking Column for our monthly BAVeg newsletter. We also talk about the Farm Sanctuary Foie Gras campaign and vegan artists "Was Someone".

GenerationV - Show #7

Duration: 40:56 mins [18.8MB]

Show links:

Cool vegan artists - Was Someone
Farm Sanctuary - Foie Gras Campaign - Chicago folks call/write your legislators
PETAs Cat Vomit Warning Sign
Alex Bury's Talk [recipes from talk] [event photos]
Mailing List

Don't forget to send us your feedback and suggestions for the show, or leave us a voicemail at (415) 57-VEG-57

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We've made a few changes to the blog and podcast today. First, we've updated the basic site layout, as well as implementing 'clean' links across the site.

More important, in a few days we'll be splitting the podcast feed and the blog feed. If you're already subscribed to the podcast via iTunes, etc, you do not need to do anything; we will continue to use the original Feedburner XML Feed. Going forward, if you were using that feed for the blog posts as well, please add the RSS/XML link in your aggregator to -

www.generationv.org/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=2

Again, if you're just subscribed to the podcast, then you should not change anything.

We'll run things in parallel for a few days before we remove the general blog posts from the Feedburner feed. Thanks!

Meatout is coming up fast, so we thought we'd have a show covering some ideas for you to think about. We also talk about some rants and raves, an activist giveaway, our new GenV mailing list and our veggie frappr map.

GenerationV - Show #6

Duration: 21:42 mins

1) Activist Giveaway - but we need your feedback
2) Vegan Rants and Raves

• "Irregular" Vegan Marshmallow Deal at Pangea
• Unwanted solicitations and junk mail
• Animal Ingredients List for your iPod
• O Organics at Safeway

3) Planning ahead for the Great American Meatout - Ideas
4) Frappr Map

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Effective Advocacy for Animals - Part II - Activist Rights for Animal Rights

Thea Langsam is a lawyer at Altshuler, Berzon, a small public interest law firm in San Francisco. She represents Vegan Outreach, challenging colleges that have illegally sought to bar Vegan Outreach volunteers from leafleting on campus. She also organizes the San Francisco KFC Cruelty protests and Letter Writing Parties for the San Francisco Bay Area Vegetarians, which typically happen on the 3rd weekend of every month.

GenerationV - Show #5

Duration: 00:29:15

Introduction 00:00:33
Thea - Activist Rights 00:01:30
End/Wrap up 00:25:00

References - Handouts, Links etc

Legal Questions About Leafleting
Gallery of pictures from the event
BAVeg Volunteer page

Also see Episode #4: Effective Advocacy, Part I - Activist Skills

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