Dreena Burton, author of Plant-Powered Families and Let Them Eat Vegan, on raising and feeding vegan children

Kathy Hester shares her love for healthy slow cooking and dishes on her latest book, The Easy Vegan Cookbook.

Chef Ayinde Howell, co-author of The Lusty Vegan, on the complications of vegans dating, loving, and living with non-vegans.

We’ve made the excuses. We’ve heard the excuses. All the reasons we can’t go vegan. Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, co-founders of Our Hen House, have heard them, too. On this episode of Easy Vegan, they give us reasons to go vegan!

Cody Rilo and Tyler Schiedel, restaurant veterans, went vegan and wanted to open a business that reflected their ethics. They did, along with Aspen and Mike Nipp, and the 100% vegan Burrowing Owl in Colorado Springs is thriving - and winning awards - after being open for only four months. (Great tips for vegan entrepreneurs everywhere!)

Director Allison Argo on her latest film. The Last Pig chronicles the journey of humane farmer Bob Comis' last year of farming pigs as he grapples with death, searches for compassion, and finally finds the courage to change.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau shares how she offers daily doses of compassion, meeting people where they are, to awaken us to our inherent desire to be compassionate and to be vegan.

Dr. Michael Greger, the physician behind NutritionFacts.org, wrote the book How Not to Die to translate mountains of scientific evidence to support the health benefits of a plant-based diet. (Hint: Do the Daily Dozen)

Jon Camp, National Grassroots Director for The Humane League, share strategies for effective vegan grassroots activism.

Michelle Schwegmann, co-author of Eat Like You Give a Damn and co-owner of Herbivore Clothing Company in Portland, shares how she feeds her vegan daughter, her new cookbook, and why it's important to wear our veganism on our sleeves (and hats, and t-shirts).

From The Kinship Series suspense novels to a documentary A Voice for Lil Olive, Robin Lamont and Kirsten Akens talk about how art creates a voice for animals.

Prolific vegan cookbook author Terry Hope Romero talks about her latest book - Protein Ninja - and how vegan cooking and taste evolves over the years.

Host JL Fields - Vegan Cook, Coach, and Consultant's interviews with Sol Natural (Macaccino!), New Grounds Food (Coffee nutrition bar!), Tofuna Fysh (vegan fish sauce!), Boulder Organic Foods (prepared vegan soups!), TempehSure (DIY protein maker for the homecook!), and Enjoy Life Foods (allergy-free foods for all!) at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim.

Robin Robertson talks about writing over 20 vegan cookbooks, veganizing family recipes, and offers cooking strategies for new vegans.

Corporate disruptor Liz Dee on impact investing and the cultural shift toward plant-based and cultured alternatives to animal products. Dee is co-owner and Executive Vice President of Smarties Candy Company and CEO of Baleine & Bjorn Capital.

National Animal Rights Day 2016 is June 4 in Canada and June 5 in the United States. Guests Sassy and Jeff Skelton attended an event in Los Angeles two years ago and are now producing one in Colorado Springs. Learn about the North American movement to remember animals and educate the masses about veganism.

Ari Solomon, the genius behind the viral video "Sh*t Vegans Say" and director of communications for Mercy for Animals, on how anyone can be a vegan activist.

JL highlights the good work of local vegan activists throughout the U.S. and Canada and shared ways to get involved in your own local vegan activism.

Vegan cookbook author Joni Marie Newman, co-author of Vegans Go Nuts, shares ideas for adding more nuts and seeds to delicious vegan meals + tips for new cooks and vegans who hate to cook.

Leila Vaughan is teaching people who to go vegan through the Peace Advocacy Network. Justin Starner is reaching students at the University of Georgia through Speak out for Species. This episode is part of the VegFund-support Vegan Activist Spotlight series.

There's a very vegan business trend in Colorado Springs! Meet the latest non-vegan businesses (the owners aren't vegan either!) opening businesses with vegans in mind. Amy Emerson and Natalie Peck's Willamette Market & Deli will open next month with a hot dog deli and two types of vegan hot dogs will be available for each menu item (the market will carry unique vegan items, as well). Potato Potato food truck owner Kevin Johnson recently added vegan items to the permanent menu and now has a monthly "vegan" day where everything on the menu is vegan. Learn why business owners are thinking about vegan customers and the impact on their business bottom-line.

Sunny Subramanian, author of The Compassionate Chick’s Guide to DIY Beauty 125 Recipes for Vegan, Gluten Free, Cruelty-Free Makeup, Skin & Hair Products, offers up tips and ideas for making your own vegan beauty products (some are edible!).

Grant Butler is a food writer for The Oregonian and OregonLive.com. He joins JL to talk about taking veganism mainstream in the media, what makes a great cookbook, fall vegan food trends, and the one spice blend we should all add to our cooking.

Long-time vegan activists Rae Sikora and JC Corcoran have been promoting peace and compassion around the globe. Then they decided to make Santa Fe, NM "veganville." Learn how and why.

After becoming vegan Sara Laycock decided to dedicate her personal and professional life to helping animals. Today Sara serves as the Campaigns Manager for Mercy For Animals, an international farmed animal protection organization, where she helps develop campaigns to push major corporations to eliminate cruel practices throughout their global supply chains. Learn about her path to professionalize her vegan passion.

Kristy Turner, author of "But I Could Never Go Vegan" is back with a new cookbook, "But My Family Would Never Eat Vegan," and she has ideas for you on how to bridge the "multivore" gap in your home and within your family.

Steve Jenkins, one of Esther the Wonder Pig’s dads and co-founder of the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary, is back to talk about a horrifying incident in Toronto that left pigs injured and killed and the impact it's had on his vegan activism.

Stumped by how to respond to family and friends who challenge your veganism? Or argue that hunting is humane and good for the environment? Dr. Lisa Kemmerer, Author helps with her compassionate approach: AMORE.

Naomi Call and her two sons visited 15 farm animal sanctuaries to create the feature-length documentary film Called to Rescue. Naomi joins JL to talk about the film, the animals, the caregivers, and how you can watch the film at home or in your community.

The producers of the feature-length documentary Eating You Alive join JL to talk about their new film on food, health, and how a plant-based diet has changed and saved lives. Plus, Ginny Messina, TheVeganRD, shares three tips for trying a healthy, plant-based diet in the new year!

Bonnie Goodman started a vegan potluck in Livingston, Montana. Today she shares practical tips on how to build a vibrant vegan community wherever you are.

Marla Rose joins me this week to talk about Vegan Street's Guide for New Vegans, building vegan community, how to communicate vegan messages, and why it’s important to her to be an intersectional activist.

It's JL's 7th Vegan Anniversary. Her husband Dave Burgess joins her to talk about their vegan transition and how they make it work. Part 1 of 2.

Filmmaker Kip Andersen’s newest documentary “What the Health?” is the follow-up film to the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy. The film "exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick." Kip talks with JL about the new film, health transformations, and how you can bring the documentary to your own community.

Award winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on her We Animals Archive - a free resource for activists to share hauntingly beautiful images of animals from around the world.

Michael Suchman and Ethan Ciment - the duo behind the blog VeganMos.com - have created the new cookbook NYC Vegan. Take a foodie walk through the boroughs of New York City!

Leah Duncan is on the show to discuss her volunteer and business activism. Through GreenHeart: Products of Peace she uses her expertise to market and promote vegan food, lifestyle and activism. The vegan outreach director for the Humane Society of Louisiana, Leah produces the NOLA Veggie Fest and the Bayou Veg Fest. Her Vegan Village concept will soon be packaged up as a toolkit so that you, too, can promote veganism at non-vegan and vegan events in your own community!

Kat Mendenhall has turned her passion into profit by making vegan cowboy boots and opening Dallas' first all vegan boutique.

The Good Food Institute is disrupting the food market by investing in, and incubating, healthy, humane and sustainable food entrepreneurs. GFI’s senior communications specialist Emily Byrd joins me to explain how the organization works and what innovations we might be seeing sooner rather than later.

Composer and performer Michael Harren is on a U.S. tour telling the stories of farmed animals through words, music, and images. He shares some of those stories, as well as stories of animals he's meeting on the road.

Image Consultant and Editor in Chief of La Fashionista Compassionista Adrienne Borgersen is on the show to talk about the ABC's of fashion, how to build a vegan and cruelty-free wardrobe and she shares her favorite vegan beauty and fashion lines. Plus: fall fashion trends!

The second of a two-part interview, Christopher Sebastian brings his global lecture topics to Easy Vegan listeners. In this episode, we talk about fur vs. hair, Skinny Bitch, sheet cake, and why veganism is political.

Aryenish Birdie founded Encompass to create leadership opportunities and tools for individuals and organizations that will build a more diverse and inclusive animal protection movement.

Through memoir, stories of undercover investigations, tips to go plant-based, and elevating the power of one, in his new book Nathan Runkle shares how Mercy for Animals came to be and how we can all take part in changing the world for animals.

Post-Hurricane Harvey, Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is recovering and rebuilding to provide for their 96 farm animals that all survived the disaster. Learn how a cattle rancher husband and his vegan wife faced a marital crisis, overcame it and turned the ranch into a sanctuary. Executive Director Renee King-Sonnen also shares her thoughts on animal agriculture and its relations to climate change, how other cattle ranchers are responding to her farm sanctuary and how you can help the sanctuary bounce back from the hurricane.

Andy Tabar and JL were recently part of a panel discussion about food and body shaming in the vegan movement. In this episode, they discuss both issues and offer strategies for inclusion.

Jonathan Balcombe, author of Pleasurable Kingdom, has authored What a Fish Knows - a look at "the inner lives of underwater cousins." In this episode of Easy Vegan we discuss how fish experience joy and pain, their personalities, how they are farmed, and what we can do to help all help fishes…from a place of justice.

Did you know that even cows get the blues? Dr. Lori Marino discusses the research that demonstrates that cows are emotionally, cognitively and socially complex individuals.

What exactly is cellular agriculture? Is clean meat GMO? Is it even vegan? Paul Shapiro, the author of Clean Meat, answers your questions!