In light of the recent Wall Street bail outs, Hard News Vegan Pamela Rice thought it fitting to visit the Web site of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. While the world's elite are moving the chess pieces of our lives, what effect is it having on the tens of millions of people across the globe who live on poverty's edge? PamelaPodcast@vivavegie.org; http://VivaVegie.org; Audio editing: http://H2Opodcast.com

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Wall Street Trumps Hunger

The First Veggie Pride Parade in America, which took place in Greenwich Village, New York City, on May 18, 2008, was a great success. Pamela Rice, hard news vegan and organizer of the event gives practical advice for you if you decide to bring a veggie pride parade to your town or city. She speaks about the importance of having a good Web site containing certain elements, of being in touch with city officials, and of pitfalls you want to avoid. She speaks of the importance of bringing in the media and how to do that and advises that you have good relations with city officials and the police department.

Pamela Rice gives practical advice on how you can bring a veggie Pride parade to your city or town.

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Recorded March 31, 2008. Podcast 7. In this Podcast, Pamela Rice lets listeners in on all the details of the upcoming Veggie Pride Parade.

Veggie Pride Parade

Podcast, talk, to the Rochester Area Vegetarian Society (RAVS). Talk took place on March 16, 2008 in Rochester, NY, to an audience of about 60. "Five environmental reasons to go vegetarian you never heard of."

Five environmental reasons to go vegetarian you never heard of

In this Podcast Pamela recounts her participation in Just Food's Summit on Food, Farms, and Community Health, which took place on December 1, 2007 at the New School in Manhattan, NYC. She recaps her own experience at the conference as well as that of Lisa Lindblom, a vegan animal advocate and friend. The sponsoring group, Just Food, with its sold-out audience, certainly advocates many important causes: organic agriculture, labor justice, local food, food security, agricultural sustainability and humane food. But it does not go out of its way to push for veganism or vegetarianism. Lisa and Pamela both had a big problem with this. You simply cannot have many of these good things without more people eating less meat or, better yet, adopting a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. Contact info: PamelaPodcast@vivavegie.org; VivaVegie.org; Audio Editing: http://h2opodcast.com

The Great Omission

4 November 2007 - This Podcast is an on-the-spot account of a great outreach event with the VivaVegie Society. Pamela Rice, Hard News Vegan, and five compatriots set up a to-spec veal crate at Astor Place in New York City. Several activists took turns sitting inside it, making a particularly powerful image for passersby and passing cars. Activists held pro-veg'n signs, passed out information about the veal crate. And when they got a chance, they also distributed "101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian." Several people are interviewed in this podcast. Later, the activists trade accounts of their experiences at the demo over a late lunch. Contact info: PamelaPodcast@vivavegie.org; http://VivaVegie.org Audio editing: http://h2opodcast.com

Veal crate, pro-veg'n demonstration at Astor Place, NYC

Recounts 2 days in the life of a vegan activist in New York City. She laments the priorities of society, and, in particular, the NYPD, at an Italian street fair. She lambastes today's young vegans who should be out there shoulder to shoulder with other vegan activists. Until we show the numbers, the meat eaters will walk all over us vegans, the planet, and the animals. Reference URL: Vegan Scholars and Writers Meetup event (Sunday's repeat event): http://vegetarian.meetup.com/427/calendar/6410472/

A Day in the Life of a Vegan Activist

Pamela Rice discusses food poisoning that is more and more affecting raw fruits and vegetables. She points a finger at industrial meat production, of course, but she also turns a jaundiced eye toward the industrialization of produce operations as well. Contact info: PamelaPodcast@vivavegie.org Audio editing by: http://H2Opodcast.com

Salmonella on Spinach

Vegetarian advocate Pamela Rice (http://www.vivavegie.org/podcast) gave a reading at Jivamukti Yoga Center (http://www.jivamuktiyoga.com/) in New York City on August 21, 2007. Title: 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian in 101 Sentences. The current file is a re-make of the original reading, which suffered from technical problems. Contact: PamelaPodcast@vivavegie.org Audio Editing: http://H2Opodcast.com

101 Sentences Part 1

101 Sentences Part 2

101 Sentences Part 3

Pamela Rice gave this talk on subsidies to the meat industry at the North American Vegetarian Summerfest, 2007, at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown . Ms. Rice has written numerous articles on the subject in her magazine, The VivaVine. Word search: "Economic Justice for Vegetarians" at http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/vva/vva.html

Meat Industry Subsidies Part 2

Meat Industry Subsidies Part 1

14 August 2007 - Pamela Rice discusses animal diseases especially hoof and mouth disease

Animal Diseases

Hard News Vegan is produced by Pamela Rice, author of 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian, both pamphlet and book. Ms. Rice sees veganism as more than a just a peculiar dietary lifestyle: It's a political stance, as far as she's concerned. Her greatest hope is for vegans to get off the sidelines and into the policy arena. Ms. Rice can be contacted via the VivaVegie Society website: http://www.vivavegie.org or by emailing her directly: PamelaPodcast@vivavegie.org

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