Think Like a Vegan

Roger Yates, a longtime animal rights firebrand, sociologist, and movement historian, cracks open veganism’s radical past. This isn’t just about diet or ethics. It’s about a revolutionary philosophy of total liberation challenging everything. Yates doesn’t just talk theory, he connects the dots to today’s movement in a way that’ll make you reconsider what “vegan” even means. Spoiler: It’s bigger than what you’ve been sold.Strap in. This one’s for the thinkers, the rebels, and anyone who believes justice must be pro-intersectional. History isn’t just background noise; it’s fuel.P.S. If you’ve ever argued about “militant vegans” or “the vegan agenda”… oh, you’ll want to hear this.Website/socialsRoger Yates' YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@RogerYates/streamsSubstack: https://substack.com/@drrogeryatesInstagram @roger_yates1TikTok roger_yatesThe Social Construction of Human Beings and Other Animals in Human-Nonhuman Relations https://rogeryatesphd.blogspot.com/Blog https://onhumanrelationswithothersentientbeings.weebly.com/Emi Leesehttps://emilialeese.substack.comhttp://thinklikeavegan.comhttp://emilialeese.comInstagram @emi.leeseYouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videosCreditsHost: Emilia A. LeeseGuest: Roger YatesProduction & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.comGraphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.comMusicOpening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic BusinessInterlude: "I Used to Do Lots of Things" by Matthew GerstenbergerClosing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic BusinessThis podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com

Vance Lehmkhul is a vegan renaissance man: writer, journalist, cartoonist, and now, a vegan history detective. His book Revolutionary Peace cracks open the wild, untold story of how Philadelphia became the unlikely birthplace of America’s vegetarian and vegan revolt.This isn’t just a history lesson. It's a street-level view of radical thinkers who saw food as revolution. We’re talking 18th-century Quakers, 19th-century anarchists, feminist firebrands, and proto-vegan agitators who linked animal liberation to every fight for justice.Lehmkhul’s work proves something urgent: veganism was never just about diet — it was always political warfare. If you think today’s movements are divisive? Wait till you hear about the original plant-based rebels who scared the hell out of the status quo.This one is for all history nerds, activists, and anyone tired of watered-down veganism. LinksVance Lehmkhul http://www.vegcast.com/vance/ Revolutionary Peace: How Philadelphia Launched the US Vegetarian and Vegan Movementhttps://americanvegan.org/product/revolutionary-peace/ Veg History Walking Tours https://americanvegan.org/veg-history-walking-tours/ American Vegan Center https://americanvegan.org/avc/ American Vegan Society https://americanvegan.org The Return of Benjamin Lay https://www.benjaminlayplay.com Emi Leesehttps://emilialeese.substack.com http://thinklikeavegan.com http://emilialeese.com Instagram @emi.leeseYouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videos CreditsHost: Emilia A. Leese Guest: Vance LehmkhulProduction & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com MusicOpening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business Interlude: "Dappling" by Matthew GerstenbergerClosing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic BusinessThis podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com

Researcher Rimona Afana unflinchingly exposes the hidden victims of Israel's war on Gaza: the natural world and nonhuman animals. She reveals how advanced weaponry creates a psychological distance enabling destruction on a colossal scale, making ecocide a feature, not a byproduct, of modern conflict.Website/SocialsRimona Afanahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rimonaafanaEcocide/Speciesism: Legislating Hierarchy, Interdependence, Deathhttps://www.facebook.com/ecocide.speciesism Other linksIsrael's Crimes Against the Dead and Unborn in Gaza https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-crimes-against-the-dead-and-unborn-in-gazaEmi Leesehttps://emilialeese.substack.com http://thinklikeavegan.com http://emilialeese.com Instagram @emi.leeseYouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videos CreditsHost: Emilia A. Leese Guest: Rimona AfanaProduction & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com MusicOpening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business Interlude: Birds from Shwikeh, Tulkarem, Palestine by sounds_from_palestine -- https://freesound.org/s/802437/ -- License: Creative Commons 0Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic BusinessThis podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com

There are those who study nature, and then there are those who listen to it. Alan Watson Featherstone is such a listener, a quiet revolutionary who has spent his life translating Earth's silent longing into action.In this episode, we walk with Alan through:The act of rewilding — not just restoring land, but restoring relationshipWhy healing broken ecosystems is the most radical hope we haveHow a single sapling carries within it an entire futureA man of many gifts — photographer, storyteller, planter of forests — Alan founded Trees for Life in 1986 and for three decades served as its guiding spirit, transforming Scotland's barren glens into cathedrals of green. A vegan since 1979, his life reminds us that compassion must stretch beyond our speciesThis is not a lecture on ecology. This is an invitation to remember, to see, as Alan does, that every act of rewilding is a love letter to a better future for everyoneWebsite/SocialsAlan Watson Featherstonehttps://alanwatsonfeatherstone.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-watson-featherstone-8063961a X @AlanWatsonFeat1Photography https://www.naturepl.com/search?s=Alan+Watson YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@alanwatsonfeatherstone9676/videos Other linksFindhorn community https://www.visitecovillagefindhorn.uk Trees for Life https://treesforlife.org.ukIshmael https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(Quinn_novel)Kathleen Jannaway https://youtu.be/2ai7lnUsVPE?feature=shared Auroville https://auroville.org Jack Whitten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whitten Birchfield https://birchfieldhighlands.org Emi Leesehttps://emilialeese.substack.com  http://thinklikeavegan.com   http://emilialeese.com  Instagram @emi.leeseYouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videos    CreditsHost: Emilia A. Leese Guest: Alan Watson FeatherstoneProduction & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com MusicOpening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business Interlude: "Contemporary Music Too" by Matthew GerstenbergerClosing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic BusinessThis podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com    

Capitalism didn't just commodify animals - it turned suffering into an industry. Meet John Sanbonmatsu, the revolutionary philosopher tearing apart the meat-industrial complex in his incendiary new work The Omnivore's Deception. This book is an indictment of the entire capitalist food regime  Sanbonmatsu doesn't debate reform. He demands total dismantling of the oppressive structures that treat life as profit. This is food system analysis as class war, revealing how your burger funds environmental racism, worker exploitation and mass extinction. The only moral response is revolution  Website/SocialsJohn Sanbonmatsuhttps://www.johnsanbonmatsu.comOther linksKaren Davis essay https://www.upc-online.org/thinking/rhetoric.pdfEmi Leesehttps://emilialeese.substack.com     http://thinklikeavegan.com      http://emilialeese.com     Instagram @emi.leeseYouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videos   CreditsHost: Emilia A. Leese Guest: John SanbonmatsuProduction & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com MusicOpening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business Interlude: "7am" music by Matthew Gerstenberger and voice by ChiyakoClosing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic BusinessThis podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com