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11/9/11 Meria with Nathan Runkle, Executive Director of Mercy For Animals, two times winner of “Non-Profit of The Year” award. Concealed animal abuse; making it illegal to photograph abuse (not the abuse); making compassionate food choices; 9 billion land animals killed yearly in USA; Standard agricultural practices; live in line with your values; gestation crates; are pigs stupid? disconnected from our food choices; is ignorance bliss? (think heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc); animals as individuals; teach your children well; eating someONE not someTHING; What about free range? cruelty free? the movie “Forks Over Knives”; standard American diet is quite sad; vegs increasing on college campuses; 40 million turkeys to be killed for Thanksgiving; fat, sick turkeys =fat sick people; GM turkeys; whats to eat? Thanks-living; progress on the issue of veal; eggs; feces already in meat, why not a human feces burger? Vote with your forks folks.

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Alexandra Paul - Actress & Activist

8/2/11 Meria Heller interviews Alexandra Paul, Star of hit series “Baywatch” and over 75 movies. Today’s show  highlights  her activism and environmentalism.Her activism began as a child and hasn’t stopped; wrote Nixon at the age of 8; vegan; the decision to be “child free”; 1976 world population was 4 billion, today it is 7 billion; the dangers of overpopulation, consumerism; Nathan Runkle; Adding 80 million people a year even with deaths figured in; quality of life; need to stabilize and reduce our population; what is the optimal number of people? Are we consumers or citizens? birth control and education; our diet and the environment; 40% of all pregnancies unwanted or un-timed; The China Study by Colin Campbell (see archives); Will Tuttle’s work; solutions; the benefits of being an only child; how much is enough? Hollywood’s messages to our children and more.

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Hog Hell?

11/3/10 Meria Heller interviews conscious omnivore Daniel Imhoff, editor of the CAFO Reader and CAFO: The tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories. We are what they eat, so stay tuned. fatal harvest; 1/2 billion eggs recalled; Is CAFO about vegetarianism? (it’s not); massive cesspools called lagoons; living for 7 or 8 months; breathing difficulties, sicknesses around CAFO’s; the death of a horse; hydrogen sulfide and factory farms; fat consumption and disease; the myth of industrial production feeding the world; fossil fuels inside the meat supply; nutritional studies; “let them eat cake” (what’s the cake made of?); animal concentration camps; demand transparency in food production; cloning and engineering food; loss of diversity in the animal kingdom; deregulation makes eat “a high risk behavior”; farm subsidies; vote with your fork and much more.

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Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet

1/26/10 Meria is back with Will Tuttle today. Man vs. nature; storms, earthquakes and animal agriculture;abuse by grazing to lands and rivers; war against nature; draining aquifers to feed animals;magnetism between Earth and us; put our prayers into action; 390 ton beef recall; eating more toxins; metaphysical toxins; happy meat movement in England; meatless Mondays; how to go vegan/vegetarian; teaching the World Peace Diet; radical inclusion; google “vegan recipes”; objectifying other living beings; “Avatar” and the messages in it; Our Earth is as beautiful as Pandora; we need to stop devastating our Mother; violence against women;; auto immune diseases and cassein; Question dairy; lab created “meat”; Earth changes; loss of genetic diversity; consumerism-religion of our culture; and more.

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Nathan Runkle - Mercy for Animals

12/16/09 Meria interviews her favorite hero, Nathan Runkle of Mercy For Animals on his latest film “Fowl Play, The Untold Story Behind Your Breakfast“. The American egg industry;the shock value of the film; 200 million hens suffer each year for our eggs; spent hens fed to our kids; killing male chicks; fast food; 260 eggs instead of 25; 9 billion factory farm animals tortured and killed every year; disconnect between humans and animals; tasering animals with electric prods; bloody eggs; 60 yrs ago, we moved from family farms to factory farms; less than 2% farms left; the Ohio pork contest; feces, ammonia and blood on your table;no federal protection for food animals;no vet treatment; what about “cage free” birds? are they cruelty free? birds as genetic products;hints for cooking without eggs and more.

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Keith McHenry-Food Not Bombs

11/11/09 Meria interviews Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs and Indymedia. A HERO, yet called a terrorist group? For feeding the hungry and being anti-war? Middletown, Ct arrests after 10 yrs of feeding the poor; sharing vegan/vegetarian meals around the world to homeless, protesters, etc; homes not jail project; Seattle WTO protest; non violent social change; sharing food without a permit! Bechtel,Chevron, BOA vs. Food not Bombs; infiltration by FBI; 3 strikes law used against him; why such a threat to the govt? who’s profits are they threatening; clear cutting of Redwoods in Calif; economic crash – govt can use food as social control; exploitation of animals as well as people; murdering the homeless; do laws help or hurt? 25,000 a day dead from starvation; pre-9/11/01 phone wiretapped; co-intel-pro still alive; corporate intell agencies; chapters around the world; awards won worldwide – yet called “America’s most hardcore terrorist group”. Black is white, up is down indeed. Call 1-800-884-1136 to volunteer.

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Will Tuttle & Meria in Phoenix, Az

7/21/08 New episode of “Food For Thought” with Meria and her co-host Will Tuttle; Misapprehension about  vegetables; plants have no pathogens of themselves; fertilizer-toxic manure; animal agriculture produces 130x more feces than humans; killing our oceans; 1 pig farm produces more sewage than NYC; Military-Industrial-Meat complex; grilling meat and air pollution; carcinogens in meat; mass extinction; While a Zen Monk in Korea, Will saw the dog markets himself; China factory pharms dogs; drugging our kids; need for a reliable supply of sick people – big Pharma; 75% of antibiotics consumed by animals; calcium diseases; the mental state of humans and animals -bonanza for anti depressant market; Tony Snow, Tim Russett; mental toxins-physical dis-eases; Ecuador’s good news – Rights of Nature in Constitution; Where’s the love? Compassion? Humanzees & clones; circle of life broken.

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