Behind the Tofu

This week we were joined by Brianna Lawyna, a chef at oohlalavegan in Las Vegas and a Clothing Designer, and Anthony DeGeorge, chef-owner at plant power Nashville and cofounder of Nashville Kids Cook! We discussed the ins and outs of being a vegan chef, their careers, food innovation, etc.

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This week we discussed the Move Bombing, Police Brutality, Activism and other aspects surrounding the Move Bombing with Jaimee Ellison, a badass activist with @turlockBLM,  @blackrhinosofficial, and @blackrainmilitia. 

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This Episode is with Matt King with The Christian Animal Rights Association, the Author of the upcoming book "I Will Abolish the Bow: Christianity, Personhood, and the End of Animal Exploitation". He discussed the relationship of Christianity and Animal Rights.

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This is the second part of our series on Palestine. This time we bring the issues in the Palestinian Occupation back to the environment for this discussion on Greenwashing with Jesi Cruz (@MoonTwerk on twitter), a Jewish grad student studying the Ecology of Waste.

Sources at BehindtheTofu.com/sources

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This week we were joined by Mitzi Jonelle Tan and Jon Bonifacio from Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines for a discussion on the current political, economic, ecological and climate problems impacting the Philippines currently. We touched briefly on the issues with the Seaspiracy documentary, but focused mostly on how to center the voices of Fishing Communities.

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This week we spoke with Rama Ganesan (@ramavgan) on the Anti-Caste Framework. Rama Ganesan is an animal liberationist who takes her anti-caste framework and applies it to animal and human oppression around the globe. We discussed the truth behind the remaining Caste system in India and how vegetarian and veganism is used as a tool for classism.

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Today we bring you an episode to give you the background on the Palestinian Occupation with special guests Mosaab and Ettie. For more questions please contact [email protected]. Check out behindthetofu.com/sources for more resources.

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This week we are joined by Jack of All Trades and the Mother of this podcast, Sabrina Sith. Sabrina lives in LA, worked as a vegan celebrity chef for 9 years, does comedy, modeling, has a cookbook. (yes we mean she does it ALL). We talked about pop culture and how vegans are portrayed in the media. 

 Check out her merch store at https://www.sabrinamerch.com and follow her on instagram @sabrinasith

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This week we met with Sheryl (@soypreme), a UK based vegan fitness trainer and bodybuilding athlete. We discussed how to maintain balance while lifting and eating plant-based, feminism, bugs? and many other random topics. 

Check it out!

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This week we discussed Marxism and its connections with Animal Liberation with Dr. Asatar Bair.

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