It’s All About Food

Part 1: Caryn Hartglass, Costa Rica Travel, Food Myths
Caryn discusses her experience with food while traveling all around Costa Rica. She gives a summary of the most popular questions of people interested in healthy diets, as asked in the recent Food Revolution Summit.
 
 
 
 
 

Part 2. Robert Grillo, Canned Pheasant Hunting
Robert Grillo is President and Director of Free From Harm. He has 20 years of experience in the field of branding, design and communications. He is Free from Harm’s founder and director since 2009. He also acts as editor of the website and contributes regular articles.

Robert Grillo is the director of Free from Harm which he founded in 2009 to advocate on behalf of farmed animals. As an activist, author and speaker, Grillo focuses awareness on the non human animal’s experience and point of view, drawing on insights from sociology, psychology, popular culture, ethics and social justice to bridge the gap between humans and other animals. As a marketing communications professional for over 20 years, Grillo has worked on big food industry brands where he acquired a behind-the-scenes perspective on food branding and marketing. His is the author of Farm to Fable: The Fictions of Our Animal Consuming Culture, which reveals how popular culture conditions us to consume animal products and how a better understanding of these fictions can empower us to help them, ourselves and the planet The book is the basis of his keynote presentation of the same name.

Here is Robert’s article on canned pheasant hunting published on Alternet.

Ian Theasby and Henry Firth, BOSH!: Simple Recipes • Amazing Food • All Plants
Ian Theasby and Henry Firth met in school at the age of eleven and live and work together at their BOSH! studio in East London. In June 2016 they posted their first ever recipe online. A year later, and they are the founders of the largest plant-based video channel on Facebook, reaching fifty million people a month. Everything they cook is plant based.

 Listen: Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 4pm ET by going to PRN, The Progressive Radio Network.
 

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Caryn talks about this past weekend’s 11th Annual Veggie Parade and the upcoming Food Revolution Summit. She goes into detail about the recipes she and her partner Gary De Mattei created for the summit. She also talks about the difficulty of changing one’s diet and incorporating new foods, needing to feel safe.

Call in to the show with comments and questions: 1-888-874-4888.
Listen by phone to hear the live broadcast at 1-401-347-0456.
Or call the personal archive number to hear the most recent five episodes of It’s All About Food: 1-701-719-0885.

Caryn shares her recent reaction to MSG in her soup at a restaurant. She discusses self-love and self-loathing and how it affects our relationship with food. She offers up her favorite Passover and Easter recipes and some brands of natural candies, free of artificial colors and preservatives; GMO-free, gluten-free and vegan.

GUEST: Nil Zacharias, Eat for the Planet
Nil Zacharias is the cofounder and editor in chief of One Green Planet, which is one of the largest and fastest-growing independent digital media platforms in the food sustainability and green space. He lives in New York City.