Mark Peters captures the soul of the cow in his photographic book, Voices of the Herd, and today we talk about cows as individuals and seeing animals differently. And guess what? This guy is so classy, he wrote me a thank-you note on paper.

Website: https://markpetersphotography.com/

Book: Voices of the Herd: Portraits of Rescued Cows and Their Sanctuary Stories

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markpeters.photography/

And there's a book giveaway for this one: The instructions are at the end of the episode. 

Matthew C. Halteman, Ph.D, author of Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, teaches philosophy at Calvin University in Michigan. He also once lived on the same block in Wheaton, Illinois, as host Victoria Moran.

Book:
Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan

Website: https://www.hungrybeautifulanimals.com/

Facebook: Matthew C. Haltemen

Instagram: @hungrybeautifulanimals

LinkedIn: Matthew Haltemen

And Victoria's YouTube channel where you can watch the podcast, as well as listening on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

EatMoveRest.com and the EatMoveRest YouTube channel have planted Erin and Dusty Stancyk firmly into influencer territory with their busy, beautiful life, 3 young kids, and a delicious, plant-based road to health. We discuss attachment parenting, using the word "vegan" (or not), putting the fun back in healthy, and living colorfully.

Book: The Happy, Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook

Website: https://eatmoverest.com - Subscribe and receive free PDF, How to Go Vegan

YouTube: EatMoveRest - The Stancyks

Facebook: Eat Move Rest

Instagram: Erin Stancyzk

And subscribe at MainStreetVegan.com to receive free PDF, Recipes to Help You Age Like a Yogi 

Nutrition science took a massive hit with the January 7th release of the 2026 Dietary Guideline for Americans, recommending increased consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy (while, impossibly, keeping saturated fat low). Responding is Neal Barnard, MD, president of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which has petitioned the U.S. government to withdraw these recommendations. 

Website: https://www.pcrm.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/physicianscommittee/

Select books from Dr. Barnard:

The Power Foods Diet

Your Body in Balance

Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Heart Disease 

We welcome 2026 with the inimitable Michael Greger, MD, of nutritionfacts.org and author of the million-selling How Not to Die, sharing info from his latest book Lower LDL Cholesterol Naturally with Food.

Website: https://nutritionfacts.org/ 

Lower LDL Cholesterol Naturally with Food

How Not Die

How Not to Diet

How Not to Age

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org/ 

NYC animal activist Donny Moss is out to set the record straight about animal abuse by congratulating the media when it's fair and coming down on biased, untrue reporting. We discuss his new venture, VegMediaWatch, as well as how to combat social media misinformation.

Website: https://www.vegmediawatch.org

Blinders, Donny's documentary on the New York City carriage horse industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1oAV1fZXJM

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vegmediawatch/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Veg-Media-Watch-61577254593597/ 

Known for giving "the best speech you've ever heard" and for single-handedly making Israel the most vegan-dense country on earth, Gary Yourofsky is a legendary animal activist and orator. In this interview, first posting on Thanksgiving morning 2025, Yourofsky shares how we can all be effective in standing up for the rights of our fellow beings. 

Website: http://www.adaptt.org

Instagram: @realgaryyourofsky

Chef Mark Reinfeld is known in the plant-based world and beyond as the culinary innovator of vegan fusion cuisine, but he is also the dad of two sons, one of whom has a genetic condition called Angelman Syndrome. His new book, Islands of Peace, is for other special needs parents and anyone dealing with an ongoing challenge to love and patience, and energy. 

Book: https://www.ohanavitality.org/islands-of-peace

Ohana Vitality, programs and events for parents with special needs children

Chef Mark's Upcoming Culinary Course

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganfusioncuisine/

Legendary founder of the Nutritarian diet shares the exact kind of vegan diet that protects against heart disease or cancer, the essential supplements that protect vegans from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, how to seriously build bone, plus new diagnostic options and a lifestyle medicine doctor's take on MAHA.

Dr. Fuhrman's website

Dr. Fuhrman's Amazon Author Page

Longevity RX (Dr. Fuhrman's new San Diego clinic in partnership with his daughter, Cara Fuhrman, ND)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drfuhrman/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joelfuhrmanmd/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/drfuhrman

This episode is named for the important (and yet comedic) documentary about animal experimentation, focusing on pharma and product testing. Filmmakers Journey Zephyr and Keegan Kuhn, with Aysha Aktar, MD, MPH, join Victoria to get us clear on this issue (and explain how such a somber subject than make such a funny movie). 

Contacts:

Website: https://howtomakedrugsfilm.com (You can watch the film on this site and Vimeo; more streaming options are coming. The website also has an opportunity for you to sponsor a screening in your area.)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/How-To-Make-Drugs-61558510942256/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtomakedrugs/#

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@howtomakedrugs