Filmmaker Thomas Jackson on his film to interest people of faith in veganism + Bleating Hearts author Mark Hawthorne with his new book on intersectionality, The Vegan Ethic.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Basketball legend John Salley shares his take on health, sport, veganism for a guy’s guy, and the Hip Hop Is Green movement. We’ll also be joined by James Lucas of grapecat.com about what it takes to run an online vegan store and vend at vegfests all over the United States.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ruby Roth, who made media waves with her children’s book, Vegan Is Love, is back with a charming and exquisitely illustrated cookbook for little vegans, The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids. And Lorena Mucke's Ethical Choices Program takes veganism, animal rights, and sustainable living into middle- and high-school classrooms across America.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., returns today with his new book, What a Fish Knows, a fascinating look at the cognitive abilities and self-awareness of our cousins who live in the water. Show opener: Amish Shah, who made his first $1 million by age 25 and subsequently partied himself into ill health before discovering the wisdom of Ayurveda, “knowledge of life,” from his ancestral land of India. He’s now made the film, Ancient Health Care, exploring this 5,000-year-old healing tradition.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harris Polls commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group have been counting vegans, vegetarians, and the veg-leaning since 1994, and the latest results are just out. VRG cofounder Charles Stahler joins us to share the findings: what are our numbers in the United States? How do we stack up geographically, ethnically, and racially? Why are people going in this direction? And why aren't more doing it? Tune in for answers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legal personhood for chimpanzees has been a 30-year effort for attorney Steven Wise of the Nonhuman Rights Project, work that is explored in the groundbreaking documentary Unlocking the Cage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vegan travel expert Caitlin Galer-Unti of theveganword.com gives us the skinny on eating across the globe and the hottest vegan travel destinations. Then: octogenarian runner, swimmer, cyclist, and three-decade breast cancer survivor Ruth Heidrich. Prepare to be inspired for the long haul!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chat with celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Matthew Kenney, weighing in on his latest culinary projects and his commitment to plant-based living. Then we meet Sarah Woodcock, a devout abolitionist vegan who explains this philosophy and her organization, The Advocacy of Veganism Society (TAVS).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Power-blogger Dana Shultz, with her new cookbook, Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking; then, Imam Sohaib Sultan, a Princeton professor and author of The Koran for Dummies with a Muslim view on veganism and animal rights.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ll learn the fine points of slow cooking with author/blogger Kathy Hester, and then discuss the fascinating new book, Meathooked—why on earth are humans so addicted to animal flesh?—with its author Marta Zaraska.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices