Main Street Vegan
Everybody knows that the future is vegan, but it can also be a grand adventure right now. On the Main Street Vegan Podcast, bestselling author and vegan OG Victoria Moran invites you to be in on conversations with the best and brightest in this space. You'll hear from physicians, philosophers, activists, athletes, chefs and celebrities on eating and living for optimum health, while protecting the planet and saving the lives and ending the suffering of animals. Whether you're a longtime vegan or just taking a look, Main Street Vegan will help you live with purpose, eat with joy, and craft a life that makes a difference.
Episodes
582 episodes
How to Make Drugs (and Feel Great About Everything)
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 t...
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Fabulous Health and How to Get It
A family tragedy led board-certified nutritionist Terri Chrisman to take on chronic disease and fight that battle in the kitchen. Her methodology and her bestselling book, Fabulous Health: A Simple Plan to Get Well and Stay Well,...
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Lab Dog -- a Memoir and a Mission
Melanie Kaplan was not an expert on animal use in research until she adopted a beagle who had been a test subject. Investigation opened her eyes and her journalist's cred opened doors into the hidden world of breeding and using beagles for biom...
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Veggie-Healthy History!
National Health Assn. Historian Dr. Jeanne Schumacher regales with tales of the dissident docs and nature nerds of the 19th and early 20th centuries who got the plant-based ball rolling. Her fascinating stories put health-promoting, animal-free...
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Legendary Cruelty Investigator Gail Eisnitz
On the front lines for animals with The Humane Farming Association for decades, Eisnitz weaves a compelling tale of the horrors of factory farms and slaughterhouses -- as well as a gripping medical mystery as ...
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Philanthropy for the Rest of Us
Jessika Ava of Thrive Philanthropy shares her engaging history of showing up for other-than-human beings in a variety of venues before starting her own organization that supports pro-animal endeavors around the world. Learn where the work is ha...
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Food Joy and Grounded Woo
Tess Challis joins to talk about her 9th cookbook, Food Joy, coauthored with her adult daughter, a lifelong vegan. The conversation moves to vegan spirituality, the current state of being vegan in America, and the great respite of medi...
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Cookies, Kids and Comedy with Audrey Dunham
Vegan entrepreneur, YouTuber, mother of twins, and wife of mega-comic Jeff Dunham, today's guest is the author of Vegan Christmas Cookies & Cocoa and Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner & Pies. In this episode, Audrey dishes on ...
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Good Sense Nutrition for Real-World Vegans
Ginny Messina, RD, MPH, is a breath of fresh air on the nutritional landscape, based as she is in science, ethics, and common sense. Get Ginny’s take on controversies such as seed oils and beef tallow, her expertise on calcium and B12 for vegan...
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The Most Motivational MSV Episode Ever
Joe Gagnon is a tech entrepreneur, ultra-athlete (i.e., 6 marathons/6 countries/6 days), vegan, author, and life architect whose ideas on Living Intentionally (his latest book), embracing discomfort, and disregarding limits th...
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Will 'America's Favorite Couple' Be Vegan?
Rowdy Girl Sanctuary's Renee King-Sonnen and her husband, Tommy Sonnen, an ex-cattle rancher, are finalists in America's Favorite Couple contest. Vote for them at
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Vegan Fitness, Inside & Out
Karina Inkster is a fitness coach, author, and host of the No-B.S. Vegan Podcast. She also holds a Master's degree in gerontology, the study not just of older adult health but the process of aging itself. In this episode, we talk about fitness ...
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Chef AJ on Life, Love and Healing
A celebrity in the plant-based space, Chef AJ is known for her wildly popular YouTube programming, as well as summits and bundles on weight loss and health. Recently, she has also been applauded for her brave "coming out" with a lung cancer dia...
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Ag Industry Watchdog on Labels and Lies from Big Meat
What if half of American meals were plant-based? Discover how this shift could help end factory farming and transform our food system for good. Andrew DeCoriolis is executive director of Farm Forward, dedicated to ending factory far...
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An All-Vegan Hospital!
When owner Georges Hayek went vegan in 2021, so did his business: Hayek Hospital in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, serves only plant-based meals, and there are no wool blankets, no leather furniture. This inspiring guest also speaks eloquently on...
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Jim Mason on the Madness of Animal Agriculture
Jim Mason, attorney, author, and activist, grew up on an Ozarks farm in the mid-20th century. He witnessed and participated in animal cruelty that traumatized him as a child and motivated him as an adult. His latest book is Madness, co...
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Humane, Non-Lethal "Pest" Control
If mice, ants, or other little folks are a problem, Kevin Newell of Humane Wildlife Solutions has the answer. While his award-winning company is based in Scotland, vegan and animal advocate Newell works with individuals and businesses around th...
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Make Micronutrients Sexy Again With Callum Weir
Callum Weir, UK nutritionist and global influencer (Plant Fuelled Podcast), joins us to address dethroning protein as the only nutrient that matters, what it takes to eat healthfully in the real world, how different people sometimes need a diff...
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Censored Landscapes: Art, Ag, and Animals
Without almost no images of actual animals, Censored Landscapes, a photo book depicting the landscapes of modern animal agriculture, sends a powerful message about the realities of raising animals for food. Its creator and today's gues...
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Farmed Animal Sanctuaries 2025
As Kathy Stevens, at the helm of Catskill Animal Sanctuary for over 25 years, moves to her next chapter, she gives up the inside scoop on what it's like to run a sanctuary, what the sanctuary movement means in the overall animal rights movement...
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The Omnivore's Deception
Regenerative agriculture. Farm to table. Humane meat. These are buzzwords of a movement led by Michael Pollan, Joel Salatin, and others who believe that animal foods are fine if they come from the "right" farms. Today's guest, Professor John Sa...
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59:47
Rip Esselstyn, from Engine 2 to Plant-Based Superstar
World-class triathlete, #1 NYT bestselling author, host of the Plant-Strong Podcast, and Plantstrong Foods CEO Rip Esselstyn shares some "inner Rip" plus health hacks for eating whole plants foods and enjoying life to the max.Website/com...
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Food Whisperer Ellen Kanner and Miami Vegan
You know Ellen Kanner for her Substack, Broccoli Rising, her years as HuffPo's Meatless Monday columnist, and as the "soulful vegan" whose previous book wasFeeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith & What to Eat for Dinner. She'...
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Yoga for Osteoporosis
Guest Loren Fishman, MD, is a yogi who studied under B.K.S. Iyengar in India and long practicing doctor of physical medicine in New York City. He is also the undisputed expert on using yoga to prevent and reverse osteopenia and ...
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Game-Changing Peta Lawsuit for Animals in Labs
Game-Changing Peta Lawsuit for Animals in LabsThe First Amendment promises not only freedom of speech but freedom to hear speech. In this landmark suit against the NIH and NIMH, today's guest, Jeff Kerr, and other Peta attorneys are dema...
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