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
571 episodes
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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57:48
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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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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Not Protein Again!
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's Xavier Toledo, registered dietitian, specializing in the intersection of nutrition and communications, tackles the current social media trend of bashing plant-based eaters on the protein question....
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Episode 511
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Chef Bai on Breaking Up With Dairy
In this episode: the dope on dairy, some fab recipe guidance on making cheeses, milks, creams, yogurts, even cottage cheese and crème brûlée, and the reason why we're seeing so much anti-vegan venom on social media with Bailey Ruskus (Chef Bai)...
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Episode 510
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Lifelong Vegan on Ex-Vegans & the State of the Movement Now
TEDx speaker and fulltime vegan advcate Sarina Farb grew up vegan in Kansas and is now carrying the message far and wide with insightful presentations on topics including "The Ex-Vegan Phenomenon," on which she has some fascinating ideas. Sarin...
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Episode 509
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What Happens Psychologically When You Go Vegan?
Veganism isn't just a change of diet. It's a change of heart, one that clinical psychologist Angela, Crawford, PhD, studied at length for her new book, The Vegan Transformation. Based on a large number of questionnaires submitted and i...
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Episode 508
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Food, Culture, Community
Yoga teacher, ayurvedic educator, and culinary instructor Christina Gdisis (pronounced Dee-sis) alchemically blends her Greek heritage, animal rights sensibilities, spiritual path, and deep appreciation of both food and nature in her work as Th...
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Episode 507
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A Year of Compassion with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
A vegan luminary for over 30 years, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau makes compassion accessible and joyful in this interview and in her new book, A ...
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Episode 506
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48:58
Veganism, Yoga & Newsweek's Pet of the Year
You know the universe has something big in store when your first job out of college is personal trainer for Dr. Deepak Chopra. That's how it was for today's guest, Kathleen Kastner, yoga instructor and former studio owner, children's book autho...
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Episode 505
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56:46
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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Episode 504
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Grief, Gratitude & Marching Forth
Rather than focusing on veganism, today's show looks at a vegan doing something remarkable. Writer Deborah Shouse experienced the death of her adult daughter and, at the urging of a grief counselor, wrote letters to her daughter -- and transcri...
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Episode 503
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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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Episode 502
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1:05:03
PBD Grey: Vegan Hip Hop Artist, Foodie, Entrepreneur
Grey is a Renaissance man who rose to prominence when his Vegan Thanksgiving music video went viral eight years ago. He is still a force in Hip Hop, a restaurateur, founder of Plant-Based Dripping (vegan message wear), and an integral part of V...
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Episode 501
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