This episode explores a surprising and thoughtful perspective on modern food systems. Victoria talks with scholars Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg, co-authors of Feed the People: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better, about how frozen vegetables, canned beans, plant milks, and other accessible foods can help make compassionate eating realistic and affordable for more people.

Peacefood Cafe has been feeding compassionate New Yorkers since 2009. In this conversation, co-owner Eric Yu shares about being a spiritual guy in a business role, his decision not to serve alcohol in his restaurants, and what it takes to thrive in changing times.

Website: https://www.peacefoodcafe.com

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

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

Peacefood Cafe locations: 460 Amsterdam Ave. at 82nd, and 41 E. 11th (Union Square), NYC

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/