We have seen that when people go on a vegan diet, and especially a wholefood plant-based diet, they can improve so many conditions. But what stops them from going vegan? Or what stops them from caring for their bodies? Thank you Nandini Gulati for helping people to understand that the mind, body and heart are all part of our well-being, and that a truly compassionate heart easily embraces veganism. May your “Guilt-Free Vegan” cookbook help countless people embrace a kinder and healthy way of living!

Today’s show is about charismatic and cheerful Setareh Khatibi, whose natural beauty is complimented by her compassionate, plant-based way of life. Born in Los Angeles, USA, Setareh leads a colorful life in the public domain, showcasing her comedic and vocal talents as well as vibrant life changing tutorials through her YouTube, Instagram and other social media platforms. Her passion to make a positive impact on the planet is carried out in humorous Latino fashion, which is a joy to watch, bringing smiles and outbursts of laughter as she lightens the mood in any situation or topic.

However, young Omari was determined to make the conscious choice to only eat foods that didn’t hurt animals. I am vegan because I have animals. And you see the animals on the farm, why do we harm them and we don’t harm our own pets? So that is why I became vegan. Because if it is not vegan, then you’re just harming our animals. In the same year, Omari started a YouTube channel “The Mari Maker Show” later renamed to “Omari Goes Wild.”

Today’s program will feature an inspiring and loving soul, Romy, from London, United Kingdom, who started her own colorful vegan blog called Romy London-UK. The talented young blogger shows how easy it is to cook tasty vegan food, and also aims to bring about compassionate change in people through leading by example. On her blog she writes, “I believe that balance is the key – and that everything is possible on a vegan diet: whether you are a vegan body builder, simply into all the healthy food or like to stick to the comfort foods that you’ve always known – there’s no missing out!”

Mr. Jean-Christian Jury, an internationally acclaimed French vegan chef from Toulouse. Chef Jean-Christian Jury is devoted to building a great vegan network around the world. He is also an international speaker and restaurant consultant. Since 2011, Chef Jean-Christian Jury has published definitive and comprehensive cookbooks of traditional and authentic home cooked vegan dishes, from 150 countries around the world. Chef Jean-Christian shares his future vision and message with the world. First, is to understand the climate change is a really serious matter, and it’s so important to fix that problem today, because if we don’t, we don’t have a future. In terms of food, we need to eat fresh, garden-fresh. “Take care about what you give to your body.”

Through her popular Plant-Based on a Budget website that has been featured in publications such as Reader's Digest, US News & World Report, and more, Toni has shared how to eat vegan while saving money in the process. I have created it from the beginning. I got to do the design, the photos, the recipes, the meal planning, and it has been in the works for two years. I'm so excited to share it with the world. I included 100 recipes, all of which are 30 minutes to make or under, and $30.00 for the week of meal planning; and it will help people whether they are experienced chefs, or they're just stepping in. I give basics and I also give how to save even more money.

Everybody’s worried, but little is done. What we need now is action, action from the governments to inform people and to reinforce the new life-saving diet. That’s the vegan diet. I hope the governments would please, make it into law to forbid the killing of animals, to forbid any more animal livestock raising. If they are truly the leaders that pledge to protect their people, to improve their country in many aspects, then this is the first step we have to do. Stop the meat industry, stop the fish industry, stop the dairy industry, then our planet will be the way it was and even better.

I decided to make films because I think films have the potential to reach a lot of people. I feel like the picture and the stories of people, that people tell, can reach like a really broad audience and internationally. What I'm trying to achieve, is to make people aware that their consumption choices have effects on everything; not just on themselves, but also on the animals and on the planet. So, I'm trying to make people aware that what they eat or what they choose to eat is crucial to the health of the planet and to animals. And so, that's kind of my endeavor with the films I make.

As a vegan fashion activist, Sica Schmitz started the Fair Trade Fashion Show, now known as the Impact Fashion Show, an annual volunteer-run nonprofit event first held in 2015. Her passion and focus is on fashions that honor animal, human, and environmental rights. Her vision of creating a fashion industry that is safe for people, animals, and our planet. With veganism being the central focus of her Impact Fashion Show, Sica’s vision continues to expand. “I really think they’re essential for the survival of our humanity, our planet, and in the fashion industries.”

I’m Sica Schmitz. I’m the founder of Bead & Reel and the creator of the Fair Trade Fashion Show [Impact Fashion Show]. My journey to veganism honestly started through grief. It was really my father’s death that turned me vegan. Meditation has been transformative for me. It’s a practice that I just can’t highly recommend enough. For me, it’s been such an incredible journey inward and I think it does tie back into sort of activism. I have an affiliate network, which connects conscious brands and conscious content creators, so that people can promote and share about things more easily.

Ｗe see the map, the Google Trends and you can see the interest going up in virtually every country that you look at that uses the word vegan. It’s a massive trend. And so over time l think more and more people will do it, it’ll become more mainstream. I mean it’s a very selfless thing to be interested in being better for the animals. And then especially foe me, it’s also about health too, so being caring about yourself enough to try and be healthier is huge because, it’s kind of a hard thing to look at and say I can, if l really love myself then l should be eating food that’s healthier.

Benjamin Timmler, a teenager, from Hof in Bavaria, Germany, wrote a vegan cookbook called “Grün Kerlchen” or “The Little Green Guy” at age of 14. What started as a school project, made its way onto a crowdfunding platform so that more people could benefit from not only the recipes, but the message behind the book, which is to love and care for animals, the environment and ourselves. Whoever made a contribution to help with the publication of the vegan cookbook received a printed version of it. Now 15 years old, Benny is a committed veganism advocate and we are honored to share with you his story.

Mike Dearborn, a successful American vegan science writer and YouTuber. Mic the Vegan has over 305,000 subscribers to his YouTube Channel, and his videos have been viewed over 27 million times. Through his channel, Mike provides viewers with a variety of videos covering topics ranging from the health effects and nutritional benefits of a vegan diet, the environmental impacts of eating animal products, to questioning the ethics of our food choices, all backed by scientific evidence. Mic the Vegan, which is a YouTube channel which is all about the best science and the best sort of evidence for various vegan arguments.

Grace Wong has been a vegetarian for 26 years and vegan for six. In 2014, she created a Facebook blog site, “Vegan Mama Kitchen,” on which she has uploaded over 600 of her original vegan recipes, created over the course of just four years. In 2016, she published a popular vegan cookbook “simply VeganžSimply Grace.” Which her yoga and meditation practices, not only Grace’s creativity has been brought up from deep within, but also the love and happiness around her has been expanding ever more.

Ruby Roth is the world’s leading author and illustrator of vegan books for kids. She discovered children’s interest in veganism, but since she could not find any books related to the matter, she decided to start writing and illustrating her own books on veganism for kids. “That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals” is about the environment and endangered species. “Vegan is Love” contains a message of unconditional love for all. “V is for Vegan” covers all the main tenets of veganism. “Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids” is 60 easy plant-based recipes.

So change doesn’t just start in government with big politicians. It starts in society, where people start to realize that something is wrong and they go against it. So I think the best way we can spread out reach for veganism is by talking to people about it, and eventually, people will realize that veganism is the morally ought thing to do. I agree that veganism is a matter or justice, a matter of social justice. Animals, and human beings, and all living beings, who are sentient, have the base right not to be treated as property by others.

Veganism is about justice for the animals. Veganism is the right thing to do if we agree that animals have any moral value. The important thing is to make the connection between killing them for food and letting them have the right to live out their lives alongside humans. “Do you agree it is wrong to cause unnecessary suffering to animals?” Why harm others when we don’t need to do that? Knowing the urgency of a worldwide shift to veganism, Vanda thus encourages all vegans to speak up about it and animal rights.

Today, the world is a world of consumerism, whether we like it or not, we are all reduced to the state of consumers, even more in the North than in the South, but all over the world, we are consumers. These consumers do have a choice on how they consume very tangibly! If I, a mere citizen I need to explain to an industrialist my vision of the world, there is very, very little chance that he would listen to me. However, collectively with all vegans along, I think I can get his attention more easily. And that’s my goal.

Mr. Maga Ettori is an award-winning French cineaste, born in Corsica, France. After establishing Vegan Corsica, and after three years of intense and challenging work, Mr. Ettori premiered “Faeryland”, the first vegan movie launched in France on Sep. 21, 2015, to coincide with International Peace Day. How did this intrepid artist go founding a global “Vegan Marathon”? In film “Finisher” Maga Ettori documents his incredible journey to the finish line of the 2017 Paris Marathon.

Today's program features Abby Lodmer, a bold comedian unafraid to use her talents as a platform to speak the truth and make the world a better , more positive place.Her vegan lifestyle and strong convictions fuel het creativity to deliver humor that also informs the public about the plight of our animal co-inhabitants.At the 2018 SoCal VegFest, Supreme Master Television met Abby Lodmer where she shared with us her thoughts on comedy, veganism, and using healing, as well as using her platform to spread more awareness about the environment.