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The Vegan Option - Vegetarianism: The Story So Far

In 2016-7, Ian McDonald tells one epic tale - the backstory to today's vegetarian and vegan movements. From the Ganges delta to the hills of New England, from the iron age to the present day, voices c... Read more

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Spillover Diseases: Covid-19 & Zoonoses, with Jonna Mazet and Aysha Akhtar

Spillover Diseases: Covid-19 & Zoonoses, with Jonna Mazet and Aysha Akhtar

How does animal exploitation increase the emergence of new diseases? With the world fighting a vicious new pandemic, Ian... Read more

29 Apr 2020

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VegHist Ep 15: Liberation. Veganism, hippies, and the animal rights movement

VegHist Ep 15: Liberation. Veganism, hippies, and the animal rights movement

How has western vegetarianism risen, within living memory, from fringe to mainstream choice? And how has veganism gone f... Read more

13 Sep 2017

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VegHist Ep 14: Diet Reform. Consumerism, Lebensreform, and Gandhi

VegHist Ep 14: Diet Reform. Consumerism, Lebensreform, and Gandhi

In the nineteenth century, in America and Germany, new forms of vegetarianism emerge – from the individualistic consumer... Read more

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VegHist Ep 13: The Vegetarians. Abolitionism, colonialism, and Victorian reformers; with Julia Twigg and Bhaskar Chakraborty. In London

VegHist Ep 13: The Vegetarians. Abolitionism, colonialism, and Victorian reformers; with Julia Twigg and Bhaskar Chakraborty. In London

In the late nineteenth century, the new vegetarian movement is intertwined with other struggles – including Victorian re... Read more

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VegHist Ep 12: Radicals & Romantics. Bible Christians, Grahamites, and Transcendentalists

VegHist Ep 12: Radicals & Romantics. Bible Christians, Grahamites, and Transcendentalists

In the 1800s, overlapping circles of utopians, mystics, and romantics in both Europe and America develop arguments again... Read more

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VegHist Ep 11: Enlightenment. Colonial India, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Les Bardus

VegHist Ep 11: Enlightenment. Colonial India, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Les Bardus

The philosophers of Paris discuss reports of Indian vegetarianism, question the morality of eating animals, and inspire ... Read more

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VegHist Ep 10: Revolution. English civil war, diet gurus, and the poetry of Sensibility

VegHist Ep 10: Revolution. English civil war, diet gurus, and the poetry of Sensibility

When printing lets ordinary people access a world of ideas, including Indian vegetarianism, some European radicals and d... Read more

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VegHist Ep 9: Renaissance. Descartes, Montaigne, Gassendi, and the “sparing diet”

VegHist Ep 9: Renaissance. Descartes, Montaigne, Gassendi, and the “sparing diet”

Ancient philosophers inspire Renaissance thinkers to challenge the old hierarchy of man over beast. Episode 9: Renaissa... Read more

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VegHist Ep 8: Contacts. Indian Sufism, Bhakti, Akbar, Portuguese Christianity, and Gaudiya Vaishnavism

VegHist Ep 8: Contacts. Indian Sufism, Bhakti, Akbar, Portuguese Christianity, and Gaudiya Vaishnavism

When conquerors who profess Islam or Christianity rule over Indian vegetarians, the conversations about food ethics go b... Read more

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VegHist Ep 7: Heresies. On Chinese Buddhists, Cathars, Bogomils, Islam, and Manichaeans

VegHist Ep 7: Heresies. On Chinese Buddhists, Cathars, Bogomils, Islam, and Manichaeans

In the Middle Ages, three very different monastic orders spread from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea, surroundi... Read more

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