Animals
Among the big reasons to go plant-based is care about the lot of the animals – our fine furry, feathered, and finned friends. You’ll find this loving care celebrated here.
My Three Weeks With Three Wild Turkeys
Note: Be sure to listen to the sound on the above video clips!Backstory: About seven months ago, someone found three turkey eggs near San Francisco. They decided to hatch them. Quite soon, they ended up at the San Francisco Humane Society. From there, they were taken...
New year, new home in the Sonoma Mountains (video)
Though it was difficult to leave our Magalia house that served us well for 43-years, here we are!Greg captures the new environment in which we now find ourselves - in the Sonoma Mountains - in this video.We are overwhelmed by the natural beauty of the oak...
Back from Africa: Meeting Our Newest Elephant Orphan, Quanza (video!)
We've just returned from our fifth journey to Africa. Wildlife advocacy and adventure travel keep my husband Greg and I coming back. Once you get Africa in your blood, you can't help but return each opportunity you get. Maybe it's because it's where we...
Our Fawn Rescue Adventure With a Happy Ending (video!)
Yesterday on our morning bike ride along the flumes, we encountered a fawn that had fallen in the rushing waters. The sides of the flume are steep, and opportunities to escape are few and far between. Greg jumped in while I held the camera. In...
Louder Than Words: Vegan Doc and Rock Star Neal Barnard Hits the Top of the Music Charts
Whenever a message from the honorable Neal Barnard emerges in my email, it always brings a measure of anticipation and happiness. Such was the case when this came in this week - and of course I had to ask him right away if I could share the news and his note with you....
Seven Things I Love About Elephants & African Elephant Rescue Project (videos!)
Elephant Rescue Project Video: Part One (Part Two Below) First - Seven Things I Love About Elephants They possess an enviable grace and purposefulness in their movement - in spite of their size. They demonstrate compassion for the less fortunate, the lost, and the...
Cosmetic Procedures: Does Getting Tossed by a Warthog Count?
“Have you had work done?” As I approach “when I’m 64”, I find this question is being asked of me more and more at my presentations. My response?
Can You Eat Plant-Based While on Safari in Africa? (pictures!) PLUS feeding baby elephant and giraffe from a bottle (video!)
Want to see the baby elephant video first? Scroll down the page! Can You Eat Plant-Based While on Safari in Africa? A resounding yes. Deliciously. confidently. While on safari in Kenya and Tanzania these past few weeks, I posted pictures and articles about the...
The Plant-Based Journey travels to Africa, orphan elephants, and being tossed like a salad by a warthog
Our driver scurried us through teeming traffic in a late-night arrival at the Nairobi airport to our lodging for the first days of our stay near Nairobi National Park. As we drove past giant billboards that had been erected days earlier to welcome President Barack...
Three videos and three lessons from third world travel: back from Indonesia travel adventure
We just returned from three weeks of travel adventure in Indonesia, where we journeyed for scuba diving, rainforest hiking, and doing what we always do on our travels - trek to wildlife sanctuaries and preserves to give support, bear witness, and bring back news...
Gene Baur, Farm Sanctuary cofounder and president on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
In case you missed it last night, Gene Baur, cofounder and president of Farm Sanctuary, was Jon Stewart's guest on The Daily Show. In precious few minutes, Gene eloquently nailed all of the reasons to go plant-based. And Stewart was the perfect host. Perfect...
My first vegetarian Thanksgiving, Farm Sanctuary Celebration, and the winner of the Harvest Collection is…
My first vegetarian Thanksgiving was in 1972. That was the same year that I met my husband, Dick Gregory came to campus to speak on his peace tour, I started teaching yoga, and I took up a meditation practice inspired by a sign posted at the local natty foods store,...
Safari Africa. Elephant orphanage. Life changing.
Safari Africa touches something deep inside you. Maybe it's in our DNA. Our limbic memory, reaching back to our ancient ancestors. Picture this At 6,500 feet above sea level, we watch as a large family of elephants - from giant towering mothers to infants a few...
Rockie, our rescue squirrel and plant-based journey mascot – facing the challenge of her life
We're watchful - and hopeful - for what Rockie's third winter will bring. Prepare to smile and perhaps shed a few tears as you view the latest Rockie video update. In case you’ve missed the Rockie chronicles – a series of 11 films, including the one above - made...
3 Thanksgiving musts: orange cranberry sauce, Forks Over Knives style mushroom gravy, and Farm Sanctuary
Though Thanksgiving is officially a couple of weeks off, celebrations around here are already underway. And that means time for three Thanksgiving musts: orange cranberry sauce, Forks Over Knives style mushroom gravy, and Farm Sanctuary. Must #1: Farm Sanctuary...
Rockie the plant-based fitness mascot turns 2 years old (video!)
Hard to believe it's been two years since we found Rockie helplessly scratching her way through the forest floor just outside our home in the woods of Northern California. If you've been following Rockie's saga, you know that she came to us with eyes barely open,...
Rockie goes Zen: what the plant-based fitness mascot has to teach us about stress management and being here now
Have you ever seen a squirrel swing on a hammock, pause and contemplate nature, have breakfast with the Buddha - or on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Now's you're chance This latest production from my favorite videographer - Greg - is guaranteed to make you slow...
Rockie the plant-based fitness mascot “Winter of my content!” (video!)
It's Valentine's Day, and Rockie does not plan to let it go uncelebrated. This is video #6 in the Rockie the Rescue Squirrel and Plant-Based Fitness Mascot video series. Now happily hopping around in the woods surrounding our house since late summer 2011, Rockie...
Rockie the plant-based fitness mascot’s 2012 Christmas video: ‘Rockie’s Naughty Christmas’
Naughty or nice? In this video, see Rockie: plaster the glass door with pawprints take flying leaps from the floor onto my shoulder at my computer order peanuts online receive Santa's first gift of the season - squirrel underpants (!) Fun viewing for the...
Rockie the squirrel – our plant-based fitness mascot – releases her first music video
Mindset is just as important as what you eat and how you move your body when it comes to healthy, happy living. And no one is better at reminding us about the value of stopping to smell the roses - or the joy of simply chomping on a peanut or two - than Rockie, our...
Plant-based fitness mascot Rockie the rescued squirrel birthday video: ‘Rockie IV, Ready for My Close-up’
Rockie, who became an overnight sensation and quickly claimed fame as the plant-based fitness mascot, is now a year old. Greg has just released video #4 "Rockie IV: Ready for my close-up!" You'll see Rockie swinging in a hammock, leaping off tall buildings (well,...
NEW video from my mascot! Rockie our squirrel returns!
She was gone for awhile and now she's back! And she was here a few minutes ago too, promoting her new movie: In case you missed parts 1 and 2: Part 1: Merry wildlife Christmas! The Saga of Rockie our Squirrel – NEW video Part 2: Rockie returns! The squirrel saga...
Rockie returns! The squirrel saga continues with new video of Rockie, the plant-based fitness blog mascot
Rockie, in the event you are late to the story, is the infant squirrel we found crawling around helplessly on the forest floor right outside our front door last summer, It was perfect timing, because with a little love, a lot of formula, and important shelter, she...
Merry wildlife Christmas! The Saga of Rockie our Squirrel – NEW video
It's been a few months now since Rockie first ventured into our life. And my favorite videographer Greg has made a charming, moving, and sometimes hilarious film of our first months with Rockie. Please feel free to link forward, and share this with family and...
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