Dr. Joanne Kong joins us for a Vegan Nation interview to discuss her book, Vegan Made Easy, co-written by Camila Perusello, PhD. Tune in on your radio dial 91.3 FM WCUW in Massachusetts and listen online at: wcuw.org/listen ~ Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 4 PM EDT. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Thank you for tuning in! PHOTOS

Vegan Nation is a 1/2-hour radio show with vegan music, news, events & interviews. On-Air since 2015. Founded and hosted by Marlene Narrow. Vegan Nation embraces authentic Veganism (Animal/Human liberation). Thank you for caring enough to hear and be heard. (Photo: Joanne with the bovine, Olive at River’s Wish Animal Sanctuary, Spokane, Washington, USA)

Stay tuned in from 4 PM to 5 PM WCUW listen-Live On-Air TUESDAY ~ WCUW 91.3 FM. Immediately following this May 19th show, the radio station will be rebroadcasting last week’s Vegan Nation show featuring Dolly Vyas-Ahuja and International Calf and Cow Mother’s Day.

VEGAN NATION features an interview with Dolly Vyas-Ahuja, documentary filmmaker of “The Land of Ahimsa“. Tues., May 12, 2026, 4 PM EDT, On-Air WCUW 91.3 FM wcuw.org/listen

VEGAN NATION is a 1/2-hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events & interviews. On-Air since 2015. Founded & hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. PHOTOS (Prior to VEGAN NATION airing at 4 pm EDT, LA VOS LATINA DE WORCESTER is On-Air until 4 pm.) Thank you for caring enough to hear and be heard. (“Dairy is not Ahimsa” design by Dolly)

International Calf and Cow Mother’s Day Communities ~ VEGAN NATION. ICCMD is in The LOBE! Stay tuned in on Tuesday for the ON-AIR broadcast from 4 PM EDT to 5 PM EDT to hear Dolly’s interview, immediately followed by a rebroadcast of last week’s show, interview with Tami Hay & Judy Carman. (Rebroadcast starts at 4:30 pm.) We celebrate the inaugural ICCMD…

(Photo: Dolly Vyas-Ahuja) Vegan Nation celebrates International Calf and Cow Mother’s Day

Tami Hay, founder of International Calf and Cow Mother’s Day, and Judy Carman, founding member of Million Vegan Grandmothers, join us for an interview on Vegan Nation. Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 4 PM EDT, On-Air WCUW 91.3 FM WCUW.org/listen. ICCMD & VN in The LOBE!

Music: “Mother” by Vegan Queen V, “Go Vegan” by Liedermacherin NETTE (Annette Rudert)

Vegan Nation is a 1/2-hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. On-Air since 2015, founded and hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

The inauguration of Int’l Calf and Cow Mother’s Day is May 9 & 10, 2026. ICCMD is a campaign by Million Vegan Grandmothers. Click HERE for Vegan Nation’s coverage (& links ) of ICCMD.

Thank you for caring enough to hear and be heard. PHOTOS. (Animal Save Int’l ICCMD events)

LISTEN TO THE REPLAY (28 minutes and 45 seconds, audio .mp3 ) HERE:

“The dairy industry is not about nutrition; it is about power, control, domination over the feminine, and the violent rupture of a sacred bond. Veganism, therefore, is not merely a diet—it is a spiritual and political stance. It says: I will not be complicit in the severing of what is whole. I will honor the cries of all mothers. I will not consume the grief of a baby denied. Veganism is an act not just of eating but of listening. Of witnessing.” – Tami Hay

“We are creating a vegan world of peace, freedom, and loving kindness for all. We believe that this is the time of the Great Awakening of Humanity to leave behind the destructive nature of Homo Sapiens and become who we have always been destined to be – Homo Ahimsa. As Vegan Grandmothers, we are here to midwife the birth of the new compassionate human and bring in the new era of a vegan ahimsa world so that our children and grandchildren and those of all species can thrive and be free.” – Million Vegan Grandmothers. See Dolly Vyas-Ahuja‘s interview on Vegan Nation – May 12th.

“Ma mère mon lait” by Pascale Salmon Vegan Art (Paris, France)

Hear the replay at the link above (28 minutes and 29 seconds, audio .mp3). Thank you.

In celebration of the upcoming International Respect for Chickens Day, Vegan Nation features UPC’s truck campaign in Washington, D.C. and Boston, and UPC’s 100 bus shelters campaign in Miami, FL. Tune in Tues., April 28, 2026, 4 PM EDT, On-Air at WCUW 91.3 FM wcuw.org/listen Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Includes snippets of previous speeches and talks by Dr. Karen Davis (R.I.P., Karen Feb. 4, 1944 – Nov. 4, 2023). Featuring “Thinking Like a Chicken” IRCD is May 4th every year. Dr. Karen Davis founded International Respect for Chickens Day on May 4, 2005.

Music ~~ Animal Songs piano music by Will Tuttle, and “My Call – Vegan Song” by Art Echoes in Beirut, Lebanon ~ sung by Anna Maria El Zoghby and choir. We’re in The LOBE! (PHOTOS)

(Vegan Nation includes IRCD 2026 in celebrating the inaugural Int’l Calf and Cow Mother’s Day.)

Vegan Nation is a 1/2-hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Archives: vegansradio.com. Thank you for caring enough to hear and be heard.

This Apr 28th Vegan Nation broadcast includes UPC’s announcements:

On May 2, 3 and 4 we are once again running our “What Wings Are For – Life Can Be Beautiful – Go Vegan!” ads on a truck driving around downtown Washington, DC and Boston for 8 hours each day.

Join us on May 2nd from 12-3pm for our leafleting at the White House for International Respect for Chickens Day.

Throughout the month of May, we are running our “What Wings Are For! Give a Cluck. Go Vegan!” ads on 100 bus shelters in Miami, FL. – United Poultry Concerns (Photos credit: UPC)

Hear the replay at the link above (29 minutes and 14 seconds, audio .mp3). Thank you. Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, John Sanbonmatsu, author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, joins us for a Vegan Nation interview. Tune in Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4 PM EDT on WCUW 91.3 FM wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. PHOTOS

Vegan Nation is a 1/2-hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Archives: vegansradio.com. Thank you for caring enough to hear and be heard.

In The Omnivore’s Deception, author John Sanbonmatsu chronicles the rise of the meat industry, shows its catastrophic ecological effects, demolishes the myth of the “enlightened” omnivore, shows why animals are worthy of our respect, and advocates the abolition of the animal food economy. He edits and curates the website for the “Clean Meat Hoax”-– an informal group of scholar-activists concerned about the ways in which cellular or laboratory-grown meats are being used to attack animal advocacy and to strengthen the meat industry’s long-term strategy of creating a diverse “protein market” that includes meat from live animals. Cellular Meat serves as a distraction from the fundamental issues, papering over the problem of human mass violence against animals, and obscuring the urgent need for a plant-based human diet. 

John is a speaker (Presentation: The Omnivore’s Deception – Veganism in Defense of Terrestrial Life) at the upcoming New England VegFest, Sunday, Apr. 26th, 2 pm, at Worcester State University.

in this Vegan Nation show, music by Vegan Queen V, ARC Animal Rights Choir, and Will Tuttle

Rebroadcast April 21, 4:30 PM EDT on WCUW 91.3 FM. We’re in The LOBE. Much thanks.

Hear the replay at the link above (28 minutes and 55 seconds, audio .mp3). Thank you. Manda Rose, Executive Director and Co-Founder of New England Vegfest, joins us for an In-Studio interview. April 21, 2026, 4 PM EDT, WCUW 91.3 FM wcuw.org/listen. Thank you. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. We’re in The LOBE and The LOBE again!

***Music: “Go Vegan” by Liedermacherin NETTE (Annette Rudart); “Turkeysong” by Will Tuttle; “Are You Kind”, “Peace is the Way”, “Generate Love” by Charity and the JAMband

NEVF is 4/26/26. (One of the NEVF speakers is John Sanbonmatsu, Professor of Philosophy at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and author of The Omnivore’s Deception. John joined us for a Vegan Nation in-studio interview, April 14th.) PHOTOS & PHOTOS. Photo: Manda & son:

Hear the replay at the link above (29 minutes and 19 seconds, audio .mp3). Thank you. Author, Jim Mason joins us for a Vegan Nation interview on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 4 PM EDT, WCUW 91.3 FM WCUW.org/listen – Discussing his books, “An Unnatural Order” and “Madness”.

Music in this episode: “Everything Comes Around”, “Creatures Great and Small” Ellie Sarty; “Turkeysong” Will Tuttle. Vegan Nation and Jim Mason are in WCUW’s The LOBE!

VEGAN NATION is a 1/2-hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. Founded (in 2015) and hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. PHOTOS

Thank you for caring enough to hear and be heard. (Image credit: Lantern Publishing and Media)

Hear the replay at the link above (29 minutes and 27 seconds, audio .mp3). Thank you.

VEGAN NATION supports the International Calf and Cow Mother’s Day 2026, a campaign of the Million Vegan Grandmothers, featuring Georges Hayek, Beirut, Lebanon. Georges Hayek is the founder of Lebanese Vegans, and he is the owner & manager of Hayek Hospital, “World’s First Vegan Hospital”. March 31, 2026. 4 PM EDT, WCUW 91.3 FM WCUW.org/listen. We’re in The LOBE! (“Ma mère mon lait” Pascale Salmon Vegan Art, Paris, France)

VEGAN NATION is a 1/2-hour radio show, On-Air every week since 2015, featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. Founded & hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts. USA. Thank you for caring enough to hear and be heard. Vegan Nation PHOTOS and ARCHIVES

“Chickensong” Will Tuttle; “Mother Nature’s Conversations” & “Only One Life” Vegan Queen V

“My Call” music video. Thanks to Lebanese Vegans, Hayek Hospital, Art Echoes and team.

“Sahara the Sunny Godmother” (Acrylic on Canvas) Art by Lynda Bell, Whangarei, New Zealand

“Vegan living as a practical response to war, injustice, disease, and environmental devastation continues to beckon humanity toward a bright alternative future. When we release our insistence on unnecessarily abusing other living beings, and reconnect with our inherent compassion for all forms of life, we will at last be worthy of the world of peace, abundance, justice, and health for which we yearn.” ~ Dr. Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony; and also, Food for Freedom: Reclaiming our Health and Rescuing Our World

Hear the replay at the link above (29 minutes and 19 seconds, audio .mp3). Thank you. Volunteer organizer and vegan travel guide, Mike Weinberg joins us from San Diego for a Vegan Nation interview. Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 4 PM EDT, WCUW 91.3 FM WCUW.org/listen. Thank you for caring enough to hear and be heard. ARCHIVES. PHOTOS. We’re in The LOBE!

Tune in to the rebroadcast on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at 4:30 PM EDT, on WCUW 91.3 FM!

Vegan Nation is a 1/2-hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events & interviews. On-Air every week since 2015. Founded & hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Music: “From the Mountain Top” Will & Madeleine Tuttle; “Louder than Words” CarbonWorks: “Peace Is the Way” Charity and the JAMband

Mike’s sites: Mike’s Vegan Adventures; Foreign Language V-Cards; MaxVegan No-SOS Recipes; Vegan Diego Directory; Vegan Diego Blog; MaxVegan HEALth Topics; San Diego Vegan Hikers & Backpackers. Topics include Vegan Iceland and Vegan Himalayas (Photos by Mike Weinberg)

Hear the replay at the link above (29 minutes and 23 seconds, audio .mp3). Thank you. Vegan artist, Gretchen Ryan, joins us from Santa Barbara, California, for a Vegan Nation interview! Tune in Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 4 PM EDT on WCUW 91.3 FM wcuw.org/listen.

(“Liberty Leading the Animals” also featured on International Calf and Cow Mother’s Day )

Music in this March 17th broadcast includes: “We Love Animals” Charity and the JAMband; “Cowsong”, “Turkeysong”, “To Be Free…” Will Tuttle; “Everything Comes Around” Ellie Sarty

Vegan Nation is a 1/2-hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events & interviews. On-Air every week since 2015. Founded & hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. We’re in The LOBE (radio station’s newsletter)! Archives: vegansradio.com PHOTOS & PHOTOS

Gretchen Ryan is a highly accomplished oil painter who has been an animal rights advocate and vegan for twenty-five years. For the past six years, she has been working on a monumental painting Liberty Leading the Animals, created with the ambitious intention of inspiring compassion for animals and envisioning a better way for humanity to interact with them, serving as heroes rather than their killers.  The show stopping painting is seven feet tall by thirteen feet wide and depicts over 200 individual animals. 

The singular, luminous work was inspired by Ryan’s early experiences learning about factory farming and the profound moral shift that led her to become vegan. Drawing on the composition of Eugène Delacroix’s historic painting Liberty Leading the People, Ryan reimagines the idea of liberation as something all sentient life should be allowed.

Known for her highly detailed, classically influenced oil painting, Ryan spent more than three decades developing her craft before undertaking this ambitious work. She chose to render the subject with beauty and dignity, creating an image that invites viewers to reflect on animals not through shock, but through reverence and empathy.

Ryan is currently completing the final days of work on the painting after more than six years in the studio. A documentary feature film, Liberty, about Ryan, the creation of the work and the ideas behind it by Fauna Films is forthcoming. Through the release of the painting and a forthcoming series of prints, Ryan hopes the project will inspire deeper awareness and compassion for animals while supporting the broader movement for their protection.