In this episode, we start with a review of vegan bodybuilder Robert Cheeke’s book “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness: The Complete Guide to Building Your Body on a Plant-Based Diet” and announce a contest giveaway. We will be giving a copy of this book to a lucky listener who enters our draw! Congratulations to Angela Pohlman – the winner of the book!
Annual Canadian Seal Slaughter starts this week
The annual Canadian seal slaughter (aka “Canada’s Shame“) commenced this Monday as sealers journeyed to broken ice floes in the north, and garnered a kill of 1200 baby seals – or 0.3% of their 400,000 quota for this year. We recount the experience of the Director of the Humane Society of Canada Rebecca Aldworth’s personal observation of the seal hunt this week (her 13th year doing this), as well as discuss our personal opinions on the issue, raising questions such as: Why is the Canadian government allowing the seal hunt to continue for the sake of the “economy” when it is actually a money-losing business? Why is the Canadian government pushing for the sale of seal pelts and meat in other countries instead of keeping such “quality products” that it hugely supports in our own country for our own citizens to enjoy? And why does the Canadian government so adamantly continue to run the seal hunt when a vast majority of its constituents (Canadians) oppose it, as does the European Union, which has now banned the import of seal pelts? Listen in for some juicy and controversial discussion!
Check out this short video from the Environmental News Service on information regarding this week’s slaughter:
RobertCheeke, vegan bodybuilder & author of “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”
For our feature interview, we have Robert Cheeke live on the show. Robert is the world’s most recognized vegan bodybuilder, and an Amazon.com best-selling author of the book “Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness – The Complete Guide to Building Your Body on a Plant-Based Diet.”
As a two-time natural bodybuilding champion, Robert has been considered one of VegNews Magazine’s Most Influential Vegan Athletes. He tours all over North America regularly giving talks about his story transforming from a skinny farm kid to champion vegan bodybuilder.
Robert currently lives in Los Angeles and continues to spread the vegan way of life leading by example as an accomplished vegan athlete. Robert also runs the hugely popular website and forum www.veganbodybuilding.com, which features a plethora of resources for those who wish to learn more about following an animal product-free lifestyle for ultimate athletic performance.
Here is Robert’s trailer for his book, where you can see him flexing his plant-based muscles and enjoying a great workout at Venice Beach, California:
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