Dr. Sailesh Rao is the founder and the Executive Director of Climate Healers, an organisation dedicated to healing the earth and stopping a climate catastrophe.

Dr. Rao is an Earth and Animal Liberation activist, a husband, a father and since 2010, a proud grandfather. He has made a bold promise to his granddaughter, Kimaya, that the world will be largely Vegan before she turns 16 in 2026, in his own words to his granddaughter, so that people will stop eating her relatives, the animals, not just for ethical reasons, but also out of sheer ecological necessity.

Dr. Rao started his career as a systems specialist with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and in the early days was one of the internet pioneers who was instrumental in changing from the slow analog connection to a more robust digital one.

In 2006, he had an about-turn in life and threw himself, full time, into solving the environmental crises.

Dr. Rao is the author of two books, Carbon Dharma: The Occupation of Butterflies and Carbon Yoga: The Vegan Metamorphosis.

He is also an Executive Producer of four documentaries, The Human Experiment, Cowspiracy, What The Health, and A Prayer for Compassion.

In the podcast we discuss:

Dr.Rao's early life as a systems specialist working on the early internet and how his work was instrumental in changing from the slow analog connection to the more robust digital one we have today.

His work with Al Gore and how he became disillusioned with Al Gore's message as it only focussed on fossil fuels and not the greater danger to global warming posed by animal agriculture.

Dr. Rao sets out a plan on how we can reverse climate change and he uses his scientific knowledge to argue that a vegan world would avert a looming climate catastrophe.

We talk in detail about his organisation Climate Healers and he argues that if we adopt Gandhi-like methods to our campaigning we can become a powerful movement for both social and economic change.

It was a real honour that I got to sit down with Dr. Rao and chat with him about his life, his beliefs, and his hopes.

To find out more about Dr. Rao:
Climate Healers website: https://climatehealers.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/climatehealers/
The Animal Agriculture position paper: https://climatehealers.org/the-science/animal-agriculture-position-paper/
Cowspiracy: https://www.cowspiracy.com
What the Health: https://www.whatthehealthfilm.com
A Prayer for Compassion: http://aprayerforcompassion.com

Jane Velez-Mitchell is a television and social media journalist and author and has been at the forefront of many headline news stories for decades.

In early 1990, Jane Velez-Mitchell was a co-anchor on the debut of an industry-first prime time three-hour news broadcast on KCAL-TV, a local Los Angeles TV station.

She is the founder of JaneUnChained a digital news network for animal rights and the vegan lifestyle which uses more than 60 volunteer contributors from around the world to showcase vegan festivals, animal rights conferences, organizations, vegan restaurants, and cooking.

The JaneUnChained Facebook page from where the videos for her website originate had 16.5 million video views in 2017.

In 2019, Jane launched "New Day New Chef", a vegan cooking series for Amazon Prime Video.

Also, in 2019 Jane Produced and Directed the documentary "Countdown to Year Zero" which details the unfolding global disaster and argues how a plant-based diet can stop climate change.

Jane has received numerous awards including the Farm Animal Rights Movement award in 2009, the Celebrity Animal Activist Award in the same year. She has also received two Genesis Awards from the Humane Society. In 2013 Mercy for Animals awarded her their Compassionate Leadership Award. In 2014 she was honoured for fighting animal abuse by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and in 2014 she received the Nanci Alexander Award at PETA's 35th-anniversary celebration.

In the podcast we discuss:

Janes early life and why she became vegetarian and why a conversation with a former cattle rancher convinced her to go vegan

Her disillusionment with the mainstream media, which drove her to create her own social media organisation

We talk in detail about her JaneUnChained network

Jane is a tireless campaigner for animal rights and the environment, and it was a real honour for me that she agreed to be interviewed for the Podcast.

To find out more about Jane:
Janes website: https://janeunchained.com/
Her Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell/
Vegan Social: https://plantbasedneighbor.com

Juliet Gellatley is a British writer and an animal rights activist. She is the founder and director of Viva, an animal rights organisation based in Bristol, in the UK who also has an office in Warsaw, Poland.

Viva focuses on promoting veganism. It was founded by Juliet in 1994 and has grown to be one of the most influential and effective organisations campaigning today.

Viva's campaigns have included End Factory Farming, Eat Green, Foie-Gras free Britain, Exotic Meat, Ban the Farrowing Crate, Dark Side of Dairy, and youth campaigns.

Viva also carries out innovative undercover investigations to expose the abuse of farmed animals. Their most recent undercover investigation against Hogwood pig farm has been made into a short film called 'Hogwood - A modern horror story', the film is now available on Amazon Prime.

In the Podcast we discuss:

How a visit to an intensive pig and battery hen unit when she was 14 years old made her question how we treat animals and led to her going vegetarian.

Juliet leaves the Vegetarian Society and sets up a new organisation, Viva, we talk about her motivation in setting up Viva and what she is trying to achieve.

The Viva Incredible Roadshow that toured the country and in many respects was the forerunner of the many vegan festivals we have today.

How Viva is gaining a reputation for conducting effective investigations and how they use footage from their investigations to campaign against the animal agriculture industries.

Juliet has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of nonhuman animals, she has years of experience and her longevity in the animal rights movement has gained her a reputation as a skilled and effective campaigner.

To find out more about Viva:
The new-look website: https://viva.org.uk/
Watch the Hogwood Investigation video: Click Here
Want to go Vegan: Click Here

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