Vegan Posse

Chrissy Benson

As a vegan, do you ever feel like you're living in a parallel universe? If so, you're not alone! We interview vegans from around the globe who, like you, are living lives of integrity and compassion, with an eye toward justice. Through their personal stories, you'll come to that you're not an outlier; in fact, you're part of an entire posse of individuals who aren't just keeping the peace, they're creating it through their food choices and beyond. You won't be saddling up, but you're in for the ride of your life! Welcome to the Vegan Posse.

  1. 1d ago

    VP#148: Humane Farming Association Investigator Gail Eisnitz on decades of exposing animal lsuffering and new memoir, Into the Light

    Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747⁠⁠⁠⁠ Questions or comments for Posse Talk? Email veganposse.email@gmail.com Looking for personal coaching or vegan lifestyle coaching?Email Chrissy directly at ⁠christinembenson@gmail.com⁠ Help normalize veganism through the arts! Make vegan women's fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an international bestseller -grab your copy on Amazon or through website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make it official! Become a member of the Vegan Posse! ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse⁠⁠ This week’s episode with Gail Eisnitz: Gail A. Eisnitz, winner of the Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in animal welfare, is the chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association. Her work has resulted in exposés by ABC’s Good Morning America, PrimeTime Live, and Dateline NBC, and her interviews have been heard on more than 1600 radio stations. Her work has also been featured in such newspapers as The New York Times, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, Texas Monthly, Denver Business Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and US News & World Report. Website: gaileisnitz.com Out of Sight on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3NPSmcY Humane Farming Association: https://hfa.org

    VP#148: Humane Farming Association Investigator Gail Eisnitz on decades of exposing animal lsuffering and new memoir, Into the Light

  2. Sep 28

    VP#147: Jamie Jones on Flora + Fauna and everything in between!

    Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, andconnect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747⁠⁠⁠⁠ Add it to your weekly calendar using this link: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZYpd-6uqTItHtOBDJjm77Ca2nC9IQxlOIPc/ics?icsToken=DBQOfS24Fzeo0SaIMgAALAAAAA1JPglXlsllJ0I-OmIzcrCSLd8BpcyVMiePv9dFJMG3HWkdXuPOYmBvNILLdDYyiPtdjr42aC2D2OjEADAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=eWN4xbHGSUmLqiuUiqs4FA⁠⁠⁠ Questions or comments for Posse Talk? Email veganposse.email@gmail.com Looking for personal coaching or vegan lifestyle coaching? Email Chrissy directly at ⁠christinembenson@gmail.com⁠ Help normalize veganism through the arts! Make vegan women's fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an international bestseller - grab your copy on Amazon or through my website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make it official! Become a member of the Vegan Posse: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse⁠⁠ This week's guest, Jamie Jones: Jamie Jones is the founder of Flora + Fauna Experiences, a vegan travel and event planning company based in Colorado. She has been plant-based for 30 years and is passionate about creating meaningful experiences that bring people together through animals, nature, travel, food, and compassionate living. Through Flora + Fauna, Jamie creates group trips, custom travel experiences, conscious events, and a vegan meetup community, while also supporting animal sanctuaries and vegan businesses. In fact, a portion of all of her sales goes to Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. Two rescued sheep at the sanctuary inspired the business name. Travel with Flora + Fauma: floraandfaunaexperiences.com https://bio.site/floraandfaunaexperiences

    VP#147: Jamie Jones on Flora + Fauna and everything in between!

  3. Sep 18

    VP#146: Good Food Institute Founder & Longtime Activist Bruce Friedrich Gets to the Meat of the Matter with His New Book: Meat!

    Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747⁠⁠⁠⁠  Questions or comments? Email veganposse.email@gmail.com Looking for personal coaching or vegan lifestyle coaching? Email Chrissy directly at ⁠christinembenson@gmail.com⁠ Help normalize veganism through the arts! Make vegan women's fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an international bestseller - grab your copy on Amazon or through my website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make it official! Become a member of the Vegan Posse: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse⁠⁠  This week’s episode…  About Bruce:  Bruce Friedrich is founder and president of the Good Food Institute. Bruce’s Substack is Meat Matters, and a collection of his interviews is available on the “featured” section of his LinkedIn page. Bruce has written for the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Wired, Nature, and more. His TED Talk has been viewed 2.5 million times and translated into 30 languages. He has appeared on The Ezra Klein Show, TED Radio Hour, New Yorker Radio Hour, and Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast. Bruce graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown Law and also holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics, and Grinnell College.   Learn about Meat, the book:  ⁠https://meatbook.org/⁠ Bruce Friedrich on X: ⁠https://x.com/BruceGFriedrich⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucegfriedrich⁠ Good Food Institute: ⁠https://gfi.org/⁠

    VP#146: Good Food Institute Founder & Longtime Activist Bruce Friedrich Gets to the Meat of the Matter with His New Book: Meat!

  4. Sep 8

    June Vegan Peace - Navigating Dating and Relationships as a Vegan! Tuesday, September 8, 2026, 5:30 p.m. Central

    Join us for Vegan Peace, the monthly live call Vegan Posse members. This month's topic: dating and relationships! Vegan Peace! Find Your Peace, Speak Your Piece, and Connect Time: Sep 8, 2026 05:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747 Add to your monthly calendar using this link: ⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZYpd-6uqTItHtOBDJjm77Ca2nC9IQxlOIPc/ics?icsToken=DNm7kWg1MzRUHrkrjgAALAAAAFAMrXCcIINLNBWn3PvHyUjFGqHLAQOxIGEzgt6uULThjrjT1lBXeYJ3EcUbzmIDSTS2E_PxzlqWnQEvQDAwMDAwMg&meetingMasterEventId=eWN4xbHGSUmLqiuUiqs4FA⁠ Questions, comments, or topic suggestions? Email veganposse.email@gmail.com Looking for personal coaching or vegan lifestyle coaching? Email Chrissy directly at ⁠christinembenson@gmail.com⁠ Help normalize veganism through the arts! Make vegan women's fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an international bestseller - grab your copy on Amazon or through my website,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make it official! Become a member of the Vegan Posse: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse⁠⁠

  5. Aug 28

    VP#145: Human Good and Evil, Internal & External, with Susan Goldsholl, Author of Animal Rights Fantasy Triology "Everything's Better with Bacon, and You Can Never Have Enough Butter (But Then...)"

    Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY of every month, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747⁠⁠⁠⁠  Questions or comments for Posse Talk? Email veganposse.email@gmail.com Looking for personal coaching or vegan lifestyle coaching? Email Chrissy directly at ⁠christinembenson@gmail.com⁠ Help normalize veganism through the arts! Make vegan women's fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an international bestseller - grab your copy on Amazon or through my website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make it official! Become a member of the Vegan Posse: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse⁠⁠  This week’s episode… Susan Fila Goldsholl became a vegetarian in the 1970s. Exposed to heroin at the age of 16, Susan struggled on and off with heroin addiction. In 1994, as an attorney with a raging heroin habit , she stole large sums of money from herpartner to support her habit – and then tired to have him killed, to cover up the theft. The murder attempt was unsuccessful, and Susan was immediately arrestedand sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was released in 2001 after just seven years. In prison, she was cured of addiction. She  returned to a vegetarian diet in prison and after learning more about the dairy and egg industries, she went vegan in 2006.  In 2025 , Susan released her fantasy animal rights trilogy, Everything’s Better with Bacon, and You Can Never Have Enough Butter (But Then Along Comes Karma…) . These books not only expose the animal industry but highlight the connection humans’ indifference to animal suffering and their infliction of suffering on other humans. Get the trilogy by S.F. Goldsholl: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F72KVYXN?

    VP#145: Human Good and Evil, Internal & External, with Susan Goldsholl, Author of Animal Rights Fantasy Triology "Everything's Better with Bacon, and You Can Never Have Enough Butter (But Then...)"

  6. Jul 27

    VP#144: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Food, Truth, and the Wild Wonders of Womanhood - Will You Heed the Call?

    Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747⁠⁠⁠ Add it to your weekly calendar using this link: ⁠⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZYpd-6uqTItHtOBDJjm77Ca2nC9IQxlOIPc/ics?icsToken=DBQOfS24Fzeo0SaIMgAALAAAAA1JPglXlsllJ0I-OmIzcrCSLd8BpcyVMiePv9dFJMG3HWkdXuPOYmBvNILLdDYyiPtdjr42aC2D2OjEADAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=eWN4xbHGSUmLqiuUiqs4FA⁠⁠ Questions or comments for Posse Talk? Email veganposse.email@gmail.com Looking for personal coaching or vegan lifestyle coaching? Email Chrissy directly at christinembenson@gmail.com Help normalize veganism through the arts! Make vegan women's fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an international bestseller - grab your copy on Amazon or through my website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amazon:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make it official! Become a member of the Vegan Posse: ⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse⁠ Dr. Jen Howk: Website: https://www.jenhowk.com/ The Collective Unconscious: https://collective.jenhowk.com/\ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JenHowkAK

  7. Jul 3

    VP#143: Humor Writer Sadie Freely on Putting Pleasure, Positivity, and FUNNY into Vegan Activism

    Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE:⁠ ⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747⁠⁠ Add it to your weekly calendar using this link: ⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZYpd-6uqTItHtOBDJjm77Ca2nC9IQxlOIPc/ics?icsToken=DBQOfS24Fzeo0SaIMgAALAAAAA1JPglXlsllJ0I-OmIzcrCSLd8BpcyVMiePv9dFJMG3HWkdXuPOYmBvNILLdDYyiPtdjr42aC2D2OjEADAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=eWN4xbHGSUmLqiuUiqs4FA⁠ Questions?Email ⁠⁠⁠veganposse.email@gmail.com⁠⁠ Looking for personal coaching or vegan lifestyle coaching? Email Chrissy directly: christinembenson@gmail.com Help normalize veganism through the arts! Make vegan women's fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an international bestseller - grab your copy on Amazon or through my website, ⁠⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠⁠ Amazon:⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠⁠ Do you value what we do? Support the Vegan Posse by becoming a monthly member for only $5/month: ⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse⁠ About Sadie:Sadie Freely is the founder and editor of Laughs Not Slaughs, a humor publication for vegans and animal advocates. She also writes FECK, a Substack newsletter exploring consent, pleasure and freedom. Sadie believes vegan humor can offer much-needed catharsis and camaraderie to animal advocates, while also sneakily challenging the norms and assumptions held by not-yet vegans. She is often full of beans. www.laughsnotslaughs.com (vegan humor publication) www.sadiefreely.com (writer hub: FECK + selected essays)

  8. Jun 22

    VP#142: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Roadkill, the Movement of the Movement, the Vegan Bubble, & More

    Join us for Vegan Peace, the virtual support group for vegans! Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect - and yes, vegan venting welcome. Vegan Peace - Find your peace, speak your piece, and connect. WHEN: Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Central (3:30 p.m. Pacific, 6:30 p.m. Eastern) WHERE: ⁠⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407679747⁠ Add it to your weekly calendar using this link: ⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZYpd-6uqTItHtOBDJjm77Ca2nC9IQxlOIPc/ics?icsToken=DBQOfS24Fzeo0SaIMgAALAAAAA1JPglXlsllJ0I-OmIzcrCSLd8BpcyVMiePv9dFJMG3HWkdXuPOYmBvNILLdDYyiPtdjr42aC2D2OjEADAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=eWN4xbHGSUmLqiuUiqs4FA Questions?Email ⁠⁠veganposse.email@gmail.com⁠ Looking for personal coaching or vegan lifestyle coaching? Email Chrissy directly: christinembenson@gmail.com Help normalize veganism through the arts! Make vegan women's fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an international bestseller - grab your copy on Amazon or through my website, ⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠ Amazon:⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠ Do you value what we do? Support the Vegan Posse by becoming a monthly member for only $5/month: ⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/veganposse⁠

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As a vegan, do you ever feel like you're living in a parallel universe? If so, you're not alone! We interview vegans from around the globe who, like you, are living lives of integrity and compassion, with an eye toward justice. Through their personal stories, you'll come to that you're not an outlier; in fact, you're part of an entire posse of individuals who aren't just keeping the peace, they're creating it through their food choices and beyond. You won't be saddling up, but you're in for the ride of your life! Welcome to the Vegan Posse.

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  • Creator
    Chrissy Benson
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    163
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Chrissy Benson
  • Show Website
    Vegan Posse

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