AR-News: (US) Keith Akers Interview Now Online

[Mike Hudak]

My radio interview on WHRW-FM (Binghamton, NY) of 3/1/04 with author 
Keith Akers (http://www.compassionatespirit.com) is now online in mp3 
format at http://mikehudak.com/Radio/040301KA-M44k-32-32.mp3

Akers is a well-known figure in the vegetarian community, having 
served as President of the Vegetarian Society of D.C. and the 
Vegetarian Society of Colorado, as well as having been an officer of 
the International Vegetarian Union. In this interview he speaks about 
his early interest in religion and philosophy, his journey to 
embracing a vegetarian and then vegan diet, and about his two books.

Akers' first book, "A Vegetarian Sourcebook" (1983), was the first 
book to point out and give emphasis to the three major areas of 
concern (human health, ecology, ethics) for the modern vegetarian 
movement, and the first book to give any substantial emphasis to 
environmental consequences of animal agriculture. In our interview 
Akers speaks at length about such consequences and notes the failure 
of the contemporary vegetarian movement in reaching out to people 
concerned about the environment.

We then move on to a discussion of Akers' second book, "The Lost 
Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early 
Christianity" (2000). Akers speaks about the basic teachings of 
Jesus: simple living and nonviolence, and argues that these teachings 
included vegetarianism. He also touches upon the events that 
transformed this religion into mainstream, contemporary Christianity 
which has, for the most part, abandoned these principles. (Duration: 
42:26, 9.6 MBytes)

-- 
Mike Hudak, Ph.D., Director
Public Lands Without Livestock
38 Oliver Street
Binghamton, NY 13904-1516

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