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The Vegan Studies Project

An image of author Laura Wright
Ashley Evans

Note: this is a rebroadcast from November 5, 2015.

For author Laura Wright, being a vegan is a choice in diet and identity. It shapes what she eats and wears, as well as how she is perceived in a culinary culture that revolves around meat.

Her new book The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals and Gender in the Age of Terror (University of Georgia Press/2015) unpacks the vegan identity through the lens of health, politics and pop culture.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Wright about the book and how veganism has been molded by American culture.

Charlie Shelton-Ormond is a podcast producer for WUNC.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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