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Where to find the book, ebook, audiobook and podcast?
Think Like a Vegan is available as a paperback and in hardcover wherever you buy books. Also find it as an ebook and on all major audiobook platforms. And request it from your local, school or university library. Think Like a Vegan: the Podcast is streaming on all platforms and on YouTube
Events
2026
Invisible Trans Men panel discussion, 22 January 6pm, London
Voices in Vegan Studies Speaker Series, 16 March Arihanta Institute – free and open to everyone
Legal Vegan Network, 2 April, online
Circulo de Estudios Antispecistas (CEA), 14 June 2026, (online and recorded)
Festival des Fruits at the Vegan Chateau, 2-8 July, Chateau Esvanel, France
Féile Vegan, 14-16 August, Lisnavagh House, Carlow, Ireland
International Animal Rights Conference 2026, 3-6 September, Luxembourg
Past
V-COP20: VEGAN Convergence of the Peoples #20
The Animal Rights Show
All Creatures
Marx in the Anthropocene
River Road Books
Vegan in NJ Monthly Market
Aurora Philosophy Institute
Grow Civic/Ziba Sertbay
PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference
International Animal Rights Conference 2025
The Plant-Based Revolution: Exploring the Future of Food, Policy & Justice
Vegandale Festival, London
National Animal Rights Day, Inverness, Scotland
Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management
Scottish Vegan Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
MACE Group
IFE – International Food & Drink Event, London
Animal Rising
Conversations in Conservation, London
American Vegan Center, Philadelphia, USA
National Animal Rights Day, Inverness, Scotland
Aurora Philosophy Institute, Ontario Canada
ACT Radio (Animal Concerns of Texas) on KTEP Radio
Scottish Vegan Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
VEGMichigan & Attorneys for Animals, Michigan, USA
Workshop: Animals, Compassion and Conservation, Universitè de Fribourg, Switzerland
Frome Vegan Christmas Fair, Frome, UK
Plant Base, Berlin, Germany
Plant Based World Expo Europe, London, UK
VegFestUK ! Live at London, UK
Live with Chef AJ on YouTube
Forest Plastics Working Group – Plastics, Trees and Woodlands Conference, Leeds City Museum, UK
Associate Alumnae of Douglass College Smart Talk, New Jersey, USA
Himalayan Vegan Festival, Nepal
Abertarff House, Inverness, Scotland
Asbury Book Cooperative, Asbury Park, USA
USA book launch party in downtown NYC!
Monmouth County Library, New Jersey, USA
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Findhorn Foundation and Ecovillage, Findhorn, Scotland
Keats Library, London, UK
The Kent Place School, New Jersey, USA
Alfred Nobel House, Karlskoga, Sweden
Nairn Book and Arts Festival, Nairn, Scotland
Timber Festival, National Forest, UK
Istanbul Vegfest, Turkey
Clubhouse, the Vegan Wednesday Club with author Benny Malone (How to Argue with Vegans) and artist Louise Mead
Talks & Interviews
Circulo de Estudios Antispecistas (CEA) – Animal liberation and Class struggle. Virtual discussion
Arihanta Institute – Letting Nature Lead: Lessons for our ecosystem and our lives
“The Political left and the overlooked power of veganism”, International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg Sept 2025
The Plant-Based Revolution: Exploring the Future of Food, Policy & Justice, hosted by Women In the Food Industry
The food system is changing — but how fast, and in what direction? The Plant-Based Revolution brings together three visionary women leading conversations on ethics, sustainability, and food justice to explore what the future of our plates — and our planet — might look like.
🎤 Featuring:
- Emilia A. Leese – Author, re-wilder, and host of the Think Like a Vegan podcast
- Claire Ogley – Head of Campaigns, Policy and Research, The Vegan Society
- Sarah Bentley – Author, campaigner, and founder of plant-based community cookery school and charity Made In Hackney
- Moderated by Mex Ibrahim – co-founder of Women In The Food Industry
What if the fight for animal rights and the fight for human dignity were the same fight?
Talk presented to Grow Civic community in the north of Cyprus, exploring the deep, systemic connections between the:
- parallel realities for humans and animals inside animal agriculture
- industrial logic that treats all life as a commodity
- path to collective liberation through true solidarity
This talk is about seeing the whole picture
Live on All-Creatures.org hosted by Mariquita Solis
Live on The Animal Rights Show– Parts 1 and 2– hosted by Roger Yates, Wendy McGovern and Nella Giatrakou
V-COP20: VEGAN Convergence of the Peoples #20 – Hosted by
Sustainable Tea with Shreya
I join Shreya Ghodawat and Polly Foreman to uncover the hidden truths of the dairy and egg industries, challenging common myths about ethical eating, and the power of armchair activism. We also explore the role of media in shaping public perception of veganism and discuss its intersections with feminism and social justice, economics of animal agriculture, debunking the “expensive vegan” myth, and addressing the psychological barriers to plant-based living
IFE Manufacturing
Panelist on What’s the future of vegan and plant based diets – Has the bubble burst? hosted by Women In The Food Industry at IFE Manufacturing event. Panellists: Mex Ibrahim (co-founder – Women in the Food Industry), Claire Ogley (Head of Campaigns, Policy and Research – The Vegan Society), Indy Kaur (Founder – Plant Futures), Roshni Shah (Partnerships Manager – Made In Hackney) and me
Sentientism with Jamie Woodhouse
Possibly my most philosophical recorded discussion yet!
Also available as a podcast on all streaming platforms
Get off the bench with Kerryn Vaughan
My first Antipodean talk!
Also available as a podcast on all streaming platforms
Aurora Philosophy Institute
Presentation and very lively discussion about the essence of veganism and why it’s a moral imperative: Veganism for everybody
Presentation
Post-presentation discussion
ACT Radio on KTEP
Emi chats with Animal Concerns of Texas, with co-hosts Elizabeth Walsh and Tom Linney about Think Like a Vegan and more
All About Animals Radio
Yvonne Hooper and I talk about Think Like a Vegan and our rewilding project at Birchfield (available wherever you get your podcasts)
Brave New Girl podcast
In conversation with the remarkable Lou Hamilton. We talk about rewilding at Birchfield Forest Rewilding , being vegan, inspiration, courage and more. And I mention Rosalind Russell‘s Auntie Name character – how often do you get that in a podcast about plants?!!
Universitè de Fribourg, Switzerland
The Université de Fribourg – Universität Freiburg, Environmental Sciences & Humanities, UniFR_ESH Institute, invited me to participate in a workshop on Animals, Compassion and Conservation. I talked about non-lethal deer management in a rewilding context at Birchfield Highlands Forest Rewilding .
And if you’re interested in the topic, see the full list of guests who were absolutely fascinating
Chef AJ
Fantastic conversation with the phenomenal Chef AJ, a vegan for 45 years and an absolute dynamo
VegFestUK
10 Reasons not to go vegan and how to reply with Tim Barford and Benny Malone
BBC
Had a delightful conversation with Claira Hermet on BBC Radio London
I was on the BBC’s Sunday Sequence program with the fab Audrey Carville
The Vegan Society – Veganpod
Is extreme activism counterproductive to the vegan movement? Is there such a thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ activism? Sentient Media’s Ana Bradley and Think Like a Vegan author Emilia Leese join host Francine Jordan to discuss this further.
The Plate Up podcast, by Bluedot Festival
We’re incredibly grateful and delighted that Emi got to be one of the featured voices on the first episode of the second series of the podcast, The Plate Up, by the brilliant Bluedot Festival. We’re alongside musician and activist Moby and Alex Sobel MP (Labour for Leeds Northwest) and the podcast was launched to coincide with COP26 happening in Glasgow.
The Bloody Vegans podcast
Jim Moore had us around and it was a blast
Sustainable Dish Podcast
Eva and I had a very interesting and stimulating discussion with documentarian James Connolly from the Sustainable Dish podcast. Listen to it here
Citizen Kind
I had alot of fun talking about more than just TLAV on Emma Osborne’s, founder of Citizen Kind, series on Working Your Values. It’s a fabulous series with some remarkable guests and you should have a look at all of them on her site. Honoured to take part!
Lessons for Vegan Leaders from COVID-19
I spoke at an event hosted by Vegan Leaders. Emma Osborne, founder and CEO of Citizen Kind, and I discussed the impact of COVID-19 on veganism and advocacy
Brightzine
We had a lively and brilliant time with the ace Laura Callan on Instagram Live with Brightzine
Thank you to all hosts!!
Press
Current Affairs, Animals & Nature page
HuffPost
Quoted in the HuffPost in “This 1 Thing About James Talarico Just Made Scott Jennings Melt Down — And It Drives Conservatives Crazy“
Animal Studies Journal
My piece The Political Left and the Overlooked Power of Veganism: Toward a Marxist-Animal Liberationist Framework for Ecological Revolution has been published in the Animal Studies Journal
Current Affairs
My piece about why we should end animal farming is in the first rate publication, Current Affairs. Artwork by Kasia Kozakiewicz
Counterpunch
Read “If You Believe in Social Justice, You Believe in Veganism” in the excellent Counterpunch
Força Vegan
The podcast gets a lush feature in the sixth issue of the visually stunning Força Vegan online magazine alongside many other excellent pieces
Psychology Today
Marc Bekoff mentions TLAV in interview of Gregory F. Tague for Greg’s new book, The Vegan Evolution: Transforming Diets and Agriculture, because both works focus on “a ‘vegan ethic’ [not being] a radical idea that is only about our meal plans. It also underlies a way of living that touches numerous other areas, including cultural and biological evolution, food ecology, food justice, and economics.”
Green Queen Media
includes TLAV in The 7 Best Books to East Into Eating Less Meat, alongside Drs Campbell’s The China Study, Foer, Ed Winters, Singer, Joy and Van Yoorst
Psychology Today
Interview with Marc Bekoff, renowned ethologist, ecologist, prolific author and professor emeritus at University of Colorado, Boulder, Psychology Today
Vegan First Daily
features TLAV as an “eye-opener about vegan ethics”
ResponseSource profile piece
“Journalist as Author: Emilia Leese, Think Like a Vegan”
BrightZine’s year in review
includes TLAV as a must read!
Foreword Reviews
says TLAV is “a thought-provoking introduction to the ethics of veganism whose message is straightforward: veganism should be the norm.”
Best Magazine
In Best magazine in a feature about COP26 next to some very recognisable faces!
Vegan Food & Living
The August issue of Vegan Food & Living, the UK’s biggest vegan magazine, features our piece on “What are ‘No-Kill’ Eggs?”
Closer magazine
This we didn’t expect at all! We’re in Closer Magazine in a piece about honey.
The Guardian
You’ll find TLAV in the Guardian’s Ethical Eating Season
An Interview by author Katherine Dolan
Authority Magazine
We were interviewed by Edward Sylvan of Authority Magazine for his series on Social Impact Authors: How & Why Emilia A Leese & Eva J Charalambides of ‘Think Like a Vegan’ Are Helping To Change Our World and we also made a special “Five things we wished we knew” video for that interview
More press
Female First, an online magazine, published our Seven things everyone can learn from vegan ethics
Green Queen, an award-winning sustainability & impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change in Asia, featured an excerpt from TLAV and lists our book as one of the 4 Books Can Help Us Rethink Our Relationship With Stuff And Become More Sustainable
Brightzine, an ethical lifestyle magazine, published a Q&A with Eva and me
Writing, Ireland’s magazine for writers, published our piece about balancing passion and persuasion
The Pigeonhole, an international online book club, featured TLAV and we had fantastic real-time interaction with pre-launch readears
It was pretty exciting walking up to The Nairn Bookshop and seeing TLAV in the window. I couldn’t help doing a little dance!
Because of the current situation and because I’m in the UK and Eva is in Canada, signed copies are rare. They’re only available at the Nairn Book Shop, signed by me, or from the publisher, Unbound, who has the even rarer ones – copies signed by both of us!
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