Barbara Gowdy challenges rabble readers to go vegan

Barbara Gowdy introduces a series of public service announcements urging people and especially those who “live in their imagination” to participate in rabble.ca’s Vegan Challenge for Earth Week.




Gowdy is an award-winning, best-selling novelist whose book White Bone is written entirely from the perspective of African elephants. The recipient of the Marian Engel Award in 1996 and The Trillium Book Award in 2008, she has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and a repeat finalist for the Giller Prize. In 2005 she was longlisted for The Booker Prize. She has been a vegetarian for 30 years and a vegan for 10.

Alex Samur

Alex Samur

Alexandra Samur was rabble.ca’s managing editor from 2010 to 2012, books and blogs editor from 2007 to 2012. Alex’s career in independent media spans more than a decade and includes stints...

Anita Krajnc

Anita Krajnc

Anita curates rabbletv’s best of the net and writes on protest art, social movements and independent media. She serves on the steering committee of the Campaign for Media Democracy, helps organize...