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“No dairy,” say half a dozen Olympians in the Switch4good campaign whose PSA closed this year’s Winter Olympics in major U.S. markets. Campaign founder Dotsie Bausch, Olympic Silver Medalist and 7-time USA National Champion Cyclist, joins us, right after we learn why chicks & rabbits are NOT toys, & Alycia Corpiel of Space Coast Animal Rights shares why rabbits make terrible Easter gifts.
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An Olympic silver medalist from the 2012 London Games, 7-time U.S. National Champion, former world record holder and two-time Pan American gold medal winner, Dotsie Bausch has transitioned in full stride from professional athlete to influential advocate and a leading voice in sports technology, health, wellness and animal rights. In fact, Choose Veg recently named Bausch one of the “20 Badass Veg Women Who Are Making History.”
Websites: Compassion-Champs.org and dotsiebauschusa.com
Facebook: CompassionChamps
Twitter: @CompashChamps
Instagram: @compassionchamps
YouTube: CompassionChamps
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#NotJust4Easter is a global movement by Space Coast Animal Rights that began in 2015 with the goal to end the giving of live animals as Easter gifts. Their campaign includes a variety awareness tactics including, social media campaigning, community outreach, networking, petitioning, and media awareness. The campaign took off in 2017 when SCAR was awarded a grant to fund the campaign by Lush Cosmetics.
Website: notjust4easter.org
Facebook: Notjust4Easter and Spacecoastanimalrights
Twitter: @notjust4easter_
Instagram: @notjust4easter
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Blast from the past! How about a blast from the very recent past — last week? We featured From the Ground Up filmmaker Santino Panico and two of the film’s featured athletes, bodybuilder Torre Washington and soccer defender Toni Pressley. Listen in to “Athletes on Plants.”