Judy McCoy Carman, M.A.'s passion is to look everywhere for the love and the beauty that flows through and links all faiths and all beings. She is dedicated to the vision and bold belief that we human beings can heal the damage we have done to the world and create a place of true peace, nonviolence, unconditional love, compassion and liberation, not just for people, but for all earthlings and all of nature. Her website is www.peacetoallbeings.com.
An activist for peace, the environment, and animal liberation since the ‘70’s and long-term vegan, Carman is the author of four books, including--the new Homo Ahimsa: Who we Really are and How We're Going to Save the World; Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken’s Soul; co-author with Tina Volpe of The Missing Peace: The Hidden Power of Our Kinship with Animals; and Born to be Blessed: Seven Keys to Joyful Living. In Peace to All Beings Judy introduced the concept of Homo Ahimsa (“ahimsa” is the Sanskrit word for nonviolence and loving kindness) to describe the new compassionate human we can reveal ourselves to be if enough of humanity awakens in time. She is also the co-founder of Animal Outreach of Kansas which brought an end to exotic animal circuses in Douglas County, Kansas, and she has been deployed to several disaster areas to assist with animal rescues.
She also co-founded, with Will and Madeleine Tuttle, the Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals (circleofcompassion.org). You can register your name if you would like to be part of this worldwide prayer circle and sign up to receive daily inspirations from Will and weekly prayers from Judy. The Prayer Circle also hosts a Prayer Circle for Animals Facebook page where people can share concerns about their own animals as well as local and global animal issues. Judy also works with Lisa Levinson on Vegan Spirituality events and webinars and co-founded, with Lisa and filmmaker Thomas Jackson, the Interfaith Vegan Coalition, a project of In Defense of Animals. She is the 2014 recipient of the Henry Spira Grassroots Animal Activist Award, on the Board of Shy38 Animal Sanctuary and founder of the Animal Peace Prayer Flag Project which can be found on her Peace to All Beings website, along with many of her blogs and prayers (peacetoallbeings.com).
Judy is featured in Vegetarians and Vegans in America Today by Karen and Michael Iacobbo and contributes articles and essays to newspapers, books, and magazines. She has been a keynote speaker and workshop leader at many conferences and has been interviewed on many podcasts, Zoom conferences, and the inspiring film, "A Prayer for Compassion."
Having once lived off the grid in a tipi, Judy, now lives at Ahimsa Acres, a wildlife and butterfly sanctuary with veganic gardens and a magical forest. She loves to kayak, hike, and spend time with her kids and grandkids.
RECENT INTERVIEWS OF JUDY CARMAN
Kate Ballo's Visionary Vegan Woman Summit interview of Judy Carman
https://visionaryveganwomansummit.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/Judy%2BCarman_video_edited_resized.m4v
7-14-20 Janine Bandcroft's GreenVegan Grandma interview of Judy Carman: Free Your Mind, Reclaim Your Humanity, Go Vegan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A5d5PyUNKw
8-12-20 Victoria Moran's Main Street Vegan Podcast with me and Milton Mills: https://mainstreetvegan.net/msv-podcast-show-notes-august-12-2020-milton-mills-md-homo-ahimsa/
Vegan Spirituality archives of sixty eight (as of August 2020) interviews of vegan spiritual leaders by Judy Carman and Lisa Levinson. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoF5qlifvW6HW2ZZyX4VqZBiANm_ldRM7
"A Prayer for Compassion" Film by filmmaker, Thomas Jackson, features Judy Carman and many others in an outstanding film in which the connection between spiritual joy and veganism is explored.
http://aprayerforcompassion.com/
2-6-20 Interview with Debra Graugnard http://www.joyfullylivingwellness.com/vegan-spirituality-vegan-values-in-spiritual-ethical-and-religious-traditions/ Judy Carman, Lisa Levinson and Debra explore vegan values in spiritual, ethical, and religious traditions.
8-28-20 Interview with Michael Lanfield on "Why Positivity and Hope are crucial to Achieving World Peace" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70i0otHH4SM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3S-uJrwFJRpI0y1h6l2OBPFa98-tgxiuhppMx2-Sszst9fLZB02qxjUkw
9-12-20 "2020 Vision: A World that works for all"--a little, virtual glimpse at our upcoming 2021 conference. Lisa Levinson, Rev. Carol Saunders, and I met with a great group of folks and discussed what we'd like to learn and share at the 2021 conference. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=354764822405102&ref=watch_permalink
9-12-20 Judy Carman and Sulekh Jain discuss Homo Ahimsa, the concept of ahimsa and the beautiful Jain Forgiveness Pledge aired on the Unity Peace Convergence online international summit
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1196541980721940&ref=watch_permalink
9-14-20 Book Launch for new book--Animal Agriculture is Immoral, featuring contributing authors, Judy Carman, Will Tuttle and others. "Animal Agriculture is Immoral" is an anthology of essays from renowned scholars describing why it is time for humanity to label the routine subjugation and exploitation of non-human animals as immoral. It is only when we recognize a practice as immoral that we finally turn the tide on its normalcy. Past examples include human slavery, gender discrimination and apartheid.
Pramoda Chitrabanu, Dr. Will Tuttle, Lewis Regenstein, Brandon Burr, Hope Bohanec, Jason Glasson, Jeff Cohan, Judy Carman, Lisa Levinson, Rabbi David Rosen, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Rabbi Yonatan Neril, Richard Swartz, So Fasrus, Suzanne King, Steve Kaufman, Victoria Moran, Dan Brook https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1016984972077409&ref=watch_permalink
9-17-20 Interfaith Vegan Coalition and vegan spirituality panel including Judy Carman, discussing IVC and VS projects on the Unity Peace Convergence. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=326108818663697&ref=watch_permalink
9-18-20 Talk about my new book: Homo Ahimsa: Who we really are and how we're going to save the world on the international online Unity Peace Convergence Summit https://www.facebook.com/VeganSpiritualityCommunity/videos/1002419023514229
or https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1002418400180958&ref=watch_permalink
9-30-20 On Carissa Kranz's show with Will Tuttle. Carissa says, "Do you choose to live in conscious alignment with compassion and kindness? Or do you choose to dismiss the choice and unconsciously contribute to the systematic violence and mass murder that is destroying our planet and health? Join attorney anchor Carissa Kranz and guests Dr. Will Tuttle & Judy Carman for a thought provoking and enlightening discussion." on saving the world, enlightenment, and liberation. https://www.facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell/videos/796229111143287/
10-1-20 Interview of Judy by Sarah Bowen, Dean of Interfaith Seminary, for the Spiritualtarian Series--"Animals, Peace and Prayer. "In this vidcast, I chat with Judy Carman, author of "Peace to All Beings" and "Homo Ahimsa" about her compassionate work on behalf of the more-than-human world, including the Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkaqeA85j5A&feature=youtu.be
10-12-20 Judy Carman and Sailesh Rao discuss the urgent necessity to become Homo Ahimsa. Sailesh reads a impassioned "Letter to the Western World" by an indigenous woman from the Amazon. https://www.facebook.com/climatehealers/videos/796422174491643/
10-12-20 Judy Carman and Sailesh Rao discuss the urgent necessity to become Homo Ahimsa. Sailesh reads a impassioned "Letter to the Western World" by an indigenous woman from the Amazon.
https://www.facebook.com/climatehealers/videos/796422174491643/
10-2020 Marlene Narrow of Vegan Nation Radio interviews Judy about her absolute faith that we can create a vegan world of kindness and compassion for all beings. http://wcuw.org/vegannation/V.N.10.29.20.HomoAhimsa.WorldVegan.mp3
12-13-20 Hope Bohanec interviews Judy on her Hope for the Animals Podcast about our ability as human beings to bring love and nonviolence to the world soon. Episode 16: Transforming Ourselves Through Compassion with Judy Carman | Hope For The Animals Podcast
February, 2021 (141) Vegan Pulse - Episode 46 February - YouTube Interview of Judy Carman by Nancy Arenas on Homo Ahimsa and our hopeful future.
2-28-21 Interview of Judy Carman on World Vegan Vision (worldveganvision.org) by Dr. Shrenik Shah, Davashree Parikh, and Avinash Kachhy on Homo Ahimsa and the beautiful vegan world we can create. Even though there is news all around us of devastation and disease, there is hope for the world of which we all dream. https://youtu.be/SF22CVEhm3U
3-1-21 Interview with Keith Akers on Homo Ahimsa. 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/tUr7-fkanjw
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