A podcast bringing you thought provoking deep dives across a wide variety of subjects from one of the authors of Think Like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics.
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Most people never think animals are considered merely property, like your phone or your car. In this episode, Professor Maneesha Deckha will be speaking to us about her book, Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Antrhopocentric Legal Orders, where she talks about what it would look like to replace the property classification for animals to a new legal status she calls “beingness”.
Credits
Host: Emilia A. Leese
Guest: Prof Maneesha Deckha; https://www.uvic.ca/law/facultystaff/facultydirectory/deckha.php
Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions
Music Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business
Intermission: “Mashatu Wetlands” by Derek Solomon
Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business
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