The Vegan Student Association (VSA) Utrecht podcast is about all things vegan. From vegan history to speciesism and more, we explore everything that it entails to be a "vegan" in our modern world.
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In this episode, we sit down with activist, co-founder of ProVeg and author of ‘How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach’, Tobias Leenaert! We talk about why pragmatism is needed in creating societal change, whether veganism should be a left-wing movement or not, and how he sees the future of the movement. Listen to the full episode to hear all of this, and more!
Time codes:
0:00 – Pragmatism as a strategy
10:18 – Psychology of behavior change
13:28 – Can veganism be dogmatic?
15:30 – Should veganism be left-wing and intersectional?
21:15 – Should we let non-vegans participate in our activism?
27:30 – How can we use ‘disgust’?
30:32 – What can we do as students?
33:54 – Is donation underrated?
37:34 – Activism as a career and life path
42:10 – Is the future bright?
47:00 – Christmas with non-vegan family
53:18 – End
In this episode, we sit down with Maite van Gerwen, animal scientist and director of CAS International, the international committee against bullfighting! We discuss what people might not know about bullfighting, how the practice is held in place as ‘cultural …continue
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Do cows have agency? What does “agency” actually mean? And do technologies in dairy farms and sanctuaries limit or enhance cows’ agency? Koen Kramer, animal ethicists answers these questions after doing multispecies ethnographic research on various dairy farms and a …continue
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Last time, we talked about the history of industrialised animal farming and the history of animal feed. This time, we cover the influence of antibiotics on industrial farming. How did antibiotics contribute to industrial farming? Were people in the past …continue
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