Animal Rights: the Debate explores the issues around around our relationship with animals with hosts Martyn Ford and David Thomas.
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How should we approach our relationship with animals? By treating them well whilst they are alive, but using them for our own purposes? Or by giving them the same sort of moral consideration that we give to humans? Professor Gary Francione is a distinguished philosopher, and advocate for granting animals similar rights to humans, and he believes that the welfare approach has been a failure, as well as a damaging distraction from promoting a plant-based diet.
Join us for this important discussion with Gary about welfare or rights, with its enormous implications for the future. Please help us, as we rely entirely on donations.
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It’s been a mixed few months, with the current British Government the first ever in the U.K. to water down animal protection legislation, but with Mexico passing a law to improve the lot of animals. David and Martyn take a …continue
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We pay tribute to the late Jane Goodall who revolutionised our understanding of chimpanzees , discuss the legal action action that has just been commenced against one of the largest poultry ‘processors’ in the U.K due to their alleged pollution …continue
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What have the two largest world religions got to say about how we should treat animals? David and Martyn speak to Joyce D’Silva, the author of Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice, about the good and bad aspects …continue
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