S5E7: Mink Concerns – The Cost of Fur Through a Photographer’s Lens

The Animal Highlight is an exciting sister podcast that serves to compliment the animal-related topics addressed in The Animal Turn podcast. Specifically, each The Animal Highlight podcast highlights the species discussed in The Animal Turn to focus and explore aspects of their lives and discuss the extraordinary and amazing attributes of such species. These 5-15 minute podcasts follow at the end of each The Animal Turn podcast hosted by Claudia Hirtenfelder.

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In this Animal Highlight, fellow Virginia Thomas uses one of Jo-Anne McArthur’s images as her inspiration. She compares and contrasts the lives of mink kept for fur with those of wild mink before reflecting on some of the ethical and environmental concerns that emerge from using mink for fur.

Recorded: 12 October 2023 

 Featured: 

• S6E7: Animal Photojournalism with Jo-Anne McArthur on The Animal Turn. 
• We Animals Media
• Covid Outbreaks On Mink Farms Stir Controversy Among Scientists on NBC News NOW
• American Mink and the Cost of Fur by Virginia Thomas. 

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, We Animals Media, NBC News Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbsuGGWUrM 
• Learn more about the team here. 

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