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
Animals are classed as property. In an economic context, this means they’re viewed as both the product and the machine. How does veganism fit into a leftist political practice? What language should we use? Professor Jason Hannan, editor of Meatsplaining: …continue
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There are those who study nature, and then there are those who listen to it. Alan Watson Featherstone is such a listener, a quiet revolutionary who has spent his life translating Earth’s silent longing into action.In this episode, we walk …continue
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Capitalism didn’t just commodify animals – it turned suffering into an industry. Meet John Sanbonmatsu, the revolutionary philosopher tearing apart the meat-industrial complex in his incendiary new work The Omnivore’s Deception. This book is an indictment of the entire capitalist …continue
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