In this episode of Knowing Animals, Jed Goodfellow, PhD candidate at Macquarie University and RSPCA Australia policy advisor talks about his book chapter ‘Regulatory Capture and the Welfare of Farm Animals in Australia’ which will appear in the upcoming book ‘Animal Welfare Law and Science: International Perspectives’ edited by Deborah Cao and Steven White. He explains why Departments of Primary Industries should not be responsible for animal welfare.
Knowing Animals is a fortnightly podcast hosted by Dr Josh Milburn who discusses all things related to animals and ethics; animals and the law; animals and politics; and animal advocacy. The show features interviews with Animal Studies scholars and animal advocates.
In this very special episode of Knowing Animals the podcast Dr. Clare McCausland turns the tables and interviews Dr. Siobhan O’Sullivan from UNSW about her 2011 book ‘Animals, Equality and Democracy’. Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. …continue
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Dr Dustin Crummet is an Affiliate Instructor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma and the Executive Director of the Insect Institute, a non-profit organization that critically explores insects in the food system. …continue
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Today’s guest is Dr Doris Schneeberger of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Doris’s academic background is in animal ethics and animal organizational studies. We’re discuss her 2024 Palgrave Macmillan book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards …continue
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