Sentient Media’s Claire Hamlett discusses the nascent but growing phenomenon of crowdfunding to acquire land formerly used for grazing and animal agriculture. What happens to this land once acquired and what are the economic and environmental impacts? Do individual animals and species actually benefit? Plus, what’s in a tennis ball? …continue
Renowned author Sy Montgomery joins us for a fascinating look at one of Nature’s miracles and her own transformative first-hand experience rescuing and rehabilitating two. Plus, Matt Zampa from Sentient Media gives us the lowdown on the less-than-thrilling results from the recently concluded COP26 conference. — This episode is sponsored …continue
This week Christopher Berry and Ariel Flint from the Animal Legal Defense Fund join us to discuss the historic ruling granting “interested person” status to former drug lord Pablo Escobar’s hippos. How did they achieve this breakthrough, and what does it mean for the hippos… and for us? Plus, Sentient …continue
Listen to the insights of a former child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Holocaust. Why has the promise of “Never Again!” been so difficult to honor? Can we respectfully apply the lessons of the Holocaust and genocide to other-than-human victims without somehow diminishing the horror of that event? Alex …continue
With the swirling controversy surrounding the Texas abortion law, we offer a conversation with Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf, authors of “Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights” (recorded in 2019). You’d think the Animal Rights and Pro-Life movements might be allies.. or not? Plus, some musings on what happens if …continue
If there is any insect in the world we feel justified in squashing, it’d have to be flies and their kin, mosquitos. Author and ethologist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe argues that as occasionally annoying and repulsive as they are, they have a vital role to play in our very survival. In …continue
In this our 100th episode we launch an exciting collaboration with Sentient Media, a non-profit journalism organization which tackles the complex issue of transparency in media. How do we get past the comfortable expressions and euphemisms that dominate animal coverage in the media and frame some of our most outrageous …continue
We welcome back Kevin Schneider of the Nonhuman Rights Project to give us the breaking developments in the case of Happy the Elephant and the complex ramifacations, both for her, zoos, and perhaps countless other nonhumans. Plus Dena Blumenthal on the first scalable cultured meat venture and Dr. Tom Pickard …continue
