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The Deal With Animals
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Trailer for Series 14: The Dog’s Days of Summer

The Deal With Animals 30 June 2025

Send us a textJoin me and my guest co-host Dog trainer, Kate Lasala, from reimagine look at foundational episodes from series 1. These aren’t repeats, they’re focused episodes highlighting many of the ways that humans and their canine companions live and learn to thrive together. Support the showShow Credits⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the Blog! …continue

Freedom of Species
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Anthropomorphised Animals in Pop Culture: BoJack Horseman and The Darwin Incident

Freedom of Species 29 June 2025

Claire, Ruby and Nick discuss representations of animal rights in the media, focusing on the cartoon BoJack Horseman and the manga The Darwin Incident by Shun Umezawa. We cover the portrayal of anthropomorphised (human-like) animals in these examples, factory farmed versus “free-range” animal products and factions within the animal advocacy movement.  Links: Animal Horror: …continue

Our Hen House
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Redefining Democracy: How Constitutional Law Could Embrace All Sentient Life

Our Hen House 27 June 2025

In a groundbreaking episode of The Animal Law Podcast, we explored radical new concepts that could fundamentally transform how constitutional law treats animals. Host Mariann Sullivan welcomed Cambridge University’s Raffael Fasel and Queen Mary University’s John Adenitire to discuss their book “Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-Based Constitutionalism” – a …continue

Our Hen House
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The Hen Report: “The Only Mentally Stable People in the World” | Family Dynamics, Anti-Vegan Psychology, and Wildlife Wins

Our Hen House 26 June 2025

In this lively episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann swap stories from Vermont road trips to unexpected animal activism, all while tackling the psychological framing of veganism and celebrating rare wins for wildlife. Between family dinner dynamics and debunking anti-vegan psychology, our hosts remind us why standing firm …continue

Our Hen House
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Border Battles & Bank Boycotts: Animal Ag’s Double Crisis | Rising Anxieties

Our Hen House 24 June 2025

This week on Rising Anxieties, we dive into the agricultural industry’s panic attack over Trump’s flip-flopping immigration policies. From ICE raids causing dairy farm labor shortages to the bizarre 1300% surge in white South African H-2A visa workers, the industry’s self-interest is on full display. Financial institutions wielding their power …continue

The Animal Highlight
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S5E4: European Wildcat – Dilemmas of Conservation

The Animal Turn 23 June 2025

In this Animal Highlight, fellow Virginia Thomas discusses the European Wild Cat and their entangled relationships with domesticated cats. She notes how the interbreeding between these two species has conservationists worried and has resulted in a range of, oftentimes, violent interventions into their animals’ lives.Recorded: 12 October 2023  Featured: S5E3: Feral and …continue

Sentientism
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How wide should “The Moral Circle” go? – Jeff Sebo – Sentientism 229

Sentientism 22 June 2025

Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy …continue