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An Honest Conversation About the Rescue System, Adoption, and Breeding with Sophie Gamand
Today, I’m so honored to have none other than Sophie Gamand on the show. Sophie is an animal activist, artist, and award-winning photographer. You might know her from her stunning, powerful, and emotional photographs from her pitbull flower power series and wet dog series. She does her work pro bono …continue
Kōrero with Daisy Lab's Irina Miller
Today on the show I’m chatting with Irina Miller, Daisy Lab’s co-found and CEO. We’ve talked about Daisy Lab before in episode 53. They’re a food technology start up based right here in Aotearoa, that seeks to use precision fermentation to make dairy products, like cheese, without the use of …continue
Laura Jean McKay on Decentering Humans in Art and in Life
I talk with author Laura Jean McKay about her Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel The Animals in That Country, using fiction to give voice to other animals, and how literature can help us recognize that humans are not the center of the universe–that instead we are part of a larger, …continue
Episode 185: The Monstrous Vegan with Emelia Quinn
On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Emelia Quinn, an Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. We discuss her book Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present, which has just been published by Oxford University Press. This episode …continue
95: “The Sustainable Development Goals are all about us humans!” – Dr. Helen Kopnina – Sentientism
Helen (@hkopnina) is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Business at the University of Northumbria & also lectures at The Hague University. Her research focuses on environmental education, biodiversity & corporate sustainability. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is “evidence, reason …continue
A Multispecies Justice Approach: Creating a Just World for Animals and People
We speak with Dr Bill Lynn and Dr Fran Santiago-Avila about Multispecies Justice, an alternative approach to negotiating the complex realitives of human other animal coexistence. An approach which centres animal needs, as well as humans, when determining how to create a just world. Fran is the Big River Connectivity Science and Conservation Manager for …continue
Is India Going Vegan? w/ Richa Mehta
Vegan Outreach India’s Richa Mehta joins us this week to talk about the spread of veganism in India. As Director of Programs, Richa tells us how Vegan Outreach is focusing on college students and explains in detail what they are doing to educate those students about the atrocities of the …continue
