Katie and Nick discuss well-known vegan spiritual figure Supreme Master Ching Hai supporting Donald Trump. We use this as a starting point to cover broader issues around connections between spiritual/wellness movements, including some vegans, and the far-right. This broader discussion draws on Naomi Klein’s book Doppelganger: A Trip into the …continue
Katie and Nick analyse the book and movie Uglies through an animal rights lens. The movie is streaming on Netflix but Katie recommends the book over the movie! We’re releasing this show as two separate podcasts. You can hear part two of this show, covering wellness/spiritual people including some vegans supporting …continue
Rubin Abramowitz’s autobiographical essay was first published in Here’s Harmlessness: An Anthology of Ahimsa, in 1964. These scanned pages are from the fifth edition of the book, published in 1993..This item has files of the following types: Additional Text PDF, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Image Container PDF, Item Tile, …continue
Is the key to reaching more people with a vegan message to stop talking about the horrors that we want to end and start talking more about what we want to create? That’s what Matthew Halteman is aiming for with his new book Hungry, Beautiful Animals, and he joins us …continue
Send us a textIn this episode of Wild Developments, I sit down with Jennifer Faye Colombo, a talented watercolor artist from Norwalk, Connecticut, who shares her journey of rediscovering her passion for art after a successful career in theatrical scenery design. Jen dives into her creative process, the importance of …continue
In this Highlight, Herre looks at how nuclear waste has impacted the lives of wild boars living in Japan. More specifically, he discusses how, following the 2011 triple disaster, boars responded to the departure of humans from the Fukushima area and how the animals are being impacted by their slow …continue
Gwendolyn Blue and Melanie Rock join Claudia on the show to discuss ‘healthy publics.’ They explore how the idea of ‘public health’ has persistently been conceived of as human and unpack some of the opportunities and challenges with conceiving of multispecies health. From the historical roots of the ‘One Health’ …continue
